♪ ♪
PHIL KEOGHAN: These are the fittest, strongest,
most highly skilled workers
to ever compete for theTough As Nails title.
You are the chosen ones!
[cheering]
All right, I'm Akeela, Minneapolis firefighter.
Technician with CO2.
32 years in construction.
Cancer survivor. Never give up.
KEOGHAN: And for the first time,
they competed on foreign soil:
in Canada's steel town, the Hammer.
If you want tough, you've come to the right place.
KEOGHAN: Ben and Paul earned the honor of picking teams
-Without a good attitude, teams don't work. -Ring that bell!
-PAUL: I got a hand of poker, and it's a full house. -Yeah!
That's the way I look at my team.
BEN: Infiltrate!
KEOGHAN: After a long, emotional,
hard-fought battle...
-We had too many mistakes. -Yeah.
Let's just be honest about it.
KEOGHAN: ...Dirty Hands won
the overall team competition.
-In the individual competition... -Yeah!
KEOGHAN: Oh, he goes down!
The sod is coming out fast!
[grunts]
-Oh! -Oh!
KEOGHAN: Eight seasoned professionals...
-It's been a pleasure. -Don't ever give up.
KEOGHAN: ...lost their shot at the title.
Tonight, only four remain.
Kenji,
Todd,
Ben,
and Jessica.
Only one will win the $200,000 prize...
JESSICA: Seriously?
KEOGHAN: ...an all-new Ford Lightning,
and be crowned Tough As Nails champion.
AKEELA: Don't you throw in the towel!
KEOGHAN: Real people...
-Panicking. -KEOGHAN: ...real life...
CHERYL: Put everything into it.
-KEOGHAN: ...real tough. -Look at you go.
KEOGHAN: This is the season finale...
Oh, my God!
KEOGHAN: ...of Tough As Nails.
YESI: Final four today, guys.
-Whoo! -Yeah!
Yeah, baby!
This is a big day.
We're down to the final four.
There's Kenji, Ben, Jessica, and myself.
I'm counting on you to be one, two, and three,
in any order you prefer.
That'd be cool.
Todd, I'm seeing how incredibly precise you are,
and when you're in the zone,
it's like watching a beautiful thing unfold.
Well, thank you, Kenji. I appreciate that.
I'm going to utilize everything
that I've done in my life,
every tool in the box.
I got to keep at it full throttle.
I want to finish this, and I want to win.
Ben, your best attribute is that you keep going,
and you can grind this-- beep!-- out.
[laughter]
This is like game six of the-the Stanley Cup finals.
I think about my family and my fiancée Carly.
They motivate me. I would get wisdom from my father.
I think he would tell me just to be me.
Know your capabilities, know your strengths.
Nothing's going to take me down. I promise you that.
Kenji, your confidence has increased so much.
It's made you become the competitor
that you wanted to be.
I love that about you right now.
I appreciate that, Yesi.
The final four, to me, is as big as
the day that I came to America.
I'm bringing 39 years of life experience.
I have speed and I have endurance.
I'm trading my time card
for that truck and the prize money.
You guys have stood behind me.
I'm starting to believe in myself a lot more,
and I'm starting to feel that, yeah,
I have a shot against Ben.
-[laughter] -[clears throat] No, you don't.
[laughter]
PAUL: Today's Jessica's day.
You're representing Savage Crew.
-I believe in you. -Yeah, likewise.
JESSICA: Final four is epic.
That's where you put your money where your mouth is,
that's where you step up.
It's the biggest opportunity to prove
who you are.
Jessica, you have the physical attributes,
-you have the knowledge. -Your work ethic. -Yep.
JESSICA: You ain't seen nothing yet.
I've only got more to give.
Fourth quarter. You can do it.
Bring one for the team.
Hard work, work.
SAVAGE CREW: Jessica!
MARCUS: Go get 'em.
♪ ♪
Our final four today. Look at that.
Here we are. You know why you're here.
You eared your spots. Don't be last today.
Don't put that pressure on yourself
of having to go into overtime.
You want to get to the gauntlet. It's all in.
All of it, to be our Tough As Nailschampion.
Now, your job today:
There's a couple of brand-new 18-wheelers parked here.
We do have a professional driver in each truck,
just in case. When the work whistle goes,
you'll back up your truck
through this slalom course.
You got to stay within the confines
of the road markers.
There are some loads that you need to pick up.
First, 12 tires.
Load those 12 tires onto the back of your truck.
Keep on going down that slalom course.
The second load you need to pick up...
20 concrete blocks.
And the last load you need to pick up...
20 bags of soil.
Back out so you can straighten up
to come down this straightaway here.
Get out of your cab, grab one of those flags
and then stand on top of the mounds.
-Okay. -We're going to run this
two at a time in two heats.
Even if you win your heat,
that does not mean you are safe.
We're going on time.
Two fastest, automatically going to the final three.
And the winner, 10 Gs
-[cheering] -$10,000.
Two slowest, gonna go into overtime.
One last chance to battle your way back into contention
for the Tough As Nailstitle and $200,000,
a brand-new Ford truck,
and that Tough As Nailsbelt.
Come forward and pick up a strap.
Kenji, you're going to be up first against Ben.
Jessica, you'll be going up against Todd in the second heat.
-All right, let's get to work. -All right.
