[tense music playing]
[Zach groans]
[narrator] It's day eight of the game.
[Zach groans]
[narrator] And with Alpha Team already down a player…
-[Zach groans] -[narrator] …an injury…
[Zach continues groaning]
[narrator] …has put Alpha Team at risk of losing another teammate.
[Zach] I hurt my lower back so bad.
[Zach groans]
When I fell on my back, I knew I hurt it.
-Help me up. -I gotcha.
Okay.
-Go slow. -[Zach] Oh… [bleep].
It just tightened so bad.
I just didn't really know how bad.
-[Zach groans] -[dramatic music playing]
Oh, Lord, why?
As soon as I tried to get up,
then I realized that, you know, my worst fears were coming true.
[Zach] It's just tightening and tightening.
I can feel it tightening. I can feel it spasming down my [bleep] back.
[Tre] This is bad.
[Zach] Oh, man.
Coming from a big guy who fights professionally,
I mean, he's used to getting kicked, punched, dropped, choked out.
For him to say he's in excruciating pain, and he can't move,
you know it's pretty damn bad.
[groans]
[narrator] Up shore, Bri's time is running out to join a team…
We got to talk fast, because if Bri needs to go to Alpha,
gotta give her a chance to get there.
[narrator] …and her fate lies in the hands of Team Bravo.
[Drew] I'm firm on that, I'm not gonna lie.
I don't want a fifth person. Don't know how you guys feel.
I'm pretty firm on it too. I just…
I really need the money,
and splitting it with a fifth person is just a lot.
But she seems like she has a lot of motivation, a lot of experience.
She took this initiative to make this trek by herself.
-That's really admirable. -I mean…
I think we're pretty set on not having a fifth,
and I'm speaking for all of us.
You know, that's always a hard thing, like,
especially when it comes to a good person like her, but…
-The more people you have… -Our dynamic's built around four.
…you're increasing that chance for that person to hold back your team.
-Yeah. -So I'm being 100% honest right now.
That's fair. I want everyone to be 100% honest.
And that's why I wanted to speak my truth too because,
from my perspective, it would really be nice to have another girl on the team.
It's wearing on me, like…
I feel kind of outnumbered. I mean, I am outnumbered in a lot of ways.
Emily, we definitely don't want a fifth person right now.
Sometimes I do feel like,
yeah, my ideas are listened to in a half-hearted way and pushed aside.
[Drew] Hey, the good thing is, if Alpha does take her,
who says we can't go to Alpha three days a week to hang out
-so you have girls to hang out with? -[Emily] That's okay.
But… I was hoping that they would change their mind.
The tide is coming up.
Sun's going down.
It's going to be really difficult to get to Alpha.
-Maybe they'll welcome her. -I hope they do.
-But to me, it's like-- -[Drake] What if they don't?
-[Drew] Yeah. -If they don't…
[tense music playing]
I feel so nervous right now.
[Drake] Hey, Bri?
[adventurous music playing]
[music fades]
[Drake] Hey, Bri?
[quiet, dramatic music playing]
-What's up, girl? -[Drew] So…
We respect the shit outta you.
I've liked you from day one.
From being on the boat, without you even talking, nothing. I've…
-I've already decided that I like you. -Thanks.
I think you'd be a valuable player and I'd love to bring you on.
I think we'd all love to bring you on.
I know Emily'd love another female on the team.
Yeah.
Um, but…
I think as a group, we don't want to add another dynamic to the team.
[dramatic music playing]
-We're rocking over here with four people. -I totally understand.
It just so happened right before you got here,
we were like, "We don't want a fifth person."
I said the opposite.
I said it would be really nice to have another girl on this team, personally.
But, like, nobody seems to be concerned about what I think.
[Bri] The boys on Bravo Team were so hard set
against having a fifth person on the team.
Emily was absolutely pushing for me to stay.
But
I knew that one opinion of one person wasn't gonna get me on the team.
So, because the tide is coming up, and you guys just said…
It is a bitch to get to Alpha in high tide.
[Emily] It's gonna be a pain.
[Drake] The woods is a bad walk that way.
-[Drew] Yeah. -[Emily] Sun's gonna be going down.
Could she stay here tonight?
-[Drew] I'm so cool with that. -I'm cool with that.
Okay. Give her a chance. Chat with Alpha tomorrow.
Yeah. You've walked a long way. Happy to feed you and give you some water.
-Thanks. I appreciate that, guys. -[Drew] So… Yeah.
[sighs] When they told me that, it was such a relief.
Emily was just really kind to bring up a sleepover with them.
And I didn't know if I'd have a shelter to survive out here through the night.
