♪♪
You're watching an extended episode of "The Challenge."
Stay tuned after the episode for the final words
from the eliminated challengers.
- ♪ MTV ♪
[upbeat music]
- Hey, they're back! - They're back!
- ♪ Back in the house ♪
- Here they are!
- You've all played well together.
- Whoo!
- There's five teams left.
We're most likely gonna drop one more.
But somehow, the most decorated player
to ever grace "The Challenge" stage
is not all that big of a target.
Part of this is by design, okay?
I've kept a very low profile this season.
I came in with a plan to play it cool
and just kind of hide in their shadows.
[all cheering]
- I don't care who wins at this point.
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- Well, if it ain't old Neesa
"I don't give no [bleep], I'm gonna get it done"
Ferreira.
- Cheers.
- Great work today, girl.
- Oh, my God.
- You were so worried.
[yells]
- Go Aneesa!
- Come on! [air horn blares]
- I told you we are one of the toughest,
if not the toughest team, to beat in the sand.
So if you put our backs against the wall,
we're gonna perform.
- I feel like the season has been like
a redemption season for me.
You know, I'm not 25 anymore.
And like, not built the same.
I just needed to feel like I still had it.
I don't know, it's helped me in some way
'cause it's like, I've gone through already,
like faced with adversity, and so have you.
- Yeah.
- So it's almost like, oh, an elimination,
that ain't [bleep] compared to...
- Yeah. Yeah. - What I've been through, so.
- You just put that in your mind of like,
this is part of it. - Yeah.
It's been 20 years of doing "Challenges".
- True competitor as always.
You did a great job. Take care of yourself.
Take care of yourselves. Congratulations, Aneesa.
You've won your third duel.
I think your record is 11 and 11 now.
- That's a lot of [bleep] eliminations.
- That's a lot of eliminations.
- As much as I love competing,
it would just be nice to finally be a champ.
It would just be amazing. - The cherry--
- On top. - On top.
Like, truly.
And you know, I've gotta show that I do still have
what it takes to be champion.
And what better way to do that than to win with someone
who's had a career like you, been working for it
for so long.
It can be done.
It will be done.
- I mean, we came in this together.
- We ride together. both: We die together.
- And I'm happy you're my partner,
'cause when it's time to go, there's no doubt in my mind
that you are going to be there.
- Just put us in the final, and it's anyone's game.
♪ ♪
- I'm really happy to see Jordan
and Aneesa back in the game.
I think that she's so underestimated.
But me and Horacio, I think we're gonna be unstoppable.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Here we go ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Here we go ♪
♪ ♪
- Go then, right, go up a little.
Right there.
Bananas and I are in a really good spot.
I am super glad to have met him.
It's not funny. Are you laughing at my pain?
- I think Moriah has finally realized
just how addictive Bananas can actually be.
- Oh. Okay.
- Dude, this has been a wild game, dude.
This dude hasn't been in elimination one time, dude.
- That's his MO, though.
- It's wild.
- That's his MO.
It's like, he's good enough to where
he can win some things, right,
because he has experience and he's--
I mean, he's pretty athletic.
- Yep.
- But then people don't view him as some--
they don't want to say his name.
- Faysal brings up a good point.
There's a seven-time champion in this house who has
not seen an elimination yet.
You know what, Fessy?
I see that too.
Hmm.
- He kind of just sits in the back and just skates by.
- It like, lights a fire in you.
So he wins a lot, and you guys let him stay?
You don't like, throw him in?
Like, this is crazy.
- If me and Tori get power in this game,
it is "get Bananas out at all costs."
It's not because I don't like the guy anymore.
But he's won seven times.
What's he doing here?
Someone's gotta send him home.
You want something done right, you need to do it yourself.
[both laugh]
- Dave!
Dave, my queen!
- Yes?
Look what I brought.
- Yay, sister spa day.
- You set all this up for me?
- Well, for us. - Wow.
- You're gonna make yourself your own little massage oil.
- I brought this chocolate. - Oh, good.
- We're probably the best team
that's ever played "The Challenge" together.
- You think so? - Not even in this game.
38 seasons.
Oh, Jesus.
- You're doing great.
We're getting close to the final,
and all I can think about is that money and that title.
There's another challenge coming up on the horizon.
Dave and I are in our ship.
We have yet to sail to victory.
We need to get a win. Really, really bad.
This is a crucial time.
This is when you gotta lock in.
