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THE VERDICT IS IN: BRIAN HEIDIK IS THE SOLE SURVIVOR December 19, 2002 |
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After 39 days on a physical and mental roller coaster, Brian Heidik, the 34-year-old used car salesman from Quartz Hill, California, won a majority of the Jury's votes, earning him the title of SOLE SURVIVOR and giving him the million-dollar prize. After a tension-packed deliberation process where the Jury questioned, and sometimes grilled, the remaining two, the verdict was finally reached in a tight 4-3 vote in favor of Brian, who outwitted, outplayed and outlasted all the rest to win SURVIVOR: THAILAND.
THE GAME INTENSIFIES Returning to camp after Tribal Council, where Ted Rogers was voted out of the tribe, the Final Four Survivors wearily recapped the night's event. "The last Tribal Council was a bit harder because it was the beginning of the realization that each one of us was going to have to go," explained Jan Gentry, the 53-year-old schoolteacher from Tampa, Florida. Anticipating the difficult choices they would have to make during the final three days on the island, Helen Glover, the 47-year-old Navy swim instructor from Middletown, Rhode Island, revealed, "At this level of the game it becomes cutthroat. I expect the next couple of days to be very stressful." ( Jan on voting off Ted  )
REMEMBERING THE PAST
On the morning of day 37, the Final Four members of Chuay Jai received a flower kit along with Tree Mail instructing them to design twelve floating krathongs in honor of the Survivors whom they had previously voted off the island. They would later release the krathongs into the sea as an offering to the Thai culture. They settled in to construct the krathongs, giving each special meaning to reflect the individuals with whom they had shared their experience. Patting himself on the back, Brian Heidik bared his true feelings, "When I was making those reefs I was thinking, 'you've come along way baby.' I have had to make some tough decisions, but I would rather be in my position than looking at one of those reefs and seeing my name on there." ( Tribe makes krathongs )
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