-KEOGHAN: Start your engines! -Previously on Tough As Nails...
-JEROME: Let's go! -MIKE: Jack the car up.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew raced
-to an early lead... -MIKE: Whoo, baby!
...but took their foot off the gas too soon...
Dirty Hands, you're the winners today.
...allowing Dirty Hands to speed
to their first lead in the team competition.
We got cocky and I kept telling y'all, "Let's stay focused,
-Let's stay calm." -KEOGHAN: In the individual competition,
nine contenders hustled for a win.
-JEROME: Pop, pop. -Jerome, hanging loose.
KEOGHAN: The pressure was too much for Christine and Kelsy,
who ended up in overtime.
LIA: She's going out and up.
KEOGHAN: Christine rose to the top,
and it was lights out for Kelsy's chances
at theTough as Nails title.
-Tonight... -[work whistle blows]
...Savage Crew is down three-two in the team competition...
...and determined not to sink any lower.
I mean, really sucks.
-JEROME: Hurry up! -KEOGHAN: While Dirty Hands
-try to stay above water. -Turn them off!
-[work whistle blows] -And the eight remaining contenders
hustle to harvest a win...
-KALIMBA: You got to hurry. -...in the individual competition.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth's down.
This is Tough As Nails.
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♪ I'm tough as nails.♪
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QUINCEY: Today is team challenge day.
Score's three to two, Dirty Hands up.
-TAK: Yeah. -So we've got to stay up,
you know what I mean?
Yeah, stay hungry.
Let's go.
We're excited to pull off another win.
We're all confident, 'cause if we win
the next two in a row, we win the $60,000.
Stay ahead guys, stay ahead.
Yeah, now they're playing catch up to us, so...
-JEROME: So they're gonna be pressing... -Keep it that way.
So they're gonna be pressing more hard.
-Oh, yeah. -We gonna go harder.
MIKE: So we're, like, halfway through,
and it's hard for me, because three of the people
that I picked to be on Savage Crew
are out of the individual now.
Because I know all three of you guys
are really tough and deserve to be in the running still.
Going into this challenge today,
I got a lot of weight on my shoulders.
I want to put more money in their pockets
and it's definitely driving me even harder
to make that happen.
-Stay hungry, stay humble. -Yeah.
Because, like, I know that now we're finally there
to a point that I've always wanted.
We have to go out and get it.
Like, it's not gonna be given to us.
We know that, so...
Yeah, nothing bad, but I want some blood.
I-I want that win.
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ELIZABETH: Good morning, guys.
-LIA: Good morning, Savage Crew. -HANGER: Morning.
SARAH: Good morning, Dirty Hands.
KEOGHAN: Welcome to Cinagro Farms.
Oh, my God, Lia, tell me that's not a seagull.
-It's not a seagull, Phil. -What is it?
LIA: That looks like a turkey vulture to me.
[laughter]
All right, there's two million farmers in the United States.
Each farmer can feed about
165 people every year,
which is pretty incredible.
Today's job.
You see that irrigation
sprinkling off in the field down there?
Well, the farmers here have to keep moving it
so all their crops can get water.
When the work whistle blows, both teams have to run
to the center of the field and turn off the water supply
for two lines of irrigation.
You will need to move that irrigation
from the far end of the field
to this area of the field right here behind my truck.
In all, each team has to move 32 sections of pipe
across an area the size of three football fields.
Be careful, because if you damage any of the pipes
when you're moving them, you're gonna have to grab
new ones from the stockpile.
The first of you to get all the irrigation
moved into the field, turn on the water supply,
get those sprinklers up and running again
will win today's Badge of Honor
and $12,000.
Take a moment to strategize,
-and I'll see you at the start. -All right.
-KELSY: Now that I'm out of the individual competition,
I know that the only way that I can make the money
is in these team challenges.
So Savage Crew has to buckle down
and make it happen.
I want to take the lead on this.
I feel like I've been around agriculture my whole life.
I am agriculture.
-SARAH: Take it. -We got your back.
-I'm with that, yeah. -Got your back, girl.
Christine, you've been so calm and cool under pressure
on our previous team challenges,
and I think you'd be a great team lead again.
Yeah, whatever you guys need, I'm here for you.
Christine has been crew boss three times for Dirty Hands.
You know, this-this being her third,
because she's real crisp in how she present her ideas
on how we can get the job done efficiently.
I want to make less trips so we don't fatigue ourselves as much,
'cause we got some big guys over there, so...
-That don't mean nothing. -That means they sink deeper in the mud.
-[laughter] -Yeah, yeah.
-I've done irrigation like this for eight years. -Okay.
So I know that one person
can carry one section by themselves.
You need to lift it completely straight-armed over your head.
KELSY: I think we need to have two on one pole.
-We need to partner up in pairs. -ELIZABETH: These pipes are light.
They're made for one person to carry them at a time.
I've done irrigation,
so I kind of voice my experience on what works best, uh,
but Kelsy has some other ideas.
Communication is key.
If something's not working of what we just planned,
then we're gonna change it on the fly
-and we're very good at it. -MIKE: Yes.
ELIZABETH: Kelsy's the crew boss.
We're gonna start out with her strategy,
if it's not working, we'll switch it up.
-All right. One, two, three. -ALL: Savage Crew!
-ALL: Dirty Hands! -Let's go.
KEOGHAN Is everybody ready?
ALL: Yeah!
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
JEROME: Whoa.
SARAH: We got it.
HANGER: Alfie's gone, boy.
KEOGHAN: And look at this.
Alfie, our oldest competitor,
he's left everyone stuck in the mud.
