One Glorious and Perfect Episode

One Glorious and Perfect Episode
Episode Information
Version	United States
Season	47
Episode Number	1/15 (682)
Original Release	September 18, 2024
Episode Chronology
Previous	"Aftershow" (previous season)
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One Glorious and Perfect Episode is the season premiere of Survivor 47.

Story

“	Eighteen new castaways will be abandoned on the breathtaking islands of Fiji, where they must learn to adapt or they will be voted out. Tribes must quickly pick up the pieces in the first challenge of the season to earn a pot, machete and flint. Then, two castaways are chosen to go on a journey to find the X that marks the spot.	”
—Episode Synopsis

Day 1

	Gabe	“	I want to be the very first head on the Mount Rushmore of the new era.	”

	Aysha	“	I am ready to forge my own path.	”

	Rome	“	I'm 100% gonna be writing my own Survivor story out here.	”

	Genevieve	“	Listen, I am either gonna blaze my own path out here or I'm gonna burn down this island.	”

	Sam	“	I think I am dangerous in Survivor. I have what it takes, physically, but I'm versatile enough to fit into different groups of people. You don't find a guy who looks like me be super unsuspecting, right? It's often the people that say, "Oh, I'm a… I'm a wolf in sheep's clothing." I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.	”

	Aysha	“	I march to the beat of my own drum. And no matter how nerdy it is, those are the things I love in life. But I don't do anything unless I'm gonna succeed at it. 'Cause I just don't like losing. I look like somebody who wouldn't hurt a fly, but they don't know, like, I have a flyswatter in my back pocket. (laughs)	”

	Kyle	“	Growing up, life was a struggle, man. I spent five years in foster care, over 26 different homes I lived in before I would graduate high school. I could have just flipped over and laid on my back, but I didn't. Life dealt me the recipe for disaster, and I baked a (censored) brownie with it.	”

	Tiyana	“	I am the first native Hawaiian to play Survivor. I want to show that Hawaii can roll with the big dogs. (howl)	”

	Jon	“	I am sure that I have friends and family watching this right now. And I'm pretty confident that I know what they want for me out of this experience. They want me to suffer.	”

	Anika	“	I'm gonna play hard. I might get a little evil. Who knows? (cackling)	”

	Sue	“	When I win Survivor, my final words will be, "I'm 59, and I beat all your asses."	”

	TK	“	I would say, looking at my fellow contestants, uh, I see a million dollars, man. Like, I really don't think I see anybody on here who can do anything with me, to be honest. So, I'm ready to go.	”

	Andy	“	Jeff walks us down the beach, turns a corner and takes us to… It could only be described as, like, a gladiator's arena. Look, I've seen a lot of Survivor. There are opening challenges, but this one really takes the cake in terms of the grandness. And the pressure is on. Like, you have to perform or you're gonna be in trouble immediately.	”

	Rome	“	Aysha chose to go on this journey, which-- props to you, but big mistake. The social game is the biggest aspect of the game of Survivor, and I am not gonna miss out on those first few hours of strategizing. It's so important. That's exactly how I'm gonna win the million dollars at the end of the day.	”

	Rachel	“	This is the best moment of my life. I love competition and I love to win. We solved that puzzle, 100%, because of good communication. Like, it was a community effort, like, full stop.	”

	Jon	“	It felt like baptism by mud. Like, we're gonna win this challenge and every challenge that follows. We don't really know each other, but this is a tribe that can win challenges because we did.	”

	Jon	“	I was a speech writer for Hillary Clinton back when she was a senator and then I became a speechwriter in the White House for President Obama. And now, when people ask me what I do, I have to say that I'm a (censored) podcast host. When I was a closeted teen, I watched Richard Hatch win the first season. I ran around the house screaming about what I had just witnessed. And now, all these years later, I'm here. I feel a little bit like the dog that caught the car.	”

	Andy	“	I am a numbers guy and that's how I want to play this game. Because I look at Survivor as ultimately, a numbers game. There are only six people on the tribe, but that constitutes 15 one-on-one relationships. You could do the math. It's a pretty simple equation. It's a combination. Six, choose two, factorial equals 15. So if I connect with two people, it would actually be very hard to get voted out. Because if I could count on two people to not write my name down, it would be very difficult for four people to write my name down.	”

