-Let's go, let's go! -Everybody grab a cart.
-Ooh! -Beep, beep, beep, beep!
PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously onTough As Nails...
Hose reel, spray paint...
-KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands... -Zero, zero, zero, zero. -Got it.
KEOGHAN: ... continued their winning spree.
JESSICA: This is the wrong one.
KEOGHAN: ...beating Savage Crew...
-PAUL: Stupid mistake. -Go! -Press it!
KEOGHAN: ...by mere seconds.
-Dirty Hands with the win! -Good work!
Four badges!
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, you're one win away from $60,000.
-JESSICA: It's fine, you guys. -No, it's not!
Keep a positive attitude!
We made mistakes that we need to fix.
KEOGHAN: In the individual challenge...
-Can that load hold? -Slow and steady. Easy.
-[all groaning] -TODD: Hang on.
KEOGHAN: ...Canadians Ben and Paul
pulled in a big win...
[cheering, laughing]
-...while Cheryl and Aquila... -[groans]
-[group clamoring, groaning] -KEOGHAN: It got away!
...battled it out in overtime.
-Find your rhythm! -I hear you, Dad.
-CHERYL: Yup. -KEOGHAN: Akeela...
Thanks, Dad.
KEOGHAN: ...cemented her place in the final seven...
I just wanted to see you sweat.
KEOGHAN: ...leaving Cheryl to punch out.
Tonight...
Savage Crew, it's do or die for you.
...Dirty Hands is one win away
from the $60,000 bonus prize.
-Come on, Savage! -Y'all got to work together.
KEOGHAN: And it's the most explosive
individual challenge ever.
-[whooping] -CHERYL: You can do it! -[sighs]
KEOGHAN: Who will blast their way to victory,
and who will hit rock bottom?
-[sighing, gasping] -That was awesome!
This is Tough As Nails.
♪ ♪
TODD: All I want to say is
-"Good morning, Canada!" -[laughter, cheering]
The score is four-two, we have the lead.
Let's keep it going.
CHERYL: Dirty Hands is one win away from
the $60,000 bonus,
and we are prepared to take that home today.
The last overtime, I lost to Akeela.
It's a little disheartening for me,
but my hope is that we can
continue to just smash these team challenges.
We want that money. We don't want to leave
a dollar left for anybody else.
We're taking it all.
-Today, we're going to win. -It is do-or-die today.
PAUL: I think what we need to do is
take a page out of their book.
Keep a level head, and breathe and relax.
CARLY: We got to be
on our toes, and we got to stay hungry.
They're strong competitors. Everything's come down
to the last few minutes.
We should be more hungry than anything
that we've ever been in in our lives.
Yeah.
BEN: As an individual competitor,
I came here for myself.
But it means so much more when you can
bring six people together, create them into a family,
and come out on top.
Believe it and achieve it, baby.
DUSTIN: This is it.
This is where you find out
what you're made of as an individual and as a team.
We need to come together,
and I believe in every one of you.
JESSICA: There's no more excuses
that we can allow in this team challenge.
We have to pull it off today.
Dirty Hands are a great competitor, and I see how
unified they are.
I see how they're so supportive of each other.
And if we can come together and we can work together,
there's no reason we can't be successful.
Marcus, we haven't heard anything from you.
Marcus hasn't said [bleep].
-Man, I'm focused, I'm just ready to go. -JESSICA: Yeah.
-Good. -MARCUS: Let's not talk about it.
Let's be about it, let's do it.
-Yup. -Go, Savage!
KENJI: Not morning today, guys; it's all business.
-KEOGHAN: Morning! -ALL: Morning! -Morning, Phil!
You guys look like a bunch of badasses up there!
-Yeah! -Yeah! -It's a hero shot!
You guys ready for your calendar?
PAUL: I'll be December-- I'm a special gift.
[laughter]
Today's a big day for both teams.
Dirty Hands, you're one win away
from our best of nine team competition.
From winning that $60,000.
Team score right now-- four to two.
Savage Crew, you got to stop 'em in their tracks today.
This is one of 6,500 quarries in Canada
where they extract sand, gravel and rocks.
Okay, let me tell you a little bit about this job.
This is a gabion basket. They go back thousands of years.
You can load them up with rocks, they help to move floodwaters.
They help to build retaining walls, and today,
you are going to be building
three gabion baskets for the front
of these gravel loading bays
to create a retaining wall.
When gravel is inside
this loading bay, it doesn't spill out.
You've got a bottom, four sides and a top
held together with spiral wire.
One gabion basket is a puzzle
because you have to fit the darker rocks
into one of your gabion baskets,
and all of the rocks have to go into that basket
before you can close it up.
We know they can fit; you guys have to figure it out.
Fun.
That's one of your gabion baskets.
The other two will be made with the rocks that you see
in that community pile down the end.
You're going to be smashing rocks,
making sure that they can fit through that gauge,
and then you're going to use those rocks
to create two more gabion baskets
on either side of your puzzle gabion baskets.
Say good morning to Joey, everybody.
-ALL: Morning, Joey. -Morning, guys.
When you get your three
gabion baskets complete,
you're going to call Joey in,
and he's going to dump that gravel into your bay.
Then you can celebrate.
So don't forget,
Dirty Hands, you win today,
you get the $60,000
for being our team champions.
Savage Crew, if you win today,
you stay in contention for that $60,000.
And there's also $12,000 on the line today--
looks just like this--
and that beautiful seventh Badge of Honor.
[applause]
All right, go to your workstations, strategize
and figure out who's going to be crew boss.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
-Right. -Yup.
I have been crew boss four times,
and we have won four times.
I would love to lead them into this fifth win.
We're taking that.
-Ben, Todd, Yesi. -Okay.
Get over there with the sledgehammer.
Start breaking rock.
I'm going to have Carly and Kenji
put a basket together. When we have that together,
-Kenji, you are on the puzzle. -I will...
-I will pack that. -Okay?
That puzzle's going to be the stoppage of this game.
