-Go, go! -Previously onTough As Nails...
Remember, measure twice, cut once.
-Let's double-check. Let's go. -KEOGHAN: Ellery...
led Dirty Hands to their first team win...
-Dirty Hands get the win! -Yeah, baby!
[cheering]
...tying the score with Savage Crew...
-You're too long. -Take it apart.
...who had a heated breakdown in communication.
JAKE: No one ever asked me and Larron
what we were good at...
You speak up.
You an adult.
Where were you in the huddle?
KEOGHAN: And in the individual competition...
Fill in the gaps between your blocks.
...pipeliner Jake capped off a win...
[whoops]
...while Ellery and Synethia
capped out last.
Ellery forged his way out of overtime...
JORGE: Great job, you guys.
...forcing Synethia to be the first
to punch out of the individual competition.
SYNETHIA: My smile is not going nowhere
and neither is my spirit.
KEOGHAN: Tonight, with the teams' score tied at one apiece,
it's a race in a rainstorm...
-Let's go. -ILIMA: Where are you, baby? -ALY: I got one.
...to take the lead in the team competition.
-What number? -BETH: No, no, no.
-Don't do eight. -[groans]
KEOGHAN: And in the individual competition...
There's a $3,000 prize.
-...who will fall apart... -[groans]
-Not quite. -...and lose their shot at theTough As Nails title?
Oh, Lord!
KEOGHAN: This isTough As Nails.
[thunder rumbling]
♪
MISTER: The last team challenge,
I'm glad that we had that, you know, talk.
Yeah.
Just get everything out in the clear and,
you know, let's just really focus on
the tasks that we are assigned. You know what I'm saying?
Mm-hmm. Thoroughly.
MISTER: The last team challenge,
a lot of emotions came out.
But I think it was a-a needed discussion, so coming up
to today's challenge, the score is one to one.
Our strategy is to see if we can implement
our communication skills again
and get this win.
Just take our past mistakes into consideration
to make our next challenge better.
Idle hands. Can't have idle hands.
SERGIO: Synethia, how you feeling today?
-Feel good. -Yeah?
SYNETHIA: The fact that I had to punch out,
it didn't make me sad
or anything because
I still get to compete with you guys.
-So we can still win money. -You trust us to make you
-some money? -Right.
SERGIO: I love your attitude.
ALY: Jorge,
I'm kind of interested to know about like
how you grew up and stuff
'cause you're super mature for your age,
like you're a year younger than me.
My father passed when I was 12 years old
in a tragic accident.
I'm the big brother, I have a little sister.
And I kind of had to grow up
kind of a lot faster than most people.
-Yeah. -I had to step into that role
as the man of the house.
It was really hard trying to figure out,
you know, who I was.
I had to worry about my sister and my mom,
and my goal the whole time was just to, you know,
be there for them.
We've endured a lot together.
Tough circumstances make, you know, stronger people.
-Yes. -Oh, yeah.
-Are we getting here? -ALY: I think so.
I see a lot of stuff
that needs to be planted.
SERGIO: I already hear Phil.
"How do trees get in the ground?
With a shovel."
[laughter]
SERGIO: "Start digging."
♪
A little rain never hurt nobody.
-SYNETHIA: Never, ever. -How is everybody
-feeling this morning? -[overlapping responses]
I'm glad you've got your wet weather gear on
because you might've noticed it's raining.
[laughter]
I look like Curious George right now in this outfit.
KEOGHAN: Welcome to Devil Mountain Nursery.
They got a million trees here.
The tree-growing business is a billion-dollar business
here in the United States.
Today you guys are going to be pulling trees for an order.
There's a total of 40 trees listed on this work order.
-Whew. -Ten different species.
Wow.
The names are either Latin or Greek.
-[laughter] -There you go.
I'm not so good with the Latin names.
But I know somebody who is.
It's my dad, he's in the garden right now in New Zealand.
He's worked a lot with plants.
He's an agronomist. I'm gonna give him a little call.
Hey, good morning, Dad.
JOHN: Well, it's good morning to you,
just as it's good morning here.
-Say hello to my dad. -[cheering]
[all greeting]
Dad, I was wondering if you could give the
proper pronunciations of these plants that they need to find.
The ten different species.
JOHN: Now, your first one
is ficus nitida.
And it's related to the rubber tree.
The next one is interesting.
It's olea, "Little Ollie."
Which means it's a member of the olive family.
Yeah, Dad, just the names is good.
Of course, well adapted to Mediterranean climate
-such as California. -Yep.
Very drought resistant.
[laughs] We're never gonna get these names.
-[laughter] -JOHN: The next one is
lagerstroemia.
-Okay. -JOHN: The next one is
melaleuca nesophila.
Metrosideros excelsus.
The New Zealand Christmas tree.
We're only at number six, we've got to get to ten.
-[laughter] -He's adorable.
JOHN: Rhamnus, which is Californian leatherleaf.
Rhus lancea...
Schinus molle...
It comes from the Peruvian...
...lovely white and yellow flowers...
Tipuana tipu...
And number ten...
Number ten, we're at ten.
-There we go. -There he goes.
Tristania laurina.
Okay, Dad.
Thank you so much.
Everybody is enlightened now, they got it.
All the best to both teams.
-ALL: Thank you. -KEOGHAN: All right.
Thanks, Dad.
-Ready to go, right? -Yep, right there.
Ready to pass that test.
[laughter]
When the work whistle blows,
you will run down the hill to one of the F-150s.
