Sit down.
NARRATOR: Selection for the SAS is a test like no other.
The selection process is designed to be as real as it can get
before going onto the battlefield.
If you start to panic, everything will go downhill
and (BLEEP) rapidly.
Go! Move!
Bunch of dead snails!
A new group of celebrity recruits...
Consider that a treat.
..have volunteered to leave their comfortable lives behind.
These eggs aren't going down well. ALL: No.
(TRAIN HONKS) Hurry up!
When I'm scared of something, I have to face it headfirst.
STAFF: Go, go!
I'm gonna have to look fear straight in the eye
and take it as it comes. (SCREECHES)
MATTHEW: She's vicious.
They'll be trained to survive the impossible...
ANT: Get down! (EXPLOSION)
ABBEY: Take cover! Make a decision!
We need to go! On it.
Chief Instructor Ant Middleton and his team of directing staff...
Catch him, catch him.
..will make no exceptions.
STAFF: Now! (STAFF YELL)
(ABBEY WHIMPERS)
JAY: Break!
(BLEEP) break, break, break!
Woo, woo!
Want a quick spritz?
Oh, just a quick one. (SQUEALS)
(LAUGHS)
JAY: Let's go! Go, move, move, move!
(EXPLOSION)
The recruits in a high-pressure getaway...
OK, make a decision, come on. (BLEEP) turn right!
Stop!
(GUNSHOT)
..and a near drowning...
Get in the centre. (RECRUIT WHIMPERS)
..proves too much.
Do not touch her, do not touch her!
Failing scares the shit out of me.
(ABBEY CRIES)
Plus...
The embarrassment and shame I felt was crippling.
..the recruits reveal their deepest secrets.
My most shameful experience was when I went off at my parents
and I'm so ashamed of it because that's my (BLEEP) dad.
Are you worried that you could be a compulsive liar?
Maybe.
Yeah.
(INDIGENOUS MUSIC)
You wearing the like, kit briefs?
I'm still wearing the same underwear as I wore...
Like yours or the kit? Yeah, mine.
Yeah, same. The ones that I arrived here in.
I really need, yeah. I really wanna change.
What you could do is sanitary-wise,
'cause oh, there's limited pads though we can ask for more.
Yeah, you can, absolutely,
they will never let you go without pads.
Or if you want to wear the same undies.
Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea.
You can probably chuck a pad. Yeah, that's a good idea.
Yeah, I don't feel too gross yet.
My vagina's like...
I wear a G-string so...
Like sandbars when I'm walking and I'm like oh, ow!
(LAUGHTER)
It's day seven on the unforgiving SAS selection course
and after a week of pain and suffering...
Good morning, Wadi Rum!
(MATTHEW FARTS)
Oh! (LAUGHS) That was a long one.
(LAUGHTER)
The remaining seven recruits have forged close bonds.
Thank god for farts.
They thought they were under shellfire again.
(LAUGHTER)
Triggered!
You sent them straight back to war!
(LAUGHTER)
And despite the constant fatigue...
(MAHALIA SINGS TO HERSELF)
..it's those bonds that keep their spirits high.
(LAUGHTER)
Aye, aye!
In formation, in formation.
Come and join!
Me as a person, I feel like I'm really so happy and bubbly
and like, all over the place and I seem to always be smiling.
Mmm, mm, mmm!
Like sometimes my friends get annoyed by it
or my boyfriend's like,
if he doesn't always have nice thoughts
he's just like, "Why are you?"
And I'm like it's just what is inside me
'cause I've learned to not be negative.
(LAUGHS)
If we wanted to perform for them.
On the parade square, into the parade square.
Staff!
No, we just be like, Staff!
(LAUGHTER)
Oi, act real serious.
(LAUGHTER)
And that positivity is what I'm going to maintain
throughout the SAS course.
Oh, my god.
(LAUGHTER)
I love the choreography.
On the parade square.
Clean fatigue, no water bottles.
Hurry up.
Run here now, quick, move.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Today, pressure.
Get that word in your head.
Decision-making under pressure.
Split seconds.
Make a (BLEEP) decision.
Commit to it.
Can you cope with that pressure?
Or is it too much?
Alright, we're gonna move out, get into the vehicles.
You know what to do.
Go!
Let's move this morning, let's move! Hurry up!
Let's start (BLEEP) sparking.
Hurry up!
(MAHALIA GROANS)
Oh, god. So slow today.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Through the hot desert landscape,
the recruits travel to a task
that will test their ability to absorb the enormous pressure
of battle.
The selection process is designed to build warriors.
We work and train under pressure all the time.
We work on the battlefield.
There's no higher pressure than going into combat,
being face-to-face with the enemy,
knowing that you may not step off that battlefield.
JAY: Come on faster, get up here!
ANT: (BLEEP) start switching on. OLLIE: Come on, get in there.
Hurry up, sprint into me, let's move!
On you go.
Move. Hurry up, hurry up, number seven.
Hurry up. Move.
As a special forces soldier
you are constantly, constantly under pressure.
Pressure comes in different forms.
Time pressure.
Pressure not to let your mushers down.
Pressure that is derived from fear.
Fear demands that you focus on something
that is causing you that threat.
When that happens, that can put you into fight or flight,
or even worse, freeze.
You have to switch off from all distractions
and focus on the mission brief.
If you can't retain that information,
it's (BLEEP) pointless for you being on the ground.
'Cause the one thing an operator's got to focus on
is why they're there.
