MANU BENNETT: Deep in the southern hemisphere lies a mystical island...
...created by the raw forces of nature.
The Maori call this place Aotearoa--
land of the long white cloud.
The rest of the world knows it as New Zealand.
And high above its deep ravines,
its raging rivers and plummeting waterfalls...
...towers a mountain, thousands of feet high
with Antarctic winds carrying a call far and wide,
an invitation to reach the summit.
* *
(helicopter blades whirring)
It's a call 16 ordinary Americans have answered.
If they can climb the mountain in 14 days,
they'll earn their share of a million-dollar prize.
But if they miss that deadline,
they'll be sent home with nothing.
In this vast and unforgiving landscape,
they will have only themselves to rely upon.
Oh!
MANU: As they brave
miles of elevation...
-Don't let go. (grunts) -Come on, Amy!
Let's go!
MANU: ...traverse Arctic lakes and cross deep chasms...
(bleep) Dennis!
MANU: ...in subzero temperatures.
-(exhausted panting) -You-You're okay. You're okay.
Oh, my God!
It will be the ultimate test of their character and courage.
There you go. Nice!
Ah!
(grunts)
There.
-(screams) -JENNYE: I'm right here.
Go. Go!
MANU: But they won't be alone.
Becky, don't panic!
MANU: Their every move will be tracked by the mountain's keeper.
Go get the bag!
MANU: ...who will force them
to make difficult but necessary decisions
-along the way. -Come on, Punkin!
"To make the summit on time, hard choices must be made."
"When the last person is crossing..."
Ooh.
MANU: Only those who are worthy...
Sorry. We didn't, we didn't have a choice.
MANU: ...will reach the summit.
I can't get my arms-- No!
(screams)
MANU: If they quit along the way...
-I can't. -You can!
MANU: ...their money will be lost.
DENNIS: I'll be the first one to push you
off that mountain, like Humpty Dumpty.
And I don't care.
-(bleep) -I can't.
-No one said it's gonna be easy. -(shouts)
MANU: But if they are voted out...
Someone has to go.
MANU: ...those remaining
will steal the money for themselves.
Right now, you're trying to overplay the game.
Nick is a snake. Do not trust him.
How am I supposed to do this?
* *
MANU: 16 strangers are about to embark on the most
epic adventure of their lives.
I'm not letting you go. I'm not letting you go.
Who's got confidence now?
And it starts now.
GEOFF: This got to be the furthest from home I've ever been.
Like, I didn't even know that parts of the Earth
look like this.
I feel like I should be
in pretty good shape for whatever
this adventure holds.
BECKYLEE: This is the most beautiful location
I've ever seen in my life.
Any competition, to me,
my ear, you know, perks up.
Super competitive person.
When I hear that there is, you know, a starting line,
I want to be that winner.
My body will fall apart
before I ever quit.
Kia Ora. I'm Manu Bennett.
Hi.
Welcome to Aotearoa-- New Zealand.
* *
Before we start, I'd like to acknowledge
the people of this land we call the Tangata whenua,
who historically occupied this area and still do.
Out of respect, I just want to acknowledge them.
Let me ask you,
do you know why you're here?
Great adventure.
Do you see this mountain?
Your challenge...
...is to reach the summit.
(contestants exclaiming, whooping)
To reach a what?
JENNYE: We have to climb a freaking mountain.
I'm feeling the weight
and the gravity of what we're about to do.
-Wow. -(others murmuring)
ROSE: This is crazy.
Honey, that is a big (bleep) mountain. (laughs)
MANU: Each of you brings your own reason for being here.
Your reason is what's gonna drive you up that mountain.
You have tears in your eye.
Can you explain why?
AMY: I'm here for myself because I've done
so much for my family,
and I'm here to do this
to prove to my family that I can do it.
(crying) So I just got super emotional.
I'm gonna add something to your motivation.
Please step forward.
Want to open that bag?
(gasps)
(crying)
-That's crazy. -Oh, my God.
That's insane.
-There's a whole bunch more. -(all laughing)
That's a million dollars.
Take that with you and put it in your backpack.
You're gonna carry this to the summit.
That's a lot of money. (laughing)
I've never seen that much money. And I work at a bank.
Each of you will carry an equal share of the million dollars,
and that prize will be shared by the few
who make it to the top.
If anybody quits, that money disappears.
It's gone.
Oh, God.
There's one more catch--
you must travel together.
You'll only be as fast as your slowest member.
If you miss the 14-day deadline
to reach the summit...
...you will all go home with nothing.
(gasps)
(bleep) just got real.
NICK: It got serious pretty quick.
What concerns me the most is probably,
uh, the time limit.
14 days to get to the summit.
We cannot have people falling behind.
It's not gonna be easy, but everyone needs to keep up.
You're going to need this.
We need a map.
(laughs)
You are now the leader.
(cheering)
MANU: On that map, you're going to find
checkpoints with food and shelter,
crucial for your expedition,
that you're going to need to reach
before sundown each day.
Otherwise, you'll be left on the mountain
exposed to the elements.
I got you all.
-JEANNIE: Yeah! -You better.
But I have to warn you, there's something
you won't find on that map.
Something more sinister
that's gonna be out there,
lurking, keeping an eye
on your every move.
We call it
the mountain's keeper.
It has its own way of sorting out who is worthy
of reaching the summit
and will force you to make some tough decisions.
Uh-oh.
This mountain has eyes.
GEOFF: What-what did...
He said the hills have eyes or something like that?
That something's gonna be watching us?
The Mountain's Keeper is gonna
determine if we're worthy.
I have no idea what that means,
but I'm kind of scared.
Are you ready to go?
-ALL: Yeah. -Let's do it.
I wish you a safe journey.
(exhales)
Your time starts now.
-I'd get moving. -(bleep)
Who knows how to read a map?
(laughs)
Yeah, baby!
-To the summit. -(cheering, whooping)
JEANNIE: Summit, here we come!
PUNKIN: My gosh. Look how gorgeous.
It's like Romancing the Stone. Remember that movie?
(laughter)
Okay, does anybody know where we're going right now?
(laughter)
MANU: Traveling as a group,
they've only got 14 days
to trek over 100 treacherous miles.
Starting in a deep valley,
the group's endurance will be tested
right out of the gate.
They face a 2,000-foot incline
to reach a precarious ridgeline for their first checkpoint.
From there, they will then make a steep descent
before scrambling back up to higher altitudes
where they will have to contend with an alpine lake crossing
and a dangerous glacier traverse.
All before they tackle the final icy ascent
up thousands of feet to the summit.
JEANNIE: This is gonna be insane, guys.
Are we there yet?
(all laughing)
-BECKYLEE: What's your name? -DENNIS: Dennis.
BECKYLEE: Dennis. Beckylee.
-Beckylee? (laughs) -Yeah. Nice to meet you.
DENNIS: At this point, I'm here for the money.
My strategy is going to be to win people over,
make people laugh...
-Ah! (laughs) -(laughs)
But they don't realize
that I am willing to take manipulating,
deceiving and cheating to the furthest extent.
I'm breaking a sweat here too, buddy.
-Don't worry. -Oh, dude, I'm always sweating.
DENNIS: I'm gonna be surprised who makes it on top.
I don't think a lot
of the other contestants have ever faced
something like this before.
