Survivor: Panama
Survivor: Panama | |
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Winner | Aras Baskauskas |
Presented by | Jeff Probst |
No. of episodes | 15 |
No. of days | 39 |
No. of castaways | 16 |
Production | |
Location(s) | Pearl Islands, Panama |
Filming dates | October 31, 2005 – December 8, 2005 |
Release | |
Original release | February 2, 2006 – May 14, 2006 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Survivor: Guatemala |
Followed by | Survivor: Cook Islands |
Survivor: Panama — Exile Island, also known as Survivor: Exile Island and Survivor: Panama, is the twelfth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor. The season was filmed in the Pearl Islands, off the coast of Panama from October 31, 2005 through December 8, 2005 and premiered on February 2, 2006. Hosted by Jeff Probst, it consisted of the usual 39 days of gameplay with 16 competitors, the season being the first season with 16 competitors since Survivor: Pearl Islands five seasons prior.
The game began by splitting the 16 players into four tribes by sex and age:[1] young men (Viveros), older men (La Mina), young women (Bayoneta) and older women (Casaya). These four tribes were named after four islands located in the Pearl Islands. The Viveros and Bayoneta tribes were dissolved after the first tribal council and in a "schoolyard pick" formed two new integrated tribes using the Casaya and La Mina tribe names and camps. When there were ten contestants left, they merged into one tribe named "Gitanos," the Spanish word for "gypsy." Coincidentally, a member from each of the original four tribes was represented in the final four. In a 5-2 vote, Aras Baskauskas defeated Danielle DiLorenzo and was named the Sole Survivor.
The season included a twist that originally came from Survivor: Palau called Exile Island. Each week at least one castaway is banished to an island away from all other contestants for the time period between the reward and immunity challenges. The castaway is given a single machete, a flint, a pot and a bucket of non-sanitized water. The island also contained a hidden immunity idol that could be used at tribal council after the votes have been cast.
The complete season, including the mid-season recap episode and live reunion show, was released on DVD on May 22, 2012.
Contestants
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Tina Scheer was originally slated for Survivor: Guatemala, but she backed out due to her son's death prior to that season.[2]
Contestant | Original tribe | Switched tribe | Merged tribe | Finish |
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Scheer, TinaTina Scheer 44, Hayward, Wisconsin |
Casaya | 20 | 20 | 1st voted out Day 3 |
Hyder, MelindaMelinda Hyder 32, Nashville, Tennessee |
Casaya | Casaya | 20 | 2nd voted out Day 6 |
Giles, MistyMisty Giles 24, Dallas, Texas |
Bayoneta | La Mina | 20 | 3rd voted out Day 8 |
Milliman, Ruth-MarieRuth-Marie Milliman 48, Greenville, South Carolina |
Casaya | La Mina | 20 | 4th voted out Day 11 |
Mason, BobbyBobby Mason 32, Los Angeles, California |
Viveros | Casaya | 20 | 5th voted out Day 14 |
Barry, DanDan Barry 51, South Hadley, Massachusetts |
La Mina | La Mina | 20 | 6th voted out Day 15 |
Stanbury, NickNick Stanbury 25, Tucson, Arizona |
Viveros | La Mina | Gitanos | 7th voted out Day 18 |
Carty, AustinAustin Carty 24, High Point, North Carolina |
Viveros | La Mina | 8th voted out 1st jury member Day 21 | |
Schumann, SallySally Schumann 27, Chicago, Illinois |
Bayoneta | La Mina | 9th voted out 2nd jury member Day 24 | |
Kanegai, BruceBruce Kanegai 57, Sacramento, California |
La Mina | Casaya | Removed due to illness 3rd jury member Day 25 | |
Marit, CourtneyCourtney Marit 31, Los Angeles, California |
Bayoneta | Casaya | 10th voted out 4th jury member Day 30 | |
Powers, ShaneShane Powers 35, Los Angeles, California |
La Mina | Casaya | 11th voted out 5th jury member Day 33 | |
Fields, CirieCirie Fields 35, Walterboro, South Carolina |
Casaya | Casaya | 12th voted out 6th jury member Day 36 | |
Deitz, TerryTerry Deitz 46, Farmington, Connecticut |
La Mina | La Mina | 13th voted out 7th jury member Day 38 | |
DiLorenzo, DanielleDanielle DiLorenzo 24, Pompano Beach, Florida |
Bayoneta | Casaya | Runner-up | |
Baskauskas, ArasAras Baskauskas 24, Santa Monica, California |
Viveros | Casaya | Sole Survivor | |
Future appearances
Cirie Fields was selected from this season to compete in Survivor: Micronesia and placed third.[3] She competed again in Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains as part of the Heroes tribe, where she placed 17th.[4] DiLorenzo also competed on Heroes vs. Villains as part of the Villains tribe, placing 7th.[5] Aras Baskauskas returned for Survivor: Blood vs. Water, alongside his brother, Vytas, placing 11th.[6]
Season summary
The game began with the 16 competitors split into four tribes by both relative age and gender. They were introduced to the concept of "Exile Island" with the promise of a hidden immunity idol located somewhere on it, while one person from the losing tribe at challenges would be sent to the island and given clues to look for it. After the first four days, the four tribes were merged by schoolyard pick with mixed genders into two tribes, Casaya and La Mina. Casaya generally proved the stronger tribe, and opted to send Terry from La Mina over to Exile Island multiple times, which gave him the opportunity to discover the hidden immunity idol.