-That's why Kenji's on it. -I will make that happen.
Who wanted to be crew boss?
Marcus, you want it?
Yeah, I ain't been one yet. I'll take it.
[overlapping chatter]
-I believe in y'all. -AKEELA: I do feel like
Marcus is a good leader for today.
Marcus has got a calm demeanor about him.
He's a good coach.
The key to today's job is to work together,
and I feel like he's the right man to lead us to do that.
I'd like to do the cages.
I'm not good with diagrams, so I think Paul.
-I know it by heart. I don't even need... -I can help you.
-I can help you, too. -Yeah. -Yeah.
I don't even need the diagrams. I got it all
-up here already. -Okay, I'm busting rock.
While you guys are building,
we'll all just start breaking rock.
-There you go. Sounds like a plan. -Right?
We came here to do better,
and we came here to do more.
Now is our time.
-Hard work, work! -ALL: Savage Crew!
-Dirty! -ALL: Hands! -Come on, now!
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
MARCUS: Got one more shot at this.
Let's go out there and give our all.
We haven't lost the whole thing yet.
It's not how you start, it's how you finish.
-[work whistle blows] -Yeah. [whoops]
Grab those right now.
Our strategy is divide and conquer.
Carolina and I went
to assemble the gabion baskets
while everybody else is crushing rocks.
The sledgehammer would have winded me out,
so I might as well work smarter, not harder.
Be useful and produce.
Come on.
-Watch your legs! [grunts] -[grunts]
KEOGHAN: Both teams have wheelbarrows
under the gauges for their rocks.
That way, they don't have to pick anything up off the ground,
so they're both using that strategy.
Cheryl, I got two done!
Just lean it up, right here.
-Right here? -All right.
I saw the frames of the basket.
I know exactly how these are going to go together.
We're going to stitch the panels together in pairs.
-Carly, you got a double? -I'm working on it.
As Carly stitched together the pairs,
Kenji and I started stitching together
the baskets from the pairs
to form a cube with a hinged lid.
KEOGHAN: Three gabion baskets to put together today.
One is a puzzle piece
using the darker rocks.
That gabion basket goes in the center.
Then we have two gabion baskets on the outside.
Carolina and Paul working separately.
Come on, y'all got to work together.
CAROLINA: These gabion boxes
have a spiral that goes inside,
but it's not working.
Notice the way that Carly is weaving
that spiral wire through the gabion basket.
She's got the two pieces together,
and that is saving a lot of time.
Paul's got his open, and that is making it a lot harder.
PAUL: Holy moly.
[whoops] Let's go, y'all!
[grunting]
KEOGHAN: Yesi's dumping off rocks ready to go
-into that gabion basket. -CHERYL: Check!
We can fill this, we can fill this.
Dirty Hands the first to complete a gabion basket,
while Carolina's struggling with that spiral wire.
-She getting it? -No, she's struggling with it.
Can y'all help her?
-I'll go over there. -We got this.
Carolina, slow down, slow down.
Don't force it, I'm here to help.
All my life, I just tried to do things
my own way, and I don't ask for help.
Since I'm, like, seven, I can remember telling my mom,
"You know, I'll do it myself, I got it."
Where are you going with this one?
It's okay. I got it, I got it.
Asking for help is... is hard.
-Come on. I know. -That one got stuck.
[grunting]
And here comes Paul with the first
gabion basket for Savage Crew.
PAUL: I got one.
Check this one, please.
Thank you. This one's ready to go.
I got to go build the other one.
No, no, no, you got to help her with that one.
-Help her understand it. -Oh, my God.
-What happened here? -I got... I got stuck.
PAUL: Oh, my Lord.
MARCUS: Just keep your head.
We got it.
-Sorry. -It's okay!
Turn, turn. See now? See how quick that goes?
Yes, thank you.
Paul's fallen onto a good technique now.
Weaving that spiral wire.
[grunting]
-Cheryl, another pair to your left. -Okay!
My mind sees how things go together like a puzzle
before the puzzle's even done.
-We're going to rotate this so that hinge hangs out. -Okay.
-You know what I'm saying? -Yup.
CHERYL: My father had these
old-fashioned clocks with the bell that...
[imitates bell ringing]
I would take them apart,
and I couldn't always get them back together so they worked.
[laughs] So we... so we ended up having, like,
three busted alarm clocks.
But I was so curious about, like, how does something work?
How do you take it apart? How do you put it together?
And I'm really counting on that skill to help us.
Keep going.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands already moving rocks
for their puzzle gabion.
They've almost completed building two gabion baskets.
Savage Crew have one, but this is just the beginning.
And remember: once you've got your three
baskets built, you got to pack them up with rocks.
Okay, don't touch this for a minute.
Carolina was having a hard time,
so I'm trying to help.
-Oh, my gosh. Uh, don't... -I got it.
-Okay, do you want me to go build the other one? -Yes.
She says, "Got it, go back and do the other one."
I says "Okay," 'cause
by that time, we're falling behind.
Check!
Dirty Hands get signed off on their second gabion basket.
They're working on their third.
Back this bottom spiral out.
Paul's still working alone.
Carolina's still working alone.
Unlike Dirty Hands, who have continued
to stay together in pairs.
Marcus coming back
with a barrel-load full of rocks.
MARCUS: We all good!
Just keep filling up the baskets, come on!
Right now, I'm beating your rocks up
make sure we have enough rocks.
Everybody got a job to do.
Let's go in there and do it, and let's make this win.
[grunting]
-Dustin, can you help Carolina? -Yeah, yeah.
Under pressure, you can get jumpy.
And as firefighters, we're trained to handle pressure
in stressful situations.
-Keep going. -Wait one sec.
We need to stay calm.
-Can we cut it there? -No, we got to take it off.
-Ugh. Go for it, take it off. -We can't do more.
-You got to take it off. -Take it off. Take it off.
One of the spiral coils
that holds the corners together is too short.
We got to take it out and start all over.