You've also got a Kubota you can use,
along with a little trailer on the back.
Make your way to the loading dock.
Over at the loading dock, you will see
a plot that shows where all the different
species of trees are.
Figure out what lot your tree is in.
You're gonna be pulling 40 trees.
Got to fill that out that work order
as fast as you possibly can.
Pull your trees, take them to the loading dock,
tie everything down,
and as soon as the driver moves the truck back,
the job will be done.
-[whoops] -Awesome.
You know what's on the line today.
-Yes, sir. -Oh, yeah.
$12,000.
-Yeah. -[clapping]
Along with today's Badge of Honor.
-Yeah, buddy. -[whooping]
The teams' score right now stands at one apiece.
-Yeah. -Yes.
At the loading dock, we want to make sure
that things are running properly,
so we have Aaron, who is here from the nursery,
the director of operations here in Southern California.
Thanks, Aaron.
Aaron, you've gone through the nursery already
and selected the trees that they need to pull.
AARON: Correct, yeah.
They'll all be marked with a red tag.
The red tag will indicate
the team name
as well as the genus and species
of the tree you're looking for.
Get together, figure out who's gonna be the crew boss
and we're gonna get this job done in the rain.
-MISTER: Yeah. -ALY: Yeah. -JORGE: Yes.
I want to nominate Beth as crew boss today.
Okay, I can do that.
BETH: As an electrician on board the ship,
I have to follow very detail-oriented
diagrams and drawings.
This is definitely in my wheelhouse.
Make sure that you're communicating
every time that you pull a tree.
LARRON: I'm gonna be the crew boss today
if y'all are comfortable with that.
I'm incredibly comfortable with the organization
and details that is gonna be involved in this.
I felt on the last team competition,
I tried to speak up a couple times, but...
nobody listened to me.
We find one, we figure out what the name is,
where it is, how many of them that we need.
I want to prove to my team that I do have the skills
to compete in this competition.
Everybody line up at the top of the road.
Let's get this job done.
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
-LAURA: Whoo! -KEOGHAN: There they go.
See if we got some worthy pickers here.
♪
Ah, I'm in.
-Okay. -LARRON: There you go.
Just be mindful-- mindful of your trailer.
The way that I'm dividing up the team today
is we're gonna have two teams of three.
We're gonna have Jake, Renée, and Mister on the truck,
and then me, Laura and Ilima in the Kabuto.
We're going to divide and conquer
by even and odd numbers,
so we have a list of ten, um, different plants
that we have to get and the quantities of them.
My team is gonna take the odds,
Jake's team is gonna take the evens.
JAKE: So the directory, it's got thousands of trees on there.
Tristania laurina.
These pens aren't gonna write.
My pen won't write either.
JAKE: Today, in this challenge,
we're given, uh, pens,
it's pouring raining out.
I need anything dry to write on.
We-- I can't write on anything.
All of a sudden, I kind of look down and I'm like, well,
the material on the inside of my jacket
will stay dry.
So, I wrote down, um,
the numbers of the plants, what areas they were in.
What was that last one?
JORGE: Today, we have a list of 40 trees and plants.
You have to really figure out what numbers
are where in the lot of the nursery.
We're comparing them to a map that they gave us.
I'm telling you, write on this.
BETH: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got it.
We need to go to 109 and 311.
Radio's on.
KEOGHAN: Already on their way
to start picking up trees.
They've got to get a total of 40 trees.
We're still in 502, so...
SERGIO: Look for the red tags that say Dirty Hands.
We're out and about, searching,
it's like an Easter egg hunt for trees.
I mean, the place is massive, you know?
It's like football fields of trees.
♪
We're a little mind-boggled.
-What's your location? -ALY: 312.
BETH: 312 is number ten on your pick list.
The first impression of the challenge
is that we're gonna be really spread out.
And we're split up in teams of three.
So, it was important that everybody knew
what their job was.
You need to do number six, it's in 310.
Roger that.
ILIMA: 109's right here.
No, I know, we need a second, okay?
LAURA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They got different ones all mixed in here.
It's definitely difficult to find these trees.
You got tags all over the place.
You might see some tags, but that might not be your tags.
They might be Dirty Hands' tags, they might be another
customer's tags in there.
Where are you, baby?
-What are we looking for? -Schinus molle.
You know, nine out of ten of us
couldn't pronounce any of these names.
Maferaria. Tuscarara.
Cenus... Pholium...
Malonia... Phona...
Foli-minus.
Lagerstroemia, sunna, something-or-rather.
Metro... Just metro, metro... Something.
Olea... Olec, ole...
[laughs] I can't.
Those are lager-stramis.
Not pastramis, lagerstramis.
-ALY: I got one. -SERGIO: I'm coming around,
-they're all over there. -All right, come to this row.
Oh, we're in the money.
-I'm dragging it out to the road. -Go.
SYNETHIA: The trees had to be
anywhere between 50 and 60 pounds apiece.
The soil was soaking wet, it was drenched.
So, that was adding
more weight to the plant.
-JAKE: How many you got? Two? -Two.
Renée, she never quit.
She drug trees
that were seven, eight foot
and had them out and ready. She was just
doing a heck of a job.
Come here! Listen, I got ten already.
Now I'm at lagerstroemia.
We do not have schinus molles.
We've already got four, okay?
Larron is staying very calm as a crew boss
through the entire challenge.
We got to find schinus molle, find schinus molle.