QUINCEY: This is gonna be tough.
KEOGHAN: Tak, finally catching up to Alfie,
and the first to reach the main water supply.
MIKE: Good work. Sarah, come on.
SARAH: At the start of this irrigation challenge,
I realize it's gonna be a lot harder than I thought.
The field sucks.
I mean, really sucks.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, the last to get to the main water supply...
...but the first to turn off a line of irrigation.
-[whoops] -I mean...
-TAK: Righty tighty? -KEOGHAN: Lia,
getting a line of sprinklers shut down for Dirty Hands.
Tak still struggling.
Savage Crew the first to get both lines of irrigation
-shut off. -TAK: I got there first
and I can't figure out how to turn it off.
As soon as we turn off the water, then we can start
moving the irrigation, so I got to hurry up.
LIA: There you go. You got it.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew have the lead.
The first team to move all the irrigation
to the other field and get the sprinklers going again,
gonna win today's Badge of Honor.
CHRISTINE: It's like running in the beach, huh?
LIA: Do I look like Bo Derek?
-ELIZABETH: Right here, Sarah, right here. -KEOGHAN: You got to lift
the latch hook to disconnect each section
-of irrigation pipe. -Pull, Mike! Pull!
MIKE: You got it?
KEOGHAN Mike and Hanger, the first to get their section
of irrigation disconnected, and they're moving.
KELSY: Oh, my gosh.
Do you guys feel like you can pick up another one?
-HANGER: Nope, I like this. -Okay.
KELSY: Today's plan for me was
we were gonna partner it up and carry two pipes at once,
but our team thought that was not a good idea.
So we switched.
Our team was only gonna grab one person per pipe.
-HANGER: I keep on sinking. -KELSY: It's okay.
KELSY: Push, dig deep.
[grunting]
Quincey going down in the mud.
Can you get it by yourself?
CHRISTINE: No, take two at a time!
-Okay. -CHRISTINE: My plan today
is to go into groups of two according to height
and I would like everybody to carry two pieces of pipe
on their shoulders
so that they're not really using their arms too much
and better for balance.
This is not a sprint. Stay a slow and steady pace.
KEOGHAN: Quincey probably got ten pounds of mud
on his feet.
QUINCEY: So much mud; I-I played football before,
and I played on rainy nights and muddy fields,
but it wasn't anything up to this caliber.
I've never gotten out on an offense or defensive line
and my legs disappear in the mud.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew almost at the main water supply.
They still have the lead.
Having each team member carry one section
of irrigation pipe at a time is working for them so far.
-ELIZABETH: Push. -MIKE: Push. pick it up.
-KELSY: Alfie... -Ooh.
Savage Crew already lining out their pipes
ALFIE: One.
KELSY: Okay, we're going to the next one.
Once we got to the other side of the field
and laying those pipes, it was easy.
-It was quick connect. -There.
The problem was walking and getting through the mud.
Holy cow.
No.
Sarah. Sarah, I'm stuck.
[panting]
ALFIE: It's so wet that once you bury your feet in it...
[sucking sound]
...it sucks right into you.
Now you want your foot out, but you're not going nowhere.
You're pulling like this.
So as you start falling, it's a slow-motion thing.
'cause the mud don't let you go.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth using a very interesting technique.
I'm not sure what you call it, but I think I saw
David Attenborough introducing an animal that does this.
[chuckles]
-MIKE: She's a beast. -KEOGHAN Yeah, she's strong.
[grunts]
I'm stuck now.
JEROME: Okay. Hey, good.
KEOGHAN: Two different techniques.
Dirty Hands moving two lines of irrigation at one time.
Savage Crew with a more linear approach,
moving one line of irrigation at a time.
Savage Crew's first to take a second load
of irrigation pipe.
-I need help! -I got you, Sarah.
[panting]
SARAH: I was dying.
I just felt like, you know,
I needed to have a partner with me
because it's-it's killing me.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew still ahead, but Elizabeth and Sarah
switching strategies.
They're doing exactly what Kelsy said
they should do in the first place: pairing up.
-You got that one? -Go ahead. Go.
-Single? -Huh? Up to you.
-Yeah, let's do it. -Okay.
KEOGHAN: And Dirty Hands are switching it up.
Tak and Lia working on their own. Is this going to pay off?
TAK: Feel like I can go a little faster working by myself.
I've been carrying two-by-fours, you know, my whole career.
Hundreds of yards.
Sometimes the forklift is down,
so carrying that pipe was like
carrying two-by-fours across the jobsite.
-Are you guys splitting up? -Here you go.
-TAK: Yeah. -CHRISTINE: I would like two pieces at a time.
-LIA: I think you go faster. -CHRISTINE: All right.
LIA: Christine is the youngest of our-our Dirty Hands crew,
but she takes our suggestions,
which is a great leadership trait,
to work with your team.
-It's cool. -CHRISTINE: Keep it up.
Coming at you. Finish it up.
KEOGHAN: Sarah, putting the end cap on the first line
of irrigation pipe for Savage Crew.
They've completed their first line. One more to go.
Kelsy and Hanger coming back to get
the second line of irrigation.
But it's a long way back to the far end of the field.
CHRISTINE: Savage Crew, they've been kind of leading us
and we've been trailing behind, but I noticed
that Savage Crew worked on one line at a time
instead of both at the same time,
so they have to go all the way back again.
It's just double the running. I think we still have a chance.
-JEROME: Good job, Kalimba! -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands
yet to complete moving one line of irrigation,
but they are moving two lines at one time,
so they don't have as far to travel.
Savage Crew's lead is closing.
KELSY: Alfie, give me that.
