Last Push

 is the season finale of.

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Teeter Tower

The castaways would use one hand to hold on to a rope to steady a balancing board. With the other hand, they would build a house of cards with wooden tiles on one end of the balancing board. The first castaway to build a tall enough house of cards to reach the finish mark would win. Reward: An advantage in the next Immunity Challenge. Winner: Cochran

Immunity Challenge: Vertically Challenged

The castaways would race up a three-story tower to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces tied to a post and then slide down a water slide. Two more puzzle piece bags would need to be retrieved before the castaways could start on their puzzle. The first castaway to assemble their puzzle would win. cochran had the advantage of having his puzzle bags already untied.

Winner: Cochran

Night 36
As the Enil Edam tribe walk their way back to camp from Tribal Council, Erik Reichenbach tells his tribe he is very dizzy. Jeff Probst comes in with the Survivor Medical Team to check Erik's condition, where Dr. Joe deduces that Erik's body could no longer cope with malnourishment and dehydration. As the medics put an intravenous drip on Erik, Eddie, an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) by profession, explains Erik his health status. Dr. Joe then declares that due to Erik's health being dangerously debilitating, he does not allow him to continue on the competition.

With no other choice other than accept his fate, Erik says his goodbyes to his tribemates and vice versa. Jeff reminds the four remaining castaways that despite Erik's evacuation, the game continues on. The final four castaways then continue to walk back to camp.

Returning to camp, the final four discuss the evacuation, expressing sadness about Erik's sudden elimination. Cochran realizes the game is back on, and starts strategizing once again. After several Tribal Councils trying to oust Eddie, if it weren't for bigger [strategic] threats Andrea and Brenda, the Harvard law graduate finally flirts with the idea of working with him because he is the most likely to win the remaining challenges, ostensibly having a big say as to who goes at the Final Tribal Council. While Dawn and Sherri are already asleep, Cochran makes his move on Eddie, where Eddie agrees to make a Final Three deal with him, stating that Dawn is a bigger threat than Sherri.

Day 37
Still not getting over the

Reunion
During the Survivor Reunion, the pre-Jury members were seated alongside the audience than onstage, which was a first in Survivor history. The only castaways who were featured on stage were the Final Three and the Jury. The only Jury member who was not present was Brenda Lowe, who could not attend because she was in the advanced stages of her pregnancy, and was instead contacted via satellite in Florida. Brandon Hantz, who was also absent during the show, was banned from attending the reunion, to prevent any in-show altercation, given his explosive elimination several weeks prior. Jeff Probst explained that the reason why the pre-jury evictees were not given a seat onstage was because, the new set cannot accommodate them all, but in a Facebook post, and  contestant Michael Skupin revealed that the studio for the finale was the same set used last season, and it was able to accommodate all 18 contestants, the same number of contestants present at the Caramoan reunion show.

The Reunion show was universally panned by fans and contestants alike, many fans showed their distaste at the pre-jury contestants being left out during the Reunion show. Erik Reichenbach called the reunion "a farce", criticizing how the show left many questions on the season unanswered and how the pre jury contestants were left out in favor of Rob Mariano and Rudy Boesch during the show. Corinne Kaplan and Allie Pohevitz posted rants on Twitter and Facebook respectively, expressing their disappointments about their being informed by their exclusion in such short notice, and wasting their families' time since the pre-merge evictees won't be able to seat onstage, much less speak (in the said post, Pohevitz revealed that each contestant was entitled to bring six family members at the live show).

Other

 * This episode aired on Mother's Day.
 * The Teeter Totter challenge was a throwback of the penultimate challenge in, which was Dawn and Cochran's original season. However, Dawn and Cochran were already eliminated from the game when the challenge was administered.
 * In this episode, Erik Reichenbach becomes the first person to be medically evacuated in the finale episode of a season.
 * His evacuation day in a season is the latest in Survivor history, occurring on Night 36.
 * With Erik's elimination, this marks to shortest interval of where two people were eliminated that didn't quit, with just a few minutes.
 * This is the only episode post-Merge to have someone be voted out unanimously.
 * This is the second consecutive finale episode to have someone be tied for runner-up after  (first were Lisa Whelchel & Michael Skupin who both received one Jury vote, then Dawn Meehan & Sherri Biethman who received no votes).
 * The very first season to have someone be tied for runner up was in when Cassandra Franklin and Dreamz Herd tied with 0 Jury votes.
 * This the second consecutive finale episode to have a Reward Challenge at Day 37.
 * Same as the Reward Challenge from last season's finale, the reward for winning the challenge is an advantage at the Final Immunity Challenge.