	Tiyana	“	Not winning that challenge today actually sunk me to my core. Fingers crossed that TK comes through and brings back something good for this tribe, because we're gonna need it tonight. Looking around at my tribe, I feel like we stack up incredibly well in terms of physical strength. But puzzle-wise, we have some work to do.	”

	Gabe	“	Coming into this game, I want to work with an older person. I want to work with somebody who's a little more mature because I got a bit of an old soul in me, right? In my opinion, an older person-- they know how to operate without getting caught up in the social games of it all. That's somebody who I want my day one, number one alliance member to be. Let these kids gossip and clique up among themselves. We'll run things in the shadows.	”

	Sue	“	I love Caroline. She is literally the sweetest person in the world. She's so excited, and that's like my daughter, so, it's cool. Like, there's something there.	”

	Sue	“	At my age, I thought for sure I would be the very bottom. But now I feel like Caroline and Gabe… they're- they're my number ones, and so I'm feeling good with it. Now we're gonna be a force to be reckoned with.	”

	Kishan	“	Losing that first challenge, it sucks. We're not the tallest tribe. We didn't look to be the strongest, but Lavo-- we're-we're resourceful. We just have to trust our instincts and kind of fall back onto our training and our, like, gut. So, that's what we're doing. I'm an emergency room doctor. I love the chaos. You're just constantly surrounded by the unknown, and I'm so ready for that 'cause that's what I do every single day for a living, and I'm really good at it, and I'm gonna be good at it on Survivor, too.	”

	Teeny	“	Playing Survivor is about the social relationships you make. In school, the one thing that I really excelled at was being able to make friends and talk to people. And so I'm gonna play this game by being every single person's number one. Kishan and I bonded almost immediately. So, I mean, he's an ER doctor. He has an ability to work under pressure. And I feel like he's a bit more introverted to my extrovert, so I felt like he was a cool yin to my yang.	”

	Genevieve	“	The new era of Survivor is a very fast-paced game, and right now, I just really like Rome. I like him. I get along with him so well. He's so enthusiastic. I just feel happy when I talk to him. I'm also trying to solidify something with Teeny. I would love to have her as my ally.	”

	Teeny	“	I really like Genevieve. I want to play this game with her. But let's remember we have an entire tribe member coming back here.	”

	Aysha	“	When I read that one person was going to get their camp supplies and the other was gonna go back to camp empty-handed, my stomach dropped. This man looks like he currently is in the NFL.	”

	Aysha	“	So, when I uncovered the clue and saw that it was a picture, I realized this is my guide. I have to match the two to find the key. It's gonna look identical.	”

	TK	“	I look at this map. I see the first X, and it's a huge rock face that is near. So I'm thinking, "Just look for a big rock face. I'll find the X." I look around-- there's, like, eight rock faces.	”

	Aysha	“	So, when I got my first key, that gives me the clue to be able to find that second key.	”

	TK	“	I get that first key and I'm hyped. Now I got my confidence. Now I know I can do it.	”

	Aysha	“	Perfect. I found my second key and I feel like I'm cooking, we're going, I have it.	”

	Aysha	“	I never would have thought that the final key was in the ocean. This is it. Whoever finds the fourth key wins.	”

	TK	“	Okay, that's two keys. I'm hyping myself up like, "They don't know who they messing with." The forest is so dense. And I'm like, "You know what, forget that path. Make your own path, like you've done your entire life." I don't care what I hit. I'm making my own path through this brush and I'm figuring it out.	”

	Aysha	“	I can't believe being lost is what's setting me back.	”

	Aysha	“	The fact that I was so close-- oh, it hurt. It hurt so much.	”

	TK	“	At the end of the day, there is honestly no better feeling in the world than seeing this pot and machete and flint. And it's because of me. So, I'm gonna take the credit on that. Nice little pat on the back. (laughs)	”

	Aysha	“	I was heartbroken. And I know from being a Survivor podcaster that going back with no camp supplies-- that's… surefire way to paint myself as a target.	”

	Jon	“	Anika is just prepared. She's a prepared person. She watched a YouTube on coconuts and she spotted a sprouted coconut, which is a trendy food in Los Angeles and also available in Fiji.	”

