Eagan native Eva Erickson sees her strong alliance fracture in ‘Survivor’

This week s episode of Survivor opened with Eagan native Eva Erickson celebrating her alliance of five physically strong castaways her day-one ally Joe Hunter stuntman David Kinne debate professor Shauhin Davari and lawyer Kyle Fraser plus substance abuse counselor Mary Zheng who has attached herself to Kinne You guys I m pumped I m so pumped This six here I m pumped Erickson reported From there the players discussed trust as well as who they d send home next They had the numbers and could easily pick off the remaining contestants one by one I think that as long as it s not one of my people I don t care Erickson mentioned If only it was that easy Davari and Fraser have become increasingly wary of Kinne and Zheng and that doubt goes in both directions I feel that David and Mary are being extremely paranoid commented Erickson the show s first openly autistic competitor I get that we re at nine and that if one person from our group swaps then it changes everything But nobody s gonna swap to me Like I feel like I trust all of them And so I m not liking that there is this weird extra tension It sucks for the people I trust not to trust each other Please like you guys are so cool please just be friends I want all my friends to be friends In last week s episode Erickson exposed a clue to an advantage that required her to after dark sneak away from the shelter to the opposite side of the camp After she thought everyone was asleep she did just that I m really excited but I need to make sure that I don t get caught with my pants down So I start creeping my way out of camp and I don t think that anybody sees me go Erickson declared However Davari did indeed see her leave and instantly woke up Hunter and share the news and his concern that Erickson was likely earning an advantage He s super worked up but I am not worried at all about Eva I m not She s a crew contestant and I trust her with my life So whatever it is we ll talk in the morning Hunter commented of his close ally Two choices After overcoming the beach Erickson arrived to find her advantage was an extra vote for tribal council But if she s willing to peril it she can choose from one of two bamboo tubes one of which will cause her to lose the extra vote while the other is a safety without power advantage which allows Erickson to leave tribal council before the vote She doesn t get to vote but she also can t receive any votes I m in the middle and everybody trusts me but they don t trust each other she revealed And all hell could break loose if something goes wrong with this core group that I m working with This extra vote is good but a shot at having a safety without power being able to evacuate tribal and stay safe that seems like a huge advantage here I think I m gonna exposure the extra vote After choosing the correct bamboo tube Erickson was given yet another chance to upgrade her reward to a full immunity idol making it her second after the one sales expert Star Toomey gave her earlier in the season The catch is that she has three bamboo tubes to choose from and if she makes the wrong selection she leaves with nothing Oh boy like I have an idol but like two idols That s big And do I get greedy here This is a big decision and the event is at a really tough spot I feel like I have all the ammunition right now like the artillery is full I think that I m sitting with the preponderance power in this battle at this time And that s a great feeling but it s also a dangerous one Erickson ultimately chose not to take the exposure and returned to camp with the safety without power advantage And just like Hunter predicted the next morning she pulled him aside along with Davari and Fraser but pointedly not Kinne and Zheng to share the news I almost blew a gasket last night but her telling me all this information solidifies trust Davari declared She s dangerous to win this match for sure but I trust Eva I m not coming for Eva Voted out a friend The rest of the episode revolved around further discussions of trust with talk of blindsiding Kinne I don t understand why people are starting to get spooked about each other but maybe I just feel extra safe because I do have an idol And maybe I feel extra safe because I m not recognizing people lying Erickson commented Related Articles Twins legends Tony Oliva and Kent Hrbek are recovering from strokes suffered days apart Movie Review The Accountant with Ben Affleck isn t quite a write-off Car crash compelled Fox reporter Iris P rez to change careers Eagan native Eva Erickson thanks her hockey legs for Survivor wins Records show Gene Hackman s wife researched indicators of illness days before her death I hate that I might have to go against my word to David but it s so hard for me because I do see things in very black and white Like I trust you or I don t And here I m like I trust Mary and I trust David I trust that they are with me but I don t know if they re with my people At tribal council Erickson and her tight three went ahead and voted Kinne out who was clearly furious Kinne also revealed in an Entertainment Weekly interview that his girlfriend did dump him when she determined out he didn t win as he reported the castaways she would earlier in the season That leaves Erickson s foursome now equal in numbers with the other four players in the contest meaning things could flip yet again in the next episode Survivor airs at p m Wednesdays on CBS and streams the next day on Paramount