We're gonna do an assembly line.
We were working on one line
instead of getting both irrigation lines at once,
and you just couldn't move through this mud.
-SARAH: Rotate. -KEOGHAN: Savage Crew adapting their technique again.
But is it too late?
Dirty Hands have made up a ton of ground.
Lia coming back for the last pipe for Dirty Hands
-on this side of the field. -JEROME: Let's go, Lia!
-Get that pipe! -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands now have
all their irrigation pipes to complete the job.
Tak attaching the end cap.
Dirty Hands has a line of irrigation complete,
but will it work when they turn the water on?
Hey, t-turn this one on!
Christine the crew boss today turning on
the first line of irrigation for Dirty Hands.
-QUINCEY: Whoa, that went off! -JEROME: Hey, come help me!
-But they have a burst pipe! -[Jerome shouts]
-CHRISTINE: Shut it off? -JEROME: Go! Go! Turn it off!
LIA: Turn it off!
-Water off! -Turn it-- Hurry up!
KEOGHAN Can Savage Crew catch up?
JEROME: Hurry up!
Turn it off! Hurry up!
This first line of irrigation for Dirty Hands,
-it's got a burst pipe. -CHRISTINE: There's a pipe that's broken?
Looks like you broke the connection on your pipe
after some rough handling.
Savage Crew have a chance to catch up.
The win goes to the first team to complete
two lines of irrigation and get those sprinklers going
-JEROME: Turn it off! -LIA: There's a leak
spraying all over the place,
the pipe comes off.
I'm right there at the sprinkler.
[imitates spitting sprinkler]
JEROME: Got to turn them off!
KEOGHAN: Christine is struggling
to turn this irrigation back off.
Quincey, opening up the second line of irrigation
to test that one.
The line is good.
Dirty Hands have one complete line of irrigation,
but their second line is out of control.
-TAK: We got to take this off. -You damaged your latch hook.
Dirty Hands, your pipe is broken.
You need to pick up a replacement
from the other end of the field.
Oh, we done broke a pipe.
[laughs] Suddenly-- And we're all looking.
KEOGHAN: Quincey's going back to get a backup pipe.
It's a 300-yard journey to the other end of the field.
Oh, bro, looking to do one more run in that mud,
gonna be, gonna be hard.
TAK: Let's go!
Come on, Quincey!
[panting]
Hurry up!
KELSY: Should I turn this on?
KEOGHAN: Kelsy turning on the first line
of irrigation for Savage Crew. Both teams
with one line of irrigation working.
Quincey at the far end of the field
-picking up a replacement pipe. -LIA: Hurry up! Come on!
KEOGHAN: Oh, Quincey, don't break it again. Watch that.
You guys, relay it up!
Just get it here, and then we'll take it.
Go, go, go. Go.
It gets super draining and taxing
on your body to run all the way down.
You got it? Yeah?
KALIMBA: So I just come up with an idea
to relay it back.
I'm a firm believer
of working smarter, not harder.
Grab one by yourself, Tak.
JEROME: Good job, Kalimba.
Savage Crew, one section
of irrigation pipe to complete
-their second line. -SARAH: Go! Go! Go! Go! -Go, Mike! Go!
We were working on that last irrigation,
and I knew that it came down
to how fast we could get that last pole down there.
I knew that Savage Crew wasn't gonna give up.
Elizabeth, I need help.
-Okay. Plug it. -In.
-Cap. On! -Turn 'em on! Turn 'em on!
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands have replaced
their pipe with a new one.
Quincey turning the water back on.
But no!
Connection's still leaking.
Hey. Hey, twist this tube.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
TAK: We put the last pipe on.
We turn on the water, and boom, it bursts.
If one thing doesn't work, we have to try another way,
so we have to take that line and flip it
and then reconnect it.
-Push. Okay. Hey, Tak! -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands have
their new piece of pipe in place.
But it's impossible to get
the end plug attached with all that water pressure.
-JEROME: Turn 'em off! -KEOGHAN: Savage Crew
still with a shot. Kelsy opening up
the second line of irrigation,
but it doesn't look like it's connected at the other end.
Shut it off!
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth signaling to Kelsy
to turn off the sprinklers so she can connect
-the last pipe. -What's happening?
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands still struggling. The water is flying
everywhere at the other end, but Dirty Hands
-can't shut the pipe off. -TAK: No!
-Turn 'em off! -It's off!
TAK: Okay! Okay!
-Come on! -QUINCEY: Turn it on!
CHRISTINE: Turn it on!
KELSY: What's happening?
You guys got to shut it off!
Turn it off!
Okay, here we go!
We just couldn't get that last one on.
It was such a long stretch,
and we just couldn't hear and communicate.
-Turn it on! -I'm trying!
KEOGHAN: Both teams turning on their second line of sprinklers.
Hang on, we got 'em!
-Dirty Hands with the win! -JEROME: Yeah!
[Christine whoops]
-[laughs] -Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
We're winning this thing, baby.
The score is 4-2. I couldn't be happier.
We have one more challenge to get that $60,000,
and I think we're gonna do it.
SARAH: We lost. Turn it off.
It's over.
The score is 4-2. Apparently,
the motivational speeches and things like that
still haven't actually taken effect yet.
-That was a hard one. Yeah. -We hit it differently. That's all.
It was a hard loss, but I'm also thinking
I hate to see some of Savage Crew down.
Let's-let's have a good time.
LIA: Do it!
-MIKE: Yeah! -[laughter]
HANGER: Check him out.
[whoops] Yeah!
[whoops]
It was an amazing feeling to have the team
come over a-and join me.
Yeah!
