Contestants: Leshawna, Max, Dawn, Tyler
Eliminated: Sam, Sadie, Rodney, Katie, Anne Maria, Leonard, Scott, Ezekiel, Eva, Staci, Dakota, Noah, Brick, Sugar, Beardo, Courtney
"Last time on Total Drama: Redemption..." Chris begins. He stands on the beach as the sun rises, in front of a sleek white airplane sitting on the island behind him. "The final five competed in a two part challenge. After downing several strange recipes from the eliminated contestants, Courtney knocked Max out of the second part and earned an advantage. Max messed with the controls, seemingly eliminating her, but in a surprising moment of 'goodness' he argued to give her a second chance, delighting Dawn, and shocking the rest of us. More surprises came after Courtney suddenly let go again, giving the victory to Leshawna. At elimination, Tyler, Dawn and Max teamed up to get Courtney eliminated. And it worked. The final surprise was when she didn't have a meltdown! Now we're at the final four! One more loser will get one more consolation prize. Who will it be? And what is the plane for? Find out all this and more, on Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"
The finalists lay down on cushioned, bench seating that lines the sides of the plane's cabin. Unlike the plane used in the third season, this one is comfortable, well-built, clean and carpeted. Leshawna is the first to wake up. She stretches and yawns before realizing her surroundings.
"Where the hell are we?" She asks nobody. Max wakes up beside her.
"What are you rambling about?" he groans groggily.
"Haven't you noticed? We're on a plane." she scoffs back.
"No matter!" he shouts, waking up Dawn and Tyler. "The location changing will not protect anyone from my ultimate EVIL!" he declares.
"Give it a rest." Leshawna warns.
CONFESSIONAL: LESHAWNA
"I hadn't met most of these guys when the season started," she explains. "But I never thought that out of all of them, this four foot tall, purple haired lawn gnome would make it this far. I mean, everything he says is just 'evil this' and 'evil that.' The boy's got some serious problems."
"Good morning, finalists." Chris says when his face appears on a screen at the front of the cabin. He seems to be somewhere tropical, wearing a Hawaiian shirt and sunglasses. "I'm sure you're wondering where I'm taking you. You'll find out once you get down here. Until then, please enjoy the flight."
"Question," Max announces. "Will you be providing peanuts or pretzels on this flight?"
"Neither." Chris responds bluntly. "You have about ten minutes before we reach the drop zone. Everybody get ready!" The screen shuts off, leaving the contestants with nothing but each other and their own thoughts.
"So where do you think we're going?" Tyler asks the others.
"Who cares? They took me outta the luxury suite," Leshawna complains. The familiar female intern who wears her hair in a ponytail enters the flight cabin and distributes the in-flight snacks: Small bags of almonds.
"Almonds?" Max questions. "Disgusting! You shall rue the day that you offered me such an unacceptable snack!" He throws the bag on the floor. The intern returns to distribute parachutes. Everyone exchanges worried glances.
"Get ready to jump!" Chris says from the screen. The intern opens the door for them and they all look down. Struggling to put his parachute on, Max bumps into the others, which accidentally knocks Tyler right out of the plane. Dawn and Leshawna watch him fall, but are relieved to see that his parachute walks.
"So who's next?" Leshawna asks.
"If you don't all jump right now," Chris starts. "I'll just hand Tyler the million and end the season here. Dawn, Max and Leshawna all give a confident nod and leap out of the plane. As their parachutes opened, the quartet noticed that there was nothing below them but water and a small speedboat. They all slowly descend into the water and detach their parachutes. Chris, waiting on the boat, lowers a ladder for them to climb on.
"Welcome to Camp Wawanakwa!" Chris introduces them to the location. They all look around, not seeing the camp that three of them called home for a short time. "Yeah, I kinda destroyed it." he explains. "For your challenge, you will have to put on wetsuits and scuba gear, dive down to the ruins of the island, and retrieve a Gilded Chris award. There were several on the island when it sank."
"Uh, are there any sharks down there?" Max asks nervously.
"Probably." Chris shrugs. "I don't know what's down there anymore. But I have to warn you all, stay away from the mine shaft. The rescue divers refuse to go down there."
"I'm surprised you even have rescue divers," Leshawna remarks.
"The first person to bring a Gilded Chris award back to the boat will win immunity and be guaranteed a spot in the final three." Chris concludes.
CONFESSIONAL: DAWN
"I'm really disappointed to be so close to Boney Island without actually being on it." she explains. "Despite the dark energy that surrounds it, I really want to know how my habitat is doing. I also wish that I had known we'd be here. I'd have brought that poor, mutated bird that I found with me." she sighs.
Chris distributes flashlights to the now suited up finalists. At his command, they all leap into the water and dive down to what used to be Camp Wawanakwa. The trees have lost most of their leaves by now. Some were even completely bare from the moving waters. The ground was loose and muddy with very little visible grass. The cliff that Chris had said was one thousand feet high now sits under the water, being the only part of the island that was even close to the surface. Tyler, Leshawna and Dawn take a moment to look at what was left of the island, having spent so much time there, while Max ignores them and swims farther down.