-I appreciate it. -For sure. Excited to have you.
-Sleepover. -[Bri] Me too. I'm excited.
I would love a sleepover.
[Bri] This doesn't secure my position on this game board,
but we only have 24 hours to find a new team once we leave our team.
-If you basically follow this around… -Okay.
You can kind of see… That's Alpha Camp.
[Bri] So the clock is ticking,
and I'm nervous about what the following morning's going to bring.
I'm nervous Alpha will be like, "Know what? We have a good dynamic."
"Mm, sorry."
-I think they'll take you in. -I hope so.
-I wish we could keep you. -Wish I could take you.
-I thought we were hugging. Can we hug? -Yes.
-Oh my God. Truly. Yeah, exactly. -I'm so glad we got to know each other.
-[flare hissing] -[gasps]
That was a flare.
Alpha just shot a flare.
-Yeah. -[Joey] Flare!
-Flare. -There it is.
-Wait, where? -Let's fricking go!
[commotion]
[Meghan] You saw a flare?
[Joey] I saw a flare. I don't know where it came from.
-[Joseph] Oh, shit. -[Brendon] That was a flare. I heard it.
That's from Alpha, yeah.
[Brendon] I wanna see my fireworks show.
Who was it?
I think it was Alpha, that flare.
A flare from Alpha?
[Joey] I think she was going Alpha, dude.
[Julio chuckles]
Is it Bri?
Would it be karma if she was rejected and had to flare out?
Yeah. Namaste, honey.
Pretty sure she went to Alpha. They're down to three.
-[Meghan] She has 24 hours. -[Julio] To find another team.
Which way you think?
This way. I heard it from here.
Oh my goodness gracious.
Now, who was on Alpha?
[flare hissing]
[music builds to a climax]
[music fades]
Zach. So the medics are here.
They're about to get you out of here.
Yeah.
[melancholic music playing]
Zach, I'm gonna help you, but we gotta get you out of here.
-Will do. -[dispatcher] Copy that. Keep monitoring.
When somebody makes a conscious decision to leave our team, that's one thing.
I've let you guys down, man.
[Tonia] But when the decision is forced by a physical injury,
then that is way more devastating
than being able to come to the place where you're good with your choice.
[Tre] Your health is more important than the game. That's hands down, dude.
Take care of your wife and your babies.
[voice wavering] Yeah, and I'm letting them down too.
I have to tell my wife,
"I spent all this time away from you and the kids
and I have nothing to show for it."
I… I… I let my team down
by doing something reckless.
It's hard enough to survive when everybody's healthy.
It would be more of a detriment of me staying there,
and them having to take care of me.
It's going to be very, very difficult with just the two of them.
But I still believe in my team, and I hope and I pray that they can do it.
[heart beating]
What a twist.
This is the worst timing ever. I don't want to go to a team of two.
So here I am.
I'm supposed to be going to Alpha to plead that they'll have me on their team.
-But we saw Alpha Team shoot a flare. -[tense music playing]
So they are now down to two people.
And, yeah, I think that helps with my chances of getting accepted.
But it also means they aren't that strong of a team.
And that is very scary.
All I know is we're down to 14.
-You're saying there's a chance! -[shouting] Yeah!
Let's go, baby!
[howling like wolves]
-Wow. -They are celebrating over there.
-Is that Charlie? It has to be Charlie. -[Emily] Wow.
I wonder if they think it's you.
-[Brendon] Alpha's dropping like flies. -[Tina] They are.
-I don't know if we can yet. -[distant howling]
Charlie cheering, so I don't think they, uh, doing too bad.
[Brendon] Feels weird to be that excited about somebody's misfortune.
[howling continues]
[Tre] That means war now.
To hear everyone cheer just set in my mind that,
you know, these people may not be here to play a decent game.
So it's time to make them regret they were put against you in the first place.
It's time to bring the dog out. And we got to bring that fight.
[wind howling]
[tense music stops]
It's starting to lean.
Timber!
[moody guitar music playing]
Three sections. What are you talking about?
What you talking about?
Yeah.
[groaning]
Ready? It's coming over. One, two, three, go!
[whistles]
Let's start breaking.
[groaning]
Get it right underneath that crack. Come on, man. Ready?
-Yeah. -You might fly back to the camp.
[chuckling]
-Fly back to the camp. -[moody guitar music stops]
Whoo!
[Joseph] Breaks in between everything.
[Brendon] We're exerting some energy cutting these bigger logs.
-[Joseph] Yeah. -[Brendon] But we're only making two cuts?
-Two cuts, yeah. -[Brendon] To burn wood all night.