	Anika	“	Even though I told myself before coming out here, 'Do not take the lead,' I'm a project manager true at heart. My head cannot help but say, 'Hey, guys, these are the steps that need to happen in order to get from A to Z. Let's do that.'	”

	Sam	“	I love Anika taking the leadership role, mainly because I don't want it. I want to be the glue guy. Every sports team knows what a glue guy is. They're not the best on the team. They're not the worst on the team. They find their way somewhere in the middle, but somehow the team just doesn't function the same without them. It's the guy in a friend group that it's like, once he's there, you feel like, 'Hey, the whole group's here.' But I think if you keep the glue guy around for too long in this game, you end up getting burned by him.	”

	Sierra	“	I'm always looked at as like, "Oh, just the pretty blonde with, like, a cute little smile." I was a pageant queen. I competed at Miss USA. But my dad always wanted a boy, and I just ended up being my dad's little boy. I'm gonna try to make fire. And this is why winning the first challenge was so important. Hot flint and a machete-- that's everything. We wouldn't be able to build our community without that stuff. We're off to a hot start. We are killing it out here. There's no better feeling.	”

	TK	“	I can't wait to just see my tribemates' faces when I walk onto that camp and I have the tribe supplies. My tribe is gonna be happy, and I just can't wait to see how much equity that builds me in my tribe.	”

	TK	“	Everybody's running up to me. They're doing, like, jumping and-- like we're in the NBA or we just scored a bucket and we all jumping up and doing our shoulder bumps.	”

	TK	“	There's no way, now, that you could look at me and say, 'This guy needs to go first' or 'This guy needs to go' at all.	”

	Caroline	“	Oh, my gosh, when TK arrived at camp, the guys flocked to him. The guys fell in love with each other the moment that they saw each other. I'm not an idiot. I can tell. It's a bromance.	”

	Gabe	“	Oh, my God. At the base of this really big log, I see a Beware Advantage staring back at me, and then I kind of lean on top of it and I just put my hand over it. You know, instantly, I start calculating in my brain, 'How can I get TK away from this? I'm not totally sure I want to bring him that deep in quite yet.' Luckily, TK leaves and I just get a chance alone. Once I make the decision to take it, that is set in stone. This is something that I want to move on fast. And a note says… “Head straight to the path. You will dig up a box that contains everything you need to claim an Immunity Idol. 'Until you take possession of the idol, you cannot participate in the vote at Tribal Council. That's why it says "Beware."' I realized that the branch where I found the Beware Advantage was right on the path. And then, lo and behold, found this box with a lock on it and a tube, which has more instructions on what to do. It says… “Follow the map to the rock face. Unbraid the vines to release the key that unlocks the box." And of course I know what the rock face is. It's like – it’s a massive, massive rock base right next to our tribe's camp. So, I know I have to bring what's up there down to me with these vines. I can see the key wrapped around the ring on the top of this rock base. My precious! There it is. I'm such an idiot. Right away, I was like, let me not play coy. Let me just bring him into this right away and say, 'Let's find out what this is together.'	”

	TK	“	We found a key before we found anything else. That doesn't sound right. Like, that's not adding up. So, in my mind, I'm like, I caught you in the act but you weren't gonna tell me about this, so maybe we aren't as close as we thought we were.	”

	Gabe	“	I kind of feed TK this story of 'I just found it' and I think he bought it. I finally have this key in my possession, and I-I really need to find time to return to the box, but not be too hasty about it, because it just leads to mistakes.	”

	Aysha	“	Riding back to camp with no camp supplies, I was so fearful. I'm just thinking, 'I haven't just disappointed myself in this moment, but I've disappointed my tribe.' I knew that the only way to approach talking to my tribe was being honest. I literally had nothing to hide.	”

	Teeny	“	Being a Survivor fan, I've listened to Aysha's podcast before. It seems like she's very bright. She picks up on a lot of things that even I miss from the show, and that could be helpful for my game. So, the first thing I did was pull her aside and say, "Listen, I think I know who you are.”	”

