Survivor Recap 11/22/23: Season 45 Episode 9 “Sword of Damocles”

Survivor Recap 11/22/23: Season 45 Episode 9 "Sword of Damocles"

Tonight on CBS Survivor airs with an all-new Wednesday, November 22, 2023, season 45 episode 9 and we have your Survivor recap below. It looks like Survivor season 45 is going to be awesome, so visit us each week for all the details!

In tonight’s Survivor season, 45 episode 9 called, “Sword of Damocles,” as per the CBS synopsis, “In order to win immunity, castaways must compete in a three-part challenge. Then, some castaways take a journey and will face another difficult decision.

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In tonight’s Survivor episode, Kellie went home last week after a shocking move by the former Rebas. They used their alliance with Emily to secure enough votes and they’ve started chipping away at the Belos.

It seems Jake was right when he said they should have kept Kaleb around much longer. Kaleb could have evened out their numbers. Now, it’s open war between the two former tribes. There is no one tribe anymore. It was back to Blue vs Red. They didn’t know last week’s strategy was a part of Austin’s plan to turn his amulet into an idol.

A while back Austin along with both Kellie and J had taken amulets over food. They were told that the amulets gain power the less of them there were in the game.

He never forgave the ladies for denying him food. He made sure to oust them. He was now the only one standing after last week. His amulet has turned into a full idol. This along with another idol meant he was the most powerful player there tonight and all last week did was ensure Bruce knew the knives were coming for him. Bruce was already paranoid before this. Him seeing his biggest ally go home has left him shaken.

Bruce also had to hear from them that Kellie was willing to betray him. They all told Bruce about how Kellie couldn’t wait to get rid of him. They even mentioned that she hated being tied so closely to Bruce because she thought he was a burden. Bruce was hurt when he heard that. He considered Kellie a true friend before that.

He now has no one. He doesn’t trust his former Belos. He knows that Katurah was out to get him. He hated that Jake celebrated too hard when he heard he wasn’t going home. He felt he couldn’t trust Kendra after Kellie proved willing to betray him. Bruce has no one.

He spent that night sleeping on the beach because he felt so isolated. Bruce didn’t bother hear Kendra out. Kendra was making a move to take out Dee. She told Katurah about it. They didn’t need to convince Jake. He was already onboard. They might also get Emily. Emily tested Austin and Drew. She has an amazing alliance with him.

Only she knows they have another alliance with both Dee and Julie. Emily didn’t want to be at the bottom of a five person alliance. She wants to at least make it to the final three. She tested the guys. They proved unwilling to turn on Dee.

They were all such good friends with her. They wanted her to be in the final four and so Emily started to secretly plot against Dee in the background. Then the group of nine was split up into three groups. They knew they were going to be doing a challenge with this group and they were worried that they might get put up for elimination.

Austin gave Julie one of his idols to keep her safe tonight. He was down to one. It wasn’t good when he heard about the challenge. The group that loses the challenge will all lose their vote tonight.

They weren’t told this until after Austin gave away one of his idols. So, one way or another, the Rebas were losing one if not most of their votes. This theory was proven true because they later lost two votes. The losing team consisted of Austin, Emily, and Katurah. They were in the lead until the last leg when sadly they fell behind.

They lost their vote tonight. Emily could no longer vote with the majority. Neither could Austin. Kendra, Bruce, and Julie won the group challenge. The individual challenge for Immunity came down to Julie vs Bruce. Again!

Bruce ended up winning his second individual Immunity tonight. He was safe from elimination. He also got to enjoy some juicy pieces of chicken with his group while everyone else was back to eating rice. Everyone else was also worried about what was coming. Jake was worried about having no tribe. The Belos tried to vote him out last time.

The Rebas already have the numbers and could barely remember to share a mere fraction of rice with him. He was a lone wolf. It made him an easy target. Julie wants to out Jake. Kendra and Bruce don’t have a problem with sending out Jake. He was the safe option tonight.

Something that all sides could agree to. But there was a chance to earn back their individual vote after they lost the challenge. Emily, Katurah, and Austin was given a mathematical problem.

Austin was confident with this challenge. He was good at math. He was an MBA student. The ladies weren’t and so Austin won back his vote. Emily was never good with mental math. Katurah overanalyzed the problem. The Rebas were in a great position to kick out one of the Belos. Julie was focosued on Jake. Dee was focused on Kendra.

Kendra threw out her name. Which she took personally. Its why Dee turned on Kaleb. She was all set to starve out Jake only she was furious when everyone else tried to play a game.

Austin lied about reclaiming his vote to everyone that wasn’t his final four. He didn’t even tell Emily the truth. He just said they want to get out Kendra and Emily said Jake would be the better bet. Jake has no one. They can easily vote him out. Except Dee has her eyes set on Kendra and she also felt she was running things.

Things were awkward at tribal council. No one knew who was voting. It wasn’t revealed until they were tallying the votes that Dee had gotten her way again. They voted out Kendra tonight.

Goodbye, Kendra!

THE END!