Guys, we got to go back.
We're gonna drop these off and find the next ones, okay?
He's sticking exactly to his plan.
Savage Crew coming back with their first load.
Now Dirty Hands.
Dirty Hands with a different approach from Savage Crew.
They're getting the loading done as they bring their plants
-into the loading area. -Let's get out of here.
♪
[panting]
Right there, right there, whoa. Good.
[grunting]
[grunting, struggling]
[both grunting]
Hop in, let's go.
Two, three.
KEOGHAN: Now Savage Crew is starting to load.
-You good? -Yeah.
Hey, don't kill yourself now, we need you.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew off to pick up more.
All right, stop right here.
I got one, I got one.
-Let's go, we're out. -Let's go.
-Put that sucker in park, let's go. -RENEÉE: Metro.
MISTER: You know, we're all kicking into another gear
because it's just... it's neck and neck.
And we cannot afford to lose another team challenge.
What don't you have?
ALY: 309.
-Okay, so... -309.
-We did nine, ten, and 11. -Got them all.
So we should be good.
-JORGE: Sergio come back? -BETH: Yeah, they, they...
We were just checking everything off.
And we're pretty confident that we have everything that we need.
We got this.
Let's fire these up and keep it moving.
KEOGHAN: Frantic work right now from both teams,
they realize what's on the line.
There's a total of 40 trees.
-Mister. -KEOGHAN: $12,000
and this team that wins today
will be taking the lead
in the overall team competition.
We got one more number to get,
me and him are gonna go get them.
-What number is it? -309.
I know exactly where that is.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew leaves
in their truck as Dirty Hands
comes back with what looks like their final load.
BETH: All right, okay, I need to count. What do we got?
25, 26, 27, 28.
29, 30, 31, 32...
When I get back with our final load,
I realize, you know, we're short.
There's supposed to be 40.
Lagerstroemia fauriei tuscarora.
-Anybody got that? -BETH: Yeah, that's number 311.
You guys told me that you guys had got it already.
Okay, go.
Somehow, someway, the communication
got broken down.
That's all we need.
We got to get it done and get it done now.
Ahh!
Like, I'm having a really hard time.
Because we already thought we had 40.
KEOGHAN: Both teams have one
species of tree to pick up.
-ALY: 311 is here. -Keep your eyes peeled.
What is that? It says Dirty Hands on it.
Oh, we're down there.
KEOGHAN: They've left some teammates behind so they can
start working on tying things down.
Both teams have got to get their
trucks underneath these massive tarps,
drop the tarps down, wrap them up,
first team to get it through this loading bay,
out for delivery wins today's team challenge.
Who's gonna be the first to get back to the loading dock
with their final trees?
What the hell? Where are they?
It's getting down to the last few minutes of this challenge
and I'm feeling like it's gonna be incredibly close.
Uh, "Savage Crew." Boom.
You can spot red real easy.
-Look, they're still looking. -You just cut.
You just cut, I'm gonna bring the truck up.
There. Right there.
Yeah, I got it, right here, right here.
[grunting]
[struggling]
[groaning]
KEOGHAN: It's gonna be a tight finish.
Who will get the job done first?
♪
Savage Crew coming in with their last load of trees!
This is all of them!
LARRON: This is it, guys. We got to get them on.
LAURA: We found all our trees, everybody's back,
now we need to make sure
we work as a team, finish getting everything up,
tied down, to be able to pull through and get that tarp on.
Yep, you're good.
Savage Crew have all their trees signed off on.
Now they got to load them.
Oh, come on.
Let's go, baby.
-LAURA: That's the last one. -Come on, baby, come on.
We still got a chance.
We'll see where they're at, right now.
KEOGHAN: Final stages for Savage Crew
and they're getting to win today.
-RENEÉE: Okay. -JAKE: Come on, Savage Crew!
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew bringing down the tarp on top of their load.
They got to tie this down.
You're good to go.
-[cheering] -Savage Crew with the win!
-[cheering] -[laughing]
Oh, they're done.
-Oh, are they? -Yeah.
One, two, three, Savage Crew!
Hey, come on, keep your head up, keep your head up.
LARRON: Um, I led my team to a victory today
and it feels just absolutely amazing.
We had a really rough time, uh, last challenge.
But this team challenge, it was the complete opposite.
-Good job, crew boss. -Way to go.
Whoo! Good job, Larron.
I know I could've done a better job,
uh, leading.
It's my fault for not checking.
But instead of following through with what my gameplan was,
I let other people say,
"Hey, we already did that,"
when it wasn't done.
And that is 100%, you know, my fault.
I have a tendency
to let other people push me around instead of
me being the leader that I know I am.
Let's finish the job.
RENEÉE" Good job, guys. Keep it up.
You guys got this.
Let's finish the job.
Let's finish strong.
KEOGHAN: Nice job, Dirty Hands, getting the job done.
All of you should be extremely proud of yourselves.
Dirty Hands, you should hold your heads high.
-Yeah. -Oh, definitely.
I felt like, uh, you guys were communicating really well.
One little thing slipped today and it just threw us for a loop.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, what was it that made
you so successful?
We stuck to what we said we were gonna do
and we listened to each other.
KEOGHAN: Larron, you're the crew boss today
and you know what that means.
Yes, sir, I do.
The Savage Crew now up two to one
in the team competition.
Good job, you guys.
KEOGHAN: That is huge
because, as you know, the first team to collect five
of these Badges of Honor
will be winning our overall team competition.