Not get (BLEEP) scared when things start happening.
Noise starts going off.
Bombs start (BLEEP) exploding, bullets start going over your heads.
While all that's going on, you've got information to retain.
Listen to the chief instructor.
Stay where you, didn't say (BLEEP) turn around, did we?
Take your Bergens off and sit on them.
Go.
Right, pressure.
It's on your shoulders now, not ours.
You're gonna be given a set of QBOs,
you know what they are, quick battle orders.
Down to you to process it.
We're watching.
We are watching.
Number seven, put your Bergen on and follow me.
Thai cave rescue hero, Craig Challen
must draw on his experiences under immense pressure.
I think I work pretty well under pressure.
It's down there.
I was diving with my friend
and just out of the corner of my eye I saw my friend upside down
and it became apparent to me
that he was actually having a seizure underwater.
I swam over to him
and was able to get him back to the surface.
And that pressure does weigh pretty heavily on your shoulders.
Get in here, get down.
OK, listening to this
'cause you're only gonna get this once.
Yes, Staff.
OK, situation.
Yesterday at 05:00 hours, one of our agents was compromised.
Prior to him being captured,
he managed to get a radio message to us with the following.
Intel cache located third green door, yellow pod.
It's your mission to move from here
and locate that pod and get to an extraction point.
There are enemy forces all over the ground.
You must move with stealth, and you must move with purpose.
Once you get to your extraction point,
you will call in your extraction with the code:
(TENSE MUSIC)
Taking cover,
number seven has managed to avoid enemy fire
and crawls under the iron structure.
I've never done anything like this course before.
I'm 57 years old now
and I just want to accumulate as many experiences as I can.
I always like to try and extend my capabilities.
And what you're left with is the sense of achievement
that you pushed yourself, you know,
perhaps beyond what you previously thought that you were capable of.
There's only one way to find out
and sitting at home on the couch imagining is not that way.
ENEMY: Fire, fire, fire.
(GUNFIRE)
Making a break to find the green door,
Craig has alerted the enemy.
(GUNFIRE)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Locating the third green door and yellow pod,
he must get to the extraction point with the enemy closing in.
(DOG BARKS)
(GUNFIRE)
That's it, number seven.
Hurry up!
You've been compromised, the dogs are coming after you!
The enemy is on your tail.
(DOG BARKS) (GUNFIRE)
Get up there, get up there, get up there, quick!
Move, move, move.
(GUNFIRE)
Get in there.
Get the extraction code over on the communications.
ERVGREEN7537,
repeat ERVGREEN7537.
Get the hell out of here!
With the wrong code given,
Craig waits, exposed to the enemy, in the cold water.
If your code was correct, you will be extracted.
If your code was incorrect,
then you've be (BLEEP) waiting a very long time.
Get over to the buoy.
STAZ: Negative, wrong code given.
Turning around.
Number seven, your code was incorrect.
Incorrect!
Swim to this ladder.
Hurry up.
You're not being caught by the enemy.
Swim in, hurry up.
With the pod in hand but the wrong extraction code,
Craig has failed.
All that (BLEEP) hard work,
(BLEEP) mission failed.
Incorrect extraction code.
That could be (BLEEP) anyone up there finding that radio,
putting in any old (BLEEP) code.
They need a precise code.
Guess what, now you're (BLEEP) floating around
in the (BLEEP) ocean.
The enemy are gonna come and capture you.
Gone. Mission fail.
All for one bit of information that you need to retain.
(BLEEP) failed!
Right, hit the (BLEEP) platform.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Number two, stand up, put your Bergen on, follow me.
Actress Zima Anderson must now step up to the pressure-filled task.
Let's go.
You ready, number two? Yes, Staff.
You sure?
There's been many of times in my life where I felt pressure.
Intel cache in yellow pod, last green door, white building.
When you get to your extraction point,
you must the code:
When I was struggling to get 'Neighbours'
and I didn't have money,
I just ostracised myself
and I had to just keep grinding and grinding
so there was a lot of pressure.
And when there's pressure, I just like focus
and I try to maintain where the goal is outside of myself
and try to get myself through.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Number two stealthily navigates the port.
(GUNFIRE)
But as she runs to locate the green door,
she draws enemy fire.
Finding the pod and now in the line of fire,
number two must quickly get to the gantry
and alert the extraction boat with the correct code.
ANT: Let's go, move!
(BLEEP) dogs after you, get up there!
Hurry up!
(PANTS)
There's a radio.
Right.
Get that (BLEEP) extraction code into that radio.
Press the presser.
(GUNFIRE)
ERVGREEN7527.
STAZ: Confirming that's the correct code.
You know what you need to do, this is your extraction point.
Take your Bergen off.
Remember when you jump, hold onto it
and then ditch it straightaway
so it doesn't (BLEEP) hit you in the face
when you enter the water. Get it off
and the same with the packet.
Do I take it with me?
You take it with you but when you jump,
get over there, when you jump, you (BLEEP) push the Bergen,
you hold the bergen, you push it out
so it hits the water before you, let's go.
Oh!
(INDIGENOUS MUSIC)
In a task replicating an infiltration of a military port
to secure sensitive information
before radioing a memorised extraction code
for a water rescue...
Oh!
..number two Zima has taken a fall.
(ZIMA CRIES OUT IN PAIN)
Now the DS and medical team race to her aid.
(ZIMA CRIES OUT IN PAIN)
Zima, listen, listen to your doctor, listen, listen.