But we're slowly making progress.
Get the other one behind me.
DUSTIN: Relax, relax, okay?
KEOGHAN: Dustin is undoing the old wire.
Carolina's trying to get the new one in.
That is a costly mistake.
MARCUS: Everybody stay calm, let's go.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl and Kenji working together
like a well-oiled machine.
-Yes, yes, good job, that's it! -Check!
We're good on all three baskets!
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands the first to complete building
all three gabion baskets.
Now they got to finish packing it up with rocks.
Ben pushing hard.
Dirty Hands one win away from the $60,000 prize.
[grunting]
Out of the way! Inspection, please.
Savage Crew get signed off on their second gabion basket.
They're working on their third.
-Oh. -What happened? What happened?
From it moving around all the time.
CAROLINA: As I'm getting the help,
I struggle being patient.
Get the other one in, get the other one in.
Get the other one in behind me.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just relax, relax, relax.
-No, because it will be... Yeah. -Look at this. Relax.
CAROLINA: I told Dustin,
"I'm sorry. I'm trying to listen."
He's like, "Keep going. No, it's okay."
DUSTIN: Here, spin.
KEOGHAN: Carolina's got a good technique going.
She's found a method that's working.
-Get it? -Yup.
I accept help, and things turn around.
I think we're good.
Can we check? Check!
Awesome. Thank you.
It makes me realize that every time I get help...
...life gets better.
Both teams have all three complete. They're loading.
PAUL: I just took it upon myself,
and I'll get the puzzle one done.
That's my forte-- I know how to stack stuff.
I know how to fill every nook and cranny and crack.
KEOGHAN: This is going to come down to attention to detail.
YESI: Come on, Dirty!
KENJI: Cheryl assigned me
to help build that gabion puzzle, and it's not
just filling it 'till it's full. It's finding a way
to fit all of those dark rocks
into the basket and to be able to close that basket.
-BEN: How are we making out? -KENJI: We're doing great!
Let's go, let's go now!
-Small stuff, lots of small stuff. -Nope.
-Smaller than that! -CARLY: Got to be small.
Savage Crew are doing a lot of breaking up of rocks.
MARCUS: I know you guys got more. Let's go!
We got one more shot at this-- $60,000.
I tell my team, "Get motivated.
Go out there and give our all."
Team, team, team! Teamwork, let's go!
-Assembly line! -Lots of small stuff.
Assembly line-- it just makes things so much easier.
You look at ants-- that's how ants make
incredible structures in... in a matter of hours.
-Small stuff, small stuff! -Small stuff!
Ants are incredible, though.
Right here, Cheryl,
these right there.
KEOGHAN: Carly poking that gauge into the cage,
and if it fits all the way in,
she knows that gap's got to be filled up.
-And then on the top. -CHERYL: Yup.
CARLY: We have a tool to measure
the distance that the rocks are from the outside
of the gabion, called a "gap gauge."
-Closing. -Checking.
CARLY: Good, good. Not good.
The job of this is to make sure
that there's not too many gaps
in the gabion box.
This row, this row right there.
To make it as tight and compact as possible.
Let's coil the crap out of this.
And then we can add small rocks after, okay?
-Okay. -Love you.
Love you, too!
KEOGHAN: Got to pack these rocks in tightly.
Savage Crew have picked up the pace
working together now, and that has sped things up.
Learn as you go, learn on the job!
CHERYL: Check!
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands get a clear check
on their first gabion basket.
Pick it up, Savage Crew, let's go.
They're gaining ground.
AKEELA: The key to putting rocks in these baskets is
to make sure you get the flat ones on the sides.
You don't want any space that the gauge can get through.
Dirty Hands struggling
-with that puzzle gabion basket. -[grunts]
We just can't close the cover on the top.
BEN: So what do we got to do?
Do we got to pull it out? Let's communicate here.
The puzzle is becoming a nightmare.
-Wait, wait, wait, wait. -Don't got much left.
Slow down!
KEOGHAN: Both teams have their gabion baskets assembled.
Dirty Hands with one gabion basket complete,
but Savage Crew's still in this.
Dirty Hands running out of room with that puzzle basket.
We got to take rocks out to make it.
CHERYL: Start moving it around.
We're having bulging at the top,
so it's very hard to get it closed.
See these small ones? They should go on top.
Savage Crew doing some good catch-up.
Now they're working together using
the same method as Dirty Hands-- much more effective.
DUSTIN: Got some small pieces I can take.
I got a small one!
Today is the fourth quarter, we got two more downs to go.
The key to having us the winning team-- everybody work together.
Come on, guys, let's get this win!
-Okay, get that down. -Okay, flip. Flip it, hold on.
Akeela and Jessica try to close out their first gabion basket.
JESSICA: Fill in right in this corner.
MARCUS: Here's a small one.
JESSICA: Now is our chance to make up the time.
Akeela and I are on the first basket.
Paul's working on the middle basket with the puzzle.
Carolina and Dustin are on the far basket,
and Marcus is helping bring in rocks.
So we're all trying to work together
and be as effective as we can.
KEOGHAN: What a turnaround from Savage Crew.
They started working as individuals,
but now, they're completely in sync as a team.
-[Paul whoops] -KEOGHAN: Paul saving himself
a lot of work by tossing the rocks in.
[grunting]
Akeela's using her muscle to help Paul
get this spiral wire through the lid.
AKEELA: It's coming down to the wire, and
we can't lose again.
Check this one, please.
Where's the other screw for this one?
Right here. Can we get a check?
-Here. Watch out. -Thumbs-up! Guys, thumbs-up.
Thumbs-up for Savage Crew and the puzzle gabion basket.
PAUL: Puzzle one was the hardest one,
and if you don't stack it right,
you're not going to get them all in there.
They trusted me with it, and
I pulled it out of my, uh...
...pulled it out of a hat.
KEOGHAN: Huge comeback from Savage Crew.
They've tied things up with Dirty Hands.