Yes, Dirty Hands.
-[cheering] -KEOGHAN: Second Badge of Honor.
And $12,000 for you
and your team. Congratulations.
[cheering]
So, tomorrow we transition back to the individual.
Yes, sir.
One more of you will be punching out, because, as you know,
there will be only one Tough As Nailschampion.
The journey continues tomorrow. Get some rest.
♪
ILIMA: Oh, what a great day.
I'm so excited.
Yeah, no one from Team Savage punching out today.
Second punch out goes to Dirty Hands.
[laughter]
Going into our individual challenge,
I do believe that
I definitely have what it takes to win Tough As Nails.
I just started my business a year and a half ago,
during the pandemic. I mean, for me to take that chance
with three kids in college,
it was like a big deal for me.
That's why I believe I'm here,
is because I'm a part of not giving up,
working your-your ass off just to get where you are.
I want to make my family proud
and I do not want to go into overtime.
I definitely have to get this challenge done
'cause I don't want my boys to be like,
"Come on, Mom, you're embarrassing us."
[laughter]
SYNETHIA: I'm gonna be your cheerleader on the side.
To give you guys lots of encouragement
to stay out of overtime.
Ensure that don't happen today.
Even though I was in overtime the last time,
don't expect me to be in the bottom two this time around.
If I get knocked down,
I will get back up. You knock me down,
I'll get back up again. Because...
it means you got the will to go again.
And that's what I... That's what I have.
JORGE: Good luck to everybody today.
SERGIO: Yeah, good luck, guys.
♪
SERGIO: Going into today's individual challenge,
it's a whole different mindset.
You have to separate yourself from your team.
It's you against everybody else.
Good morning, everyone. Put your bags down, get comfortable.
Synethia, you will be with me since you punched out.
You're gonna be my co-commentator today.
Welcome back to Devil Mountain Nursery once again.
Here at the nursery,
one of the things that they're doing
is constantly moving the trees
from one planter box to another.
Today, your job is you are going to be moving a magnolia
from a 15-gallon bucket
and to then put them into a planter
just like this right here.
So, when the work whistle blows,
you are going to build the three by three planter.
All the tools you need to get the job done
are laid out on your work bench.
You got a finished example to look at here.
There are no plans.
Got to look, see how it's constructed,
and put it together yourself.
Aaron is back. And he will be making sure that
every planter box is built properly
before you replant your magnolia.
Now, Jake, you won the first individual competition,
got a prize of $2,000 cash.
-Tell you what we're gonna do. -That's it.
I want you guys to be super competitive.
And I want to reward you for all your hard work.
So, today, we are increasing the reward of your win...
to $3,000.
-Ooh. -[applause]
KEOGHAN: The last two of you to finish
will be going into overtime.
By the end of the day,
one more of you will be punching out.
Let's get to work.
This for $3,000.
Everything on the line.
ILIMA: Today I get to fight for
being able to take home $3,000
for my kids and my family.
These guys better watch out because
I'm gonna come before them.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle...
♪
[work whistle blows]
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle...
♪
-[work whistle blows] -SYNETHIA: Go!
KEOGHAN: You want to win that $3,000 prize,
all you got to do is repot a beautiful magnolia tree.
But first, you got to build a planter box from scratch.
There's no plans for this challenge today.
Everything you need to know is on the finished example.
SERGIO: I was a carpenter, I have an upper hand.
Grab your materials,
start building your sides.
KEOGHAN: Aaron will not sign off
until it's perfect, everybody.
Measuring is your friend.
ALY: Whoever wins today gets $3,000.
Me, my dad and my brother,
we're fixing up a cabin
that we've had since I was about two years old.
That money would be huge.
KEOGHAN: Nails are flying in from Jorge.
Ellery has all his pieces laid out.
SYNETHIA: Let's go, Ellery.
You know what to do.
Synethia, since you're training to be a carpenter...
-Yeah. -If you were approaching this,
what would you do?
I would measure the actual box, lay out everything,
pre-nail everything.
So, Laura was pre-nailing.
-That was a good move. -Yeah, that's a good move, yeah.
LAURA: All my nails,
I just put them in just a little bit.
That way,
when it comes time to put them through,
I can just go boom, boom, boom,
straight down the line,
and finish off one piece.
KEOGHAN: Laura's flying through this.
Great job.
[hammering]
KEOGHAN: Sergio moving extremely quickly.
Has one side of his box done already.
Moving on to the second.
Come on, Renée.
I have never actually put together a planter box.
But I have fixed many things around my house
doing carpentry stuff, so...
I'm gonna try to take those skills and bring them over.
Not going down today.
Come on, girl.
KEOGHAN: Ilima working on the second side of her box.
Jorge completing his second side.
Beth is hammering away.
G. O.
-KEOGHAN: Let's go. -SYNETHIA: Let's go, team, go.
Go, go, you're Tough As Nails, you're Tough As Nails, go.
KEOGHAN: You guys got your own built-in cheerleader here today.
Sergio is flying, he's got on to the third side of his box.
Mister building two sides of his box together.
I've built dog houses,
bird houses, and I do a lot
of woodworking in my business, so...
it should be a piece of cake for me.
All right.
KEOGHAN: Beth with one side complete.
Ilima has built her sides, starting to assemble.
Larron has four sides of his box together.
Jorge finishing off the bottom of his box.
JORGE: You build a planter box.