It's right before the final.
We need this.
So, like, in my mind, if we were to win,
who do you think that--
- Are these organic?
- Yeah.
- Because I don't want pesticides in my eye.
At this point, I'm not afraid of any of these teams.
- Oh, not another plan.
- I've been wanting to do this.
- Okay.
- I was thinking, Nany and Bananas.
Seems like the right thing to do.
- I have a hard time believing that.
- I want to go to my third final,
and I want to win it.
I have covered the entire spectrum of life in this game.
I have stunk at everything.
I have gone back to the drawing board.
I have trained in the off-season.
I've learned from legends like Wes.
I need to implement those things, and now is the time.
♪ ♪
- This season has been [bleep] stressful, dude.
I thought we were about to be in the final already.
- Tomorrow, after our challenge,
I want to go to sleep with both eyes closed, relaxed.
Let's just win tomorrow.
Pretend like if we don't win, we're gonna die.
We're gonna come back with something, Orlando-style.
- Come back with that money.
- Yeah.
- For me, like, the money would be cool.
But just to be like, we [bleep] did it, dude.
We beat every single team here.
- Yeah.
- I definitely want to win this game.
I've been doing it a couple of seasons now,
and I've come up short every time.
This season, I really want to get it done.
- This win is super important for me.
At first, it was most important because I wanted
to be a good friend to Fessy,
and I know how bad he wants to win.
But the more I'm in this game, the more I realize
that I want to win too.
I want to make it to a final.
And I want my little sisters to see this at home
and be like, that's my sister.
- Bad news. - Yeah.
- If we don't win the next challenge,
we're probably going into elimination.
- I just think Tori and Devin can't win.
Tori and Devin win, we're 100% main vote
because we know that Devin does not want to see us in a final.
♪ ♪
- Fessy and Moriah are the biggest threat in the game
right now, in my opinion.
They completely dominated that mini final.
Fessy barely talks at all.
So for Fessy and Moriah to have good communication right now,
I mean, that goes to show that there actually is
a good ride or die partnership existing there.
And I think that we don't take a shot
and we let them come to the final,
there's a good chance they're gonna win it.
♪ ♪
- Like, I'm done thinking about other people in this game.
I'm thinking about now just us.
We're not considered big players because we're rookies.
We have no idea what the final has in store.
But also, I mean...
Why would they not save us
and get rid of people that could win?
Because they have before.
- It's a tough spot to be in.
But we're so close to the end.
Hopefully, like, they announce the final, we're in this.
- When we've worked our asses off,
people have stood by and just [bleep] skated by.
Which I understand, because it's part of the game
and being a vet.
- Exactly.
Bananas, you've been able to just
dodge bullets left and right.
You're a seven-time champ and you haven't seen elimination.
I mean, come on.
This is the only fair thing to do.
♪ ♪
- So how are you feeling?
- Like this is it.
This is--our entire season now has, you know,
been filtered out into this.
- Every pair that's left is really good.
So it's hard to say who is going to make
this final and who isn't.
We don't even know how many challenges we have left.
Anything can really happen.
- The stakes never been higher.
We're right there. We're sniffing this final.
And if we can just make it to the final and run this thing,
it's like, there's nobody that deserves the W
and the money more than you.
It's kind of miraculous that we've
kind of gotten as far as we have, relatively unscathed.
I don't want to bring it up, but I'm
the only person in this house that
hasn't seen an elimination, so.
- [laughs]
And nobody even realizes that. - Shh...
- Are these people stupid?
- Yes, they are [bleep] stupid.
- They are dumb as [bleep].
- God, man.
Like, Jesus.
I'm hoping that I'm the only one that notices this.
And they've just forgot.
- ♪ Well, sad, small, sweet, so delicate ♪
♪ Used to be this dying breed ♪
♪ I've got a bad feeling about this ♪
- The next challenge is the most important challenge
of this whole season.
There's only five teams left.
Everyone in the house, they're best friends,
and then there's us.
We are going to be the direct vote, for sure,
if we do not win.
- ♪ To say you'll have to go ♪
♪ I could go all night ♪
♪ To hell with you and all your friends ♪
♪ To hell with you and all your friends, it's on ♪
♪ I got it bad ♪
♪ I got it bad! ♪
- All right, everyone.
Welcome to the most important challenge of the season.
You want to win today.
Now, today's challenge is called Frozen Senseless.
[dramatic music]
Out here in the center of this field
are five freezing-cold ice baths.
