Show Summary .. 20th March 2002 - By Joey C

EPISODE 2 - The fun really begins to start now, we know the survivors, we're familiar with the tribes, we have seen and admired (as much as possible in the hole they call Bocas del Toro), the islands, and our regular, 3 day cycle of Reward, Immunity TC is back. Survivor is well and truly back. Yippee!

After South Island's trip to Tribal Council the previous night, where they lost Sarah, morale is understandably low. Not helped by the fact that the heavens have opened and it is absolutly p***ing it down. The next morning, they get up, damp and wet, and survey the damage done to the campsite. John, the ex-forces man, keeping his past under wraps, is the first to speak out. "It's like some sort of jumble sale round here" At some stage I’m going to have to tell people what I did... but not just yet.”, he says to the camera, away from tribe. His team could really use hs skills, but he remains determined to keep a low profile on that front, for now anyway.

North Island wake up after the storm to find minimal damage done to their base, but the fast approching tide concerns them. But they don't have time to deal with it, as they have to collect their days water, and a new introduction to the game, Tree Mail. Tree Mail, taken from the US versions of Survivor, offers the tribes a clue as to what it is their challenge might be. It comes in riddle form, and the survivors will have to try and decipher it to gain any idea of what they will be required to do, and any preparation that may need to be done. “Row, row, row your boat, quickly up the creek, Follow the wind, don’t delay to find the one you seek” That is the message left in North Island's T-M box, and it's not long before Tayfun came up with exactly what it was they'd be doing.

Back at South Island, Bridget and Lee have gone off to collect their water and tree mail, and John, Jonny and Susannah are talking alliances. Susannah tells the boys why she wishes to side with them: “I would prefer to be with you two guys when the tribes merge, just because I think you’re a great bunch of fellas and I get on with you a lot better. We’ve got a lot more in common than I have with Lee. Lee is fantastic, and he’s such a laugh... but I don’t actually have much in common with him, and obviously for strategic reasons as well I’d prefer to go on with two strong guys than with one.” The tribes arrive Salt Creek, home to the Waimi Americans, who provide the canoes (or Kayukos) the survivors would be competing in. The task was as Tayfun stated earlier, one 'hostage' from each side would be tied to a pole in the middle of the river, the tribes must row up the creek in their Kayukos and save their tribes hostage, whilst collecting items hanging from trees along the way. There is one certain object, a tribal pennant, that MUST be collected to win the challenge, failure to do so would result in disualification. Only the hostages know what it is. Bridget, the South Island hostage, and Drew, the North Island hostage, are tied onto their pole, and the game begins.

South Island waste no time in getting themselves into trouble by running into a mudbank, whilst North Island, coxed by Tayfun, notably educated at Cambridge University, take the lead. No surprises in guessing how the race finishes, what with Lee jumping out of the Kayuko at on stage to grab an object, and sinking it upon trying to re-enter. (evidentally, South Island are good at sinking things, this is their second sea worthy sunken 'vessel' in the past 5 days) North Island are told they have won outright, and get to keep the objects they picked up as their reward (Wok, Bucket, Shampoo, Various Food Items and a Toothbrush). North Island return to their camp, and celebrate with a fry up in their new Wok. They create fire using tampons soaked in kerosine, which will undoubtly cause much alarm amongst 50% of the British population as to their contents (all except Meeta of course who seems more pre-occupied about how much they cost). Cue the Tampax switchboards going into overdrive. South, are considerably less buoyant. Their second challenge lost due a stupid mistake, although to be fair, they still wouldn't have won if Lee hadn't of sunken the canoe, everyone seems to have convienantly forgotten that, and Lee becomes the brunt of much frustration amongst the tribe. "Never get out of the god damned boat" quotes John from the film Apocalypse Now, to the laughter and delight of Jonny. Day 6 brings more problems to both tribes. South Island appear to have been the focus of what looks like a plague of locusts, or the Panama equivalent, of sandfleas. All are bitten head to toe, and understably itchy.

North aren't having a good time of it either. The sea is coming concerningly close to their camp, and looks incredibly rough. Not that this deters Tayfun from his daily swim though. Whilst he's off playing in the sea, the other five watch on at what he's doing, not with concern, but questioning what exactly he's doing out there. What is he doing out there, having a ####?’ inquires Drew. Luckily for the fishes, he wasn't.
If you pull your weight
You’ll soon fix your fate
By proving your tribe is the stronger
But if your tribe is a flop
And quick on the drop
You won’t hang around for much longer

The day's tree mail is picked up, much to the confusion of all apart from Lee who thinks he has it right when he says Tug of War bless him. The challenge, poorly named "Hangin' Around", basically involves the tribes hanging from a suspened pole above the sea. The five members from each tribe, with Helen sitting out for North Island, take it in turns to hang from a pole, which the footrest taken away. Each time North Island will be up against South Island, and the tribe that has the highest total Hanging time will win immunity. Up step Bridget and Meeta. Bridget outlasts her North Island counterpart by 25 seconds, with a time of 1 minute and 32 seconds. Then Drew and Susannah compete with Drew getting a whole minute over Susannah. Jonny and Lee are beaten by Alistair and Dave respectivaly. Up step Tayfun and John. By this point, North Island are leading by one minute. Tayfun unsurprisngly drops first, with a time of 50 seconds, the worst performance of the challenge (you'd expect to see more stamina from a dancer, then again, this is Tayfun we're talking about), and all John has to do is stay on for 1 more minute. A fairly easy task by the looks on his face, especially when he's laughing about on the pole, doing pull ups and the sort. Of course, the village idiot always gets his commupance, and John soon begins to slip, and falls off the pole, leaving both tribes in the dark in how they did. The scores are counted, and much to the delight of North Island, and the 3.8 million viewers, John's act of foolishness means his tribe has to return to tribal council. Lee is happy, as it appears he won't be facing the chop for his mistake after all. Later on at South Island, John seems to have gotten over his childish episode, and now turns very apologetic. “I’m an idiot” he says, "You are entitled to vote me out if you wish", he says to Bridget, unfortunately his pleas fall on deaf ears, as Bridget, blinded to reality, wishes not to speak about it to tommorow.

The next days starts with Bridget crying to camera about having to vote someone off. But before you feel sorry for her, this is the woman for whom being a Shepard has left her blind to the real world, and the alliances going on right under her nose. Susannah, John and Jonny discuss which of the "lesser people" (anyone not a teacher, policeman or lawyer) they are going to vote off. It certainly doesn't take them long to decide. North Island have pushed the camp back into the jungle, away from the ever approaching tide, and now take the rest of the day to do what the #### they feel like. That means, Drew and Helen tanning, Alistair and Dave pouring buckets of water on Drew and Helen, Tayfun being girly and Meeta crying, and being the bitch she is. The latter two talk about who they trust, to which Meeta quickly snaps back with 'No-one, Trust No-one'. It's then only a matter of time until she bursts into tears saying how much she hated it, and how she regretting ever applying for the game, and how she desperatly wanted to go. Tayfun offers her a shoulder to cry on, all the while smiling to himself as he now realizes his chances of making the merge have dramatically increased. It's now time for Tribal Council, which I won't go into much detail about (I missed the last ten minutes anyway), but the votes are cast and yet again, it's another whitewash, apart from the vote cast by the bootee. The votes read, Bridget- Lee - Lee - Lee - Lee. He extinquished his flame, and stared, still in shock, at a very guilty Susannah.

As he so quaintly put it at the The Last Word, They had done him up like a kipper