My family, they're so excited for me.
They think I'm a cool mom.
DENNIS: I see a lot of moms.
(laughs) I didn't expect that.
JEANNIE: Yeah, this is awesome.
AMY: My husband's like, "You lie,
you cheat, you steal-- it's a game."
-I'm like, "I can't." -Yeah, I know.
You know why? 'Cause that's who we are.
We got to motivate each other, man.
-Mom squad. -AMY: Yeah.
AMY: I'm not like your average mountain climber,
hiking, camping girl. (laughs)
Oh, who didn't sink the fastest.
I've never seen mountains, hardly.
Never seen snow, except once in my life.
And here I am climbing
to get to the top of the summit.
I think Amy today is a little safe.
That's just the mom in me, I guess.
I met a man 16 years ago
who had three kids.
He was single dad-ing it.
And those little humans needed me.
And I just did everything I could do
to make them safe and secure.
And that's who I am.
A middle-aged mom
who put herself on the back burner for 15 years.
But I think Adventure Amy got on that plane
and just said, "The hell with it."
Let's just, let's go!
We're doing it. We're doing it.
I never thought I'd be doing something like this, ever.
I mean, who dreams this big?
And I know it's gonna be hard,
but I'm gonna do it.
It's gonna be so worth it.
I'm just following right behind you, girl.
It's great to have moms on the trip.
-ROSE: Mama's got you. -AMY: Yeah.
(laughing)
Dude, how are you feeling about the group?
THERRON: People are cool, but I don't think
people are strategizing yet.
And I think they think this is about to be
a "we're all in this together" kind of game.
-It's not. -And it's definitely not.
Alliances, that's how you win games.
You can't do anything alone.
And you have to be strategic with who you choose.
I'm noticing some of the moms,
Jeannie, Amy and Rose, getting together.
We do not have time to waste around.
I don't want anybody to think that we're close, though.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -I think it's gonna be too obvious.
THERRON: I got you.
SHWETA: I'm very strategic.
I feel like I'm gonna run circles around
everybody else here.
And I'm smarter than people think I'm gonna be.
If you don't think I'm a threat,
you're just not paying attention.
PRODUCER: Small, but feisty?
Yeah. It's not about the size of the dog in the fight.
It's the size of the fight in the dog.
And I got some fight.
-We got, uh, swampiness, y'all. -Oh, God.
Oh, (bleep).
-Is there a better way? -I'm no geologist, Bo.
(bleep)
JEANNIE: It's quicksand!
My feet are soaking wet.
ROBERT: We'll do a sock thing. What do you think?
TONY: Yeah.
We're going to squeeze out socks really quick.
Does anybody need more water?
DUSTY: Oh, no. I really don't want to have to take breaks.
Robert has a little bit too much
fake camp counselor energy.
I'm telling you all, your feet are your wheels.
Don't get a flat tire.
"Hey, guys, listen up.
Just listen to your body. It's gonna be okay."
And I'm sitting here going...
"I'm 28. I'm not 12."
I was a camp counselor for many years, so... (laughs)
I-I work in the education field.
I love helping those kids who
don't see how they fit into the world
and helping kind of guide them
and find a place and find who they are.
Especially junior high kids
because they're at that age where they're still moldable.
They still need a good role model.
It's just the best job in the world.
It really is.
AMY: Hey, Rob, I think you're right, there.
My feet feel so much better.
-Right? -AMY: Good job. -JEANNIE: Thanks, Rob.
-AMY: Good call, Rob. -DUSTY: Yeah.
Either way-either way, we got to move.
I think something people are forgetting is
we are supposed to get up to the summit in 14 days.
At this rate,
I'm really concerned
with our ability to be able to make it up there.
Guys, we got to pick it up.
DENNIS: Jennye, you think we, uh,
we got to pick up pace here a little bit?
-I think we absolutely do. -DENNIS: Yeah.
JENNYE: Therron, I think we got to pick up the pace, hon.
-DUSTY: Yeah. -JENNYE: On the, the walking, like, actually,
-'cause we're not gonna make it on the first day. -Yeah. Okay.
We need to go up this path straight across from us.
Looks perfect to me.
JENNYE: Let's do it.
(grunting nearby)
ROBERT: Don't fall.
This incline is gonna get some folks.
Come on.
You just got to say, "I have no choice."
I'm gonna get in front of you, hon.
We needed to get to that checkpoint today.
Y'all, we got to pick up the pace if we want to make it
-to the good camp. -(grunts)
We got to make it on time, y'all.
Right now there are two groups forming.
-One slow... -Side your feet in.
Side, not toe, side. There you go.
-JENNYE: ...and the other fast. -It's bad.
It's horrible.
Just keep going.
JENNYE: I usually fall in the front
so that we can kind of push and keep the pace.
(grunts) I'm okay.
SHWETA: Are we going or what's going on?
JENNYE: We got to go, honey. Like, we got to go.
"Let's go. Let's go." That's not motivating.
(panting)
Feel the burn.
(grunting)
You got everyone? I think we're still waiting for a few.
-You good? -Yeah.
We can go catch up with them.
AMY: All I got to think is, I'm gonna rest at camp.
I picked a hell of a first time to go camping.
THERRON: Sticker bushes above us.
GEOFF: We're gonna have to, uh, army crawl.
-Just keep going. -Yeah.
You guys, you're gonna have to crawl up here,
and there's a lot of, like, uh, pointy things.
BO: It can cut like a knife.
JENNYE: Be careful, the pointy things behind you.
-JEANNIE: Careful. -(grunts)
PATI: It just keeps going up and up, man.
THERRON: Yeah, Tony.
TONY: We're spending some time trying to climb through,
and Therron's taking charge with the map and...
this doesn't look like we're going the right way.
Okay, y'all, so here's the thing.
We thought this was the right way,
but it's a dead end.
We were here, so then we thought
that this little water bin right here was here.
This looks like this.
Four hours into the hike. It's a (bleep) show.
We went the wrong way for probably 45 minutes.
You see the distance that we made in the wrong direction,
so I think everybody's getting kind of peeved.
It's day one.
45 minutes is a lot of draining energy.
That's a lot. Yeah.
BECKYLEE: We have 14 days to get this done,
and I feel like now we have to double-book it
to make up for this mistake.
I'm extremely worried
that we're not gonna make checkpoint.
-Guys, are we going back down? -THERRON: Yeah.
-Ready? -All right.
(Amy groans)
ROBERT: When you go down,
kind of keep your feet sideways.
AMY: Sideways, all right.
ROBERT: It'll give you a little more traction.
AMY: Thanks, Rob.
* *
SHWETA: Come on.
(breathing heavily)
Tony, you got it.
TONY: I have not climbed a mountain before.
I mean, I've watched Lord of the Rings,
uh, but I've never seen anything like this.
JEANNIE: It's just all uphill.
-Way harder than I thought. -Me, too.
TONY: I can't believe that I'm here,
about to embark on this incredible journey.
For me, it's definitely a huge change.
I've always been the fat kid.
Kids would have pool parties all the time, and...
ugh, I wouldn't even want to go to these pool parties
with my friends 'cause I couldn't-- like...
I-I didn't-- you know.
I didn't look like all the other kids.
I never really liked who I saw in the mirror
for most of my life.
I mean, it's hard to enjoy your life when you're 406 pounds.
