Secret Scene: Marty

Chef Marty cooks his final meal for the Libertad tribe

<everyone but Marty is sitting around the camp; small talk between Chase and Benry; Marty arrives to start the meal>

Marty (solo): I'm usually the one that cooks at home, and it's a great deal of satisfaction to cook for my family here in Nicaragua. Tonight's going to be another one of our stews -- well, my stews, actually. We got some eggplant that's cooking slowly in the pot for about 40-45 minutes, then we'll put in our root vegetables, simmer with some saltwater from the ocean, then that's going to be our dinner before heading off to Tribal.

<the confessional is intercut with scenes of the food being prepared>

Benry: You putting all the garlic in?

Marty: Yeah.

Benry: We shouldn't save any for rice? No?

Benry (solo): Marty's cooking up a feast. He's taken the role of Chef Marty. He's a great cook. We've been making some great stir fry. There are some people who are taken back by Marty's cooking and think he's very controlling over the food.

<Jane makes a sour face as Marty cooks; shots of various people, finally Jane, eating>

Jane (solo): I never had eggplant before. I tried to get Marty to let me cook it earlier in the week. <makes a buzzer sound and does a "no" type of gesture with her hand> Not gonna happen. That's be another plus for Jane.

Chase (solo): Marty's the tribe cook. He's been the tribe cook since we got all our food since we merged. He took control of that. We're all find to let him do it. He's a dang good cook. I love Marty's cooking, but he's a very dangerous player and I don't trust him. If it's up to me, and my vote is the deciding vote tonight, then Marty just cooked his own last supper.

Marty's Final Words

Marty reacts to having just been voted out of the game

"I was caught off-guard. I would have liked to have made it further, but they did a great job. I didn't see it coming. I must have been a real threat, otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here right now."

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"I wouldn't change a thing I did to my game. Not a single thing. I played it -- the way I played it, I'd play it all over again the same way. There's always gonna be a risk, and it caught me tonight."

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"I was not frustrated by anything. It's always frustrating to lose, but I was not frustrating by anything other than there weren't enough people really playing the game, but obviously there were enough playing the game tonight."

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"It was an amazing adventure. I'd much rather still be in the game than where I am tonight. That hurts. Would have liked to at least made it to family day, but just a great experience."

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"Sucks to not be in the game. Absolutely sucks. But incredible anyway."

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"I'm not too worried about the guys I left behind. I'll be really intrigued to see how they play the game, they've got a formidable adversary, but if it's as I suspect, I'm guessing it's Brenda with a bunch of people that are kind of losers. If my 5 guys that voted for Jane, they're gonna have the upper hand."

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"If I were asked to play the game again, I would not play the game again, but it was everything I expected and more, opportunity of a lifetime and absolutely incredible experience."

Marty the Day After

Marty reflects on his time in the game the day after he was voted out

"My Survivor experience has been the most incredible life-changing event possible. After having my kids, which I'm sure everybody says, there's nothing that can compare to this. It's funny, because when you're in game - I'm 48 years old, I'll be 49 this year - it's hard, it's the hardest thing I've ever done, and I've done a lot of really hard things. I feed off doing activities that are really painful, and you suffer. Nothing compared to the suffering in this game."

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"For me, the most physically demanding thing was - the hunger I can live with, although when you throw the hunger in with everything else it really contributes - but sleep deprivation and rain and cold. 3 days of not sleeping. The first 3 days I never slept, and we were fighting really cold rain and trying to keep a fire going. Being soaking wet and not having a roof on your shelter that would do anything, that really wears on you emotionally and mentally, is really really hard. Then you're going off to do stuff that is demanding. It's really really hard. And you're doing it with a bunch of people you've never met before, and you've got all the duress and direction-making that goes along with that, and trying to get along with everybody. That's really, really hard. Yet, as I thought even all the way towards the end, what if somebody gave you a shot at doing this again, my thoughts were always, 'I wouldn't need to, I've been here, I've done this, once is enough.' But within 12 hours of being out, if someone asked me to do it right now, I would jump at the chance. I'd do it in a heartbeat."

