NARRATOR: Selection for the SAS is a test like no other.
We are giving these celebrities a taste of our experience.
It's going to be the most uncomfortable,
dangerous,
overwhelming experience of their lives.
They'll be thinking,
"Why the (BLEEP) am I doing this?"
(PEOPLE SHOUTING) STAFF: Shut the (BLEEP) up and move!
A new group of celebrity recruits...
ANT: It's time to cash in all those (BLEEP).
..have volunteered to leave their comfortable lives behind.
Bit (BLEEP) smelly.
(TRAIN HORN) Get on that train!
I know this course will take me out of my comfort zone.
Go!
It also excites me, to see for myself, where I'll go.
They'll be trained to survive the impossible.
STAFF: Arms out! (ABBEY CRIES OUT)
STAFF: (BLEEP) Break! Break! Break! Break!
You're (BLEEP),
and you're the cause of it!
Chief instructor, Ant Middleton and his team of directing staff
will make no exceptions.
Fight!
STAFF: Finish it off!
Tonight...
RECRUIT: Oh, my god.
Oh, sheesh.
..high-rise panic...
JAY: Take a look down. I don't want to.
Go!
(ABBEY CRIES OUT)
..and the harsh business of camp life.
Has anyone not pooed...
..since we've been here?
I haven't pooed.
Stage fright.
I really struggled.
I felt really lost after I finished swimming.
Plus, Steph's emotional admission.
It'd be nice to have somebody to go through the harder times with.
And later...
You are now holding a live grenade.
You can't afford to (BLEEP) this up.
Let's go!
..intense ammunition training, where one mistake...
(GUNSHOTS) (SHOUTING)
..could prove fatal.
(EXCLAIMING) (BLEEP)! Get down!
(EXPLOSION)
DAN: We need the ambulance here with meds.
(MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC)
ZIMA: Lights on, everyone.
(RECRUIT YAWNS)
PETER: Wow.
That's the chilliest morning, ah?
TIM: It was really windy last night.
It's day three on the brutal SAS selection course.
Of the 14 celebrity recruits to start...
..for now, ten remain.
MATTHEW: Not gonna lie,
this has been the hardest thing I've ever done.
ZIMA: This?
I was thinking the blanket that you had...
That's why I walked over, I was gonna go,
"I'll grab a corner for you." Not gonna lie,
how I'm feeling right now...
Thank you,
because you are also correct.
MAHALIA: Do you want me to help you? No.
(LAUGHS)
CRAIG M: How'd you sleep, Tim?
Man, I actually slept OK.
Did ya? Yeah.
The lights just went on, eh? RECRUIT: Yeah.
I'm a former rugby league legend,
three-time premiership player,
and former three-time boxing world champion.
I'm usually in control in my life.
Giving up that control was going to be tough.
It takes me a while to get to sleep, you know what I mean?
So, when I'm asleep, I don't want to be interrupted.
When I'm exhausted...
..hadn't had much sleep, I get cranky.
I'm real cranky.
I normally have a nap in the afternoon
when I'm back home.
Have a little siesta.
If someone wakes me up, I'm cracking up.
You know what I mean? So...
Oh, man, these DS's, they might be in trouble.
STEPHANIE: Get the brekky kit out, or...
RECRUIT: Yeah, get that ready.
What do we reckon? Porridge? Couple of eggs?
RECRUIT: Yeah. I reckon porridge and eggs.
ABBEY: Just the use?
STEPHANIE: That porridge with the cinnamon...
RECRUIT: Oh, little bit of honey. ..and the honey.
Wouldn't that be nice?
Honey wouldn't go astray.
Needing fuel for the day ahead,
duty recruit, Zima dishes out the meagre rations.
Is that good?
One more. ZIMA: Yeah.
Thank you. No problem.
Plenty of eggs left if anyone wants any.
Hunger-wise, I can deal with a bit
because being a boxer, I really had to fast a lot,
and didn't eat much.
But I'm a sugar freak. I love sugar.
Like chocolate, fizzy drinks...
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
..so it's going to be a challenge, man.
Wow, got cold porridge.
I know, they're trying to break our spirit.
Mm.
It's working. (LAUGHS)
I'm 47, so I love my own space.
(WHISPERING) Hey, Anthony?
Choc.
I burnt my socks.
Do you have a pair of socks?
Yeah, but they're wet.
That's OK. I'll dry them.
Sure? Yeah.
Thank you.
But as the cold morning air hangs in the camp...
ABBEY: How you feeling?
ANTHONY: I might VW today.
..number five is done with camp life.
Why?
Is there anything we can do
to help you stay?
I don't know.
(ANTHONY SIGHS)
I don't know.
We don't want you to go.
I know, but... No.
If you need to talk about anything, just let me know.
Yeah, thanks.
We need Choc around.
(ANTHONY LAUGHS)
Yeah, you are.
(ANTHONY LAUGHS)
(ANTHONY GROANS PLAYFULLY) I won't fake it, I'll do it.
I haven't got nothing to prove to anybody or anything.
I'm just trying to show the people the real me,
the real Anthony Mundine.
(MIDDLE EASTERN MUSIC)
ANT: Number five!
After sharing his news,
number five has requested to see Chief Instructor, Ant.
How are you feeling this morning, Number Five?
Yeah, I'm alright. You're good?
You're going to get through today.
I just...
(MUMBLES)
My head's not in it. I know, but listen,
you need to get your head in the game.
Yeah.
When we finish doing what we do in life,
what do we do when we... you know? We pass on inspiration.
Our stories. We pass on our (BLEEP) knowledge.
That's the responsibility you have.
Show the children out there.
(BLEEP) show your (BLEEP) people who look at you and think,
"(BLEEP), I want to be him.
"That's my role model right there.
"And if he can do it, so can I."
The responsibility for being a (BLEEP) elite athlete,
for being in the limelight,
that comes with a cost.
And you've always got
to (BLEEP) pay the man.
Yes, Staff.
People are looking for inspiration.
Find that (BLEEP) fire in your belly.
I want to see that fire in your belly.
Yes, Staff. Understand?
Yes, Staff. Now, get your head in the game.
RECRUIT: He'll be gone today.
ABBEY: Yeah, not if we might be able to talk him out of it.
(EXHALES)
ZIMA: How you going, legend?
I might need them socks. (LAUGHS)
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
That's it, Choco.
(PRAYER CALL)
En route to another punishing day on selection,
the recruits are about to face a task
that requires flawless accuracy in a high-stress environment.
As a special forces operator,
you must condition the mind to ignore the distractions...
..so you can fully focus 100% on what needs to be done.
That's why we are the most devastating,
versatile fighting force in the world.
Look.
We're abseiling down that thing.
(BLEEP).
Heights scare the shit out of me.
The attention to detail,
the precision,
the laser focus that we have.
JAY: Get out of the (BLEEP) vehicles.
come on, let's go.
ANT: Because you get something wrong...
Start switching on.
..by a couple of millimetres, a couple of centimetres...
JAY: Two ranks along that wall facing me.
..that could be the difference between life and death.
Right, listen in.
You can all see what you're about to do.