It held me back a lot, my weight.
The biggest event that has changed my life was
my wife got pregnant and my, and my son was born,
and I was just like, "I can't be a good father
and be this heavy," because I just could feel myself dying.
So, I'm like, "I can't... I want to see this kid grow up."
I just knew I just had to do something, and I did.
I started eating healthy and I started working out,
and just-- I mean, my workouts were walks.
And that turned into, "I'm gonna run a marathon,"
and I did.
I went from that down to 260 pounds,
and just like, really embracing this, like, new body
and what my body could do.
And now I'm here for my kids.
-CHILD: Da-da! -I'm here for my wife
and I'm here for the ten-year-old version of myself
that thought he wasn't worth anything,
'cause I'm gonna prove him wrong.
MANU: The group is only five hours into their trek,
but the mountain is quickly taking a toll.
(exhales): Oh, my God.
I mean, where the hell is this camp at?
MANU: If they don't dramatically increase their pace,
they won't make it to the checkpoint before sunset.
(bleep)
JEANNIE: I'm just going without stopping.
I think that's the most easiest way to do it.
This is much harder than I thought.
There's no path.
Either you got to step on a bush...
BECKYLEE: I'm just pushing you. Don't stop.
...or step in a sinkhole...
Ooh, ooh, ooh, do not put your foot there.
JEANNIE: Watch out here, too. It's a big hole.
...or step on top of a rock.
I was hoping there'd be some kind of path here,
but there's nothing.
(panting)
Look how far we got, man.
DUSTY: Hey, Dennis, one sec.
DENNIS: Hey-hey, guys, I-I don't even think we're halfway up.
We-we got to keep going.
Guys, we not gonna make it if we don't go.
-Let's go. They'll pick it up. -JENNYE: Suck it up.
I know it's hard.
-(grunts) -JEANNIE: I'm so exhausted.
TONY (panting): We got this.
My backpack is so heavy.
-(both panting) -TONY: Yeah.
You're doing good, man. One step at a time.
Whoa.
-Tony? -We're good.
(grunts)
Come on, Tony. Right here.
Tony, don't get hurt.
I'm good.
DUSTY: Good job, Tone.
I could definitely tell Tony was struggling.
He was doing a good job of hiding it verbally,
but he was struggling,
and I fe-- I really feel bad.
It's the last little push right here.
BECKYLEE: Are you okay?
Tony? Tony?
-Hold on! Wait, hold on! -(overlapping shouts)
-DENNIS: Hey, guys, Tony's down. -NICK: He all right?
BECKYLEE: Tony? Take his pack off.
JENNYE: Uh-oh.
-BECKYLEE: Take his pack off. -AMY: Pour some water on him.
PUNKIN: Tony? Tony, can you hear us?
AMY: He's shaking. Oh, God.
(wind whistling)
(Tony panting)
DUSTY: It's the last little push right here.
-PUNKIN: Are you okay? -No.
-Tony? Tony? -PUNKIN: Hold on.
-DENNIS: Hey, guys, Tony's down. -(overlapping shouts)
PUNKIN: Uh-oh.
-Hang on. -Is he okay?
-Just got to give him some space. -Pour some water on him.
BECKYLEE: Take his pack off. Take his pack off.
He just went down, like...
-Wait, who is that? -JEANNIE: Tony. Tony.
SHWETA: Oh...
ROSE: Keep him in the shade, guys.
Geoff, stay in the shade right there.
AMY: Oh, God. He's shaking.
-ROSE: Is he okay? -AMY: Come on, Tony,
come on, Tony.
-MARK: Hey, how we doing? -AMY: No, he doesn't look good,
he doesn't look good.
MARK: You all right?
What hurts?
Can you talk to me?
Where's the pain?
Right there? Okay.
JEANNIE: You know what, Tony, I saw him sweating,
man, like crazy.
I said, "Tony, how you doing? Is-- this is hard?"
and he's like, "Yeah, it's hard," it's--
-It is hard. -I'm gonna be honest,
what if it's just, like, his glucose level?
What if it's just his body?
This is so mental, right? Like, are you serious?
I don't know what to think.
I think maybe Tony's taking a little break,
I think maybe he needs a little water.
He needs a granola bar.
So I'm just sitting and waiting.
I don't even know how to feel.
-What? -I don't know how to feel.
ROSE: Watch his head. Watch his head.
JENNYE: Watch his head.
-ROSE: Call the medic. -MARK: You got it?
MARK: This is Claudia.
She's our doctor. she's gonna have a chat here.
Let's have your knees up.
CLAUDIA: That hurt?
CLAUDIA: The biggest concern is that this is your heart
causing the pain, okay?
-All right? -Okay.
Please don't.
I know.
TONY: Let me just take a minute.
-CLAUDIA: We're giving you a minute. -And I'll be fine.
JEANNIE: The way Tony did this, like, he...
persevered, and look at this.
Like, we got to just get there.
-THERRON: Oh, damn. -JEANNIE: Is that for...
THERRON: That's...
I think they're coming to get him.
I-- if I just have, like, five minutes, I'll be fine.
GEOFF: Tony's literally saying,
"Just five minutes, I-I swear I'll get up,"
but, you know, when it's something
as serious as that, you can't mess around.
Ultimately, it's the doctor's call.
And I'm watching Tony watch his money
just dissipate just like that, and that-that's crushing.
Just wanted to do more.
MARK: One, two, three. Go straight legs.
-(grunts) -Okay, take-- wait.
-(grunting) -(overlapping chatter)
-(applause) -Good job, Tony!
MANU: As the first member of the group is taken off the mountain...
-Love you, Tony. -MANU: ...so, too, is the money
he was carrying.
The first casualty
of the grueling trek ahead.
AMY: Bye, Tony.
JEANNIE: Bye, Tony!
Wow.
BO: Tony didn't quit.
His body quit on him.
-ROBERT: If you're hurting... -PUNKIN: Yeah.
...communicate up.
BO: I mean, that hit home,
because that could easily be me or any one of us.
So, uh, that gave me a cue to, uh,
watch what my body's telling me.
-Let's do this for Tony, guys. -JEANNIE: Yeah.
-Hey, we got new motivation now. -JEANNIE: Yeah,
-we definitely do, man. -THERRON: Absolutely. We got a reason.
* *
JEANNIE: Watch your footing coming up.
NICK: When Tony goes down, it's a wake-up call
because this is definitely not easy.
My legs are giving out, my calves are tightening up.
This is pretty difficult for me.
Being an ex-athlete, I've been through a lot of stuff,
uh, physically and mentally.
At how uphill this is gonna to be,
this is gonna be pretty tough for Amy and Pati today.
And I'm thinking, "This is only day one."
I'm not sure how long they're gonna
make it in this game.
THERRON: Are y'all serious? Okay...
-What the hell? -This...
THERRON: Oh, God. Okay, positive thoughts.
The back is moving a lot slower than the front.
Bo has been slowing the group down.
-We're almost there. -BECKYLEE: You good, Bo?
Yeah. Little breather.
THERRON: We're taking five-minute breaks every 12 steps.
If I don't make it to the checkpoint today,
I'm gonna be very devastated.
You can't walk across New Zealand so easy.
I'm trying not to show signs of weakness,
but I'm struggling right now.
