The Ultimate Shock

The Ultimate Shock
Episode Information
Version	United States
Season	Palau
Episode Number	14/15 (152)
Original Release	May 15, 2005
Viewership (in Millions)	20.80
Ratings/Share (18-49)	7.8/18
Episode Chronology
Previous	"It Could All Backfire"
Next	"Reunion"
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The Ultimate Shock is the season finale of Survivor: Palau.

Challenges

• Immunity (Day 37)
• Immunity (Day 38)

Challenge: Tower of Domination
Survivors must race along a tire crawl, then navigate through a series of vertical escape hatches to reach the top of a three-story tower. Once at the top of the tower, the Survivors must use grappling hooks to retrieve keys that unlock a hatch covering a flag, which they must raise. The first two players to finish would race down a flying fox into the ocean and retrieve a combination lock box containing another flag. After figuring out the box's combination, the Survivors must retrieve the flag and raise it. The first person to raise their final flag wins Immunity.
Winner: Tom Westman

Challenge: Bob-Bob Buoy
The Survivors must each grab onto a navigational buoy and hang on while the buoy sways from side to side. The last player left hanging on would win.
Winner: Tom Westman

Tribal Council

Day 37

• First Vote
• Revote
• Tiebreaker

Tribal Council 15: Koror
Voted Against	Voter
Ian (2 votes)	Jenn, Tom
Jenn (2 votes)	Ian, Katie
TIE: Ian, Jenn (2 votes each)

Revote (Ian and Jenn ineligible to vote)
Voted Against	Voter
Ian (1 vote)	Tom
Jenn (1 vote)	Katie
DEADLOCKED: Ian, Jenn (1 vote each)

Tiebreaker Challenge: Ian vs. Jenn
Participant	Result
Ian	Won
Jenn	Lost
ELIMINATED: Jenn Lyon

Voting Confessionals

Confessionals for the first vote and the revote are unavailable.

Final Words

	Jenn	“	I lasted…37 days, but it didn't work out my way. I am a little disappointed in Katie. She had a chance to keep me around a little bit longer and she went against that. So, Katie, I don't know if you have my vote any longer.	”

Day 38

Since the challenge ended late at night, this Tribal Council was held at the challenge area itself.

Tribal Council 16: Koror
Voted Against	Voter
Ian (1 vote)	Tom
VOTED OUT: Ian Rosenberger

Voting Confessionals

Since Tom's vote for Ian was cast verbally at the challenge, there are no voting confessionals.

Final Words

Since the challenge ended late at night, and the Tribal Council was held at the challenge, Ian did not have final words.

Final Tribal Council

Tribal Council 17: Jury Vote
Voted for Winner	Voter
Tom (6 votes)	Caryn, Gregg, Ian, Janu, Jenn, Stephenie
Katie (1 vote)	Coby
RUNNER-UP: Katie Gallagher
SOLE SURVIVOR: Tom Westman

Voting Confessionals

	Janu	“	(voting for Tom) Tom, I'm voting for you because I walked away with an incredible experience, and that was due to the fact that you chose me on that day when we chose tribes. So thank you, and good luck to you.	”

	Coby	“	(voting for Katie) I asked for honesty tonight, and I got it…(shows vote) but it wasn't from you, Tom.	”

Final Results

Jonathan 20th	Wanda 19th	Jolanda 18th	Ashlee 17th	Jeff 16th	Kim 15th	Willard 14th	Angie 13th	James 12th	Ibrehem 11th
Bobby Jon 10th	Coby 9th	Janu 8th	Stephenie 7th	Gregg 6th	Caryn 5th	Jenn 4th	Ian 3rd	Katie 2nd	Tom Winner

Trivia

• This episode marks the only time the Fire Making Challenge is used twice in one season.
• The Day 37 tribal council is the only time this season that Tom does not vote for the person voted out.
• This episode marks the last time a re-vote was used at a final four Tribal Council tie, since final four ties in later seasons have gone straight to the fire-making challenge without a re-vote.
• The name of the Final Immunity Challenge, "Bob-Bob Buoy", is a reference to "Bababooey" from the Howard Stern Show, of which Jeff Probst was a fan.
• The Final Immunity Challenge currently holds the record for longest endurance challenge held in the history of the series, at 11 hours 55 minutes.
• Years later, Jeff Probst revealed that when the challenge continued at night, they tried to bring fire as lights, but the smoke distracted Tom, so they brought spotlights to continue shooting.
• This is the first time a vote was held outside Tribal Council, since it was too late at night to hold the actual visit to Tribal Council.
  • With the impromptu Tribal Council, all jury members were absent.
• This episode reveals that Tribal Council is always held at sundown.