Previously onTough As Nails...
-It's hanger time. -Our beloved union
-carpenter stopped by... -[work whistle blows]
You are going to be building scaffolding.
...to oversee the team challenge.
-ELLERY: Watch the back. -It's a giant puzzle.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, you're good.
Savage Crew assembled a win,
taking a four-three lead,
leaving Dirty Hands...
-I'm disappointed. -...to look for answers.
I don't know what else we can do.
In the individual competition...
[work whistle blows]
72 tiles need to go into the ceiling.
...Jorge secured his place at the top.
Jorge gets the win.
Larron and Laura finished last...
-LAURA: I did it wrong. -...and tried to climb out of overtime.
Larron gets the job done.
Laura fell short and punched out.
-Tonight... -[work whistle blows]
-Yo, get out of my way. -LAURA: It's easier to pull than to push.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew goes all out
to collect their fifth win
and the $60,000 prize,
while Dirty Hands tries to
-force a tiebreaker. -We're right there.
In the individual competition...
Your destiny is determined by who you're paired up with.
...only six competitors remain.
The stress level is high.
[indistinct shouting]
Oh, my God.
This isTough As Nails.
RENEÉE: Good morning, L.A.
[laughter]
I'm picturing this like we're driving
to the national championship,
you know what I mean?
Don't leave it up for nothing.
The team score is Savage Crew: four, Dirty Hands: three.
If we win five Badges of Honor, we win the $60,000.
It's important not only for myself,
but for everybody on my team.
We learn how to pivot
-and we always figure it out. -For sure.
ILIMA: This is a once- in-a-lifetime chance.
Dirty Hands better watch out because Savage Crew's
coming through hard today.
ALY: I'm so hyper right now.
I think I could beat Larron in a foot race.
[laughs]
-I'm ready to go. -JORGE: Yeah.
-We got to get a win today. It's crucial. -Yeah.
-Oh, yeah. -It has to happen.
I'm going to try to give it 150, 200,
a thousand, a million.
Last team competition
Beth talked about how we need to stop
patting our self on the back for getting second.
I agree with her because one more win
and Savage Crew could take the $60,000,
and we are not trying to let that happen.
I have no intention of giving them a win today.
Even if I break my leg,
they ain't, they're not gonna get a win today.
[laughs]
SERGIO: That's right.
ALY: It's go time, baby.
BETH: Let's do it.
-ALY: Let's go, guys. -ELLERY: Oh, yeah.
-Let's go, baby. -Whoo!
-Good morning, everyone. -TEAM: Good morning.
We know and understand the gravity of this challenge.
Our backs are against the wall,
so I think we're all really focused today
and ready to bring it.
KEOGHAN: Say good morning to Diko, everybody.
-TEAM: Good morning. -Good morning, folks.
Now, Diko heads up the Clean Team here at Long Beach.
Your city has been recognized as one of
the cleanest in the country.
DIKO: We were recognized as having
a gold medal operation for refuse collection.
-Nice. -That deserves a round of applause.
Thank you.
They collect over 200,000 tons
of litter every single year,
so when they see something like this,
Diko gets pretty upset.
DIKO: Don't like it at all.
KEOGHAN: Today you are going to help clean
these alleyways up.
As you can see, there are two
that are cluttered up
with some illegal dumping.
Dirty Hands, you'll be cleaning out this alley right here.
And Savage Crew, you'll be cleaning out this alley.
Same number of refrigerators,
same number of tires, same number of everything.
When that work whistle blows, start removing all the litter.
Dirty Hands, you'll be working with
these two flatbed trucks
and this garbage truck right here.
Savage Crew,
this garbage truck
and these two flatbeds.
Appliances and car parts go on one truck.
Mattresses and tires go on the other.
All the waste goes into the garbage truck.
Final part of the job,
you're going to be hosing out these alleys,
pushing everything out onto the street.
You'll see that we've laid out some
spill containment booms
to stop any unwanted debris
draining into the ocean.
And we know what's at stake today.
Team score: three to Dirty Hands, four to Savage Crew.
They are one win away from
becoming our overall team champions.
If you win today, cash bonus prize of $60,000.
Dirty Hands, they want to tie it up four all
so we go into a tiebreaker.
That extra little bit of energy that I felt in the van today
is what we've been lacking.
Our past failures don't define
our future and we're going to win today.
Savage Crew,
what's going through your mind?
The families and the stories
behind each of us,
that's what's fueling us today.
We got fire in our bellies.
KEOGHAN: Let's not forget
that for today's job,
$12,000, and also,
another Badge of Honor.
All right, take a moment to strategize,
figure out who's going to be the crew boss.
Let's get this done.
ILIMA: I'm pumped.
We don't want to prolong this any longer.
We want to take today's win.
So if it's cool with you guys,
I'd like to take crew boss today.
We got your back.
Um, I have a couple of ideas.
I'm the only one that hasn't
stepped up to be crew boss.
I am confident
because I have an amazing team behind me.
It's gonna go down to
how we stack our truck.
We don't want to play Tetris at the end.
If you all don't mind, I'd like to take this one.
Yeah, let's do it.
-Awesome. -ELLERY: Energy, energy.
If you can move something by yourself,
-do it. -Roger that.
BETH: Last time Ellery was the crew boss,
we brought home a win, so we were very confident
because this is just
work harder, faster, stronger than the other team.
One, two, three.
ALL: Dirty Hands!
ALL: Savage Crew!
BETH: Yes.
RENEÉE: Let's go, baby.
On the work whistle!
[work whistle blows]
BETH: Call out what you're grabbing. Call out what you're grabbing.
-RENEÉE: Shovels. -JAKE: Grabbing the dolly.