Now both teams with one basket complete and two to go.
-Don't panic! -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands doing
a fantastic job on their third.
-I'm happy with this. -KEOGHAN: But they're still
trying to figure out that puzzle gabion.
It looks like we may be able to force this thing closed.
Keep going. As long as it gets closed, guys.
KENJI: We cannot fix it
by taking everything out and rearranging it.
We can only try to get the lid closed.
We would definitely lose for sure
if we take it all out and started from the beginning.
-Good job. -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands
are very close to figuring out the puzzle.
This is not over!
MARCUS: I got the rocks. Just keep filling them baskets up!
Check, please.
Yes! We got a thumbs-up! Come on!
KEOGHAN: Thumbs-up for Savage Crew!
They have two complete, one to go.
YESI: Right here.
The teamwork is going great,
and we're working really well together.
Everything we talked about in the van ride in is working.
Savage Crew are very close, but Dirty Hands is right there.
-There you go, you got it. -Nice!
CARLY: There's a lot of money on the line.
-[grunts] -This is do-or-die.
-Go, go! -Can Savage Crew get this much-needed win?
Will Dirty Hands close it out
and walk away with $60,000 today?
-Good, clear. -Work on that other one.
We got to get this one first.
Empty basket, that wire just spins right in.
It's like a spiral-bound notebook.
But when it's full of rocks, and it has pressure and tension,
very difficult to stitch that together.
Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, looking great.
Both teams huddled around their gabion baskets.
AKEELA: Come on, come on, we're almost on!
MARCUS: I'm proud of you guys!
Got through a hard work, work.
KEOGHAN: We are literally
down to the wire on this one.
-Here we go, there we go, we're around it. -You got it in you.
-One more. One more.
-We got this. Check. -Yeah, some more.
Final checks coming from Savage Crew.
Give me your pliers, give me your pliers!
-Give me your pliers. -KEOGHAN: And...
Savage Crew takes the win!
[cheering wildly]
PAUL: Joey! Give me some dirt!
Get the gravel in!
We live to see another day.
Yeah, I'm going in the dirt!
JESSICA: We really came together,
and today was magical.
-Hard work, work! -ALL: Savage Crew!
Oh, man.
[sighs]
Fiercely competitive.
It came down to inches.
When I say inches, I'm talking
literally six inches of wire.
And that says just how close
you guys are in the team score.
Who's this gentleman over here, everybody?
ALL: Marcus Jones!
-The one and only! -KEOGHAN: Marcus Jones,
you're the crew boss today.
You get this extremely valuable Badge of Honor.
You didn't want Dirty Hands to walk away with that $60,000,
and you led your team to a victory.
And I am proud to present to you today's Badge of Honor.
-Nice! -Right! -[cheers and applause]
Here's your Badge of Honor.
And the $12,000.
-That's for you and your team. -Okay. Appreciate that, yeah.
-Appreciate it. -[cheers and applause]
I mean, I'm Marcus Jones, you know?
Hey, we got to get it done! [laughs]
Good work, brother.
So now the score-- four to three.
Dirty Hands, you're still one win away
in our best of nine competition.
If you can tie it up, Savage Crew,
it's going to come down to a tiebreaker.
Tomorrow is the most explosive...
-Nice. -Ooh, hoo-hoo!
KEOGHAN: ...individual challenge that we have ever had.
We're down to seven of you,
and by the end of the day, it will be six.
-Thank you, guys. -Thank you!
-You guys, we just won! -We won!
[cheering]
We worked as a team!
Yes!
Put two more thousand dollars in our pockets.
Papa Jones.
-Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones! -Yeah, man.
Everything we did was right today.
Except for in the beginning.
Exactly, but we found our rhythm.
The things that we can learn is, like, how
Dirty Hands, they are... You know, they work as a team.
And that's what we need to do to win this.
Start working together.
And you, if you have a problem, you know what to yell.
Thank you for the help, seriously.
And I said, I'll come and... Yeah, I'll come and help.
Today, we vibed, and we got to keep doing it.
We're one step closer to that 60 grand.
-One step. -I mean, we need to tie.
-Exactly. -We got to.
I really wanted the win.
Um, and I felt responsible for what happened today
because Cheryl put me in charge of the puzzle.
I understand where you're coming from,
but we can't relive it.
And Kenji, you are terrific with details.
You win as a team, and you lose as a team.
-It's really simple. -BEN: Exactly.
But we cannot waste our energy
moving rocks around in a basket tonight
-in our brains. -In our... in our brain, right?
You know what I mean?
CARLY: Kenji gives his whole heart
to these challenges, but
life's going to throw curveballs,
and Kenji is a great example of
facing adversity
and pushing through.
So, Kenji, how old were you
when you left Vietnam and came to America?
Eight years old.
-When you left. -When...
So you had your childhood there?
Yeah, I had my childhood there.
Um, it was pretty rough.
I had very little adult supervision,
so coming into America, you know,
the rules are very different.
Things are, you know, much, much trickier,
and I was facing, uh, suspension at fourth grade.
They were going to kick me out of school.
Um, no, no teacher wanted me, I was a total brat.
And every English word that I knew,
it was all bad words, 'cause that was all I...
I picked up first.
After my dad passed away,
it was really rough, because it was just me and my mom,
and my teacher had to step in,
and my family doctor and a nurse became my three mentors
that showed me what it's like to have positive attention, um,
and that I don't need to be bad,
I don't need to... to get in trouble.
And so, because of them is why I'm here today.
They put in the time and the effort
and the resource and just showed me the love and showed me that
there's a future for me
that they saw, that I didn't even see.
And here I am today with you guys, another family.
You got us, buddy.
[voice breaking]: But you guys are so supportive, man.
I love you all.
[sniffles]
-Proud of you. -What's up, buddy?
You're the powerhouse of the team.
-You're the brains of the team. -CARLY: Do you feel like
you got it out of your system, Kenji?
-Good morning, Phil. -Good morning.