Going into the merge, Casaya was up 6 members to 4. While Terry won several individual immunities, he did not use it or the hidden immunity idol to save his former La Mina tribe members, leaving him as the sole remaining La Mina member and a perceived immunity challenge threat by the other Casaya tribe. Bruce was evacuated due a medical emergency, leaving six players at the game. At this juncture, Cirie, who saw both Terry and Shane looking separately to take Courtney, a weaker player, into the final Tribal Council as an assurance to win the jury's favor, convinced Aras and Danielle to blindside the other three, and succeeded in achieving Courtney's elimination, followed by Shane's. The final four vote came down a fire-making tiebreaker between Cirie and Danielle; Danielle ultimately won. Danielle won the final immunity challenge and opted to take Aras to the final Tribal Council, eliminating Terry. The final jury saw both Aras and Danielle as capable players but ultimately voted Aras as sole survivor, five votes to two.
Episode title | Original air date | Challenge winner(s) | Exiled | Eliminated | Finish | |
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"The First Exile" | February 2, 2006 | La Mina | Bayoneta | Misty | Tina | 1st voted out Day 3 |
Viveros | La Mina | |||||
Casaya | Viveros | |||||
"Breakdown" | February 9, 2006 | La Mina | La Mina | Bruce[lower-alpha 1] | Melinda | 2nd voted out Day 6 |
"Crazy Fights, Snake Dinners" | February 16, 2006 | La Mina | Casaya | Bruce | Misty | 3rd voted out Day 8 |
"Starvation and Lunacy" | February 23, 2006 | Casaya | Casaya | Terry | Ruth-Marie | 4th voted out Day 11 |
"For Cod's Sake" | March 2, 2006 | Casaya | La Mina | Terry | Bobby | 5th voted out Day 14 |
"Salvation and Desertion" | March 9, 2006 | Casaya[lower-alpha 2] | Sally[lower-alpha 3] | Dan | 6th voted out Day 15 | |
"An Emerging Plan" | March 30, 2006 | None[lower-alpha 4] | Terry | None[lower-alpha 4] | Nick | 7th voted out Day 18 |
"The Power of the Idol" | April 6, 2006 | Aras, Bruce, Sally |
Terry | Austin | Austin | 8th voted out 1st jury member Day 21 |
Danielle | ||||||
"Fight for Your Life or Eat" | April 13, 2006 | Bruce, Courtney, Sally, Terry | Terry | Aras | Sally | 9th voted out 2nd jury member Day 24 |
"Medical Emergency" | April 20, 2006 | Cirie, [Aras, Danielle] |
None[lower-alpha 5] | Terry | Bruce | Removed due to illness 3rd jury member Day 25 |
"Perilous Scramble" | April 27, 2006 | Courtney, Danielle, Terry[lower-alpha 6] |
Terry | Aras | Courtney | 10th voted out 4th jury member Day 30 |
"Bamboozled" | May 4, 2006 | Terry, [Shane] |
Terry | Danielle | Shane | 11th voted out 5th jury member Day 33 |
"Call the Whambulence!" | May 11, 2006 | Aras, [Cirie] | Aras | Danielle | None[lower-alpha 7] | N/A[lower-alpha 7] |
Terry | ||||||
"The Final Showdown" | May 14, 2006 | None[lower-alpha 7] | Cirie[lower-alpha 7] | 12th voted out 6th jury member Day 36 | ||
Terry | Danielle | None | Terry | 13th voted out 7th jury member Day 38 | ||
"Reunion" | May 14, 2006 | Jury vote | ||||
Danielle | Runner-up | |||||
Aras | Sole Survivor |
- In the case of multiple tribes or castaways who win reward or immunity, they are listed in order of finish, or alphabetically where it was a team effort; where one castaway won and invited others, the invitees are in brackets.