That's the smartest thing you thought of.
-Just slide the wood instead of chop it. -Yeah.
-I'm whipped. -[Tina] Yeah.
[Joseph] I don't take naps at home.
But out here, I don't have the nutrients or, you know,
stuff to replenish all that movement I do.
We're all going to have to slow the hell down.
-[Tina] Yeah. Yeah. -[Brendon] You got to want it, though.
-I want it bad, bro. -[Tina] I want it. My family needs it.
Big time.
I ain't putting my mom in a nursing home, so.
-[Joseph] No. -[Brendon] What has she got?
-[Tina] She's in stage five dementia. -Dementia?
-[Brendon] That's a cruel one. I'm sorry. -[Tina] Yeah.
My mom has dementia. I moved her in with me.
And it's a debilitating disease, so she's only going to get worse.
[Brendon] She's still knowing?
She still kind of is aware what's going on.
And when she catches moments
of realizing what she's going through, she just breaks down and cries.
-[Joseph] Just awful, man. -And that breaks my heart.
My concern is, you know, when she gets less mobile,
um, I'm not going to have the physical strength to help get her around.
So that's where I'm gonna have to hire somebody to come in.
That shit ain't cheap.
[Tina] Winning this would give me the financial ability to hire
the home help that I need.
I made that promise to my mom, and I plan on keeping it.
[Joseph] How's Chef doing? He all right?
Yeah, he's just kind of chilling in there.
I figured, well, I'm not gonna…
-[Joseph] Yeah. -[Tina] …bother him.
I ain't mad that he wants to take some time to himself.
Yesterday, I finally had to put my foot down.
That damn log across the bottom of it, I'm going to roll it up.
He told me I wasn't gonna do it. I was like, "This is happening."
Sometimes that's what you gotta do.
Chef, at first, it was like, "Yeah, that's boss, that's Chef." You know?
-We can ignore it, but it's like… -[dramatic music playing]
…it's starting to seem like, every day it's a problem.
So when he had his little hissy fit, I was like, "Man, I'm a grown man."
"I'm a grown man. I'm just gonna walk away."
Mountain Man is a fire man. Like, he does this all the time.
He the one came up with the great idea about chopping down big logs
and pushing them instead of hacking at little logs all day,
cutting them into pieces, feeding the fire all night.
Long story short, Mountain Man took the initiative, got the fire back going.
Being that it wasn't done Eric's way, he undid it, like, purposely.
And I was just like, "Bro, what?"
You didn't have to start the whole thing over again.
[Eric] Well, you interrupted me, so I did.
-[Brendon] Because you're doing it wrong. -[Eric] Either way's gonna work.
-I had it fixed. -[Eric] Did you?
-If I needed help, I would've asked. -Have I let the fire die yet?
[Joseph] Every day is just something new with him.
He throws tantrums when things don't go his way.
[Eric] When I'm doing something, let me do it.
[Brendon] All you'll do is burn up twigs.
It'll blow up in your face, and you'll lose your coals.
Bro, you don't see what you're doing?
Sitting here against a tree, watching you lose the fire.
[dramatic music continues]
[Eric] Go get us some squirrel, dude. Isn't that what you were off doing?
[blowing]
He acts like he knows a lot
to kind of force his way and his opinion around.
And people are starting to catch on.
-Bro, you're all over the place. Chill. -Mm-hm.
[Brendon] Agreed.
[music fades]
[wind howling]
[contemplative music playing]
[Meghan] We're gonna get settled in here pretty soon.
We improved our doors.
We have fire fully going.
And hopefully, tonight will be warmer than last night.
We're gonna use that one on that side…
-Okay. -…is what we decided.
I do know that we had…
a surprise when she left.
With Bri leaving, I think she's acting her age. [chuckles]
But the three of us decided
we're fully committed to getting through this together.
You know what? I mean, we probably are the underdogs right now.
-It feels that way. -[Meghan] I know, but it's okay.
We just keep moving forward.
I am able to maintain this positive attitude from practice.
-We're positive experts. -Yeah.
-We're positive people! -And now…
I've been through the Seven Summits, the highest peak on every continent.
And I tell you what,
when there's a negative person on the team, it is infectious.
And it will kill an expedition.
When you remain positive, that's how you make it through tough times as a team.
Tell you what. We have great freaking attitudes, and we're still going.
[slow, bluesy music playing]
[Drew in British accent] Dinner is served.
Damn, that's so many crabs, you guys.
[Drew] Yeah. Yeah, dig in with us.
[Bri] Bravo's company is just a breath of fresh air.
-I lived in Alaska for three years. -[Sammy] Around here?