CONFESSIONAL: MAX
"I, unlike the others, refuse to let sentimentality get in the way of winning this challenge!" he announces. "Instead, sharks and deep dark scary ocean monsters may get in my way."
CONFESSIONAL: TYLER
"Chris must think we're stupid or something!" he says. "He said not to go near the mine shaft, so that's the first place I'm going!"
Tyler starts making his way towards the entrance to the mine shaft as Max swims up behind him.
"Before you go anywhere," he begins. "We need to discuss the vote tonight."
"Oh? Uh, what about it?" Tyler asks.
"I'm just making sure you're willing to hold up your end of our little deal...I voted for Courtney, and now you must vote for Dawn..."
"Oh uh, right..." Tyler says awkwardly. "See, I'm not sure about that. Dawn's totally nice."
"You wouldn't DARE think about going back on our deal, would you?!" Max shouts.
"Wait, why would you care about keeping a promise? Aren't you evil or something?"
"If you even think about backing out now, I shall make sure you rue the day you crossed me!" he pauses for a moment and looks at the mine. "Are you going in there?"
"Yeah. Chris said not to so that's where I'm going!"
"I guess we had the same idea." Dawn says as she drifts over to them. "Are you coming in with us?" she asks Max. "I know you're afraid of dark places like that, but I know there's nothing dangerous down there...well, they look dangerous but-"
"No way!" Max yells. "Uh, not because it's dark but because...well why would three people search the same place? That would be nonsense!" he doggie-paddles away, while Tyler and Dawn shine their flashlights into the dark mine. The light shows nothing.
"You sure there's nothing dangerous down there?" Tyler asks nervously.
"Promise." Dawn says as she starts swimming into the shadows, with Tyler following behind her.
Leshawna has made her way towards what used to be the kitchen and dining hall. She pushes on the door and it falls right off the hinges and drifts into the room. Her mouth was hanging open as she entered the place where she had so many memories. She makes her way into the kitchen and shines the flashlight around. The beam of light suddenly shines past a dark shadow in the doorway behind her. She jumps in surprise and almost loses her light, but manages to catch it before it floats away. She aims it at the shadow, which turns out to be Max.
"Oh, it's just you." She says to him.
"Yes, it is I!" he announces.
"Whatever." She moves over to the cabinets and points her flashlight inside them, hoping to find a guilded Chris, while Max floats over to the freezer and opens the massive metal door. "Man, that brings back memories." Leshawna says as she swims to his side. "I'll never forget the day I locked Heather in there." she laughs.
"You locked a girl in a freezer?" Max gasps. "How diabolical!"
"Hah! That's nothing!" Leshawna laughs. "One time I connected a sewer pipe to her shower!" The idea of this is enough to make them both laugh. "And my girl Gwen, she dumped red ants in her bed!"
"Hah! Ants in the bed is anyone's worst nightmare!" Max laughs.
"Ooh and the day we met," Leshawna starts. "I actually lifted Heather over my head and threw her off a cliff!" While the unlikely pair share a laugh, they fail to notice the figure approaching them from behind. They turn around just in time to catch a glimpse of the sharp harpoon pointed at them. When their flashlights meet, they illuminate the face of Chef Hatchet, in the same swim gear as them, and his harpoon gun. "He..he can't really shoot us with a harpoon can he?" Leshawna asks nervously.
"Underwater or not..." Chef growls. "this is still MY KITCHEN!" he screams the last two words and fires the harpoon between them. Max and Leshawna scream and swim through a broken window while Chef Hatchet loads another harpoon into his gun. Luckily for them, he is too big to exit through the window.
CONFESSIONAL: LESHAWNA
"Back in season one, Chef hunts us down with a water gun." she recalls. "Now he's got a harpoon gun?! What the hell did I miss?"
Meanwhile, Tyler and Dawn swim deeper into whats left of the mine shaft. Most of the passages had been sealed off by rocks when the island sank. They reach a part of the tunnel with a giant hole in the bottom. What little light they have does not show very much of the hole.
"I'm thinking we should turn back..." Tyler says, looking down the chasm.
"There's something down there though..." Dawn whispers.
"That's the scary part."
"No, it's not scary. It's scared..." Dawn aims her light straight down and starts swimming into the hole. Tyler stayed floating in place, unsure of what to do. At the bottom, Dawn sees the tail of an eel, pressed under a rock. The eel is small and brown, with big, yellow, sad-looking, eyes. She lifts the rock off and the eel immediately floats up. Underneath where the eel was pinned was a tiny piece of gold. Dawn digs a little around the gold and is finally able to pull out the Gilded Chris from the mud. She smiles before looking down again and seeing another yellow eye, matching the one of the baby eel. It blinks twice before the bright red pupil focuses on her.