KENJI: Who knew that the journey I started
halfway across the world
ended me here?
One more step to the gauntlet.
This is do-or-die.
Good luck, guys.
BEN: I can visualize myself
being theTough As Nails champion.
They just better watch out
because this is it.
I'm laying everything down on the line today.
-On the work whistle. -[work whistle blows]
[trunk horns honking]
♪ ♪
BEN: Work whistle blows and immediately
I'm-I'm just testing my steering out.
This is hard.
It's not the same as if you're just backing up a car.
Whatever way you're turning your truck,
the trailer's going to go the opposite way.
PAUL: This truck driver one day
told me, he says, "Go with the bottom."
If you go this way, your trailer's going that way.
You go that way, the trailer's going this way.
That way, that way. There's no thinking.
♪ ♪
Oh, come on.
This is just a huge learning curve for me.
I've backed up many boat trailer,
but I've always had the ability to look behind me.
Kenji's hurting, man.
KENJI: Today, I only can use mirrors.
This 40-foot-long trailer,
it's not going where I want it to go
'cause I can't see it.
You need to straighten it out.
[engine rumbling]
KEOGHAN: Ben is out of his truck,
-going to load his tires. -[cheering]
We got 12 tires to load up.
Ben grabs two at one time.
Those tires, they're no joke.
I'm rolling them over
and I'm lifting them up on my knees
and catapult them onto the trailer.
I didn't expect them to be so big.
[grunts]
♪ ♪
KENJI: There you go.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's finally out of his truck.
He's got 12 of these to get up.
Meanwhile, Ben with the last of his tires.
-Yeah, Ben's doing pretty good. -Holy [bleep].
Ben is now heading back towards the concrete blocks.
[Kenji panting]
Come on.
I could tell that the deck of the trailer
is taller than I am.
That's an interesting technique.
KENJI: So I have to stack them on top
to be able to stand on it and push it over.
Adapt on the fly.
KEOGHAN: Do you see that?
Kenji's kicking it into high gear.
Today, fastest time gets that 10,000.
Two fastest automatically going to the final three.
Slowest two, going into overtime.
I pull up to the cinder blocks
and my strategy is just
to get them on as quick as I can.
Keep it up, buddy.
Doesn't matter if I beat Kenji or he beats me.
It comes down to who has the fastest time.
It's going to be a fight. I got to move.
KEOGHAN: Kenji has all his tires.
-There you go, Kenji. -Nice work.
[truck idling]
Oh, oh, Ben's done his cinder blocks.
Come on.
I can see Ben in the mirror, doing very well,
so I frantic a little bit.
He's starting to jackknife that load.
Now I'm panicking.
Kenji's having real difficulty.
KENJI: I know I have to keep the pace,
but I'm not figuring out what to do.
It's incredibly difficult.
Ah, [bleep].
Ah!
Come on, Kenji.
KEOGHAN: Oh, Kenji's having real difficulty.
Remember, today, it's all about time.
You need to back up your truck,
picking up three loads along the way.
Fastest time today gets that 10,000.
Slowest two, going into overtime.
Ah, [bleep].
I can see Ben doing very well.
KEOGHAN: Ben's down at the soil.
Panicking.
I'm not figuring out what to do,
but time is ticking, so I got to keep going.
KEOGHAN: Now he's on a roll.
-He's made it to the concrete blocks. -Yay!
KEOGHAN: Go, Kenji.
KENJI: I get to the center block, my strategy is the same.
Set them up so I can stand on them to get the stuff over.
This little noggin right here is full of smarts.
[grunting]
So I'm done with my bags of soil,
I'm getting in my truck, and the last thing I got to do
is reverse my trailer properly
and then all the way down to the finish line.
There goes Kenji.
-He got the last one. -[cheering]
Ben's ready for takeoff.
Here we go.
KEOGHAN: He's got to make sure nothing falls off.
Down the straightaway!
KENJI: Damn it.
KEOGHAN: He's got to get out
of his truck and then grab his flag.
[cheering]
Oh, man.
-[whistling and cheering] -CHERYL: Nice job.
I'm super proud of my time, but I've got to cross my fingers
that Jessica or Todd is slower than me.
-Great job. -Thanks.
KEOGHAN: Go, Kenji!
Time to load that sod.
I don't want to go in overtime.
KEOGHAN: Certainly going to have some unhappy customers.
KENJI: It hurts. You want to stay out.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's back in his truck.
I still have a shot.
There's going to be a second heat.
I'm still in it, buddy.
Oh, my God.
-[cheering] -Kenji gets the job done!
-[horns honking] -KEOGHAN: Next up,
Todd and Jessica.
-On the work whistle. -[work whistle blows]
KEOGHAN: What are we going to see?
TODD: I know I can run this truck.
Growing up on the farm,
we had to back tractors
and backhoes, but I'm going up
against Jessica, and she's been a fierce competitor.
I know I have to give it everything I got.
-All right, here we go. -KEOGHAN: Jess has got a lot of correcting to do
if she's going to avoid that road marker.
Can't see...
JESSICA: The trailer is so long,
and your mirrors are so small
that, once you get past a certain angle on your turn,
you cannot see the barriers.
KEOGHAN: Todd is cutting it real close to the tires.
TODD: Ooh, yeah.
-[brakes hissing] -Yeah, Todd's got 'er.