-[Emily] Nice. -North Pole.
-[Drew] Really? -[Emily] The way you go…
-[Drake] Thirty days without sunlight? -Yeah.
[Drew] I'm thoroughly enjoying your company.
[Bri] I'm enjoying yours too.
When you're in a situation like this and all suffering together,
having that friendship is very important out here
in order to stay in the game.
-I really like your setup. -[Drew] You like it? Yeah.
I really, really do.
-Called a wickiup. -[Bri chuckles]
-So, who am I cuddling tonight? -[Drake] The pot.
[Bri] I'm a great cuddler. I'm a spooner.
-[Drew] I'm a big cuddler. -I like being in the middle of two spoons.
[Drew] We could cuddle up, me, you, and Sammy, if we have two blankets.
I'm down for that.
-They call that a threesome. -[Drew chuckles] Highly recommended.
[Bri] I still knew in the back of my mind they didn't want a fifth person.
But now that I have my foot in the door, I need to make them change their mind.
[Drew] There we go. Come on with it.
Good day today.
See y'all tomorrow.
Team Bravo out.
[Bri giggles]
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] It's a clear night over Kupreanof Island.
With no insulating cloud cover to trap in the day's heat,
temperatures begin to plummet.
Combined with onshore winds,
this becomes the first night of the competition to dip below freezing.
-It's gonna be windy as shit tonight. -[groans]
It's already pretty windy.
We're rearranging and rehabilitating and renovating the hut here,
because it's just too much with only two people left.
But the shelter is much, much, much better.
It feels a lot better. It's not so cold already.
Oh my God. You see this?
We both got our own blanket.
[both chuckling]
The blanket is good. I like the blanket.
[narrator] Across the bay, the northern shore faces the full brunt of the wind.
Originating from the south, it gathers moisture as it traverses the water,
dropping the temperature a further ten degrees for anything in its path…
[Brendon] It's windy tonight.
[Eric] With cold.
[narrator] …including Charlie and Delta camps.
[Joseph] I'll tell you one thing.
If their camp ain't half as nice as this one, they're struggling tonight.
[Eric] Every camp's struggling right now if they're not as nice as this one.
[wind blowing]
[Meghan] You guys, come on. We got to warm up with positivity.
-One-minute dance party! -Party!
-Right here. -[humming]
Dude, I hate the strobe lights so much.
-♪ Dance party ♪ -Nothing like the…
-Yes. -Yeah.
-There it is, man. -Get it.
You got to move it.
♪ Dance party ♪
-There it is. There it is. -Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
-[Meghan] One minute of calories. -[dramatic music fades]
-[ominous music playing] -[wind howling]
[Meghan] It is so cold out right now.
[man groans]
There's too much space to heat.
-The fire won't stay through the night. -[man groaning]
[narrator] Charlie Camp's A-frame has allowed winds to extinguish the fire,
along with any hope of restarting it.
[Meghan] Oh my gosh. Yeah, no. My feet are so painful.
[narrator] This leaves them dangerously vulnerable to the cold.
[Meghan] Julio is suffering.
[Julio groans]
His spasms have moved, not just to his legs, but to his back and stomach.
And he's in so much pain.
[Julio] I'm tough, but my body's screaming at me big time right now.
[Joey] Yeah.
[Meghan] This is crazy.
[Julio groaning]
I… I don't know how the other teams are doing it.
[ominous music fades]
[wind blowing]
[ghostly ethereal music playing]
[music fades]
[wind blowing]
[contemplative music playing]
That was nothing I've ever experienced.
And I hope something that I never have to experience again.
I mean, Bri leaving, to lose an extra pair of hands,
it was a blow to the team.
Food, fire, wood, body heat,
like, all these things are so critical.
If one of these elements are missing, you know, the entire system collapsed.
And, um, that's exactly what happened last night.
[Meghan] This is brutal.
-Having limited clothing, gear, tools… -Yeah.
Yeah, it was a different form of survival, you know?
I don't even know what… I honestly was still wondering what frostbite felt like.
I started wondering for three of my toes, yeah.
Before, with these cramps, you know, I grinded it out, and it went away.
Last night, these were not going away.
But I'm from Brooklyn. That's where I was born and raised.
I'm a criminal defense attorney.
You know, I'm a tough dude.
And boxing at Gleason's and under the Brooklyn Bridge has taught me
you can take a hit and get up, take a hit and get up.
I'm gonna work and keep getting up until that last shot knocks me out.
We gotta get really creative about warming all this stuff up.
I don't know.
Julio, man, he's, like, fighting two battles at once.
