Episode 11

Hail to the Victors

Day 31

Capitol Tribe

(Cato, Clove, Enobaria, Finnick, Foxface, Glimmer, Johanna)

That morning, Finnick discusses with Johanna the consequences of her flip.

"By taking out Katniss, you've made it so that the Careers can now wipe us out, one by one," he tells her.

"But what if I find a pin?" Johanna replies.

"If you do somehow find one, that could help us out, but remember that it's only good for one of us. We can't all play it."

"Johanna doesn't seem to realizes the consequences of her actions," Finnick says. "If she had stayed solid, we may right now have a 4-3 advantage over the Careers. Instead, we're sitting ducks for the Careers to pick us off, one-by-one."

While Johanna goes off into the field to search for a mockingjay pin, the Careers seem very satisfied with their position.

"We did it," Enobaria states. "We got one of them to flip – Mason – and now we hold the numbers advantage over them."

"They're going home one by one," Cato adds. "And then it's one of us Victors who ends up as the winner."

"Hail to the Victors!" Glimmer shouts.

"We are in such a good position now," Glimmer says. "Cato has carried me so far, and now he's going to carry me through to the end of the game. I might even win! I can't believe our good fortune."

"Mason doesn't realize that she basically slit her own throat by flipping," Enobaria says. "There's no way we let her in on our alliance now, so she's going to be a sitting duck as we finish off those three."

But Clove notices Glimmer getting even closer to Cato.

"All right, you talked me into it," says a laughing Cato. "I'm moving to 1 to live with you."

"Will you propose to me after the game is over?" Glimmer wonders.

"In front of the Capitol and everyone!" Cato exclaims.

"Oh, I love you so much, Cato!"

"I love you too, Glimmer."

The two share a passionate, warm kiss, as Clove looks on.

"I can't stand this anymore," Clove says. "Glimmer has more than worn out her welcome. I don't care about the Careers anymore, I want Glimmer out of this game."

So that night, Clove waits for the others to fall asleep. She then walks over to Finnick and taps him on the shoulder.

"Yeah, Johanna?"

"It's Clove."

"Oh, Clove. What do you want?"

"I want you, and Johanna, and Foxface to all vote for Glimmer."

"Are you serious, or are you bluffing us?"

"I can't stand Glimmer anymore. Talking about getting married to Cato – uh-uh. She's got to go now."

"Very well then."

"I've put the seeds in Finnick's mind, that I want Glimmer gone," Clove says. "Hopefully he will listen to me."

Day 32

Finnick wakes up the next morning and looks over at a smiling Johanna.

"What is it?" he asks.

"Oh, nothing."

"Come on, you've got to tell me."

"Oh, it's just… this."

Johanna pulls a golden mockingjay pin out of her makeshift bikini.

"You found it?"

"Enough digging, and sure enough, I finally came up on it."

"Wow, that's big for us."

"Big for me. I think you owe me something before I think about giving this to you."

"Oh, come on, Johanna. Not sex."

"Then how about a kiss?"

Finnick kisses Johanna on the lips.

"That good enough?"

"Once more."

Finnick again kisses Johanna on the lips.

"There. Now you should be happy."

"I am."

"Finding this immunity pin is such a relief," Johanna says. "Now Finnick will stop blaming me for ruining our alliance with Katniss, and now I have a safety net in case things go wrong."

That afternoon, Clove sees Glimmer and Cato absolutely making out. She is disgusted by the sight.

"Break it up, you two!"

The two lovers just continue to kiss.

"I said, break it up!"

Cato looks over at Clove. "Shut up yourself!"

"I'm sick of you two making love like this! This is ridiculous!"

"What do you know about love, little girl?" Glimmer asks. "You're so young compared to us."

"I love Cato!" Clove screams. "There's nothing I hate more than seeing you steal him off me!"

"But I've chosen Glimmer over you," Cato replies. "So she's not stealing me. You're trying to steal me."

"You're disgusting, both of you!" Clove yells. "I've had it with you, I've had it! I'm done with both of you!"

Clove runs away, crying as she does.

"Clove is a bit unstable," Glimmer says. "I don't know if we can trust her anymore."