-LAURA: I got a bucket, I got a bucket. -LARRON: I'll grab a dumpster.
LARRON: Don't try to pull too much.
-Keep it to the side. -LARRON: Just put 'em to the side.
LAURA: This alley, it seems like it just keeps going and going
as to how far all of the debris is,
so there's a whole lot to clean up and there's going to be
a whole lot of things that we need to move.
ILIMA: Easier to pull than to push.
This alleyway's full of ice boxes,
appliances, car parts, tires,
mattresses, you name it.
Okay, I'll help you sweep.
I knew from the get-go that we needed
to open up a walkway,
get the leaves out of the way
for the guys to come through.
[grunts]
JAKE: Ilima's call was to split up.
You want to be able to have all the hands to be able to
pick up and get it all out there as fast as possible.
I know that I'm strong, so I told the team
I'll work on them big, heavy items.
Get out of my way.
MISTER: I've never had to do anything
to this extent.
My house is never this dirty,
My backyard is never this dirty. [laughs]
I got this and the tire.
JORGE: You got to get these refrigerators in first
because you're going to run out of space.
KEOGHAN: Ellery, no dolly
involved there.
My plan was to have myself and Jorge
get all the appliances
and car parts onto the flatbed.
Sergio and Beth will handle the beds and the tires.
-Let's get all the mattresses, right? -Yeah.
ELLERY: Aly and Synethia, they will
put the miscellaneous into the garbage truck.
BETH: Synethia, get that couch.
I know.
ELLERY: Everyone was doing
exactly what they were asked to do.
Can I go?
Come on, throw it in there.
KEOGHAN: You know, it's hard to imagine, Diko,
that people actually loved this stuff
at one point.
[grunting]
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
JAKE: Let's move, let's move.
LAURA: Renée and I were cleaning up all of the leaves.
Since we only had three bins, we wanted to make sure
that the leaves were constantly being picked up
so we have less to sweep up in the end.
Watch that tire.
Really, really hot out.
Oh. Like, why not roll a tire?
MISTER: One of Ilima's ideas:
Just roll the tires down the alley.
RENEÉE: It was just going one, one, one,
-like, after the other. -KEOGHAN: That's a great move.
ILIMA: Tire coming down.
MISTER: Another tire.
Wow, look at this tire just rolling in.
JAKE: More tires.
LAURA: Why try and carry something
if it's already round and it rolls pretty well?
KEOGHAN: Really good strategy.
SERGIO: Go, Beth, go. Come on.
Beth and I are
jamming down the alley, grabbing
mattresses and tires and getting them to the truck.
BETH: Hey, Serge. Just stack the tires.
Put them off to the side a little bit.
Get all the mattresses on
-and then start stacking tires. -Yup.
Sergio and I's plan from the start,
we were going to pack the truck ourselves.
Get all the mattresses in there
because we need to see how much space
those are going to take up
because you couldn't have things just hanging off the truck.
Don't put tires on the truck.
We got mattresses still. Be careful with all that.
I know, I know.
JAKE: Got to get all these mattresses on.
Is that drivable with those up there like that?
-DIKO: No. -KEOGHAN: Remember, these have to be able
to be safely driven out of here, guys.
You cannot have anything
precariously balanced on your trucks.
LARRON: We got to turn those up on end.
-They got to travel safely. -LAURA: I need help, bro.
LARRON: Here, I'll do it. I'll do it.
KEOGHAN: Ellery is the crew boss today,
stacking up tires.
JORGE: Hey, Ellery.
Get up top. I'll pass it to you.
I find myself doing double duty.
As I was working on my side of the truck,
I also was helping Beth with the tires.
If there's one thing I'm good at, it's how to arrange things.
BETH: Why did these tires go on? Why?
I said don't put the tires on the truck.
It's got to go up.
We were stacking them on the sidewalk
and then there's suddenly a whole
stack of tires in the truck.
And I know it wasn't Sergio and I doing that.
Got to go on top or we're not
going to have enough room for the tires.
That box spring at the top looks a little too dicey.
BETH: We got to do something with that.
Now we can't get all the mattresses in there,
and we have to do a bunch of rework.
BETH: I don't know how many times I said
don't put the tires in first.
ELLERY: All we can do is readjust.
I know what I'm doing.
BETH: We're doing rework right now.
I said no tires until the mattresses...
ELLERY: Listen, I understand,
but that's not going to help us right now.
I got it.
Why did these tires go on? It's got to go on top,
or we're not going to have enough room for the tires.
That box spring at the top looks a little too dicey.
BETH: I don't know how many times
I said don't put the tires in first.
ELLERY: I understand,
but that's not gonna help us right now.
-I know what I'm doing. -We're doing rework right now.
I'm just yelling at everybody
to bear down.
Ellery, tires in here. Wedge them in here.
Work harder than you've ever worked in your life.
Thank you. They're wedged.
JAKE: Let's move, let's move.
MISTER: Let me put this door on here.
LARRON: The challenge today
is an alleyway that has
a bunch of debris, junk, trash,
appliances that we have to clean out
and then pack into three different trucks.
KEOGHAN: And look at this. That garbage truck
is just crushing somebody's dreams.
That was somebody's favorite sofa.
It's hard to pick it at this point,
but a lot of big pieces
are coming back from Savage Crew.
-MISTER: You need any help? -JAKE: No, keep going, grab more.
Get it out to the road. Push.
Every minute counts in this.
We're going to do whatever it takes
to save that little bit of time.
KEOGHAN: Jake doing some heavy lifting
with that refrigerator.
JAKE: This is for money for Larron
to go see his parents.
This is for Renée and Laura,
these people that are knocked out
of individual competition.
