- Previously on "Race to Survive: New Zealand."
- Oh, shit! - Ahh!
- For nearly four exhausting weeks,
South Island's brutality--
- Shit!
- --has pummeled the five elite teams
of adventurers still standing.
- [screams]
- Gonna hit it.
- In the first three races, Wyoming river guides
Oliver and Corry outpaced the competition to become
the runaway favorites.
But speed is only half the game.
- Whoo-whoo!
- Don't let him go.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- The hunger is real, man.
- How much more can we lose from our bodies?
Time will tell.
[dramatic music]
- Race four--
- What do we got?
- --began with a rule-changing twist--
- "On race leg four, you will not be stopped by the clock.
"You will be allowed to move until you choose to stop
or you complete the entire race leg."
- "If a team taps out before you finish,
it does not necessarily save you from elimination."
- Man, that adds a whole new level to it.
- That is crazy.
- Go! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- --forcing each team to craft a new approach--
- We know we can set a pace that we think can drop Ethan.
- Let's go, baby. - No quit.
No stopping.
- Nik and Kennedy, they're not running.
So we are.
- We are the tortoise.
But we're still here.
- --on a course where every step is designed
for maximum punishment.
- God dang, my knee.
- ---- this.
Seriously.
- I feel the same way.
- As a result, for the first time--
- This has been-- - Demoralizing.
- Yeah. - --the mighty have fallen--
- It was the first time I'd actually seen them broken down.
- While the rest opted to wait for first light--
- We're on the right path.
---- yeah, dude.
- --Smokejumpers Ethan and Tyrie
forged ahead in the darkness--
- I see it, dude.
- --claiming their first-ever victory just X minutes after
midnight in the first hour of a day
that will turn the entire competition upside down.
[ominous music]
* *
[timer beeping]
* *
- New Zealand, man.
What a pretty morning.
Holy cow. Look at them all.
- Oh, yeah.
- Dude, look at all those sheep.
- 21 hours since the non-stop race began,
after an energy-draining beach race against rising tides,
a brutal ropes course, and a painful slog
through dense neck-high bush,
four of the five teams greet a second day
with a course to complete.
- I stubbed my pinky toe.
How's it look?
- Ooh. - It's, like, kind of flappy.
- Canadian oil workers Kennedy and Nik are in last--
- Augh, augh. - Sorry.
- --with six miles left to travel.
- Pinky toe, of all things.
Give me something cool.
Give me a freaking gash on my head or something.
- It's life in the fast lane when you're racing to survive.
What can we do?
- The other teams, they're significantly faster than us.
They also move recklessly.
We just need to be the dog at the back nipping at the heels.
- You got this.
- Two miles ahead, divorced mountaineers Paulina
and Creighton and Wyoming river guides Oliver
and Corry start the day tied for second.
- Last night, I got four hedgehogs
and the biggest eel so far.
I'm freaking stoked.
Like, I'm already looking forward to the future.
We camped with the Jackson boys.
I think we're about to go tackle the jungle together.
- I don't know how I feel about that.
We had already actually made a plan
of where we were going to go.
Let's stick to our plan.
Let's do our own thing.
We know Ethan and Tyrie likely pushed through the night.
- And if they didn't get lost, they
probably got done last night.
See you on the other side.
- Those two, they got another team to catch up to.
I think it's hard for them not being in first place.
- And the only team to complete the race,
pushing through the dense jungle in the pitch dark--
- Here we go, dude.
- So delicious.
- --Smokejumpers Ethan and Tyrie.
- Setting up home for the next few days and eating some kiwis,
eating them skin and all.
I hear there's some good nutrition in the skin.
- That last race, we pushed pretty good.
Trying to keep the pressure on the Jackson boys, you know,
paid off.
We got that that first place, you know, and we earned it.
[dramatic music]
This camp seems like it's going to provide.
We got the coast right there.
Mussels, fishing.
We got eel ponds.
This looks like a good spot here.
Hopefully we're here for not too long so we
can get to the next race.
That's all I'm thinking about, getting to that next one.
- Getting to the next race may be paramount
for the wildland firefighters.