"I hope Clove doesn't go and do something rash over this," Cato says. "She simply has to face the fact that I love Glimmer, and that I've chosen Glimmer over her. It's not something she should get so angry about."

"Cato is mine!" Clove says. "I want him! And if I can't have him, then I'm going to take Glimmer away from him! Screw my Career alliance, I'm voting out Glimmer!"

A couple hours later, Foxface receives a parachute.

"Come on, you guys," she tells the rest of the tribe. "It's time for an immunity challenge."

"I really want to win this immunity challenge," Clove says. "That way, Glimmer goes home for sure."

Immunity Challenge

"Come on in, guys!"

The seven remaining players walk into the immunity challenge area.

"You guys ready to get to today's immunity challenge?"

"Yeah!" Clove shouts back.

"First things first, I will take it back."

Cato hands over the immunity necklace to Caesar. "Not for long," he tells him.

"We'll see. Once again, immunity is back up for grabs. For today's challenge, your left hand will be chained to a bucket, which is attached to an overhang. If you drop your hand for even a second, the bucket will spill over and splash colored water all over you, and you will be out of the challenge. Last one remaining wins immunity and a 1-in-6 shot at winning this game. Losers, Tribal Council tomorrow night, where after 33 days, someone will be the twelfth person voted out of this game."

The players take their positions, getting their left hands chained to the buckets.

"For immunity, this challenge is officially on!"

The buckets are placed at different heights for different players, corresponding to their height. Clove and Foxface have lower buckets, while Finnick and Cato have the higher buckets. Nevertheless, the length of the chain and the weight of the bucket is still the same for each player, so it is a fair challenge.

"Ten minutes in, no one's out. This challenge could go a long time."

Foxface begins to feel a bit of pain, but the other players remain strong. Cato laughs as he holds his arm up.

"This is going to be another easy win for me," he comments.

"We'll see about that," Johanna replies.

About 20 minutes into the challenge, Caesar comes out with a plate of chocolate-chip cookies. Upon seeing it, Foxface immediately pulls her arm down, and she is drenched by red-colored water.

"Uh-uh-uh," says Caesar. "You pulled your arm down before I asked if anyone wanted it. No cookies for you."

Foxface makes a face at Caesar as she goes over to the bench.

"You can mope and be mad," Caesar taunts Foxface. "Now, anyone else want these cookies?"

Johanna shakes her head "no," and none of the other players respond.

"Very well then, I'll eat them," Caesar further taunts the players.

Johanna looks indignant. "You know, there are starving kids in Panem who could use those!"

As she yells at Caesar, she accidentally pulls her arm down, and green-colored water splashes down on her.

"What the heck is going on here?" she shouts as she gets soaked.

Caesar chomps down on the cookies, as another ten minutes pass by, making it a half-hour into the challenge.

"Who will be the next to go out?"

As the next ten minutes go by, the players' arms begin to ache, but they all remain in the challenge. Caesar leaves and comes back with a meal of spaghetti and meatballs on a tray.

"Anyone want this?" he asks.

Glimmer looks over at Cato. "Come on, let's eat this together, as lovers."

"But I want to win," Cato complains.

"Come on, Cato… we don't need to win. We've got an alliance of four. Let's begin to enjoy life together."

Cato sighs. "Oh, all right."

The two lovers swing their arms down at the exact same time, getting splashed with yellow (Cato) and orange (Glimmer) water.

"And just like that, we are down to three! Come over here and enjoy your meal, you two!"

Cato and Glimmer sit down to eat the spaghetti together. Glimmer playfully grabs some of the spaghetti and sticks it in Cato's mouth, and the two giggle. All the while, Clove watches with disgust.

"I'm about to puke," she mutters.

In sheer revulsion, she reaches for her stomach and pulls her arm down, getting soaked by blue water.

"And we are down to two! It's Finnick vs. Enobaria for immunity!"

Finnick and Enobaria look over at each other fiercely.

"Who can hold on longer?"

Another ten minutes elapse, with the two still holding up their arms firmly.

"What can I do to entice you down?" Caesar wonders.

"Nothing," Finnick replies. "There's no way I give up at this point."

"You'd have to rip my arm off this chain," Enobaria adds.

The two keep their arms held up, even as the pain increases. Finally, about twenty minutes later, one of them slips and causes their bucket to drop.

