The Ultimate Shock
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| "The Ultimate Shock" | |
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![]() Tom Westman, the winner of Survivor: Palau. | |
| Season | Palau |
| Episode Number | 14/14 (142) |
| First Broadcast | May 15, 2005 |
| Episode Chronology | |
| Previous | It Could All Backfire |
| Next | Big Trek, Big Trouble, Big Surprise (next season) |
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| Gallery Transcript | |
The Ultimate Shock is the season finale of Survivor: Palau.
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Challenges
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Day 37 Immunity Challenge: Tower Of Domination
Survivors must race along a tire crawl, then navigate through a series of vertical escape hatches to reach the top of a three-story tower. Once at the top of the tower, the Survivors must use grappling hooks to retrieve keys that unlock a hatch covering a flag, which they must raise. The first two players to finish would race down a flying fox into the ocean and retrieve a combination lock box containing another flag. After figuring out the box's combination, the Survivors must retrieve the flag and raise it. The first person to raise their final flag wins Immunity.
Winner: Tom
Day 38 Immunity Challenge: Bob-Bob Buoy
The Survivors must each grab onto a navigational buoy and hang on while the buoy sways from side to side. The last player left hanging on would win
Winner: Tom
Story
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Day 37
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Day 38
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Day 39
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Tribal Council
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Day 37
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Voting Confessionals
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Final Words
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| “ | I lasted 37 days but it didn't work out my way. I am a little disappointed in Katie. She had the chance to keep me around a little bit longer and she went against that so Katie, I don't know if you have my vote any longer. | ” |
| –Jenn Lyon | ||
Day 38
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Since the challenge ended late at night, this Tribal Council was held at the challenge area itself.
| Tribal Council 16: Koror | |
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| Voted Against | Voter |
Ian (1 vote) | Tom |
| VOTED OFF: Ian Rosenberger | |
Voting Confessionals
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Final Words
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Since the challenge ended late at night, and the tribal council was held at the challenge, Ian's final words were not produced
Final Tribal Council
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| Tribal Council 17: Jury Vote | |
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| Voted for Winner | Voter |
Tom (6 votes) | Caryn, Gregg, Ian, Janu, Jenn & Stephenie |
Katie (1 vote) | Coby |
| RUNNER-UP: Katie Gallagher | |
SOLE SURVIVOR:![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Westman | |
Voting Confessionals
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Final Results
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Reunion
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Trivia
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- The final Immunity Challenge currently holds the longest challenge held in the history of the series, at twelve hours.
- This is the only time to date that an official revote was held at a final four tie.
- This is the first time a vote was held outside Tribal Council, since it was too late at night to hold the actual visit to Tribal Council.
- With the impromptu Tribal Council, all Jury members were absent.
- This episode revealed that Tribal Council is held at sundown.
- Years later, Jeff Probst revealed that when the challenge continued at night, they tried to bring fire as lights, but the smoke distracted Tom, so they brought spotlights to continue shooting.[1]
- The Fire Starting Challenge is the second of the season - a Survivor first.
References
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- ↑ Ross, Dalton (November 10, 2010). "'Survivor': Jeff Probst picks his favorite Tribal Council ever". Entertainment Weekly. http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/11/10/survivor-jeff-probst-best-tribal-council-ever/. Retrieved May 2, 2012.

