Episode 51: Marlon's exit in the game

Marlon finally gets voted off... one vote coming from the crying lady - Charisse.

Apparently, Marlon changed his mind and didn't pursue his plan of hiding the flint and leaving the camp fired out. Marlon's reasoning "Ayaw kong mawalan ng kaibigan..." and he understands that life would be so much difficult without fire.

But he leaves the castaways behind with his still unrevealed "nuclear bomb"... "Pagbalik sa Maynila, doon nyo malalaman yan... "

But unlike Marlon's change of mind, the castaways are already firm on who to vote off. Charisse, after voting off Marlon, says "Di ba sinabi ko naman sa'yo before na when it's no longer working out, I will vote you off. Thank you for everything."

Aside from Char's automatic vote courtesy of the black pearl, only Cris got a vote off from Marlon. "Nakikipag-ayos na nga ako sa ibang castaways tapos inaway mo pa ako... "

Instead of receiving a black pearl, Marlon got a white pearl from Paolo. And this time, it does not carry a curse, but a wish of minus one vote. Marlon ironically, gives the blessed pearl to Charisse.

Marlon's piece of advise to his former tribemates: "Natapakan ko yung personalidad ko, pero dito, you have to do everything to reach your goal. Iwasan nyo rin yung masyadong trust sa mga tao kasi maraming two-faced eh."

And the ultimate bad boy of primetime bids farewell.

Back at the camp, it was almost pointless that Marlon didn't fire-out their site, because it was already raining when the tribemates went back. The flint is even useless when everything is wet.

After the vote-off, Charisse is on the attack on Vern's "overacting" moment during the TC. Rob says that maybe Vern was bitter after being voting off, while Kaye just lets Vern have her "moment". Most of them just laughed it off.

Meanwhile, Kaye just tries to ignore Marlon's "secret nuclear bomb"... "Hindi na ako nagpapaapekto sa mga sinasabi nya.. "

Rob's First, Zita's Almost

For the reward challenge, the castaway who wins would receive 50 thousand pesos to be sent to his/her relatives back at home. Zita clearly needs the prize this time, to the point that she said it would no longer matter as much if she wouldn't win the 3M since that reward was good enough to help her pay some debts or start a sari-sari store.

Paolo, first, narrated a local epic love story "Ang Sumpa sa Langkawi Island" - (aided by a very cool puppet/shadow show for the TV viewers).  The castaways, then would need to answer five questions correctly based on the tale to win the reward.

Zita gets to answer five stations correctly first, but she lost count and didn't realize she already won. She just needs to rush to Paolo. Her confusion lead to Rob's first win at a challenge.

Aside from the money, Rob gets coffee and blankets.

Tomorrow for the early immunity challenge:

A very physical challenge - and again, Cris with the "panghilod" moments.