Shh, shh, we're here.
This doesn't matter anymore. This doesn't matter,
the exercise does not matter anymore, OK?
The exercise does not matter anymore.
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. (ZIMA BREATHES HEAVILY)
I was gonna do it, I was gonna do it.
Doesn't matter, doesn't matter. That doesn't matter.
You matter.
DR DAN: There you go, I've got some pain relief for you,
it's just a whistle. You breathe steadily on this.
Just nice, slow breath.
BOTH: In and out.
I want you to hold onto this for me.
MEDIC: And then we're going to let you look after that for a second.
Hi, tell me what you need.
(ZIMA MOANS IN PAIN)
You all good, Zim?
Everyone's helping you here. You're in good hands.
Yeah? You're doing really well.
Doing really well.
DR DAN: So, her airway is good.
We've got a C-spine precaution in place
but we're not particularly worried.
Her breathing's good, she's sounding well.
(ZIMA CRIES)
No open wounds anywhere.
ANT: No bleeding to the head.
The selection process is designed to be as real as it can get
before going onto the battlefield.
Accidents happen all the time.
I swear I was gonna be a good SAS recruit.
(STAFF CHUCKLE) You are.
You are a good SAS recruit.
JAY: Champion recruit you are.
Still time, don't you worry.
DR DAN: Need to give you a bit of oxygen, OK?
MEDIC: One, two, three.
We have to make sure that you can deal with those risks.
We have to make sure that when it comes to real-life training,
that you are capable an aware of having your own life in your hands.
(SIRENS BLARE)
JAY: Awesome Zima, you're doing awesome.
Absolute trooper.
Sustaining a small fracture to her right elbow and wrist,
Zima is taken to hospital for treatment
where she'll be medically withdrawn from the course.
Stand up, put your Bergens on.
And the DS have decided to discontinue the task.
Right, number two's been medically withdrawn from the course.
She's in good hands, she's OK.
Not your worry, our worry.
Being well looked after, she's good to go.
That's what happens.
Even when we train in the special forces.
Just the nature of the beast
and if we numb this down anymore
then you would just get (BLEEP) green army,
army boot camp experience which we won't do.
But we carry on.
That's exactly what we do.
Carry on for our comrades as well, carry on for (BLEEP) number two.
Understood? RECRUITS: Yes, Staff.
We're up for it Staff. Right, good, I know you are.
That's why you're (BLEEP) here.
Go! Move, move!
Keep your (BLEEP) heads in the game.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Straight in the vehicles, no slacking.
No standards will be (BLEEP) dropped.
ABBEY: Oh no!
RECRUIT: I hope she's alright. That's devastating.
(INDIGENOUS MUSIC)
Returning to base,
duty recruit number nine and the others attend to camp detail,
but fellow recruit Zima is still front of mind.
Aww, little Zima. I know.
My little smiley gal.
Yeah, it's sad. I've been like with Zim
since literally we boarded the plane.
Mmm.
(SIGHS SADLY) Just sad.
As I said like I felt like she woke up in a really good spot today
as well like in her mindset. Yeah.
(SIGHS SADLY)
To have that actual option taken away from her as well,
Zim would be shattered.
Anybody want a spritz?
No? Maybe a little one.
OK, good. (LAUGHS)
Yeah, nice. Do you want a spritz?
Quick spritz? It's nice.
(LAUGHS)
Just a little bit of a cool down.
We could do these ones.
Woo!
(LAUGHS) Yeah.
Do you want a quick spritz?
Oh, just a quick one.
(SQUEALS) (LAUGHS)
ANT: What time are we on?
I've got 1:45, Staff.
OK, five minutes, that is 1:50. 1:50.
Everyone out in the parade square, clean fatigue, no water bottles.
Done Staff.
Five minutes. Make that happen now.
Clean fatigues.
Despite cutting short the previous task,
the DS will continue to apply pressure
on the six remaining recruits.
Hustle, hustle.
(BLEEP) hell, have we stopped running now?
Do we not run anymore?
What the (BLEEP) going on?
At this stage of the course, do not (BLEEP) switch off.
That's when (BLEEP) accidents happen.
Pressure gives you a purpose.
It means that something in there has switched on.
It's your body telling itself to get ready.
You must be ready to go at a (BLEEP) moment's notice at any given time.
We are either going by foot, we go in by air or we go in by sea.
I.e. water.
Let me tell you right now, the most dangerous is by water.
You add water to the mix,
(BLEEP) me if you don't know what you're doing,
chaos will occur.
Lives will be lost.
When I say go,
you will sprint over to the tank,
and you will line up the rear of the tank facing this way.
Is that understood? RECRUITS: Yes, Staff.
Go, move! Hurry up!
(TENSE MUSIC)
Lock arms.
When I say step forward,
go, you will step forward into the water.
You will stay connected as you are.
You will use each other to stay afloat.
If you feel like you're letting the team down,
break that link, make your way to the side,
(BLEEP) hold on.
Is that understood? RECRUITS: Yes, Staff.
Prepare to step forward.
Hold tight.
Go.
(WATER SPLASHES)
In a task known as the Beehive,
the recruits must huddle together, treading water,
while attempting to stay afloat for as long as possible.
Get away from the edge.
Come forward into the centre.
The Beehive is environmental pressure.
It's the pressure of being dropped off into the water
where the swell is coming over your head.
You've got your kit on.
You have to tread water, you have to come together,
you have to look at each other.
