April 16, 2009 week 9

The tribe has spoken and Karen R. is asked to leave the pool immediately.

Host Jeff Probst asks the Forza Tribe who tells the best campfire stories and, without hesitation, Taj responds “Coach.” She then proceeds to give Jeff the rundown on Coach’s Amazon story, detailing how he was kidnapped by a tribe of natives and nearly killed. When Jeff questions the validity of Coach’s story, Coach holds his ground and even alludes that there were details he didn’t reveal. “Usually when I tell these stories, I try to give the PG-13 version of it,” says Coach. Coach then continues, explaining that he has several scars and tattoos all over his body which remind him of the five, six or seven life or death situations that he has been through. Everyone seems to find this a little hard to believe. “They cannot question my integrity and my honesty. That’s how I’m playing this game, that’s how I play my life,” Coach preaches. Jeff switches gears, asking each tribe member if they have the hidden immunity idol. Each person denies possessing it except for Brendan, to the shock of his tribe. With this, the tribe members cast their votes. In the end, Coach got his way, and “The Dragon” was slain. With four votes cast against him, while the remaining six were split between Coach and Sierra, Brendan Synnott, the 30 year-old entrepreneur from New York, New York, became the eighth person voted out and the first person on the jury of SURVIVOR: TOCANTINS: THE BRAZILIAN HIGHLANDS.

A quote from the night: Tyson: (Regarding voting out Sierra) "It probably won't win me her vote...(long pause) but it might win me everybody else's vote!"

Timbira				Jalapao
Brendan	~	Candace		Brandon	~	Carolina
Cara	~	Tyson		Colin	~	Stephen
Christi	~	Erinn		Dick	~	J.T.
Karen R.	~	Brendan		Erin	~	Sandy
Kim	~	Debbie		Karen D.	~	Sydney
Pat	~	Coach		Lauren	~	Joe
Sandy	~	Jerry		Team Petrella	~	Taj
Warren	~	Sierra		Tom	~	Spencer