"Dawn?" Tyler calls out. "Are you still down there?" The baby eel swims past him. "Oh, that's not so bad." he laughs to himself. Suddenly, another eel, identical but much larger in size, starts rising out of the hole. It is barely small enough to even fit in the hole. Tyler screams and starts swimming as fast as he can back up the mine shaft. He barely makes it through the exit before the eel. Tyler continues stroking at full speed until he slams face first into Leshawna.
"Tyler? What's wrong?" She asks, showing genuine concern.
"Giant eel!" He shouts in response. "I think it ate Dawn!"
"Dawn? She's right there." Leshawna points over to Dawn, floating by the mine's entrance.
"Thank you!" she calls into the shadows. She and her golden statue of Chris start swimming towards the surface before a harpoon launches into the cliff beside her. She jumps in shock and accidentally releases the Gilded Chris.
"You!" Max calls out from behind Leshawna. "How could you leave me back there with that harpoon wielding maniac?!" He swims angrily towards her before he sees the Gilded Chris that Tyler was picking up out of the mud. "Ah! You found it! Give it to me at once!" he orders.
"What? No way!" Tyler shouts back. Leshawna swims towards him and tries to grab it from him, at the same time as Dawn and Max. While the final four are all tugging on the fake gold statuette, Chef Hatchet loads his final harpoon. He fires it straight at them, piercing the oxygen tank on Max's back. The air starts pouring out, rocketing the evil midget to the surface, with the Gilded Chris award in his hands. He flies out of the water and slams on the deck of the boat.
"And Max wins invincibility!" Chris announces. The others rise to the surface to see the winner, all with surprised looks on their faces, while Max throws his head back and lets out a wicked cackle, followed by a surprised gasp.
"That was the perfect evil laugh!" he compliments himself.
"Everybody back on the boat." As Chris says this, the surly cook leaps out of the water and scrambles back onto the boat.
"There's a sea monster down there!" Chef cries.
"It's just a harmless moray eel." Dawn explains as she climbs onto the deck behind Leshawna and Tyler. "I guess her being the size of a school bus makes it a little scary, but she's very sensitive about her size..."
The final four, along with Chris and Chef, are now standing on a boardwalk beside a giant cruise ship.
"I'm sure you're all wondering what this boat is here for." Chris begins. "As part of today's consolation prize, the eliminated contestant will not be taking the ball of shame. Now, it's time to vote."
VOTING CONFESSIONALS:
Max: "Leshawna left me for dead when we were attacked with a harpoon gun." he begins. "though I do admire her more villainous side. On the other hand, Tyler considered going back on our deal and refused to give me the Guilded Chris. And then there's Dawn...Tough choice here."
Leshawna: "I like Dawn and Tyler as friends, but at this point I gotta think about who I'd have an easier time beating in the finale." She looks between their portraits, unsure of what to do."
Tyler: "It probably would've been good to just vote out Max, but he won today. I honestly can't decide between Dawn and Leshawna..."
Dawn: "I expected today to be a sudden death challenge. I'll have to think really carefully about this..."
"Max, you get the first marshmallow." Chris says, handing him his immunity symbol. "Also safe is.."
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"Dawn." Dawn looks relieved and accepts her marshmallow. "And the final marshmallow goes to..."
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"Leshawna."
"Yes!" she shouts, taking the final marshmallow from the host. Tyler sighs and looks down.
"Tyler, in addition to this Total Drama: Redemption t-shirt," Chris begins, handing him a rolled up shirt. "you also get a dinner at sea with one of Total Drama's most beautiful contestants..."
"Lindsay?" Tyler asks, suddenly smiling again. He looks up at the walkway to the cruise ship as the silhouette of a super model walks down slowly. As the sun leaves Tyler's eyes, making it easier to see, he can see that the model is actually not his girlfriend.
"Justin!" Chris says. Justin walks to the contestants and puts an arm on the shoulder of Dawn and Leshawna. Leshawna blushes while Dawn just looks puzzled.
"So which one of you ladies gets the pleasure of looking at me all evening?" he asks them.
"Neither," Chris says. "You'll be having dinner with Tyler!"
"What?" Justin and Tyler say together. "You told me it'd be one of the girls." Justin protests.
"Yeah, I said maybe." Chris corrects him. Both Tyler and Justin sigh, but Tyler suddenly looks up.
"You know what?" he says. "This was my best season yet! So you just call me when you want another all stars season, okay Chris?" he proudly struts up to the cruise ship, only to slip and slide down the walkway. Justin walks over him, not really concerned about stepping on the jock. Tyler gets up, dusts himself off and follows him onto the ship.
"Well," Chris says. "We're down to the final three! Who's not going to the finale? What's the prize for third place? And why did I agree to give out consolation prizes? Find out the answers to these questions and more when we return to Pahkitew Island for the almost conclusion of Total. Drama. REDEMPTION!"