Tropicality

Plot
The episode begins with Justin sitting alone in first class. He is grinning, and plotting his next move. He establishes Ruchi is going to be his next target, given without Ruchi he knows the Team Firecrotch alliance will fall apart since Myra and Liz aren't that close.

In economy class, things are hectic. Ruchi, Liz and Myra are trying to scramble to save themselves. Ruchi tells Kacvinsky she's willing to ditch Liz and Myra to work with him and his allies, but he's hesitant. Sydney thinks she should, and that they should bring Myra on board too, but Nupur reminds her that eventually the alliance will have to turn on each other and they would rather have that later than sooner. Channing overhears, and looks around at Kacvinsky's alliance. She establishes that she is low on the totem pole of their alliance, and decides to potentially look into joining up with Myra and Ruchi.

Caelan, Jen and Serena decide it's time to get rid of Kacvinsky once and for all to break up the biggest alliance in the game. In the meantime, Lizzie and Emily are still discussing how to eliminate Caroline. Caroline is also scrambling for safety, as she is one of the only ones without any allies. Ian, Nupur, Sydney and Kacvinsky are discussing elimination, and decide that they should get rid of un-allied players so they don't gain too much power as swing votes. The first player that comes to mind is Nathanael, but Sydney brings up the point that he just quit Caelan's alliance so probably will be a number for them moving forward. Ian, Nupur and Kacvinsky agree, and decide that the next person to try and vote off is Clayton, given he's a volatile vote. Clayton is lying on the wooden bench asleep, oblivious to the chaos around him.

The plane lands on the coast of Florida. Chris states today will be an extra special challenge, they will be going on a cruise ship. The final seventeen all cheer, Myra immediately asks if she can have a deluxe suite, and Chris ignores her and tells her everyone will be in a regular room, with a partner. They will draw for partners, no co-ed rooms though. Caelan draws Nathanael, Kacvinsky draws Clayton, and Ian draws Justin. This makes the guys come to the realization of how outnumbered they are.

Kacvinsky (CONF): Alright so first I was thinking we needed to get rid of Clayton, but he is a guy, maybe I can direct the votes to a girl in another alliance. On top of that I am rooming with him so...awkward

The girls now take turns drawing. Caroline draws Lizzie, Emily draws Jen, Serena draws Ruchi, Myra draws Sydney, and Liz draws Nupur, leaving Channing the only one without a roommate. Chris hands the contestants their room keys and they headed to their rooms. They are staying on deck nine, and besides the crew members, Chris, and Chef, they are the only ones on the ship. Or at least that's what they think.

Caroline and Lizzie's room is extremely awkward, with Caroline attempting small talk to ease the tension but Lizzie completely ignoring her. Jen tries to console Emily, saying that she promises that she tried to get her alliance to vote another way, but Emily is unsure as to whether or not she believes her. Caelan just glares at Nathanael the whole time, who keeps telling him to chill, and Myra and Sydney are chatting about how it's sad they aren't allied, and how crazy the game has gotten. Ruchi and Serena talk cordially, but know that they will be opposing each other soon, and Alex and Clayton joke and laugh. Channing just sits in her room and contemplates the pros and cons of leaving Team Victory's alliance. She doesn't want to betray Kacvinsky, Lizzie, Emily and Ian, but is closer with Myra and Ruchi than she is with Nupur and Sydney.

At around 8:00 PM, Chris calls them all onto the top deck, where they are shocked to see every single eliminated contestant standing there- from Grant all the way through to Ashton. Ruchi complains saying she hopes there isn't another returnee because one was more than enough, glaring at Justin. Chris says no one is returning, and they are here to enjoy the cruise and help him out in the cruise challenges- plus he likes the drama.