Just to keep the spirits up
and not our heads down.
-Hey! -Yes!
SARAH: I don't know why we're celebrating a loss. I really...
You know, I'm-I'm speechless on that.
[Sarah sniffles]
Like, for real, I got you.
KEOGHAN: Okay, guys. Bring it in.
SARAH: We lost our focus yet again.
We're back to square one.
Great work today, everyone.
Savage Crew, I know it's a tough loss,
but, Dirty Hands, I am pleased to tell you that you have won
today's team competition.
Team score stands at four to two.
Christine, as the leader of Dirty Hands...
-Literally dirty hands, Phil. -KEOGHAN: Literally dirty hands.
I want to present you with today's Badge of Honor.
-Thank you. [chuckles] -KEOGHAN: Congratulations.
And also $12,000.
-Wipe your hand off somewhere. There you go. -[laughs]
-[cheering] -Obviously,
you got some laundry to do.
-Yeah. -Oh, yeah.
KEOGHAN: Get scrubbed up,
exfoliate, and maybe put on
some fresh clothes before you get in the vans.
-Thank you, Phil. -Thank you. -Thank you.
SARAH: In this challenge, we just,
you know, we got outworked. It is what it is.
But this is our third in a row.
I respect everybody giving it
their all. Everybody dug deep, no doubt.
But we were celebrating at the end in-in the mudslide,
and I couldn't get down with that
because for me, i-it's a loss.
MIKE: Yeah,
it sucks that we're not winning this money
and we're not winning these challenges,
but I'm blessed and so happy to be here
with the five of you guys.
And the plus side of things is the money.
And that's, I think, the biggest challenge as a group,
because we find the silver lining in it,
but the silver lining is not paying the bills.
My gramps left land
for the family when he passed away,
so, for me, that motivation and that money is going to be
building on it so that
my nephews have a leg up. You know what I'm saying?
MIKE: Glad you brought this up,
because the picture in my head of, like,
why I'm here, what I've struggled through,
that's a motivating factor for me.
The whole mud sliding thing is just a...
a thing of, like, camaraderie.
Sarah telling her story
is very empowering to me
'cause we're all here to help out our families, as well.
It's like, "Okay, Mike, you got to step it up even harder now
and win that $60,000."
I want to beat 'em really bad.
I got three boys in my house
that I have to set an example for.
A-And I got to provide for my family,
so I don't got a choice but to succeed.
-I'm with you. I'm not here to lose. -SARAH: Right.
KELSY: Savage Crew has to have
three wins to get that $60,000,
and we have to do three more nonstop.
It's now or never.
ALFIE: That money's on the table, man.
-HANGER: Let's get it, guys. -ALFIE: Let's go get it.
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ELIZABETH: Good morning, you guys.
-Good morning. -Good morning.
-How are you guys? -Good morning, Savage Crew.
-Hey, there's Phil in a field. -Good morning, everybody.
TAK: Today's individual challenge.
No one to count on to catch your back,
so everything depends on yourself.
I think I'm physically fit.
For me, I struggle mentally.
I just got to stay focused.
Good morning, everybody. Can you smell that?
-Yeah. -Yeah. -LIA: It smells good.
That's the smell of mint, isn't it?
-No. -KEOGHAN: No.
That's cilantro. It's growing here
in California all year long.
It's been an ingredient
that we've used in food for over 5,000 years.
And the way that it's picked is backbreaking work.
You look over in the fields, and you see
how hard everybody is working here.
That's your job today. Each of you
have to harvest two 60-foot rows of cilantro.
When the work whistle blows, you're gonna use
this special knife called a hand sickle. You see,
it's got a sharp blade on that side there.
You need to use this tool to cut and trim
bundles of cilantro,
then wrap them in wire. Just like that.
Doesn't matter how many bundles you cut.
Doesn't matter how many boxes you fill up. The goal is
to clear all the cilantro,
filling up one box at a time,
and then load them up onto those trailers.
The last two of you to finish the job
will go into overtime, and by the end of the day,
one more of you will be punching out,
leaving seven of you still in contention
for the overall Tough As Nailstitle.
The good news is if you win today's job,
you will be getting
an entire year's supply
of fresh produce
-for you and your family. -Wow. -LIA: All right.
Is that for real?
You're gonna send that to Hawaii?
KEOGHAN: If you win, Tak, you'll be getting fresh produce
-from a local Hawaiian vendor. -Wow. Wow. -Wow.
-KEOGHAN: Ready to get to work? -ALL: Yeah.
-KEOGHAN: Okay. -All right.
ALFIE: Life ain't easy. My house
is cooking for seven to ten people.
A year of produce? [exhales]
I'm dropping 400 bucks a week
on groceries every week.
I got to win this thing.
ELIZABETH: When I compete, nothing holds me back,
and nothing moves me from my path
and my focus. I know that if I go to overtime,
I will survive, but the goal
is to not go.
KEOGHAN: Here we go.
-On the work whistle. -[work whistle blows]
-KALIMBA: Go! -HANGER: Let's go, guys!
-SARAH: Hustle! -HANGER: Go, go, go, go, go!
-[work whistle blows] -KALIMBA: Go! -Let's go, guys!
KEOGHAN: Nobody ever thought they'd be sprinting for cilantro.
Speed and efficiency.
Key factors for this job.
[exhales]
-SARAH: Way to hustle. -HANGER: Let's go!
KEOGHAN: Remember, the last two to get finished here
are going into overtime.
SARAH: Let's go, big dog.
-Move! Move! -HANGER: Come on, Quincey!
-Move! -Come on, Quince!