But for hunters Ryan and Bronsen--
- Woke up again, got up this morning about 2:30,
my leg burning.
- --it's today that's a problem.
- Right wrist-- something's wrong with it.
It's got a heartbeat of its own.
It's [imitating heartbeat] constant.
Yesterday, we hit that beach,
I could feel my leg a lot worse on that sand
than I could feel it anywhere.
I'm a hunting guide back at home, and I use my arms.
I use my legs guiding and hiking.
When you're self-employed, you have to work for your family.
So don't blow something out you can't go make a living with.
We're going to have to get out of here.
[dramatic music]
- Team RB calling for extraction.
Over.
- Say again?
- Team RB to base camp.
We need a heli.
- They're on their way. Over.
* *
- How you guys doing?
Tell us why we're here.
- Well, we want to tap out and relieve our bodies.
* *
- Mac is on standby.
- OK.
- So we're going to take you out of the race.
Sorry to see you go.
Very sorry, guys.
Thanks for competing, guys.
- Thank you for an adventure of a lifetime.
- Real competitors. - Thank you.
* *
- After over 100 miles traveled,
having never finished lower than third in any race,
the gritty father and son-in-law from Utah are out.
* *
- We've been humbled out here.
We've been tried and tested and put
through brutal circumstances.
I'm totally with Ryan.
He uses his body to provide for his family.
He can't be pushing it any further than this.
- We weren't brought out here for the money.
We were brought out here to learn what
the true meaning of life is.
Going to be all the grandkids, family, all the good people
in life talking to each other.
It's a campfire.
It's-- it's those little things
that are important.
* *
- Back on the course--
[timer beeping]
- Marco.
- Polo.
- Oh, there you are.
- This way through looks reasonable.
- Yeah.
- It's somewhere right in here.
- That the trail starts? - Yeah.
Just look at it here. - OK.
- After camping the night, the exes and river guides must
navigate their way to the one trail that leads out
of six miles of densely packed nikau
trees and confusing riverbeds.
- It'll be, like, on the water, basically.
Let's follow a little more and just see.
- OK.
The route we're looking for breaks off from
this little river right here.
- As we're heading up river, the trail will
be on our right-hand side.
[timer beeping]
- But nearly two hours of searching for the path
and its telltale sign of freshly cut
tree limbs has come up empty.
- Hey, Oliver.
- Yeah.
- We shouldn't be climbing much.
Like, there's potential that it's still right there.
- Yeah.
- This one doesn't feel right.
I'm not 100% sure which way it is.
Being able to identify trails is one of those things
I felt like I was good at.
I can't do it out here.
- Yeah.
I don't know where we are.
* *
- We should go all the way back and reset.
- Yeah.
* *
- Paulina, look who it is.
Hey, Oliver.
- What's up, Creighton?
- Hey, bud.
Are you guys trying to figure this thing out as well?
- Yeah, dude.
This is challenging.
- Yeah. - For sure.
- Well, if you guys want to try and figure it out together--
- Yeah.
- Let's, like, get tight and actually talk about this.
- We got friends.
- Yeah.
- Trails like this, it feels good to have multiple brains.
- 1 1/2 miles back and slowly gaining ground--
- Valley cross--
Should I go-- should we go low there or high?
- Oh, my god.
[whoops]
- I want a sheep. - OK.
OK.
- We got to drop our packs somewhere.
- So I think we try to find a small one.
- I'm down.
- Right now, I don't know what place we're in.
We're already slowest team.
Why did you take the risk to kill a sheep?
If there is an injury or a tap out, OK, now
we got 50 pounds of meat at survival camp.
Let's ------- do this.
- So you run one way.
They'll scatter, right? - Oh, yeah.
- So if you push them towards me, I'll find a small one.
I'll jump on its back, slit its throat,
and bring it back to the camp.
Oh, let's do it.
[dramatic music]
OK, go, go, go, go, go.
- Come on, Kennedy.
- Oh.
It's so fast.
Ugh.
- You got it!
- ----.
- [grunts] Nik, I got it.
- Nice. - Come on.
Come on. Come on.
- Whoo!