Things are tense between those out and those still in. All the betrayals, lies and backstabbing are floating in the air. Immediately everyone bursts out into arguments. Then, in a twist, the remaining contestants turn on each other as well. Nupur calls out Nathanael for his actions back at the great wall, and doesn't believe that it was actually Justin. Caroline, Emily and Lizzie are going at it as well, with Camila joining in, as is Justin squaring off with Liz about Ashton. Liz is saying that Ashton was his friend and didn't have to go and eliminate her, but he argues that she had no problem doing so back in Chef's boot camp. Andy and Caelan are going at it as well, and Brandon is livid since he found out it was Ruchi's vote that sent him packing. Marisa, Riefy and Jacob are all fighting as is Joseph, who yells at his fellow contestants for harshly eliminating him back in Japan. Chris suddenly blows an air horn and says that as much as he loves the tension, they need to get a good night's sleep in for the challenge tomorrow.

The next morning, Chris says that today is a unique challenge, in that everyone will get immunity except for two people, one of whom will be voted out of the game. They will compete in multiple challenges, and once someone wins then they are done for the overall challenge and have immunity. The first will be diving off the peak of the ship trying to find a fake treasure Chris hid underwater. He says whoever finds it first wins immunity, and that person could choose two others to share it with. All the eliminated contestants are sitting on a nearby bench, holding flags of who they wanted to win this first challenge. It flashes to some of the contestants, like Elizabeth holding a little golden flag with Nupur's face on it, Connor holding a similarly colored one with Ian's face, and Anna and Grant side-by-side, each holding a little blue flag with Caelan's face on it. Serena glares at Joseph as he holds up a "Jen" flag, and Cassy smiles at Emily, holding a flag with her support/ Chris then says that once you came up for air, you will have to climb back in the ship on the first floor and bound up the stairs and dive again from up there. The contestants groan, and Katie, holding a Kacvinsky flag, states how happy she is to be out of this game. Chris yells go, and immediately, Caelan and Jen dive over the side of the dock. Serena doesn't move.

Serena (CONF): Caelan or Jen will probably end up winning the treasure and sharing it with me, I don' see any reason to try

Kacvinsky, Liz, and Ian grab hands and jump over, and Nupur has to physically push off Myra and Sydney to go look for the treasure. Underwater, the treasure is shown to be hidden inside an abandoned ship. Emily, Channing and Nathanael are shown plunging in the water, and then it shows Lizzie, Justin and Ruchi swim by. Clayton sees something shiny in the ship, but doesn't have enough air to go toward it and has to go up for for more air and head back to the starting deck. Sam, holding a Clayton flag, is cheering him on the whole time. That opens up a gap allowing Ruchi find the treasure and win immunity. She chooses to share it with Liz and Myra. Justin curses under his breath.

He realizes if he wanted to take out a Firecrotch member, it now has to be Clayton, but he wants to make sure the girls don't decide to turn on the guys because the guys are vastly outnumbered. He decides that his plan will be to eliminate someone from Kacvinsky's alliance, since that is the next biggest threat. He sets his sights on Lizzie, a strong competitor, and decides he will try and make sure she doesn't get immunity in the next challenge.

Chris brings the contestants, those safe, competing and eliminated, to the next challenge, an eating contest at the all you can eat buffet on Deck 11. He says Chef will be making the grossest things he can think of, and the first two to eat the three dishes win. Myra, Liz and Ruchi high-five, since they get to miss this challenge. Cassy, still holding an Emily flag, yells sucks to suck and the eliminated contestants all grin. Caroline reminds them that they miss out the chance in winning a million dollars, plus the awesome trip around the world, and that wipes the grins off some of their faces. Chris yells go and Chris brings out three dishes, each representing breakfast, lunch and dinner. The breakfast is a sandwich, a giant fish on two pieces of burnt toast. Lunch is a pizza with all sorts of nasty toppings- such as grasshoppers and anchovies. Dinner is a skunk hot dog with extracted skunk juices flavoring it. The camera pans down the contestants, each looking like they are about to vomit.

Kacvinsky (CONF): Chris may think he can break me with these challenges, but he won't stop...

Jen (CONF): ...me from going...

Caelan (CONF): ...all the way to the top, and...

