The Ultimate Shock

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The Ultimate Shock
Episode Information
Season	Palau
Episode Number	14/14 (142)
Original Release	May 15, 2005
Viewership (in Millions)	20.80 (finale) 16.72 (reunion)
Ratings/Share (18-49)	7.8/18 (finale) 6.5/16 (reunion)
Episode Chronology
Previous	"It Could All Backfire"
Next	"Big Trek, Big Trouble, Big Surprise" (next season)
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The Ultimate Shock is the season finale of Survivor: Palau.

Challenges

Immunity (Day 37)

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 Westman

Immunity Challenge: Tower Of Domination
Placement	Winner	2nd	3rd
Castaways	File:S10 tom t.jpg Tom	File:S10 ian t.jpg Ian	File:S10 jenn t.jpgFile:S10 katie t.jpg Jenn & Katie

Immunity (Day 38)

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 Westman

Immunity Challenge: Bob-Bob Buoy
Placement	Winner	2nd	3rd
Time Elapsed	11 hr 55 mins		4 hr 51 mins
Castaways	File:S10 tom t.jpg Tom	File:S10 ian t.jpg Ian	File:S10 katie t.jpg Katie

Tribal Council

Day 37

Tribal Council 15: Koror
First Vote (Tie)		Revote (Tie) (Ian & Jenn ineligible to vote)		Fire Making Tiebreaker
Voted Against	Voter	Voted Against	Voter	Result
File:S10 ian t.jpg Ian (2 votes)	File:S10 jenn t.jpgFile:S10 tom t.jpg Jenn & Tom	File:S10 ian t.jpg Ian (1 vote)	File:S10 tom t.jpg Tom	Won
File:S10 jenn t.jpg Jenn (2 votes)	File:S10 ian t.jpgFile:S10 katie t.jpg Ian & Katie	File:S10 jenn t.jpg Jenn (1 vote)	File:S10 katie t.jpg Katie	Lost
VOTED OFF: File:S10 jenn bw.jpg Jenn Lyon

Voting Confessionals (First Vote)

Unavailable.

Voting Confessionals (Revote)

Unavailable.

Final Words

“	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

Since the challenge ended late at night, this Tribal Council was held at the challenge area itself.

Tribal Council 16: Koror
Voted Against	Voter
File:S10 ian t.jpg Ian (1 vote)	File:S10 tom t.jpg Tom
VOTED OFF: File:S10 ian bw.jpg Ian Rosenberger

Voting Confessionals

Since Tom's vote for Ian was cast verbally at the challenge, there were no voting confessionals.

Final Words

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

Tribal Council 17: Jury Vote
Voted for Winner	Voter
File:S10 tom t.jpg Tom (6 votes)	File:S10 caryn t.jpgFile:S10 ian t.jpg File:S10 jenn t.jpgFile:S10 stephenie t.jpg Caryn, Gregg, Ian, Janu, Jenn, & Stephenie
File:S10 katie t.jpg Katie (1 vote)	File:S10 coby t.jpg Coby
RUNNER-UP: File:S10 katie bw.jpg Katie Gallagher
SOLE SURVIVOR: File:S10 tom t.jpg Tom Westman

Voting Confessionals

“	(voting for Tom) Tom, I'm voting for you because I walked away with an incredible experience, and that was due to the fact that you chose me on that day when we chose tribes. So thank you, and good luck to you.	”
—Janu

“	(voting for Katie) I asked for honesty tonight, and I got it... but it wasn't from you, Tom.	”
—Coby

Final Results

Koror
File:S10 caryn bw.jpg Caryn	File:S10 coby bw.jpg Coby	File:S10 gregg bw.jpg Gregg	File:S10 ian bw.jpg Ian	File:S10 janu bw.jpg Janu	File:S10 jenn bw.jpg Jenn	File:S10 katie bw.jpg Katie	File:S10 tom t.jpg Tom	File:S10 willard bw.jpg Willard	File:S10 wanda bw.jpg Wanda
Ulong
File:S10 angie bw.jpg Angie	File:S10 ashlee bw.jpg Ashlee	File:S10 bobbyjon bw.jpg Bobby Jon	File:S10 ibrehem bw.jpg Ibrehem	File:S10 james bw.jpg James	File:S10 jeff bw.jpg Jeff	File:S10 jolanda bw.jpg Jolanda	File:S10 kim bw.jpg Kim	File:S10 stephenie bw.jpg Stephenie	File:S10 jonathan bw.jpg Jonathan

Reunion

• Wanda Shirk ended up singing a song before cutting to commercial.

Trivia

• The Tribal Council at Day 37 marks the 1000th vote cast in Survivor.
• The fire starting challenge is the second of the season - a Survivor first.
• This is the first episode since "The Gods Are Angry" to have a revote end in a deadlock.
• The Challenge name Bob-Bob Buoy is a reference to "Bababooey" from the Howard Stern Show, which Jeff Probst was a fan of.
• The Final Immunity Challenge currently holds the record for longest challenge held in the history of the series, at 11 hours and 55 minutes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Tom became the tenth Sole Survivor.