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"There are only seven players left in the Philippines, and we&amp;#039;ll soon be down to six. After last week&amp;#039;s change of events, it seems like Abi is a sure thing for elimination, but as we know with Survivor, anything could happen, so we&amp;#039;ll see! After Pete&amp;#039;s exit, the remaining contestants wake up on day 28 and the mood is less than harmonious. Abi tells Michael by the campfire that everyone was &amp;quot;brutal&amp;quot; towards her yesterday and it was &amp;quot;not cute&amp;quot;, which is classic Abi - she can dish it out, but she can&amp;#039;t take it. Denise doesn&amp;#039;t seem to care, though; she&amp;#039;s sure Abi won&amp;#039;t win immunity this week and will be out of the game.  Later in the morning, Malcolm and Abi walk out to find some tree mail, which happens to be a treasure box full of what appear to be letters from the players&amp;#039; families. Abi breaks down in tears and Malcolm awkwardly hugs her, admitting that Denise was indeed brutal and that Abi lacks self-awareness, meaning he feels a bit of sympathy for her. In any case, the envelopes aren&amp;#039;t letters after all - they&amp;#039;re full of money ($500!) for the upcoming food auction. Yay, the food auction is always fun!   After meeting Jeff on the beach, he starts off the proceedings. You know the drill - they can&amp;#039;t share food or money and should bid on items they want as soon as they see them as the auction can end at any time without warning. First up, it&amp;#039;s a plate of pancakes with bacon, butter, maple syrup and a pitcher of orange juice. Denise buys it for $500, spending all her money in one go, and she&amp;#039;s extremely pleased with her purchase.  Next up, Mike gives all of his money for a wine and cheese platter with dried apricots and crackers - certainly not as good as the pancakes, but okay. Next up, it&amp;#039;s a plate of donuts with iced coffee. Malcolm takes it for $200, which is a pretty good deal. The next item remains covered - it&amp;#039;s a blind auction. No one goes against Penner, who wins it for $100. It ends up being fried chicken and french fries with ketchup - what a steal! The next item is also covered. Malcolm and Carter get into a bidding war, with Carter eventually taking it for $200 - he&amp;#039;s got a baked potato with sour cream, onions and bacon. However, Jeff gives him a choice: he can give it up and win rice and beans for the entire tribe. He does it, which is pretty selfless (though that may be tactical). The next item is covered as well, and Lisa finally gets into the game. She and Carter go at it again, with Lisa eventually taking it for $320. It ends up being two massive sandwiches, chips and what appears to be iced tea. The next item is an advantage in the game - Abi spends $500 and wins it, though we&amp;#039;re not really sure what &amp;quot;it&amp;quot; is yet. The next item is covered and Carter takes it for $200, finally giving him veal shanks... for the entire tribe! He can&amp;#039;t use any utensils and there&amp;#039;s a 60 second time limit, so they&amp;#039;ll have to get to it. And indeed they do - it&amp;#039;s rather a sight to be hold. And like that, the auction is over! They&amp;#039;re all going to be ill, no doubt, but enjoy it while it lasts!    Once everyone gets back to camp, the jovial mood quickly goes down the tubes when Abi and Penner get into it. Abi thinks Penner should apologise for &amp;quot;demoralising&amp;quot; her and upsetting her, though Penner defends his position, saying that her bluntness is off-putting and she should have been friendlier. Abi has nothing to say, though she soon gives a sarcastic apology for being &amp;quot;too honest&amp;quot; with her fellow players and how she&amp;#039;s going to look back and learn from her Survivor experience. While they end the conversation with a hug, Abi takes everything with a grain of salt, claiming that people only want to communicate with her because of the advantage she purchased at the auction.  She goes to sit alone on the beach to read the note, which reveals that she&amp;#039;ll get to move to the final stage in the immunity challenge and has a one in three chance of winning it. She has no plans in telling this to the rest of the group, though. Instead, she hopes to instill some kind of fear in them to hopefully turn things in her favour. She&amp;#039;s decided to plant a fake immunity idol to hopefully trick them into thinking that she&amp;#039;s safe. Penner gathers the group together while she&amp;#039;s away, however, and encourages them to remain strong, as Abi is not worth playing the remainder of the game with them.  