* *
- Coming up--
- I think it's crucial that we get some food out here.
- Oh, no. He spit it out.
- What the ----?
- We've lost so much time because
of those navigational errors.
- You're almost there, man.
The crate is right there.
I hate this already.
- It was brought to our attention
[tense music]
* *
- I'm used to fishing.
- Yeah.
- Definitely not used to killing sheep.
- [chuckles] No.
- You know, coming out here and starving and catching
things with your literal bare hands
gives you a whole new sense of appreciation for food
and what the land has to offer.
And this is a big representation of that.
- This could be amazing if we make it to race five.
They'd be so jealous.
- It just proves that we are relentless in this game.
- Job well done.
- Oh, we crushed it.
We are in it.
We got our feast.
This is our time.
* *
- One mile ahead--
- We've poked around here for 2 1/2 hours.
- Yeah.
- And we've gotten nothing-- - No way.
- --out of it.
- What a disheartening thing.
- Yeah.
- It seems like we've tried everything
else out here except for heading up river even more.
- Yeah.
- Getting a little more elevation.
- Yeah.
- Upstream she goes.
* *
Looking for the trail.
- Yeah.
- I think having that long of a race clock
and really giving it kind of our all on day one
and then having that time to rest really let the body
catch up with the aches and pains.
I don't think I could run right now if I wanted to.
* *
- Hey, Oliver.
- What are you seeing, Corry?
- You didn't come over here, did you?
- No, we haven't come up that far.
- Do you see something?
- There's footprints.
- That's promising.
- There's just some in this, like, sludgy stuff.
And then it looks like there's some right there.
- Let's try it.
- Yeah.
* *
- It's more open.
Oh, my god.
- Did you guys find it?
- Oh, man.
I think this is it.
This looks like a--
- Oh, my god.
- Whoo-ooh! - I think this is it.
- Yeah.
- We found a trail!
- Oh my god.
- Hell, yes.
- All we had to go was up.
- Good job, guys. - All right.
Let's move. - Yeah.
Let's get out of here. Let's go.
- To survival camp.
- Yes.
[tense music]
* *
- There's already one right there.
- Yep. Waiting for it, dude.
* *
- He'll come back.
- The surviving aspect to this race has been crucial.
The more you get into that mentality of,
like, this is horrible, poor me, poor me,
you know, it's just going to suck even more.
So I think you need to indulge, like,
mentally and physically into the survivor days.
And that's going to help you in the long run.
And now you're occupied.
The day's going to go by way quicker.
And your mind's into it.
- Come on, now.
- There he is.
He's smelling it out.
- Yep. - Damn right.
You got him. - Oh, no.
He spit it out.
- Yeah.
- What the ----?
- Man, I can't believe that.
Why is he not liking it?
- He's like, really sniffing it.
- Yeah.
Just gotta be patient.
* *
- Come on, big dawg.
- Yep.
- Got him? - Yep.
- Easy.
- Come on.
Come on.
- Nice, dude.
We're surviving.
It's hard, but we know if we want to, we will get food.
Oh, he took the bait.
[whoops]
The land provides in incredible ways.
You know, it looks nice and lush and green.
And then you get into it, and it is--
it's a savage beast, man.
* *
[timer beeping]
- Ooh, shit.
- All right.
We got 2 kilometers.
- Yeah.
- Pretty close to the finish here.
This race has definitely been the toughest of the four.
You know, it was really slow-moving.
I don't think we're going to get eliminated here.
I think Ryan and Bronsen are in fourth place.
And Kennedy and Nik, those two have surprised us before.
- Doing awesome.
- You too.
- You guys are crushing it.
- You guys too.
- Yeah. - There it is, boys.
* *
The end.
Top of that sand dune.
- They put it on top of sand dune, didn't they?
- Oh, my god.
They hate us.
- This dune. - Augh.
- It's going to feel like -------
Mount Everest right now.
- [grunts]
[all panting]
- Oh, shit.
You got it, Paul.
- Thanks, Creighto.
- Good work.
- [grunting]
- There it is.
- This race was strange.
We camped together.
We got lost together.
We bushwhacked together.