If he were to have a departure for whatever reason, especially at this stage,
it will cripple Charlie.
It will cripple Charlie.
It will be the nail in the coffin.
[Julio] I wish I could sit down.
Like, really sit down.
[Joey] But I can't let that happen.
I'm here to build a better life for me and my family.
I have an amazing wife, and I have two amazing children.
And every day I think about them.
And this money, it would… it would change so much.
I just feel like there's just so much on my shoulders right now.
And this was kind of a weird, last-ditch effort that,
I don't know, maybe we'd hit something.
So there is no other option.
I'll do… I'll do whatever it takes, um, you know, to keep the team strong.
This has been extremely challenging.
And there's the physicality of it that I'm starting to…
I'm hurting myself. I'm hurting myself.
[Joey] Yeah.
This experience just teaches you a new form of gratitude.
-[Meghan] Yeah. -[contemplative music fades]
[mysterious music playing]
[gentle banjo music playing]
[person groans]
Brr.
-Aw, the sun. -[Bri] That's some vitamin D right there.
[Drew groaning] Last night was cold.
I got super cold last night.
Yeah. My toes are still completely numb.
Yeah. That wind.
-That wind was insane. -[Sammy] Mm-hm.
We had nice chats last night with our neighbor here too.
Yeah, I know.
-[Drew] We enjoyed that. -[Bri] It was a nice sleepover.
[Drew & Emily] Yeah.
[Emily] So we have a slumber party.
It was wonderful to have another female around.
And I, like… I grew up with three sisters.
And it was great having that feminine energy in the shelter. [chuckles]
And I just felt the dynamic shift a little bit.
-Mind if I talk to you real quick? -Yeah, sure.
But she's about to go ask Alpha, the team of now two… to join.
I… hope she's not being set up for failure.
-After, like, spending the night with Bri… -Yeah.
…and, like, getting to know her
and kind of sleeping on it and thinking about it…
-I had a bit of a change of heart. -[contemplative music playing]
She fits in really well. I like her personality.
Me too.
If she goes over there, that's making their team stronger.
I was thinking the same thing.
Bri is way too valuable of an asset to let Alpha have.
You know, she's young, athletic…
She was in the military and, like, was a machine gunner.
And, man, I just really vibed with her.
So, like, I'm rethinking things.
[Emily] Cool.
And I know you wanted a girl on the team.
So I wanted to pull you aside, see what you thought.
-I thought you'd be… -Thank you.
-I hope this isn't a dream. [chuckles] -Yeah.
-I haven't talked to the guys yet. -Okay.
So I want to run it by them.
If they say no, I'll respect their decision too.
[Emily] Yeah, exactly. Me too.
[chuckles]
I'm stoked.
I mean, it's so cool to think this might actually happen,
that she could stay with us. [chuckles]
Bri, mind giving us a second to talk to the guys?
Yeah, absolutely.
[Drake] Huh?
So after spending the night with Bri, and, like, thinking about some shit,
I'm kind of having a change of heart.
I don't know how you feel. I wanted to run it by y'all.
-[Sammy] Mm-hm. -Bringing on a fifth?
Yeah.
We're doing really well, um, with a really solid team group dynamic.
But adding a new person to our team, that could change things, mess things up.
Whoo!
I was, like, so against having a fifth person until meeting her.
At the beginning, I was like, "Yay, another girl!"
But she's been thriving by herself.
-That would be a good person to have. -Yeah.
She already proved herself by walking five miles yesterday.
God forbid, one of us has to go home by the end of this.
There might only be four or three of us at the end.
Yeah. Okay. You're getting me pumped now, actually.
-She could collect food. She can do work. -[Drew] Yep.
Exactly. I know me and you, on the money thing. Big thing for us.
I thought about that last night.
But Alpha now, after that flare, only has two people.
If she goes, she'll make their team stronger.
-She'll make them stay longer. -Yup. Exactly.
[Emily] Alpha, like, if one of them taps today…
-They're done. -Then we can acquire all their stuff.
Get all their shit.
Man, I'm totally cool with it. I'm cool with bringing on a fifth.
-Let's run it. -Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, Bri!
[Drake] Bri!
-Hello. -[Bri] Hello.
[Emily] Hey.
So how do you feel about becoming our fifth?
I would love to be a fifth.
[all cheering]
-Really? I got this? Really? Thank you. -[Drew] Yes.
Team Bravo now, baby.
[Bri squeals]
When Bravo Team told me that they'd had a change of heart,
I had an unmeasurable amount of relief.
-Thank you. -[Drew] We like you after last night.
-I like you guys too. -So let's win.
