[Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" playing]
♪ ♪
The usual, is it?
[person] Aye.
[singer] ♪ There is freedom within ♪
♪ There is freedom without ♪
You all right, friend?
[person] Yeah, I just miss my friend--
Friend, I know.
You come in here every day, tell me all of it.
[person sighs]
I know.
It's just...
we went to Culloden...
[chuckles]
[singer] ♪ Hey now, hey now ♪
[Sam] Abseiled...
[singer] ♪ Don't dream it's over ♪
Well done, yourself.
[singer] ♪ Hey now, hey now ♪
[Sam] Shore some sheep...
[laughter]
[singer] ♪ The world comes in ♪
I even got naked and swam in the Atlantic.
[singer] ♪ They come to build A wall between us ♪
♪ We know they won't win ♪
♪ ♪
You would be my- my choice
if we were to do it all over again.
I really hope we do do it all over again.
[echoing] All over again, over again...
-[cell phone buzzing] -[ringtone playing]
[singer] ♪ Sing me a song Of a lass that is gone ♪
♪ Say, could that lass be I? ♪
♪ Mer-- ♪
-Hello? -Graham.
Hi, it- it's Sam.
Yes, Sam, hey, hey.
Good, good, wow. How- how are you?
A-actually, I miss you, mate.
That's really, really,
really, uh, really sweet of you.
I miss you too.
Well, we- we had...
we had a good time in Scotland, didn't we?
Yeah, we had a great time.
-[yells] -Ahh!
Ah, oh, fuck!
What... what are you doing?
Jesus, fuck.
-Gah! -Oh!
Yeah, we- we should do it all again.
I... I'd absolutely, uh--
yeah, I'd love to do that.
You... you would?
Yeah, but you know that, um, as I've said, um...
I'm-I'm, uh... well, I'm... I'm in New Zealand.
Yeah, yeah, but--
[line beeping]
Sam?
[door thuds]
[soft music plays]
Bye, then.
♪ ♪
[doorbell rings]
[dramatic music plays]
♪ ♪
Hey, Graham.
Ready to go on a road trip?
[upbeat bagpipe music plays]
♪ ♪
So we're on the roads again!
[Sam] Anyway--yes, we are.
What do you think?
It's your home away from home, huh?
Yet again, I find myself sitting
within a couple of feet of you,
-being driven-- -In a very confined space.
Very confined space, yes.
Yes, it's quite disturbing.
Yeah, how did we get here?
I... I often wonder that.
I often think, what did I do...
-Where did it all go wrong? -...to deserve this?
[laughter]
[Sam] We obviously met on Outlander.
Dougal!
-You look well, lad. -Aye.
In spite of the misfortunes you've suffered.
[Graham] You'd already been cast as, um...
[Sam] James Alexander!
[Graham] Big Balls Whatever-his-name-is.
[Sam] Malcolm MacKenzie Ginger.
You taught me well.
Too well.
[Sam] And you were playing
Old Dougal MacAngry.
-MacKenzie. -[Graham] Dougal MacAngry.
We wrote a couple of books.
[Sam] We wrote a couple of books,
and we decided to go on a road trip together.
But now you live in--
well, you live on the other side of the world.
-Yes. -[Sam] And I came
all the way down here to do it again.
It was an easy choice.
I've heard so much about the Scottish influence
-on New Zealand... -Yep.
[Sam] And I was dying to see it for myself.
Well, there... there are lots of Scottish connections here.
I'm loving the landscape, which is very, very similar.
[Graham] They have Scottish restaurants here.
-They make haggis. -[Sam] Right.
[Graham] I mean, I think it's 20% of the population
claims Scottish ancestry.
[Sam] Wow.
There's a whole city called Dunedin.
[Graham] Which is basically just Edinburgh
-in miniature. -[Sam] Yeah.
So is that why you came here?
I came here for The Hobbit.
Oh, there's hobbits here. Awesome.
-No. -[Sam] Have you ever seen one?
No, no.
I worked on The Hobbit for 2 1/2 years,
totally fell in love with this country.
