'Survivor' 2013 Recap: 'Caramoan' Season 26, Episode 10 'Zipping Over the Cukoo's Nest' Results, Most Shocking Tribal Council Ever?

By Scott Taylor, Mstarz reporter | Apr 18, 2013 11:28 AM EDT

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Last night's tribal council on season 26 of CBS's "Survivor" may go down as one of the craziest of all time. "Survivor Caramoan" has seen quite a bit of drama, especially surrounding past contestant Brandon Hantz and Phillip (still on the island). Episode 10 "Zipping Over the Cukoo's Nest" was a whirlwind of a show that saw a shocking conclusion to the tribal council.

Phillip's "Stealth R Us" has gained a significant amount of control  after last week's tribal council. The show starts off with drama after Dawn threatens to quit the show after she lost her retainer in the water. You can't make this stuff up. Fortunately, Brenda helps Dawn and finds her retainer for her. After all this Brenda feels that because of all the goodwill she just built up, Dawn won't betray her.

In the reward challenge, contestants must race through a muddy obstacle course and dig out some bags of rice from the mud. They then must take the balls out of the bag and get ten of them into a basket elevated on a pole. The purple team consists of Reynold, Erik, Cochran, Dawn, and Phillip. The orange team is Malcom, Eddie, Sherri, Brenda, and Andrea. The Purple team ends up dominating the race and finishing before the Orange team can even shoot their balls.

"Stealth R Us" holds a meeting to decide who to get rid of next, ultimately choosing Reynold because he is their greatest threat. This leads to this week's immunity challenge where the top two swimmers from each heat will move on. They must dive into the water and pull themselves along a rope before putting a hoop on a pole and going back and doing the same at the other end.

Reynold and Andrea are able to both win the first heat while Malcom and Brenda move on from the second heat. Of course in the final heat Reynold pulls out the victory and saves himself from possible elimination.

Despite Malcom not having the backing that "Stealth R Us" has, he has the immunity idol, which will keep him safe. Everyone ends up going on an immunity idol scavenger hunt. Malcom may end up being the luckiest guy on the island because he finds a second immunity idol, putting him in control of his fate for the time being.

Malcom then decides to shake things up at the tribal council. Because Reynold won the immunity challenge he is safe, making Eddie the next in line to be voted off. However, Malcom not only shows everyone he has and idol, but he reveals his second idol and gives it to Eddie, saving him from being voted off the island. This shocks everyone and immediately rocks the "Stealth R Us" clan. Malcom then tells everyone he is going to vote off Phillip, who tries to calm everyone down and tells them to stick to their original plan. After the votes are cast and Eddie and Malcom use their idol's, Phillip is voted off.

I think it's fair to say not many people saw this coming after Phillip and "Stealth R Us" seemed to be in control. Malcom really shook things up this week and shocked everyone on the island by getting Phillip voted off.

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