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Last Push is the season finale of Survivor: Caramoan.

Story[]

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 Fox, an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) by profession, explains to 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.

As Brenda left Tribal Council, I looked at Erik and it looked to me he's stunned by the vote because he wasn't aware of it.

Dawn Meehan

When I looked at Erik, I saw somebody that was very dazed and looked disoriented and was kind of out of it.

John Cochran

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.

Erik's gone. There's four of us now. This opens the door hugely for me to kind of sneak myself in there and make a major play.

Eddie Fox

Returning to camp, the final four discuss the evacuation, expressing sadness about Erik's sudden elimination. John 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 Boehlke and Brenda Lowe, 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 Meehan and Sherri Biethman were 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.

We kind of exchanged a few sad pleasantries about the sad state of affairs, and I'm already thinking about the game. My first thought is I have to be the first person to get to Eddie. Eddie is somebody who I haven't bonded that closely but I have to be in his good graces because he is most likely to win the next Immunity Challenges and to be in the position of power to determine who goes at the Final Three.

John Cochran

We vote out Dawn next. Sherri comes in third. Cochran comes in second, and I come in first and I win the million dollar prize.

Eddie Fox


Day 37[]

Still not getting over the fact that Erik was pulled from the game, the remaining contestants try to get a better understanding of where they stand and who they want in the final 3. Eddie and Sherri talk about voting out Dawn, while Dawn comes up to Cochran since she is worried but Cochran, once again, reassures her. However, he does consider voting Dawn out. At the challenge, it is revealed to be a Reward Challenge as anticipated, but the reward is an advantage to the next challenge (the Final Immunity Challenge). Eddie was hoping the reward would be food-related, but he is happy with this reward because he really needs to win final immunity, as he believed he would be the likely top target otherwise. The challenge proved interesting as the leaders continued to fall back behind, but ultimately Cochran managed to win the challenge and the advantage. Since Cochran has the advantage, the others try harder to ensure that Cochran is willing to go to the final three with them. Eddie pitches his plan to vote out Dawn, which Cochran neither confirms nor denies.

Challenges[]

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: John Cochran

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.
Additional Stipulation: As part of the Challenge Advantage he won by winning the Reward Challenge, John Cochran had the advantage of having his puzzle bags already untied.
Winner: John Cochran

Tribal Council[]

Night 36[]

Removed from Camp
EVACUATED:
S26 erik bw
Erik Reichenbach

Day 38[]

Tribal Council 14:
Enil Edam
Voted
Against
Voter
S26 eddie t
Eddie (3 votes)
S26 cochran tS26 dawn tS26 sherri t
Cochran, Dawn, Sherri
S26 dawn t
Dawn (1 vote)
S26 eddie t
Eddie
VOTED OUT:
S26 eddie bw
Eddie Fox

Voting Confessionals[]

Cochran's vote was not shown during his confessional.

S26 eddie t
Eddie
(voting against Dawn) Sorry, Dawn. Me or you.
S26 dawn t
Dawn
(voting against Eddie) Please go home.
S26 cochran t
Cochran
(voting against Eddie) I think you're the only person out there that could beat me, so you gotta go.

Final Words[]

S26 eddie bw
Eddie
I think Sherri has a 0% chance of winning, which is why she is going to the Final Three. I feel like if I would've gone to the Final Three, first place was mine for the final taking. So to be honest as much as, you know, it sucks, I'm pretty happy with how I ended up. The fact that it's a Fans vs. Favorites season and that I made it to fourth really speaks a large volume to how I played, and I really wish I was gonna be there in the morning, but I'm out tonight, that's-- that's how it went today.

Final Tribal Council[]

Tribal Council 15:
Jury Vote
Voted for
Winner
Voter
S26 cochran t
Cochran (8 votes)
S26 andrea tS26 brenda tS26 eddie tS26 erik t
S26 malcolm tS26 michael tS26 phillip tS26 reynold t
Andrea, Brenda, Eddie, Erik, Malcolm, Michael, Phillip, Reynold
S26 dawn t
Dawn (0 votes)
None
S26 sherri t
Sherri (0 votes)
None
RUNNERS-UP:
S26 dawn bwS26 sherri bw
Dawn Meehan and Sherri Biethman
SOLE SURVIVOR:
S26 cochran t
John Cochran

Voting Confessionals[]

Malcolm's vote was not shown during his confessional.

S26 phillip t
Phillip
(voting for Cochran) Cochran, my Intelligentsia Attaché, you did a wonderful job. I'm very proud of you, and thanks for joining Stealth "R" Us and doing right by the Fans and the Favorites.
S26 malcolm t
Malcolm
(voting for Cochran) This is not the name I thought I'd be writing down tonight.

Final Results[]

 Francesca
20th
S26 francesca bw
 Allie
19th
S26 allie bw
 Hope
18th
S26 hope bw
 Shamar
17th
S26 shamar bw
 Laura
16th
S26 laura bw
 Brandon
15th
S26 brandon bw
 Matt
14th
S26 matt bw
 Julia
13th
S26 julia bw
 Corinne
12th
S26 corinne bw
 Michael
11th
S26 michael bw
 Phillip
10th
S26 phillip bw
 Malcolm
9th
S26 malcolm bw
 Reynold
8th
S26 reynold bw
 Andrea
7th
S26 andrea bw
 Brenda
6th
S26 brenda bw
 Erik
5th
S26 erik bw
 Eddie
4th
S26 eddie bw
 Dawn
2nd
S26 dawn bw
 Sherri
2nd
S26 sherri bw
 Cochran
Winner
S26 cochran t

Trivia[]

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Secret Scenes[]

Behind the Scenes[]

Other[]

  • In this episode, Erik becomes the first person to be medically evacuated in the finale episode of a season.
    • His evacuation is the latest evacuation in Survivor history, occurring on Night 36.
  • This is the second consecutive finale episode to have a Reward Challenge on Day 37.
    • Same as the previous season's finale, the reward for winning the challenge is an advantage at the Final Immunity Challenge.
    • However, had Erik not being pulled from the game on Night 36, the challenge would instead have been an Immunity Challenge.
  • This episode is currently the last finale episode to feature the Rites of Passage.
  • This is the second consecutive finale episode to have someone be tied for runner-up after Philippines, the first were Lisa Whelchel and Michael Skupin who both received one jury vote, followed by Dawn and Sherri who both received no votes.

References[]

Survivor: Caramoan Episodes
"She Annoys Me Greatly" · "Honey Badger" · "There's Gonna Be Hell to Pay" · "Kill or Be Killed" · "Persona Non Grata" · "Operation Thunder Dome" · "Tubby Lunchbox" · "Blindside Time" · "Cut Off the Head of the Snake" · "Zipping Over the Cuckoo's Nest" · "Come Over to the Dark Side" · "The Beginning of the End" · "Don't Say Anything About My Mom" · "Last Push" · "Reunion"

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