It's like one of those islands that a child draws.
It's got sandy beaches. It's got...
-[Sam] Snow-covered mountains. -[Graham] Y-yes.
Valleys filled with vineyards, so lots of wine.
And modern cities packed with restaurants and museums.
[Sam] Ooh, yum.
[Graham] And it's only 100,000 square miles,
which is just really not very big at all.
And it's just all kind of crammed in.
An incredible quality of life.
[Sam] Wow.
[Graham] The first party we had
at one of the producer's houses,
I remember saying to her,
"I bet you at least one of us stays."
And so I did. I ended up staying here.
My second daughter was born here.
It's a great place for kids.
[Sam] And they drive on the same side
-of the road... -[Graham] They do.
[Sam] ...which is very fortunate.
[Graham] It's really just one of the most
beautiful countries in the world.
And it's a wonderful place to be able to just sit back,
relax, and just take it all in.
[Sam] Oh, yeah, but um, you won't be sitting back.
[Graham] Why not?
[Sam] This is adrenaline country, my friend.
-[Graham] What? -[Sam] Yes.
You thought you could hide that from me, huh?
Everyone here is crazy
for extreme adrenaline-inducing action,
and we're gonna dive right in.
[person] Whoo!
[Graham] Oh, God.
[Sam] In 1987, when Kiwi AJ Hackett
threw himself off the Eiffel Tower with nothing
but a thick elastic rope around his ankles,
he announced to the world that his homeland
was ready for action.
The following year,
the world's first commercial bungy jump
opened in New Zealand,
and the country has never looked back.
Since then, millions of people have traveled to New Zealand
every year to get their adrenaline fix.
There's everything from canyon swings,
tandem paragliding, helicopter skiing,
and some of the other crazy stuff
you're about to see us do.
It's no wonder New Zealand is often referred to
as the adventure capital of the world.
[Graham] So you flew halfway around the world
just to terrify me?
[Sam laughs] Yeah. It's my favorite pastime.
Oh, my God! What's that?
Black cat!
[Graham] Just... look, just get on with it.
What- what exactly... exactly do you have in mind?
[Sam] We are going zip-lining.
The last time we abseiled,
you-you-you overcame a fear and...
Great stuff. Good stuff, mate.
[breathing shakily]
[Sam] You seem pretty good with heights now.
-I mean... -No. No, no, I'm not.
I feel like this zip line is only just a little bit higher.
What could possibly go wrong?
Right?
You're gonna love it.
It's in this picturesque mountainside town
with a wee Scottish name, Glenorchy.
♪ ♪
-[laughing] -Why are you laughing?
It's so good.
It is. I know. It is.
[Sam] Oh, I think it's aptly named
the Paradise Ziplines because it...
I mean, it really is paradise.
-It's stunning. -Yeah.
[Sam] Oh, Graham, you can see
Mount Aspiring National Park from the top.
[Graham] This is ridiculous.
[Sam] And actually, as a Scotsman,
how similar this is to Scotland--
Yeah. It's Scotland on steroids.
-[Sam] Yes, it is, really. -[Graham] That's right.
[Douglas] It's the best description of this place.
-Yeah. -What diabolical mind
uh, thought this up?
So it's a man called Chris Russell.
About ten years ago, they came to have a look at this valley,
and they thought they really wanted to build a bungy jump.
And then they thought they need to build
just a couple of little zip lines
to get people across the stream.
-To get to the bungy? -[Douglas] Yeah.
And then they pretty much just got carried away.
Just built more and more.
Eight in total. Yeah.
I have to ask, how tall,
how high is your highest, most scary zip line?
First one's 100 meters tall
and goes 200 meters across the canyon.
[dramatic music plays]
100... 100...
-100 meters tall. -Yes, I heard him.
There may be no return.
How do you feel about that?
♪ ♪
It's a bit of déjà vu, really.
Mm.
You've got your work cut out for you.
You'll be fine, buddy. You'll be fine.
You'll be fine, bud.
Don't... don't.
♪ ♪
[Douglas] Go on, so yeah. Hook yourself on, Graham.
