If It Smells Like a Rat, Give It Cheese

If It Smells Like a Rat, Give It Cheese is the penultimate episode of.

Reward
Challenge: Survivor Roots

The castaways would be quizzed about favorite moments from past seasons of Survivor. The first person to correctly answer four questions would win.

Reward: A helicopter trip over the Rock Islands and an overnight stay at a resort

Winner: Erik Reichenbach (shared with Amanda Kimmel)

Immunity
Challenge: Dash, Dig, Decode

Three large sand pits are surrounded by signs with symbolic coordinate. Each castaway would be given a pair of ropes and a set of coordinates. They would use the ropes to match the coordinates up so that the ropes intersect within the circle. At that intersection point, they would dig up a bag of puzzle pieces. This would give them the coordinates to use with the ropes on the second sand pit. The process would be repeated until a final bag of puzzle pieces would be retrieved from the third sand pit. The first person to complete the last puzzle wins immunity

Winner: Erik Reichenbach

Voting Confessionals
"dabu"

- I'm voting for Parvati. You gotta take some risks sometime and hope people keep their word. Oh God!!!!

"dabu"

- I don't even know what to say... but thank you.

"dabu"

- You know...

"dabu"

- My mother always told me, you may not be able to beat them with these (points to arms) all the time, but you can always beat them with this (points to head). Sorry.

"dabu"

- You're crazy! You'll officially go down as the dumbest Survivor ever. In the history of Survivor. Ever.

Final Words
"dabu"

- Damn, damn! They got me. I should've know better. Those damn girls, I mean, there's one thing to be said about surviving the elements and there's another thing to be said about surviving four crazy, sexy women. I never thought I would be shoulder to shoulder with all these people that I've seen on TV. These are my heroes and they're talking to me. They acknowledged me as a person. This whole experience was unbelievable.

Trivia

 * James Clement referenced his infamous fiasco in Ready to Bite the Apple when he said that he is no longer the "Dumbest Survivor Ever."
 * Erik became the first contestant to win an individual immunity challenge, give away the immunity necklace to an opponent, and get voted out. He would later be succeeded by Brandon Hantz in ; however, Brandon was sent to Redemption Island, while Erik was directly eliminated.
 * With Erik voted out, this marked the first time the final four is comprised of one gender (four women remain).
 * With Erik being voted out, Natalie is the only original Airai member (fan) remaining.
 * This episode marks the first time in Survivor history that every contestant at Tribal Council's vote was shown before the votes were actually read, revealing Erik was to go before Probst read the votes.
 * When Erik wins individual immunity in The Beginning of the End, Jeff Probst asks him if there's any chance of him giving up his immunity again, to which Erik replied, "I'm way too scared to do that again".
 * The episode title was said by Natalie ("If it smells like a rat") and Cirie ("give it cheese").