Can all see that (BLEEP) big rope hanging out the window.
Heights and me do not go together.
I am petrified.
It is one of my biggest fears.
High assault abseil.
All the DS have operated
and assaulted using high-rope access.
It's used to get troops or an assault team,
within a building,
to carry out a specific mission or task.
This is key tier one
special forces operations.
Armed
and placed in an extreme combat situation...
..the recruits must climb...
..an exhausting 17 storeys...
..to the top of the imposing tower.
STAFF: Go!
Then, commit to a frightening 80m rappel at speed...
..penetrating the window below...
ABBEY: He did that so quick.
..before engaging in battle to rescue a hostage.
(LANGUAGE UNKNOWN TO CAPTIONER)
To pass,
they must use the rules of engagement...
..firing only on the gunman with the raised weapon.
(GUNSHOTS)
What's (BLEEP) critical for you today
is precision.
It's important
that you retain that information in your brain.
And you do not lose sight of what you are told to do.
It doesn't matter how stressful that situation is.
We don't give a (BLEEP) if you're scared of heights.
You need to be focused, need to be driven.
Everyone happy with what's required of you today?
ALL: Yes, Staff. Go.
Move.
Get your heads in the game.
Hurry up.
To exercise precision in a moment of fear,
is conditioning of the mind.
STAZ: How are you feeling, Number Four?
Heights isn't really my thing.
It's not my thing either. Mhm.
You've gotta to take control it. Yeah.
Comes from experience.
It comes from...
..harnessing that fear.
I don't like heights either.
Height's the worst, bro.
Especially backwards. Yeah.
And ignoring the chaos around you,
so you can focus 100% on the mission.
Sweaty palms even thinking about it.
CRAIG C: Once you get started, it will be over pretty quickly.
ABBEY: Hopefully.
It's no effort.
Gravity does all the work for you.
OK. ANT: Number Four, let's go.
Battling a crippling fear of heights
is number four, AFL field commentator, Abbey Holmes.
I'm a sports broadcaster, predominantly, in the world of AFL.
I was also the first woman in Australia
to kick 100 goals
in an established Aussie Rules football season.
ANT: All the way to the top till you see another DS.
But you'll still come across those dinosaurs
that don't believe that women belong in football.
The main motivation to try and complete SAS
is trying to prove so many people wrong
in the past, that have told me
that I'll never achieve that
or I'm not capable of doing this.
And yeah, I've copped that a hell of a lot.
STAFF: Alright, let's go. Get to the top.
Hurry up.
I know that physically, I can get things done.
That's not what worries me.
It's going to be a massive mental game for me.
Quickly, fast as you can to the top.
I freeze when it comes to heights.
Keep going, Four!
Get up here as fast as you can.
It's more the feeling of falling.
I feel like I could stand on a ledge and look over, and feel OK
because I know that I'm safe.
Number Four, stand there.
But the second that I know that I'm gonna fall,
and that feeling...
..that's when I literally crumble.
Step onto the step.
(ABBEY BREATHES SHAKILY)
This right hand is your break hand. Yep.
It's going to go here.
Don't let go of that rope.
Start to go back.
Stop, stop, stop.
OK.
Take a look down. I don't want to.
Number Four,
I'm going to give the stand by and go.
When I say go,
descend down that rope as fast as possible.
Stand by.
Go!
(ABBEY CRIES OUT)
OK.
(ABBEY GASPS FOR AIR)
Calm yourself down!
Keep (BLEEP) moving, Number Four.
Hurry up.
You're like a sitting duck.
Keep going!
Keep descending.
Faster!
Get (BLEEP) in that window!
ANT: Keep moving!
STAFF: Go, go, go, straight in.
JAY: Number Four, get a (BLEEP) move on.
STAFF: Go, go.
Come on, get in. STAFF: Hurry up!
ANT: Get in that window.
OLLIE: Come on, stop (BLEEP) dangling around.
Go, go, go. (BLEEP).
Calm down, calm down.
(BLEEP) breathe.
Breathe, breathe. Yes, Staff.
When they make entrance to that window...
..this is the main part of the task.
People are (BLEEP) relying on you, alright?
It's the action you've taken that counts.
Split second decisions with precision,
do you understand me?
Retaining that key information,
and not letting panic and distraction
of coming down that 50m wire take over.
Move!
Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
In! In!
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(SOUND OF HEARTBEAT)
What are you gonna do?
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING CONTINUES)
Take out, shoot! Take out, shoot!
Stop! Stop.
Stop.
What the (BLEEP) did you just do?
Tell me who you've just (BLEEP) shot?
Everyone in the (BLEEP) room.
Everyone in the room's (BLEEP) dead.
So are you going to make a (BLEEP) phone call
to his mum and dad...
..and say, "I'm sorry he's dead,
"it's 'cause I'm a (BLEEP) idiot, I was having a bad day?"
You (BLEEP) Johnny Rambo'ed it, didn't you?
You know why that happened?
'Cause I was rattled. Yeah.
'Cause you came down there, you came down that room,
and you (BLEEP) all over the place. Yes.
Everything that's going on,
when we go into room entries like this,
you can't afford to make mistakes.
I feel like one of my big, I guess, downfalls
is that I do put a hell of a lot of pressure on myself.
That's a fail.
Go down to the chief instructor.
I'm somebody who always chases perfection,
which, 99.999% of the time, you are never going to achieve,
but I always get hung up on that 0.01%.
And it's probably one of my biggest negatives.
JAY: Come on, Number Two.
Next atop the monumental tower, number two, actress, Zima Anderson.
Staff.
I want to show people
that little gals can do so much more
than we ever expected ourselves.
You OK with heights? Yes, Staff.
That's good. Yeah.
It's a good start. You ever abseiled before?
No, Staff.
I want to also prove to myself that I can control my mind.
Start going backwards.
I guess I just have very high expectations of myself basically.
When I say go,
you are to descend as fast as you can to that window.
Ready?
Stand by.
Go!
Get a (BLEEP) move on, Number Two!
Stop (BLEEP) around on that leg.
Like a (BLEEP) duck.
ANT: Number Two, let's move!
Get moving!
Keep going!
Faster, Number Two.
Let's go!
Get that hand out.
Let's go.
Get into the (BLEEP) window!
Next task now.
Fast, dynamic, aggression.
Go!
Through that door, go!
Move!
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(SOUND OF HEARTBEAT)
What are you gonna do?
(GUNSHOTS)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
Stop! Stop!
Back here.
Talk me through what happened in here.
I saw that there was a hostage,
and I saw that that guy had a gun, but he went like this,
so I... So, did he aim at you or not?
No, he did not aim at me, so he was not a threat.
Then, this enemy here came straight through the door,
had his gun pointed straight at me,
so I chose to shoot.
Right.
Does he look shot to you?
No. He doesn't, does he?
You're (BLEEP) dead.
RIP on your gravestone.
"Here lies a dickhead..." Yes, Staff.
..because you got in here so erratic from the (BLEEP) abseil,
coming down here like some (BLEEP) erratic maniac.
That was a bag of shit.
You've come in here and gone, "Oh, (BLEEP) hell!"