QUINCEY: When I was a teenager,
I was working with a farmer
that had a bean field.
When the bean harvest came back into the barn,
you know, it was my job
to pick out sticks or dirt, rocks.
We had to get it right.
You know, we-we had to deliver quality.
KEOGHAN: Tak, our foreman, is moving very, very well.
-Be careful with that knife, Tak. -TAK: Yes, sir.
I worked in some lo'i patches before where they grow taro.
You got to be low to the ground,
and I'm already low to the ground. [laughs]
SARAH: Hustle!
KEOGHAN: Alfie looking like a pro.
Great technique.
ALFIE: The first couple of cuts, the sickle
was slowing me down from grabbing the tie,
so soon as I made the cut, I would grab the bundle,
leave the sickle exactly where I'm gonna cut next,
take the tie, wrap it. Boom, boom, two twists.
Throw it in the box. Grab the next bundle,
and the sickle's there to cut, so I'm like...
[exhaling] In the box.
-Good job, Alfie! -HANGER: Keep up the pace, brother.
-Not bad for a Miami boy, huh? -[Hanger laughs]
Lia nice and steady. Got all her ties
on her leg. She's going in a standing position.
Jerome using the standing position.
The advantage I had on my side,
I was the second one in. I saw all my competitors.
Only had Mike behind me.
I knew he was gonna be fast.
But as long as I was in front of everybody this side,
I was all right.
Let's go, team!
It's hard to tell where everybody is at
'cause there's two different approaches.
Lia moving down one row.
Alfie was doing the same, but looks like he's doing
what everybody else is doing:
harvesting two rows at a time.
Lia taking a risk, but maybe it'll pay off.
LIA: If I remain on one row at a time,
I don't have to keep readjusting to reach over to another row,
so I can maintain the same rhythm going down.
It's gonna shave off a couple seconds for me
and keep me ahead of what my competitors
-are doing. -KEOGHAN: Look at that.
KELSY: Lia has her first box,
KEOGHAN: Lia's got her first box.
She's coming back to the trailer.
Dropping off her ties on the way, but...
I'll get 'em when I get back.
Long time ago,
I helped harvest tobacco.
The process, it's very similar,
so I'm trying to mimic that as best I can.
Alfie, our superintendent, doing a great job.
-HANGER: There you go. -KEOGHAN: Here comes Elizabeth.
Good job, Eliza-beast. Let's go, Mark!
-Yeah! -SARAH: Hustle, people, hustle!
-Quincey and Jerome at the same time. -You got it, Quince.
KEOGHAN: Tak is looking at his first box.
Everybody's delivered a box
except for ironworker Christine,
-struggling to get back with her first box. -Crap.
Harvesting cilantro,
it's a lot more intense than you'd think.
-KALIMBA: Let's go, Christine. -CHRISTINE: Everybody was ahead
of me, and normally, I'd get really frustrated
and beat myself up, but today, no negative energy.
Wow, Lia is flying down that single row.
Making great progress, but it's hard to tell
where Lia's at compared to everybody else.
-KELSY: Come on! -SARAH: Let's go, Christine!
-Tak has slowed down a little bit. -KELSY: Yeah.
Every individual challenge, I'm always in my head.
I'm always pressuring myself.
And this competition right now,
it's getting harder and harder and harder.
I just know I have to stay calm and dig down deep.
Tak, you got to speed it up. You got to speed it up.
Tak is just like a little brother.
It's like he just doesn't know how great he is.
Tak is just one of those guys
that just needs somebody to believe in him,
and he's gonna be unstoppable.
You got to pick it up. Got to pick it up.
KELSY: Good job, Mike! Good job!
HANGER: Good job! That's right!
Way to hustle, Shaffer.
-That's called the Shaffer shuffle right there. -That's right.
-The Shaffer shuffle. -MIKE: I love you guys.
-I know. Back at you, my brother. -Yeah, bro!
MIKE: I figured out while cutting that cilantro
that I got lineman skills that I'm using here.
We use tie ware at work, too,
so I've done this before.
Muscle memory, it felt like.
-KEOGHAN: Alfie back. [whoops] -Go, Alfie!
KEOGHAN: Quincey drops down
to his knees, working on another box.
He's gonna have to pick up the pace
if he wants to win this competition.
Everybody, give it your all!
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth sliding into the row every time.
ELIZABETH: I'm sliding out with one leg.
It's the easiest way to slow down
because I have an old back injury.
I herniated three of my disks.
I recovered fully,
but by sliding in with that energy,
I'm shaving seconds.
Christine, the last
to finish packing her first box of cilantro.
-Good job. You're staying smooth. -Stay focused. Stay focused.
KEOGHAN: Already survived two overtimes.
You don't want to go into a third.
-KELSY: Keep the hustle. -CHRISTINE: I know at this point
that I'm behind, but I came into
this individual challenge day with a better mindset,
and I'm not gonna give up until I get it done.
-SARAH: Yeah, Mike! Yeah! -KEOGHAN: Lia gets
-her first row done. -Yeah! -Good job!
-She's going back for her second. -Awesome!
We're gonna find out whether Lia made the right choice.
Jerome and Mike have the lead,
closely followed by Quincey.
-Alfie right there. -HANGER: Good job.
KEOGHAN: Tak very close. Picking up the pace.
-Elizabeth very competitive. -ELIZABETH: I got a good rhythm.
I got a good pace. And all of a sudden,
I move.
[grunts] My back.
My back spasms,
and I feel all the muscles
on my right side
-just tighten up. I know I've pinched a nerve. -KEOGHAN: Elizabeth's down.
ELIZABETH: And I know this is gonna hurt me.