-Hold up! -Hold up!
Uh, you know, I'm a little older, I'm sore.
My muscles are aching a little bit,
but I am not gonna quit.
Don't necessarily want to stand out,
but I want people to notice, "Hey,
there's something different about that guy."
I'm from Gun Barrel City, Texas.
I'm a basketball coach
and I'm still teaching,
but I'm looking at retirement at the end of the year.
I like spending time at the house with my family,
on the sofa watching TV and my three mutt dogs,
Fatty, Red and Deedee.
Get that.
I'm taking on this challenge to show that I still got it.
I mean, I got calves enough.
I can hang with these young bucks. (laughs)
-Yeah. All right, here we go. You ready? -Got it?
-Let's push it, y'all. -I hear you.
MANU: If the group does not reach
their officially designated checkpoint camps by sunset,
they will be required to create makeshift bivvy camps
wherever they happen to be on the trek.
We got to make it, girl.
MANU: These impromptu camps
lack the tents and food
-crucial for their ongoing journey. -Hey!
Oh, we just leave Rose behind? So sorry.
PUNKIN: There's a hole coming up on your left.
Watch your foot.
Come on.
This is it.
THERRON (laughs): Manu!
ROSE: We made it?
Manu's here.
-NICK: Manu. -Thank the Lord. God...
You're running late.
You've missed your first checkpoint.
I feel for you,
but I did tell you, this mountain is not a joke.
Now, do you see the sun?
It's already on its way down, and there's a canyon there
that you're just not going to be able to cross tonight.
It's too dangerous.
You're gonna have to sleep here,
on the trail, in the dirt,
drinking from the stream and eating only
the freeze-dried food you have with you in your backpacks.
If that keeps happening,
you're not going to make the 14-day deadline.
Do you understand?
Tomorrow it gets harder.
So settle down, have a good sleep if you can.
It's gonna get cold.
I'll see you tomorrow.
NICK: We're gonna have to set up a bivvy camp.
Who wants to start the fire?
I've never set up a bivvy in my entire life.
I can tell you,
I am not looking forward to this.
Absolute fail.
There's definitely becoming a little hostility up here.
AMY: My God.
Why isn't this not working for me?
THERRON: We're okay, we're okay, we're okay.
DENNIS: Ugh, I don't even have my jacket on, dude, it's cold.
We didn't make it to a checkpoint.
I was pissed.
People think this is just a game,
people think this is a vacation.
If we don't make it up the summit in 14 days,
nobody makes any money.
We leave here with nothing.
I really think we could have been here, like,
two, three hours earlier.
We went 45 minutes the wrong way,
and then we also had to backtrack.
Probably added an hour or two.
ROBERT: I still don't think some people are, like,
-their head's in it yet. -Mm-mm.
I don't think they realize the seriousness
of what we're doing.
DUSTY: It's just hard 'cause it,
two-thirds of us, physically, are capable.
Yeah.
DUSTY: Day one, not making the checkpoint,
I am actually pretty happy about,
because that's gonna set a fire
underneath some folks' butts that I don't think
otherwise they would have.
I think, like, 80% of the group could move faster.
Frankly, there's, like, probably four people that,
they're probably pushing it at, like, 90%
-and they could push it 100. -ROBERT: Yeah.
DUSTY: We got Pati, Amy,
physically, not prepared to be here.
I know that Bo's a great guy.
Physically, he shouldn't be out here.
At the end of the day,
they're slowing us down, and they-they could cost us
literally a million bucks.
PATI: If I leave this bivvy open,
is an animal gonna get me for real?
The bugs are bad. I might have to close my bivvy.
GEOFF: I've got it.
* *
ROBERT: I mean, it was cold.
It was not a restful night.
Not great sleep.
BO: Oh, my God,
I don't even know if I can get out of this sleeping bag.
I'm sore. Can I get to my feet?
I start on my knees.
Uh, I-I tried it once, I-I went back down.
Just like-- but I acted, I played it off
like I was stretching, you know, in case somebody was watching.
AMY: Good morning, Punkin.
-You married? -I am.
-Oh. -I have a-- two years.
-Two years. -We've been together for seven.
Did you meet him over there or...
-No. Her. -Oh.
-GEOFF: We got another day. -THERRON: And we're gonna do
the same thing today, but make it to the checkpoint.
(laughter)
-You still have the map, right? -I got the map.
THERRON: We really have to give it a move-on,
and make it to checkpoint because there's no way
we can sleep in bivvies a second time.
That sleep last night sucked. We need to get
-to number two tonight. -Yeah.
THERRON: Today, I'm hoping,
by giving someone else the map,
I can take some of that heat
off of me from the first day.
So if we get lost, I love you, Shweta. (laughs)
* *
-JENNYE: Come on, girl. -SHWETA: We are not starting
at point zero today, we're starting at negative one.
Yeah.
Oh, God, this is steep.
Grab the grass, make sure it's alive.
-Grab it low. -ROSE: Okay.
JEANNIE: Definitely gonna have to grab stuff here, guys.
PATI: Grab low, grab green.
JEANNIE: It's really wet here, too.
(laughs): Grab low, grab green.
Whew! My legs on fire.
-Very wobbly. -GEOFF: Got it. I'll relay it.
Last uphill and then we'll snag the bag.
Huh?
My legs are going to kill me if we do not start walking.
Every time we catch up, you guys head out again.
No, we're stopping to wait for you.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be frustrated, we're just
not moving. Y'all ready?
Yeah, start breathing, Bo. We need you.
This is gonna be the hardest part of the day.
BO: So, as I'm climbing that mountain,
I'm-I'm obviously thinking about Tony.
It made me self-aware of my own body.
DUSTY: Do you want me to take your bag to the top?
I'll get it up to the top if you want.
Every muscle on my body is cramping.
Day two, carrying more bags.
Shouldn't be starting yet.
* *
THERRON: This next part is gonna be a little hard.
It's down, and there's a rope.
I'm so afraid of heights, this isn't good.
BECKYLEE: Go slow and be kind.
* Please don't let me die, Jesus. *
ROBERT: We got something up here.
THERRON: Oh, no.
JEANNIE: What is it?
-NICK: Oh, damn. -ROSE: Oh, my God, heights, heights, heights.
JEANNIE: Whoa!
DENNIS: Wow.
-What the...? -Oh... -No way.
ROBERT: We got something up here.
THERRON: Oh, no.
JEANNIE: What is it?
-AMY: What the... -DENNIS: No way.
We took our time hiking, and now,
we're facing a difficult obstacle,
and it's getting me kind of worried 'cause...
we might not make this checkpoint again.
"A deep gorge blocks your path to the summit."
(grunts) No.
JEANNIE: Here, just breathe, baby.
AMY: Therron, you could do this, man. I'm afraid of heights, too.
You're okay, babe.
Okay, I'm back.
ROBERT: "To continue, you must select a leader
"who will then choose a crossing partner.
"After crossing, the leader will choose
"the next pair to cross and so on.
So think about who would be the best leader for you."
It looks like two people are going to be on each side
of that, so you want to be a similar size and weight
-to the person you're with. -ROBERT: What you're going to have to do
is walk on each side of the rope
and leaning into each other, scooch out.
I don't know who died and made Rob king,
but I don't like to be mansplained
by anybody what to do.