I'm wide, I'm wide.
So it was just making use of every trip
coming in and out.
Ilima wants your help
-loading up out there. -I know.
If we're going back, I'm taking trash.
No wasted trips, right, everybody?
BETH: Why's Aly going back empty-handed?
No one can have empty hands going back.
There's no excuse for coming back empty-handed.
I'm dragging a bed frame plus four tires.
Like, just pick up something.
Aly, don't go back empty-handed.
I got you. I know.
JORGE: Two more doors and that's it.
Let's start moving on the sweep.
We're right there.
So much on the line for both teams.
Oh, that refrigerator comes down off the dolly.
JORGE: I need help back here.
KEOGHAN: Boom. He drops it the other way.
We got to go. However you can grab it, get it.
It's a far way down that alley.
You don't realize how far you got to go
until you're halfway down it
with something pretty heavy.
You can't stop today.
DIKO: As they clean, the distance
is getting further and further
-and it's going to tire them out. -Yep.
LAURA: Hammer down, let's go. Got a ways to go.
Dig deep. Come on.
Come help us grab this stuff.
Remember, both teams, you need to get
a check before you start using the high pressure hose.
JAKE: Mister, how many more mattresses?
MISTER: None.
-Is there any more trash? -No.
-JAKE: Ask for a check. -Are we good
on this truck? Am I good to go up on this truck?
MISTER: This is the last one. Bring it home.
-Can I get a check on it? -JAKE: Ilima, get ready.
Come on, come on, come on.
MISTER: We're ahead, Ilima. Let's go.
I'm super excited to run this pressure washer.
It's in my wheelhouse,
so I'm waiting for a thumbs up
so that I can start.
-DIKO: That truck's good. -KEOGHAN: Check.
Go, Ilima.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew
starting with their high pressure hose.
RENEÉE: Go, Savage Crew!
ILIMA: we have to pressure wash
all of this debris up to the finish line.
I have Larron trailing behind me so I didn't have to
-fight my hoses. -LAURA: Go, go, go.
ILIMA: Everybody's just cleaning up
with their brooms
and we're fighting hard and digging deep.
BETH: Ask for a check.
Check!
SERGIO: Hey, check.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands gets
the clearance to start high pressure hosing.
-BETH: There you go. -JORGE: Come on, it's game time.
SERGIO: I just don't want to focus on them.
I'm like, "Let's go, we got this."
It's very close.
I got this, start brooming!
Much broader strokes. Broader.
Oh, it's going to be a rush to the finish.
JAKE: Keep it pressure the whole time.
I'm trying to. I'm not letting off with the hose.
It's getting down to the last few moments
of this challenge.
I look across the way, I see Sergio
pressure washing just as close as I am.
We're both coming up on each other.
Don't get too far ahead.
Hey, get right here. Get right here.
We're all right. Stand in a line.
-Start pushing it. -I'm getting a little nervous.
I want to get things tied back up four to four.
It is too close
to back off right now. You need to go deeper.
Both teams, you've got to dig deeper.
LAURA: Push it together! Keep it together!
It's $60,000 on the line.
Work it up for her! Come on!
Keep pushing.
Pick up the pace, let's go.
Push. Dig deep.
LARRON: Let's go.
We're pushing leaves,
they're pushing leaves.
We get to the end of the driveway,
they get to the end of the driveway.
Get it in a pile.
Let's go. We're right there.
Coming close.
Come on, they're gaining on us!
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, raking up the last few leaves
here at the road.
It's coming down to feet.
Dirty Hands, you got to clean this up.
Pick it up! Pick it up!
KEOGHAN: Get it all off the street.
And...
Savage Crew with the win!
[cheering]
[cheering continues]
JAKE: Good job, baby.
Oh, yes!
I always have my head up.
I'm never a sore loser.
One, two, three.
ALL: Savage Crew!
Whoo!
We did it, bud. We did it.
Coming in here and winning the extra $60,000
for our team, man, it feels pretty good.
LARRON: The fact that we set out to go win this money,
for not only ourselves,
but our families, it's life changing.
RENEÉE: For your family, bud.
LARRON: Every day that I'm able to inch
closer to being with my family is huge relief
and huge excitement.
This was for everything, and we just lost.
ALY: [sighs] We always come up short.
BETH: I don't like to lose.
Nobody on my team likes to lose,
but I just feel like some people
aren't as passionate as I am.
That's how it goes, man.
You wanted to go be with your family, now you can.
BETH: Sometimes we got to stop being, "Rah, rah,"
and put your head down and focus.
Like, we're losing. Like, how can you be okay with this?
Ellery, you led your team.
What was the goal?
I mean, we had a good plan going in.
We executed. We just came up short.
It was incredibly close.
Ilima, we've had
eight team competitions.
You have yet to be crew boss,
but you were today. How did that happen?
I felt confident today, felt it in my heart.
I had the backup of my team.
I wouldn't be in a position mentally
if it wasn't for every single one of us
on Savage Crew,
so we all got this together.
Since we started this competition,
um, you really come out of your shell.
Today was your day.
LAURA: We saw the confidence within you.
We just needed you to get there.
ILIMA: Man, I've never had that much positive things
said to my face in my life.
I feel really good about myself.
Ilima, as a crew boss today, I'm pleased to tell you
that you have won $12,000 for your team.
Thank you very much.
Along with that fifth,
and most important, Badge of Honor,
which means Savage Crew,
you are our official winners of the team competition
this season on Tough As Nails.
Congratulations.
You have won the $60,000.
But, Dirty Hands, hold your head high
because the score is close.
You have a chance to bring it back to five-four
in the final team competition.