[Drew] Let's do it. Let's do it, guys.
Hell yeah.
[Bri] I'm so excited.
I don't exactly know what changed their minds.
[Drew] Did you go to Delta too, already?
[Bri] Yeah. I introduced myself to them, days ago.
[Drake] How's that team looking?
[Bri] Pretty good.
Man.
[Bri] But I think my skills, my knowledge, my experience
might be needed for Bravo to make it to the winning prize.
We're all in better shape than that team combined.
We're the youngest team here.
[Drake] We're the most athletic team.
We're the best-looking team out here.
-I mean, really, really. -[laughter]
[Emily] Yay, Bravo!
[distant thunder rumbling]
[contemplative music playing]
[Tre] Last night, I woke up with my feet freezing numerous times,
to the point to where I thought my toes were, like, wet.
[Tonia] I could barely stop shivering ever.
-Oh, I didn't stop shivering. I couldn't. -Yeah. It was horrible.
[Tonia] Since Zach had to flare out, Tre and I are now just a two-man team,
and, uh…
[chuckles faintly]
…it's been really tough.
I woke up in pitch-black darkness and just felt freezing.
I just know I had to start moving.
Tre and I are absolutely the underdogs on this game board right now.
Walking out here to cut wood,
soon as you passed the tent, it was just a big wave of wind.
[Tonia] It's a lot of extra work. It's a lot of extra cold.
Because the hut's too damn big.
I literally had to bring all the firewood, duck down behind the tent,
and cut wood so I wouldn't get my neck blown off.
The best thing I have going for me at this point is an amazing partner
and plenty of water.
I like all the improvements so far.
They definitely could be better.
Tre has the same heart of a tiger that I have,
which is really strange, 'cause I don't trust in, believe in anybody, but…
I trust him.
I trust him to the end.
How's the… How's the wind reduction?
[Tonia] Really good.
There's a lot less wind inside.
[Tre] You know, Tonia, she's not the strongest person,
but believe it or not, she's one I'd have picked
to have been on my team if I'd have had the hatchet.
She came out and she said, you know,
"I have a strong heart. I'm gonna always try my best, and I don't give up."
And, you know, what more can you ask for out here?
As soon as I finish setting these squirrel snares and stuff,
you're free to go free-roam, if you like.
Perfect. And I'll even look for a starfish for you.
-That would be… I'll love you forever. -[chuckling]
[Tre] You know, Tonia, she's not my mom, but that's the feeling I got
because of how caring and, you know, attentive she is.
You have to block everything else so they have to come in through the front.
And once he steps up, he'll spring the trap.
[contemplative music continues]
[Tonia] It would actually be nice to gauge
where Bravo's thoughts are at, I guess,
for lack of a better word.
Once Zach flared out, we, Tre and I,
fully anticipated that Bravo would come and check on us,
because we supposedly have an alliance.
And we don't hear nothing. We don't see nothing.
They don't need us to be an ally anymore,
since there's four of them and two of us.
[Tre] I'll get you soon, buddy.
I got a feeling a lot of people are going to start looking at us as prey, but…
I feel like a wolf.
I think we're in to surprise a lot of people.
[contemplative music continues]
[wind howling]
[bird chirping]
[narrator] While Joey is off collecting boughs,
Meghan has chosen to seek a medical evaluation.
As long as she foregoes medical treatment, she'll be allowed to stay in the game.
-Hi there, Meghan. -Hey.
I understand that you requested a medic.
Yes, please. I am having issues.
Um…
[voice wavering] Sorry, I'm getting teary.
'Cause I'm exhausted. [chuckles]
So, you know, um, probably the last seven, eight nights,
I'm really getting very little sleep.
I can feel my body. I am rapidly losing weight.
And, you know, we've probably had 250 calories in the last eight days.
My body can't get warm.
I don't think it's able to heat itself anymore, is the problem.
So I'm so cold at night. It is brutal.
What has concerned me, finally, last night is that
I have had frostbite on these two fingers.
I got it in Antarctica climbing Mt. Vinson,
and I really haven't had any problems with it since.
But these fingers started really hurting and throbbing,
which is telling me it's getting triggered. That concerns me.
I've been through hurricane-force winds on Aconcagua.
I have climbed Denali in Alaska.
Two months on Everest. I've been down in Antarctica.
But the expeditions I've been on, I have incredible gear with me.
I get to be in a safe, secured tent, a negative 40 sleeping bag.
I get warm food.
I get to sleep and let my body recover.
What do you feel like is the most… the most important thing we can address?
Um, I guess my healthiness to even go forward or not, um…
-I guess… -[contemplative music stops]
I think my body's telling me that I shouldn't.
