Quitting Time
Updated 2005-04-25 17:00:00
This episode kicks off with an overlong reward challenge that nets Gregg, Tom, Caryn, and Janu a feast that Janu can't even bear to eat, so delicate is her constitution. We arrive early at the immunity challenge, a vaguely creepy exercise in which the specter of drowning is raised and Janu lasts a blistering six minutes before tweaking, leaving the ultimate victory to Tom. In this case, Janu's tweaking gets her exiled to a beach by herself for the night, and we learn that she has managed to be on Survivor for 25 days without learning to make fire, and for this, sheâ¦kind of wants you to feel sorry for her. She ekes out an existence for 18 hours or so, and then she's back home, skinnier and creepier than ever. Gregg and Anonymous Jen are determined to boot Stephenie in spite of Janu's obvious unsuitability for continuing castaway life, and while Tom and Ian would like to change that result, they're not ready to go to a 4-4 tie, so they head for tribal council apparently resigned to booting Steph. But Jeff Probst takes a strong hand in the discussion, noting that Janu apparently wants to go home, and if she wants to go home, she might consider laying down her torch. After Steph expresses her frustration at what she knows is her impending boot, Janu indeed gives in to Probst's peer pressure and quits the game. And thus does Steph manage to hang around for another week. Never has one person endured so many consecutive tribal councils without actually getting snuffed.