To begin, you and your partner are gonna take
your places at your ice bath.
When I say go, you're gonna race in opposite directions
towards those barricades
that you must dig under to get through.
Once you've made it through,
you'll race to your respective sides of the course.
One of you will be feeling around in that black box,
attempting to make sense of the 3D symbols inside,
while the other player gets a look at the symbols
at the solving station.
Once you've memorized enough information,
you're both gonna make your way back to the center.
You're gonna submerge in that ice water
and attempt to communicate all the information
that you just received.
- So the information has to be relayed in the bucket.
- The information has to be relayed in the ice bath.
- I thought you just submerged and then run away.
- No, you can submerge yourselves all you want.
- Okay. Got it.
- I mean, you could do it for fun.
[bleep] go in there right now. I don't care.
This is for your muscles.
Now, once you've relayed
all the information in the ice bath,
you're gonna jump out and continue the process.
The pair to get it done first will win today's challenge
and be the only pair safe from elimination.
All right. Good luck, everyone.
Let's et it done.
♪ ♪
- There is a lot riding on a challenge
that is going to really test a lot of our skill sets.
This is gonna be tough. It's gonna be painful.
- Yeah.
As long as you stay calm and you keep breathing,
you'll be okay.
And then also being able to communicate.
- Now, just in the interest of full disclosure, I dropped--
- [yells, laughs]
- What the [bleep] as that?
- It was a sneeze, but I tried stopping it.
- That was not a sneeze.
It sounded like you were--
I was about to call the medic.
- Going into freezing water could play with your head.
And we have to be able to keep our composure.
- I have a lot of confidence in us as a pair.
And I'm like, listen.
I'm from Alaska.
This is my first time in some ice.
So I'm hoping that, you know, I'm still the ice queen
if you know what I'm saying.
- There you go.
♪ ♪
- Nobody really wants to go in an ice bath right now.
That wasn't my idea of like a great challenge.
So we're just gonna have to deal with what we got.
- Our communication skills as a pair
are second to none in here.
And this is about trust and communication.
And I don't think there's a pair out there
that has more of that, so I'm confident.
- Yeah.
- All right, everyone ready?
Set.
Go!
♪ ♪
- If Fessy and I do not win, we are definitely a target.
We have a really good chance of winning the final.
All it takes is one elimination that's not in our favor
and we might get sent home.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- All right, everyone ready.
Set.
Go!
♪ ♪
- Today's challenge is called Frozen Senseless.
And essentially, you're gonna have to communicate
with your partner what you feel inside this capsule,
and they're gonna have to recreate it
at the other end of the field.
But you have to communicate this information
sitting in an ice bath.
♪ ♪
- I've done this.
I've been having to work construction
and all that with my dad.
I don't have a shovel today, but I have my good old hands,
so I feel great and I'm gonna give it my all
and make it to that final.
♪ ♪
- I'm gonna be going to the puzzle key
because I'm very articulate
and I have an incredible attention to detail.
Tori is gonna be reassembling.
And if you tell it wrong, and they do that,
it's still wrong.
One arrow pointing up.
- The first one, it's easy. It's a plus sign.
But then I feel something that seems
like a R with a shamrock.
What is it? Is it a heart?
- Come on, Johnny.
- I'm going to be the one
who's feeling on the puzzle pieces
because I am pretty damn detail-oriented.
I know I can remember five things at one time.
Easy peasy.
I just need Aneesa to get under this damn wall,
because if you don't win, you are going down on the sand.
♪ ♪
- I'm an ice bath guy.
I go into frozen rivers, middle of February
in Massachusetts, okay?
34 degree water.
I'm unfazed by this.
If we lose this, we stink.
Listen to me.
The boxes are in a triangle. - Yeah.
- Box one. Box two. Box three.
Box one, top, plus sign.
- Fessy, I'm ready when you're ready.
But take your time.
- Middle box.
Okay, facing you. The side facing you.
Double arrow pointed down to the right.
- Okay.
Double arrow pointed down to the right.
Okay. - Facing you.
- Yes.
- The symbols that I just saw are
pretty much nothing that Johnny is describing to me.
So this is definitely
a little more difficult than I expected.
- Box three. - Yeah.
- Multiplication.
X. X. Got it? - Got it.
♪ ♪
- This.
This one.
My goal is to be a rookie-rookie team
that makes it to the final.
I would love to win this entire season.