- ↑ Bruce was sent to Exile Island after not being chosen in the tribal switch. He joined the tribe that lost the subsequent Immunity Challenge, Casaya.
- ↑ Combined reward and immunity challenge.
- ↑ Sally was exiled until after the next Tribal Council, which meant she could not be voted out or participate in the vote.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 There was no reward challenge or exiling due to the merge.
- ↑ Due to Bruce's medical evacuation from the game, there was no Immunity Challenge or Tribal Council.
- ↑ In addition to the team reward, Terry won a GMC Yukon for winning the second part of the challenge.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Cirie and Danielle were tied at Tribal Council, but before the tiebreaker challenge was shown, the episode ended. At the start of the next episode, the fire making tiebreaker was aired, in which Cirie lost.
Episodes
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166 | 1 | "The First Exile" | February 2, 2006 | 19.20 | 7.0/18 | ||
All 16 castaways arrived on what was later revealed as Exile Island for the start of the game. They were divided into four tribes based on their age and gender.
With Viveros, Casaya and La Mina victorious, the losing tribe, Bayoneta, had to pick one of their own to stay on Exile, who would return in time for the next Immunity Challenge. Through Rock, Paper, Scissors, it was decided among the younger women that Misty would remain. The older tribes fared well, with Tina's leadership at Casaya helping everyone get chores done and La Mina successfully building a bonfire, however the younger tribes were less productive.
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167 | 2 | "Breakdown" | February 9, 2006 | 18.75 | 6.6/17 | ||
Following a terrible storm, the tribes gathered for a Reward Challenge and were shocked to learn they would be rearranged. Bayoneta and Viveros were disbanded, with all remaining contestants spread across the new Casaya and La Mina tribes of seven people each. The new La Mina tribe consisted of Austin, Dan, Misty, Nick, Ruth-Marie, Sally, and Terry. The new Casaya tribe consisted of Aras, Bobby, Cirie, Courtney, Danielle, Melinda, and Shane. With Bruce left over as a result of the odd number of castaways, he was granted immunity and sent to Exile Island for three days until tribal council and would join the tribe that lost the next Immunity Challenge.
The new La Mina Tribe won the Reward Challenge.
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168 | 3 | "Crazy Fights, Snake Dinners" | February 16, 2006 | 16.98 | 6.3/16 | ||
At Casaya, Bruce used spare T-shirts to develop a water filtration system, meaning his tribe did not need to boil the brackish water before drinking it. It proved popular with some, but Courtney met it with skepticism.
La Mina won camping essentials and the right to choose which member of Casaya would be exiled at the Reward Challenge. They chose Bruce, believing that his absence would most demoralize the tribe. Shane's mood swings continued and created friction among his alliance.
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169 | 4 | "Starvation and Lunacy" | February 23, 2006 | 14.85 | 5.5/14 | ||
Before the Reward Challenge, Bruce, Aras and Shane returned from foraging for food to find the rest of their tribe had let the fire go out. After a lesson about responsibility around the campsite, they pulled together and won the Reward Challenge for bathroom and supplies, and chose to exile Terry, because they believed him to be his team's leader. Bobby created some friction with his teammates by disagreeing with how the reward should be used. La Mina tried to organize their camp, but were lost without Terry. Terry discovered the mysterious Hidden Immunity Idol (a makeshift shrunken head concealed inside a bottle), which he kept as a secret from his teammates after his return.