And then you have to band it.
As a concrete form setter,
banding is something I do all the time.
So, you know, today I'm confident.
KEOGHAN: Jorge is flying,
rolling out his second band.
Sergio, cinching up a band on his box.
SERGIO: I got off to
a really quick start.
I actually had my box built first.
So I'm like, yeah.
Check.
You got this.
Aaron, give Sergio a check.
SERGIO: Three grand, baby. Come on.
Sorry, this one's not good.
KEOGHAN: It's not good, Sergio.
Go back to the finished example and have a look.
It is not correct.
Log cabin, log cabin.
What do you mean it's not right?
Are you kidding me right now?
Where is it off, man?
♪
-Can I get a check? -Aaron, a check over here please.
-Yeah, sorry, check down. -Check is not good, Jorge.
Fix it.
Aaron gives me a thumbs down.
And I'm thinking, "What am I doing wrong right here?"
Can I get a check?
Looking for a check.
-Sorry. -Sorry, check your box.
It's not correct.
Pay careful to all the corners.
LAURA: I get the thumbs down.
It's a little disheartening.
So I get out my tape measure
and I'm measuring
their overhang versus my overhang
and that's when I realize that I'm quarter of an inch
to a half inch off
on all of my corners.
KEOGHAN: Has Laura identified her mistake?
I think so, I hope so.
Can I get a check?
KEOGHAN: Larron wants a check.
Not quite.
KEOGHAN: Everybody, pay careful attention
to the finished example.
If you make a mistake,
you're gonna have to rip everything apart
-and start again. -JORGE: Can I get a check?
I call for my check, I'm hoping
you know, this is it.
We're good.
Good with Jorge,
Jorge has completed his box.
He's moving on.
JORGE: On my job,
we're trained by our union to
pay attention to those small details.
And I realized that, on my corner,
I had the notches flipped
with the side that doesn't have notches.
All I had to do was flip them.
So, now, I got to hustle,
I got to get this done.
I don't want nobody
to even come close to me.
You're one hour into this job, everybody.
One hour.
♪
KEOGHAN: Renée starting to assemble two sides of her box.
-You're looking good, Renée. -Thank you.
[grunting]
[banging]
Check.
Another check, Sergio.
It's getting closer, but it's still...
SERGIO: Nope. Thumbs down again.
What do you mean it's wrong?
It's all nailed up. I don't get it.
KEOGHAN: Jorge still moving ahead with his soil,
taking a clear lead from everybody.
He's the only one that has his assembled correctly.
Check!
We're not there yet.
He was very dramatic about it.
Not yet. Not quite, not quite.
Oh, Lord have mercy. What?
MISTER: My box is complete,
in my eyes.
I have no idea.
-Not quite there. -Nope.
-Not yet. -KEOGHAN: Not yet.
ELLERY: I'm looking to see
where my error is.
And I'm not seeing it.
-Not quite there. -I get a thumbs-down.
Double-check my nails, double-check my sides.
I pounded in them nails in all them edges.
Yeah, we're not, not quite there.
Get another thumbs-down.
What's wrong with it?
I'm getting very frustrated.
So I'm trying to look at the example planter,
see what I did wrong.
I cannot find it.
I moved them all, got them lined up.
Not quite.
I wanted to set it on fire
and-and burn it right to the ground, honestly.
What the...?
♪
KEOGHAN: One hour and 20 minutes into this job, everybody.
What did Jorge do that made him right?
ALY: I look over at Jorge and I realize
that I did not put
a big enough overlap on my boards that had my notches.
So, I knew what I had to fix.
Kick these over and then you're golden.
[grunting]
KEOGHAN: Jorge already getting his magnolia into his planter box.
[grunting]
KEOGHAN: Somebody's walking home with $3,000 today.
Jorge has the lead.
Let's go, Jorge.
♪
KEOGHAN: Jorge is stomping down the soil into his planter box.
Think about that wedding, Jorge.
$3,000.
And here goes Jorge putting his stencil on his planter box.
Oh, Lord.
KEOGHAN: For the win today, Aaron, do we have a thumbs-up?
We got a thumbs-up for Jorge! And he's our winner today.
JORGE: It's an overwhelming feeling, you know?
It was my first win.
KEOGHAN: Great work today.
That $3,000 is gonna go to a nice wedding for us.
-Dirty Hands. -Come here, come here. Dirty Hands.
KEOGHAN: Remember, two of you are going into overtime.
What did Jorge do that you are not doing?
I have no idea.
LARRON: I look at the finished crate
and the only difference
that I can see is that the slats
are on the left side of each panel when it's upright,
versus mine were on the right side when it was upright.
I figured that was the mistake I had made.
-Check. -KEOGHAN: Aly looking for a check.
♪
ALY: Come on, come on.
All right, I think we got a winner.
-Yes. -Aly!
That's right, Aly.
There you go, keep going. Don't stop.
Can I please get a check?
Has Larron got the job done?
Okay, we got it, we got another winner.
KEOGHAN: We got a thumbs-up for Larron.
Wow, our young competitors are showing the older ones up today.
Everything's falling apart.
KEOGHAN: Look at young Aly go!
Hey, can I get a check?
That's what was wrong with it.
That corner was off.
Come on, baby. Come on, come on.
Still... Still wrong.
I don't see it.
Blowing my mind.
I started taking my bands off,
all of a sudden I make this move,
a fire starts in my back.
[groaning]
Years ago, I had a back injury.