[Allison over radio] Allison for Dan. Dan, do you copy?
[Dan] Yeah, over.
[man 2 over radio] Medics, report to Charlie Camp.
[woman 2] I'm sorry, I need to stop and step in here.
-[chatter and bleeping over radio] -[tense music playing]
[Meghan] What is happening?
[Julio] Last night was different from all the other nights.
It was by far the coldest night.
We could not get ourselves warm.
Meghan was struggling bad.
And then, of course, that coupled with, you know…
[groaning]
-[Allison] Julio, should I call a medic? -[Julio, weakly] No.
[Julio groaning]
[Allison] Allison for Dan, do you copy?
[Dan over radio] Yeah, over.
[Allison] Can you send Kenya to the interview, please?
[man over radio] Yeah. Of course.
[woman] I'm sorry, I need to step in here.
[Dan] Uh, Julio is having a spasm.
-Aw, Julio. -[man over radio] We need transport.
[woman over radio] Responding.
[person groans]
[man over radio] Julio is down. Yeah, Julio's down.
[tense music fades]
[contemplative music playing]
[Joseph] Cleaning squirrels remind me of home.
I wish we had squirrels the size of what you got back home.
We had fox squirrels. [sighs]
Bruh, you only need two.
[Brendon chuckles]
-[Joseph] You only need two, man. -[Brendon] Time for one more?
Yeah, we got enough daylight.
I think they're starting to get wise.
[chuckles]
Sitting there, "Now how come Ed don't write?"
Yeah. "Where did Fred go?"
[Tina and Brendon chuckle]
I'm still kind of working on bonding with everybody.
Appreciate you cleaning them.
[Joseph] Man, I like doing this shit.
Something to do, so I'm not laying around, losing my damn mind.
[Eric] I think I rub people wrong sometimes, because I'm very demanding.
And in the moments of great pressure,
I take control.
That's life… Kitchen life.
That's who I am. I'm not trying to be the bad guy.
I'm just trying to sustain out here and win this frickin' game.
'Cause we're in it for the long haul.
I'm trying to keep the team healthy, hydrated, and all that.
So I decided to gather some seawater and, uh, make sea salt.
[contemplative music stops]
[sighs]
You can see it's pretty dirty down in here,
and… I don't want dirty salt. [chuckles]
So we're, uh, going to strain it out.
[gentle guitar music playing]
Don't have any strings, so I took a root.
Sacrificed one of my wool shirts.
We should probably get anywhere from six to 15 grams of salt out of this.
[groans faintly]
Coming from my naturalist background and understanding foods and healing,
salt is the key to life,
and without that, I've been… My muscles have been tight.
Bring it up to a hard boil,
and then slow-boil it down until it has a little bit of moisture left
so it doesn't crystallize and stick to the pan.
And voilà, sea salt.
Now that we're done, I get to cook food and keep the team happy.
This is going to help our muscles.
We'll get electrolytes, and this stuff won't taste so bland now.
-We got seasoning. -Bring the flavors out.
-I like a little seasoning. -Oh, yeah.
[Joseph] Eric definitely butts heads with everyone on the team,
but one thing I can say about Chef,
he does great with making sure, you know, the team's good,
and making sure the team's fed.
[Brendon] Need salt, way I've been sweating.
It's enough to at least get us a little bit of a…
-Keep us feeling healthy. -[Joseph & Eric] Yeah.
[gentle guitar music fades]
[contemplative music playing]
[narrator] Back at Charlie Camp, Julio's muscle spasms have subsided,
allowing him to forego medical evacuation,
which would disqualify him from the game.
[Julio] What usually happens at night just happened now.
It was up my back.
It was in my abdomen as well, which I've never experienced.
That really caught me by surprise.
And if you were to put the discomfort on a scale, zero to ten,
zero being no pain, ten being the worst pain you've ever had…
Yeah, it'd be like a 20.
And I can take pain, but this is, like, crazy.
Do you recall how much water you had?
Maybe 16 ounces in sum.
We've had probably 250 calories in seven and a half days.
[narrator] Without proper nutrition and electrolytes,
Julio's ability to fight off dehydration through water alone
has been greatly reduced.
[Julio] It seems like things are graduating.
My fear is those cramps are going to continue to advance.
[narrator] To make matters worse,
his muscle cramps are fueled by the cold temperatures,
as his body attempts to warm itself through muscle contractions.
Um, right now, I don't see a reason for an immediate medevac.
-Right. -But if you want to flare out,
-it would have to be your decision. -Mm.
All right.