It would be legendary.
- I don't get the whole sideway orientation, but I'll try it.
- Aneesa--okay, listen. Look at me.
You're looking at the box. One.
- One side. - Two.
- Left side. - Three.
- Back side. - Four.
- Side side. - Five.
- Top side. - Yes.
- Okay. - Left with the plus sign.
What's the back?
Wait, wait.
And then, on the back side--
on the back side it's the same type of arrow.
- She's saying this is too much information.
And I'm like, oh, [bleep].
Maybe I should be a little slower.
There's a lot of pressure on today's challenge.
Obviously, it's a must-win.
But right now, the best thing we can do for us
is to stay calm.
- On the back would be what you said is a triangle.
- Yes. - I mean, I'm sorry, an arrow.
- An arrow. - Okay.
- Yeah. - Okay.
And which side--which way do you have the arrow pointed?
- To the right.
Like, the arrow is this way.
To the right like this. Johnny, like this.
- Trying to like communicate and trying to describe things
while you're in a freezing cold tub of ice
short-circuits your brain.
And Nany and I need all the brainpower we can get
to communicate as it is.
♪ ♪
- Arrow, plus, left.
Left.
If I win the money, I want to buy a house.
I want to help my mom.
Gonna a final would mean the world to me
because I want to challenge myself more,
and this experience made me a completely different person.
- Same side, X's and O's.
[bleep]
- Hollow arrow.
Double X. Double arrow.
- Yes.
♪ ♪
- Double cross. - Double cross.
Triangle to me. - Regular triangle to you.
- The one on top, the cross, is it like a cross like this,
or is it a cross like Jesus? - Just like this. Jesus.
- Jesus. Okay. Okay. - Facing's just straight.
- Our communication's always on point.
If she doesn't understand anything,
she just lets me know.
I do see other ride or die pairs
kind of blowing up on each other.
- Clover, facing to the right.
- So there's a clover? - No, it looks--
it's an arrow. It's an arrow.
It's a [bleep] arrow. - And listen.
- So plus triangle X. - Yeah.
The triangle is facing you.
We're going--from the front, then you're going right.
- If this is the side of the box--
- If the right-- - Yes.
- X, arrow facing the exact same way.
- Okay, okay, just do one by one.
Do the middle now, okay?
- I'm doing the middle.
Sometimes we show up, and we are 100%
locked in on the same page.
Other times, we show up and we're on opposite ends
of the universe.
Those are the only two I got. - Okay.
- Winning has never been more important
because the only thing worse than going home first
is going home last.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- You got it? - Okay.
- Double triangle right, X, hollow triangle left.
- Devin and I are obviously a great team,
but anything can happen,
so I need to be quicker on this puzzle,
and so does Devin.
Double triangle right. - Yes.
X. Hollow triangle left.
Got it? - Triangle right, X.
- Hollow triangle left.
- Triangle double and X.
- X, exactly. - I can do that.
- Okay, you got it, you got it, you got it.
I'm going go on to the next one.
- All right. - Okay.
♪ ♪
- Okay?
[air horn blares]
- All right. Tori and Devin win.
- [yelling]
- I [bleep] love you!
I [bleep] love you!
- I'm fired up, baby.
I'm stoked. Timely win.
Ice in our veins.
This is where we thrive. - Yeah, I'm pumped.
I mean, we needed this. We needed this all season.
I'm so proud of Devin.
Honestly, being his partner
just is the best thing in the world.
- You know, the two of us,
we're yin and yanging this thing.
This might be our season.
- Great challenge today, everyone.
The pressure was on.
Tori and Devin getting it done.
- Wow. - Well done, guys.
- Hell of a time for your first dub, you two.
- I've resolved a lot of the pre-existing beef
that I've had with Devin.
- You're a [bleep] piece of [bleep]. You know you are.
- I should punch you right in the [bleep] face.
- You know you are. Please do it. Please.
- I should punch you right in the [bleep] face.
- Please do it. Please [bleep] do it.
- We are actually kind of working
together and on the same page.
But I mean, I know that there's always an angle with Devin.
- Tori and Devin.
Now you are the only pair safe from elimination,
which means you are the only pair...
♪ ♪
100%...
♪ ♪
One step closer to the final.
- Oh, my God.
[laughter]
- You're a sicko.
You're a sick guy.
- And now, as the winners, you have some power.
You have to go back to the house
and decide which pair you're sending
directly into the zone.