And just point your weapon in a direction,
and just pulled the trigger. Yes, Staff.
So essentially you're dead, you failed the task.
(BLEEP) off. Yes, Staff.
JAY: Let's go, Number ten.
As fast as you can, hurry up.
Treading the 260 steps to the top...
..is number ten, Olympic runner, Peter Bol.
I think the reason that people remember me the most
is for breaking two Australian Records
at the 2020 Olympic games in Tokyo.
Most recently, I've been all over the news
for allegations
of taking performance-enhancing drugs.
Get a move on, Ten!
I couldn't train, I
couldn't do the things I loved
like getting back on the track and trying to compete.
I thought you'd find that (BLEEP) easy.
(PETER BREATHES HEAVILY)
No? No, it's not a track,
it's stairs, so...
Ah, so you don't run stairs? No.
No, you just run concrete.
It's a different ball game. Oh, really?
But the doping scandal has motivated me
to be the best in the world.
Alright, step outside.
So, I'm doing it,
so the public can see me in a different light,
and I'm here for the challenge.
Oh, sheesh.
But I am scared of heights.
Let go of that (BLEEP) thing.
Come here.
You're scared, Number Ten?
Yes, Staff. I can see it in your eyes.
If you do what I tell you to do, you'll be (BLEEP) OK.
I expect to be so scared during SAS
that my brain will probably switch off.
Make sure this doesn't (BLEEP) fall off, yeah?
It's just a matter of...
Of knowing when that is and trying to bring it back.
That's it. That's it.
Look at me.
Back more, back more, more, more.
Bend those knees, bend those knees.
Ready, Number Ten?
Look at me.
Big (BLEEP) aggressive, dynamic, move down.
Make entrance to that window.
(BLEEP) that fear of heights.
OK?
Stand by.
Go!
Faster!
ANT: Number Ten, just go!
Keep (BLEEP) going.
You're like a sitting duck!
OLLIE: Whoa, get in.
Get down!
STAFF: Whoa, head, head, head!
Oh, (BLEEP).
(SHOUTING) What's going on?
Coming up...
So he was shouting in my face,
"(BLEEP)," well "(BLEEP) you too.
"I'm out."
..'The Man', Mundine fires up.
It's belief in myself
and believe what I can do, what I know I can do.
And later...
ANT: Move! Move! Move! Move!
..an explosive new task.
You are now in charge
of a live grenade. Yes, Staff.
In a test of precision...
..the recruits make a dangerous 50m rappel...
..before engaging in combat...
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
..to rescue a hostage.
(GUN COCKS)
(GUNSHOT)
JAY: Go!
But number ten, Peter Bol...
STAFF: Get down, get down!
..has dropped his weapon...
Heads! Heads! Heads!
(BLEEP) me!
(BLEEP).
..and dangles precariously from the tower.
What's going on?
ANT: No! What are you trying to do?
(BLEEP) kill us?
RECRUIT: What the (BLEEP) was that?
JAY: (BLEEP) idiot, you've lost your (BLEEP) weapon.
Keep (BLEEP) moving, Ten.
Keep moving.
ANT: Keep moving!
You're a moving target, Number Ten, keep (BLEEP) going.
Faster!
Ten, let's go!
OLLIE: Faster. Come on, you're a moving target, Ten.
Faster, come on!
STAZ: Into the window, go, straightaway, go, go!
Come on, stop (BLEEP) dangling around.
Come on, Ten!
ANT: Get in that window.
Stand down.
(BLEEP) me.
Right, Number Ten,
what the (BLEEP) just happened up there?
The gun fell off.
It didn't just fall off.
You were bouncing around up there like some (BLEEP) maniac.
Too erratic.
It's supposed to be a controlled action
coming down there.
Now what (BLEEP) use are you?
Are you gonna go in there with your (BLEEP) fists up?
Is that what you're gonna do? No, Staff.
'Cause you've lost the (BLEEP) tool of your trade, haven't you?
So you can't do your job, can you?
No, Staff.
Absolute (BLEEP) up.
Get the (BLEEP) out of my sight.
Go on, (BLEEP) off.
STAZ: Let's go, Number Ten.
(BLEEP) up.
Go!
Number Seven, let's go!
Go!
ANT: Number 13, move!
The recruits going into that room
after abseiling down that building...
..will have so much going on in their heads.
Go! Go. Go. Move!
Move, take action!
Take action!
(LANGUAGE UNKNOWN TO CAPTIONER)
Their cognitive overload
will push them into making the wrong decision.
Take action!
Stop!
Did you feel that (BLEEP) delay?
How long it was
until you actually identified and squeezed that trigger?
Yeah. He'd have (BLEEP) killed you.
They will not have
that rational sense of thinking and evaluating
before they take the shot.
What the (BLEEP) have you just done?
I panicked, and I shot...
You panicked? I... Yeah.
(BLEEP) up, that.
I did. Go on, off you go.
You'd be (BLEEP) dead.
That's a fail.
Everything is happening so fast, and you have to be so aware...
Go!
..and so precise
when it comes to pulling that trigger.
Move! Move!
Move! Move! Move!
What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
Move! Move! Move! (LANGUAGE UNKNOWN TO CAPTIONER)
You have to identify the friendlies...
..you have to identify the enemy...
Move! What are you gonna do?
What are you gonna do?
..and make that split decision under immense pressure.
Excellent. You did the right thing.
All in all, a good effort. Thank you, Staff.
You did well, so good effort for that.
So anything that happened
before that moment that you take that shot...
..is irrelevant.
JAY: Don't look at me, look at the window, Number 11.
Hurry up.
Because you're judged by that split-second decision...
..and you have to be precise.
ANT: Get in that window.
Hurry up.
Right, calm yourself down.
I used to be a Olympic swimmer.
I want to see aggression, I want to see control.
Absolute precision.
And my life motto has always been to be the best that you can be.
I'm not sure if my life motto reflects precision
as much as it reflects
continually striving to be the best version of yourself.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(LANGUAGE UNKNOWN TO CAPTIONER)
Stop!
Why didn't you shoot him?
Because he wasn't pointing at me. Right.
Then this... When this guy came through the door,
he was pointing his weapon at me,
I shot him back.
All in all, that was a good room entry.
You took the appropriate action on target.
Alright, good effort. Get downstairs.
So much of what we build around us is mental,
and if you can reframe that mental ability
to focus on what's possible,
actually, you can do a lot.
(EXHALES)
ANT: Number Five, let's go.
On the verge of voluntary withdrawal earlier...
..the last recruit to enter the fray
is number five, Anthony 'The Man' Mundine.
ANTHONY: The way I acted,
the way I talked when I was the boss,
the confidence that I showed...
Take charge of that weapon.
..it's like the alter ego comes out.
The Man comes out.
I just turn into this different cat.
Up the stairs
until you reach the next DS all the way to the top.
Competitive killer, you know what I mean?
I ain't afraid of too much.
JAY: Put them gloves on.
But probably, my worst thing is probably heights.
Scared?
Yeah.
You're not used... Afraid of heights, bruh.
You're not used to being scared, are ya?
Not really, nah. Nah.