-Morning. -You're all going down.
PAUL: The people left between me
and that prize are six.
I'm ready to fight.
That $200,000 means a lot to me, and the belt.
I can't wait to get it here. [patting]
You need my waist size, by the way.
Say good morning to Dustin, everybody.
-[overlapping chatter] -Good morning, everyone.
Dustin deals with the explosive stuff around here.
We're making big rock into small rock.
Crushing it down for aggregate,
and it all gets used into the building of
roads, hospitals, bridges,
all that critical infrastructure
that everybody uses every single day.
KEOGHAN: And one of the best tools out here is
explosive devices.
DONAIS: That's the best and the cheapest way
to break the rock, is through
the chemical process of blasting.
KEOGHAN: So, today, you're going
to be setting 20 blast holes across this quarry.
-Yeah. -When the work whistle blows, you are going to run
to the far end, grab that yellow and green wire,
and string it out all the way back down here
to your last blasting hole.
Once you've done that, you need to run to the other end again
and start connecting that green and yellow wire to the red wires
that are coming out of your blasting hole.
All 20 connections need to be made.
You'll then get that gravel, transport it
all the way down to the end,
and start filling your holes.
The blast holes are six feet deep.
Once you've done that, grab your flag,
run to the far end, and there is a flag stand.
The first of you to get it done
is going to win $7,000.
-Can't wait for that money. -Seven Gs.
And you'll get to ignite the explosion.
-Yeah. -Yeah!
The last two of you today to get the job done,
you're going to be going into overtime.
It's boom or bust...
-[chuckles] Oh, man. -...for one of you,
because by the end of the day,
one more of you will be punching out,
and it's only going to get tougher from here.
-Ready to get to work? -CONTESTANTS: Yeah!
KEOGHAN: Okay.
$7,000 for the winner of this job.
AKEELA: I'm not going into overtime today.
When you walk into a fight, you got to be confident
that you did everything you could leading up to this point.
It's all within.
TODD: Today, what I really need to do
is I need to focus on the details.
It's going to be the person that formulates
and executes the best plan that wins today.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
CARLY: Let's go!
[cheering, whistling]
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
-[work whistle blows] -CARLY: Let's go!
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Everyone's got 20 blast holes
that need to be wired up
and filled for detonation.
Kenji is the first to get his wire. He's running it out.
Push it, Kenji!
KENJI: I ran all my life, and I took
full advantage of it,
'cause I know my competitor--
they're stronger than me
and can carry those buckets faster.
I need as much of a lead as possible, and I took off
like a rocket.
-Yeah, let's go! -Come on, Kenj! -Kenji's almost got
a full-length lead on the field.
He's starting on his first connection.
CARLY: Yeah, Kenji!
JESSICA: In my everyday life,
I mess with a lot of very
small-gauge wire, but moving
the aggregate is going to be the toughest part of this challenge.
-CARLY: Nice work. -KEOGHAN: Ben's found a rhythm.
YESI: Keep your pace!
KEOGHAN: It's about focusing on the details.
PAUL: This is a long race.
That's why I don't go Mach one.
But to save some time,
I'm picking cones out
so I can just draw the aggregate in.
KEOGHAN: Kenji the clear leader,
down to the far end of the jobsite first.
And just when you think you've recovered,
you've got to run back and start filling up holes.
Kenji with his last connection.
He'll be going back with a bucket.
Jessica's right there with him,
-as is Akeela and Ben. -CARLY: Nice work.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's the first to run back with the gravel
and start filling his blasting holes.
He's got 20 six-foot blasting holes to fill.
CHERYL: Push it, Kenji!
[Kenji panting]
YESI: Let's go, Kenj!
-Push through! -Come on, Kenj.
[breathless]: Come on, you got it.
When I picked up that first two bucket,
it was way more
than I anticipate.
It knocked the wind out of me.
-Push it, Kenji! -CHERYL: Come on, Kenji!
KENJI: Come on, buddy, little bit more. [panting]
CARLY: Nice, Jess!
KEOGHAN: Jessica's starting to fill up her bucket.
Ben and Akeela's right there,
side-by-side.
Todd, Dustin and Paul
still making connections.
Here goes Jessica--
second, right there with Kenji.
JESSICA: Last time, I placed second.
The time before that, I placed second.
I'm just missing the grand prize.
I'm getting that money today.
-Keep your pace. -Nice work.
KEOGHAN: These holes-- they're six-feet deep.
Got to make sure that they're filled.
CARLY: Yeah, use it all.
KEOGHAN: Here comes Ben and Akeela.
Now if you've got strength, you can use it.
AKEELA: In the fire department, we carry heavy things.
Usually, they're on our shoulders or on our backs.
These buckets are 70, 80 pounds, each side.
You're just hoping you don't fall over.
CARLY: Nice, Akeela.
CAROLINA: Nice, Todd.
KEOGHAN: Todd is jogging with his buckets.
That's left Paul and Dustin with the rear.
It may seem like I'm going slower,
but I have a plan.
Take my time on the wires and the clips,
making sure it's done right.
I don't want to have to go back.
KEOGHAN: And Dustin's running with those buckets.
The heavy lifting-- this is where I'm going
to pick up my hustle and catch up to the rest.
Nice work! Keep it up!
KEOGHAN: Filling up these holes, they're six feet deep.
Got to crown 'em off.
We have our inspectors out here,
making sure the job is done right.
AKEELA: I thought
it would just be one bucket per hole. No.
It was about a bucket and a half for each hole.
It's a lot of running back and forth.
KEOGHAN: Ben comes back for a second load,
as does Jessica, right there with Akeela.
And Todd's made up a huge amount of ground.
My strategy is to not use the shovel.
That's just going to slow me down.
When we feed the hogs on the farm,
you would just take the bucket. You'd ram it in that
and scoop it, and then push the rest in
with your hand.
JESSICA: I just, like,
doggy-paddled all my aggregate.
AKEELA: I threw myself into the pile,
and I'm just shoving as much as I can in there.