All right, everybody, thank you very much. Get some rest.
JAKE: Come on.
JORGE: I didn't come here expecting to lose today.
-SERGIO: Yeah, same here. -I'll tell you that.
We know that
we've given it our all, you know?
And seeing you when you're out there,
you're a beast.
I've noticed from day one.
You were kind of quiet,
-and then, you know... -I'm still quiet.
Yeah, you are, but you-you...
I've seen, like, the baby steps,
and you open up more like the day we got
those care packages, and then you teared up.
"We love you, Daddy."
JORGE: It's not something that comes easy to me.
I think, kind of, after my father passed when I was young,
I just kind of shut that-that part of myself off.
How did you deal with that,
when your father passed?
Not very well, man.
I was lost, you know?
I had nobody to look up to, nobody to...
Sorry.
Don't be sorry, brother.
It's good to let it out.
[sighs]
Um, you know,
I really had to change roles.
I didn't want to be weak in front of my mom and my sister,
-you know? -Yeah, I get it.
A lot of people think, you know,
showing your emotions as a man makes you weak.
-Aw, no, man. -And-and that's something that
I see in you, like, you share
how you're feeling, and that's something
that I hope I'm able to do one day.
You're doing it right now, my man.
JORGE: It's a lot of weight to carry,
holding your emotions in.
Honestly, it's-it's like an anchor,
and it holds you down.
I definitely want my son
to see me, you know, express myself
and let that weight go.
SERGIO: I don't know
what's going on in here,
but what I see out here is amazing, dude.
You're going places, and...
you know, uh, I...
I look at you like a little brother, you know?
Because... I had a brother.
And, uh, we lost him, you know?
I mean, I'm here for you.
You've gained a brother as well.
JORGE: I appreciate you, man.
SERGIO: Yeah, brother. I love you, man.
-Love you, too, man. -You're a good man.
Thanks.
SERGIO: Jorge is a great example
of a mature young man,
and it shows, you know,
in his leadership out here.
I'm fully confident that
he can take this all the way
to the final three and walk away
with that belt, the truck, the money.
If you just keep doing what you're doing...
you're going to be driving away in one of these.
It's time to giddy up, you know,
and you're going to get on it.
I'm ready, man.
RENEÉE: Whoo!
LAURA: There's Mr. Phil.
KEOGHAN: Hey, good morning, everyone.
ALL: Good morning, Phil!
Yesterday was a huge day for me.
I've proven to myself that
I should have the confidence that I lacked
coming into the competition.
My growth has been tremendous here
and I'm excited to step up more.
Those of you who have punched out,
take a seat up on the truck.
MISTER: Morning, morning.
I hate the anticipation, the buildup
towards the challenge.
You got so many things going on in your mind.
What are we going to do? How can I do it?
KEOGHAN: Started off with 12.
We are down to six of you.
Your destiny is going to be determined
by who you're paired up with today.
We're going to leave that up to you.
But I want you to see what the job entails
so you can make the right decisions.
-Adam, this is Phil. Good morning. -Copy.
I've got our final six lined up.
-They're ready to go to work. -All righty, heading in.
KEOGHAN: All right, everybody. How about a round of applause
for our team here from Long Beach Water.
These guys do a lot of work out here.
Today, you're going to be doing two of the jobs they do.
All right, Adam, so what have we got here?
We have a little bit of a problem.
ADAM: Yeah, we have a water mainline break.
KEOGHAN: There's close to
a quarter of a million breaks
in the main water supplies
around America every single year,
and that is what you are going to be fixing today.
First part of the job,
stop a mains leak with a full circle clamp.
It's relatively easy.
Just get that clamp on,
tighten it down and stop the leak.
Second part of the job
is use a Mueller device to tap into
the mains pipe. That is way more complicated.
Everything you need to know
is inside the instruction book on your workstations.
Go to work, guys. Show us how it's done.
ADAM: Open up your boxes and inside
you're going to find a saddle.
They've put their machine
on top of their saddle, drop the machine down
30 to 45 degrees,
remove the top of the machine.
He's inserting his drill bit in.
Once you put your bit on, you're gonna
put some tapping grease on the end of it.
KEOGHAN: This drill bit right here is going into the pipe.
It gets down to this point, and then it
starts to tap it.
You have to use your physical power
to start grinding that
drill bit into this mains pipe with a torque wrench.
ADAM: You're going to start to hear a crunching sound.
-KEOGHAN: You hear that? -That crunching sound is
him popping through the inside of the pipe.
Once all of that's complete,
you'll remove the top of the Mueller machine,
change the bit out for a corporation valve.
Once that's in place,
you're going to put the machine back together,
send it down into the pipe, screw it in,
and when they pull this machine off,
we should have a corporation valve
tapped inside of our water main.
The next step, running a copper water service
and attaching it to that meter stand.
Once there are no leaks,
then we can open up the meter side.
KEOGHAN: Thank you, team.
ALY: No pressure.
You know what the job is all about now.
It's time to select who
you want to be paired up with.
Remember, if you are the losing pair,
you will go from working together
to then going up against each other
in overtime.
If anybody wants
to make a pitch to somebody,
now is the time to do it.
I'm not going to shy away.
I'd really like to be with you today, Mister.
I deal with all these tools
on a regular basis,
so I'd like to be with you,
if you... if you'd allow that.
If not, you know, it'll just be really offensive.
ILIMA: Honestly, I think
I'd like to be paired up with
either Jake or Mister. I'm pretty, uh, adaptable.
Mister is, like, the hot commodity here.
He does welding, so he might have experience
with these tools
and everybody kind of wants to pair up with him.
Yeah, I really want to be partners with Mister today.