	Aysha	“	So, when Teeny approached me about recognizing me and knowing me from Rob Has a Podcast, that made me so nervous. But I really do feel, like, a genuine connection with Teeny. I'm just trying to make sure that I'm not blindsided by… good vibes. Everyone playing the game of Survivor is here to win a million dollars, and so I'm trusting everyone until they give me a reason to lose trust. Who knows what's about to happen?	”

	Rome	“	I said that when I start this game, the main thing that I want to do is immediately start looking for advantages and try to do it in the smartest way. It is hard, in this new era of Survivor, to look for these advantages and not get caught.	”

	Rome	“	On day one, looking for an idol-- that could put a huge target on your back. But at the end of the day, I want to play this game as hard as possible. So I have to make sure that if I'm looking, I am looking everywhere, and if I look everywhere, I feel like I'mma find it.	”

	Rome	“	I didn't even see the word "beware." I just see the word "advantage." That's all it is. Because guess what? That advantage is gonna be in my hands instead of someone else. It said right there at the path, you'll be able to find a box with everything you need to get your idol. Once I started to dig on the path in the broad daylight, that was when I realized, "This is not a good idea." Thing is, it's right there where everyone's walking. It's directly on the way to the well. And so I almost have to do this at night. I just feel absolutely incredible at how I'm playing the game to start things off.	”

Day 2

	Gabe	“	This is a group that I imagine most Survivor tribes are like in the early days, where everyone's just really, really excited, understandably so. But I've had a lot of time to be excited. Now's not the time to be excited, now's the time to take care of business. It's why we're here. It's what I plan to do. I found a key earlier today to unlock this box buried in the ground, but TK walked up and caught me. And now I'm realizing I need somebody to keep an eye out for me. And Sue was somebody that I could work with to actually accomplish the tasks that were at hand.	”

	Sue	“	When he told me he found the Beware Advantage, that was huge. Like, I never expected anybody to ever tell me that they found an-an advantage. So, I'm definitely gonna be the lookout for when Gabe goes off hunting for this advantage.	”

	Gabe	“	I hear from Sue, and I have no more time. I grab that lock that's hooked on the box and I just rip it out of the ground as hard as I possibly can and I just take off sprinting. Let me just get off this path as soon as I can. Oh, my God. When I open it, I find a second box within the first box. And I'm not happy about it.	”

	Gabe	“	I broke my neck to get this thing, and now it comes with this big caveat. It's only good for one Tribal Council. If you want to keep going, there's another task, and that will give you an idol that's good for three Tribal Councils. I fancy myself a gambler in real life. I like betting on sports, I like going to the casino. So I put the one-time-use idol inside the smaller box and I took the clue, and it says, "Follow the map to the driftwood. Break open the driftwood to find the key that unlocks the box." So, I realize I have to hide this box somewhere and figure out what the next step of the equation is.	”

	Gabe	“	I am just panicking and-and panicking. My heart rate is pounding. I had a rough start to this game. I sit here with no vote, no idol, a whole task to do. It's gonna be a very mentally stressful next couple days.	”

	Jon	“	Looking at my tribe, I'm realizing I'm not getting to know a group of people. I'm getting to know a group of young people. I am 41 years old. Okay, so I'm old now? There's so much "back in my day" stuff coming out of my mouth. But, being a speechwriter, I learned that you need to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes. I'm realizing that I'm the oldest person here, but I'm not gonna let that stop me from trying to build things with these people.	”

	Andy	“	I first saw Rachel, and I just knew she was someone that I wanted to hitch my wagon to. Right now, I feel like I trust Jon and I'm working with Jon, but that's it. And that makes me uncomfortable, as a numbers guy. So I really put it upon myself to find an opportunity to get a moment with Rachel.	”

	Rachel	“	Part of the appeal of Survivor to me is that I love games, and Andy is just the sweetest, but I don't think he's strategic. He just, like, is a little too eager, maybe, to, like, just to bond and to get to know each other.	”

	Rachel	“	It's super suspicious to get up early and meet on the beach to talk. Like, absolutely not. I am not doing that, Andy.	”

	Andy	“	I couldn't sleep. I wasn't sleeping at all. I was just in these sort of negative thoughts, feeling like, in this new community, I'm somewhere where I don't belong. And I just needed to talk with someone, someone I felt good about because I feel like… I am spiraling, in a way.	”