TODD: By watching Ben, I learned something.
Attaboy, Todd!
TODD: Ben was too far away
from his materials.
Yeah, he's really close.
TODD: And I knew if I can get my trailer
closer to my material, I can save a lot of time.
-Jessica, out of her truck. -Come on, Jess!
KEOGHAN: Side by side, but Todd's truck is definitely set up better.
Yeah, Todd!
BEN: That's that old man wisdom.
Damn it.
These tires are beating the crap out of me.
[grunts] Seriously?
I still have two more loads to go.
I just need to shake it off and move on.
KEOGHAN: Todd is weaving his way down this course.
YESI: So smooth.
He's right at the blocks.
I'm grabbing two cinder blocks at a time.
It's go time.
There's 20 blocks, which is ten trips.
So there's an analytical Todd for you. But anyways,
same strategy, get my trailer close.
I didn't want to waste a lot of energy.
Todd closes the door on those concrete blocks.
PAUL: Wow.
KEOGHAN: Jessica's getting back in her truck.
Come on, Jessica!
KEOGHAN: Todd's got the skills.
He's going to avoid turning too much.
Jessica's picking up speed. She wants to catch up.
JESSICA: At this point, I know I'm behind,
but it only drives me harder.
I'm just going to keep fighting.
-She's doing two at a time? -Jacked.
JESSICA: Cinder blocks are heavy, and there's no strategy.
I just need to move them quickly.
Todd is heading towards the bags of soil.
TODD: I'm out of gas. I've been loading a lot of stuff.
I'm tired, but I've got a little bit of worry about Jessica,
-so it was go time. -Ooh!
KEOGHAN: This is a catch-up point for Jessica
if she can kick it into high gear.
Todd is backing his truck. Very tricky part of the course.
It's a very tight situation.
I thought I was clear of the last cone, I was wrong.
Bad call.
I got to calm down.
Drive my truck
like I know how to drive my truck.
Get across the finish line.
KEOGHAN: Looks like he's just cleared it.
Here comes Todd down the straightaway.
CHERYL: Come on, Todd!
[horn honking]
[Jessica panting]
Damn it. [bleep] Todd.
BEN: Get the flag!
CARLY: Go! [whoops]
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Getting his flag.
-Come on, buddy! -[cheering]
-Todd gets the job done. -BEN: Good work, Todd. Good work, buddy.
[applause]
There is a chance. I just need to hurry up.
Jessica, she's back in.
JESSICA: What I'm really focused on is trying to get a good time.
[cheering]
CHERYL: Come on! Well done!
KEOGHAN: Come on over.
It was close. Separated by about 30 seconds.
-Oh, my gosh. -No way.
There is $10,000 on the line.
♪ ♪
Todd.
[cheering]
-Yes, sir. -[cheering]
Todd, you have won the final four challenge.
[cheering]
And you are in the final three.
[applause, cheering]
What? [laughs]
$10,000 for driving 15 minutes?
All right.
That's $40,000 an hour.
Nobody makes $40,000 an hour.
Very excited. Can't believe it.
I'm headed to the final three.
It's one of those times where you want someone
to pinch you so you know that it's real true.
Todd the toolmaker at 58 years old.
What are they saying at home right now?
"Keep 'er going, Grandpa. Keep pushing."
[laughter]
KEOGHAN: Kenji, Ben, Jessica,
only one safe spot left.
Ben, I want to congratulate you. You are in the final three.
-Good job, Ben. Yeah. -Good job.
Kenji and Jessica, we have one spot left.
You guys are going to sort it out in overtime.
-Awesome. -Okay. Let's do it.
KENJI: I want to win this,
to be able to tell my kids
when they're going through hard times,
see how hard I was working at? I didn't give up.
JESSICA: You never realize how strong you are
until it's the only choice you have.
I do the best when I'm down in the count.
That's when I really fight.
Kenji and Jessica,
I hope neither one of you are scared of heights
because overtime is happening up there.
Each of you has to get electricity
running to four lights.
When that work whistle goes, you will run
from the center out to two workstations.
That's where you'll see all the tools and supplies
you need to get the job done.
Conduit and wiring.
It's pretty simple.
Connect the conduit,
run the wire through it
to the four junction boxes
to connect four lights,
then run back to your workstations.
Turn on the switch. First of you to get four lights lit,
you'll be in the final three.
If you're last, you'll be punching out.
Know this has happened before,
where someone has been in overtime
then go all the way and become our Tough As Nailschampion.
Could be either one of you. Ready to get up high?
-Yeah. -Yep.
[cheering]
Kenji and Jessica, this to get into the gauntlet
with Ben and Todd.
Are you ready to get the job done?
-Yeah! -Yeah!
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
JESSICA: We have to start in the center, run out,
pick up our conduit and then run back
to the center to start wiring up our first light
and work our way back to our switches.
KEOGHAN: Jessica's coming back with all her conduit.
Kenji is dropping them off one by one so that they're ready
for him when comes back down the other side.
JESSICA: So I get to my first light, and I'm like,
let me start connecting all this conduit together.
This wire's rigid enough I can just snake it through
and get it all the way
to the end and get this first one done.
Kenji's fighting with his wire.
KENJI: At first, I try to feed
my wires while it's clipped on,
but the conduit was flexing,
and I was having a hard time.