"Finnick… drops his bucket! And with that, Enobaria wins immunity!"

"Yahoo!" Enobaria yells, pulling her bucket down on herself joyfully. She celebrates even while being drenched.

"Come over here," Caesar tells her.

Enobaria cheerfully scampers over to Caesar, while the others look on disappointedly.

"Congratulations, this is for you."

Caesar puts the immunity necklace around Enobaria's neck.

"You are safe from tomorrow night's vote. As for the rest of you, after 33 days, someone is going home, and you've got tomorrow to figure out who that's gonna be."

The players begin walking back to their camp.

"Now that I have immunity, we'll have no trouble voting out whoever we want," Enobaria says.

Capitol Tribe

That night, Johanna whispers her strategy to Finnick.

"Since I have this pin, I'm going to make them mad and vote for me," she tells him. "Then I play it and one of them goes home."

"I hope it works," Finnick replies.

"Johanna is going to try to fool the Careers into voting for her because she has the immunity pin," Finnick says. "This might be our only chance of surviving as an alliance."

Day 33

Early in the morning, Johanna begins to spring her plan.

"Hey, Fangs!" she yells. "Your teeth look pretty bad after a month without brushing them!"

"You shut up, Mason!" Enobaria shouts back.

"I'm surprised they haven't crumbled yet from decay!"

"Shut up, Mason!"

"I'm not scared of you. What are you going to do, bite my neck?"

"Mason is really getting on my nerves," Enobaria says. "We can choose whichever one of those three we want to vote out, and I want to vote her out."

Later in the day, she gathers together with Clove, Cato and Glimmer to talk about her strategy.

"I'd like to vote out Mason," Enobaria suggests.

"Good plan," Glimmer replies.

"Wait a minute," Cato breaks in. "I know I probably won't lose another challenge, but Finnick is more of a threat to win challenges than Johanna. Maybe we should vote him out instead."

"Tough choice," Glimmer states.

Meanwhile, Clove remains silent.

"I could stay loyal to the Careers and vote out Johanna or Finnick, whichever one they choose," she says. "Or I can vote out Glimmer and end this romance thing once and for all. It's a really hard decision for me to make."

Tribal Council

The seven remaining players walk into the Tribal Council area and take their seats across from Caesar, after setting their torches aside.

"We now bring in the members of our jury," Caesar states. "Peeta, Rue, and voted out last Tribal Council, Katniss."

The three jury members walk into the Tribal Council area and take their seats.

"Let's talk a little bit about today's immunity challenge. Enobaria, you really wanted to win that."

"That's right," Enobaria responds. "Now it allows our alliance of four the chance to choose whichever one of the others we want to pick off."

"And I assume your alliance of four is the four Careers who voted together last Tribal Council?"

"You are correct," Enobaria replies. "We have a choice of taking out Johanna, Finnick or Foxface. No way do we vote out Foxface, though, she's pretty much useless and not a threat to us at all."

Foxface frowns as Enobaria says this, but she says nothing.

"How do you feel being called out like that, Foxface?"

"It hurts, but I realize that I'm not a physical threat," Foxface replies. "I can't keep up with these people."

"Johanna, pretty worried that it'll be you tonight?"

"Very worried," Johanna responds, giving a slight look to Finnick as she does. "On one hand, I wouldn't mind getting away from Fangs for a while. On the other hand, I am ready to beat everyone else out here. If they don't vote me out, they're in trouble."

"Finnick, Johanna's putting her neck out there on the line. Is that a good idea?"

"I'm not so sure," Finnick replies, looking back at Johanna. "She might be setting herself up as a target. But I'll take it, if it keeps me around."

Finnick and Johanna both smile a bit, knowing their plan to try to spring the immunity mockingjay pin.

"Clove, I saw you get very upset at the immunity challenge about the budding relationship between Cato and Glimmer."

"I hate it," Clove replies. "Mostly, I hate Glimmer. I am totally disgusted with her, trying to steal my Cato."

"Excuse me?" Glimmer interjects. "He's my Cato. He chose me. We're going to be together forever."

She puts her arms around Cato's neck lovingly as she says this.