We'd work well together.
My track record speaks for itself.
I'd like to be your partner, man.
KEOGHAN: Mister, it's going to get
difficult for you.
I would love to work with Jorge.
I would love to work with Jake.
Larron, he pays close attention to details.
But...
I-I'm going with Ilima.
RENEÉE: Whoa.
-Will you accept that offer? -ILIMA: Yeah.
Of course.
Ilima, she's a very hard worker.
She was the first I chose
back at Catalina. We had a connection
from the beginning, so
I really wanted to go with her.
KEOGHAN: We have one pair.
Anybody want to speak up?
-Larron, let's do this. -Hell yeah, man.
You're good with tools, I'm a pipe layer.
-Let's try to get it, buddy. -That wasn't very offensive.
We know what that means.
Jorge, you'll be working with Ellery.
I'm hyped because
we work very well together,
and I know he knows what he's doing.
KEOGHAN: You will be supervised by Adam's team
as you do the job.
There is $8,000
-on the line today. -[cheering]
$4,000 each
if you can get this job done
faster than the other pairs.
All right, line up
behind your workstations.
Last two to finish the job today going into overtime.
Just guide me through it and I got your back.
LARRON: The stakes are incredibly high as it gets
to smaller and smaller numbers.
It's a lot more stressful.
I don't want to go home today.
I got a lot more to prove.
This to get into the final five.
Uh-oh.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: First step is get rid of that leak.
Focus up, focus up!
Okay, slide it into place.
LARRON: As a diesel technician, I work with hydraulic lines,
-fittings, hoses. -Turn it up like this.
Having that knowledge,
I'm very, very
confident about today.
KEOGHAN: Jake and Larron
have got that clamp on
very, very quickly.
They got the ratchet out straight away.
The other two teams
still tightening down those bolts.
ELLERY: Go ahead.
-Jorge grabs the wrench. -Okay. Right here.
And I'm going to each screw that needs to be tightened
so we don't miss anything.
-JORGE: Right here. -In the process,
I am knee deep in the mud.
The stress level is high.
JORGE: Oh, man.
MISTER: Oh, Lord. Golly.
I didn't think that water would come this high.
I mean, this pit was pretty deep.
IMILA: From here?
MISTER: I better not drop nothing in this mud
'cause I won't be able to find it.
I need some new socks.
[Ilima laughs]
JAKE: Leak stopped.
Hammer down, baby.
LARRON: I'm going, baby.
They're talking nicely to each other.
ALY: I'll talk so sweet to somebody
for $8,000.
[laughs]
MISTER: Let me see this wrench.
KEOGHAN: Mister and Ilima have their clamp
so that it's on its side,
It should be sitting on the pipe vertically.
That is going to make things really difficult.
ADAM: They're already tightening down,
then they're in a world of pain.
ILIMA: It doesn't matter how, the patch is on.
MISTER: Hold on. Doesn't it need to be up, though?
RENEÉE: Come on, Ilima and Mister.
[groans]
We realize that the nuts have to be on the top.
Too tight.
We're having to loosen it up to flip it over.
-[exclaims] -It's all about paying attention
to detail that could determine
where we're going to fall in this.
RENEÉE: There you go, Ilima and Mister.
KEOGHAN: That's eating up a lot of time.
Yeah, the ratchet
coming down tight over here.
The water is now stopped.
-There you go. -Let's go.
JORGE: Make sure you're kind of centered up.
I'm torquing it down.
Ellery is grabbing our machine,
so when I'm finished,
he's going to be set up and ready to go.
ALY: I hear it clicking.
KEOGHAN: He's just going past the click.
He's putting more on it
than he needs to.
He's over-tightening it at this point.
Oh, my God.
ILIMA: What tools you need next?
KEOGHAN: Mister and Ilima
still trying to get rid of that leak.
-ILIMA: You need the torque? -MISTER: Yeah.
ILIMA: Mister is very smart.
He knows how to use his tools to work for him,
not against him.
MISTER: Let's get that machine out.
So he's doing his thing and I'm just trying
to grab the tools to prep us
to work on the next step
to getting this hole drilled.
-There we go. -Awesome.
KEOGHAN: Step one complete for Ilima and Mister.
JAKE: Let's get this on, get our chain
and get those other bits in.
KEOGHAN: Jake and Laron, taking an early lead.
Moving on to the second job,
tapping into their pipe using their Mueller machine.
-Where's the bit? -LARRON: Right here.
LARRON: The key with putting our
assembly on the main pipe
and tapping it is there
are numerous steps.
Get it inserted.
And it's all about making sure that you do everything
according to what you're supposed to.
It's like this goes on here.
Looks like they're struggling with the top
of the machine a little bit.
They need to add some tapping grease.
KEOGHAN: Guys, take that back out.
You've missed a step.
Read your instructions.
JAKE: Larron, we're missing something.
LARRON: I know, I know.
JAKE: I'm looking around.
What are we missing? What are we missing?
KEOGHAN: Ellery and Jorge have their leak fixed.
-JORGE: Hold on. -KEOGHAN: And look how quickly
they got their Mueller machine in place.
They've already greased and inserted their drill bit.
Here. Here, here, here.
KEOGHAN: Mister and Ilima have caught up.
They've already greased up their drill bit.
"Remove bonnet from body."
I'm referring to the manual.
I'm trying to think, have we skipped any steps?
"Tighten tapping bit."
It's causing an issue for us
where it's starting to eat up that lead that we had.
RENEÉE: Focus up, focus up.
[Larron groans]
-Come on! -RENEÉE: Focus up!
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Everyone has their first job
complete, they've stopped
their leaks, but Jake and Larron
are at a standstill.