With the rest facing the draw, all right?
- I'm happy that Tori and Devin have finally won a challenge,
which kind of makes me feel a little bit safer
and that I might not have to go into the elimination.
- All right. Take care, you guys.
I'll see you soon.
Get out of here.
- It would be easy for Devin and Tori
to make us the direct vote
because we are a rookie-rookie team.
And they're so close to the final
that if they piss off one of their best friends,
I don't know if they'll ever be forgiven.
So they have a big decision to make,
and it better be the right one.
That's all I'm saying.
- We back, baby.
- Great job today, guys. - Memory champions.
- Yay.
- Ah!
- Well, well, well.
- You gotta warn me.
You gotta warn me before you just pop up on my phone.
- You called me.
[laughter]
- Wrong number.
Butt dial.
- What type of freaky-ass room are you in?
- Wes, I've lost my mind.
They put me in a padded cell, dude.
- You've been gone a long time, so far.
- We'll get into relationship drama next.
Wes, I'm in a full-blown relationship, dude.
- With Devin?
- We should just push the beds together and sleep--
and sleep in the same bed. Why not?
Come on, Dev.
- Love it.
So-- - Perfect.
- Here's your bed.
It's got a bird hat on it.
So there's that.
And an old sock.
- This is insane, dude.
We're actually rooming together.
- What? - Nobody else.
It's just me and Devin in a room.
- Where am I moving into?
- Come on in, bunkie.
- How'd this happen?
You set this up, you sick [bleep].
I took your advice, and I was like,
all right, I'm gonna squash
whatever beef I have with Devin.
And up to this point, it's worked out relatively well.
However, I don't know what his motives are.
Devin's been playing a really shifty game.
He's been playing all sides of the house
while also trying to accuse other people
of playing all sides of the house.
So who better to try and get into the mind of a scumbag
than the world's biggest scumbag,
and that is my old pal Wes Bergmann?
- I can almost guarantee you he's playing both sides.
- Devin's capable of doing anything.
I mean, one of Devin's biggest moments
was sending me home in an elimination,
where I was blindsided by, you know,
a friend of mine, Tony, back in the day.
- Who's it gonna be? - Bananas, my vote's for you.
- Whoo!
- I know he's a showman. I know he loves big moments.
So going into the final elimination is--
it's about as intense as it can get.
- These finals have to be like--
- It's close.
One more massive hurdle to cross and then, it's--dude.
And then we're there, dude.
Love you, brother. Be good.
As the sun sets slowly in Argentina,
I bid you a fond farewell.
♪ ♪
- We did it. - Let's go.
- Oh, my gosh. I'm so happy. - God.
- Honestly, like, we didn't pull it out all season.
And then finally, bam.
- Ice in the bath, ice in our veins.
It was a timely victory. - Yeah.
- But with great power comes great responsibility,
now, doesn't it? - Yeah.
And I think that we just decide to not be responsible.
- You want to be irresponsible?
- I kind of want to be irresponsible.
- No brainer. I'm in.
- I'm not [bleep] around.
If I'm taking a shot, I'm shooting to win
and a big team is going down.
- I mean, looking at this board, Aneesa and Jordan
on there, they're untouchable in my eyes.
- Great. Cross them off.
- You know, the other three could potentially
be up for whatever.
Olivia and Horacio have had a pretty rough season,
and they just saved us.
In my mind, it's like, we could,
or we could use that as leverage
to say another name that's maybe
a bigger target in this game.
- Our pie in the sky match-up
is Moriah and Faysal versus Nany and Bananas.
I also believe Nany and Bananas to be a threat.
- I also see Faysal and Moriah being a bigger threat, though.
Devin is also mad with power right now.
I mean, we've been waiting 16 challenges
to be drunk off power, okay?
So here we are.
Let's have some fun.
- We've got Johnny Bananas, seven-time champion,
knocking on the door of his eighth.
Are we gonna do the same thing, which is bring him to a final,
never having faced an elimination?
Is that something we're willing to deal with?
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- Where is your head at? I just want to know.
- I think Bananas is the only person
that hasn't seen elimination.
It's time for him to get in there.
He's a freaking seven-time champ.
And he's the only person who hasn't seen elimination.
Prove yourself now. Nany already did it.
Okay. Now you're paired up.
Now it's time for you to prove yourself.
- This is why this game is hard.
Because I'm like, it's hard that we've
made so many relationships, but at the same time,
that's why we're here. - Exactly.