Jessica's gotten her first couple
of pieces of conduit together,
and she's having trouble threading the wire through.
JESSICA: Connecting all my conduit together,
it started getting hung up,
and I couldn't isolate where I was getting blocked.
Come on.
KENJI: I quickly adapt my strategy
to laying them on the skywalk
because when I feed it through, it's a lot quicker.
KEOGHAN: There he goes.
He's pulling that wire through the conduit.
You got to be careful you don't rip out
your connections at the other end. Wow.
Jessica just got her wire through four pieces of conduit.
JESSICA: Now that I have the wire pulled through all four of them,
I'll have to put that conduit in these clamps
and start making
the electrical connections.
KENJI: Because I'm
a jack of all trade, I'm very quick
to learn and adapt.
But Jessica, she's a beast.
She want it, she goes hard.
Kenji is reaching for the connections
to hook up his second light.
Jessica started working
on the second box for her light.
JESSICA: I have to start making adjustments, so I
am laying the conduit on the ground, piece by piece.
Then I'm stringing the wire out and slowly connecting them
so that way I don't run into the problem where I have to go back
and find where there's a blockage.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's going all the way back, is he?
Wow. Look at those little steps. He can move.
-[imitating quick steps] -[laughter] -Yeah.
I run out of conduit.
I don't want to run for safety.
And I could picture when I was doing that,
my wife would laugh at me.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's got four pieces.
Meanwhile, Jessica's also working
between lights two and three.
JESSICA: I'm struggling trying to get
the appropriate amount of slack
on these wires to be able to get
a good connection on the wire nuts.
I have to really step up my game to win this challenge.
KEOGHAN: This is close.
Ooh, Jessica's just had an issue with one of her wires.
Ah, it's stuck in the conduit.
JESSICA: Ah, [bleep].
KEOGHAN: Jessica has not moved
from this third light for quite a while.
JESSICA: It's a balancing act of getting the slack out of the wire
so I can make the connections.
I'm just trying to move as fast as I possibly can.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's now got his third section of wire out.
What he's doing is he's working on the walkway,
pushes the wire through from one end,
goes to the other end of the conduit,
pulls it through, then lifts that piece of conduit up,
and then attaches it to the side of the railing.
So, Ben and Todd, you don't know who you're competing against.
No, it's looking good, though. Competition's strong.
KEOGHAN: Oh, Kenji's got the screwdriver
to try to separate the conduit
after getting his wire stuck.
KENJI: One of my conduit is stuck against another one.
Forget it. Just go get a new one and start again.
KEOGHAN: Now some quick feet
-all the way down to the end. -[laughter]
This reminds me of Marcus running across the water.
Jessica's now just completed
the connections to her third light.
Moving towards the fourth light.
So she's got to kick it into high gear.
Come home to mama. Let's go.
I didn't come this far to stop my journey.
I will do everything that I can
to secure my spot in the gauntlet.
-Oh, God. -It's close.
KEOGHAN: It's coming down to the last few connections.
Kenji with two pieces of conduit to connect.
There's a lot on the line. I'm just focused on the job.
I have to make it to top three.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's on his last section. Jessica's running back.
Kenji's on to the last piece of conduit.
Jessica's also clamping on the last piece of conduit.
-Go, go! -Wow.
-Are we really down to the wire one more time? -[overlapping chatter]
KEOGHAN: Can it really be happening, guys?
Kenji's got the negative and the positive out.
-Who will be the first to put on their lights? -CAROLINA: Come on!
KEOGHAN: And...
one, two, three...
-KENJI: Four. -And Kenji gets the job done!
-[cheering and applause] -Yeah!
Whoo!
KEOGHAN: Kenji, congratulations.
-You're in the final three. -Nice job, Kenji!
Kenji and Jessica,
it literally came down to a couple of connections.
-Yeah, for sure. -Kenji, I want to congratulate you.
You have made it through to the final three.
You will be competing against Todd the toolmaker,
Big Ben over there, our Canadian.
Jessica, way to bring it today. You are tough.
You beat out some tough competitors.
-You did great. -Awesome job. -Incredible effort.
Unfortunately, I do need to ask you to punch out.
I thought, when I got here, that I was
pretty strong and skilled,
but this is definitely unchartered territory for me.
My everyday life is very scheduled, it's very regimented,
but I'm learning it's okay to be a little bit flexible.
It's okay if somebody has a different opinion
on how we should do things.
I was in overtime for the first two.
At that point, I realized I got to step up my game.
I'm never going to quit.
I learned I thrive under pressure.
I have it within me to push harder.
I will never quit!
And I will not stop!
All the blue-collar workers out there keeping America running,
I love all of you. This is for you.
I proved to myself who I really am,
and just because I lose, it's not a failure.
It's okay to be proud of myself,
who I am and what I can do.
-Very proud of both of you. -KEOGHAN: Very proud.
Tomorrow, the gauntlet, final three.
Get rest. See you in the morning.
[cheering and applause]
You looked like a Mario Brother up there.
-[imitating quick steps] -[laughter]
-BEN: Dirty. -KENJI AND TODD: Hands!
-Dirty! -Hands!
-Yeah! -Good luck, fellas.
Wow. Three Dirty Hands, man.
I don't think I would be
where I'm at today without Dirty Hands.
I've had my ups and downs for sure.
-CARLY: Uh-oh. -KENJI: He's stalled.