Come on, Paulina. Five more feet.
You got it.
We felt like a fellowship trying to find this end crate.
- [laughs]
- Come on, guys.
- Oh, shit.
- Can't believe we just did that.
And so it just made sense that we would tap it together.
- Ahh! - Let's do this.
- Whoo! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- Oh, my god.
- Three, two, one.
Whoo!
- That was awesome.
- Hey, cheers, boys.
- Cheers. Cheers.
We did it.
- Snorkeling kit and a paua knife.
- Oh, man.
- Oh, it has a wet suit, too.
- Sick.
- That's awesome.
- Let's go get our shoes off. - Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah. For real.
- Um, so, listen.
I don't have the greatest news.
We were made aware of a rules violation.
* *
It was a serious one.
* *
And we have to act.
[timer beeping]
- After an agonizing day and a half of non-stop racing--
- Our spirits are high, but if I get to the crate
and this is, unfortunately, my last race, I'll be very sad.
- --Fingers crossed and sheep meat in tow,
the last-place Canadians, Kennedy and Nik,
trudge towards the finish line.
- One last big push.
- This race is never easy, not even at the end.
- [groaning]
- Killing it, Nik.
Freaking killing it.
I've learned that I can go through really
hard things in life and come out on the other side.
Oh, my god, Nik.
Halfway.
[groans]
It's just a matter of how you adapt
and how you change and how you become
a better person through the challenges of life.
Yeah, Nik!
We're almost there, man.
The crate is right there.
It's right at the top.
- [groaning]
- This race has just brought everything together.
It's basically tested every single piece
of my body, my mind, my soul.
- You're a freaking animal.
It's 120 pounds you just freaking rocked up there.
- If anybody ever wants to do this,
you will learn everything you need to learn out here.
I guarantee you that.
- Or it could absolutely break you
and send you into a psychosis.
- Let's run.
- Let's go.
Let's go. Let's go, baby.
* *
[both shouting]
- [whooping, laughing]
- OK. - All right, 3--
- 2, 1.
- What? - What the flip?
- No! [laughs]
No!
No freaking way!
* *
There is no way.
There's no way. There's no way.
- What?
- No! - What?
- No!
There's no freaking way!
* *
- [yelling] - No.
How is that possible?
- I have no idea.
- We freaking crushed it, that's how.
- Holy.
- Oh, my god. - Jesus.
Seriously?
Cool.
- What?
- Wow.
Race five, baby.
Whoo! - What?
Bap, bap, bap, bap.
- Maybe we are who we think we are.
Maybe we're flipping top contenders.
I think it's about time we start acting that way.
- I think so.
- No way!
- Well, howdy, howdy ho.
- They got medallions.
- [whoops]
- If we didn't have enough, we needed one more camp.
- Congrats, dude.
- We got a full-grown adult male
sheep butchered and quartered in the freaking rock.
- No way.
- The Hunters, they tapped.
- What?
- Wow. - Wild.
- Yeah, man, I think it was his knee.
- Oh, my gosh.
- Hey, guys, listen.
It was brought to our attention that there
was a rule violation.
And because a rule was broken, we have to act on it.
And the result is that we have to disqualify Oliver and Corry
from the competition.
* *
It's effective immediately.
- Are you serious?
- Holy shit.
* *
- [grunts]
- OK.
So I made a mistake.
It was shortsighted.
It was-- it was foolish.
But the competition is very real.
And the difficulty of this is real.
And survival in the bush in New Zealand is not easy.
We did have strategies in place for the racing,
but we didn't prepare for hunger.
- No, no, no, no, no.
Suck.
- ----.
At survival camp, it is difficult to be in a place
where you're so desperate and hungry.
- Tomorrow will probably be another day
of starving as well. - Yep.
And there's creatures running around camp
that we're not allowed to eat.
You get into that mindset of starvation mode
and this slowing down of your cognition.
It's this mental shift where the thoughts kind of drift
a little more.
And there's this, like, very deep need to eat.
And there was this idea,
just break the rule.
So, yeah, I knew it was breaking a rule.
But that's not important when you're hungry.