I'm just like, (BLEEP) that's a long way down.
I mean...
I don't want to hit the bottom type of stuff.
I want to try and face my fears, and overcome them.
OK. Backwards.
Come on, get a (BLEEP) move on.
Oh, (BLEEP).
Holy...
Come on, you're nearly there.
Holy crap.
Come on, keep going back.
ANT: Number Five, get a (BLEEP) move on!
Move!
Put your feet on the edge.
Start to go backward.
Get your feet on the edge.
Don't go until I tell you, yeah?
Look at me, Number Five, this is your (BLEEP) time, yeah?
Face that fear. Yeah.
Feel OK? Yeah.
Yeah? Hope so.
Right, don't go.
OK, what's gonna happen,
I'm gonna give you a standby.
When I say go, to descend.
Whoa, where the (BLEEP) are you going?
(BLEEP) stay there, yeah?
Don't (BLEEP) go any further.
Yeah? Yes, Staff.
Stay there. Yeah.
OK, I'll give you a (BLEEP) standby and a go.
Yes, Staff. When I say go...
..you'll descend as fast as you (BLEEP) can
down that line.
Holy (BLEEP).
Holy...
Holy dingoes.
You ready? Yes.
(BLEEP), where the... Oi!
Where the (BLEEP) are you going?
I (BLEEP) didn't say go, did I?
(BLEEP) hell, Number Five.
Listen to what I'm (BLEEP) I'm telling you.
Number Five, what are you doing?
What's going on?
Number Five, go!
Get (BLEEP) down there!
Go!
Let's go.
Dynamic, aggressive.
Move, let's go.
Do you know what? He was the fastest one down.
Right, move, move, move.
Through that door, let's go, let's go!
Let's go.
Move!
Take action!
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING) (LANGUAGE UNKNOWN TO CAPTIONER)
Take action! Take action!
Take action!
Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!
Talk me through what just happened.
Seen the hostage.
Old mate wasn't pointing the gun at me...
..so I just fired a couple of scare shots.
You can't (BLEEP) start shooting warning shots in this situation.
So, basically, you could (BLEEP) trying.
Yeah.
Lucky you haven't.
And I tell you now, you'd be in a (BLEEP) court of law
doing time for that.
And you finally did something that was really (BLEEP) good then.
All your shots were on target, which was great,
but you (BLEEP) everything up by that action.
Rules of engagement. Yeah, I know.
We're not in the business of (BLEEP) warning shots.
Yes, Staff.
Everything has to be (BLEEP) absolutely accurate.
Precision. Yes, Staff.
You failed the task. (BLEEP) off.
Physically, I'm not at my peak.
I'm not 30 no more, not 26 no more,
I'm 47, so it's a challenge.
But I don't want to be a failure.
Coming up...
You are now in charge of a live grenade.
Yes.
..the recruits face their most explosive task yet.
(EXPLOSIONS)
Get down! Dive!
Go, go, go, go! Move!
And one recruit's dream of passing selection...
RECRUIT: Oh, (BLEEP).
Down! ..takes a devastating turn.
Well we need the ambulance here with meds.
How'd you go in the entry?
CRAIG C: Oh, well, I took too long to shoot the guy.
They shouted at me for that.
Which one? The first guy or the second guy?
The guy I was meant to shoot.
Proper guy, yeah. Yeah.
They reckon he shot me first.
ANTHONY: Live and learn, baby. Yeah.
Well, not if you get shot.
(LAUGHTER)
I suppose. (LAUGHTER CONTINUES)
Yep, that's a very valid point.
Is... Oh, yes.
MAHALIA: Is there one for the last one?
Yeah.
Oh, god, I'm scared. That's alright.
ZIMA: Oh, yeah, you play football, what am I scared for?
As duty recruit,
it's number two, Zima's job
to keep the camp in good working order.
The closest thing to football I'm getting at the moment.
Aw.
Have you ever played any football?
I liked footy.
I feel like I'm quite good 'cause...
I'm gonna have to steal that toilet paper
you just put in here.
I like football.
I'm pretty good.
It's also an opportunity to learn more about each other.
But...
I don't know, I'm always being super creative.
Even though I'm great physically,
I've just been...
My forte and my passion is all in the arts industry.
Yeah.
Gimme all the acting, dancing,
singing, painting, poetry,
I'm like, (BLEEP) yeah.
Team sports and stuff was fun,
I played hockey and gymnastics.
But as I've gotten older,
it doesn't bother me that I'm more of like a...
I'm a very easy person.
I don't really usually like competition
'cause I want other people to win.
So I'm not very competitive.
And after three days together,
more intimate details are being shared.
Has anyone not pooed since we've been here?
I've pooed now.
Have you pooed? I haven't pooed.
Stage fright. It's stage fright. (ANTHONY CHUCKLES)
We can give you some space if you need it.
I wonder if that's what that it is. (LAUGHTER)
What do you need space for?
(PRAYER CALL)
(ANTHONY PRAYING IN ARABIC)
As a devout Muslim...
..Anthony Mundine goes about his daily prayers.
(ANTHONY PRAYING)
I pray five times a day as a Muslim,
and it keeps me content, keeps me grounded.
I'm always conscious of God,
conscious of the higher power and everything he's blessed me with.
I just thank him.
From family to food, to whatever it may be.
It's always Alhamdulillah, always thank God.
(ANTHONY PRAYING IN ARABIC)
God's given me a resistance that is unbreakable.
It's impenetrable.
Can't mess with me in that sense.
Yeah, you're gonna fail,
you're gonna have your trips and your falls,
but it's not about the setback, it's about the comeback.
If I'm knocked down, I wanna get back up.
Meeting daily...
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
..the DS come together
to monitor the progress of the recruits.
Now we're starting to get rid
of the people that don't want to be here.
Couple of questionable people are still here.
Great task this morning. STAFF: Mhm.
Really good.
What'd you think about today? Brilliant.
Yeah? Yeah.
I mean, 50m on an abseil,
but pretty decent descent I think we'll all agree.
Yeah.
Who stood out at the top?
Fears, phobias?
How about Number Ten?
Terrible. (BLEEP).
Terrible.
I mean, managed to (BLEEP) lose his weapon on the way down.
And whether that...
I don't know about you, Jay, whether you...
But for me looking up, he just looked so erratic.
And just going (BLEEP) off the...
STAFF: Crazy, wasn't he?
Some weird movements, like he was (BLEEP) driving a car.
It was weird.
He definitely wasn't confident.
STAFF: Or competent.
The weapon was on his back.
None of the other recruits struggled with it.
He managed to shuffle it off,
and (BLEEP) nearly took out the DS.
Bad day for him. STAFF: Bad morning for him, yeah.
He's one of these people, he gives a 110%
but he almost overthinks and over analyses everything
to a point where he goes (BLEEP) meltdown.
Right. You know and it (BLEEP) eat him up
because he's almost trying too hard.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Where all you need to do is (BLEEP) calm that down a little bit.
Let's go onto Number Four.
After the abseil she got down, she was crying, she was a mess.
Calm down, calm down. (BLEEP) breathe.
Breathe, breathe.