THERRON: I don't know who the leader is, but I would like
to go in the first-- I just want to get it done.
ROSE: I think Bo should be the leader.
Give him a chance to lead and use
his coaching skills to bring us all together.
-I disagree with that. -ROSE: Why?
-PUNKIN: Just pick. Let's pick. Come on. -But why?
-I'm just curious why. -I'm not afraid of heights.
Hey, why don't we get Becky to be the leader?
-Becky, go ahead, Becky. -Go ahead, Becky.
-Becky, be the leader. -I think we got our leader.
-Is everyone okay with that? -GEOFF: We're good.
Let's get it going.
It felt great to be chosen.
It felt like I had my first glimmer
of power in this game.
I am very aware of how people perceive me.
Like, I come across very smiley, and I'm a blonde,
and my name is Becky. Like, come on.
So, funny enough, I was a theme park princess.
You know, I did the gown, the glass slippers,
uh, the parade wave, and I love the attention I got
from being with kids all day and smiling.
But I also have this side of me
where I like to lead people.
Um, I can be a little more aggressive
and a little bit bossy.
So, I traded my glass slippers for a pair of steel-toed boots.
ROSE: I'll go first with you if you want, Becky.
-You want to go first? -I've been in the back.
-I'm excited to go. -Let her go first, man.
Let's get it done, me and Rose. All right, let's do it.
* *
-Are you ready? Yeah? -NICK: Come on, guys.
-BECKYLEE: Okay, let's go. -DUSTY: Here we go.
SHWETA: Yeah!
BECKYLEE: Hold on tight to me.
ROSE: That's going to get real wobbly.
Let's get off the wood in three, two, one.
You good?
-Relax, relax. Settle. -GEOFF: Keep going.
-Don't listen to them. -AMY: Keep going, girls.
One, two, three.
Oh, my God. I can't believe how much it's wiggling.
BECKYLEE: Hey. You're doing good.
Relax, relax.
-Calm. -ROSE: Okay.
(grunting)
DUSTY: Y'all got it.
ROBERT: You got this, ladies.
Relax, relax, relax. I got it.
PATI: No, no, no. Relax, relax.
Settle out, settle out.
-BECKYLEE: We're good. -JEANNIE: You got this.
You got this. Just breathe.
I was shocked at how incredibly hard it was.
ROSE: My arms.
BECKYLEE: Maybe I came in a little overconfident
that I would be able to do any obstacle no problem.
We got to get quickly over this part. This is the hardest part.
It's going to get tighter soon.
You're almost there. Keep going.
-Don't stop. -Come on, gals.
-ROSE: Easy. -BECKYLEE: Sorry.
(whimpering) No!
(screams)
AMY: When Beckylee and Rose fall,
all that's going through my head is,
if they can't do it,
there's no way I'm going to be able to do it.
And that sun's doing this.
Guys, I can't sleep in a bivvy again.
BECKYLEE: I think, yeah, just the small steps.
It's front foot one, the back foot two.
ROSE: Okay. One.
This whole thing has been reminding me
of my military training.
I have three combat tours.
And I was a Blackhawk helicopter pilot.
I used to be a badass,
and I'm looking to find that again in myself here.
BECKYLEE: Don't lean that way.
Stay with me. Stay with me.
ROSE: But I don't want these people
to know my military experience
unless for a strategic reason.
-One, two. -PATI: Keep it up, girls.
-One, two. -You got it. You're so close. You're so close.
ROSE: My strategy is deception of perception.
I want everybody to think I'm just a mom with pretty nails.
-Keep going. One, two. One, two. -Oh, my God.
-One, two. -PUNKIN: Look how fast they did that.
One, two. One, two.
(contestants cheering)
-(whooping) -JEANNIE: Yes!
-Oh, my goodness. -PATI: Nice!
That was harder than I thought it was going to be.
Good job!
Are you okay with Punkin and Jennye?
I already told them-- feel
like I verbally committed to them
that I would.
Punkin and Jennye.
Why are they talking it over? This is Becky's decision.
Um...
People are already forming connections.
And Rose is
vocal in who she thinks should go and shouldn't go.
And she wanted Amy and Bo over.
But I said, you know, let's get Punkin and Jennye
because I trust Punkin.
Let's think about that while we send them.
I feel confident about them.
Is that okay?
NICK: I don't like this one bit.
SHWETA: Is, like, Rose influencing what's going on?
PATI: Okay, you guys, calm down.
A fun fact about me is that I've never been relaxed in my life.
Red Rover, send Punkin and Jennye right over.
-Oh! -Come on.
Oh, yep, that's-- That is far down.
GEOFF: Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
-PUNKIN: One, two. One. -Careful.
-Relax. -Two.
Lean back, lean back.
-One. -Oh, you're pulling me.
-Okay, you good? -Yep.
BOTH: One, two. One, two.
PATI: Good job, ladies.
BOTH: One, two, one, two. One, two.
GEOFF: Good stuff, y'all.
BOTH: One, two, one, two.
GEOFF: Good pace, good pace.
BOTH: One, two.
PUNKIN: I feel confident with Beckylee as a leader.
She seems like she has a level head.
BOTH: One, two. One, two.
You're doing great.
PUNKIN: But at the same time,
you have to have a partner to make it across this rope.
And with Tony gone, the numbers are odd right now,
so somebody may not make it across this bridge.
-PATI: Hey, way to go! -(contestants cheering)
PUNKIN: I just need to make sure Beckylee
chooses the right people to come across at the right time.
-(bleep) that. -JENNYE: Oh, we made it.
We got to keep moving. Who are you gonna send?
-Keep this in mind. There's an odd number. -BECKYLEE: Yeah.
So the last one might not make it over.
-Ooh. -Yeah.
You realize that there are 15 of us.
NICK: Everyone can see that we have an odd number of people
in the group, so everyone is panicking a little bit.
Why is it taking so long? Why are they arguing?
NICK: Because we don't know what's going to happen
if you don't have a partner.
Me and Dennis would like to go,
if you're okay with that.
BECKYLEE: Okay.
Geoff and Dusty, come on over.
-THERRON: Geoff and Dusty? -ROBERT: Geoff and Dusty.
-Let's rock. -Boom.
-I feel good. -Start right away.
Yep, we're good. Just like that.
ROBERT: Right now they have Geoff going with Dusty.
Geoff and I said we would go over together,
but that all changed over there.
BECKYLEE: Okay, um, what are you thinking?
-Rob and--? -ROSE: Or I think Amy.
Do Pati and Amy.
Maybe they have an agenda and a reasoning behind it.
-GEOFF: All good. -ROBERET: I don't know what they're thinking.
DUSTY: We are dialed.
ROSE: They're rocking it.
Keep up the pace, keep up the pace.
GEOFF: One, two.
-You're almost there. -NICK: They got it.
PATI: There you go. You got it.
(contestant whooping)
-(contestants cheering) -Let's go, baby!
All right, so, come on, announce the next name now.
You guys, we got to go quick.
JEANNIE: Who's next?
BECKYLEE: Amy and Pati.
PATI: Oh, hell no.
-Let's go. We got it. -All right.
THERRON: Rose is influencing Beckylee.
-DENNIS: Oh, yeah, 100%. -NICK: It's definitely Rose.
BECKYLEE: All right, girls. You got it.
AMY: Ready?