And usually I don't have any issues,
but I'm in major pain.
Sergio's struggling, oof.
-He's in pain. -[Sergio groans]
-I hope he's okay. -JORGE: Sergio, keep moving, man.
SERGIO: The pain just took over.
I couldn't even stand.
KEOGHAN: Sergio's come to a standstill.
That is not good.
Oh, man.
♪
KEOGHAN: An hour and 45 minutes into the job.
Jorge is the only one to have got the job done.
[groaning]
Sergio still struggling with his back.
Can we have the medic look at Sergio?
SERGIO: I'm frustrated, I'm in pain.
I'm thinking, "What can I do to make this go away?"
-[groans] -It's heartbreaking, you know?
SERGIO: I'm thinking I'm tapping out.
I have no choice.
The pain is unbearable.
KEOGHAN: Sergio, you hang in there.
Take it easy, take it easy.
[gasps]
Just got a cramp that won't go away.
That's all right.
Can I get a check, sir?
Laura looking for a check.
AARON: All four corners are perfect.
Okay, we got another, uh, complete winner box here.
She gets her planter box done.
I'm hearing, "Check, Laura's done."
Check!
Okay, we're good.
-Check. -We got another. -[whoops]
RENEÉE: Now I'm very frustrated,
but I knew that Jorge was done.
So I did look at Jorge's box
and noticed that the grooves
for the boards had to be on the left side.
My head was like, "No."
Oh, stop doing that.
[grunting]
-[moaning] -KEOGHAN: Mister very frustrated,
MISTER: Oh, my Lord.
This is the longest wood project I've ever been on.
KEOGHAN: Aly carrying this magnolia.
Yes! Nice move, Aly.
Larron puts his magnolia in.
[grunting]
[straining]
KEOGHAN: Aly has her stencil out.
Looking for a thumbs-up and she'll have second place.
And Aaron, do we have a thumbs-up?
We got a thumbs-up.
[cheering]
ALY: I know I'm not winning money,
but it was a confidence booster for me.
Come over here, come on.
-Done. -Aaron, there's another check for Larron.
Okay, we're good here, too.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-[applause] -There we go.
-Thank you. -Yeah, thank you, man.
SERGIO: I hear people close to finishing.
LARRON: Come on, Jake. Come on.
-Good? -It's good.
Yes! [whoops]
SERGIO: I don't want to go into overtime.
-[exhales] -I got to keep it together.
I need to finish.
Sergio not giving up, he is back in the game.
-That's right! -KEOGHAN: Sergio! -[cheering]
SERGIO: The fire in my back doesn't compare
to the fire I have in my heart for my brother.
My brother passed away February of 2021.
Unexpectedly.
He had bilateral pneumonia.
He went to the hospital and the last three words
he told me was, "I love you, brother."
Never saw him again after that.
He never came home.
We're all still trying to pick up the pieces.
And right now I can hear my brother saying,
"Bro, keep pushing, keep pushing."
He gives me the strength. Come on, brother.
JORGE: That's right, Sergio. Keep pushing, man.
KEOGHAN: Two hours into this job, everybody.
That's why you're hurting.
-Whew. -Mister struggling.
Doing a dissection.
Renée, don't you give up.
They are behind.
-LARRON: There we go, Jake. -[cheering]
KEOGHAN: She'll be the fifth to finish, safe out of overtime.
-Let's go, Beth. -[whooping]
-[cheering] -Way to go, Beth.
We got a check with Mister.
-Not... Not good. -KEOGHAN: Thumbs-down for Mister.
MISTER: Hardest part about this planter box:
doing it over.
[crashing]
KEOGHAN: Oh, Mister has a complete and utter collapse
of his planter box.
Scratching his head, thinking,
"How do I get this job done today?"
MISTER: I'm getting in my head.
SERGIO: Don't let it defeat you, Mister.
Come on, baby. Come on, man.
KEOGHAN: Jake moving on to his stencil.
JORGE: Here we go, Jake.
Don't stop, you got it.
Look at Jake moving.
-Whoo! -KEOGHAN: Jake gets the job done.
LARRON: Good job, Jake.
Five of you left.
Two of you going into overtime.
SERGIO: I'm looking at this box and all of a sudden,
I was like, "Oh, shoot."
Put the damn thing on the wrong side.
I finally figured it out.
JORGE: Keep moving, Sergio.
Good job, man.
SERGIO: I fix what I think is wrong.
He's thinking about his brother today, you know that.
SYNETHIA: Come on, Sergio!
Check.
-Yeah, Sergio! -Yeah!
KEOGHAN: All right, the comeback kid
is getting a check.
-Has he got it done right? -You got it, Sergio!
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: And a thumbs-up for Sergio.
Moving on to planting his tree.
-[cheering] -Nice job, man.
ALY: Keep going, Sergio.
Ellery's getting a check.
All right, we're good.
KEOGHAN: And Ellery gets his planter box done.
Let's get your magnolia planted.
-Can I get a check? -I'm starting to get a little frustrated.
My forearms are burning from smashing in all these nails.
I'm just pushing myself through it.
All right, we're good.
And I'm not going into OT today.
KEOGHAN: Sergio is stomping down his soil.
ALY: Yeah, Sergio!
Highly motivated to stay out of overtime
and do this for his brother.
[cheering]
That's it, Sergio.
[cheering]
-It's all you, baby. -This whole challenge,
-it was mind over matter. -Get over here, man.