"Glimmer's right," Cato adds. "I chose Glimmer over you, Clove. It's just too bad for you. Go find some little boy to play your playground games with."

Clove becomes enraged.

"You fools! I hate you! I hate you so much! I wanted Cato for myself! I wanted him so bad! I can't believe you're doing this, Cato! I can't believe it! You're breaking my heart! I'm shattered!"

She begins crying as she yells, and Enobaria comforts her, trying to calm her down.

"Well, that's a way to bring it to Tribal Council," Caesar states. "If we've got that much animosity, then it's a good time to vote. You cannot vote for Enobaria, everyone else is fair game. It is time to vote. Cato, you're up first."

The Capitol anthem "Horn of Plenty" plays as the players vote.

Cato goes to vote.

Clove goes to vote.

Enobaria goes to vote.

Finnick goes to vote.

Foxface goes to vote.

Glimmer goes to vote.

Johanna goes to vote.

"I'll go tally the votes."

Caesar gathers the votes, rearranges them, then returns with the voting urn to his usual spot.

"If anyone has a hidden immunity mockingjay pin, and you would like to play it, now would be the time to do so."

Johanna immediately stands up. She holds out the pin in Enobaria's face, then marches over to Caesar.

"I have it," she tells him.

"And you're playing it?" Caesar asks.

"Of course!" she replies, handing it over to him.

"Very well. This is indeed a good immunity mockingjay pin. Any votes against Johanna will not count. Once the votes are read, the decision is final, and the person voted out will be taken away by a hovercraft immediately. I'll read the votes."

He takes out the first vote.

"Glimmer."

Glimmer clings to Cato upon seeing her name.

"Glimmer."

Cato holds onto Glimmer's hand.

"Glimmer. That's three votes Glimmer."

Johanna and Finnick look on very nervously for the next vote.

"Finnick."

Johanna slaps her hand on her knee, and Finnick looks down frustratedly. They know that their plan has failed.

"Finnick. Three votes Glimmer, two votes Finnick."

Johanna looks longingly over at Finnick, realizing the situation.

"Finnick. Three votes Glimmer, three votes Finnick, one vote left."

Caesar takes out the final vote and opens it extremely slowly.

"Twelfth person voted out of Survivor: Panem, and the fourth member of our jury…"

He finally opens up the vote.

"Glimmer."

"What?" Cato shouts.

"No!" Glimmer screams.

Finnick and Johanna look at each other with extreme relief, while Cato hugs the now-crying Glimmer. Enobaria shakes her head in disgust. Clove merely laughs.

"Glimmer, you need to bring me your torch."

Glimmer finally walks over to get her torch, and she brings it over and holds it out before Caesar.

"Glimmer, the tribe has spoken."

Caesar snuffs out Glimmer's torch.

"It's time for you to go."

A cannon fires, and Glimmer blows a kiss to Cato. Cato then kisses his three fingers and holds them up in tribute to Glimmer, as the hovercraft comes to take Glimmer away.

"Well, I get the feeling that almost everyone was blindsided by that vote, even those who survived it," Caesar states. "Grab your torches, head back to camp, good night."

The six remaining players take their torches and head back toward their camp.

"I love you, Cato," Glimmer says. "I can't believe that cruel Clove would take me from you. She is a miserable little girl who needs to go play hopscotch with her elementary-school friends, not try to have a romance with Cato. I wish so bad I could be with you longer, Cato."

Who voted for whom:

Cato – Finnick

Clove – Glimmer

Enobaria – Finnick

Finnick – Glimmer

Foxface – Glimmer

Glimmer – Finnick

Johanna – Glimmer

Scenes from our next episode:

Cato and Clove are at each other's throats:

"I hate you, Cato, I hate you!"

"What are you mad about? You got your way. Little jealous Clove, who ought to be on a playground somewhere."

"I loved you, Cato, and you knew that! Now I just hate you!"

Johanna goes immunity mockingjay pin-hunting:

"I found one near the stream, and I found another in the field," Johanna says. "And I'm guessing Katniss found hers while hunting in the woods. Where could this one be?"

And players are offered a choice:

"Anyone who does not participate in the challenge can partake in this reward. But, you lose out on your chance at immunity, and are in danger of going home tomorrow night."