- So it's like, what do we do?
- Tori and Devin are gonna be like, hey.
Obviously, they want Aneesa and Jordan there.
They'll be like, you know, Horacio and Olivia,
we'll save your guys, just return the favor.
It's the fairest thing, because that's probably
what Tori and Devin want.
- Also, it's the best case scenario
because we're gonna get rid of a big team.
- I know.
♪ ♪
- If it isn't the rookies of the year.
- Yeah. - Oh, wow.
- I mean-- - What a title. I'll take it.
- Say it again?
- How are you guys feeling?
- I would like to think that we're
obviously in a good place.
I think that our decision at the elimination
the other night hopefully will pay off.
And that was our strategy.
We have collectively decided to save Devin and Tori.
- I think we're more curious about, like,
if you guys were in the draw, who would you save?
- You know, if we were down in the draw,
and we'd pick a save, I'd want to save Aneesa and Jordan.
- Olivia and Horacio telling us that they'll save
Aneesa and Jordan is going to keep them in the draw,
but that doesn't mean they're actually going to do it.
So this will be a test of character right now.
- We have no idea what the final has in store.
Do we think we're gonna win? I don't know. It'd be dope.
But I want a chance to just go
and, you know, see what we can do.
- We hope that you go in the draw
and we hope that you pick the dagger.
- And then save Aneesa and Jordan.
- Yeah. - Right.
♪ ♪
- Obviously, we're gonna do everything we can
in our power to keep you guys safe.
That's just our motive right now.
- You're going to the draw. - For sure.
- Yeah. We know that. Thank you.
It feels great that Tori has my back.
I mean, she's my best friend.
She better have my [bleep] back.
I envision us getting to this final together,
and I enjoy sharing this experience with her.
- So on that point, and you guys
are veterans in this game, we've got Moriah and Faysal.
We've got Nany and Bananas.
I think we're on different pages here,
because I'm looking at Bananas.
And we're looking at a seven-time champ.
And I think Nany's run three or four finals.
Very experienced team.
Just your honest take on,
is it dumb to not put Nany and Bananas in?
- If I were you, the only thing that would be holding me up is,
Bananas hasn't said your name all game.
And you guys have been rooming.
And it's like, that would be a tough decision
for me to make to have to say his name outright.
But I see the other route.
- What do you think makes the most sense?
- I'm leaning more towards Moriah and Fessy,
and he's leaning more towards Nany and Bananas.
♪ ♪
- Thank y'all. - Yeah.
- Good luck, guys. - Much love.
- Thanks, love you. - Love you guys.
♪ ♪
- Outside of Aneesa and Jordan,
everyone's on the chopping block.
I've heard you guys are pretty positive it's gonna be you.
I'm not there yet.
- I mean, all these teams are threats.
Bananas has won seven times.
And you know, we keep saying how does this dude
keep winning seven times?
Well, it's starting to like--
I'm not throwing Bananas under the bus,
but like, because he goes to the final every time,
and then he turns it on in the final.
- In my mind, the direct vote has to be Fessy and Moriah.
- The only thing I'm gonna say,
I know you're a logistics guy and a numbers guy.
And like, if you look at the statistics,
done four seasons with you.
Never said your name.
So it's like, damn, it's like, every chance you guys get,
I'm getting [bleep].
- Whatever the decision is made, whether you're
in the draw or whether you're in the sand direct,
it's a game move.
And this is a really, really tough decision.
Appreciate you guys.
Well, there they are.
- You guys picked a great time to get
your first dub this season. - Yeah. Congrats.
- So congrats, dude. That was huge.
- We are still undecided.
But you know, we still have
a really hard decision on our hands.
So I want to know, if you were in the draw,
who would you guys end up saving?
Like, is there somebody you guys
have over Aneesa and Jordan?
- No.
- I have learned not only how Bananas plays this game,
but how he has won seven of these things.
He's very calculated.
He keeps to himself when he needs to.
He makes big moves when he has the opportunity.
Right now, we have an opportunity
to make a big move.
- And just so you know, I was so willing to come
into this game this season with you, and just from Jump Street,
you just have every-- leave water under the bridge
and have everything put behind us.
And honestly, I didn't think that
it was gonna go as seamlessly and smoothly as it did.
Because honestly, I literally thought--
- I didn't think you guys would be in a relationship
at this point. - No.