[somber music]
- Obviously, you know what happened.
I apologize.
And it doesn't sit lightly with me.
Yeah.
* *
What I did disrespected New Zealand.
And I'm sorry.
To go out in this way, it's super heart-wrenching.
It doesn't feel like we're ready to be done with it.
I don't want to leave.
I'd rather be on the beach starving.
So--
yeah.
[dramatic music]
* *
- Travel safe.
- Thanks, man.
- Love you guys.
- We did so well for so long that people
are going to be like, this is going to be
a story with a happy ending.
We're not getting that happy ending anymore.
But I don't harbor a single ounce of ill will
towards Corry.
This doesn't change anything about our friendship.
- We found so much joy out of being in the race together
and letting our partnership and dynamic shine through.
That was such a high.
And you can only have this deep of a low
because of that, right?
So to lose it in this way, it hurts.
[dramatic music]
* *
- It's just not smart, man.
- Nope.
- We've been doing our best to just do everything right
and do it all the right way and respect the land and--
- And then, you know, finding out that people aren't, I mean,
it's a bummer.
- In a matter of six hours, a tap out
and shocking disqualification has upended two
of the race's top contenders.
- The Hunters and the Jackson boys,
you know, them being gone, those
were our main competition.
- Yeah, no doubt, so--
- Hunters were tough as shit, dude.
But the Jackson boys--
we were just better survivors.
- It sucks that it happened to people that I
believe have good hearts.
But hungry people do what hungry people do.
And man, at that survival camp, we were hungry.
- I feel like I have, like, a divot in my sternum
now that I've never had before.
- Oh, my gosh.
Look at that.
Our bodies are changing.
I've never been there before.
- Uh-uh.
Yeah.
- It's a shake-up.
It's a complete shake-up.
You know, what he did, he did out of a hungry state of mind.
And your brain isn't there.
At the same time, I respect the decision
that was made because, you know,
you have to satisfy consequences.
- With just three teams remaining in a competition
designed for a final three-way $500,000 showdown,
the big question-- what happens next?
- We, we're in top three.
- Final three, baby. - Final three.
- Yeah.
- Holy shit.
- Yeah.
- There's a lot of unknown coming our way.
We don't even know how many races we have.
It plays mind games with you.
You don't know how to prepare.
There we go.
Oh, straight-up butcher shop.
We have a straight-up butcher shop in this survival camp.
* *
- [laughs] I love this.
This is awesome.
That is so much meat.
- Yeah, we're making the heart right now.
Everything changed so much this last race.
Like, I am still in shock.
- We lost two of the top three teams in the last race at once.
Double elimination.
See ya.
I can't believe Ryan and Bronsen aren't here.
- I know.
All it takes is one little--
especially something like a knee or an ankle,
all it takes is, like, one little turn, and it's gone.
Oh, that's tender.
That's the most tender-- oh, my god.
Oh. - Here.
- Really? - Yeah.
Do it.
- Thank you.
Ooh, hot.
Mmm, mmm.
Oh, my god.
That is so good.
- Meat.
- Man, this is good.
I think this is an atrium.
- I would say Nik and Kennedy definitely have an advantage
having that sheep.
And Ethan and Tyrie have caught four eels
since they've gotten here, whereas we have
one eel and four hedgehogs that Creighton
caught during the race.
- Look how much meat is on there.
It's not a ton. - Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But more than anything, our main goal
is fueling up as much as we can and then
just really fight for--
fight for that first-place prize.
- We're still hungry here.
One eel is one meal.
So still hungry.
- Survival camp four, nestled along New Zealand's
raging western coastline with vicious ocean tides.
[waves crashing]
For those that put in the work,
there are crustaceans, fish,
and shellfish to be pulled from the sea.
While on land, eel ponds and small game
offer the chance of closing the protein gap for those
that are lagging behind.
* *
- Look at this.
Wow.
- What is this place?
- We're searching for paua,
which is another word for abalone.
It has a shell in one side and a bunch of meat on the other.
You go at low tide, and you look
for them attached to rocks.
It's harsh conditions.
But when you're hungry, you'll put yourself
in uncomfortable situations.
