The 18 new castaways are treated to a traditional Vanuatu ceremony including a sacrifice and the creation of a male and female tribe. Once settled in camp, revelations are discovered after one of the guys reveals he has a prosthetic leg. After a victorious immunity and reward challenge for the girls, the guys are forced to vote someone out of the tribe.

The women divide their alliances among the young and the old while they continue their work on their camp. The women prove to be strong during the reward challenge, but lose the Immunity Challenge and are sent to their first Tribal Council. It's a tight vote, but Dolly is the first female voted out of the women tribe.

As the two tribes gather for the Immunity Challenege, Jeff tells them that regardless of the outcome, both tribes are going to seperate Tribal Councils. The tribes first fight for reward which is won by the men. Then the men battle for single immunity, won by John K. By winning immunity, John K. spends the day with the girl tribe deciding which woman will receive immunity when the tribe goes to vote. At Tribal Council, John P. is voted out of the tribe even though conflicts with Rory are present. As the men leave, John K. stays until the women arrive. Once there, he gives the single Immunity to Ami, stating she was safe anyway. The vote reveals that the women remain divided and the ""younguns"" are shocked to see Mia get voted off.

When the girls return to their camp, Eliza was shocked that Lisa betrayed the ""young girls"" alliance by siding with the ""older girls"" alliance and voting Mia out. On the male tribe, the alliance of the older men remains strong. The women win the Reward Challenge, a native of the Islands will spend 24 hours with the tribe. The reward win lifts the spirits of the women as they are supplied with island food and a more comfortable shelter. The women continue their winning streak when the men are sent to Tribal Council. Although Rory continues to be a target, the alliance of the elder men are able to show their strength as Brady, a member from the ""young alliance"", is voted out.

The two tribes are surprised to see native men approach their campsite. Right away these natives asks both tribes to pick one cheif and they leave. Right before the Reward Challenge as the castaways are busy with their regular work at their campsites, they are all surprised when an earthquake comes out of nowhere. At the Reward Challenge, both tribes are shaken up, mixing the males and females. After the new tribes get to know each other, Yasur goes to Tribal Council after losing the challenege. A female alliance remains strong as Bubba, one of 2 guys on the new Yasur tribe, is voted off.

At Yasur, Rory begins to break down the women alliance, while Lisa's trust is questioned by Ami. Meanwhile at Lopevi, Julie sunbathes.

The two tribes merge into one tribe called Alinta, and instantly, the alliances between the men and women appear. Lead by Rory, the men plan to vote Ami out, but the tables are turned when Rory is the first member of the merged tribe to get voted out.

While getting treemail, Eliza is surprised to get a live pig that comes with the mail, but the meaning of the pig remains a mystery. Fueled by their hatred for each other, Scout and Eliza try to get the other one out. Struggling for strength, the men rally the help of Twila to beat the strong female alliance. But it does them no good as ""Sarge"" is the 10th contestant to get voted off and becomes the first member of the jury.

The remaining castaways return to camp and Chris finds himself now being the only male left. During the reward challenge, the castaways are surprised by a short visit from their loved ones. Eliza won an overnight visit from her mom and was saddened when she had to leave. The next day at the Immunity Challenge, Jeff surprises the survivors again as he reveals their loved ones will be involved in the competition. After the challenge, Chris started an alliance with Eliza, Scout and Twila to finally break the alliance of women lead by Ami.

The episodes starts off with Twila fighting with Amy over on how the last Tribal Council votes went. When the castaways arrived at the Reward Challenge, Jeff arrived in a new Pontiac saying that the Reward Challenge was to swim across the water onto a platform, walk across the beam, back on the platform, into the water, go under and grab a flag and do the obstical back onto the beach and put the flag on a pole, they then had to repeat it until the first 3 Survivors had 3 flags on their pole. The first one won the car and a very big clean up including a shower, food, and an over night stay. The other 2 would join the winner in the stay overnight. Ami had the lead most of the way, while Twila and Scout stayed very behind. Eliza was right behind Ami. Julie and Chris fought for 3rd. In a close race, Ami fell off her platform giving Eliza the first place and car, while Ami got second joining Eliza on the trip. In a tight race for the third spot on the trip, Chris beat Julie by just a little

After a grueling tribal council Eliza was still eyeing Twila. But it would have to wait when reward came. It turned out to be a tournament type challenge. Scout was eliminated first, Eliza second and Chris third. In a match between Julie and Twila, Julie slipped past an easy win. She was able to select somebody and chose Chris. They enjoyed hotdogs, wine, and beer, along with a beautiful view of the Mount Yasur eruption. Julie also got her chance to talk to Chris about voting out Twila and taking her and Eliza to the final 3, Chris never said no. Meanwhile, Scout and Twila had an awesome time tourturing Eliza, making Eliza say how much she wanted Twila gone. Chris and Julie returned and informed Eliza of their plan. She was pleased with it and agreed to write Twila's name. Immunity came and Jeff told them a story, he said that the survivors would run to a hut, unscramble a puzzle, answer a question, grab a trunk-like object. If it was white, they could hang it on a hook with th

The alliance of Scout, Eliza, Chris and Twila appear to hold strong as they are the final four. The first Immunity Challenge, consisted of Survivor's first every vertical maze. Twila had the lead at first, but Chris won it. When it came time to vote someone out of the group, Eliza was completely shocked to find herself voted out. She had put her complete trust in Chris in thinking they would be the final two, but Chris's stronger alliance between Scout and Twila prevailed. Once the final three were in their last Immunity Challenge, Chris began to wonder if Twila had a secret alliance with Scout. At camp, Chris finds out she did not, and so after winning the second challenge, Chris brought Twila with him to the final two. Once the jury was able to give their questions and comments and vote, Jeff announces the winner live.