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"There was a few highlights for me. One, when I finally gained control of Espada, short-lived as that was. I loved it. I just saw all the pieces falling into place and to finally have voting control over the tribe, that was victory and I sort of saw - although I suspected we were clearly gonna have to mix and match at some point in time because we were gonna run out of steam and the young people would have crushed us. I was fully anticipating that, I just wasn't anticipating it that early. So it was short-lived, but I liked the fact that everything I was doing up to that point was falling into place. That was a highlight for sure. Definitely the ballsiest move for me was not using my idol at the Tribal where they were trying to flush it out, and going with my gut instinct that something else was going on. I wasn't sure what it was, but I had this instinct that what Fabio and Sash said at the time was true, even though they were so intense at Tribal that they were going to vote me out. There was just something, and I don't know what it was. It said, 'Don't use the idol,' and I didn't, and in fact they voted out Kelly B. That was kind of inspiring. And surviving at La Flor and making it to the merge was another huge milestone and a huge highlight. It was pretty much downhill from there. (laughs)"

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"I think I learned about myself in the game was I need to be more open to alternative ways of thinking as opposed to this is my strategy I'm gonna stick to it and it's going to be the best way to go. You have to be more flexible. I really felt like I adapted in this game, which is important. You have to be able to be leader one day, subordinate another day, pawn one day, and be able to excel in all these different roles. You can't just be one thing in this game. I adapted well that way, but I think I needed to do a better job of adapting to personalities where I kind of said, 'I'm not going to play with those guys.' I thought they were weak or they weren't smart or they made bad decisions. My whole philosophy was stick to the stronger players. I would have loved to have played with Brenda, Fabio, Benry, and had Dan stick around, and play with the stronger, smarter players, and take them to the end."

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"I hope that a lot of the things I feel coming out of this game aren't just transitory and fleeting. I hope they have a permanent effect. It sounds so cliché to say it's a life-changer, although I truly believe that right now, and I hope it doesn't go away. I think people will notice a difference, and I've always been a really confident person, but I think this will take it to another level."

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"I think it's opened my eyes to other things from a life perspective. This game makes you feel certain things. You really know what hunger is all about and what that feels like."

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"Family is #1 for me, but this also put family even in a higher light for me. There's nothing you think about more, right with food, than your family."

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"It's gonna be great to be able to relate that and share it with my family."

Jane Handled It Well

Holly praises Jane for how she handled Marty's attack at the last Tribal Council

"Tribal Council was very interesting. A lot of issues came up. The situation about Na[Onka] and Alina taking the bowl and the flour. Of course Marty, he spoke up what he thought about Jane, and with me sitting right in the middle of them, I felt very...awkward. He was behind me, Jane was on this side (moves her hand to her right side), I felt really sorry for Jane. Marty was walking around camp and telling people how he felt in the first place about Jane. I didn't think he needed to bring it up in front of everybody last night. I thought it was very rude what he did at Tribal Council."

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"I thought Jane handled Marty's comments very well. She just sat there. She did make note that he hadn't talked to her in 22 days. She did make a few comments back to him, but overall I probably would have got up and slapped him. Overall I think she handled it very well."

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"Right away, Jane was down, but it seems like she's coming around. She feels that we all still really like her and she feels like she's still in the group. She's coming around. She does have moments where she just walks away and I see that Jane tries to avoid Marty, but she's coming around."

Force to be Reckoned With

Dan explains how he and Marty are a force to be reckoned with especially in the upcoming Tribal Council

"What we're going to do tonight is, we think Na[Onka] has an idol. So..."

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"Once we get to the Tribal Council, we're going to start putting Na on the fire. This is what you did, this is what you did, this is what you did, how could you get away with this, you can't get away with this. What we wanna do is flush the idol out. We want her to use the idol. But we aren't gonna vote for her, we're gonna vote for Jane instead. We're gonna get Jane out tonight, then we'll get Na tomorrow night."