I'm in my happy place,
filling my buckets up, just digging like my dog.
KENJI: Just like buckets of fish.
CHERYL: Come on, Kenji!
YESI: Fill it up, buddy! Let's go!
KEOGHAN: Kenji's got less in his buckets
than his competitors, and that is slowing him down.
He got off to a powerful lead,
but he's only one hole ahead.
-[Paul grunts] -KEOGHAN: Here comes Paul,
using that strength. Digging deep.
-[grunts] -You hear him grunting.
PAUL: The cardio is just... Oh.
I'm running out of breath.
I'm being very careful not to miss
any of the holes.
I'm not going back and forth three times.
Work smarter, not harder.
KEOGHAN: Dustin's staying low to the ground.
The Canadian firefighter started out
slower than his competitors,
but he's made up a huge amount of ground.
And Todd is right there next to Dustin.
Your arms are going numb, your fingers are going numb.
Your back's saying "I've had enough."
We're just pushing it as hard as we can.
Kenji got out to a flying lead,
but he's been overtaken.
Now it's Todd and Dustin who have the lead.
-Ooh! -KEOGHAN: Todd and Dustin--
they came out of nowhere.
This is when you got to put your foot
on the gas, right now.
You haven't got teammates to rely on.
It's just you out here.
Time to grit your teeth and ask yourself
-what you got left. -[Akeela grunts]
KENJI: I have to stop. I needed
two seconds to just breathe.
[breathing deeply]
And then I summon the courage,
and I go again.
[Ben grunts]
CHERYL: Come on! You can do it!
-You can do it. -Come on, Paul!
[sighs]
This is intense.
Dig deep!
[grunting] I ain't giving up today.
Not today.
These buckets are heavy.
Your body's exhausted.
You're mentally exhausted.
It's more physically demanding than I imagined.
Two of you going into overtime today.
Who's it going to be?
Kick it into gear now.
Ten more minutes of your life.
-Come on, cancer survivor. -[grunts]
Come on! Show them what Canada can do!
-Show them, Paul. -Yeah! [whooping]
KEOGHAN: They are flying through this job.
Looks like Ben has got the lead.
BEN: I'm ahead, but I'm not ahead by much.
Todd and Dustin are right on my tail.
KEOGHAN: Kenji takes a deep breath. He's only one hole
behind his competitors, Jessica and Akeela, just like Paul.
-You got it, Todd, you got it, Todd. -Knees!
KEOGHAN: Ben and Todd filling exactly the same hole
at the same time.
Dustin one behind. Two teammates that work well together,
both fierce competitors.
Who's going to take that win today?
-CHERYL: Come on, Todd. -CARLY: Yeah, Todd!
-You can do it, Todd! Come on! -You got it, Todd.
TODD: I have not won
one of these individual competitions yet.
I'm really close, and I'm going to go
195 miles an hour and win this one.
Let's go, Todd!
BEN: When I look at Todd,
I see a MacGyver who can do anything.
He's strong, he's got the endurance.
He's a huge threat to me.
I need to hustle and get the job done.
[Cheryl whooping]
KEOGHAN: Todd and Ben filling up
their last hole.
Come on, Todd.
-[Ben panting] -KEOGHAN: Here comes Ben.
-Here comes Todd. -[cheering]
-[whistling] -CHERYL: Todd! -KEOGHAN: Oh, Todd wants this.
This would be his first win in the individual,
but Ben's not going to let him have it without a fight.
-[Todd grunts] -[Carly whoops]
-Yeah. -KEOGHAN: Todd missed one of his holes.
He's got to get that filled up.
-Thumbs-up for Ben, and Ben gets the job done first. -Yeah! Yeah!
-Yes! -[whooping]
-CARLY: Nice work, Ben. -Thank you.
MARCUS: You got it, Todd.
This is a very bad mistake I made.
If I want to win, I can't make mistakes like this.
KEOGHAN: Dustin running back to plant his flag.
And Dustin gets the job done.
TODD: Normally, I'm very meticulous on things.
Everything that I'm here for could go down the drain
if I don't keep my head on straight and do a good job.
Come on, last one.
CARLY: Nice work, Todd!
-KEOGHAN: And Todd gets the job done. -[cheering]
[Akeela panting]
[thudding]
KEOGHAN: And Akeela gets the job done!
Safe from overtime.
We have Kenji, Jessica and Paul
left out on the jobsite.
Two of you going into overtime.
-Never give up. -CHERYL: Let's go!
-You can do it! -[whooping]
KEOGHAN: And Akeela gets the job done.
-CAROLINA: Yes! -Safe from overtime.
We have Kenji, Jessica and Paul
left out on the jobsite.
Two of you going into overtime.
Find your second wind!
You can do it.
JESSICA: I'm panicking,
'cause I don't even know if I have the strength
to get a full bucket
back over to my last hole.
I just bared down and just dealt with the muscle fatigue,
and I knew I had to keep going.
Almost there.
I'm exhausted, but we're so close.
Come on, Kenji! You're still in it!
The worst thing I could do is give up.
I just have to give it all that I got.
CHERYL: Come on, Paul!
PAUL: I got that second wind again.
I'm going to push through it as hard as I can.
CARLY: Drop and go!
PAUL: I've been in overtime once.
I don't ever want to see that thing again.
Last two of you to get the job done going into overtime.
Here comes Jessica.
-Yeah, Jessica! -Come on, Jess!
KEOGHAN: And Jessica gets the job done.
-[cheering] -KEOGHAN: Safe from overtime.
-Good job. -[Jessica panting]
KEOGHAN: All right, bring it in, guys.
Good job, guys.
-Good job. -[all clapping]
KEOGHAN: Kenji, Paul.
Way to give it absolutely everything.
Paul, this is your second overtime.
I got experience.
KEOGHAN: But you're up against
a tough competitor right here in Kenji,
and you know that if you lose this overtime,
you'll lose your shot at being our Tough As Nailschampion.