-KELSY: Come on! Come on! -KEOGHAN: Come on.
-SARAH: Yo. -HANGER: She's hurtin'.
Elizabeth, you okay?
ELIZABETH: I know I've pinched a nerve. The problem is
is that my muscles get really tight,
and going to my knees really hurt me in this instance.
And, so, I was in a lot of pain,
but it's just not an option. I came here
to win, win, win and take it home
-Come on, Elizabeth. -ELIZABETH: My back.
-KELSY: Come on. -HANGER: Come on! Come on!
-SARAH: All right, I see you! -KELSY: Come on! Come on!
HANGER: There you go. Good job.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth back up,
determined to finish this.
-SARAH: Let's go. -Don't count her out.
We know she's tough as nails.
Tak has picked up the pace, as has Christine.
-Pick it up. Pick it up. -Lia is accelerating towards the end.
LIA: Oh, yeah.
KEOGHAN: Lia, the only one here that went
-with one row at a time. -HANGER: Good job. Good job.
-That's how you gonna do me? -That's gonna do you.
-We're in this together. -Another box
-for Lia. -JEROME: Wow.
KEOGHAN: She's a box away from a win.
-KELSY: Push! Push! Push! -KEOGHAN: Mike sees how much Lia has left.
He wants this win, too. But hold on
a second. Look where Tak is.
Where did Tak come from? Out of nowhere.
-That's it, Tak, let's go, Tak. -Speed it up. Speed it up, speed it up.
TAK: Kalimba is a morale booster.
Double-time, Tak. Got to stay out of overtime.
TAK: She's cheering for me and telling me
to step on it, and I need that.
-KEOGHAN: Lia on the home stretch. -KELSY: Step on the gas!
Just a few bundles away. Mike, the lineman,
and Tak, our construction foreman,
-are chasing after Lia for the win. -KELSY: Hurry!
-SARAH: That's it, Mike! That's it! -KELSY: Get it in the box!
-SARAH: Come on! -KALIMBA: Tak, you got to hurry.
KELSY: Mike, come on! Hurry!
Guys, this is coming down to seconds!
-And Lia gets the win! -Good job, Lia.
-[Kelsy shouts] -SARAH: Mike!
-[Hanger whoops, shouts] -KELSY: Let's go!
KEOGHAN: Mike gets the job done!
-Tak, he finishes third. -Yeah!
-Beautiful job. -Come on, Christine!
Five left. Two of you going into overtime.
-Who's it gonna be? -LIA: Come on, Christine!
-HANGER: Come on, Elizabeth! -Keep going!
-HANGER: Come on, Alfie! Move it!
-KELSY: Come on! -HANGER: Go, go, go, go, go, go.
-[exhales] -KELSY: Push!
-KEOGHAN: Here comes Alfie. -HANGER: Let's go, Alfie!
KEOGHAN: Closing up his box.
-Alfie! -Alfie with the job done! We're down to four.
-Two you going into overtime. -KALIMBA: Yep, that's it, Christine.
-Double, double, double. -Jerome very close. -Come on, Elizabeth!
-Go! Go, Elizabeth! -KELSY: Hurry!
Put it in the box!
KEOGHAN: Here comes Jerome
-and Elizabeth at the same time. -HANGER: Yeah!
And Jerome and Elizabeth
-get the job done. -KELSY: Wow!
KEOGHAN: Christine and Quincey,
-the last to get our job done. -Oh, man.
This sucks! Two of our people in overtime?
-[laughs] -QUINCEY: How about that?
It's never good when you're in overtime,
but I'm still in the competition,
so why not give my best to try to win it?
-[Elizabeth groans] -MIKE: You okay?
-You okay? -MIKE: Your back killing you?
Is it your back?
-MIKE: Is it the hammy? -No, it's my hip is out.
-Okay. -ELIZABETH: I'm just happy
that I'm not gonna be going into overtime,
but it's extremely painful, so I have
to stretch and try to correct that.
-[grunts] -Okay, you can lean on me anytime.
-Elizabeth, you're in a lot of pain right now, huh? -ELIZABETH: Yeah,
my hip went out halfway through. I couldn't run.
It was excruciating, but I just kept going.
-I know you did. -Yeah, I just wanted to finish.
Well, Elizabeth, you showed a lot of grit and...
and determination, considering what you were going through.
The good news is you get to rest up. You do not need
-to go into overtime. -Yeah. [grunts]
KEOGHAN: Lia, you showed everybody from the beginning
what you're made of, and today, you did it one more time.
Pleased to tell you that you do have
a year's supply of fresh produce. Congratulations.
LIA: Everybody's getting a box of produce for Christmas.
I'm sharing with everyone, Phil.
-Share it with everybody? -Yeah.
The way I was raised taught me
to care for others at an early age.
My mother was sick with MS,
and it taught us that, and it-it sticks with you a lifetime.
So, if I can, I'd like to set it up
so every month, the produce goes
to one of my other Tough As Nails family.
Life is to be shared.
Quincey and Christine, you will be going into overtime,
and by the end of the day, one of you will be punching out.
♪
CHRISTINE: I'm in overtime for the third time.
I've been here before, so I'm used to the stress already.
I'm definitely prepared to take that win.
A lot of people here have established careers.
I'm still an apprentice
living paycheck to paycheck.
Winning that money
would change my life so much.
-KELSY: Yeah! -Yeah!
-[whoops] -Okay.
QUINCEY: This is the first time two Dirty Hands
had to go against each other.
It hurts a lot that I'm going against my teammate,
but I can't punch out.
This is redemption for me, you know?
