"Survivor: Tocantins" was down to five as Thursday night's episode opened, and players who found themselves on shaky ground began to try desperately to find their footing in The Game Coach was in low spirits as they headed back to camp following Debbie's elimination. He was shocked to learn that she had turned on him, and was grateful to the remaining players for saving him. "I'm like the lamb led to the slaughterhouse here," Coach said of Debbie's betrayal. Coach, who frequently spoke of honor throughout The Game next tried to convince Stephen and JT to send one of the two remaining women to Exile instead of him. After their conversation, Stephen told the camera, "I'm not entirely sure Coach can build a fire and cook his food by himself, I think he's just scared." When it came time for the reward challenge, the competitors had to walk through a maze with their feet shackled together and then hit three targets. JT handily won an overnight trip to the Governor's retreat, and chose to bring Stephen with him. Despite Coach's pleas to send one of the women to Exile, it was he who was sent to Exile, with JT bidding him farewell by saying, "Let's be noble, Coach." Coach said upon hearing the news: "I'm gonna take the monastic approach -- not gonna build a fire, not gonna eat." Erinn replied to Coach's statement by saying that he was only playing the martyr so that he would have an excuse if he didn't win the immunity challenge. Stephen and JT were then picked up by a private plane to head to their reward, and, upon arrival at the governor's abode, they enjoyed hot showers and a meal of traditional Brazilian churrasco, or barbeque. "We were having a meat festival," Stephen said of the myriad amounts of delicacies that came off the grill. "By the time we were done with the meats, we were stuffed." Meanwhile, on Exile, Coach was purportedly having the time of his life meditating and fasting. "I will not have anything to eat. It's going to be like the ancient American Indians who are my ancestors… they would commune with the universe and they would become men," he told the camera. Reflecting on being on Exile, Coach told the camera, "My Exile experience was -- no sleeping, starving, no food, very little water, and it was frickin' awesome!" Before heading to the immunity challenge, he said that, despite the challenges of Exile, "I feel nothing but incredible mental focus on the task at hand. I plan to win immunity today." Next up, it was time for the immunity challenge. The players had to stand on progressively smaller pieces of wood, and it was Coach and JT who battled it out for the win. After vigorously yelling and screaming, Coach finally gave up, and crumpled to the ground in a heap, claiming that his back was spasming. However, when Jeff Probst offered him medical attention, he turned it down, saying, "If medical would really look at my back, I wouldn't be here, so, no, please don't have them look at my back," leaving the question of whether he was truly injured up for dispute. Taj told the camera privately of his display at the immunity challenge: "When Coach returned from Exile with his cane, and his limping I'm thinking, 'This guy is such a drama queen!' Any 37-year-old man who thinks he a dragon slayer belongs in a mental institution." Back at camp, JT told Stephen and Coach that, due to Erinn's outburst at Coach, he was going to vote for her to go home, leaving Erinn's future in their alliance, and The Game in question. But at tribal council, after reading a poem he had written for the group, it was the colorful and always entertaining Coach Wade who was voted off. Figuring out that Stephen, whom he'd nicknamed "The Wizard," had voted for him, Coach told the camera, "The Wizard was definitely not the White Wizard -- he was the Evil Wizard."

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