We got to give props today to Ben,
who really powered through this one.
-Congratulations, Ben. -Ben.
-KEOGHAN: $7,000 for you. -Thank you.
You also get to blow up a piece of this mine today.
But first, Paul and Kenji,
-you need to face off in overtime. -All right.
PAUL: It's the last chance of redemption.
That's what overtime means to me.
I want to make my wife proud.
She says if she was stuck on a desert island, I'm the guy
she'd want to be stuck with,
because I can always figure things out.
I'm not a quitter. This engine keeps running.
-[cheering] -KENJI: As a father now, this challenge--
it's for my kids.
My kids are watching this,
and I'm not giving up. I'm not ready.
Do you have any idea what you might be doing?
-Filling my grave. -Hmm. -[laughter]
KEOGHAN: You're going to be building a hibernaculum.
That's a snake home.
You're going to make snake homes
out of these two holes.
-Oh, nice. -Okay.
When quarries dig into the ground,
part of the program is to make sure that nature returns,
including snakes.
Hi.
KEOGHAN: Jenny is a herpetologist.
-Hi, Jenny. -Hi, Jenny. -[overlapping chatter]
-Nice. -Yeah. -Aw!
Oh, my goodness!
And what is this lovely snake's name?
PEARCE: Her name is Star.
KEOGHAN: Tell us why these animals are so important.
PEARCE: They are the best rodent control you can have,
which is beneficial for us.
'Cause, of course, rodents can carry diseases that can harm us.
Kenji, would you like to say hello to Star?
Hey, Star.
[laughter]
Gonna make you a home today.
How about a round of applause for Jenny and Star?
-[cheers and applause] -CARLY: Yay! Thank you Jenny and Star.
KEOGHAN: Now you know what you're working for,
so when that work whistle blows,
you will be starting the first layer of logs.
You will then start layering in these heavier rocks.
Then you'll go to a third layer, which will be
the longer logs that you see back there.
Once you get those in place,
you will get a final layer of rocks.
And we are going to use this gauge,
and we want to make sure your rocks touch this gauge.
Then take that sod, and you will layer it
over the top of your hibernaculum,
making sure that you have an entranceway facing uphill,
so that the snakes can get in and out.
Once you have got the job done,
you will grab your flag,
lift it up in the air in victory,
and you will have saved yourself from
being eliminated in the individual competition.
-Sound good? -Yup. -Yeah.
-Kenji, are you ready to get the job done? -Yes.
-KEOGHAN: Paul? -For sure.
On the work whistle.
-[work whistle blows] -[overlapping shouting]
PAUL: Work whistle blows,
and I just take off in beast mode.
Grab as many logs as I can, throw them in that pit.
-Yup. -AKEELA: That's what I like!
PAUL: I'm not worried about Kenji.
He's very fast, but I know
I got more power than him.
-[grunts] -AKEELA: Come on, Forklift Paul.
PAUL: I'm going to carry more logs than him.
Canada's bringing it.
CHERYL: Come on, Kenji.
I don't need to build or assemble.
All I have to do is toss it in a pit and just speed.
CARLY: Nice, Kenji.
KEOGHAN: One more log's gonna do it
-for the both of them. -[cheering]
-[grunts] Come on, Kenji. -What's he going to do?
Let's go, let's go.
Kenji's starting to load his rocks.
Paul with the last of his logs.
TODD: Dig deep, bud.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's got an awkward position
to have to reach across.
KENJI: I was picking the rocks
one at a time, but I looked over.
[Paul grunting]
KEOGHAN: Paul is getting aggro
with that pile of rocks.
Paul had a good method,
so I changed on the fly.
Started just tossing from behind.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's copying Paul's technique.
Now you're thinking.
TODD: who wants it harder? Come on.
-[Kenji grunting] -KEOGHAN: Kenji, three away from
his first pile of rocks.
-[grunts] -You got it, Paul!
[both grunting]
PAUL: Pedal to the metal all the way, and there's no
taking a breath or nothing, and I couldn't stop,
because I know he's a fast little bugger.
KEOGHAN: Kenji is going.
[sighs]
KEOGHAN: Paul, come on.
DUSTIN: You got this. Dig deep, breathe it out.
[deep breaths]
Nice work, Kenji. Star is saying, "Thank you."
KEOGHAN: Kenji going for the longer logs
at the same time as Paul.
[groans]
This is catch-up point.
[labored breathing]
JESSICA: Get up. Let's go, Paul.
DUSTIN: He's... He's-he's gassed.
PAUL: I'm exhausted.
It's a lot of cardio,
so I've got to think strategically.
I don't have the stamina he does,
but I know, with my power, I will keep up.
-[Paul grunting] -DUSTIN: Oh, wow, oh, wow.
[cheering, overlapping shouting]
BEN: You got half the load right there.
KENJI: Paul is a fierce competitor.
I have to stay on the gas.
-[cheering] -[loud panting]
[Paul grunts]
KEOGHAN: Oh, a big load coming from Paul.
You're catching up.
KEOGHAN: Kenji looks across,
he sees where Paul's at; they're even.
[cheering]
You've got five layers to this hibernaculum--
a base layer of logs, a layer of rocks,
more logs, another layer of rocks,
and then a final layer of sod to cover everything up.
Side by side.
Same number of logs left.
[Paul groans]
My hands are hurting. I'm out of breath.
But I'm not giving up.
I never give up.
KEOGHAN: Kenji with his last logs.
-[Kenji grunting] -CHERYL: Come on, Kenji.
CARLY: Nice, nice.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's starting to put those rocks on.
What do you got, Paul?
Ah...
My body's saying, "Time for a break."
-[Paul groans] -Do not stop.
Do not stop, let's go.
JESSICA: Paul, think about Dina.
I am!
My wife, Dina-- she's seen the heart I have.
When I work, I think of us.
[panting]
KEOGHAN: Breathe in deep.
Good technique coming from Paul.
-[groans] -KEOGHAN: Kenji's doing a good job.