Come on, Amy.
-PATI: I hate heights. -AMY: Easy.
-Easy. -PATI: Okay, okay.
-I'm terrified. -I'm behind you, baby.
Don't look down.
-You got it. -PATI: I'm trying.
Don't stop, ladies. Keep going.
-AMY: Relax. -PATI: I-- (grunts)
-One, two. -Okay.
One, two. You got it. Careful, careful, careful.
That's good. Settle.
-ROBERT: You got it, ladies. -Settle.
They're moving a lot.
Hold me, hold me, hold me.
-You're good, you're good. -Hold my arms.
We're good, we're good.
We're good. We're good. We're good.
-Keep going. -Save it, save it, save it.
We're okay. Get it together.
Hold it, hold it.
(grunting)
BECKYLEE: Oh, my God.
(wind whistling)
JEANNIE: They're moving a lot.
AMY: We're good, we're good.
Keep going. You're okay.
-ROSE: Come on, save it, save it. -We're okay.
Get it together.
AMY: Hold it, hold it.
(grunting)
SHWETA: Ah.
JEANNIE: Oh, no.
Keeping pace is imperative to making checkpoints.
BECKYLEE: Hey, guys, try to lean on each other.
AMY: But also, I need to get across the bridge
and tell Rose she needs to just take it down a notch.
One, two. One...
-Great pace. -AMY: Two.
We're halfway, Pati. One.
They're doing it. I'm so proud.
Go over. Step it in. Step it in.
-Thought they were about to fall there. -No, they're good.
-They're keeping momentum. -One, two.
Almost there, Pati.
PATI: We're you're doing this for our family.
Hang on, please. One, two. Go, go.
-(contestants cheering) -Go, baby, go.
PATI: We did it.
(sobbing) We did it.
PUNKIN: Good job.
(sobbing)
-PATI: Hey, you guys, call the next one. -BECKYLEE: All right.
AMY: Call it. Call it.
BECKYLEE: Dennis and Therron.
DENNIS: Fearless, man. We got this. Don't worry.
You got it, buddy.
THERRON: Yeah, I'm so scared.
-DENNIS: Don't be afraid. -THERRON: Okay.
-Oh, God. -DENNIS: It's okay.
I haven't been up to the cliff to look down yet,
and immediately my stomach starts to turn and I'm like,
I cannot do this.
-Ready? We got this. -Wait.
THERRON: But there's a lot of people who are afraid of heights,
and I don't want to start rubbing people the wrong way
by psyching them out when they are also scared.
Okay.
One, two.
-Whoa. -I got you.
-Okay. -I got you, I got you.
-Nothing bad's gonna happen. -THERRON: All right.
DENNIS: All good.
Come on...
Dennis!
DENNIS: Don't look down. Don't look down.
-ROSE: It's okay, guys. -ROBERT: Learn from it.
DENNIS: We're gonna make it over this time.
Things can go wrong in any second of the day.
I work as a trauma critical care nurse,
so I see gunshot victims, motor vehicle accidents.
-You lead. You lead. I'll follow. -One, two. One, two.
DENNIS: I have to stand up 12, 16 hours a day at the hospital,
so, climbing a mountain,
I don't think this will be the hardest thing I've ever done.
At all.
Don't slow down. Don't slow down.
THERRON: Oh, God, it's pulling me.
Oh, whoa, whoa. Hold it, hold it.
DENNIS: I'm absolutely going to make it to the end.
We got this. We're almost there, we're almost there.
No matter what it takes.
Got it, we got it.
(cheering)
Let's go!
THERRON: We did this!
You see that? We did it.
Shweta and Jeannie.
JEANNIE: Oh, my God. We're next.
They're not trying to lose their map.
JEANNIE: We'll be on the same page. You ready?
-Two. -One.
Holy Jesus.
-One, two. -One.
-Two. -One, two.
One, two.
You got it, girls.
-JEANNIE: Oh, my God. -SHWETA: Wait, I'm not--
-I'm not on. -It's okay, it's okay.
-Let me get my balance! -One, two.
No, we can't wait.
-JEANNIE: Okay, ready? -SHWETA: I'm not ready.
You got this. You got-- -Jeannie, you're pushing forward.
You're pushing forward, Jeannie. Jeanie, stop.
JEANNIE: Oh, my God!
PATI: It's Bo.
I mean, he just tries so hard.
He does try really hard, but that's the thing.
If it's not Bo, who?
SHWETA: I'm really not vibing this
because we have to go in twos,
and there's 15 of us.
One person is getting left behind.
I think that person's going home.
-One. Two. -They got it, they in there.
(cheering)
-Jeannie-- -(laughter)
JEANNIE: I can't believe I did that.
NICK: I'm nervous.
I think we all kind of had a general idea
of who we were going to go across with,
and, uh, that changed after group one went.
So, uh,
it's a crapshoot, and, uh, it's not a good feeling
if you're not across the bridge right now.
BECKYLEE: Wait, let's-- Can we talk?
Not to pull you out of your celebration,
but I think we should talk.
-I just wanted to get your thoughts. -Okay.
BECKYLEE: So, where's your head at?
I think that we need to pull over strong people.
Like, Nick deserves to be here.
ROSE: But here's the thing. Bo's mental fortitude
and his persistence to keep on and not complain
and drive on is very motivating.
Um, look, listen,
this is the toughest decision we've had to make.
But I think that we need to have Nick and Rob here.
JEANNIE: Yeah. Nick and Rob.
BECKYLEE: I'm really struggling
because I feel this connection with Bo.
He reminds me of my dad.
You know, I don't want to be the one
to make that call, because I love him as a person,
but I am starting to question, like,
can he do this?
Rob and Nick.
It's all right. It's all right. Shh.
-All right, Rob. -All right, here we go.
-PATI: He understands. -JEANNIE: He does. He does.
I think he was talking to the boys.
-Ready? -Let me get a little forward.
BO: I'm sitting here
with my game life in the balance,
and I hope they bring me along with them.
NICK: Good pace.
Still got some stuff to prove.
SHWETA: He knows.
-ROBERT: One. Two. -NICK: Perfect.
MANU: With the majority of the group having crossed the obstacle...
More than halfway.
MANU: ...what will happen to the odd man out?
-NICK: No, you're okay. -PUNKIN: There you go, guys.
Keep talking.
MANU: There's still a mountain to climb,
over $900,000 at stake
and less than 13 days to get it done.
-Two. One, two. -GEOFF: Yes, sir!
(cheering)
-DENNIS: Let's go, baby. -GEOFF: Let's go!
DENNIS: Yeah, baby.
MANU: It's now time for the mountain's keeper
to present the group
with their first crucial decision of the journey.
-NICK: What's that noise, guys? -ROSE: You guys, look.
THERRON: What on earth?
-Oh, my God. -GEOFF: Mountain keeper?
PUNKIN: What is going on?
What do you want?
It's dropping something.
Go get it. Yes. Go, Geoff.
-NICK: Go for it, Geoff. -GEOFF: Whoa! Whoa!
AMY: What is it?
ROSE: Go, go, go.
Wait. Should we open it as a group?
-Open as a group. Open as a group. -Open as a group.
-What is it? -We're gonna open it--
-PUNKIN: Let's bring it back. -GEOFF: Bring it back.