BEN: With the addiction and stuff in my life,
I'm always going to be tough on myself.
But now I know you can't always muscle through it.
You got it, buddy.
BEN: You got to have a good support system.
We did it. We did it.
I'm bringing every last inch of me...
Infiltrate!
...to win that grand prize of $200,000.
Yeah!
I drove the van from the beginning for our team,
and here I am, I never left my seat.
-Yeah. -KENJI: There was times
where I didn't trust in my plan
and I didn't trust in my ability.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's really struggling with the controls.
-What can I do to help? -Operate.
KENJI: Because, ever since I was little,
nobody really trusted me.
It was very hard for me
to just have confidence.
In the quarry...
Kenji, you are on the puzzle.
KENJI: ...when my team lost...
-[cheering] -Savage Crew takes the win!
KENJI: ...that was a low point,
but in Dirty Hands, I had a family.
They were all supportive
and got me out of that hole that I was in.
Kenji, you can do it.
Show your kids how tough you are, man.
KENJI: I'm learning to have trust in myself,
believe in my inner voice.
I'm going to continue to fight to be
that Tough As Nailschampion.
One of us today is going to win $200,000...
-Whew. -BEN: ...hold the belt
over their head and win a brand-new Ford truck.
It's a 33.33% chance.
That's pretty good odds.
Most of my friends and family says,
"Well, let's talk to Todd. I'm sure he's got a plan."
I thought that would be my advantage
coming intoTough As Nails,
but it took three, four challenges
for me to say, "Hey,
you got to shift modes, Todd."
I would get fired doing crap like this.
KEOGHAN: Todd missed one of his holes. He's got to get that filled up.
TODD: At my age, there's always learning.
Don't get set in your ways.
-Be open to differences. -Yes.
-Whoa. -KEOGHAN: Todd the toolmaker.
[cheering]
When my mom passed away in 2000,
we said, "Let's just get in the vehicle and go."
And we ended up traveling 2,400 miles
and had one of the best unplanned trips
in memory of my mom.
Tough As Nails has brought me back to that.
Sometimes the best things in life are unplanned.
It's an honor, itself, going to the gauntlet
with you guys right now.
I just don't know if I like it called the gauntlet.
When I think of the gauntlet,
I think of someone getting their head chopped off.
[laughter]
Here we are.
Whoo!
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Welcome back to Stelco.
And our final three on Tough As Nailsseason five.
[cheering]
-Morning, Phil. -KEOGHAN: Good morning.
-You look good. -Did we get some good rest?
-Yeah. -Yep. -Yeah.
This is a final test
of your strength, endurance,
agility, mental toughness,
and your life skills.
This is the gauntlet.
You will see elements of all the challenges
that you have faced along the way.
When that work whistle blows,
get on your ATVs
and crash your way through this concrete wall.
Run back through the hole that you've created,
back to your sod.
Push that sod through the Sonotube,
out the other side will pop your tools.
A bolt cutter, a stake driver.
Take your bolt cutter over towards the seesaw over there.
Cut the chain and then use the cables
to attach the seesaw to the logs.
Pound those stakes down until the painted ends
disappear and you've got a safe ladder to climb
up to the top of the next container,
and we see the gabion basket and some rocks.
Throw those rocks over the edge into the scales.
Once you've tipped the scales, come down off the container
on a ladder and look for a set of tools,
and you are going to see the cage
blocking you from getting in.
You're going to have to use your tools
to undo some nuts and bolts of varying sizes.
Oh, boy.
KEOGHAN: Remove the cage
and climb down the drainage pipe
and guess what's down there?
It's kind of
the Shawshank Redemptionmoment
'cause you got to get out.
Oh, dang.
KEOGHAN: Start grinding the metal grate, and then, once you're out,
on the side of the containers are three brackets.
Lift those tires up.
You got to put them onto the brackets,
and then you've got to use the eyelets to clip
those tires in place, so that you create
steps to be able to get up on top of the next container.
-That's when your nightmare really starts to begin. -Oh, great.
KEOGHAN: You are going to be planing a plank
so it will fit through a gap so you can create a bridge.
Make your way from one container to the other.
And then you're going to use a handle with a winch
to be able to move a massive log
towards that winning truck.
That is your pathway to success.
-But you won't be just climbing that log. -[groans]
KEOGHAN: You got to create some steps.
Once you have all the steps in place, climb to the top.
First of you to grab that key fob,
you will be our Tough As Nailschampion.
-CAROLINA: Whoo-hoo. -[sighs]
I feel exhausted just telling you what you got to do.
-[laughter] -Yeah. -Yes.
-That's a big one. -$200,000.
Brand-new Ford Lightning, just like that one.
Tough As Nailsbelt.
It's going to go to one of the three of you.
[exhales]
I got some extra motivation for you.
Got some messages from home.
-Ah. -Oh, gosh.
Oh, my God.
-I love you, Daddy. -I love you, Daddy.
We miss you a lot, honey. I love you so much.
We know you got this. We're so proud of you.
I love you, too.
[chuckles] Oh, Jesus.
It's incredible to see them, Phil.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, man.
KEOGHAN: Okay.
Hey, Ben, we're so proud of you for everything
that you accomplished.
BEN'S FIANCEÉE: We miss and love you so much,
and we're cheering you on.