Dan pulled in Ruth-Marie as a fifth person in his alliance, but after losing another Immunity Challenge, Sally convinced the La Mina men that she was a more valuable player. In the end, strength outweighed loyalty as Ruth-Marie was voted out 4-2. | |||||||
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Bruce's "Zen Garden" caused friction in Casaya and Aras felt he should instead have been helping with the daily camp chores.
Incorporating the reward into the challenge, the winning tribe would receive all the items that were used in the challenge: fish, rice, spices, and wine. The losing tribe will not go back to camp empty-handed, for they were to choose either a sack of rice or a sack of beans. La Mina lost again and Casaya chose Terry to go to Exile Island for the second time in a row. As Casaya returned to camp, they found out that their shelter was ruined due to the storm that happened during the challenge. Since the storm also extinguished their fire and they were unable to create another one on account of everything being wet, they merely enjoyed what they had and ate the fish raw. Meanwhile, as La Mina ate the beans that they chose from the Reward Challenge, Austin and Nick faced the gastrointestinal consequences. The next morning at Casaya, Danielle and Courtney learned Bruce and Bobby spent the night sleeping in their outhouse, drinking all the wine they had won.
At the Immunity Challenge, La Mina constructed the skull pyramid faster than Casaya, finally breaking their losing streak and winning Immunity. After the immunity challenge, Shane told Bobby that Bruce was the next to go, as his tribe feared he would flip over to La Mina's alliance come time of the merge. He assured Bobby he wasn't to go by swearing on his son's name; however, Cirie, Courtney and Danielle overpowered Shane and told him they felt Bruce was more trustworthy and less problematic. At tribal council, Shane voted for Aras as a "throwaway vote" as not to choose either side, and the women of Casaya led an erratic 3-2-1-1 vote, resulting in Bobby's elimination. |
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171 | 6 | "Salvation and Desertion" | March 9, 2006 | 15.33 | 5.4/14 | ||
At La Mina's camp, while Austin and the other men searched for edible creatures in the water, Dan spoke to Nick about his space flights at NASA. At Casaya, the women complained to Shane about how disrespectful he was.
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172 | 7 | "A Closer Look" | March 15, 2006 | ||||
A recap of the first 15 days including previously un-aired bonus footage. | |||||||
173 | 8 | "An Emerging Plan" | March 30, 2006 | 16.25 | 5.8/17 | ||
La Mina received treemail that they are to go to Casaya for the merge. As the tribe approached Casaya's camp, Shane pulled his tribe together in an agreement to vote out the other Tribe in the next four Tribal Councils and the Casaya members, who were eating, ate as much rice as they could to avoid sharing with La Mina, then greeted them with open arms. While building a larger shelter, Nick accidentally chipped Bruce's tooth with a machete, but Bruce was fine. Meanwhile, Terry tried to convince Shane and Cirie to flip, guaranteeing them two more weeks in the game, but no one would budge.
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174 | 9 | "The Power of the Idol" | April 6, 2006 | 16.36 | 5.6/17 | ||
With Nick voted out, the former La Mina tribe attempted to flip some of the Casaya tribe members.
At the reward challenge, the castaways were split into three teams, and Bruce, Aras, and Sally ended up victorious. Austin and Danielle were exiled together, while the winners enjoyed a big breakfast in a rain-soaked bed.
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175 | 10 | "Fight for Your Life or Eat" | April 13, 2006 | 15.07 | 5.2/17 | ||
After another La Mina's departure, Sally and Terry were at their most desperate to keep themselves in the game.
At the Reward Challenge, the team of Bruce, Courtney, Sally, and Terry won a videos from home, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, and ice-cold milk. They chose Aras to be sent to Exile Island. Back at the camp, a paranoid Shane told registered nurse Cirie that he was "having problems" with his testicles (and stripped naked in the process, save his shirt). When the winning team got back, they brought some of their reward with them.
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176 | 11 | "Medical Emergency" | April 20, 2006 | 16.26 | 5.5/18 | ||
Terry seemed to become more bitter about his continued status outside of the alliance.
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177 | 12 | "Perilous Scramble" | April 27, 2006 | 17.09 | 5.9/18 | ||
The other players continued to worry about Shane's strange behavior: he had found a piece of wood and was pretending it was his BlackBerry and he was sending messages to people back home.