Later that day, Abi gathers Malcolm privately and says that she wants to work with someone because there&amp;#039;s a fourth idol and she has it. If he&amp;#039;s dumb enough to believe this, then he deserves to lose the game. The conversation doesn&amp;#039;t get too far, however, as it&amp;#039;s time to meet Jeff on the beach for this week&amp;#039;s immunity challenge. This week, they&amp;#039;ll be attached to a rope that&amp;#039;s threaded through a hitching rail. The first five to get through will move on to the next round. Still attached to the rope, they&amp;#039;ll use the second round to navigate through a series of bamboo poles, where the first two will make it to the final round, where they must complete a multi-level obstacle course. The winner, of course, gets immunity. But there&amp;#039;s a twist - at the beginning of each round, they&amp;#039;ll be asked a question. If they get it wrong, 5% of their body weight will be added to them and they&amp;#039;ll have to carry it with them.    Before getting started, Jeff reveals the second twist and asks Abi to reveal her letter. She knows that Jeff won&amp;#039;t lie for her, so instead decides to lie for herself by saying that there are two parts to the note, the second of which (her imaginary idol) she doesn&amp;#039;t have to read aloud if she doesn&amp;#039;t want to. She does tell them about moving to the final round of the challenge, however, which comes as a bit of a shock. She then proceeds to tear the message into &amp;quot;little tiny pieces&amp;quot; as she doesn&amp;#039;t want them to read the rest of the message. It&amp;#039;s a little overdone and again, I&amp;#039;d think you have to be pretty stupid to believe her.  For the first round, Denise and Lisa get their question wrong and have to carry 5% of their body weight with them. The rest got the question right and can get right into it. Denise makes it through first and gets to move onto the second round, and she&amp;#039;s followed by Carter, Mike and Malcolm. It&amp;#039;s between Lisa and Penner for that other spot and eventually Penner wins it. For the second round, Mike and Carter get 5% weight added, while Denise also gets her question wrong and now has 10% of her weight added to her. Finally, Penner and Carter make it through and move onto the third round with Abi.  Abi has the lead as they first get started, but Carter is close behind her for a while. It&amp;#039;s neck in neck, but she eventually flies through the last set of knots and reaches the finish first, winning immunity for the week. Never count your eggs before they hatch, people - stuff like this tends to happen. That&amp;#039;s okay - she&amp;#039;ll be out next week. But who will go in her place for now?    Returning to camp, Malcolm pretends to be upset that Abi has won but he&amp;#039;s secretly happy because it gives him an excuse to vote out the person he sees as the real threat: Penner. Lisa is having a hard time as she&amp;#039;s made a connection with him and feels she might not be cut out for the game. However, Mike and Denise assure her that it&amp;#039;s nearly over and it will be okay. She&amp;#039;s a bit of a pain, however, and ruins things yet again by going to talk to Penner privately to tell him how she&amp;#039;s not cut out for the game and pretty much revealing the entire plan to him. Penner is shocked that he could be going home and is mad at Lisa that she could go against him just because he didn&amp;#039;t agree to her final alliance earlier on.  Lisa assures him that she wants to go to the final three with him and that it&amp;#039;s not about the money, and when he asks her for advice, she tells Penner to go &amp;quot;work [his] magic that [he does]&amp;quot;. Penner then goes to tell Abi and Carter that they&amp;#039;re going to vote for Denise. He also runs this plan by Mike, who realises that he&amp;#039;s a swing vote and is unsure what he&amp;#039;s going to do.  At Tribal Council, the votes are counted and it&amp;#039;s down to the wire between Penner and Denise. Eventually, it&amp;#039;s revealed that Penner is out - Mike stayed true to his alliance, as did Lisa.  &amp;quot;My strategy once again has failed. I&amp;#039;m very disappointed in myself for not doing better, but I guess that&amp;#039;s the way Survivor crumbles,&amp;quot; he says following his exit. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve spent six years of my life with Survivor. I&amp;#039;m one of the lucky few who have played three times and it&amp;#039;s been fun and extremely painful.&amp;quot; Survivor Philippines airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on CBS. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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