Bring home that prize.
We love you, Uncle Ben.
[cheering]
Miss you.
-JESSICA: Aw. -[laughter]
BEN: Very good.
That's my motivation today.
That just got the fire under me right there, for sure.
-I'm sure you got one for me. -Yeah.
Last but not least.
Hi, Todd. We're all here for you,
backing you all the way.
Just remember all of your Toddisms:
"Life's all about challenges."
FEMALE RELATIVE: "Three positives for every negative."
MALE RELATIVE: "There's no daylight left."
FEMALE RELATIVE: "Whistle while you work."
-Love ya! -Good luck! -You got this, buddy.
-Go for it. -Be strong.
-CARLY: Aw. -Know what you're fighting for?
-Yeah. -Yeah. -Oh, yeah.
You ready to get this job done?
-Yeah. -Oh, yeah. -All right, let's get to it.
[cheering]
MARCUS: Get it, boys!
CHERYL: Give it all you got!
KEOGHAN: This, for $200,000
and that Tough As Nailsbelt.
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
[cheering]
Okay, in a cloud of dust.
This for $200,000
and that Tough as Nailsbelt.
Kenji the first to start rolling his sod.
Todd going with a different technique.
Kenji's got two rolls.
Ben's going for three at one time.
Todd's got three yet to be rolled.
Three completely different strategies,
but Kenji's the first to get a roll through his Sonotube.
-YESI: Come on, Kenji. -CARLY: Nice.
KEOGHAN: Ben with three rolls of sod.
Todd's got three in.
Kenji's going with two more.
Ben on his hands and knees rolling up sod.
Still got a long way to go.
-[cheering] -KEOGHAN: Kenji with another roll of sod.
Todd's sticking with his technique of rolling back
-at the Sonotube. -YESI: Way to go, buddy.
-And boom. -Good job, Ben.
KEOGHAN: Todd is rolling at his Sonotube.
Kenji gets his stake driver through--
and Todd, at the same time.
Now they got to get the bolt cutters.
CAROLINA: You're almost there, Todd!
KEOGHAN: Ben realizes he needs some more.
[grunting]
CHERYL: Come on, Kenji.
PAUL: Come on, Todd.
KEOGHAN: Ben with two more over his shoulders.
Thinks he's got it with these two.
Once he gets that bolt cutter through,
he can start cutting chain.
And he's got it through.
-Ben with the bolt cutter. -PAUL: Come on, Todd, you can do this.
KEOGHAN: Ben cutting the inside chain first.
Todd is very close.
Oh, looks like he needs another one.
PAUL: Yeah!
[grunting]
KEOGHAN: Ben has tipped his ladder over.
He's connecting his cable.
-CAROLINA: Come on, Kenji! -CHERYL: Come on, Kenji!
Now we have to start driving these stakes into the log.
Todd thinks he's just one roll of sod away
from getting his bolt cutter through.
Kenji gets his bolt cutter through.
YESI: Come on, Todd.
[cheering]
Todd gets his bolt cutter.
Ahh, Kenji and Todd cutting their chains.
Full power coming down.
Kenji's got his ladder down.
[grunting]
KEOGHAN: Got to make that paint disappear.
PAUL: There you go.
KEOGHAN: Ben with one of his shakes through.
Todd gets his ladder down.
Ben powering with everything he's got.
200 grand, come on!
[grunts]
Let's go, buddy.
All about good technique.
[grunting]
Ben is a few more strikes through,
and he's got it.
YESI: Switch it up, Kenji!
KEOGHAN: Todd has got a rapid pace.
And, Ben, you're good to go.
-CHERYL: Nice, Todd! -[cheering]
Kenji trying to use the weight of the stake driver
to get these metal posts into the log,
but he might just bend it instead.
JESSICA: Poor Kenji. He's still driving.
-He's not using muscle. -I know.
He thinks it's going to do all the work.
You haveto force it.
You have to... [growls]
KEOGHAN: And Ben's the first to start throwing his rocks.
They got to tip their body weight in apples.
♪ ♪
-[cheering] -KEOGHAN: Here comes Todd.
Come on, Kenji!
KEOGHAN: He's right there with Ben.
Your whole body!
KEOGHAN: Todd and Ben have been toe to toe all season.
Where is Kenji?
♪ ♪
Todd's breathing heavy, throwing his rocks.
Nobody's missed yet. Everybody's been accurate.
Ah, commentator's curse.
That's a big rock there from Todd.
YESI: Yeah, Todd!
Kenji is still working on his first post.
[grunts]
KEOGHAN: Todd is right there with Ben.
Kenji's got a lot of catching up to do
if he wants to be in contention for this title.
CHERYL: You got to force it.
That's wasted effort.
-He's trying to let that thing do the work. -There you go.
AKEELA: Kenji, you got to manhandle it.
You got to force it.
-[Kenji groans] -That basket's full.
Oh, and Ben loses another rock over the side.
-This is Todd's chance to catch up. -YESI: Come on, Todd.
PAUL: Come on, two more.
-KEOGHAN: Oh! -Come on!
YESI: Go, Todd!
KEOGHAN: Ben is very close.
Here we go. It looks like Ben has done it.
[cheering]
Ben gets it and he spills some apples in the process.
There, there.
KEOGHAN: Now he's got to run and get his tools
and get to work on those four bolts.
