It sucks to be Kele. You’ve gone and gotten last place in every single competition all season long. You lost a player to a venomous snake bite. You’ve had shoes stolen both by tribemates and the freakin’ ocean. And now there are only two of you left.
That was the setting for poor Sophi Balerdi and Alex Moore when they woke up on day seven of Survivor 49… with that waking up coming courtesy of the waves splashing water all over them and carrying their boat away. And that is also the setting for this week’s exclusive deleted scene, which can be watched above.
“It’s just crazy to think that, like, all our people are gone,” says Sophi.
“It’s like a graveyard of their clothes,” responds Alex, as the two sit there looking depressed. Or possibly just bored. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference on this show.
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Sophi Balerdi on ‘Survivor 49’
“Being on a tribe of two is completely weird,” Alex explains in a confessional interview. “It’s like we’re in the Twilight Zone. We started this with six people, there was noise everywhere, people running around, and now just two people. It’s like we were on a two-person cruise that crashed and now we’re stranded.”
A glimmer of hope arrives in the form of a Tree Mail, but even that hope appears to be dashed once Sophi reads the message. “Your tribe is your tribe through good times and bad, as always you must work as one. Today with the right players in the right places, your camp life may improve when you’re done.”
“What does that mean?” asks Sophi.
“That doesn’t sound like a swap,” Alex concludes.
Sophi then explains the conundrum in an interview. “So, this morning I opened Tree Mail, and it gives us a clue as to what’s in store for today. We’re expecting a swap. Obviously, there’s two people on our tribe. What else are we going to do? How are we going to go to a Tribal Council, just us two?”
Sophi continues to ponder that question, apparently having wiped the memory of Survivor: Palau completely from her mind. (Justice for Bobby Jon!)
It seems that Survivor challenge producer John Kirhoffer (who writes all the Tree Mail clues) threw just enough confusion into his message to unnerve the last remaining Keles. “Tree Mail gives us a clue to another challenge,” continues Sophi. “And so we’re like, are we actually going to have to compete just us two against all of these people? So we were devastated. We’re like, are you serious? Like, I thought this was like the start of a new beginning, but maybe it’s the start to the end for one of us.”
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Sophi Balerdi and Alex Moore on ‘Survivor 49’
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Of course, it turned out to be a glorious new beginning indeed, as it was actually notice of a tribe swap, and Alex and Sophi would both find safety as bystanders in the war between original Hina and Uli now at a fever pitch.
Check out the full scene at the top of the article to enter the Twilight Zone yourself, and then read our full episode recap for more.
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