-Hey! -ROBERT: We'll be right back with you, Bo, one second.
PUNKIN: Are you all not worried about what's in this bag?
-What does the note say? -AMY: Read the note.
"A person was left behind. You have a choice as a group.
"If you want them and their money
"to continue up the mountain,
"use the provided gear to rescue that person.
"However, you can choose to abandon them
"and their money if you believe it will keep you
on track to reach the summit. The choice is yours."
-JEANNIE: Oh, my God. -PUNKIN: That's a big decision.
Do we want to bring Bo over and keep him and his money
or do we want to abandon him and go without?
I say bring Bo.
We're really about to hold up this time for one person?
Listen, I know this is sad and I love Bo.
He's been pushing himself.
But we're not going to make a checkpoint today.
And a lot of the times today I was being told to hold
because we were waiting on Bo.
I would leave Bo over there.
This is just hard. This is just hard.
We know what needs to happen, it just, it sucks.
THERRON: It does suck.
(wind whistling)
GEOFF: "A person was left behind. Use the provided gear
"to rescue that person. However, you can
"choose to abandon them if you believe
it will keep you on track to reach the summit."
THERRON: I would leave Bo over there.
I think that's the tough decision
we're going to have to make.
Hey! Come get me, Geoffrey!
All in favor for bringing Bo over, raise your hand.
That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
-That's everybody. -GEOFF: Party majority.
-Let's go. Moving on. -Let's bring him over.
-PATI: Hey, B! -Yeah!
We ain't leaving you behind.
We got you, Bo. We got you, baby.
We're racing the clock. We still got to make checkpoint.
But to not have to cut anybody off at this obstacle
and cut their dreams off at this point,
I'm absolutely going to take that because I know
we're all here for a reason.
Come here, big dog.
Come here. Come here.
(cheering)
All right, Bo, we're getting you over.
We're going to hook you up, and then
you're going to go over on a tightrope like that.
-Let's go. -Let's go.
GEOFF: You got a lot of people in your corner, man.
-You got it, Dennis? -Yeah.
-GEOFF: Let's get it, Bo. -NICK: You got it, boss.
We'll keep it sturdy.
GEOFF: There you go. There you go. Good footing.
BO: You don't know what kind of friends you have
until you run into these people.
It would be easy to let me go,
but they want me to stay,
and I love them all for that.
(all cheering)
-Yeah! -Yeah, buddy!
You did that.
I love you, man.
We are not going fast enough.
To get to where we need to go is not easy.
Leaving Bo was probably the right decision,
and eventually,
we will find out.
ROBERT: We got this.
PUNKIN: We got to pick it up just a little bit.
We're definitely worried that
we won't make it to checkpoint.
And also, we have to reach the summit
in 14 days, or nobody gets any money.
Last night we had to sleep in bivvies.
Freakin' freezing.
And now people are struggling.
BO: Phew! I can't catch my breath.
-ROSE: Hey, guys, hang on. -JEANNIE: Oh, my God.
ROSE: Can you guys hold up?
-JEANNIE: We have to get to camp. -GEOFF: Yeah. And if we don't
make this camp, then every single day is
-further and further. It adds on to each other. -I know!
We're never gonna make the summit in 14 days.
This is supposed to be easy.
-Imagine when we... -I know!
...we're starting to use the ice picks.
(exhale echoes)
JEANNIE: Come on, Bo. Over 50 club, let's go.
Even though I'm 56,
I know that I can keep up with all these young kids,
because at work I do the same thing.
Just got out of work.
-I've got some mums. -I work at Trader Joe's.
We have 18-year-olds,
and I work harder. I hustle.
And they're like, "Damn, this girl's a mom! She's 56.
She's doing this better than me." (laughs)
Come on, guys, let's do this.
Everyone else did it, we can do it.
I'm gonna conquer this.
I have to do what it's gonna take to win,
because I'm a badass mom.
(Jeannie laughs)
It's slippery. Just go slow, Nick.
-NICK: How do I catch up to you if I go slow? -(laughs)
I love that!
(wind whistling)
AMY Oh, my God, it's a checkpoint.
(all shouting, cheering)
GEOFF: Hey, we sleeping good tonight, y'all!
Come on!
MANU: 15 climbers, and nearly
$940,000 in cash have finally reached their first
of nine checkpoint camps,
where they will find much needed food and shelter
for the night ahead.
-THERRON: Someone kiss it! -(all cheering)
MANU: Initially strangers,
they now share a common goal:
to climb the mountain in 14 days
and claim their share of the prize.
-PATI: Is that wine? -JEANNIE: Oh, my God!
MANU: But on this mountain,
things are never as simple as they appear.
-(excited shouting) -This is so good!
Oh, you're going wine.
I'm going wine. I'm going fancy with it.
I'm starting to realize that making checkpoints
is a massive advantage in this competition
because everyone is so much happier.
If we can continue to make checkpoints,
it's gonna fix a lot of our problems.
If you guys had to describe today's challenge
in one word, what would it be?
Powerful.
Yeah, life-changing for me.
I'm not sure this is a word, but family-esque.
(laughter)
Hey!
I can hear a celebration.
-Hey, Manu! -Manu.
Well, congratulations.
You've reached your first checkpoint camp.
ALL: Yes!
(laughter)
-You're in my seat. -(laughter)
Well, I can tell you right now,
even though you can celebrate this moment...
you're not moving fast enough.
You're falling behind on reaching that summit.
I don't want to be the person who ruins your celebration,
but these checkpoint camps come at a cost.
Tonight, you're gonna get to steal somebody's cash.
How you gonna do that?
You're gonna vote somebody off this mountain.
Each of you needs to vote,
and the person with the most votes will leave.
But they'll also leave their cash behind.
And you're gonna divide that between you evenly.
DENNIS: Oh, hell yeah. Coming into this game
I wanted to be strategic from the start.
And now we have the opportunity
to steal someone's money by voting someone out.
People are upset,
but in the back of everyone's head is:
"Money, money, money, money."
And no one wants to say it but me.
It's a tough decision.
I'm gonna leave you to it.
BO: Somebody's gonna be getting eliminated.
I feel like I don't have a fighting chance in hell
because if it's not me, then who is it?
And I'm thinking that's it, I'm out.
(wind whistling)
-So this is gonna happen every checkpoint. -Mm-hmm.
Someone has to go, by a vote.
Oh, God.
With Tony gone,
we've lost somebody already,
and we don't want to lose anybody else.
Geez.
Every checkpoint comes at a cost.
I feel wrong about that.
Whose money are we gonna steal?
The whole family/team aspect,
that goes out the window so quickly.
So, listen, what do you think about this?
-(sighs heavily) -You know who we all have in our heads.
Bo, right? Everybody, I think, is on the same page.
Somebody's going home, and right now the name
being floated around is Bo.
He is basically a risk, because if he just quits,
we actually lose his money.
So we need to vote Bo out tonight, before that happens.
I don't know.
BO: Yeah.
I'm vulnerable, but it's not over.
Early in my coaching career,
we're down 29 to 8,
and I just tell 'em keep fighting, keep fighting.
I tell you what, we won.
So now I'm thinking what do I need to do
to adapt to this situation
and keep going further in this game?
I got the fire to keep going.
SHWETA: It's tough seeing Bo struggle.
I really don't know if he can physically do it.