Terry, Courtney and Danielle won the first part of the Reward Challenge, and Terry won the second part to claim the car. During their reward, Terry made a deal with Courtney and Danielle for the three of them to work together. Back at camp, Cirie went fishing and caught a sizable fish. After returning to camp, Danielle told Terry she was worried that if they were in the final three with Courtney, she figured he would pick Courtney to go to the final two with because she was less popular. Terry made an agreement with Danielle that if either of them won the final immunity challenge, they would take the second place winner to the final two. When Courtney was told of this, she became upset because she felt it implied she was being carried by other players.
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178 | 13 | "Bamboozled" | May 4, 2006 | 17.04 | 5.9/18 | ||
Players competed in a Reward Challenge of obstacles from past challenges for a visit with loved ones. The winner would decide as to what capacity the other contestants would get to interact with their loved ones. Terry won and he choose himself and his wife, along with Shane and his son, Boston, to spend the night at a villa. He also chose Cirie's husband H.B. to spend the night at the camp, Aras to just get a hug from his mother and Danielle to get a few words with her mom from where she was standing.
After the loved ones left, the players competed for Immunity. For the fifth time in a row, Terry won immunity. Back at camp, Aras decided to break his alliance with Shane after finding out that Shane wanted to take Courtney to the final two. Aras then made an alliance with Cirie and Danielle. In the end, Shane was blindsided in a 3-1-1 decision. | |||||||
179 | 14 | "Call the Whambulence!" | May 11, 2006 | 17.20 | 5.8/18 | ||
Terry was inadvertently tripped by Cirie's torch and yelled at her while she was tending the bonfire, but Aras protected her, saying that it was an accident. This left Terry further isolated among the tribe.
Aras won the Reward Challenge, and chose to take Cirie on a luxurious yacht trip through the Panama Canal; but not before having a debate with Terry after he accused him of complaining every time he lost a challenge and blurting out "disparaging comments about women." Both Terry and Danielle were sent to Exile Island for losing the Challenge. During their trip, Aras and Cirie made a pact for the Final 2; while Danielle and Terry also conspired for their fate in the game during their time on exile. Soon after returning from their reward, Cirie successfully built her first fire.
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180 | 15 | "The Final Showdown" | May 14, 2006 | 17.07 | 6.2/15 | ||
After many attempts to start fires that continue to wear out, Danielle won the fire starting tie-breaker, and Cirie was eliminated from the game.
The next morning, Terry displayed the now powerless Immunity Idol back at camp, and in a surprise Reward Challenge, he won a protein-enriched meal that would be useful for the final Immunity Challenge. The final three were taken to Exile Island to take part in a tribute to the eliminated Survivors. The three placed the extinguished torches of the thirteen eliminated Survivors on the large skull-shaped shelter in the center of the island and burned it in the process.
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181 | 16 | "Reunion" | May 14, 2006 | ||||
The castaways discuss the season with host, Jeff Probst, live at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. |
Voting history
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- ↑ The first Tribal Council vote resulted in a tie. As there were only four castaways remaining, the two tied castaways would compete in a fire making challenge to resolve the tie.
- ↑ No vote: Bruce was removed due to a medical emergency, no Tribal Council was held.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Cirie lost to Danielle in a fire making challenge.
- ↑ Bruce was sent to Exile Island after not being chosen in the tribal switch. He joined the tribe that lost the subsequent Immunity Challenge, Casaya.
- ↑ Sally was exiled until after the next Tribal Council, which meant she could not be voted out or participate in the vote.
References
- ↑ Dakss, Brian (January 9, 2006). "'Survivor: Panama' Cast Unveiled". CBS News. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ Mitchell, Paul (January 11, 2006). "Timber Tina Scheer proves she's a 'survivor'". Wisconsinosity. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ Rocchio, Christopher (May 12, 2008). "Cirie Fields, Survivor: Micronesia". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ Ross, Dalton (March 5, 2010). "'Survivor: Heroes vs Villains': Latest evictee responds to Tribal Council blindside". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ "Exclusive: Danielle DiLorenzo talks 'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains'". May 7, 2010. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ Helling, Steve (November 21, 2013). "Aras Baskauskas Is Going to Be a Dad! : People.com". People. Retrieved 1 January 2014.