Jorge and Ellery
and Mister and Ilima are racing ahead
on the second job.
They're using that Mueller machine
to tap into their pipes.
JAKE: We're missing something. We're missing something, Larron.
LARRON: I'm going through the steps again.
Oh, oh. We got to apply the grease.
JAKE: Forgot to put grease on the bit.
We definitely lost a lot of time.
I don't want to go into overtime,
-especially against Larron. -I'm going to
work with you. Go.
-Where's the ratchet? -Here.
Now comes the hard part.
We have to manually
drill a hole inside this pipe.
Not too tight.
Ilima, she's working the yoke.
It's a collar that gradually
goes down on the thread.
I'm on the ratchet side in charge of
drilling the hole.
KEOGHAN: That's good teamwork there from Mister and Ilima.
Mister, he's really putting his back into this.
[grunt echoes]
Jake and Larron,
starting to grind down
into that mains pipe.
Keep going. Keep backing it up. Right here.
The key is you want to get it tight.
But you don't want to get it too tight.
So it is a delicate balance
between what Jorge has to do and what I am doing.
Ellery's got a nice touch on the yoke.
-I'm in. -KEOGHAN: Ooh, you hear that?
BETH: Let's go, Jorge!
KEOGHAN: Jorge and Ellery are in the lead right now.
First to tap the mains water pipe.
Come on, push.
-Come on, baby. -[grunts]
There you go. All right, we're through.
-Okay. -Jake and Larron are tapped.
Where are they up to?
ADAM: Looks like they're on the release section.
ELLERY: Loosen it, loosen it, loosen it.
They should close that flapper, which would keep water
from entering the top of the machine.
Tighten it. All right, that's it.
ADAM: And then they can remove the top of the machine.
All right, boys! Here we go!
There we go. There you go.
KEOGHAN: Wow! Mister and Ilima are now tapping down
into the main's water pipe.
-Whoa! Whoa! Stop. -ADAM: Jake and Larron,
-they're on the release section. -Why's there so much pressure?
They need to make sure
that they close that flapper valve.
If not, they're gonna have water going everywhere.
Yeah, we need to check the book.
We're having trouble with our flapper valve.
We can't figure out why it's not relieving properly.
We got to figure out what we're doing and fast.
But keep twisting, keep twisting.
JORGE: After we tap the pipe, we have
-to pull it out. -I got it.
And change the bit. Put it in right there.
KEOGHAN: Ellery and Jorge already
installing the corporation valve.
Got to have a nice touch as you put this in.
Okay. Just like that.
Focus on you, you guys.
You got to wait till that flap opens up.
Mister is removing their machine as well.
-[grunts] -Oh, are you okay?
-Damn! -ILIMA: That bad boy
comes around, hit him in the kneecap.
It hit him pretty hard, too.
It's okay, you got another one.
-You only need one. -I only need one, damn.
KEOGHAN: Mister, you okay?
[exhales] Yeah, yep.
Let me know whatever you need. I'm here for you, bud.
Make sure the flapper's all the way in.
-It was up. It was all the way up. -But it's not now.
Our flapper valve, it's been sitting
kind of in between relief and bypass.
-Back it off even more. -There it is, there it is, there it is!
Once I shift it all the way to relief,
we can get our entire assembly out,
install our corporation valve and go to work.
-Ready, Larron? -Yep.
KEOGHAN: Everybody's putting that corporation valve
into the main line all at the same time.
There you go.
-Let me help. -Okay.
Okay, we're done. Loosen that?
Ellery and I, we've got very effective communication.
But do the pipes.
We get in a nice groove together.
KEOGHAN: Jorge and Ellery,
first to get their corporation valve in.
JORGE: First ones getting our valve in,
it was a good boost of confidence.
-All right. -The next step is put the tool
inside the copper pipe and you beat it in,
but I want to get both pipes ready to go
so we're able to just screw them on,
tighten them up and turn our water on.
-That's good. -Let's go! -Here you go.
This is installed. You start doing the pipe.
LAURA: Here we go, Ilima! Here we go, Mister!
KEOGHAN: Corporation valve complete for all three teams.
Look, it's this one.
It's gonna come down to the piping.
Get me out the pieces, Larron.
I'm just going to do the flaring.
I know how many times you have to hit it
in order to get the right size.
Boom, boom. Like that.
Put the fittings on,
gave it to Larron.
I was over there working on the other one.
Boom. Got that one done.
Okay. Getting this on. Larron, be ready.
My blood's just pumping through my veins.
We're in this to win this.
Come on, baby.
KEOGHAN: Once you've got your two pieces
of copper piping attached, we're gonna turn on
the corporation valve, test for leaks.
I'm holding it!
Ellery already attached
the first piece of copper piping.
Yeah, let's go, boys!
KEOGHAN: They have the lead right now.
Eight G's, baby, come on!
-Yeah! -Here we go.
KEOGHAN: It's coming down to one piece of pipe.
Is it moving?
I don't know.
There is $8,000 on the line.
-Hold on, hold on. -But we are having difficulty
attaching copper pipe
that he just did to the curb stop.
-Is it on? -No.
The nervousness just became more palpable.
Come on!
KEOGHAN: It couldn't be closer!
-There you go, Jake! -Why is that not going on?
KEOGHAN: Jorge and Ellery had the lead,
but now they're struggling with this last connection.
JORGE: Is it on?
Got to move, got to move!
ALY: Come on, boys, let's go!
-BETH: Come on, guys, focus up! -It's on, it's on.
KEOGHAN: $8,000. Who wants it more?
-We got to tighten these two. -You gotta move!
-I got it. Get the pipe wrench. -KEOGHAN: Let's go.
