Expeditie Robinson 6 (2005) - Belgium/Netherlands - Part 3

Eigth episode
Marnix and Carl went to Goal: the "Winners island". Everybody who wins immunity will go to this island. The people there cannot vote at tribal council but can neither be voted for. But there can only be two people at the island, so when someone wins immunity, they have to choose one of the people at Goal to go back to the normal team.

At Mensirip, the place where the two teams merged, people have different opinions about the new voting system. The Belgians don't like this, but the Dutch people are really happy. Especially Elbert, who now really wants to continue with the show again and wants to vote out the strong people so he can win. The reward challenge is won by Maxime, who can write letters to home from all the participants. Douwe asks Maxime to write a letter to the pub where he is always drinking because he doesn't have many friends of family. At Goal, Marnix enjoys the company of a little monkey called "Chico", but Carl doesn't like the cute animal and is angry because the animal always tries to steal the food they received. Marnix doesn't like the way Carl treats the animal.

The immunity challenge is won by Emma. However, more important is who loses because the person who finishes last gets an extra vote against for the next tribal council. This is Douwe. Back at camp, Elbert once again asks his team to vote him out because he lost another challenge. The others get frustrated by this, especially Douwe and Fleur who always tried to support him. At tribal council, the voting goes this way:
Elbert = 3 (Emma, Marleen, Meredith)
Douwe = 1 (last in challenge)
Elbert gets the most votes against and finally has to leave the show. Emma also leaves her team and goes to Goal.


Ninth tribal council
Emma arrives at Goal with some fruit. She decides to send Carl back to the team and share the fruit with Marnix and Chico, who really enjoys Emma's companionship at Goal.
At Mensirip, Marleen is baking some cookies for the team, who are really anxious for this. This changes when they see Carl arriving again, nobody is happy to see him. Only Maxime doesn't mind Carl and the two of them go search for food. They return with some food, but nobody thanks them. Carl gets angry about this and refuses to search for more food when nobody is willing to treat him normally. The reward challenge is won by Maxime and Fleur, who get a romantic dinner. During this dinner they have to make a difficult choice: they have to give a black vote to someone. Maxime wants to give this to Douwe, but he is Fleurs best friend. Fleur wants to vote for Carl, who is Maxime's best friend. They decide to vote for neither and to draw between Marleen and Meredith. The unlucky one is Marleen.
The immunity challenge is one where they have to lie with their head right above the sea which is slowly rising. The person who lies the longest wins. It's a tough match between Maxime and Carl. Carl finally wins, after Maxime has to be taken out of the challenge because he almost drowned. He goes to the hospital, but after a night there he returns in the game.
Right after his return there is the tribal council. Maxime still has the white vote he won at the very first challenge, but he doesn't want to use it yet. The voting goes this way:
Maxime = 8 (Douwe x6, Fleur x2)
Douwe = 2 (Marleen x2)
Marleen = 1 (extra vote)
Marleen voted for Douwe to make sure she doesn't leave when nobody votes, but Douwe decided to use all of his vote and vote for Maxime. Therefore, the strongest person has to leave, to the shock of the others.


Tenth tribal council
Carl arrives at Goal, but is really angry because Maxime got voted out. He tells a dramatic story about the apparent betrayal of Douwe to Marnix and Emma. Marnix also gets angry and decides he wants to return in the game and ask Douwe why he did this. So Emma has to stay behind with Carl, which she really didn't want to do.
Marnix arrives back at Mensirip and talks with Douwe. He explains how he had to do this otherwise he would get the boot. Somehow during the talk, Douwe convinces Marnix that is was actually Carl's fault that Maxime got the boot (Carl voted after Douwe did and could see that Douwe was casting eight votes). Now Marnix is angry at Carl and thinks Carl betrayed his best friend. He tells this to the others, who also get angry at Carl. The reward challenge is won by Marnix, who wins letters from home. With the letters he gets some cookies, which he shares with the other people.
At Goal, Emma is done with Carl. He is always talking about the game and she doesn't care about the game. She is also angry because Carl talks badly about Emma's best friend Meredith.
At Mensirip, all the people decide to make an alliance to vote Carl out. They want someone other than Marnix to win immunity, so the winner of immunity can go to Goal and send Carl back. In the next immunity challenge, the strongest person, Marnix, should beat Carl so they vote him out. There is only one problem with this: someone has to be voted out tomorrow before they can vote for Carl. Because nobody wants to volunteer himself, this plan fails. Later, the immunity challenge is won again by Marnix, who has now won every individual challenge he took part in. He also gets to cast a black vote, which he gives to Douwe because Douwe finished last in the challenge. At the next tribal council there is a surprise: Marleen, Meredith and Fleur can eliminate one of the votes they have left and their right to vote in this tribal council, to get a letter from home. All of them decide to do this, Douwe can't because he doesn't have any votes left. The tribal council this time is really simple:
Douwe = 1 (black vote from Marnix)
Nobody else voted, so Douwe has to leave the show.