[groaning]
KENJI: Those rocks are heavy,
at least 20 to 30 pounds
in some of them.
That takes some upper body,
and it just hurts.
[heaving breaths]
CHERYL: Come on, Kenji. You got this.
KENJI: Growing up, I had to find a way
to motivate myself.
And when I work or when I do something,
I talk to myself.
"Just one more step, buddy.
One more step."
Got to get all that material
into that pit.
-Make this hibernaculum. -[Kenji groaning]
-Paul, you hate them rocks. -I hate 'em.
-Throw 'em like you hate 'em! -[grunts]
-Two more rocks for Kenji. -JESSICA: Nice work, nice work.
KEOGHAN: Getting the gauge up.
KENJI [breathless]: Oh, come on.
KEOGHAN: Got a puzzle here.
CARLY: Nice stacking.
KEOGHAN: Got to be 18 inches off the ground.
KENJI: Perfect.
KEOGHAN: Kenji gets a thumbs-up on the gauge.
Paul, you still are in this.
Muscle up on it, Paul. Muscle up on it.
KEOGHAN: Oh, Kenji is dragging that piece of sod.
KENJI: Pick it up, Kenji.
KEOGHAN: Paul's checking the gauge.
[Paul sighs deeply] [bleep]
KEOGHAN: Kenji's laying out the first piece of sod
-over his hibernaculum. -AKEELA: Paul, move it!
KEOGHAN: Paul with a few more rocks.
AKEELA: You got to get mad at them rocks.
KEOGHAN: Kenji with a second piece of sod.
And Paul gets a thumbs-up on his gauge.
-Do it, Paul! -Yeah, Paul!
KEOGHAN: It's gonna come down to the sod.
I have to move because I know Paul is right there behind me.
-Let's do this. -KEOGHAN: Kenji, three more pieces of sod.
PAUL: I'm really close. If I keep fighting,
I just might do this.
KEOGHAN: Paul, you're right there.
I know.
CHERYL: Come on, Kenji. You can do it.
Show your kids how tough you are, man.
KENJI: I have a small lead. Hurry, Kenji.
Finish it strong.
-MARCUS: Fourth quarter. -DUSTIN: Throw that sod out.
AKEELA: There you go. Set yourself up.
-[Kenji panting loudly] -Come on! There you go!
KEOGHAN: Thumbs-down. That is a thumbs-down for Kenji.
Got to have an opening at the front.
KENJI [groaning]: Are you serious?
-[Paul grunts] -[shouting indistinctly]
-CHERYL: Keep going, Kenji. -KEOGHAN: This is when you got
-to put your foot on the gas. -JESSICA: Hustle, Paul!
-Let's go. -AKEELA: You're almost there.
KEOGHAN: Paul has one more piece of sod.
-KEOGHAN: Thumbs-up to Kenji. -[cheering]
CHERYL: Yes!
-[cheering] -Good work, buddy. Yeah!
KENJI: In the beginning,
I don't think anybody was worried about me,
but now that we're down to six, they know I'm coming.
The opportunity comes, I'm going to take advantage of it,
and move down the rank one-one closer and one closer.
-Sorry, guys. -Sorry for what? We love you.
-It was so close. -You were really quick about it, yeah.
-PAUL [panting]: I ran out of gas. -JESSICA: Hey, listen.
-Did you give it everything you had? -Of course I did.
Well, then that's all you can ask for out of yourself.
AKEELA: That's all that matters.
KEOGHAN: Paul, I see you're breathing heavy.
You gave it absolutely everything.
He's tough. He deserves it.
I was a bit nervous, 'cause I knew that if
I let up just a little bit, he's going to catch me.
Paul, you were one piece of sod away.
I know. One piece of sod away.
It was incredibly close.
I just wanted to go further.
Nobody here has been through what you've been through
in the last year or so with their health.
[voice breaking]: That's... That was a tough fight.
Come on, man.
We got you all day.
-We've got you all day. -PAUL [laughing]: All day.
We got you all day.
-All day. For real. -[clapping]
I've still got energy. [laughs]
I got a team that's awesome.
-Hell, yeah. -PAUL: We're going to prove it tomorrow.
[team agreeing]
KEOGHAN: Paul, you stood up against
fierce competition,
so for that, you've got to be super proud.
-Yeah, I am. -KEOGHAN: Paul,
I'm really sorry to tell you that
I do need you to punch out.
PAUL: Last year, I was fighting cancer.
This year, I'm fighting Tough As Nails.
These guys are fit.
I can't believe that I was part of 'em.
Hopefully, I made Canadians proud.
Everybody who's fighting cancer,
don't ever give up.
I can do more than I thought I could.
I'll be around for a long time.
Just keep fighting. Be positive.
Make the nurses laugh. It helps.
[chuckles]
KEOGHAN: We are at a crucial time
in the team competition.
Savage Crew, you need to tie it up
in order to stay in contention for that $60,000.
And tomorrow, it is all about giving back.
But first, we have some blasting to do, right, Ben?
[laughter]
BEN: Okay, whenever you guys are ready,
I'll fire fire.
ALL: Five, four, three, two, one!
[all exclaiming]
[laughing]: Holy geez.
-[laughter and applause] -PAUL: Wow. -BEN: Wow!
-[Carly exclaims] -BEN: Oh, wow. That's awesome!
-That's crazy. -[laughter and applause]
-BEN [laughing]: Oh, my. -PAUL: I loved it.
-BEN: Yeah. -DUSTIN: Wow.
-Thank you very much. -Yeah! -Ben, good job.
How about a round of applause for Dustin and his team?
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KEOGHAN: Next time onTough As Nails...
will Dirty Hands win the overall team competition,
or will Savage Crew stop them in their tracks
-and force a tiebreaker? -PAUL: Boy, oh, boy.
We're going from six down to five.
This is all about pressure.
Come on!
-Damn it. -Think, think, think.
-Oh, snap! -Blowing the tire.
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