After the Reward Challenge in which the castaways competed to win a
visit from their friends/loved ones, Dalton admitted in the
confessional that he had conspired with his friend Dan Fields ahead of
time to win the challenge. In what has gone down as the biggest lie on
Survivor to date, Fields told Dalton that his grandmother, Jean Cooke,
had died, in order to win sympathy from his tribemates and subsequently
the reward. In reality, Cooke had not died, a fact that only emerged
once the episode aired. When the show staff heard about Cooke's
"death," they called Dalton's family to offer condolences, only to have
Cooke herself answer the phone.