	Rachel	“	One of the things a Survivor player shouldn't do is go off to talk. This is really obvious. People just heard us in the shelter. And I just literally told him, "That's a bad idea. We shouldn't do that." And then he does it anyway. It doesn't make me more confident that he's going to be a good alliance member.	”

	Rachel	“	He's feeling insecure, and I totally empathized with him, but you can't take those moments of downness and then just kind of rip somebody else's ga… game and pull them down with you.	”

	Andy	“	Rachel's someone I felt so good about on day one. But I tried opening up to Rachel. I thought that would give me a sense of relief, but I don't feel like I got that closure at all. And that put me in a very difficult and negative headspace. Right now, I feel like I've felt very often in my past. Sort of a high school feeling, like I'm different, I stick out in a bad way with a group of people all enjoying each other's company… …without me. When I'm cracking my coconut, people aren't even watching me. Jon-- he cracks a coconut and there are cheers from everyone else at camp. And I had this gut feeling I am on the bottom.	”

	Jon	“	I feel like I'm in a really good place with Andy, but there's some anxiety under there, beneath the surface, and that makes me nervous. I don't know if I want to work with somebody like that.	”

Day 3

	Gabe	“	The next clue told me I have to go find a piece of driftwood out on the beach that has a key inside of it that will open up the second box that will then give me the third tribal idol. And the clock is ticking. So the X on the map says it's into the brush, and lo and behold, there's a piece of driftwood there. I know that there's a key inside of it, so, I just smash it like I'm Donkey Kong. Every slam of this driftwood, it's deeper than just getting this key. This is giving my vote back. Who knows how much time I have before people get up, and I don't know if I'm gonna have another opportunity to keep looking for this thing. So, now that I finally have this key in my possession, I'm exhausted, but I can't wait to get back to the box.	”

	Gabe	“	There's a catch. There's a third box within the second box. It never seems to end. Leave it to Survivor to just not let me take a breath.	”

	Gabe	“	This was a tough call I was making, but this has been so damn hard. I'm really excited because I have power again. I have my vote back. I'm a dragon sitting on top of a pile of gold.	”

	Rome	“	Last night, I dug up a box. There was a gigantic lock on the box, and then I found the scroll, and I knew there was no way I was gonna be able to read the scroll in the pitch black. And so, today, I walked away by myself so I can read this advantage and do the next step.	”

	Rome	“	Once I got that second clue, I realized, "Okay, this is absolutely insane." But, man, if I can find this and get this done fast, that'll be awesome. All of a sudden, I heard a twig snap. I look up, and Aysha's right there. Granted, I don't think she saw me pouring water on the driftwood, but she saw me looking really, really hard.	”

	Sol	“	Rome is playing amateur hour. He's searching for idols, and he's a complete liability. Rome is off his rocker.	”

	Rome	“	“The key to the box is at the bottom of the well." When I read that, my heart dropped. It feels so, so difficult. You can almost feel like Jeff wants someone else to be able to know, he wants someone to catch me.	”

	Rome	“	I got the key. I know that the key unlocks the box. I'm hoping that I can go open this box up and that there's gonna be an Immunity Idol right inside it.	”

	Aysha	“	Me, Teeny, Kishan and Sol saw Rome at the water well. And he goes the other way. No 'hi'. No 'hey, what are y'all doing?' Like, that is just suspicious behavior. I have this huge fear of Rome having an idol. But now I feel like I have the numbers. If we do end up at the first Tribal Council, Rome is the first person I want to go.	”

	Andy	“	I was being very honest in a vulnerable moment at the exact wrong time. I feel like I am dead man walking. But… I'm here because I… will give it my everything. And I have to play until my torch is snuffed. The last thing I'm ever gonna do is concede.	”

	Rachel	“	At the Immunity Challenge, Andy had a meltdown in front of everybody, and in my head, I was like, what is he doing? Like, what is going on right now? Is this actually happening? In all of my Survivor watching, I don't think that's ever happened before. I mean, people have had meltdowns, but I don't think it's ever happened in front of everybody else. The other tribes… their jaws were like… 'What?' And, I mean, so was mine.	”