Gonna need to walk down three steps.
You're not gonna go anywhere yet.
-Three steps. -Oh, no. That's pretty high.
One more step.
[Sam] Dead man walking.
Dead man walking.
Please stop. Stop. Stop.
-Stop. -You're telling me to stop?
-Not you. -[Sam] Not you.
Oh, sorry, sorry. Okay. All right.
No, no, no.
Just be clear who you're talking to
'cause it make me do something I shouldn't.
Sorry, I'm... [sighs]
No? Maybe not.
So I'm gonna get you to take your safety off.
This is your last time to look deep into Sam's eyes before--
I mean, I don't want to look at--
-I don't want to look at him. -Buddy.
So just turn around. Keep walking.
And then just one more teeny, little step.
[tense music plays]
Oh, so...
Uh, I'm not really feeling very good, actually.
I'm really not feeling good.
[Dougal] Deep breaths. Deep breaths.
Doing really well, buddy.
Wait.
Whose idea was it to make Graham hang off
the edge of a cliff?
Oh, yes.
[Douglas] I've got you. I've got you.
You're not going anywhere.
I want you to feel the harness working.
-Oh, God. Oh, fuck. -[Douglas] There we go.
-Oh, God. Oh, God. -[Douglas] Are you all good?
No, have I got my... am I holding on properly?
You're holding on perfect. Feet up off the ground.
One foot out, you want to keep your head to the side.
Off you go.
Oh, God. Oh, sweet Jesus.
Oh, God.
Fuck!
What have I done?
I actually kind of liked the guy.
Why, Heughan?
[upbeat music plays]
Why?
[laughing] What have I done?
He's never gonna forgive me.
Oh, God.
How much do I fucking hate that man?
-There you go. -How do I get up?
Oh- oh, God.
-[Shane] Beautiful. -Jesus Christ.
Yes!
[whistles]
I'm not gonna do that.
That looks far too terrifying.
"Come to New Zealand," he said.
"I want to see where you live," he said.
"Yeah, let's have some fun. We can do some adventure."
I'm coming for you, Graham!
[Douglas] We're gonna walk on down now.
Oh, wow. It's really high.
Oh, my God.
[dramatic music plays]
I'll give him more credit.
This is actually... this is actually pretty scary.
I can--oh, Jesus Christ.
Oh, my God.
Has anyone ever fallen off here, Dougie?
Not that's complained about it.
[Sam] How fast does this go?
[Douglas] It depends on your size, but you're looking at
about maybe 50 kilometers an hour with the wind today.
Ah, great. Thirty-one miles an hour.
[Douglas] Fast- fast enough, mate.
♪ ♪
All right. I'm ready. Let's do this.
-[Douglas] Look down. -Yeah.
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Whoa! [laughs]
Yes!
Yes! Whoo!
Whoa!
[rock music plays]
[laughing]
[Graham] Yes. [laughs]
Well done, buddy.
Very impressed.
That was, uh...
that was pretty high.
-Yeah. Yeah, it was. -Ah.
Ooh, I think I uh, may have soiled my trousers there.
No, you didn't. You're fine.
-Let's go do some more. -Would you stop hitting me?
[laughter]
♪ ♪
Here we go. Three, two, one.
Whoo! Oh, my God.
Wow!
Wow! Oh, my goodness!
Whoo! Oh, yeah!
♪ ♪
All right.
Wow! Just wow!
New Zealand!
Wow!
-[laughing] That was insane. -[Shane] Well done.
That was really amazing.
Ahh!
-[laughter] -Well done.
-That was amazing. -Now that was fun.
-The other one? -So good.
-I don't know. But that was... -Yeah?
It was so fast as you're going along the water.
-I looked down-- -Oh, yeah.
You were going really, really fast.
-Yeah. -Really fast.
Yeah. Came quick. But ah, amazing.
Such an adrenaline rush, right?
Oh, yeah. Totally.
Mate, I'm so proud of you.
-You did really well. -Thank you.
-So do I get a hug now and... -Oh, all right.