Nupur (CONF): ..winning that..

Justin (CONF): ...million dollars…

Serena (CONF): ...for myself.

The contestants begin trying to force down the nasty food. Serena again decides not to partake in the challenge, since she figures there are a lot more opportunities for immunity. The first done is Clayton, and the second is Caelan, both big eaters. Justin says that helps narrow down who everyone can eliminate, since no one particularly likes Caelan but he's now immune, and he's glad Lizzie didn't win the challenge. Caelan and Clayton high-five, and Andy, holding an Ian flag, gets really annoyed that Caelan won, but Anna and Grant cheer. Caelan looks a little sad, since his two best friends were the first and second eliminated. As tensions are beginning to lift, Chris looks annoyed there isn't as much fighting.

The next challenge, is a race around Deck 11. The first three to complete three laps win immunity. Chris yells go and immediately it is pretty obvious who is in line to win the challenge. Jen is far ahead of the contestants, and Kacvinsky is close behind in second. Lizzie is in third, which really annoys Justin since she is in line to win immunity. Jen and Kacvinsky finish, but Justin knocks over a bucket of water causing Lizzie to slip and fall, and Caroline to pass her and get third. Nathan, holding a Lizzie flag, stands up and calls out Justin for what he did, but Marisa defends him. Myra and Sydney both argue that they first hand witnessed that Justin sabotage people during the great wall challenge, and it is unknown who started it, but a punch was thrown. Remaining and eliminated contestants went at it in one big brawl. Andy winded up for a big punch at Caelan, but misses and hits Channing who was running by.

Time stops as she goes plunging overboard.

Chris begins freaking out, saying this will be great for ratings but horrible for law suits. The contestants realize they will have to work together to save Channing, given that Chris is useless. Jen runs and gets life rings and tosses them over to Emily, Serena and Liz, who throw all of them in the water. Immediately, Kacvinsky and Justin dive over the side and get Channing onto a life ring. She is unconscious. Ruchi, Caroline, Caelan and Sydney help pull her on the ship, and lead her into the elevator and back up to the top deck. Ian, Clayton and Nupur use their CERT training to revive Channing, who begins coughing up water indicating she didn't drown. Everyone looks relieved, and Channing looks traumatized.

Andy looks terrible, and feels the same, but Channing is too shaken up to be angry. Justin states to himself that at least Lizzie still isn't immune, but Sydney overhears him, and tells everyone how much of a jerk Justin is being.

Chris tells them he's cutting the challenge short and sending them straight to elimination, leaving Ian, Nathanael, Lizzie, Sydney, Serena, Justin, Emily and Nupur without immunity. He tells them because of the incident, Channing will be gaining immunity for the night.

At dinner, people are beginning to apologize for the things said throughout their duration on the cruise ship, and even the game.

At the elimination ceremony, Chris states life rings will represent safety. Channing is no where to be found.

Sydney (CONF): Ok I don't want to be mean, but that was so rude, you are gone

Lizzie (CONF): You leave us no choice

Myra (CONF): Um yeah, this game has made you a little bit crazy

Life rings get handed out to Caelan, Clayton, Ruchi, Liz, Myra, Caroline, Jen and Kacvinsky, the challenge winners. Next they were handed to Serena, Emily, Ian, Nathanael, Sydney and Nupur. Chris says that either Lizzie or Justin will be going home tonight, and the final life ring is tossed to...

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Everyone gasps, and Justin rolls his eyes as Lizzie sighs loudly with relief.

Chris stated that Channing is being medically evacuated for the experiences she has been put through. The contestants all gasp, including the eliminated ones, who were watching the elimination. Nathan shouts that that was crap, and Justin deserves to go home but Chris tells him that wouldn't be any fun. Everyone was still thinking about Channing.

Chris throws a big docking party after the elimination ceremony for everyone, since the cruise was returning to port in a couple hours. Some are enjoying it, but others couldn't stop thinking about Channing or Justin. The episode ends with the cruise ship pulling off into the horizon.