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"I want to get Na out, #1. Jane, as Marty laid out last week, is a threat. Marty and I have spoken about this. Marty and I started this tribe. We started with Espada. We were tight then, we had aspirations to go to the final 3. We still have aspirations to go to the final 3. So Na has to go, Jane is the type of threat that can sneak in under the radar without anyone even knowing she's doing it. Oh poor Jane, poor Jane. We want a put a stop to that. We want to get Jane out tonight and Na out tomorrow. Marty and I are going to stick together throughout this, and we're a force to be reckoned with, the two of us together. That's what our plans are."

Game Shifter

Marty hopes his big game changing plan is successful at Tribal Council

"Tonight's Tribal is going to be, I think, very important. If we're able to execute our plan, it's a game-shifter, in a way, that will really put the people that are in control of this game more firmly in control, and will just about nullify any opportunity for the disparate points of this game to come together and coalesce and gel."

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"I would say that almost every Tribal I've gone to I'm excited to go to Tribal. I'm thrilled. I pack every single item I have here into my bag every time I go to Tribal, because I'm prepared to be voted off. I'm thrilled to go. I'm confident going in. I'm not one of those people that raises their hand and says, 'I think I'm at risk tonight,' when we're asked that question, but I'm always prepared to go, because I think you're an idiot if you don't think that's possible."

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"If my idea blows up in my face, then I go home. If my was absorbed and executed upon than what I said had a lot of validity. The key thing for me not to do right now - it's very tempting - it's like when a hunter is looking for the death kill, and they're just holding their breath, holding their breath, holding the tension on the bow and arrow, waiting for the heart shot, and you want to let go, but you can't let go. I have to resist temptation to suddenly take control and make a move. Making any kind of a move right now would be easy but could be disastrous. I need to hold my breath steady. There is a very good chance that a Tribal or two from now, I could pull a power move and I could grab three or four people and make a move. I've gotta think about it more thoroughly. I haven't thought about it quite yet. I can see now that the temptation to do that can be very alluring, but the game to play right now is to play mentor, consultant, and to prop everybody else up and not appear as a threat. The moment I'm a threat, I'm eliminated. They will eliminate me in a heartbeat."

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"The only thing that could screw up my plan regarding NaOnka and Jane is if one of those two wins immunity. Otherwise, the numbers looks absolutely locked to me. I'm 100% confident, as you can be in this game -- I don't see a weak link. I do not see a weak link. Anybody who is a weak link is jumping to a series of weaker links. It would make no sense for somebody to suddenly say, 'I'm going to switch and go with the losers that are left.' The losers that are left are the minorities -- it's Holly, Chase, Jane, NaOnka. Who is gonna switch from the stronger players to the players who are weak, who are unstable, who will flip from one second to the next depending on how the wind is going. I think I've done a good enough job to talking to players. Not one of those players seems like the type of player who would want to flip to the weak team. Why would you want to do that?"

Day of Reckoning

Jane is committed to staying in the game and getting rid of Marty

"I know one thing. If my head is on the chopping block because of all the crap Marty was saying about me last night, then it's just gonna make me dig in harder and try to win every single immunity challenge and every challenge that is out there. He's done lit a fire under my ass, and I ain't gonna sit there and let it burn."

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"Marty has always been my biggest threat. He's something - I tell you what, if he was my son, I'd take him across my knee and beat the <expletive> out of him for embarrassing - if I was his mama - me on national TV. His day of reckoning is coming. I will get to have my sayso on TV."

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"Brenda might find herself on the chopping block before long, if they don't get Marty out within the next 2 things, I have a feeling there might be some people that might turn on her. I'm not 100% sure of that, but, it's kinda leaning that way. A lot of people did not like what he stood up and did last night."