Thanks, mate. Well done.
Well done. I'm very proud of you.
[soft music plays]
♪ ♪
-[Graham] Right. -[Sam] All right.
Just gonna smooth my eyebrows down.
-They're a bit... -They've come a bit...
they're still startled from the zip lines.
Yes, you have this constant state of...
-Hmm. -[Sam] ...expression of...
-Hmm. -[Sam] ...fear and surprise.
Obviously, you survived, and you did really well.
So now...
now we're gonna up things just a little bit.
We're gonna turn... turn the volume up.
You seem intent
on just compounding my fear constantly.
It's to test you, because people in New Zealand
seem to be into extreme sports.
-Yes. -Extreme everything.
They are.
I see mountain bikes everywhere,
-people surfing. -Mountain biking.
I can do mountain biking.
-Really? -Yeah, yeah. No.
I have no problem with mountain biking.
What about downhill extremely fast?
Well, I can go downhill.
I don't see the necessity to go extremely fast.
I mean, what, like, cut the brake cables
-and just see what happens or-- -Yeah.
-Right. -Faster the better.
That's your idea of a good time.
-If you survived. -Literally,
we can hand you the mountain bike, and you'll go,
"I'll be cutting the brake cables."
-Why not? -"Why not?"
Yeah.
Is there anything that you wouldn't do?
Let me think about that. No.
[laughs]
[upbeat bagpipe music plays]
♪ ♪
Hold on!
♪ ♪
Stop being such a hero.
What does adrenaline do to your body?
It sort of levels me out.
[Graham] No, I'm not talking about you...
Oh.
[Graham] 'Cause you're a freak.
But what does it do to a normal person?
It's probably a little bit like somebody throttling you
and then just letting you go at the last minute
-so you can breathe. -[Sam] Yeah.
Well, I mean, whatever you're into.
I mean, little insight into your private life.
[Graham] So what is your lack of a frontal lobe
planning next?
[Sam] Ah. It's not so bad.
[Graham] Oh, really?
I don't believe you for a minute.
[Sam] It's terrifying.
♪ ♪
It's a beautiful day to go out on the ocean.
Put on wet suits, get into a cage, go underwater.
We're going great white shark diving.
I've often wondered what the description
of the worst day of my life would sound like,
-and you've just done it. -This is it.
[tense music plays]
Graham, here's some fun facts--
I know you're a facts man-- to pass the time.
Great whites are the largest predatory fish on Earth,
-with 300 serrated teeth. -[Graham] Oh, God.
[Sam] They also can swim up to 35 miles an hour.
[Graham] Which is about 25 miles an hour faster than me.
[Sam] You better swim fast.
[Graham] This is like some aquatic nightmare.
-Why are you doing this? -[Sam] Yes.
New Zealand is a top five global hotspot
for great white shark sighting.
They can smell your blood from three miles away.
Don't cut yourself. Don't bleed out.
No getting in the cage.
[Graham] Bleed out?
Listen, on the good side, we've got a cage.
[Sam] Well, have you seen these clips
from around the world, the shark gets in the cage?
[Graham] What... what clips? Good grief.
And why is that man filming it?
[Sam] I mean, how is that guy alive?
♪ ♪
We've done some uh, some stupid things in the past.
But this might just take the biscuit.
There's just so many things that could go wrong.
What?
[seagulls calling]
You look fantastic.
No, I don't. I look like a tit.
[tense music plays]
-[person] Right beside you. -[Graham] Where?
[Sam] Oh, God. Look at that. Oh, Jesus.
[Graham] I'm actually quite scared now.
This- this might be the closest we've come to...
to our demise, right? I mean...
[man] See him there?
[Graham] Oh, God. That's huge.
Oh!
Oh, no!
Nice knowing you.
[Graham] Bye.
[dramatic music plays]
♪ ♪
When do we start to just sit in armchairs
and read books?
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music plays]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music plays]
♪ ♪
Wow. That was amazing.
-[sighs] -[Sam] Well done, mate.
You faced all 20 of your fears in- in one attempt.