Who's gonna get this done first?
-Let's go, boys! -You got to move! Let's go!
Larron and Jake attached the copper piping.
Now they have to turn the tap on.
Come on, come on.
ALY: Let's go!
Let me at it!
[cheering, whooping]
-Jake and Larron get the win! -[cheering, clamoring]
LARRON: We got off to a really early lead.
Lost that lead, and then came back.
So we were just overjoyed about the win.
Beautiful job.
Let's go, boys!
KEOGHAN: Ellery and Jorge down to the last connection.
But it slipped off.
Mister and Ilima down to the last connection.
Who's gonna go into overtime?
[shouting, clamoring]
Open up the valves!
ALY: Everything you got. Yeah!
Let's go! Let's go!
And Jorge and Ellery get the job done.
-[cheering, clamoring] -Let's go, Ellery!
-[grunts] -Good job.
Good job, man.
We worked really well together.
We could've gotten first
had we not made some mistakes, but Dirty Hands,
we get to stay out of overtime.
And I don't have to compete against Ellery.
So it's a win for us.
Big round of applause for Adam and his team.
Thank you guys for coming out.
Thank you guys for everything.
KEOGHAN: Larron and Jake, congratulations to you guys.
You have won the $8,000 today. $4,000 each.
It was a great feeling to get some more money. It was awesome.
But, Mister and Ilima,
it was hard to watch 'cause you were fighting
for it, and that's the kind of spirit
that we love on Tough As Nails.
I always love working with Ilima.
Uh, she gives it her all.
So, you know, I couldn't ask for a better partner.
Did I make the right decision
choosing Ilima? You know,
now we're going into O.T. together.
You know, it's like...
It made me second-guess my decision.
Everybody ready for overtime?
-Yes, sir. -All right. Let's get to it.
♪ ♪
[cheering, whistling]
MISTER: Me and Ilima, we have a good connection.
I might feel bad about the situation,
but I do have to think about the real reason why I'm here.
My family back at home.
-Here they are. -[cheering, whistling]
I do want to show my dad
that I was listening to everything that he taught me,
and put all his life skills to good use.
[cheering, whistling]
Ilima and Mister,
you worked so well with each other, but
now you need to go up against each other.
ILIMA: Hawai'i is very tough.
It's eight dollars for a gallon of milk.
$200,000 would definitely give
me and my family a big push-start.
At the end of the day, I'm doing this for them.
You've both survived overtime.
It's a chance for you to do it one more time.
And if you do,
you will still be in contention
for that Tough As Nailstitle.
Are you ready for a job?
From the smell of it, no.
-KEOGHAN: Yeah. -[laughter]
Crazy things get flushed down into the sewer system.
Back in the 1920s and 1930s,
people were flushing alligators down the toilet.
-God. -There were alligators in the sewer system
in New York City.
But it was all a legend.
You don't have to worry about that.
This job requires
a tremendous amount of skill, believe it or not.
And somebody has to do it, because the sewers do get
clogged up with all kinds of items.
When that work whistle blows, the first thing you'll do is
you'll be taking the sewer cover off.
You'll grab the tools supplied
that you see behind you.
And get to work at picking out five items from the sewer.
Some keys, a cell phone,
glasses, a hammer.
And there's also an alligator down there.
Don't worry, it's not a live alligator.
[laughter]
It's up to you
to choose the right tool for the job.
You need to remove one item at a time.
And then place it onto the table.
Once you have removed all five items,
then replace the sewer cover.
The first of you to get it done, go into the final five.
Finish last, you'll be punching out.
-Ready to get it done? -Yes, sir. -I'm ready.
It's scary because you don't know the fate of it.
You don't know how good you're gonna do.
You don't know how good your competitor is gonna be.
I work with Ilima every day.
She always gives it her all and she's gonna
figure out a way to get it done.
It's really, uh, you know, nerve-racking.
[sputtering]
Going up against Mister, it's gonna be tough.
He is a beast and his determination is on fire.
All right, here we go.
We've battled so much fights as a family.
It's definitely hard to switch it up and be like, "Okay,
I'm gonna do my best and try-- try to get you out of here."
I'm like, "Oh, God."
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle!
-[work whistle blows] -[cheering]
-On the work whistle. -[whistle blows]
-[cheering] -First of you to remove
five items clogging up the sewer,
stays in contention for the Tough As Nailstitle.
ILIMA: When I was a little girl at my grandma's house,
she had a hole in the floor, and me, my sister,
my brother would tie a string, we'd tie a piece of duct tape
to a stick and we'd literally fish for toys
underneath the house and we'd pull it up and we'd be like,
"What did you get? What did you get?"
Ilima's the first one to get her sewer cover out.
-I'm feeling very confident. -ALY: You got this.
KEOGHAN: Meanwhile, Mister struggling to get his out.
They are heavy.
MISTER: Yeah, they're heavy!
-Come on, Mister! -Find a way.
KEOGHAN: There you go, Mister!
MISTER: Once I got that sewer lid off,
immediately I started hooking up my poles.
Now they're both going with the same tool choice.
MISTER: Let's go, let's go.
ILIMA: I get my poles together. I look down,
and I see my five items laying at the bottom of this pipeline.
Oh, God.
A cell phone, a hammer,
keys, glasses and...
for the fun of it, of course, Phil's gonna
throw an alligator in there. [laughs]
Ilima's already down the sewer hole.
Mister still trying to get that tool attached.
[shouting, clamoring]
KEOGHAN: Ilima onto the table.
First item complete.
Come on, Mister!
ALY: Let's go, Ilima.
KEOGHAN: Ilima now going for a second piece.
