User blog comment:Don25/What I really want for Courtney and that I think all Courtney fans want too./@comment-32629987-20171021025710/@comment-30933826-20171026181905

The challenge never required throwing the other into the water. Chris' words were "The first dude to free Heather makes it into the final two." It wasn't necessary to knock Cody off the platform. Once he was disarmed, he was totally helpless, and Alejandro could have easily freed Heather while Cody was defenseless. In fact, Chris said to stay out of the water, and after he had knocked Cody off, Chris said it was "ruthless" of him, and Heather said "Shoving Mr. Popular into shark invested water for no reason?" They make it very clear that it was not necessary to knock the other off the platform. That was all Al.