* *
- Oh, my god.
[waves crashing]
- It's windy.
The tide's coming in.
The paua blend in with their surroundings.
* *
In this competition, even when you're not actively racing,
you're still actively competing against each other
for the natural resources out here.
- You want that point?
- Yeah.
- There are only so many fish and clams or mussels
or whatever out here.
- We've been carrying this eel kit since the second
survival camp.
It's allowed us to catch monstrous eel, big blue cod,
some good kahawai.
Yeah, it's been pretty incredible.
Yo, hey, fish on.
- Fish on, baby.
- Any time you see somebody out picking stuff up,
you get kind of panicky.
- Yeah, brother.
- [laughs]
- They're taking food that I could be getting.
- Nice, brother.
- So you got to take advantage of the chances that you have.
[gasps] - Oh, oh, oh.
- What do you see?
* *
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Yes!
What a crazy-looking thing.
- I know.
- Wow. - We got one.
- I'm so proud of you.
- Thank you!
- That's so cool.
Let's find another one.
* *
- You making marrow soup, or what are you doing?
- You betcha. - Ooh.
So good for the brain.
- Everyone else is out there trying to catch food.
- But we don't have to worry about going out and catching
eels and catching fish.
We don't have to stress if we don't get anything.
- Right now, we are the kings and queens of survival
camp four, for sure.
Our day has come.
We are going through that animal
to get every little ounce of calorie out.
[rock music]
* *
Oh, mother------.
- Did you just cut yourself? - Oh, yeah.
- Really bad?
- Hard.
Oh.
[dramatic music]
* *
- I'm just trying to add pressure to it.
Concentrate.
I grabbed an awkward bone that was flat,
so my thumb was flat against it, not curved.
So it was stupid, as all things.
- Yeah, it'll be fine. It's just a thumb.
Who needs thumbs anyways?
- Is it something that should have not occurred?
100%.
That could have been a medical disqualification.
And that costs a lot of money.
- Do you need some more gauze? - I don't know.
- In a survival situation, any little injury is a big deal.
If you get an infection, it could spread,
and then you're done.
Little injuries will lead to big injuries.
And big injuries will take you out of the game.
* *
- I've never had paua before.
OK.
Going to try this.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Oh, my god.
That is so good.
- That's what that tastes like?
- It tastes like calamari.
That is amazing.
- That's straight out of the ocean.
So beautiful and so tasty.
- Yeah.
Thank you, paua.
- Thank you, paua.
- Creighton and I have grown a lot throughout this process.
When we came into it, we weren't talking to each other.
We had a hard time trying to find a new way
to talk to each other because it's so different after
being divorced.
- Being out here with Paulina has gone,
honestly, better than I expected it to.
We're both trying so hard
to do the work we need to do to heal.
* *
- It is our last big adventure just the two of us together.
- Yeah.
- I feel like this is almost like a "divorce moon" for us.
- Like a honeymoon, but a "divorce moon"?
- Yeah. Yeah. - I love that.
- Yeah. - That's exactly what this is.
- Yeah.
- [laughs] - Yeah.
Being in wild places like this, doing wild things,
that was always where you and I flourished the most.
- That's true.
Yeah.
- It's where we fell in love.
It's where we stayed in love.
- In the outdoors, it works.
- It totally works. - Yeah.
Yeah.
But in the real world--
- We don't work.
- Mm-mm.
- After we split, I had a really
hard time healing in the city, like, back in the real world.
- Yeah.
- It wasn't until coming out to places like this
that I was able to actually heal and move forward.
- Me too.
This race has healed a lot of the trauma
we went through because of the divorce.
- I feel like we got back together on a friendship level.
- Yeah, absolutely.
And there's still, like, so much respect
and love for each other. - Yeah.
Yeah.
- Even though we didn't work out, the time
that we spent together--
- Was so freaking awesome. - It was amazing.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- I wouldn't change a thing about it.
- Yeah.
- I'm excited to cross this finish line with you.
- Me too.
Adventure exes for life.
- We did it.
- [laughs]
* *
- There you have it.
Survival camp.