PAUL: Come on, Todd.
-She's going! -KEOGHAN: And there goes Todd.
And Todd gets it done and brings out the apples.
[cheering]
[groaning]
-No bouncing. -KEOGHAN: Where is Kenji?
-Still driving stakes? -Keep hold of it!
KEOGHAN: It's not just your arms.
You got to use your body, your legs, all your muscles.
KENJI: I'm doing the exact same thing I did
in the apple orchard challenge, and that was great.
Stand on the log if you have to.
KENJI: But I'm angry, I'm frustrated,
but I don't give up.
-KEOGHAN: Now it's moving. -AKEELA: It's hard, come on.
That's it, Kenji. It's moving.
-Let's go. Come on. -AKEELA: You got to force it!
Come on. Everything. Everything.
Get weight behind it.
The weight of that driver is not enough.
That's it. That's it.
It needs your weight.
That's it. That's what it needs.
-Keep it up, it's moving! -Keep it going!
KENJI: Oh, come on.
-[cheering] -MARCUS: Now it's going,
it's going! It's going!
-Come on, Ben. -MARCUS: Real quick.
KEOGHAN: Ben with the first of his four bolts undone.
Come on, it's spinning. Get a tool on there.
Ah, you little...
There.
KEOGHAN: Todd frantically working.
PAUL: There you go, brother.
KEOGHAN: He's got the first bolt undone,
and he's already loosened his second.
YESI: Good job, Todd, move it.
Nice. Ben and Todd tied up.
Ben's got the right tools out to do the job.
PAUL: Come on, Ben, you can do this. One more.
All right, Todd, pick it up, buddy. You got it.
-KEOGHAN: Oh, there he goes. -PAUL: Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Ben gets his third bolt undone.
Come on, Ben, you got this. You got this.
They got two different nuts and washers.
PAUL: Good job, Ben.
-Throw it. Yeah! -Good job, Ben.
[cheering]
Third one.
Almost there, almost there.
[buzzing]
PAUL: Let it cut itself, Ben.
Let it cut. Yeah.
Do a circle, all the way.
PAUL: Good job, Ben.
He's out. Good job, Ben. Good job, Ben.
CAROLINA: There you go! Yeah!
[cheering]
Go!
KEOGHAN: Get angry at it, Kenji.
KENJI: It ain't [bleep] moving.
I understand that, it's tough. I know it's tough.
KEOGHAN: Ah, Kenji's technique of dropping the stake driver
over and over again has caused the pole to bend,
and now it's going to be even harder to pound into the log.
KENJI: I'm getting frustrated, but it's not in me
to just quit right there.
You got to get mad at it, Kenji.
-KEOGHAN: Come on, Kenji. -You got to get mad.
[groaning]
Don't let this beat you.
KEOGHAN: Oh, look at Ben just stripping the mud away
from the side of the container
so he can attach those three tires.
He needs to create a ladder so he can climb
-up on that container. -Good job, Ben.
Yeah!
-Yes. -Yeah, Todd!
PAUL: Come on, Todd!
KEOGHAN: Wow. A different technique from Todd
who's using the carabiner to scrape away the mud.
Come on, Todd.
-[grunts] -PAUL: Yeah!
Wow. Some superpowers coming from Ben.
[grunting]
-PAUL: You're getting close. -That barely reaches.
-[grunts] -CARLY: Yeah, Todd.
You're almost there!
-PAUL: Yeah. -[cheering]
Todd, those neck muscles, man!
-[cheering] -JESSICA: Yeah, Todd, you got it!
Let's go, planing master,
you got this.
Todd and Ben, side by side.
Has Ben got the stamina to hold off Todd,
doing a job that's all about good tool technique?
We got to get rid of the red.
That gives you the walkway to the other side.
-Keep it up, Ben. Keep it up. -Come on, Todd!
-CARLY: You guys are great at this. -PAUL: Keep it up.
Come on, Ben.
Beautiful, beautiful technique.
Look at him working with that tool.
I hate planing.
♪ ♪
Come on! Come on, you [bleep]! [grunts]
[sobbing]
[bleep]
Hey! Don't you throw in the towel!
[sobbing]
[bleep]
[grunting]
Come on.
AKEELA: Yep. Yep.
Yep.
[grunting]
PAUL: Come on, Ben.
-I'm trying. -Come on, Todd!
KEOGHAN: Wow. Has Ben shaved enough off his plank
to get in that gauge?
Yes!
-[Ben shouts] -PAUL: So close.
He tried to muscle it through.
KEOGHAN: Ben just realized he's got to take
a little bit more off.
He's pulling his plank back.
Come on, Todd!
KEOGHAN: A moment for Todd to take the lead.
-[grunts] -Come on, Ben. Don't give it up.
YESI: Let's go!
That's good.
-Check 'er, Todd. Let's go, Todd! -Yeah!
PAUL: Wiggle it in.
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: And he's got it. Plank is in,
and he's across the board.
Ben frantically using the winch to pull that log
-across to the winning truck. -Come on.
KEOGHAN: Todd right behind him
after making up a lot of time on the planer.
CARLY: Nice, Todd. Work it.
[cheering]
-Here comes Todd. -Come on, Todd.
-Don't give up, Ben. -No, no.
-[grunting] -[grunting]
KEOGHAN: Todd is cranking his around, around just like a machine.