-That's the reason why I came. -KEOGHAN: You will now
face off in overtime.
This is a chance for you to stay in contention
for the Tough As Nailstitle.
As you can see, there are
two sections of weeds that need to be harrowed.
They've got some overgrown cilantro, rhubarb, radishes.
And the reason they leave them growing like this
is it gives nutrients back into the soil
so that when they replant again, the soil
is nice and rich and fertile.
But we have left two sections for you.
-Thank you. -Just for you. -[all laugh]
-"Thank you." -CHRISTINE: I already know what we're doing, Phil.
-What are we doing? Why don't you just tell us? -We're gonna freaking drive
-some tractors. -KEOGHAN: Have you ever driven a tractor?
No. Piece of grass in my hand.
Maybe a beer and just cruise? That'd be awesome.
-You know? -[laughter] -A straw hat.
I would strongly advise no beer drinking.
And, uh, maybe don't put any grass in your mouth,
-although it is... -CHRISTINE: Not that kind of grass.
It is legal here in California.
[laughter]
When the work whistle blows,
you're gonna be using a tractor
and a disc harrow to turn
all of this biomass back into the soil.
Turn it over as fast as you possibly can,
but be precise. If you leave a spot,
you're gonna have to go back and fix it.
Dirty Hands, anything you want to say to your two competitors?
-They gonna bring it. They gonna bring it home. -Go get 'em.
-Let's do it. Let's do it. -Let's have some fun. Cheers.
-To your tractors. -LIA: This is the first time we have two members
of Dirty Hands in overtime, uh, against one another.
They're both incredibly powerful individuals.
They're smart. They got great heart.
And I'm gonna be on the edge of my seat watching this overtime.
-Good luck. -Good luck.
I learned how to drive a tractor with one of my best friends
when we was working on a farm back in South Carolina.
I think I can handle this right here.
CHRISTINE: If this was just a week or two ago,
I'd probably be in tears right now
because I had the mindset that I have to be the best
because all these voices in my head
from my past have told me that I'm not.
But I'm going to give it my best. I'm not gonna let up
on Quincey, and at the end of the day,
we're gonna shake hands and still love each other.
KEOGHAN: Start your engines!
[engines start]
Time to get to work.
[work whistle blows]
Quincey off to a fine start,
-but it looks like Christine can't get her tractor to move. -Come on.
-JEROME: Christine, what are you doing? -It's not in freaking gear.
-KELSY: Oh, my God! -MIKE: Oh, my God!
Come on, Christine!
-LIA: There goes Quincey. -KEOGHAN: Quincey plowing ahead.
But Christine can't even get into first gear.
CHRISTINE: Oh, my God.
JEROME: Christine, what are you doing?
It's not in freaking gear!
-KEOGHAN: Quincey plowing ahead. -JEROME: Oh, there goes Quincey.
KEOGHAN: But Christine can't even get into first gear.
-Put the clutch in. -CHRISTINE: Oh!
[applause]
KEOGHAN: All right, Christine's off now.
CHRISTINE: I kind of froze up
'cause I was thinking it was like a manual car.
You have to put it in gear and then just let off the clutch
and go, but I just had it neutral still.
-I was like, "You dummy." -KEOGHAN: Both tractors go at the same speed,
so with Quincey half a row ahead,
Christine's gonna have to rely
on being super precise with the position of her blade.
-LIA: Go! -KEOGHAN: Quincey looking like a relaxed farmer
as he moves up here.
-You done this before, huh? Yeah! -Yeah!
QUINCEY: I was glad that I was able to get behind the wheel
of something that I, you know, had done before.
-KALIMBA: Looking good, Quincey! -KELSY: Good job, Quincey!
-HANGER: He's smooth. Look at that. -QUINCEY: So,
for once, I was in the comfort zone.
-LIA: Yeah! -SARAH: Yeah, there you go,
-big dog. -LIA: Go, go, go!
KALIMBA: Going good, Quincey!
Christine is at least 100 feet behind.
Looks like Quincey is going to the far side of the field.
Christine making the turn.
Don't cut any of it up!
-Oh, my God! -It's the green. You got to go wide.
-Oh, and she's left a little patch. -Oh.
KELSY: She's treating it like a lawn mower.
You're gonna miss the corner, Christine!
Christine misses the other corner. Got to get all of this.
LIA: Get the corner!
-Christine has left these two corners undone. -KELSY: Wow.
She's gonna have to come back and do those.
KELSY: Not good. Ugh.
Christine treated the field like a lawn mower
and didn't realize that her turn
was gonna cut off some of the weeds.
I drive a tractor every year. You go forward
on your pass, and you turn around,
and you come back right next to that same pass.
Christine trying to catch up.
LIA: Go, Christine!
KEOGHAN: Quincey, don't be so stressed.
He's so chill.
KEOGHAN: And he makes a nice turn right here.
JEROME: Farmer Quincey.
KEOGHAN: See if Christine can get this corner.
KALIMBA: She got it now.
-KELSY: Yeah, Christine! -KEOGHAN: Christine
fixing her mistake,
but she's still got one corner left to fix.
-KALIMBA: Now she's overlapping the wheel. -KEOGHAN: Yeah.
She's driving the wheel over properly. Nice driving.
SARAH: When it comes to Christine, she learns really quick,
even if it's something she's not familiar with.
And I admire that.
JEROME: She's better now, but I don't know how she's gonna
-make up time on this now. -KALIMBA: Yeah, she's already behind.
KEOGHAN: Quincey has extended his lead,
but now that Christine understands the drill,
she may be able to catch up with some precise driving.
JEROME: Good job, Christine!