[mysterious music playing]
[wind blowing]
[Joey] Julio, man, you hanging in there?
[Julio] I've thought about it, through and through.
You know, there's nothing but genuineness behind this.
I'm ready, based on what's happening with me medically,
to, uh, fire that flare.
[Meghan] Wow.
-I'm good with it. -You know, man…
[cries quietly]
[Meghan] Oh, shit. My body's just breaking down.
I want to keep going. I want to--
-Yeah, me too. -I want us to turn this around.
But I don't think my body can do this.
-I never imagined myself… -[sighs]
[voice wavering] …having to leave so early.
[Joey] Dang, dude.
Man.
[Joey] First Bri leaving, then Julio, then Meghan.
And this all happens, you know, in 24 hours.
It's demoralizing, for sure.
The thing I've learned in my 40s is, like, when to let go of something
because you are damaging your body.
Sometimes the strongest, the bravest, the most grittiest thing you can do
is know when you need to say, "I have to stop."
This isn't quitting.
This is actually just trying to save myself
permanent injury.
-And, Joey, like… -[Julio] We don't wanna leave you behind.
We do not want to leave you in a bad position.
[sniffles]
[Meghan] Ah, don't cry. [cries]
[contemplative music playing]
[Joey] At this point, I don't know what's happening.
Just the way the team was disassembling,
it was like watching tires fall off a car.
You're balancing on three tires now,
and then the other two tires get popped tires, and now I'm just like,
this tire that kind of fell off and is just rolling at this point,
just kind of just cascading.
I'm really sorry that I can't keep going.
[tearfully] I know.
I could not believe that I'm the last one standing on Charlie.
I think Charlie's about to pop a flare, though.
-[Emily] There's people standing there. -[Drew] Yeah.
-They're all spread out evenly too. -[Drew] They're about to shoot the flare.
[dramatic music playing]
[Julio] Brooklyn is tough.
Like, people are hardy, people are rugged.
And I brought all that hardcore Brooklyn with me,
and tapped into it,
but Alaska's a beast.
Alaska's different.
Stunning in its beauty and brutal in its capability
to remind you that you're this small in it all.
Meghan's like, "I've climbed all these mountains in the world, so I'm good."
"I have a house. I have money. This is just one more thing."
Julio's in the same boat.
It was like, "Hey, I don't even need the money."
But I have struggled for so long, and I have so much more to give.
And that's why I'm here. I'm here to win.
[adventurous music playing]
-Oh! There they go! There's two! -Oh my God.
[Drake] There's two!
Oh, shit!
[Tonia] Are you serious? Don't celebrate. They might be hurt.
[Joseph] A flare.
-[Brendon] Flare. -[Tina] Flare. Flare. Flare.
Flare!
-Yes! A flare. -We're still eating, buddy!
They're still dropping, and we're still eating.
[Tre] Yeah, that storm last night… I told you, that storm was epic.
Yeah, payback, bitches. Told y'all not to cheer yesterday.
Look at you now.
[Tre] I mean, I don't know who's on the other teams.
I'm kind of confused.
So I have no choice but to sit and wait
to find out what's going on, 'cause I want to know.
[Emily] I think it's Meghan.
[adventurous music fades]
And Julio.
Oh, they're dropping like flies.
What did I say?
-Yeah. -What did I say?
-Wow. -You called it.
The validation I feel from seeing the flares from Charlie
is insane.
I made the right decision leaving Charlie Team.
-[dramatic music playing] -Oh my God.
Charlie Camp is done.
-Charlie Camp is done. -[Emily & Drew] Yup.
[Drew] So Joey's probably gonna go to Delta now, see if he can get on.
-[Emily] Wow. They're walking away. -[Drew] Hopefully we see another flare.
I know that Joey is not going to make the walk all the way around the bay.
He's going to go to Delta.
I will say, though, I don't know what skill sets he has
outside of what they already have that could be added to the team,
because most of the skill sets I saw from him
were splitting wood and feather sticks.
Outside of that, I really don't know what his skill sets were.
[dramatic music fades]
So long.
Hell, yeah.
-[Sammy] Whoo! -[Bri] I feel so validated right now.
-[chuckles] Good job. -[Emily] You made the right move.
[Bri] Oh my gosh.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] With the collapse of Charlie Team,
Joey has 24 hours to join another team,
or he too will be forced to flare out.
[Joey] Time is ticking.
And this money,
I don't want it.
I need this.
And I'm going to do anything to win.
Ahoy!
-[Tina] Hello. We have a visitor. -[Eric] We have a visitor, you guys.
[dramatic music stops]
[mysterious music playing]
[mysterious music fades]