-SERGIO: I don't tap out. -ALY: I'm so proud of you. -Thank you.
I'm here, I'm standing, and I finished.
We were all rooting for you, you know.
KEOGHAN: Only four of you left.
Renée just keeps on working, she does not give up.
ELLERY: I had just came off
an overtime.
I'm gonna make sure that I don't go back
to another overtime.
Ellery's good.
Ellery gets the job done.
ILIMA: Dang, man.
I'm in the last three.
You know, I can hear my kids telling me,
"Mom, you got this."
KEOGHAN: Ilima spraying on her stencil.
And Ilima gets the job done.
[cheering]
♪
MISTER: I'm just kind of reflecting on what went wrong out there.
I kind of got in my own way.
I'm in overtime with my teammate.
Renée is, you know, a very hard worker.
She is definitely not to be underestimated.
-Man. -One of us is gonna have to clock out.
Kind of heartbreaking.
JAKE: Come on, you got a spot there.
RENEÉE: I did keep plugging away.
Then time just lapsed.
Mister is very strong.
And I do have to dig deep and find something
that's gonna give me an edge over him.
Way to not give up.
Hey, way to not stop, guys.
Big day today. There was a
stumble today, Renée, for you.
Attention to detail.
You're trying to go fast because you see
Jorge has put his tray in, I'm like, "What?"
-You know, then, you know... -[laughter]
You never stopped. And, Mister, what happened with you?
My box just started falling apart.
-Oh. -And then I fell apart, so...
KEOGHAN: Both of you have a chance
to fight your way back into this individual competition.
Everybody ready for overtime?
-Yeah! -All right, let's get to it.
♪
RENEÉE: Going into overtime,
I'm planning on coming out ahead.
I'm a fighter, I'm not gonna stop.
I know that there's a lot of people that underestimate me.
But I definitely want to show that I'm strong.
And show that I know what I'm doing.
And I'm not gonna lose today.
MISTER: Earlier today, I almost gave up.
I do put a lot of pressure on myself.
But I just need to stay focused and just
get out of my own way.
I think it's my duty to think about my family,
you know, back home--
the reason why I came.
This is just one of those moments
that it's all on the line.
So, I'm not punching out today.
[cheering]
Let's go, baby.
[applause]
Welcome to overtime.
Now, your job today
is you are going to be repotting some plants.
Using these machines right here, when that work whistle blows,
you have to identify four different plants.
You're gonna find a board next to your work areas that have
a number of plants identified
with photographs and their Italian names.
You'll find the plants in these piles right here.
You need to get six of each.
Once you have properly identified all 24 plants,
bring them over to your canning machine
and begin recanning them.
What'll you do is you'll take some soil, put it into
one of the bigger pots and repot the plants.
Move them along the conveyer belt and then load them
onto the trailers.
Once you have all 24 plants on your trailers,
the first of you to start up your engines
and pull out of here will stay in contention
for the Tough As Nailstitle.
If you are last, you will be punching out.
Aaron is back to oversee your job.
Ready to get to work?
-Ready. -Yes.
To your workstations.
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
[cheering]
ILIMA: You got this, guys.
MISTER: You have to find
four species
of different trees and bushes
in a group of
60 other trees, by picture.
KEOGHAN: Mister's lined up six of his Little Ollies.
LAURA: Good job, Auntie Renée.
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: That's it, Renée.
RENEÉE: As a mason, I do this at work all the time.
I know what an olea is and I know what a magnolia is.
I want to pick those first and then
I'm just gonna try to look at the leaves and figure out
-the other two. -You guys got this.
ILIMA: It's very difficult to watch your two family members
compete in OT.
I mean, they're both pot for pot.
Let's go, baby, let's go.
-[cheering] -Focus on you!
KEOGHAN: Mister and Renée, neck and neck.
-Can I get a check? -AARON: Yep.
You got seven of the Little Ollies.
So you got to put one back.
-KEOGHAN: We good? -AARON: Mister's good.
MISTER: Now that I have all these plants and trees,
I can just focus on replating them in the new buckets.
Then I'll load them up on my trailer until I'm done.
-We're good over here? -We're incorrect here.
You need the arbutus marina.
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Come on, Renée, you got to fix that mistake.
RENEÉE: I picked up the wrong plants.
I got to, like, start really moving.
KEOGHAN: Mister's already started repotting his Little Ollies.
Plenty of time, Renée.
KEOGHAN: Come on, Renée, you can still do this.
-SYNETHIA: You got this, Mister. -JORGE: Come on, Mister.
KEOGHAN: There you go, Renée. Okay.
Renée with 24 of the plants.
AARON: You're good, you're good to go.
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Recanning begins.
-She's two pots behind. -ILIMA: Let's go, Mama, let's go.
RENEÉE: Mister is a little bit ahead of me.
So I have to pick up the pace, right now.
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Stamping down that soil.
And she's going all the way to the end of her conveyer belt.
There you go!
Dude, she just ripped that out.
RENEÉE: I'm trying to do three things at once.
Pick up the plant, grab the pot, put it down, and hit,
and then start patting down, then I put it in again.
So, you know, you get into a rhythm.
-[cheering] -ILIMA: Go, Renée!
KEOGHAN: Mister's got two, he's working on his third.
MISTER: I'm tunnel vision, it's just me, dirt and a bucket.
And that's all I'm doing.
KEOGHAN: There are right there.
Let's go, let's go.
KEOGHAN: She's tied it up.