And if one person panics,
it has a knock-on effect, a Domino effect
where is could potentially take out the whole team.
Link arms.
CRAIG M: Good guys, just keep breathing.
If you get a mouthful of water just spit it out.
(BLEEP) no shit keep breathing, number nine.
(BLEEP) no shit.
Yes, Staff.
Good advice though.
Number nine and number 14,
when I say go, you will swim together,
link arms therefore forming a circle amongst the group.
Not a hard drill.
Stay in the (BLEEP) centre.
Links arms.
Water and me do not go together.
Everybody is scared of something.
Everybody has a fear.
I want (BLEEP) links shoulder to shoulder.
Just being able to really, I guess, control your breath,
control your emotions,
it's gonna be a massive mental game for me,
I have absolutely no doubt about it.
I know that physically I can get things done.
That's not what worries me.
Yeah, it's just, park the emotions and focus on the job at hand.
Face each other. Do not hang onto each other.
Number four, get in the centre, move!
The rest of you surround number four.
Do not touch her!
(BLEEP) tread water.
This is pressure, right now.
Pressure to (BLEEP) stay alive.
Keep treading water.
Do not (BLEEP) touch each other, do not hold onto each other.
(ABBEY WHIMPERS)
If you feel like you can't, grab onto the sides.
Do not touch her! Do not touch her!
(EXPLOSION)
JAY: React, number nine, react! It's a white, it's a white...
Extreme pressure... OK, make a decision, come on!
..in an explosive high-speed, tactical driving task.
(EXPLOSION) What's happening, what's happening?
And later...
I want you to write down your most shameful experience.
..Craig comes clean.
(TEARFULLY) I'm finally ready to change and move forward.
(HEART BEATING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Do not touch her!
(BLEEP) tread water.
This is pressure right now!
Pressure to (BLEEP) stay alive.
Replicating open ocean survival,
the recruits tread water trying desperately to stay afloat...
Keep treading water!
Do not (BLEEP) touch each other,
do not hold onto each other.
..but number four, Abbey, is panicked and losing control.
Grab onto the side!
Do not touch her!
This is what pressure's about.
Staying calm and collected.
A failure is something
that really, really does scare me in life.
All of you get out as fast as you can.
Get back into your positions on the side of the tank.
Move!
I'm somebody who always chases perfection
which you are never going to achieve.
I'm pretty critical of myself.
What you've just done there is a very realistic (BLEEP) task.
Helicopters over water, we (BLEEP) jump in.
Full kit.
It's the small things
that will (BLEEP) get you injured or killed.
You may very well find yourself in the (BLEEP) ocean
by your (BLEEP) self,
having to pull your (BLEEP) sorry carcases out the water.
If you can't (BLEEP) pull them out of a tank,
then what are you doing here?
Does anybody want to voluntarily withdraw at this stage?
No, Staff.
BOTH: No, Staff.
No, Staff.
When I say go, you will disappear into the accommodation,
sort your shit out, rinse your (BLEEP) T-shirts out,
rinse your kit out,
make sure it's (BLEEP) dry as it can be.
Put it back on.
Go! Disappear!
Hurry up!
(FOREBODING MUSIC)
(MAHALIA COUGHS) I just don't wanna get my feet sandy.
As the wet and cold recruits recover...
I'm just not, I'm not good in that...
Yeah, same. ..environment.
It's just so heavy.
..number four struggles with her failure.
Like I just freak out with water.
(SIGHS)
But like...
I felt OK at the start but then it just went to shit.
Yeah.
I feel like one of my big, I guess, downfalls
and an area that I really need to work on
is that I do put a hell of a lot of pressure on myself.
(CRIES)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(MELANCHOLY MUSIC)
I don't cope with failure well.
I take it personally.
I become really negative when I fail.
Just breathe.
I always want to do the best that I possibly can as well
and make everyone proud but, yeah I'm an emotional being.
The second that, yeah, it comes down
to anything that is so important to me, I crumble.
(CRIES)
Hey.
Hey, it's OK. (CRIES)
It was a really hard day.
It's OK.
(SNIFFS) Oh, my god.
I know, I know. It's a really, really hard task.
Just not like a confident swimmer.
What if we get dropped out in the ocean...
You'll be alright.
(CRIES)
(BLEEP) hell.
(LAUGHS WEAKLY) OK, control. Yep.
(SOFT MUSIC)
Through the desert sands,
the recruits' transit to another highly stressful test
under combat pressure.
The selection process is the most brutal and hardest military course
in the world.
And a lot of people crack or crumble...
Oh, shit.
..under the pressure of selection.
Get out! STAZ: Get out, jump out.
Hurry up. Let's move.
Straight to the DS. Follow the DS.
Move, move! Move, move!
Hurry up. Come on, let's go!
Move, move! Let's go!
Let's move. Hurry up number nine!
CRAIG M: Yes, Staff.
Last man number nine.
Always, unfortunately, Staff.
Then (BLEEP) move those legs!
In the special forces, there are four main skills.
There's mountain, there's boat,
there's air and there's mobility.
Mobility means a (BLEEP) vehicle on the ground.
We need to know what we're gonna do when the shit hits the fan.
No matter what is going on around us,
we stay calm,
we (BLEEP) get out of the area as fast as we (BLEEP) can.
(CAR STARTS AND REVS)
In a test of mental agility under immense pressure,
the recruits will leave a start point on a pre-determined route,
through the abandoned village.
They'll be chased by armed assailants
while needing to navigate a series of roadblocks wired with explosives.