Yes. [laughs] Yes, it was.
There's moments there
where you just have to take a beat
and really appreciate what you're experiencing.
-[Sam] Yeah. -Which is being close
to something... it's just almost mythic.
Ah, it's an incredible experience.
But I'm getting a little worried
that we're just standing here...
Yeah.
...while that great white is still circling underneath.
Let's get out and maybe have a cup of tea.
Oh, God! Oh!
[laughs] Ah!
Yes! [laughs] Yes!
Ah, that felt good.
[light music plays]
[Graham] So you've uh, you've just spent
the whole leg of this trip
challenging my capacity
for sort of trouser-staining madness.
-[Sam] Mm-hmm. -[Graham] And now it's time
for me to turn the tables on you.
-[Sam] Oh, really? -[Graham] Oh, yes.
We're going to do something
I know you've never done before.
-A helicopter ride... -Oh.
[Graham] ...over Milford Sound!
[Sam] I... actually, I will say
I'm... I'm slightly nervous.
It's gonna be one of your most memorable experiences.
When you get there, your brain can't take in its beauty.
You're looking at it and you're going,
-"Is this actually real?" -Yeah. Wow.
[Graham] 'Cause it looks like an ideal primordial landscape.
So Milford Sound,
it was formed over the last 2 million years...
[Sam] Almost as old as you.
[Graham] By these massive... Yes, thank you.
Massive rivers of ice, some more than a mile long.
And Milford Sound's first permanent resident
was, of course, a Scotsman.
-[Sam] Ah. -[Graham] Donald Sutherland.
-It's not the actor. -[Sam] Not the actor.
[Graham] This was hundreds of years ago.
Ah. I'm so excited. I can't wait.
I've heard great things
about Milford Sound, how beautiful it is.
It's truly, truly...
you cannot oversell Milford Sound.
You'll look at it and just go, "Oh, God!"
"My God!"
I make that sound all the time, actually,
getting up in the morning.
"Oh, God!"
-When you put your socks on. -[both straining]
[Graham] Just to get serious for a moment, okay?
It does rain more than half the year here.
A lot of rain, a lot of rain.
And they once recorded a windspeed...
♪ ♪
-Are you paying attention? -[Sam] Uh-huh.
[Graham] ...of more than 150 miles an hour.
[Sam] Oh, great, perfect for my first helicopter ride.
[soft music plays]
♪ ♪
[Graham] Here we go.
♪ ♪
[Sam] Wow.
Look at this.
[Graham] Isn't it just magnificent?
[Sam] Closer, closer.
Oh, my God.
[Sam] And we're now going sideways.
[Graham] I mean, the Maori were exploring
this entire region hundreds of years ago.
They used some of the same paths
that they're still using today.
[Sam] Did they have helicopters?
[Graham] No.
[upbeat music plays]
[Sam] Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God.
[Graham] Coming in hot.
[Sam] Oh!
♪ ♪
[Graham] It's ridiculous.
♪ ♪
[Sam] This is... this is pretty scary.
♪ ♪
[Graham] Coming up over this peak, Sam.
[Sam] Yeah.
[Graham] It's gonna be amazing.
[Sam] Oh, my God. Look how close we are.
[Graham] Yeah.
[Sam] This is...
this is insane.
♪ ♪
[Graham] Rudyard Kipling described it--
he was an author, a British author--
you might have heard of him.
Yes, I know who Rudyard Kipling is.
[laughing]
Described Milford Sound
as the eighth wonder of the world.
[Sam] You can see why. It's... it's beautiful.
[pilot] We'll be coming up to Hobbit Country shortly.
Oh, really?
Ah, Middle Earth.
There it is.
The fields and mountains in Milford Sound,
they were once part of a huge mountain range
on the mega continent-- and that's sort of bigger
than a normal continent-- of Gondwanaland.
So the way Mother Nature just created it all,
it couldn't have happened anywhere else in the world.
The marine effect moderates the temperature
so you can have lush forests
right next to snowcapped mountains.
