Shot into Smithereens

Shot into Smithereens is the twelfth episode of.

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Mud Slinging

The castaways will compete alongside their loved ones for this challenge. The castaway will throw a mud-covered ball to their loved one, who must attempt to knock over five targets from a pedestal. First castaway to do this will win reward.

Reward:The winner (along with 2 other castaways of their choice) will get to spend the afternoon and the night with their loved one.

Winner: Malcolm (Malcolm had to choose 2 other players to take their loved ones back to camp with them; he chose Lisa and Michael)

Immunity Challenge: Fish and Game

Castaways must cross over to a platform on the other side of the water via a rope bridge. From there, they will use a rope with a hook attached in order to pull three buoys out of the water with bags of sticks attached to them. After retrieving all three, they must tie the sticks together in order to knock over a target on the other end to release a flag. First person to release their flag wins immunity.

Winner: Malcolm

Life at Ponderosa
Carter is welcomed at Ponderosa by the jury members. In his post-game medical, Carter is revealed to drop from 165.9 lbs. to 147.8 lbs. After dinner, Jonathan takes on a Selecta "3-in-1 +1" ice cream tub (which has four different flavors in it). Jonathan tries out two of flavors, which are spelled in Filipino (the ice cream flavors are "ube," which is "purple yam," a popular Filipino dessert, and "keso," meaning "cheese"). The two other flavors are the common chocolate and strawberry.

After a heavy breakfast of cereal, Carter joins Pete and Artis at the gym. Before lunch, the jurors hang out in the pool while Jeff Kent and Penner grill their meal. R.C. talks to Carter more, since they had little interaction in their short time as tribemates at the Dangrayne tribe.

R.C. continues to comment on how Jeff Kent has been a negative jury member, and though it is odd for her to be the only female jury member, she is still having fun nonetheless.

Carter assumes that Lisa, Michael, Malcolm, and Denise will finish the deed and vote Abi-Maria out next.

Other

 * After this episode, with Carter Williams' elimination, all of the original Kalabaw members have been eliminated from the game.
 * This episode's Tribal Council marks the first time Dangrayne voted out a tribe member unanimously.
 * This is also the first time that the person voted out wasn't decided by only 1 vote. All Tribal Council eliminations onward would be by unanimous decisions.
 * This is also the first time Dangrayne didn't need all the votes to be read.
 * This episode marks the first time that there are more female contestants remaining than males since Zane Knight's elimination in the first episode.
 * Jeff Probst stated that Lisa Whelchel's loved one visit is one of the most heartwarming visits he's ever seen.

​Episode Title

 * The episode title comes from a line spoken by Lisa Whelchel in one of her confessionals, referring to her strategy to blindside Malcolm backfiring after he won Individual Immunity.