(MULTIPLE EXPLOSIONS)
The recruits must avoid enemy ambush
and exit the hostile area,
past the fire barrier, to safety.
Everything is down to you.
The pressure is on your shoulders, no one else's.
You gotta get us the (BLEEP) out of there and quick.
Fast, efficient and safely, is that understood?
RECRUITS: Yes, Staff. Go, move.
First to tackle the course
and show they can navigate and evade enemy attack
under pressure...
Number four get down here and face out.
..is AFL field commentator, Abbey Holmes,
needing to redeem herself after earlier fails.
Go. Go to the DS.
I am somebody that always sets goals
and always goes and chases them, jumps in headfirst.
Happy? Let's go.
I'm the kind of person that's always thinking what's next?
You know, what's the next challenge? What's the next goal?
OK, give me a readout, what's going on?
Nothing happening yet, Staff, first right...
Just tell me what you're seeing.
We're going first right, first right, first right.
OK. Yes, it's a positive
but it comes with a hell of a lot of pressure that you put on yourself.
Tell me what you're seeing. Car parked.
Not seeing anything.
Yes, yes, yes. OK.
Toyota, we're going left, we're going left.
OK. Enemies, enemies.
OK, let's go, let's go.
Enemy vehicle to the right.
Let's go, let's go.
Enemy vehicle... What's going on?
(EXPLOSION) Bomb!
Talk to me, what's going on?
Bomb, bomb, bomb! Let's go, talk to me!
(MULTIPLE EXPLOSIONS)
Going right, going right, going right!
Enemy vehicles! Enemy vehicles!
OK, let's go, let's go. OK!
(GUNFIRE)
Talk to me, what's going on?
Fire, fire, fire, fire, fire!
Stop, stop, stop, stop!
(CAR SCREECHES TO A HALT)
Get out of the vehicle.
You saw the enemy, OK, you reacted well.
You reacted accordingly when you saw the firebomb.
You realised that, you know, that's not the way we need to go.
We need to go (BLEEP) right
and get out of there as soon as possible.
Yes, Staff.
OK, you didn't get us killed, we're both alive.
Not a bad effort, number four. Alright, stand up.
Turn around, you see the edge of the building where that tree is?
Yes, Staff. Head there, you'll see the DS.
The motivation for me putting my hand up for SAS...
Let's go Penelope Pitstop.
..is to really take myself out of my comfort zone
and come back a better, bigger, stronger version of myself.
(FIRE CRACKLES)
OLLIE: 14. Yes, Staff.
Go. Go to the DS.
On the tactical driving, we want to test you under pressure,
we want to see how you react in that car.
Seatbelt on.
This is a war zone.
It's not a driving test.
Nothing to worry about at the moment, Staff.
Yeah. It's a hostile enemy area.
I'm checking that you can get me the (BLEEP) out of there safely.
OK, give me a readout. We're still clear, it's clear.
There's buildings, there's a car. We're going left...
Vehicle is coming out now, there's a vehicle coming out.
You must control yourself under pressure.
Go around these blocks. What's going on?
OK, we're going around these... Give me a readout!
Give me a readout, 14! Give me a readout!
There's bombs, there's bombs going off.
Bombs going off. (EXPLOSION)
This is a time to be checking what's behind me.
What's in front of me?
What's to the left of me? What's to the right of me?
We're going to go right. Make a decision!
Stick to it! We go right.
Absorbing all that information and making a decision
to get yourself out of that situation.
OK.
Give me a readout, talk to me, talk to me.
We're going to go through the fire, we're going to go through the fire.
OK.
From what I saw, very situationally aware,
you have me a good readout. You spotted the vehicles,
you know you reacted accordingly to the firebombs,
and we got out of there safely.
I actually don't have any pickup point for you.
That was decent. Thank you, Staff.
Pressure will be your biggest ally.
Oh (BLEEP).
Put your seatbelt on.
(SIGHS) Or it'll be your biggest weakness.
Alright, let's go.
OK talk to me, what's going on?
Gonna go first up here. Yeah.
Then first right. Yeah.
Some buildings.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Tell me what's coming out on the right,
what's going on, on the right. Another vehicle.
OK, vehicle Right, let's go.
OK, what's going on?
Talk to me, talk to me, what's going on?
Talk to me! Talk to me! (EXPLOSION)
There's some... Talk to me!
..bombs going off.
Give me a read out, give me a read out!
If they start flapping, if they're start panicking...
(EXPLOSION ) What's going on?
Again, again, make a decision!
Come on! Go right! Go right!
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
(GUNFIRE) Stop!
Right get out of the car.
Seatbelt off, get out of the car.
And if we start losing control...
Let's go this way, oi!
(BLEEP) go, move, move, move!
(BLEEP) contact area, move!
Then he's useless.
You need to be more situationally aware, OK?
You (BLEEP) drove straight into the enemy.
(BLEEP) big firebomb
and a vehicle which I saw with gunmen coming out,
you (BLEEP) drove straight into it and then stalled.
Go to the DS.
They need to be looking left and right.
Give me a read out on what you're seeing.
This gate here... Yeah.
No hostiles. OK.
And figure out what their options are to get them out.
OK, what's going on here?
There's a car right behind us. What's happening?
What's happening? React! (EXPLOSION)
React! Come on! There's a bomb.
OK. Make a decision!
What's happening? We're under fire, we're under fire.
Talk to me, talk to me. What's happening?