Let her go into the room, she went in there.
The only person she never killed is herself.
(LAUGHS)
(BLEEP) Billy the Kid.
Just panicked, just went in and went...
(INDISTINCT CHATTER) OLLIE: Just absolute panic.
Absolute panic. She was about to pull a knife out.
Yeah, mowed everyone down, yeah, I mean everyone got it.
Tell you what, for me she was in condition red.
Do you know when you're just... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
..mmm, you just cannot think?
No cog, no rational thought. Cognitive thought is out the window.
You are just (BLEEP). Yeah.
It's good you know,
it shows that the tasks are there to do what they need to do,
put people in stress and, you know, test people.
ANT: They served their purpose. 100%, yeah.
So, Number 11.
You said she was good, right?
Solid. Go!
She didn't seem scared
when she was stood at the edge of the drop.
Hurry up!
She did a pretty solid abseil.
She did everything really well. Yeah.
Good. Quickly whiz through the rest.
You got Number 14, Number Nine
and Number Two that are up there, Number Six up there.
Do you know what I mean?
They're starting to really switch onto, into course mode now.
It's starting to really take effect.
Let's go onto Number Five.
OK, got in the room and he fired shots.
I then asked him to explain what he did
and he says I fired a couple of warning shots,
which was an excuse for firing at the person that posed no threat.
Mm-hm. Wow, that's serious shit.
Yeah, I got to say I'm disappointed.
Let's bring him in.
Yeah. Let's do it.
Hey Steph, how weird is this?
I remember when I, 'cause I was probably like ten
or 12 and they made us watch the Olympic games at school
and I had to do like a collage
and I did, I was sticking you on my collage.
MATTHEW: That's so cute. I kid you not.
MATTHEW: That is so cute.
You know what, I remember doing collages of like Susie O'Neill...
Yes! Yes! Yes! Petria Thomas,
I was like, "Oh, my god!" Well, I stuck you on my collage.
(BLEEP) yes!
I wrote Cathy Freeman a letter in year four.
Oh, yeah. She never wrote back.
(LAUGHS)
I check the mail every day.
Number Five!
ABBEY: Choc, that's you. RECRUIT: Number Five?
Stand there, face the post. Yes, Staff.
Sydneysider who was arguably
Australia's first real crossover star.
A multiskilled athlete,
he went from the top of one code to the peak in another.
"His media profile and outspoken personality,"
outspoken personality?
"Has always clashed with the wider Australian public."
STAZ: This is quite surprising.
He must be a shadow of his former self here.
'Cause I don't see any of that, do you?
No. Is he no longer this person?
That what we need to find out.
'Cause if he is, I haven't seen it.
He's hiding it well.
Step down.
Number Five my mind is blown.
I've just read some background history about you.
"Aggressive, outspoken person." Yeah.
And it shocked us because we haven't seen any of that.
Is that just a show that you put on to the external world?
Having disappointed the DS in the task,
Number Five has been called in for questioning.
Number Five my mind is blown.
I've just read some background history about you.
"The aggressive, outspoken person..."
Yeah.
And it shocked us 'cause we haven't seen any of that.
Is that just a show that you put on to the external world?
Pretty much. It's just a bit of a show.
But I stand by what I believe in, you know what I mean?
But I say things that people want to say
but are afraid to say.
Especially for political stuff like with my people,
the Aboriginal people and that.
And like, the system was against me,
so I sort of kept going back at them.
Go on, take me back. Tell me your story.
My story, I was a NRL player back in the day
and NRL, you know, is a brutal sport.
And so I debuted in '93, I was 18 years old.
Was only a skinny kid and I was toughen up
but I felt like I wasn't getting the accolades.
If I was a white fella I'd get mad, I'd be...
Oh, you believe it came down to race?
100%.
I was a proud outspoken Aboriginal Muslim.
I stood up for the Aboriginal plight
and called out a lot of stuff within the system
and that, that probably played against me.
Go on, tell me, tell me about that.
The system was against you. Explain that to me.
I knew from a young age I was gonna make it in football.
I wanted to play for Australia in the seniors.
That was my goal.
And '99 was probably one of my best years, right?
But at the end of that year, they were taking a tour to England,
to, I don't know if it was a world cup
but they were taking a tour over.
They picked 42 men to go on this tour.
I was the best play in the league. No doubt.
The stats showed that as well? The stats showed that.
100% it showed that. Yeah?
No one close to me in my position. Yeah?
So, you obviously got picked for the team?
No, I didn't get picked for the team.
The Australian coach said I didn't get picked
because of my off field characteristics.
I don't drink, I don't smoke, I never took drugs in my life
but I'm very outspoken.
That was when they showed me they were in power.
You do what we say then you'll see some (BLEEP) fruits.
Trying to leash you,
they're trying to (BLEEP) shackle you?
'Cause I was so proud and confident
and flamboyant,
and you know, Blackfella's not supposed to be like that.
You're supposed to shut up and, you know, toe the line,
say the right things, do the right things.
So, they didn't, they didn't pick me
in that, and that crushed me, crushed me.
Devastated me.
Ripped my heart out basically
and, you know I was playing from a young kid.
I started footy when I was four years old.
Four years old.
And I was like, "I should've been picked, you know?"
You can ask any of my peers that played in '99
if I would have got, if I should be picked
and 100%, 100% of them will say yes.
Like Aboriginal boys,
they have to be ten times as good to get picked than others.
As a Blackfella, it's like people don't see what,
What we have to go through in order to just get a look in.
I was going to retire then but then I thought nah (BLEEP).
On more time, I'll do one more time.
If they don't (BLEEP) pick me this time,
then (BLEEP) it, I'm going.
Did you go one more time? Yeah.
And did they pick you? No.
I think the power structure wanted to show me
that they were in power
and they would choose me when they were, they were ready
but I, I had been ready for years.
They just, like, they just shat in my face,
like, "(BLEEP) me, (BLEEP) you too." I'm out.
You (BLEEP) hold a grudge about that don't you?
I want to, a 100%.
Even to this day, don't you? It ain't right, it ain't right bro.
I don't want it to happen to somebody else,
you know what I mean?
I'll always fight for justice.
I like this side. I like what I'm seeing here.
It's believe in myself
and belief what I can do, what I know I can do.
There's so much more to you than we've seen.
To go from that,
then to put your hand at another sport
and absolutely (BLEEP) annihilate that as well,
because that's what we know you for the (BLEEP) boxer.
I didn't even know you had this huge, successful career
as a rugby league player.
That's what catapulted me to superstar.
All of my fights were pay per view from the get go.
I want to (BLEEP) see that superstar.
That is what I want to (BLEEP) see!
Where (BLEEP) is that? Who, where's this guy?
It's not the (BLEEP) person that we've seen since you've been here.
You're a (BLEEP) shell of a man.
You're like a ghost.
Just empty shell running around between task to task.
This is what we want to (BLEEP) see.
Where's that gone?
It's not, it hasn't gone, like, it's always there
but, it's just, I've definitely mellowed a lot.
Being away from the sport,
my friends and family would say I'm laid back,
I'm really quiet, this, this soft heart.
