‘Survivor’ Finale Recap Season 43, Episode 13 — [Spoiler] Wins

It all comes all the way down to this.

In Wednesday’s season finale of Survivor, the sport’s high two frontrunners had been left within the mud, as Gabler, Cassidy and Owen secured their seats on the closing Tribal Council of the yr. (Disappointed Karla or Jesse didn’t make it there? I’m gonna exit on a limb and say you’re not alone.)

But earlier than the jury may take a crack on the finalists, one final benefit sought to shake up the sport, giving one castaway the possibility to get a leg up on the competitors on the Final 5 immunity problem. Plus, one other journey to the Survivor sanctuary! So who received the grub, and extra importantly, who grew to become the sequence’ latest Sole Survivor? Let’s break all of it down.

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ADVANTAGE CLUE | It wouldn’t be a Survivor finale with out one final benefit, solely this time, the gamers should once more unscramble a sequence of phrases earlier than they’ll begin their hunt. Cass is hoping to beat Karla to the punch as a result of she’s nonetheless jonesing to get her former No. 1 out of this recreation. But Karla is the primary to take off and he or she’s in a position to safe the bundle, with Owen simply inches away from her! Considering her accidents, that’s fairly main.

IMMUNITY IS BACK UP FOR GRABS | Karla’s huge win offers her a slight benefit within the problem the place they have to maneuver a buoy via obstacles, carry blocks to a phrase puzzle and clear up the key phrase (which hopefully has nothing to do with broccoli). They’re additionally enjoying for rewards: Steak, potatoes, veggies, wine and cheesecake.

Karla will get to begin with 10 of her letter blocks already at her end desk, saving her just a few journeys via the problem. She does get all of her letters over first, however Owen beats her to the punch and takes the cake steak. He picks Cassidy to dine with, and he or she convinces him that Karla is the subsequent huge goal to gun for.

Meanwhile again at camp, Karla is stirring all of it up, telling Cassidy how harmful Jesse is (who then shares that with Jesse), whereas attempting to get Jesse to vote Cass. Jesse nonetheless holds on to the season’s closing immunity idol, however what he does with it is going to doubtless crush another person’s dream.

TRIBAL NO. 1 | Karla, once more, tries to play up Jesse’s huge resume, solely he whips out Jeanine’s idol, who’s sitting on the jury with probably the most shocked face we’ve seen since Eliza Orlins. Karla asks Jesse if he’d entertain an even bigger transfer than her, and the 2 comply with step apart and “dance” within the nook. Or one thing. I believe it was code for “scheme like your life depends on it.” They need to attempt to get Gabler to vote for Cass. Soon sufficient, everyone seems to be standing and whispering, so this Tribal is totally dwell.

When Jeff reads the votes, Jesse performs the idol… for himself. (He’s no dummy.) The votes are available in and “Khaos Karla” turns into the subsequent member of the jury.

FINAL IMMUNITY | It’s the stacking bowls on a spring-loaded contraption problem, and the winner of this, in fact, will get a fast-pass straight to the Final 3. These problem repeats have gotten me down, you guys. How many occasions have we seen this one (and the one-handed, place-the-balls-in-a-metal contraption one)? TOO MANY TIMES.

It’s a showdown between Cass and Owen, however when Owen’s stack topples, it’s clear Cassidy has this one within the bag. Now she has to make an enormous, million-dollar resolution. She wants somebody to take out Jesse. No ifs, ands or buts about it. But is Owen or Gabler the appropriate man for the job?

Gabler and Owen are each seeking to make one huge splashy transfer, in order that they’re each completely happy to go in and make fireplace. But you recognize what? They ought to’ve thought-about this DAYS AGO. Instead, Gabler was so targeted on enjoying stealthy that he… didn’t do something? Gabler then says one thing that made my jaw slam to the bottom. He plans on donating all the prize to charity, if he wins. Well, that’d definitely be a Survivor first.

Jesse, in the meantime, tries to persuade Cassidy to go towards him within the fireplace activity, and fairly truthfully, it’s his dumbest, most determined Hail Mary but. It ain’t occurring, bruh.

FIRE | Cass makes her selection and sends Gabler and Jesse into battle. (I’ve been overlaying Survivor for TVLine for just a few years now. Have I ever talked about how a lot I LOATHE the fire-making problem? Oh, I’ve? Are you sick of listening to me gripe about it? Alright, alright. Moving on!)

In one of the vital tough Survivor scenes to observe of late, Gabler takes household man Jesse. The poor man is in tears as he talks about his youngsters, his lack of security web at house and the way one incorrect transfer led to all of it crashing down on him. Anyone else emotions gutted for him? With that, the coulda-been, shoulda-been winner of Season 43 will get his torch snuffed and exits the sport. Bummer.

FINAL TRIBAL | It’s not that these three remaining gamers don’t need to win or that they didn’t play respectable video games, it’s simply that they’re not Jesse or Karla. But I’m going to should recover from that basically quick as a result of after a bountiful breakfast, Cassidy, Gabler and Owen face the jury and plead their case.

Gabler performs up his relationship-building and the way he had a number of methods to get to the tip at each stage of the sport. Cass says she was by no means on the incorrect facet of the vote, whereas Owen, a self-proclaimed underdog and “student of the game,” says that he clawed and scratched himself out of holes that neither of the opposite two needed to do.

The jury appears extremely entertained by Gabler’s explanations, they usually’re additionally impressed by the Final 3’s bodily prowess. They query why Cass despatched Gabler into fireplace, what everybody’s greatest errors had been and the way persuasion performed an element of their video games.

But all of it comes all the way down to the ultimate vote, and the tribe has spoken: Gabler wins the sport with eight votes.

What do you consider this Final 3, and did the appropriate particular person win the money? Drop some feedback beneath!