Survivor: Two Blindsides Cap Off a Tearful Double-Elimination Episode

This post contains spoilers from the April 10 episode of Survivor.

In Survivor 46’s “Cancel Christmas” episode last week, Siga tribe’s Moriah didn’t survive Mergatory after a nearly unanimous vote-out.

Episode 7 — titled “Episode Several” in reference to first boot Jelinsky’s “several means seven” comment during the season premiere — started with a post-tribal council blame game because of a single rogue vote.

Charlie cast that rogue vote against Nami’s Venus to avoid voting for a fellow Siga member and to avoid being eliminated in the event of a stray vote (had Moriah successfully used her Shot in the Dark or played an idol).

Venus came back to camp and thought Soda voted for her, but Charlie quickly confessed to Venus that he scribbled her name on the parchment.

Charlie’s confession riled up Q, who told Charlie that he should have kept that secret so Venus would continue to assume Soda was out to get her.

Charlie found this off-putting and felt as though Q was starting to “run the game,” setting Q up to be a potential voting target.

At the immunity challenge, the 12 castaways were separated into two groups to compete in a balancing challenge in the water.

Host Jeff Probst revealed that both groups would be going to separate tribal councils, meaning two people would get the axe this episode.

The person from each group who lasts the longest in the balancing challenge each wins immunity. On the orange team, Kenzie earned immunity over Ben, Hunter, Q, Tim, Kenzie and Tiffany

Meanwhile, the purple squad consisted of Charlie, Maria, Tevin, Soda, Venus, Liz — with Maria snagging the immunity necklace.

The “+1 Alliance” — which formed two episodes ago when the three physical threats from each tribe (Hunter, Q and Tim) decided to build a core group with themselves and each of their No. 1s (Tevin, Tiffany and Maria) — was put to the test.

With the three strong men in the same orange group, Q wanted to vote for Ben, but Tim had the urge to vote out alliance member Hunter because he doesn’t have numbers with his four Nami tribe mates in the other group.

On the purple side, Charlie felt like the odd man out being the only Siga eligible for votes, but the four Nami tribe imploded, with Soda gunning for Venus as well as Tevin wanting to blindside Soda.

“The cracks on Nami are like oceans between continents — they are ready to go at each other’s throats,” Charlie quipped in a confessional.

With Maria and Tevin part of the +1 Alliance, they recruited Charlie and Liz for their plan to blindside Soda.

At the orange tribal council, emotions ran high, eventually ending with Siga’s Tim being voted out in a blindside as tears fell on day 14.

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During the purple vote, the Soda blindside capped off the intense episode.

Survivor season 46 airs on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.