But the obvious choice is not always the right choice.
Can we walk over here?
Like, would you rather have somebody
who can't carry their own weight,
or have somebody that's bringing us all down?
Rose is bringing down the mood. Bringing down the mood.
-ROSE: Bo should be the leader. -I disagree with that.
-Why? -Just pick.
Every time we catch up, you guys head out again.
THERRON: No, we're stopping to wait for you.
I think, right now, there's two people,
and obviously the first one is Bo.
-SHWETA: The second one is Rose. -The second one is Rose.
I see both sides.
I love Bo, but it would be smart
to get him out of this game.
But Rose has rubbed people the wrong way.
I know Bo's not gonna quit.
Do we take that chance with Bo and get rid of Rose?
She's really bossy,
and the moms, I feel like, are gonna
stick together, and that kind of scares me.
We don't know what Amy, Jeannie, and Rose are thinking,
and that's what I'm scared of,
is an uncertainty of where their head's at.
-(overlapping chatter) -Hi.
What's the word over here?
I think so.
ROSE: Why?
Who are you saying it as?
ROSE: On one hand, we have
Bo-- slower, heart, integrity,
coach, who wants to be here,
but...
I'm voting for Jennye.
She's charging so hard up the mountain.
I think she is selfish.
She took off and left us.
Guys, we're not gonna make it if we don't go.
(bleep)
Suck it up. I know it's hard.
(grunts)
ROSE: If any one of them would've broke a leg back there,
and everyone just kept running, or anything.
PUNKIN: Or fell down, like Tony fell down.
ROSE: I don't like being bullied.
ROBERT: You are throwing out a name that is somebody
who is up front trying to help, keeping us going.
I get that. I get that.
ROBERT: I don't think that's the right choice
because, if we don't get up there,
we don't get the money.
So, is the game plan we just chuck people off the back
-and keep going? -ROBERT: No. That's what I said, it's not.
-I just said it's not. -That's what it kind of felt like.
The thing that, to me,
is we have one person
who I love very dearly
who we're carrying the backpack of.
That is slowing other people down.
I will carry his backpack the whole way.
But that's gonna wear you down and we're not
-gonna get up there. -We're all here for a reason.
So what about my reason? So my reason doesn't count?
-SHWETA: We didn't say that your reason doesn't count. -Okay.
This is what I'm trying to find out.
Like, who are you voting then?
SHWETA: I think that things are still
pretty up in the air, to be honest with you.
You know they're saying Rose's name.
-I know. I know. -And it's the hardest thing...
I know. Me, too.
Today's gonna be a tough one.
If I had my way, I would vote off Bo.
But now,
they all threw Rose's name out,
and, as a mom, I can't do that.
This is so hard for me.
God.
(wind whistling)
THERRO: We have to vote someone out.
We're all here, so let's get started.
ROBERT: It's not about just cutting somebody,
it's what do we need to make sure
we keep hitting checkpoints?
Bo, we love you.
People are carrying bags.
BO: I know I still have the fight in me.
$62,500.
You know, that amount of money
is a whole year's salary for a teacher.
I still want to be here, and I can improve.
AMY: Are we just voting off the slower players?
Because that very well could be me.
I do feel it's a little ironic
that we just voted to save Bo.
Like, him and his money would be gone,
and now, we can vote and divide that money.
That's just, that just seems hypocritical.
ROBERT: The truth of the matter is,
Rose, your name has come up.
Because of, sometimes, the way you've talked
to people and made them feel.
ROSE: That's kind of a shock.
I'm a military spouse,
and that's just kind of how I'm
trained to communicate.
I never even considered that my name
was gonna be brought up.
I wanted everybody to think I was something I'm not,
but maybe I should have been
honest about my military experience.
DUSTY: There's a lot more to it,
I-I think you guys would all agree,
than just getting checkpoints, of course.
But personality-wise
and toxicity-wise,
anyone who can make the person next to them better,
anyone who brings the group's morale up
is A-OK in my book.
DENNIS: Time's running out,
and there's a lot of emotions being thrown out,
and, at some point, we have to make a decision.
It's gonna be a hard decision, guys.
Who wants to vote for Bo?
Please raise your hand.
Anyone that wants to vote Rose out,
please raise their hand.
I will have to vote Rose.
Right back at you.
That way it gives it one-one this way.
-I'm gonna vote for Rose. -Who's voting for Rose?
Is that nine? Am I counting right?
-Yeah. -Mm-hmm.
-Okay. -(crying)
ROSE: I'm really disappointed.
(Amy crying)
ROSE: I didn't want their fake hugs.
Do you want to get the knife out of my back?
The mountain will show people's true colors.
Stay true to who you are.
-So, we have the money that we need to disperse. -Rose's money.
-I love this. -Grab two bundles, y'all.
SHWETA: I am not shocked that Rose went home.
I am shocked it wasn't unanimous.
-Just took too many. -Pass it around.
Rose is gone, and we stole that money from her.
I don't care about your feelings out here.
We still have a lot more days on this mountain,
and every day gets harder.
GEOFF: It's not an easy thing.
MANU: 14 days.
I'm stressed out because clock's ticking.
MANU: $1 million.
And a high-altitude game.
(grunts)
Holy crap. You can't see a thing.
MANU: Along the way, they'll confront decisions
that will test their moral boundaries.
-(screams) -Go get the bag!
AMY: He's got two options, and both of them are bad.
DENNIS: To potentially make more money in this game,
it's only gonna get me to be more evil.
He couldn't handle being man to man with me.
BECKYLEE: We need you to be fast and nimble.
Just let me do it.
MANU: With an impossible choice...
GEOFF: When the last person has crossed, then use this axe
to cut the support rope,
leaving that person behind, along with their money.
(crying)
BECKYLEE: This is so messed up.
MANU: With eliminations at every checkpoint...
The most likeable people are the scariest people.
-So, that's me. -(laughs)
NICK: You're putting a big target on your back,
which is perfect for me.
Put your hand up.
What?
I'm trying to get the numbers, and I cannot.
MANU: Those who trust the wrong people
will pay the price.
Since I met you on day one, you've never changed.
(chuckles)
The Korean cockroach survived another day.
Remember, who's got your back,
and who's got a knife at your back.
So you were gunning for me.
I wasn't gunning for you.
SHWETA: Last night, I ran that vote.
I don't like anybody questioning my judgment or my character.
MANU: Those who don't think they can...
You guys, I can't.
MANU: ...will be pushed...
(screams)
(grunting)
-Don't let go. -I can't.
JEANNIE: Please, God.
I have to keep doing this stupid (bleep).
MANU: Those who think they can...
(screams)
MANU: ...may have met their match.
PUNKIN: The mountain's keeper!
-Here. I'm right here. -(screams)
-Jump, jump! -(crying out)
Oh, my God.
MANU: All the way to the top...
Whoo! I did it.
-You made it! -Good job, Amy!
I'm so proud of myself.
I feel like a superhero.
MANU: ...of the summit.
Let's go!
-Oh, my God. (screams) -One more push.
The normal rules do not apply out here on this mountain.
-(screaming) -NICK: Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
If you don't get to the top in time...
(grunts)
(bleep)
MANU: ...you're gonna have
carried all of your cash for nothing.
I know, I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry.
(screams)
(wind whistling)
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