	Anika	“	He said he was 80%. He wasn't 100% better yet. Which makes me nervous. All of us aren't gonna be 100% out here. That's the whole entire point of the game. If you're gonna have outbursts like this on day three-- like, that is a huge concern.	”

	Jon	“	Andy is messy. That was messy. I don't know that I've seen something like that before. And because of how it all went down, like, you would think that they're going for Andy, but I'm a little bit paranoid because I feel like I have been struggling to fit in, and that makes me nervous. So I'm gonna go feel it out.	”

	Jon	“	Anika, Rachel and Sierra are all saying it's Andy, but they all immediately are like, "And we're gonna tell Andy it's me," which sucks. Uh… What I'm hearing doesn't totally make sense, so I'd much rather try to figure out my best strategic option with the votes.	”

	Andy	“	I'm patching things up with Jon, and he gives me sort of, like, a lifeline for me in this game to get out a person I actually want out, which is Anika. At this point, my main, core priority over everything is just fighting to stay in the game.	”

	Jon	“	Right now, it's either me or Andy. Or I can try to vote Anika. If I'm gonna be on this show for one episode-- one glorious and perfect episode-- I'd rather go out swinging and ha-- and-and making some kind of a move rather than just hoping for the best. I don't want to hope for the best. I want to try to figure something out.	”

	Sam	“	Jon and Andy expect me to throw a vote on Anika tonight. Love you, Jon, but I'm not doing that. I'm starting to think Jon is playing hard. He's a strategist. He's very, very smart, which is dangerous for me. And Andy is strong. He might be able to help us win a challenge or two.	”

	Sierra	“	Having somebody like Andy can be a liability, and it's somebody we definitely need to worry about. However, I think right now we need strength. I don't think these challenges are going to get any easier. We need some strength and, honestly, we're not getting that from Jon.	”

	Rachel	“	If we keep Andy, I think he's more loyal to me than he is to anybody else on our tribe. But I don't know that that's actually a good thing because Andy is a ticking time bomb and you don't know when it's gonna explode. On the other hand, if we keep Jon, who is more even keel and levelheaded, we might lose the next few Immunity Challenges without Andy's strengths. I am genuinely torn. Our ability as a tribe to make the right choice is gonna decide the fate of Gata, and that is so scary.	”

Challenges

• Reward (Challenge 1)
• Reward (Challenge 2)
• Reward/Immunity

Challenge: Kang Sera Sera
Reward: Pot, machete, and flint
Additional Stipulation: The two losing tribes will have to send one tribe member earn their supplies in another challenge.
Winner: Gata

Challenge: Camp Supply Challenge
One representative of each tribe will face off in a scavenger hunt through the jungle, where they will use a series of clues to find three keys. Once they have retrieved all three of their keys, they will race into the water to find a fourth key. The first person to take the final key wins for their tribe.
Reward: Pot, machete, and flint
Winner: Tuku

Challenge: Under Pressure
Reward: Toolkit
Additional Stipulation: The losing tribe must forfeit their flint, though they can win it back if they win the next Immunity Challenge.
Winners (in order of finish): Lavo and Tuku

Tribal Council

Tribal Council 1: Gata
Voted Against	Voter
Jon (5 votes)	Andy, Anika, Rachel, Sam, Sierra
Anika (1 vote)	Jon
VOTED OUT: Jon Lovett

Voting Confessionals

No voting confessionals were aired.

Final Words

	Jon	“	Nobody imagines that they'll be the first to go, but when you take a risk, sometimes it doesn't go the way you want, but that's why they call it a risk. This will bring so much joy to my friends and family making fun of me for years and maybe in the end, it'll be worth it. First out, let me have it people, let me have it.	”

Still in the Running

Jon 18th	Andy Gata	Anika Gata	Aysha Lavo	Caroline Tuku	Gabe Tuku	Genevieve Lavo	Kishan Lavo	Kyle Tuku
Rachel Gata	Rome Lavo	Sam Gata	Sierra Gata	Sol Lavo	Sue Tuku	TK Tuku	Teeny Lavo	Tiyana Tuku

Trivia

Secret Scene

• (Untitled): Sue introduces herself to her Tuku tribe.
• Day 01 Sol Warns Rome: Rome is upset with Sol because he warned him about being away from camp too much.

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