Expeditie Robinson 5 (2004) - Belgium/Netherlands - Part 2

Sixth episode
The mangrove people return in the mangrove with the food they stole. During the theft, Klaar & Mick had a fight again because Klaar didn't want to steal all the food of the Belgian team, but Mick did want to because he is still angry he got voted out. He even stole his old bandanna, but no one in the Belgian team notices. The Belgian team thinks the Dutch stole their food.

The next day, the merge happens. Darline, Frank, Marjolein, Matthias, Mitchell and Peter from the Belgian team and Frouke, Kelly, Mohamed, Ronald and Shandinella from the Dutch team meet on a boat, where they get to eat again (like when the show started). They get a lot of food and music, so they can dance. The people in the mangrove hear this music and check what is going on. They see there is a merge and find out the two teams will leave together at the Belgian beach (named "Teluk", which will be the name of the merged tribe). Therefore, they can leave the mangrove and go to the Dutch beach and live there.

After the food and music, the merge people get a shock. Just like at the first day, there is a challenge coming up. They all go to a place where eleven hammocks are lying. Everybody has to take a hammock and try to stay awake as long as possible. The first person to fall asleep has to leave the game immediately. After much talking, it is Shandinella who is the unlucky one and falls asleep. But obviously, she doesn't have to go: she joins the mangrove people. The other people try to stay awake, because the last person to fall asleep wins immunity. It's Mitchell, Darline and Mohamed who stay awake the longest. Finally, it's Mohamed who wins immunity.
After this, Teluk goes to their new beach. There Marjolein notices that Kelly, Matthias, Peter, Mohamed and Frouke have an alliance. She confronts these people with it, but they deny it. Mitchell also joins the conversation, which annoys Marjolein because Mitchell attacks the five more harshly than Marjolein wanted to do. Next, there is a tribal council with an obvious result:

Mitchell = 7 (extra vote, Frouke, Kelly, Marjolein, Matthias, Mohamed, Peter)
Kelly = 3 (Darline, Frank, Mitchell)
Ronald = 1 (Ronald)

Mitchell leaves, but she can go to the mangrove people. At least, if they accept her...


Seventh episode
Mitchell goes to the mangrove wood, where Mick is really unhappy to see her. He hates her and doesn't want her to join the team. Because of the merge, the rules of the game changed. This means that eliminated participants can only join the mangrove people if these people want to accept the eliminated person (they might not want to accept this person, because the more people join them, the more concurrents there are to win the game). Mitchell arrives at the beach with three chicken. If the mangrove people accept her, they also get the chicken. Mitchell lives on the island for a day, after which they vote. During this night, there is a huge storm on the island. Because of this storm, Ernestine breaks down mentally. She doesn't want to live on the island anymore and decides to leave. Therefore, Mick, Shandinella and Klaar have to decide to accept Mitchell or not. Mick keeps saying he doesn't want her and manages to convince the women, which means Mitchell has to leave the game for real now.

The merged people do their first reward challenge, where Mohamed wins again. He can visit a small fishing village, where he can buy food with some money. However, his tribemates only get this food if they can guess what he bought. They only guess chocolate, coffee and cola, so they only get these things. Mohamed gets angry about this and refuses to eat the coffee. The others enjoy the food they got, except for Frouke. She was also affected badly by the storm that broke down Ernestine and doesn't have the energy to do anything. When Ronald says something about this, Mohamed gets angry. Later, Mohamed and Ronald have another fight when the team catches fish with the fishing net and Mohamed takes these fish, while the team agreed to get the fish with the whole team. Later, Kelly wins immunity to the surprise of many. After the challenge there is another fight between Ronald and Mohamed, which annoys everybody at the camp. After the fight, there is the following voting:

Frouke = 5 (Darline, Frank, Marjolein, Matthias, Ronald)
Ronald = 2 (Kelly, Mohamed)
Matthias = 1 (Frouke)
Marjolein = 1 (Peter)

Frouke asked to be voted out and her wish is granted. She gets the offer to go to the mangrove, but she refuses because she feels too weak.


Eighth episode
At the camp of the mangrove people there are more and more fights: Klaar and Mick clearly do not get along at all. Both complain to Shandinella about the other and she tries to be the mediator to keep things all right.