Sometimes can be emotional.
I mean I cry, I cry in sad movies, you know what I mean?
Like, I've got a golden heart that, that cares for others.
Wake up Number Five! Come on.
(BLEEP) wake up!
The (BLEEP) slate is wiped clean with us.
We don't care who the (BLEEP) you are,
what your background is, your race, your religion.
Yeah. It's the same in special forces,
nobody gives a (BLEEP).
But you're judged by your actions.
Yeah.
Let your (BLEEP) actions do the talking.
If you (BLEEP) apply one ounce of that (BLEEP) aggression
and that hate and point it in the right direction,
(BLEEP) hell you should breeze through this course.
You want to go, "I got through this,"
I've showed an example for your Aboriginal people,
you know, that's, that's what you want to be (BLEEP) doing.
But you, who you are there, the real you,
take that but incorporate that (BLEEP) you factor,
that (BLEEP) beast factor.
Control it, don't let it get out of hand.
Best of that person and the best of that person,
merge that together (BLEEP) me,
no one can throw anything at you then.
Yes, Staff.
Guard!
I think we've awakened the beast.
Where the (BLEEP) has that guy been hiding?
Where?
He could really excel on this course.
Yeah, I think he could.
I need to call on the alter ego, The Man.
He come to the forefront and say, "Listen brother.
"You can't, you can't stop. Get up! Get up son!"
The alter ego's gonna come in and play many times, I think.
So, I'm ready to go.
In a convoy to their next task,
the recruits will be pushed like never before
in a life and death test of precision.
ANT: Let's go!
Precision isn't just about hitting the target.
JAY: As fast as you can.
It's about the planning and preparation,
the attention to detail around that.
Hurry up! Sprint into me, let's move!
Everything that you do
will lead up to that moment being precise.
Right, get in there.
Ignore that...
That's it, sit down on your bergens. ..and you'll never have precision.
In my hand, I have a hand grenade.
The hand grenade is a close quarter combat weapon
designed to maim and injure,
sometimes kill.
The hand grenade is an extremely devastating weapon for the enemy.
It can also be a devastating weapon against yourself
if you do not respect it.
Replicating battle behind enemy lines,
the recruits must infiltrate a heavily guarded compound...
(GUNSHOTS)
..while under constant fire from an armed sentry.
Supplied with a single hand grenade by the DS,
they must manoeuvre to the building before launching the explosive,
eliminating the gunman... (EXPLOSION)
..and exfiltrating to safety.
Watch how this grenade is used.
If I get down on one knee,
you're gonna put your heads in your lap.
Let's do that.
Good.
The fly off handle stays in the web of the hand.
As long as the fly is in the web, you have control of it.
Let's demonstrate.
Pull the pin out.
That now is live.
The moment the fly leaves the web, we throw.
Look at me!
(EXPLOSION)
Keep your head down!
Heads up.
Throw the (BLEEP) grenade.
Make sure it's hit its target.
You (BLEEP) get down.
If it hasn't hit its target, you keep your (BLEEP) eye on it,
'cause if it's bouncing back to you which some (BLEEP) idiots do,
then you have to get out of the way.
When you use a grenade, the pressure is high.
You have to get it right.
You have to hit the target.
If not, you become the target.
Ready for the ambush is Number Two...
Down here.
..actress Zima Anderson.
The white building you see in front of you
is an enemy compound.
People on top of that building are the enemy.
ZIMA: Yes Staff.
It's your mission to move from here to the left side of that building
where I will issue you with a grenade.
Let's go.
Keep moving, faster! Come on!
I would be really disappointed if I let fear get the better of me
because I know there's a definite possibility for that.
Assess, where are you gonna go?
Where do you think is the best place to go now?
I think right in front of those trees there first,
then to get to the left side of the truck.
OK. Why don't you go straight to the truck?
But at the same time,
if I am focused on certain things, I can get it done.
Left side of the truck.
Right hold there, hold there, hold there.
Right you've been seen. Yes, Staff.
So, now you have to use the cover, you've got to get there.
Just move.
You just have to hope you don't get shot.
(GUNSHOTS) Stay low. Stay low.
Go, let's go, let's go.
(GUNSHOTS)
May I move to those... Yeah.
..boxes there Staff.
Use this cover to get to that point.
(GUNSHOTS)
No more cover.
Zigzag!
(GUNSHOTS)
Come on, he's reloading.
Right, OK, don't forget, where does that go?
That goes in the web Staff. In the web. Alright.
You're going to move round there on you belly to those palettes
and then listen to the chief instructor.
Go. Move fast!
Come on, move fast!
Let's go, all the way in.
On your belt buckle. Get your head down!
Get in there, get in there.
Yes, Staff. When I take this pin out,
you're going to be in charge of a live grenade.
Yes Staff.
Look at the pin. Yeah.
Right, you are in charge of a live grenade.
Yes, Staff.
See the sandbags there?
You (BLEEP) throw it over there, that's where the enemy is.
That's where they've been opening fire.
Listen, take control of this.
(BLEEP) throw that.
Aggression, you do everything you need to do
to get that (BLEEP) live grenade over onto that rooftop.
Yes Staff. Do not (BLEEP) this up.
Dive!
(BLEEP) go!
Move! Move! Move! Move!
Move! Just go! Move!
(BLEEP) move!
Go, go, go, go, go!
Move! Let's go!
Move!
(GUNSHOTS) Get down!
(BLEEP) hell.
That weapon has been used against you and me,
not against the enemy. Yes Staff.
You handled it extremely well.
You moved with it well.
You used it incorrectly. Yes Staff.
'Cause that was not good enough. Yes Staff.
Move! Move!
Unsuccessfully launching the grenade, Number Two has failed the task.
Needing to redeem himself
after his earlier failure on the previous task
is Number Ten, Olympic runner Peter Bol.
Enemy compound 200m at the front.
It's your mission to take out the sentries on top.
You can't keep (BLEEP) things up.
You understand me? Yes Staff.
Do you understand?
So, I need everything you've got on this.
Let's go, let's go!
Where are we going to move to now?
The truck Staff. The truck.
Move there as fast as you (BLEEP) can.
Up.
Down there.
OK. Alright.
Have a look, see what they're doing, see where they're looking.
OK. He's coming - go.
(GUNFIRE)
Almost immediately, Number Ten comes under enemy fire.
Run. Hold target. Zig zag.
(GUNFIRE)
Right. Do you understand me? This is a (BLEEP) grenade.
Do not (BLEEP) around.
You're going to crawl around here on you belly
to the chief instructor.
Get on your belly, go on, go, fast as you can.
Let's go Number Ten, let's go. Fly in the web, let's go.
All the way up here, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Head down, head down, head down, head down.
Get in here. Get in here quick. Keep your eye on me here.
Now look at me. Look at me.
You are now holding a live grenade.
That needs to go up onto that roof.
You can't afford to (BLEEP) this up.
Get back in the game, make this (BLEEP) count.
Let's go.
(EXPLOSION)
Good effort, good effort.
Crawl, crawl, crawl, get down. That's it. Crawl.
Follow me, follow me.
On your feet, on your feet, on your feet, let's go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go. Let's go.