Mister with four done, Renée working on her fifth.
[cheering]
You only get one shot.
KEOGHAN: Renée has gone slightly ahead of Mister at this point.
[cheering]
MISTER: I'm sweating
like all get-out.
I'm just trying to move my feet
and hands as fast as I could.
LAURA: Keep up the good work!
Ooh, she's got a lot of soil in that one.
Yeah, I did.
KEOGHAN: It made it very difficult
for her to get her root system
down into the pot.
ILIMA: Slow and steady. You got this, Mama, you got this.
KEOGHAN: Mister rolling four plants down the conveyer belt.
ALY: Let's go, Renée.
Let's go, Mister.
ALY: Mister put four plants
across on the trailer
and had to do that to fit everything.
And Renée didn't take that into account.
She had them three across.
ILIMA: You got this, Mister. Don't lose it.
Don't lose your plant.
-SERGIO: Whoa, whoa. -[others exclaiming]
ILIMA: You got this, Mister. Don't lose it.
-Don't lose your plant. -Whoo! -Whoa.
-[others exclaiming] -ILIMA: Good catch, Mister.
KEOGHAN: Renée sliding her fourth magnolia onto the trailer.
Mister working on his fifth magnolia.
They're going plant for plant at this point.
But she's got to make room on her trailer.
She's got to get six more plants on there.
Looks like she's running out of room.
She's gone three wide instead of four.
Come on, Renée, you're still in the game.
KEOGHAN: Oh, did she slide them over nicely?
Renée making room.
Four plants left for Renée.
[cheering]
And there's four left for Mister.
LAURA: Come on, get on them, Renée. Keep working...
JORGE: Let's go, keep moving.
SERGIO: Are you kidding me right now?
My hands are sweating watching.
-[groans] -[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Mister wants it bad.
Renée, you want this?
RENEÉE: Oh, my God, this is like so close,
so I'm trying to go even faster.
Ahh!
-Go. -JORGE: There you go, Mister.
KEOGHAN: Mister with two more to get onto his trailer.
MISTER: We're neck and neck.
I'm pushing it.
LAURA: Keep working on you, Renée.
Keep working on you.
MISTER: I get my last one on there, it barely fit.
KEOGHAN: He gets it on.
-Mister, up onto his truck. -[cheering]
-LAURA: You got this. -SERGIO: Fire it up, baby.
[engine idling]
ALY: Let's go, baby!
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Mister moves his trailer across the line!
Bring it in, Mister. Bring it in.
LAURA: Come on, Mister.
Oh, he's gonna be proud of that.
MISTER: Going into OT,
I wanted to get out of my own head.
And I'm just so happy.
And excited.
LAURA: Here we go, Renée, finish it up.
ILIMA: Great job, Renée.
KEOGHAN: It's been a tough day emotionally.
You were getting really disheartened, but, uh,
you showed that you have true grit.
It's a lot on the line, man.
What is on the line for you?
A legacy.
I feel like if I lose,
my family won't look at me the same.
Do you really believe that?
No, but... that's what I put on myself.
[laughter]
Why have you put that pressure on yourself, Mister?
I just feel like it's my duty to... to keep the family going.
My parents raised me right.
Uh...
My dad had, um...
a heart transplant a couple years ago.
And, uh...
just for him to still be living here on earth is, uh,
is a blessing.
I-I just can't let him down.
So, I put it all on the line for him.
To see my dad dwindle in his health was very heartbreaking.
I don't know what I would do if he would...
would've passed away.
I didn't come here to punch out today.
-[applause] -That's right, man.
Hey, Dad, I done this for you.
You are a warrior.
Now it's my turn to be a warrior
and I'm not giving up on you.
This is for the Frost family.
I love this guy.
He loves his family,
and he's doing whatever it takes.
It was so close. What is driving you, Renée?
I'm, uh, a year and a half into my business and...
I've had my, you know, ups and downs.
But I keep going.
These guys keep going.
And we work really hard
to bring our families a better life
and for some American dream.
We love you both. Good job, guys.
KEOGHAN: Now, for you, Renée,
-your focus is gonna be all about team? -Yes.
We got you.
But, uh, I am sorry to tell you that your journey
in the individual competition on Tough As Nails
has come to an end and I do need you to punch out.
-Good job. -Good job.
RENEÉE: I am disappointed in myself.
I would've wanted to go further.
But, you know, I just want my kids to know life isn't easy.
And I've told them that.
But if you have a little laughter
or you have a little smile through these hard bumps,
maybe it'll just get you through and you're not gonna crumble.
[timeclock clicks]
You know, it's not over.
I still have money to win
in the team challenges.
So, I'm definitely going to have my team's back
and really work hard.
Tomorrow, we're gonna kick it into a new gear, all right?
Get some rest, I'll see you in the morning.
[cheering]
LAURA: One, two, three,
TOGETHER: Tough as Nails!
JOHN: This is a triple-grafted pear.
Here we've got one of the most wonderful,
iconic New Zealand shrubs,
the Muehlenbeckia astonii.
Divaricating, um, and beautifully drought-tolerant,
well adapted to Canterbury conditions.
KEOGHAN: Next time onTough As Nails...
Will Dirty Hands today even things out?
Struggling to get the backside in every time.
-Ah, crap. -Oh!
Stop! Stop!
KEOGHAN: Who will be the first to get their V8 started?
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Don't start, don't start.
[rumbling]
KEOGHAN: Here we go!
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