I'm going to enjoy my dinner for this evening.
Good night.
* *
- * Big day tomorrow *
- Yeah.
- Might be the last one.
Dun, dun, dun!
- Pretty crazy.
All right, so what's everyone thinking?
Last race or no? - Oh, yeah.
I think so.
- Last race.
- I think so.
It's hard to say. - Eh.
Wouldn't mind another race.
- Everyone except for Tyrie.
- [laughs]
- Not knowing, I think that's part of the excitement.
It's kind of relatable to what we do for work smokejumping,
you know?
We can go to work one day, and the next thing we know,
we're headed off to Alaska that day.
We have no clue.
We're just going to be on a plane.
And they're going to give us the information as we go.
I like it. It's exciting.
And it just kind of adds to the race itself, you know?
- I think that this next race
we're going somewhere glaciated, snow, ice, cold.
- It's going to be awesome no matter what.
- Somebody's last race.
Even if it's two races or not, it's somebody's last race.
- That's true.
* *
- I am determined to get protein before the
race tomorrow.
We know that there's eel in the water.
Do you know how sometimes you just have a feeling
that luck's coming your way?
I got that feeling.
We're going to catch an eel here.
No way.
There's an eel right there.
Oh, my god. Let's bait him in a little bit.
It took my bait.
Got him.
[grunts] Oh, no!
Oh, he's back in the water.
- He took my bait.
Got him.
Oh, no!
Oh, he's back in the water.
[tense music]
* *
[grunts]
Oh, my gosh.
Look at that.
That was a Rambo move.
[grunts]
That was awesome.
One eel, it's so much meat, so much fat, so much protein.
This eel means we'll have the energy
to go into the next race.
Gonna put you right here.
But I'm hours away from eating right now.
You've got to gut it, process it, get a fire going,
get coals, put it on, cook it.
* *
It is almost midnight, and I am on my final serving of eel.
It took four hours from catching
the eel to eating the eel.
I will not take supermarkets or drive-through restaurants
for granted anymore.
- Last night of survival camp number four.
It is insane how hard these races have been,
how long these races have been.
- Competitive they've been.
- We got a really early start tomorrow to get the race going.
Night, everybody.
- Peace out, world.
* *
[suspenseful music]
* *
- This is really going to be a barn burner.
Paulina and Creighton and the Smokejumpers,
they're tough competitors.
- But we're here for a reason.
We're going to start making our own fate.
[dramatic music]
- Out of the three teams left, we're for sure
sitting in second place.
- Our toughest competition is going to be Ethan and Tyrie.
And then Nik and Kennedy, like, they're kind of a wild card.
- We have a chance to win half a million dollars.
This is going to be the fight of our lives.
* *
- These races are continually getting more intense.
What's going to be next?
Are they going to blindfold us and try to have us
go through one of these races? - Yeah.
Race five, it's all up to the mystery, right?
* *
- We're at the mercy of "Race to Survive."
So we'll see what happens.
* *
- Think things are about to get wild.
- 3, 2, 1.
- "Welcome to the final leg of 'Race to Survive: New Zealand.'
Now, it's time for the ultimate trial, the finale."
- This is it, guys.
This is it. This is it.
Yes!
The finale!
- After the surprise disqualification,
what was supposed to be the final two
races is now one crowning gauntlet to rule them all.
But there's a catch.
- "This race is two parts.
The first is a time trial."
- "You must reach the finish by the end of the daily
clock on day two."
- "If you do not make this cutoff,
you will be eliminated."
- And just to ratchet things up a notch--
- "Up to now, you've been tested as a team.
In this race, you will also be tested individually."
- Oh, buddy. We're splitting up.
- Yeah. - We're splitting up.
- Whew, OK. - OK.
- Holy--oh, my gosh.
* *
- Next time on "Race to Survive: New Zealand"--
- See you at ------- top, baby.
- What do I do?
What do I do?
- I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit
scared navigating by myself.
This is my biggest test I've ever had to do on my own.
- Kennedy!
- Tyrie!
- ----.
- [indistinct].
- ----.
- Stakes are super high right now.
This race means everything.
- Creighto.