-And Ben gets it over. -Yeah!
-Climbing down. -PAUL: You're right there, Todd.
Ben is down on the ground. He's starting to put in his pegs.
CAROLINA: Come on, Todd!
KEOGHAN: Todd is turning into
a machine, and Todd is over.
Can Todd catch up?
-Ben has got his pegs. Whoa! -Ah!
KEOGHAN: Can Todd catch up? Ben has got his pegs.
-Ah! -Whoa.
What is that, man?
Ben's lost a peg. He's going back up.
Got to get pegs all the way to the top.
-Come on, Todd! -Todd is gonna have to move
if he wants to catch up.
Kenji right out of it now, but he's not stopping.
Ben's a few pegs away.
-Oh, my God! -Oh, and Ben slips again.
He's got to go back down and fix that.
-Oh, my gosh. -CAROLINA: Come on, Todd!
KEOGHAN: Ben is a few away, and Todd is right there with him
They're side by side.
-Come on, Todd. -Go, Todd!
KEOGHAN: Does Todd have enough to get to the top?
Ben down to the bottom, he's grabbing a couple more.
YESI: Get a couple more, Todd, get down.
KEOGHAN: This could be Ben's final run.
You got to have more pegs, Todd.
Here comes Ben back down.
He needs one more.
-YESI: Get all your pegs, Todd. -[sighs]
KEOGHAN: Does Todd have enough to get it done?
He got 'em all. Oh, my gosh.
-[cheering] -Ben running up.
Todd is right there. He's got to get them in on the side.
-And... -CAROLINA: Come on, Todd!
Yeah!
Ben grabs the fob, and he gets it done!
-Ah! -Yeah! Yeah!
-Way to go. -[laughter]
[whistles, cheering]
[whoops]
BEN: It's surreal to me.
For me and my fiancée,
that $200,000 is huge.
We can build a family of our own.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe this, man.
It's just a dream come true
for me, and-and it's, and it's a moment in my life
that I-I'm never going to forget.
That close.
I would've liked to been in first,
but I'm pretty happy for Ben.
For a guy that's had rough times,
been through the trenches and worked hard,
this is going to give him such a great start.
I'm taking away so much.
25 years older than anybody else here,
and I kept up with him, that's pretty cool.
[cheering]
KENJI: This is not how I wanted to go out,
but by the time the smoke clears,
I'm still very much proud of myself.
I did not give up.
-Good job, pal. -Good job.
Good job.
KENJI: I'm standing next to
the best of the best.
You might not be able to win it all,
but to continue and try takes courage,
commitment, and discipline.
And I want my kids to know that.
-You're our final three. -[cheering]
KEOGHAN: We're proud of every single one of you.
Ben, I am pleased to tell you
that you are our Tough As Nailschampion.
Yeah.
[cheering]
Come on.
-Tough As Nails.Yeah. -Tough As Nails.
[cheering]
-I'm all for hugs, but I don't know... -Get in here, man.
Everyone has some sort of toughness.
-[grunts] -Everybody here is a winner.
AKEELA: You don't really lose, right? You learn.
How to work as a team
and how to unify as strangers.
ALL: Savage Crew!
MARCUS: Strangers, right?
We bumped heads couple of times,
and we became family real quick.
We show respect toward each other.
We've really learned a lot about ourself
and a lot about our teams.
KENJI: When I spoke up for myself,
my team trusted me.
It made a world of difference.
I think I'm going to be a better version of myself.
And understanding myself a thousand times better.
This is for me.
I'm getting more patient. That's what I learned.
-Trust your team, you won't lose. [grunts]
-Ready to get down to business here, Ben? -Yeah.
You are our Tough As Nailschampion.
I'm going to start with the $200,000...
[cheering]
...which looks like this.
You are going to be getting a Ford Lightning truck.
I like that.
Kenji, would you like to present
the championship belt
to our Tough As Nails champion for this season?
-It would be my honor. -Nice.
Ben.
-Good job, buddy. -Thanks, man. Thanks.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -[cheering]
-TODD: You did it. -Put it on!
Yeah. [chuckles]
KEOGHAN: There's our champion right there.
[cheering]
BEN: I'm proud to represent Canada.
There's no greater feeling than this.
You can accomplish anything that you put your mind to.
I came here to make memories and have fun.
-This memory will last forever. -[cheering]
PAUL: That was a good day. That was cool looking at it.
CAROLINA: I want to do that so bad.
-Someday, to be number one. -CARLY: You guys are schvitzing hard.
YESI: Yeah, that's a champion right there. Season five.
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KEOGHAN: After heading home fromTough as Nails,
Jessica remodeled her own kitchen
with the help of her favorite teammate, her husband.
Cheryl's using her Tough As Nails skills
to whoop up her gardening rows.
Kenji's getting his hands dirty in the kitchen with his family.
Marcus Jones continues to share his calm coaching spirit
with family and friends.
Akeela transferred to a new firehouse
where a friendly, familiar face greeted her.
Paul's been improving his cardio.
Dustin is training the next generation
ofTough As Nails contestants.
Carly continues to light up her community
with her electric personality.
Todd now has eight grandbabies to cheer him on.
Carolina is working on a new custom build.
Yesi is putting her iron muscles to work,
helping her girlfriend's growing business.
And season five winner Ben got married.