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"The younger people, they play a whole different game. They really do. Marty thinks I can't strategize, but I'm already working on the jury. I think he's made quite a few enemies and I think if it came down to a jury I don't think anyone would give him a million dollars."

Full Time Job

Sash reveals that it is a lot of work to keep all his stories straight and not make a slip up

"Being at camp is almost like a full time job, because I'm constantly weaving different stories with different people, and trying to keep up with who I said what to and the timing involved is tough, especially when you're on the verge of starvation and dehydration out here. I'm doing the best job I can. Hopefully it doesn't trip me up. So far I think I'm doing a pretty good job, but it's easy to make a small mistake that could cost your life in this game."

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"I love it when people come up to me because that means they have confidence in my ability to move them forward in the game. That's why I think I probably have the best relationship with the tribe as a whole than any other player. The deeper I can work with each person on an individual basis just gets me closer to a million dollars. I encourage people to come up to me. The more information I have puts me more in control. This game is about being social, and if people aren't talking to you, chances are you could be the next to go."

Chase is on His Own

Benry admits that he and Chase are going in different directions since the merge

"The fact that Chase took the girls back at the challenge boggles my mind. It was very ironic that we had picked the way we had picked, and it was guys versus girls, obviously more of a physical challenge. Obviously the men definitely had the odds. To see him and hear him pick the women over us is really baffling to me. I didn't understand it. It didn't really, it just showed a lot about his judgment and him continuing to play with his heart, I feel like, in this game. I'm not sure why he went with the women, but I know for a fact he's kicking himself for doing so."

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"Chase is on his own program now. Since the game, post-merge, with the game becoming more of an individual game, Chase and I have not cut ties, but we've separated a little bit. We don't talk nearly as much. We talk less game. I feel like he's more involved with the females, and he's more involved with playing with his heart. If anything I feel like he would detour me from my track for winning a million dollars."

Big Moves

Brenda is ready to execute big moves to make things better for her

"Jane is such a Debbie Downer about what Marty says. She's taking it super-duper extra personal, which you can't. You can't be like that here. I'm sorry. Another thing is I don't want to see your face like that, Jane. Get over it. If Jane really would have taken the high road, and tried to be a little more pacifist about it, or just knock it off, like Marty's an idiot, that would be fine. But she's basically surrendering to Marty, and playing the victim role, which I can't stand."

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"My gameplan moving forward is definitely to start making the big moves. Chase is unreliable, Jane is annoying, Holly is also paranoid even though she says she's not. I want to start making things like better for me. I have to talk to Sash. I know back at camp everyone is saying to vote off Marty. I know I don't want to do that."

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"You know what? The alliances right now are kind of crazy. I'll tell you one of the fake alliances. Not fake, but it has cracks. Right now there's an alliance between Sash, me, Chase, Holly, Jane, Purple Kelly, and NaOnka. Within that there's a special alliance with me, Sash, Chase, and NaOnka. We're the <air quotes> final 4 </air quotes> supposedly. Within that, there's an alliance between Sash and I and maybe Marty, maybe something crazy like that. For real. I'm considering it, seriously. Then there's also the alliance I'm considering too me, NaOnka, and who knows. Something crazy. I know that whole 6, we're so safe, is la la land. I don't want to be stuck in la la land. Maybe I'll vote out somebody right now, but soon I'm going to do something."

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"What's funny is I didn't make up any alliance. I didn't. Sash all of a sudden says, 'Three minorities to the end.' I said, OK, I guess I am Asian-Hispanic, and NaOnka's black, and you're half-black. We are minorities. I don't look at anybody for what they are outside. If he wants to call it that for what we are, fine, but I thought it was kind of silly when he said it, like it unites us or something like that. (makes a fist)"

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"My strategy is I don't worry about things 'til I get there. I'm worried about getting to the 4, to the 3. I'm confident if I make it to the final 2 or final 3, I could out-talk my way into winning. No matter who I'm against. I don't care if I'm against Jane. I have my little speech for why I deserve it more than them."