(EXPLOSION) What's happening? What's happening?
We're under fire, we're under fire. (GUNFIRE)
Stop, stop, stop, stop! (TYRES SCREECHES)
Get out of the car!
Not a bad effort 13.
What happened in front of us?
I just kept on trying to drive through as quickly as possible...
OK. When there were gunmen in, ahead,
I turned off to the right.
Next time you need to stay (BLEEP) calmer.
You were flapping like a headless chicken there, wasn't ya?
Yes, Staff.
That's the only (BLEEP) point I picked you up on.
See the (BLEEP) DS over there?
Yes, Staff. (BLEEP) off to them.
Through the streets of an abandoned desert village,
the recruits must navigate their way
past road obstacles and explosions
while attempting to evade enemy attackers
and make it to a safe zone to pass the task.
(GUNFIRE)
So far, only three of the four recruits
have been successful.
Next into the driver's seat...
OLLIE: Seven.
..is Thai cave rescue hero, Craig Challen.
Just get down there. Face out that way.
I might well be one of the oldest people out there.
Go, Let's go Number Seven.
But I reckon I might have had a few more life experiences
than most people.
Alright, let's go.
Under pressure, the only way it's going to be overcome
is by you pushing back
and exerting as much pressure as you can yourself.
OK, give me a read out.
Looking for the right, looking for the right.
Yeah. Closed gates ahead.
(BLEEP) keep it calm Louis Hamilton.
This is the right here. OK.
OK, give me a read out. Take a left here.
What's going on?
Left here, all clear, vehicle on the right.
What's going on?
Talk to us, talk to us, what's going on?
The vehicle is going ahead. What's happening?
(EXPLOSION) Talk! What's happening?
Give me a read out! We're under attack.
Give me a read out! Yeah, there's roadblocks.
Give me a read out! (EXPLOSION)
We're working through. OK, make a decision!
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
Stop, stop! Reverse! (GUNFIRE)
Trapped and unable to escape...
Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
Stop, stop!
..Number Seven is overrun by the enemy.
Get out, get out, get out!
Your (BLEEP) dead Number Seven.
Take a look around.
I (BLEEP)... You drove into an enemy location.
(BLEEP) think.
Situationally aware at all times.
Yes, Staff. We're (BLEEP) dead.
Follow me.
Number Nine, come here. CRAIG M: Yes, Staff.
Actor Craig McLachlan is the last recruit behind the wheel.
Go. Go to the DS.
JAY: Jump in the driver's seat, let's go.
The day the verdict was handed down in my case...
Seatbelt on.
..I can't begin to catalogue the list of emotions you feel.
But in that pressure cooker situation,
you can barely breathe.
Alright let's go. Let's move.
And so learning how to deal with the pressure
in an emergency,
everything else sort of fades to the periphery
and I just seem to be able to maintain a focus
on what is required in that moment.
Alright where the (BLEEP) are you going?
Left. (BLEEP) left!
Alright give me a read out, what's going on?
All clear here.
No sign of hostiles, no sign of threat.
Happy where you're going?
Yes, Staff.
Why the (BLEEP) are the windscreen wipers on?
OK give me a read out, what's going on?
What's happening? No threat here.
Any change? Any change? It's open, no change.
You sure? Are you sure there's no change?
What's this? What... Who's pulling up on the right?
What's going on here? What's going on here?
That's another vehicle. What's going on?
(BLEEP) talk to me. That's another vehicle.
What is going on? That's another vehicle.
(EXPLOSION)
OK, who's behind us?
Who's behind us? I don't know who it is?
Check your mirrors, who's behind us?
Like a snail.
React Number Nine, react! React!
It's a white... (EXPLOSION)
Who's behind us? It's a white van.
React!
It is a white van. Make a decision.
(TYRES SCREECHES)
Get out of the (BLEEP) waggon! (GUNFIRE)
Driving slowly and stopping early,
Number Nine is seized by the hostiles.
(BLEEP) was that?
The (BLEEP) was that?
I was just trying to get away from them Staff.
We're (BLEEP) dead.
Did you see the (BLEEP) enemy cars?
Yes, Staff. Did you see the changing situation?
Did you hear the gunfire? I recog...
Did you see the explosions that we came through?
Did you see any of it?
Like a (BLEEP) snail.
(FIRE FLICKERS)
Numbers Four, 13 and 14 have passed,
while Six, Seven and Nine have failed.
Some of you listened to that brief at the start,
some of you didn't, OK?
You're not driving down the road to the (BLEEP) shops, are you?
There's a potential enemy.
That means you're (BLEEP) always situationally aware.
Always know what's going on.
Always give a good read out.
14, 13, Four, you did well.
Stand up.
Right, follow the DS.
Special forces operators live in danger.
Risks are real
and when you come face to face with the enemy...
Close the gap Number Nine. Let's go, move.
The moment you turn your back, you're dead.
Hurry up. Hurry up!
And you would do everything and anything
to push through the danger,
push through the chaos,
in order to live to fight another day.
(DRY RETCHES)
Are you dry heaving?
Yeah. Just running, tired, sore.
Horrendous.
Burn that shame.
Leave that in the (BLEEP) past.
The recruits reveal all...
The embarrassment and shame I felt was crippling.
I've caused so much hurt and serious damage
to the relationship.
..in a pressure test of emotion.
My most shameful experience was when I went off at my parent,
and I'm so ashamed of it because that's my (BLEEP) dad.
Oh, yuck!
Oh...