Get down there. On your knees.
(BLEEP) good effort, good effort. Yes Staff.
All that shenanigans that's happened over the last couple of days...
It's over Staff. Get that out of your (BLEEP) head.
This is what I expect from you, OK?
(BLEEP) outstanding effort. Good.
PETER: I think my values will help me
get through the SAS course.
Resilience, teamwork, I'm ready to excel
and I'm ready to embrace it.
I want you to (BLEEP) understand
the severity of what you've got in your hand, right?
It's a live grenade. You heard what it can (BLEEP) do.
You have to understand when it comes to throwing a grenade,
when it comes to taking the shot, it's not like Hollywood.
Think about your next move, where are you going?
Time is of the essence. Yes Staff.
Let's go. He's got his back to you.
You are under immense pressure.
Time's running out.
Come on, what are you waiting for? (GUNFIRE)
Come on, let's go.
He's (BLEEP) seen you anyway.
It's important for us to get the recruits in that zone,
to absolutely thrashing them on the way to the target.
Alright, move down the wall, on your belly!
When it comes to taking a shot,
when it comes to throwing a grenade, you're not composed.
Remember, (BLEEP) live grenade. Yes Staff.
You don't want to die today.
Make sure you've got your eyes on it at all times.
The art of this is to gain that composure.
ANT: On your belt buckle. OLLIE: Get your arse down. Come on!
And be precise in every little aspect
of what you're doing.
Hold onto that grenade.
OLLIE: And when they're at the target,
they've got to control everything.
You're now in charge of a live grenade.
Yes Staff.
They'll be breathing erratically.
Get down. (EXPLOSION)
Good.
OLLIE: They'll have to spot where the enemy are.
Get down! Get down!
OLLIE: And they'll have to use that absolutely precision...
Right, let's move! ..to get the grenade on target.
(BLEEP) hell!
Get down! Down!
(BLEEP) well done.
Mission success. Thank you Staff.
Well done, amazing effort.
(BLEEP) scary, right?
OLLIE: You must do everything in your power...
Let's go. Move.
..take make sure the enemy doesn't get the upper edge on you.
(BLEEP) hell Number Seven!
(BLEEP) bounced off the wall!
Otherwise you are gone. You are finished.
Number 11.
Wanting to impress the DS is Number 11,
Olympic gold swimmer, Stephanie Rice.
OK it's your mission to move from here undercover, undetected
to the left-hand side of that building
where I'm gonna issue you with a live grenade.
OK. Let's go.
STEPHANIE: I've never had to execute precision
whilst I've been in a fear state.
Right.
What are you gonna do next?
Gonna run behind the big truck.
Right, OK, where's the sentry looking?
Oh, he's looking over to the other side.
Right. It's a good time to go then isn't it?
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Fast as you can. STEPHANIE: I love pressure.
Choosing to step up, to give it a go...
What's he doing? Looking around over the side.
Knowing it could be disastrous
but choosing to give it a shot anyway.
(GUNFIRE) You've been seen, you've been seen.
You've been seen,
right, you're just going to have to go for it.
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
(GUNFIRE)
(PUNCHY SOUND) (CRIES) (BLEEP).
(GROANS)
Come on, let's move it!
Move down to me, come on.
Use the wall as cover.
Diving awkwardly onto the sand, Number 11 is now injured.
I'm about to give you (BLEEP)... Hey, what's the matter?
Just hurt my shoulder, yeah.
About to give you a live grenade, remember what I said.
Yes Staff.
OK, make sure the fly is in the web...
How you doing?
(GROANS) (BLEEP).
In a life or death test of precision,
the recruits must infiltrate an enemy compound
and using a single grenade, eliminate the arm sentry...
Move down to me, come on.
Use the wall as cover.
Come on, let's move it!
..but Number 11 has been injured.
(BLEEP).
I just can't lift this arm,
so if I have to do something without (BLEEP).
If for some reason
I had medical issues or injuries with my swimming
I've been able to push through my personal boundaries.
Stay low but move round
then sprint up that hill to the, to the chief instructor.
Stay low.
STEPHANIE: There's no way I would ever go out
without a big, strong fight.
ANT: All the way in, all the way in. All the way in, quick.
Pushing through the pain, she continues with the task.
Quick as you can. Look, face me, face me, face me.
Face this way.
Right.
You are now in charge of a live grenade.
Yes Staff. Calm yourself down.
Listen very carefully
to what I'm about to say.
If I say get your head down, you get your head down in the sand.
If I say dive, you dive over the berm.
OK?
You're ready, go for it.
Oh (BLEEP).
Dive! (BLEEP) Let's go! Let's go!
Come on, let's get up, move, get up, up, move, let's go, let's go, move.
Move!
Number 11, come here.
Sit down, sit down.
Come here, come here, come here.
Look at me, look at me.
Look at me. (BLEEP) look at me.
You know what this is for? Look.
Good job that was there.
(BLEEP) hell.
OK, OK. I'll get the doctor.
(GRUNTS). Thank you Staff.
Chief medic Dr Dan is called in to assess the injury.
(GROANS) I can't hold it anywhere
other than just sort of straight down.
Yeah. No, you won't be able to.
I think the shoulder's come out of join.
You've lost all the angle of that shoulder
and I can feel the head of your humerus,
your upper arm bone is in the front.
It's popped that shoulder out of joint.
Yeah, 11's dislocated her left shoulder.
We need the ambulance here with meds to put it back in.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Are you able to move your arm? No.
Can you wiggle your fingers for me? Yes.
You can feel everything here? Yes.
Just slow, deep breath.
So would you like me to try to put this back in right now?
Yeah. Yeah. OK.
Deep breath in. You're going good.
Deep breaths.
There we go, there we go. There we go.
OK.
It's all back in. Thank you.
Preparing for the course is a lot of work.
I have no intention of quitting
'cause quitting to me is not giving everything you've got.
Remember the (BLEEP) drills, it's a live grenade.
Yes Staff. Alright?
I don't want to die today. Hold it, hold it, hold it, yeah.
Let's make this (BLEEP) Mundine day.
Yes Staff. Alright?
Let's go, let's go.
Number Five is the last recruit
attempting the dangerous infiltration.
I know it's a mental game.
You have to be very strong mentally
and I'm very, very, very strong mentally.
Got to go, you've got to go, you've got to go anyway.
Just run as fast as you can.
Physically I'm not at my peak but I'm not bad either.
If I set out to do something, I'm gonna do it. Period.
Right, I'm about to hand you a (BLEEP) live grenade,
I do not want to die today, do you understand me?
Yes.
Like I don't want to be a failure. I don't want fail.
I don't want to fail at all.
You are now in charge of a live grenade.
Yes Staff. Think about it.
I want you to look, see where that sandbag is?
Yeah.
I want it over that sandbag onto the roof.
The enemy is on the roof. Yes Staff.
Go.
Down!
Good, good. Let's go, move, move, down on your belly, on your belly.
On your belly let's go, on your feet, let's go.
Let's go. Let's go. Quick, quick, quick.
Get down on your knees. (BLEEP) good effort, well done.