Quincey playing it super safe. He's got his wheel
about two feet inside, overlapping the area
that he's already harrowed with his blades.
CHRISTINE: I knew I had to make up time, so I tried to do
all the harrowing as precise as possible.
I realized
that driving over some of the weeds
on my right side, it was still
cutting into and getting it,
so that really made up some time.
JEROME: He overlapping them too much.
-Overlapping them too much. -Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Quincey playing it safe.
KELSY: He's wasting too much time.
KEOGHAN: Christine, though, risking it all to catch up.
Look at how closely
she's steering her front wheel to the line of the weeds.
Her blades are barely catching the edge.
KELSY: Come on, Christine, you got it!
LIA: Let's go, girl!
She's not that far behind.
I mean, look at the width of hers and the width of his.
Christine's making up some time.
This is gonna get pretty close
ALFIE: Quincey will finish in two passes.
-One this way and one that way. -KALIMBA: We'll see.
MIKE: They both look close.
QUINCEY: I'm feeling good. Everything that I disc
is getting turned over in the field,
and the field is disappearing.
I am this close to sealing the deal.
-LIA: So, he might have to do an extra pass. -SARAH: I think he got it.
-KEOGHAN: He could get it right here. -KELSY: Yep.
-ELIZABETH: He's gonna get it. -KELSY: Yep, right now.
Yeah, Quincey!
-But wait! -KEOGHAN: No.
He's not getting it all.
-Only one more sliver. -Yeah, that's what I thought.
-You have one more down there. -Oh.
JEROME: Oh. Oh, I see it.
-I see it. -ALFIE: Yeah, yeah.
Well, what does Christine have?
-ELIZABETH: Wait. -LIA: She's getting that end.
-HANGER: Yeah, that's right. -KELSY: Wait a minute.
Wait. Phil, look at Christine.
KEOGHAN: Hold on a second.
Christine is coming back.
She's managing to pick up everything in her last row.
ALFIE: Oh, wow.
This is gonna be close.
CHRISTINE: I see that I possibly have
a little bit of a lead on him.
I'm finishing my final row,
but I know I have my corner to finish.
I'm like, "Maybe I got this."
-KALIMBA: Oh, go, Christine! -KEOGHAN: Here we go.
-KALIMBA: Go! Go! -KEOGHAN: Go, Christine, go!
-KELSY: Oh, my God! Oh, my God! -HANGER: What's she doing? What's she doing?
KALIMBA: She's trying to come this way around.
KEOGHAN: Quincey starting his last pass
while Christine tries to grab the patch
she left behind earlier.
-Oh! -Oh!
-KEOGHAN: Here we go! -[overlapping shouting]
Go, Christine, go!
Oh, my gosh.
-Christine's got to cover it all up. -Go, Christine! Keep going!
-Oh, no! -Misses a patch.
-Oh! -She missed the corner.
KEOGHAN: And...
-ELIZABETH: Yeah! -KEOGHAN: Quincey with the win!
[cheering]
That was about as close as it can get.
QUINCEY: I'm glad I was able to get it.
Christine surprised me, driving that tractor,
and I'm very proud of her.
But me being overprecise almost cost me.
Excellent challenge, Quincey.
You look so relaxed.
-We were concerned you might fall asleep. -[laughter]
I was in my comfort zone, there.
-Yeah, yeah. -You were really in your comfort zone.
It worked out for me.
I mean, I still got an opportunity to, uh,
reach the ultimate goal.
Quincey, what do you say to your teammate?
She's lost her shot at that Tough As Nailstitle,
but she's still part of Dirty Hands.
As a leader, you have compassion. You have heart.
You have great work ethic.
And I just see greatness in her future.
-Yeah. -Absolutely.
-KEOGHAN: Absolutely. -It means a lot.
-Thank you. -[applause]
That right there just means the world to me
because I've been told so many times
that I wouldn't amount to anything
or I'm too stupid or I'm this and that,
so for people to see that I have potential to be something,
it's just amazing.
I'm gonna get emotional. [chuckles]
Just 'cause, like, I didn't think
I'd get so close to so many people out here, you know?
-And I'm happy. I won. -KEOGHAN: Yeah.
[voice breaking]: I'm happy with myself.
-Yeah! -You should be super proud
of yourself, and the great news is
that even though you are out of the individual competition,
you have a chance to lead your team to a victory.
[chuckles]: It's time, Phil.
Yeah.
This whole experience has really changed Christine, you know?
Like, I feel like a new woman. I just can't stop smiling
'cause I'm just happy. What an adventure.
I've kind of molded this new person inside of me,
and I don't care what people think anymore.
I'm gonna be me, and I'm gonna be happy,
and I'm just gonna do the best I can in this life
and just enjoy every moment of it.
-[groans] -[Quincey groans]
-[chuckles] -I'm such a sap.
-Stop doing that. Don't make me cry, all right? -[laughs]
There's seven of us left in the individual competition,
and I'm gonna continue to go for the win.
KEOGHAN: Great day, everyone. Get some rest.
See you tomorrow.
QUINCEY: We're gonna you get some more money, I promise.
Dry those tears up with a win
-with $6,000, though. -CHRISTINE: That's right.
QUINCEY: I wish this dirt would have been soft like this yesterday.
-[laughs] -CHRISTINE: I know.
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KEOGHAN: You are going to set up a lighting grid.
-They are flying through this. -Go, go, go, go, go.
This light is not where it's supposed to be!
-Whoa! -Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa!
KEOGHAN: Each of you is going to set up a DJ station.
-TAK: I was getting frustrated. -What?
SARAH: Pay attention to them details.
I give up. I'll go overtime.