-Oh! -[all clamoring]
That thing looked like it was alive when it came up.
Oh, that was scary.
Ilima's two items out on the table.
She wants to change the tool. She's gone for more of a scoop.
Meanwhile, Mister yet to get a piece out.
LARRON: Come on, Mister.
But now Mister getting it together.
Looking down in there, it's a narrow hole.
And it's straight down,
and there's two small holes on each side.
I'm thinking, like, "How can I pick these items up
without dropping them to the side?"
I really use the walls to kind of help
keep steady as you pull your pole back out of the sewer.
-Mister has the keys. -[cheering, clamoring]
Looks like Mister wants a different implement
on the front.
ALY: Hey, let's go, Ilima!
KEOGHAN: Ilima is struggling with this third item.
She's got the pooper scooper out.
BETH: Oh, my God.
LARRON: Come on, Mister. You got this, man.
KEOGHAN: Mister with two items out.
LARRON: You got a chance to catch up, Mister.
KEOGHAN: Ilima's got two.
LARRON: There you go. Something ain't working.
Change it up.
Nice and easy, breathe.
Come on, you're a boss!
-There you go, Ilima. -Yeah, there you go!
There you go, there you go!
KEOGHAN: Ilima takes the lead now.
Oh, man.
There's nothing in there.
I didn't realize that when I went
down there with my pole, I had whacked the last two items
in the sewer drain itself
on both sides.
There were two big holes, and I'd lost the phone
and the keys in one side of that hole.
That's a crucial mistake.
ELLERY: She doesn't see them.
-You got it. -Come on, Ilima, you can do this.
You adapt to everything. Come on, girl.
I think she might have pushed them out of sight.
-ILIMA: I have no items in here. -SYNETHIA: You got to find them, come on.
ILIMA: They're literally all the way in the hole.
LARRON: Try and pull them out of there.
-I can't even see, it's gone. -Come on, Ilima.
KEOGHAN: Three for Mister.
ILIMA: There is nothing to fish for.
I'm trying to work my tool,
but it's just completely out of reach.
And at that point...
it's game over for me.
There's two sewer pipes and it's, it's gone.
A lot of thoughts ran into my head.
Did I make the right decision choosing Ilima?
Because I never wanted to, uh, put her in this position.
Whoever punches out, you know, that's it.
That's the end of their journey.
I feel kind of bad really.
LAURA: All right, Mister!
KEOGHAN: Mister with four items.
-JAKE: There you go, Mister! -KEOGHAN: One more to go.
ILIMA: There's literally nothing for me to--
-See what you got. -I have nothing in my hole.
Nothing?
KEOGHAN: Mister with his fifth piece.
MISTER: You know, you get close to people.
You hear everybody's backstories.
You hear about everybody's family.
Sometimes it's kind of hard to, uh...
you know, not love.
-[grunting] -KEOGHAN: Get that lid back on.
-Good job, Mister. -Mister gets it done.
Good job, Mister!
[applause]
MISTER: I'm happy, but I'm not excited, knocking off,
you know, one of my favorite
teammates doesn't feel good at all.
When you come here to Tough As Nails
only, you know, set out for the prize.
Love you, man.
MISTER: Once you get here, all that goes out the window.
You all win together, you sweat together, you lose together.
And all that means something.
KEOGHAN: Wow, this is really tough.
Mister, I-I see the emotion for you.
I mean, it feels like it's, it's bittersweet.
Why is it, uh,
why is it hitting you so hard, Mister?
Love you.
I mean, it don't feel good.
[sniffles]
It's all good, bud.
I mean, I take team, you know, very serious.
Team means family. I'm happy to continue on, but
I'm not happy about, you know, the way that I got it.
Ilima, he really is feeling for you.
ILIMA: We've all created an awesome bond.
Loyalty is royalty.
I feel honored to... to be with Mister
in this competition, in this challenge.
I couldn't have asked for a better competitor.
And you should hold your head up high, man.
You deserved it.
-Thank you. -Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Well, Ilima,
I want you to know
you are a badass.
The Xena: Warrior Princess of Hawai'i.
[laughter, clamoring]
You are definitely tough.
Unfortunately, I do need you to punch out.
-Right. -[chuckles]
-I love you. -I love you, too.
ILIMA: I can't hold my head down.
I'm beyond humbled
to have made it this far.
Going to pick Ilima.
ILIMA: This competition is not easy.
KEOGHAN: She wants this for Hawai'i.
-Whoo! -My teammates
has helped me gain strength in myself
that I never thought I had because of them pushing me.
-[engine revs] -And Ilima with the win!
[exhales]
Thank you for the opportunity.
I'm proud of myself for even...
taking this step to come here.
This journey doesn't stop for me.
I'm going to go home and I'm going to continue
to do what I do and pick up new things
that I never thought I could do and, uh, take everything
that I learned here with me.
KEOGHAN: You know what happens from here.
$12,000 on the line.
We go back to the team competition
for one final challenge.
Get some rest, everybody.
And I will see you in the next one.
Sounds good.
-I love you. -I love you, too.
[Mister growling]
I'm going to be your cheerleader all the way.
We're family already.
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KEOGHAN: Next week on the two-hour
season finale ofTough As Nails...
With Savage Crew up 5-3
-in the team competition... -We're not letting off the gas.
...Dirty Hands have one last shot at redemption...
We got to prove how strong of a team we are.
...in a head-to-head battle of the trades.
And only five hardened professionals
still have a shot at theTough As Nails title.
One mistake can cost you.
KEOGHAN: Who will survive to run
the most brutal gauntlet ever...
Hit the next gear!
...for one last shot
at being crowned this season's
Tough As Nails champion?