MATTHEW: What? You ripped the scab off?
Ew, look at that.
Ew, oh, yeah, ooh, ew, oh, no that's ew.
Really? It looks puss-y.
Oh, that's nasty.
It's only skin. It grows back.
Oh, oh (BLEEP)!
Yeah.
Oh no. That's not, that's nasty.
MATTHEW: It's hard to tell... That's nasty.
MATTHEW: It's hard to tell if it's just very, very wet.
Just go and wash it in water.
ABBEY: Go wash it.
While the physical scars of selection are clear to see...
ANT: Get everyone out on the benches.
..the emotional ones are harder to find...
Quick as you can. Let's go.
And now, the DS will expose each recruit's dark past.
We all carry a lot of (BLEEP) shit on our minds
and on our hearts as well.
Once you get rid of that,
(BLEEP) hell, talk about a burden being lifted.
It's a powerful thing.
I'm going to give you a clipboard and A4 piece of paper.
I want you to write down your most shameful experience.
It's important that on this course that I feel all of it.
We want to know each and everything about each other.
For me there's an element of exorcism about this.
I won't be able to hide the vulnerability.
I won't be able to hide the rawness.
I'm just going to have to not be afraid
to be able to let it out.
I want to know when my oppo turns up to work
just by looking at him, I know there's something wrong.
Just by his demeanour.
If I can make his day or her day five, 6% better,
then I know it will have a positive knock-on effect
for the team as well.
And that's why we (BLEEP) go through this exercise.
Over to you.
Setting fire to shame
allows you to get rid of that experience,
which is traumatic.
It's so important to understand what you have in your armoury,
armoury of emotions.
Once you have the ability to voice it out,
to actually hear it,
you can then process it, set alight to it and move on.
Right, who wants to go first?
OK.
Alright Number Nine.
"I was publicly shamed
"for bullying, harassing,
"intimidating, even assaulting workmates.
"But the embarrassment
"and shame I felt was crippling.
"And without realising it,
"I've been hating everything and resenting everything.
"I've been angry at everything.
(SNIFFLES)
"But I've reached a point perhaps
"finally where I can acknowledge that we live in different times
"and not hate that and not buck against it.
(SNIFFLES)
"You can't change what's been done,
"good, bad or otherwise
"but you can change things moving forward.
"I'm finally ready to change and move forward."
I'm done with hate for hate's sake.
I have over time learned to breathe again.
To move on.
ANT: You know what you need to do Number Nine.
The painful stuff, there's anger associated with it
but it's about containing that little flame for a moment.
Know that, that little flame is gonna burn for a second,
but you have the power to blow the flame out
before it burns your fingers,
so, I hope that's kind of what I'm managing to do.
Trust me, when you put it down on pen and paper
and you read it back to yourself, (BLEEP) me,
you hear it
and when you hear things you can process things.
When you process things,
you get rid of them and move forward.
And when you don't,
all it does is bounce around in this echo chamber.
When you write it down you, (BLEEP) hear it.
It's a whole different ball game.
Who wants to go up next?
Come on Number Six.
"My most shameful experience
"was when I went off at my parents during my depression state.
"Not once but multiple times."
When I went through the situation with my mum,
my dad, he was the only one that was there to take care of us,
and he was working night shift to try and provide for us.
When I was four my mum had a bad car accident,
and she was in hospital for a year and a half,
and she wasn't home, and my dad was being our provider
and you know, working hard for us
and not having Mum around was really tough.
And it got to a point when I got too much of it
and (TEARFULLY) I shoved him back onto the lounge.
"After what I felt was too much
"to handle in the state that I was in.
"No punches were thrown but the disrespect I had shown
"and the amount of anger I had carried really hit me
"when I had a clear mind to reflect back on it.
"I still to this day am affected by my actions
"but try my best to love and give back to my parents
"after raising me and my siblings the best they could."
That would be the most,
that would be the most shameful moments.
I'm not proud of putting my hands on my father
but at that time,
it was a constant thing that kept happening
and I'm so ashamed of it because that's my (BLEEP) dad
and he's done so much for my family when my mum couldn't.
Yeah.
What's done is done as well. Mm.
Don't try and control things that you can't.
Process it, hear it, burn it and move on.
That's done.
Chuck it on the fire.
Your most shameful experience,
it will expose your vulnerabilities
and when you expose your vulnerabilities,
that opens you up in a positive way
where positive people will (BLEEP) come to your rescue.
Every time I (BLEEP) up,
every time I've done something wrong,
I purge it out of my system.
How I do that is by being honest.
In a mental and emotional exercise
designed to purge the recruits of shame,
each one opens up about their life's regrets.
I write it down, hold myself accountable.
I (BLEEP) read it and I get rid of it.
Number Seven, in your own time.
"The source of the greatest shame in my life
"is the many times that I've failed to treat people
"with the degree of respect and regard that they deserved."
"I allowed my footy career to simply end at the age of 27."
"I'm quite an individuals
"and that can have its merits,
"but it has the side effect
"of a tendency to put myself before the people around me."
You can either see life as traumatic or as a lesson.
"I let my family down
"and the people that have put so much time, effort, energy, money
"into my growth and development."
Shame, it will effect the way that you operate,
the way that you function and the way that you think.
Burn that shame.
Watch it burn as well.
Leave that in the (BLEEP) past. It's done.
"If I'd been more considerate and compassionate
"towards the people around me
"then there's no doubt that their life at that time
"would have been much better."