Yes Staff. (BLEEP) great.
This is the standard you need to maintain.
Yes Staff. This is all about you, alright?
Well done. Outstanding.
If you say I can't do something,
I'll stay till however long it's going to take me
to prove that I can do it.
That's what separates the Man from the rest, you know what I mean?
Let's go.
I'm a beast bruh, I'm a beast.
Come on Number Seven, let's go.
As day turns to night and the desert temperature drops,
the recruits download after the exhausting task.
You did (BLEEP) great today.
Did you throw the grenade? Yeah.
So how'd it go? Mad.
It went straight over the thing?
I beasted it bro. (BLEEP) of course you did.
Ah! Good job! Of course you did.
You're so good!
Do we need more wood? For kindling?
Yeah. Shall I get that started?
Yeah. Bro, you're ripped!
(LAUGHS)
Thanks. "Thanks."
Thanks man.
Oh, (BLEEP) it's cold.
Big boy.
Thanks. That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me
for such a long time. MAHALIA: Big boy.
No, no, he said, "Oh, you're ripped."
Oh I thought you were talking about when he said, "Big boy."
Big boy? Oh no, I get big boy all the time.
(LAUGHS)
Shit.
In the mess, duty recruit Zima rations out the evening meal.
Oh, need some pasta.
MAHALIA: Give the big boy some meat! (LAUGHS)
It'd be nice if they told us what Steph's status is, wouldn't it?
ABBEY: When I asked Jay all he said was, "She's alive."
This course is chewing people up and spitting them out.
RECRUIT: Yeah.
Do you reckon she's gone like permanently?
Nope. She'll be back.
After X-rays at the hospital,
Number 11 is clear to return to camp.
ANT: Number 11.
How are you feeling?
I'm alright. I've felt better.
But her place on selection is still in doubt.
What's keeping you here? What's your driving force?
If I commit to something,
I work really hard to prepare for it.
I felt like I haven't really trained for anything
since finishing competing,
like, I, haven't really had like a goal to work towards
one specific thing,
so I really wanted to challenge myself and...
How long ago was that?
That I stopped competing? Yeah.
Ten years ago.
You're telling me for ten years, you've just been cruising along?
No, I've had like bits and pieces of purpose
but it's not the same type of thing.
Like having an athletic goal is something I know how to do.
Like I know how to prep for that.
I know how to train and push myself
and I've always loved that, like, feeling
so like having this opportunity gave me that purpose
of, like, being able to utilise everything
I know I'm really good at,
and put it to the test in a different way.
And you haven't had that since 2012?
I don't know if I'll ever find something that was the same
as what swimming was.
How old are you Number 11? 34.
You retired... 24.
24?
Yeah.
34, you haven't even started your life really.
That young age you retire,
there's, you got your whole life in front of you.
Eight months out of the London Olympics
I tore the tendon in my shoulder.
I remember sitting down with the physio
and he said that I would need surgery to recover it.
My goal was to compete at the London Olympics
whether I had a torn tendon in my shoulder or not.
I was not going to miss that opportunity.
I trained through pain every single day.
I know how devastated you was when you were injured, you know,
I wouldn't say it was so much of a cry of pain
as frustration that... Yeah.
..you were potentially leaving the course.
I can see that you're just absolutely raging.
It's frustrating.
that I'm not doing it still to the best of my ability.
That was my whole last like three years of my swimming career.
It's just so hard to,
to prepare for something
and like give everything you have to it
and it's something that happens like one time,
like that's what this is.
Like it's not like I can come back in six months
and give it another crack like,
and that's, like that's really hard to work around psychologically.
When I think about failure,
I would think about the London Olympics.
Everything went wrong.
I got injured, I got sick.
I needed a break to step away from swimming.
Things didn't align the way I knew they could have.
I just remember really longing for it to be over
and that was the day of the opening ceremony.
Just want it to be done.
I couldn't wait for it to be over so I could actually take a break.
I really struggled.
I felt really lost after I finishing swimming.
Do you want to be here?
With a recently dislocated shoulder,
Number 11's future on the course hangs in the balance.
Do you want to be here?
I'm not ready to go.
I don't feel like I've gotten to the point
where I've really like tested myself properly yet
and all the challenge that I want to put myself through
on this course,
to leave before I've taken anything from it...
Mm-hm.
I want to leave knowing that I took something for myself
that I can take home.
I really struggled.
I felt really lost after I finished swimming.
I didn't feel like I had any purpose or any direction
and I didn't feel like anybody understood.
Are you still lost now? You look like, you're still...
Do I look lost?
No, you just look like you need a purpose.
You got kids, a partner or?
You haven't.
By yourself?
Yeah. Oh, I see, yes.
It's harder.
I think.
It would be nice to have somebody to...
Yeah, that sucks.
Yeah.
Go through the harder times with.
I'd love to have somebody to help through the, like ride the waves.
Yeah, you grow even more.
Yeah. Grow even more.
What have you go back home?
Sorry, Number 11, what have you got back home to go to?
At the moment, not a lot.
You want this badly, don't you? Yeah, I do.
I think you, you know what, I think you need it.
Having heard that I think you need this.
Yeah, I do need this.
There's a place for you on this course.
Yeah, I want to stay. You know, we want you here.
Yeah. You deserve to be here.
You haven't even got out of second gear yet.
We know that.
I know that you want to be here
and when I have people like that, like yourself,
yeah, we'll bend over backwards
to make sure that we don't change standards
or anything
but I'll make sure that, you know, you get what you can
out of this without injuring you any further.
You happy with that? Yep.
Are you sure? Yes.
Let's get you back in the game. Sounds good.
Let's do it. OK. Back in that headspace.
On this course, you're not alone, alright?
Bandaged and cleared to continue...
Over to you now.
Whatever you've got to do.
..Stephanie returns to the dorm.
Oh, you're back.
Oh, oh my god, what the (BLEEP), scared the (BLEEP) out of me.
Didn't mean to wake you. What's happened? Talk to us.
(SIGHS) I dislocated it.
He said that I can keep going for a bit which is good.
Yeah? Good.
So, I just gonna do everything I can.
Yeah.
Load up on drugs.
So, is it dislocated?
They popped it back in right away. Shit.
Yeah, I got it X-rayed. It was fine, so...
So it's back in? Yeah.
'Cause we could see... Yeah.
..just in the distance,
like all the people congregated around you
and then we saw like Dr Dan running through the (BLEEP) desert
to get to you and then the ambulance came
and we were just like, "Oh, my god!"
Did you think I'd like hit myself with the grenade or something?
Yeah. We didn't know, like, blown herself up.
We didn't know what you were doing, what was going on.
You alright? Yeah.
I'm just gonna do as best as I can.
But what a beast staying in the game.
That's, that's beast. Oh mate, I was heartbroken.
That's beast.
But to stayed in the game. I was like,
I cried all the way to the hospital and back.
We knew you'd be devo. I was like, just died inside.
The SAS selection course
is the most brutal and hardest military course
in the world.
It takes mental and psychological resilience
just to walk through the gates.
It's a course where you will learn some much about yourself
that if you pass it,
you feel invincible.
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