At Teluk, the alliance of five seems to fall apart. Peter and Matthias think Mohamed is acting childish with regards to his fight with Ronald. Kelly is the only one who supports Mohamed. Later, there is a reward challenge, but one with a twist. The person who finishes last in the challenge has to leave the game immediately (aka: go to the mangrove people, who have too little people because Mitchell & Frouke didn't join them). The reward challenge is an elimination challenge: two people face each other and the one who loses faces the loser of another match. First, Mohamed beats an angry Matthias. Second, Ronald beats Darline. Third, Kelly beats Peter and finally, Marjolein beats Frank. In the second round, Frank beats Peter and Matthias beats Darline. Peter and Darline fight each other and the loser has to leave the game. After an intense match, it's Darline who loses. But obviously, she doesn't have to go and joins the mangrove people, who first have to accept her.

The mangrove people are shocked to see Darline there, because she was quite popular with her former tribe and she was really strong. Darline arrives at the beach with pictures and letters from home of Mick, Klaar & Shandinella. They immediately decide to accept Darline in their team so they can read the letters. Only Klaar was not sure at first, because she thinks Darline cannot be trusted.

The four people who won the first round in the reward challenge, Mohamed, Ronald, Kelly and Marjolein, also win letters. Kelly, Marjolein and Ronald all decide to pass this price, so Frank, Peter and Matthias receive letters. This upsets Mohamed and Peter, because they think Ronald did this as a tactical move. Later, there is the immunity challenge which is won by Marjolein. Right before the voting, Kelly finds out she is homesick and decides to leave as well, which makes her the eighth quitter in this season). The others still have to vote and the one with the most votes has to leave the game, even if Kelly quit:

Ronald = 4 (Frank, Matthias, Mohamed, Peter)
Mohamed = 1 (Marjolein)
Peter = 1 (Ronald)

Ronald gets the offer to go to the mangrove people.


Ninth episode
Ronald arrives at the mangrove beach, there Mick, Klaar, Shandinella and Darline have to decide whether to accept Ronald. Shandinella and Mick want to, but Klaar is doubting again. She finally decides to accept him, so there are now five people in the mangrove team and five people at Teluk. This means it is time for the mangrove people to take part in the challenge which will decide whether they can return in the game or not. This is a difficult challenge: they have to cross the jungle in one hour. If they succeed, all of them will return in the game, if they fail, they are all eliminated. The challenge seems easy at first, but becomes really difficult after 20 minutes. That is when Klaar suddenly sees her sister in the woods: she can meet her sister, but if she takes too long the team might fail their challenge. After a few words, Mick tells Klaar they have to continue. Twenty minutes later they also see Mick's wife. He is really happy to see her, but now it is Klaar who tells him to hurry up. Later, the team also meets the aunt of Shandinella, the husband of Darline and the wife of Ronald. After a few very quick words they continue and finally arrive at the other end of the jungle. They took 52 minutes for their trip, which means Klaar, Mick, Shandinella, Darline and Ronald all return in the game.

At Teluk, the reward challenge had taken place. This one also took an hour: the participants have to guess when one hour is over by stepping in a circle. Peter loses this challenge because he misheard it and steps in the circle after a minute. Frank made a sun clock, but this fails when the clouds cover the sun. Finally, it is Matthias who wins the challenge. He gets a dinner with two people of his choice, which are Frank and Marjolein. Peter & Mohamed go back to their camp and are shocked when they see five old faces back. They are mostly angry to see their old enemies, Ronald and Mick. They are also angry at Matthias because he didn't choose his old friends to go to dinner with him. Mohamed is the most angry and decides he wants to leave the game, which makes him number nine to do so. After the dinner, Matthias, Marjolein and Frank arrive back at the beach. They are shocked to see the five losers (as they call them) and even more shocked when Mohamed is gone. The next morning there is some drama when the five mangrove people take a lot of the food and bake pancakes. Peter is really disappointed in this and also decides to quit, bye bye number ten. The eighth people left take part in the immunity challenge, where Mick is the winner to his delight. The mangrove people now seem to have the upper hand: they are with five and the others are with three. However, Darline breaks the alliance she made with the mangrove people and decides to rejoin Frank, Matthias and Marjolein. At tribal council, both teams vote for each other:

Darline = 4 (Klaar, Mick, Ronald, Shandinella)
Klaar = 4 (Darline, Frank, Marjolein, Matthias)

Because of the tie, a draw will determine who has to go. The unlucky one turns out to be Darline. She now has to leave the show for real.