The First Exile

The First Exile is the first episode of.

Day 1
Sixteen castaways, divided into four tribes of four, arrived on Exile Island in Panama from small boats. The tribes were divided by age and gender. The Bayoneta tribe consisted of younger women: Courtney Marit, Danielle DiLorenzo, Misty Giles and Sally Schumann. The Casaya tribe consisted of older women: Cirie Fields, Melinda Hyder, Ruth-Marie Milliman and Tina Scheer. The La Mina tribe consisted of older men: Bruce Kanegai, Dan Barry, Shane Powers and Terry Deitz. And the Viveros tribe consisted of younger men: Aras Baskauskas, Austin Carty, Bobby Mason and Nick Stanbury. After arriving on Exile Island and meeting Jeff Probst, their host, the contestants learned that they are divided by age and gender. Cirie was surprised to find herself on the older tribe. Jeff explained the twist of Exile Island, followed by announcing the first reward challenge.

One representative from each tribe would do the challenge. Ruth-Marie, Terry, Danielle and Austin represented their tribes in the first challenge. Terry was the first to finish, followed by Austin, leaving it between the two women. Ruth-Marie managed to return first, meaning that a Bayoneta member would be exiled.

The Bayoneta tribe played Rock, Paper, Scissors to determine who would be exiled. Misty lost, meaning that she would stay on Exile Island. Jeff then announced that there is a Hidden Immunity Idol hidden on Exile Island. After everyone else left, Jeff gave Misty her first clue to the idol's location.

Misty began to look for the idol, while Casaya arrived at their beach. They immediately went to work, with Tina trying to make the fire. The tribe was successful in making a fire, which excited Tina. Tina shortly afterward stepped into the leader position. While working, Cirie revealed that she was afraid of leaves, disappointing her tribe.

Meanwhile, the Viveros tribe were playing baseball with a rock and stick. Aras brought the tribe together to create a plan for survival. Austin and Nick attempted to make fire, to no avail. Austin openly mocked the tribe for their poor shelter and inability to make fire.

The Bayoneta tribe arrived at their beach, as Courtney and Sally discussed the island. Later that day, Courtney found a dead turtle on the beach. She assumed that it was a symbol.

At La Mina, the older men were working hard. During this, Dan and Terry formed a bond, and agreed to never lie to one another. Dan then revealed to Terry that he once worked for NASA and flew in a shuttle. Meanwhile, Shane felt terrible, due to not having a cigarette in thirty-one hours.

Day 2
On Exile Island, Misty was depressed after a horrible night. She continued to look for the idol, but couldn't find it. Later that day, the tribes met for the immunity challenge. Misty rejoined Bayoneta for the challenge.

In the challenge, Bayoneta finished first, followed by La Mina. Ultimately, Viveros won, sending Casaya to Tribal Council.

Day 3
On the Casaya tribe, Cirie and Melinda noticed Tina, who was sitting away from everyone else. Tina was mourning her son, Charlie, who died four and a half months before she went on the show. Meanwhile, Cirie tried to convince Ruth-Marie to vote out Tina. During this, Tina found a fish, to her tribe's delight.

At Tribal Council, Tina and Cirie were the targets for elimination. However, Melinda and Ruth-Marie decided that it would be better to keep Cirie over Tina, and Tina was the first voted out in a 3-1 vote.

Reward
Challenge: Skull Crush

One person from each tribe will race to the other side of the island, where they will find a pile of skulls. They will break one skull open at a time, looking for an amulet inside. The first three tribes back with the amulet win flint and the losing tribe nominates one member to stay on Exile island.

Reward: Flint

Winners (in order of finish): La Mina, Viveros and Casaya

Immunity
Challenge: 4x4

All four tribe members from each team start on a dock and race over a barrier and swim out to their raft, which is attached to a clip underwater, and have to unclip it. Once the raft is unclipped, they would race back to shore to solve a brain teaser. Their goal at the brain teaser is to release a metal ring from a rope. buried under the sand is a diagram that will help. Once the metal ring is released, tribes would use it to retrieve a grappling hook, and once it is pulled, it will drop their tribe flag. The first three tribes to raise their flag win immunity.

Winners (in order of finish): Bayoneta, La Mina and Viveros

Final Words
"casaya"

- I think the girls made a huge mistake in voting me out. I hope they do terribly. Working hard is what I do and I think that worked against me. I would not have been able to change a thing because that's just who I am. That was really a great experience. I have no regrets. I was just with the wrong girls.

Trivia

 * This is the first time that the castaways were split into four tribes, defined by age and gender.
 * The four-tribe format would later be used in, but the tribes were divided by ethnicity in that season.
 * Misty Giles became the second person to be banished to Exile Island, following Janu Tornell from.
 * The episode also marked the first challenge ever to be held on Exile Island.
 * Tina Scheer was originally supposed to compete in, but backed out at the last minute due to her son's then-recent death. Amy O'Hara was called to replace her.
 * This is the first episode since Wipe Out! to feature the tribal Immunity Idol being split into multiple parts.
 * This is the first time that the tribal Immunity Idol was split into three parts. The first placing tribe would own the whole of the idol, while two detachable heads would be for the second- and third-placing tribes.
 * The theme of the Immunity Idol is See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. (represented by three makeshift shrunken heads with the first head blindfolded, the second having its lips sewn, and the third having needles coming out from its ears).
 * Even though the title for this episode is "The First Exile", this episode featured the second "exile" in Survivor history.
 * The first official exile happened in Exile Island (episode).