himself in a precarious position when the first tribe swap occurred, placing him as the only original Nuku member in the new tribe. Desperate to strengthen his position, Thomas took the new Nuku tribe fishing in the ocean but at one point, he abandoned the tribe and went back to camp to search for a hidden immunity idol, but was unsuccessful. However, Thomas was able to build social bonds with new tribemates Malcolm Freberg and Aubry Bracco. Thomas set his sights on fellow Heroes vs. Villains castaway Sandra Diaz-Twine, due to a fear that Diaz-Twine was targeting the other former winners on the season in an attempt to outlast them (having already voted out the other previous winner on the season, Tony Vlachos, before the tribe swap). On Day 11, Jeff Probst announced that only one tribe would win immunity and the other two tribes would go to Tribal Council. Tavua won immunity. Probst then said that both Mana and Nuku would go to Tribal Council together and vote out one person. At the Nuku camp, Thomas suggested that they vote out Tai Trang for being sneaky, but Diaz-Twine wanted Sierra Dawn Thomas (no relation to J.T.) out. During a chaotic Tribal Council, Thomas went to his former Nuku ally Brad Culpepper and leaked the plan that Sierra was the target, urging him to vote for Diaz-Twine. However, this plan backfired when Trang played his hidden immunity idol on Sierra. Mana, meanwhile, had targeted Freberg as the biggest physical and social threat on his tribe, and voted him out of the game. After returning from camp, Thomas tried to avoid the blame for Freberg's elimination, but he recognized his days were numbered without an idol. He searched for one the following day and was successful in locating it. However, the rest of the tribe saw Thomas as an unreliable loose cannon, and Diaz-Twine saw an opportunity to exploit that. After Nuku won a reward challenge, Thomas expressed annoyance at fellow tribemate Michaela Bradshaw for a perceived overuse of sugar with coffee. Diaz-Twine purposefully ate the rest of the sugar and let Thomas's discontentment broil into a full-blown feud with Bradshaw. After Nuku lost the next immunity challenge, he attempted to rally the votes against Bradshaw, perceiving her as the consensus weak link in the tribe. However, Bradshaw and Diaz-Twine were set on voting out Thomas, leaving Jeff Varner as the