Just watch that burn.
To become a special forces operator,
they have to face their shame,
they have to face their weaknesses
and they have to face their regrets.
OK, Number 13.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Read what you wrote.
So the one, I guess the one thing
that I haven't really worked through yet
is that, that "I've been a selfish person in relationships.
"I feel so ashamed
"for the immense hurt that I caused someone
"for 11 years who stayed with me all throughout my entire addiction.
"And despite being several years clean and sober
"and it being one of his absolute dealbreakers,
"I still struggle to be completely honest with my husband.
"I let my own insecurities, fear and trust issues
"be more important than a promise I made to him
"and in doing so,
"I've caused so much hurt
"and serious damage to the relationship.
"So, the thing that I'm most ashamed to admit today
"is that I hurt the people who are most important to me
"because honesty is not one of my core values
"and I'm a liar."
I haven't been the best husband
and I, I've definitely caused a lot of pain
and I still have a lot of shame for, you know,
for lies and deception in my relationship.
I struggle to tell the truth when it's difficult.
Is that an easy option out?
Do you know why? That's an easy option out.
OK. Well, you know now that the hard option is where you learn.
Number 13, grab your letter.
You know what to do with it.
Leave those lies, burn those lies and move on.
Lying has consequences on other people
and it's not fair.
And even being 7.5 years clean and sober,
like I still feel that guilt.
(BLEEP) hell, if I wrote a list,
this whole (BLEEP) fire pit would explode.
(LAUGHTER)
It was not a nice thing, and I don't,
I haven't had the chance,
I don't know if there is a way to make amends
for the pain that I caused.
Number 13.
13? Oh, god. OK.
So I, I just accept that I feel guilty for it.
Still to come...
What's the latest lie that's eating you up?
The DS force a new confession.
There's sexual behaviour outside of the relationship.
I feel ashamed of myself.
Number 13.
Oh, god. OK.
Coming Staff.
Having exposed each recruit's greatest shame,
the DS look to dig deeper into Matt's confession of lies.
Sit down.
(DOOR SHUTS)
I really appreciate your honesty
and that's why I brought you in tonight.
You said about your lies,
that really was something that triggered you, I could see it.
It's from childhood, for sure.
It's, you know, to avoid getting in trouble.
'Cause if you can get away with it...
Mm-hm.
..then, like, then you get away with it
and so it kind of reinforces the behaviour,
whereas if you're honest about it,
about doing something you know you're going to get in trouble,
where if you can get away with it...
Tell a lie. You tell a lie,
and it reinforces that behaviour.
And that carried on through your adulthood?
Yeah. And to, to today?
If I'm really worried about really hurting someone
or I'm really worried about really severe consequences, yeah.
Where I struggle is,
I don't trust that my relationship can handle my truth
and so really, the trust also has to be with myself
and in the other person as well
and that's something I struggle with.
And do you still lie?
To get yourself out of those uncomfortable positions?
Sometimes.
What's the latest lie that you said that's eating you up?
There's... (SIGHS) I can't even...
sexual behaviour within my relationship,
you know, sexual behaviour outside the relationship,
which is ridiculous
because my partner and I have an understanding,
yet I still have so much shame about it
that I can't be honest with it
so there's no reason to lie about it
and that's what eats me up
because of my own shame.
Are you worried that you could be a compulsive liar?
Where it just comes out, just rolls off your tongue?
Maybe.
Yeah. That would be a very, very shameful thing
for me to admit.
At least you know it. At least you can admit it.
I feel ashamed of myself.
That's, that's...
There's a lot of shame 'cause honestly is such a virtue.
In fact it's not just a virtue, it's an expectation.
My mother was a compulsive liar,
and I wouldn't say I was shameful to say this,
but I used to hate speaking to my mother.
Hated it.
I never hated my mother,
never shown any disrespect towards my mother
but I hated speaking to her
because I knew that every word that came out of her mouth
was a (BLEEP) lie.
I hated being around her.
My own mum.
And I hated myself for that.
But she believed her own lies.
it became compulsive
and then I didn't want to be around her.
The only time I managed to (BLEEP) find a bit of peace with her
was when she was on her deathbed.
That's sad.
Nah, I'm just telling you.
People will (BLEEP) just look at you,
know that you're a (BLEEP) liar
and you don't want to be that person.
Honestly.
Because it's (BLEEP) horrible.
I didn't like myself when I was around my mum.
So people will just (BLEEP) be like that with you
if you keep on (BLEEP) telling lies
because it will become compulsive
and it's not a nice person to be.
Moving forward from this moment onwards,
a trustworthy, integral individual.
That's what I want to be. Yeah.
Get everything out of your (BLEEP) system tonight.
You know what you need to change, (BLEEP) change it
because tomorrow is a (BLEEP) hard,
brutal, gruelling, (BLEEP) painful day.
Brilliant.
One ounce of distraction,
you will (BLEEP) fall off that learning curve
and you will be off this course.
That's not me. It's not.
Guard!
Better not be (BLEEP) lying to us Number 13 as well.
I don't consider anything that I've been through a mistake
because I have learnt from absolutely every single thing
that I've been through and so...
Thank you Staff.
..you know I see it all as, as an experience
or as even an asset and a growth opportunity
and I'm always trying to be a better version of myself.
Yeah, mistakes are only mistakes
if you don't learn anything from them.
Are you alright?
Huh? Yeah.
Are you sure? Yeah.
(SIGHS DEEPLY)
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