[Sam] Ah, you're a fund of Kiwi knowledge.
[Graham] Yes, I am.
[Sam] Oh! Oh, my word.
Look at that.
♪ ♪
[Graham] Wow.
♪ ♪
Look at that lake.
[Sam] I can see why you came here.
Oh, it's...
There's nowhere- nowhere else like it on earth.
No.
♪ ♪
Amazing to share this with you, mate.
[pilot] All right, we're gonna land.
[Sam] Oh, my God. Here we go. Are you ready?
Closer. Closer. It's getting very close.
[Graham] Oh!
[Sam] Oh, my God. Look at that.
♪ ♪
Wow.
♪ ♪
I'm actually speechless.
Yes, I told you it was gonna be a great surprise.
And this is it.
[Sam] I couldn't even imagine this,
flying through the clouds over Milford Sound,
countless peaks,
and landing on a glacier 7,000 feet up.
[soft music plays]
[Graham] A bloody glacier in New Zealand
in the middle of summer.
[Sam] It's incredible.
I really genuinely want to say thank you.
No, no, you're welcome.
I- It was your first helicopter trip.
-It was. -And I wanted it to be...
This.
[Sam] I... I have to admit,
I feel like an explorer.
We might be the first people ever to come up here.
Uh... no.
But it's still really great.
Well, the first men in kilts to come up here.
The- the first... maybe the first people in kilts.
The first people in commando on a glacier.
Didn't really need to know that.
[Sam] But do we have to go back in the helicopter?
[Graham] Yeah, the helicopter is one of the best bits.
[Sam] Ah.
♪ ♪
[Graham] Thank you.
♪ ♪
Cheers, mate.
What a great start to the journey.
What do they say here?
[muffled] I can't really tell you,
'cause I've got a mouthful of shortbread.
What do they say? Cheer-- they don't say cheers, do they?
-They say cheers. Or sláinte. -[Sam] Okay.
Whatever they say in New Zealand.
And hey, listen, I'm super impressed
at the stuff you brought with you.
-Mmm. -Um...
I'm trying a square one now.
Well, we've just done some incredible stuff.
-We did. -The zip line
was definitely a good way to start it off.
-That's a warm-up, mate. -[Sam] That was a warm-up.
Great white sharks, pretty, pretty bracing.
And it's all a blur to me, frankly.
I was just relieved that we got to the end of it.
Taking you to Milford Sound, truly incredible.
It's magical.
I... I love that place so much.
Well, I'm really glad I got to show it to you.
-Pretty epic. -This is gonna be great.
[Sam] Oh, my God.
[Graham] Really. Really, really, really.
What are you most excited about?
[Graham] Wildlife here is crazy.
Wow, look at you.
There's stuff here that you never see
-anywhere else in the world. -[Sam] Right.
I am excited about the Maori culture.
[chanting]
[Graham] There are definitely elements of this
that are causing me sleepless nights.
Just... just think about the food.
Think about all the delicious food you're gonna try.
[Graham] Mmm.
-It's so not what you expect. -No.
[Graham] So this is quite literally
the lull before the storm.
There's this quiet moment
in front of a fire in a carpark.
[Sam] Yes. Yes.
And from now on, it's just
the sound of my high-pitched scream.
-Oh, God. Oh, God. -[person] That's it. All right.
[screaming]
Mm.
This island has got everything.
-Hasn't it? -Islands!
[Sam] I- Islands.
Yes. There's more than one.
Serious?
[Graham] Just a basic understanding
of the geography of the country
would be helpful, as you are the one
doing the driving.
-So it's not-- -Well, how do I drive
between islands?
I'll let you think about that
and see if you can work it out.
[soft music plays]
Oh, my God!
Why are we doing this, Heughan?
Oh, my God! We're gonna crash!
I'll never complain about your driving again.
-[Sam] Ahh! -[Graham] Make it stop!
Please tell me that wasn't just the warm-up.
[rock music plays]
♪ ♪
-Me to the funny farm now! -[Sam laughing]
[laughs] I'll be a good boy.
[child giggles, seagull cries]