I actually spoke-- I actually spoke with Wes--
- Keep saying--
- I actually spoke to Wes on the phone, and I told him,
like, I'm in a full-blown relationship with Devin.
[lively music]
♪ ♪
- This is obviously gonna be really hard for us.
I mean, we're trying to figure it out.
- Pretty much all we got for you.
We appreciate you guys taking the time and--
- Appreciate you guys. - Yeah.
- Congrats on the big win. - Thank you.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- I just want to say this to you.
You confuse the [bleep] out of me.
- Yeah, I'm confusing.
- Every single person you talk to, I'm like, oh,
I believe that he may not vote for them.
And I'm like, I'm on his team. - Yeah.
- I feel like I don't even know what you want to do.
So you're telling me right now if there's an elimination
that we feel like Nany and Bananas are gonna lose to,
you want to vote them in and send them home?
- Maybe.
- This is really tough to think about.
- If this comes back to bite us--
- It's gonna be a very difficult decision either way.
And I'm just not ready to make it.
[dramatic music]
- ♪ This is what I sound like after five years ♪
- You back, kid!
- ♪ Why do I feel I still got the flow? ♪
♪ Breathe, stretch, shake, let it go ♪
♪ Wake these people up ♪
♪ And show them they keep dreaming ♪
♪ Breathe, stretch, shake, let it go ♪
- All right, let's address a few things, okay?
Throttles are moving.
- All right, so what's up?
- Let's shoot to score.
- Okay.
- Half court, pull up.
Clock's winding down.
- It's between Fessy and Moriah and Bananas and Nany.
So we can either take a shot at a seven-time champ,
or we could take a shot at the team
that absolutely dominated the mini final.
Either way, it's a huge team going into elimination.
- Let's just agree that we're gonna leverage
our power as much as possible.
And here's the thing.
You don't like to do that, okay?
I'm not here to lowball power.
- All right, Dave.
- That might be the 5% increase in difficulty...
- Yeah. - That changes their...
- Decision. - Mind that wins us
a million [bleep] dollars.
- Okay. I like that.
[dramatic music]
- Tori and Devin said they want two big shooters
to go against each other.
- Yes, yes. That's what I'm saying.
- I think you're a great person and I've gotten to know you,
and I really respect you. - Oh, I love you.
- So like, I trust that, you know,
you're honest with me, and I hope that's what it is.
- I am.
- Because you seem like a pretty straight shooter.
- Having a conversation with Aneesa, I,
first of all, love her.
I feel so seen by her.
She is the most OG vet of females,
and I am the rookiest of rookies,
so it is a weird like, connection that we have.
And I think that she believes in me so much.
And she's someone that I do look up to in this game.
- People [bleep] slept on you and were like,
you know what, we're just gonna throw this [bleep] in.
And I think getting blindsided that first time
was like, you know what? - Yeah.
- I'm here to play. - Yeah.
- When people pick on you enough, it's like,
and I've been there-- - Yeah. You get it.
- I'm still getting it. - So I'm sorry.
It's my game too. I'm gonna play ball.
And we will pick the right dagger.
- Olivia has exceeded every expectation I had of her.
But when you get to the end of the game
or near the end of the game, people will do whatever they
can do to get to the final.
So this is I think where the game gets tricky,
and all bets are off.
- Well, obviously, I know this is
a [bleep] hard decision, and...
- Brutal, really.
- We've gotten close.
But I know you're just as close,
if not closer with everybody else.
You know what I mean?
You know, you vote Moriah and I in.
But then it's like, also, what did we talk about?
Like, we wonder why Bananas skates to the final
and wins seven times.
- Let's be realistic. Ride or Dies, right?
I have to play this game with my pair.
And that's the only reason I can't assure you safety.
- Yeah.
- And Tori's number one priority
is keeping Aneesa and Jordan safe.
- Do you want to get me and Moriah out,
or do you want to get Bananas out?
If I win, right, it's like, well, at least
[bleep] Bananas didn't win an eighth time.
And at least-- - Bro.
- It's good for us.
- I'm always playing chess.
I'm thinking about checkpoints. I'm thinking about penalties.
I'm thinking about what's gonna come next.
For me, it's different.
It's a different conversation.
So thing is, I [bleep] love Tori.
We wouldn't be here if I didn't.
So that's what's making it really difficult.
And I want to see another champ win.
If you told me, me and you were sitting here,
and I had a [bleep] opportunity to put him in,
and I didn't do it, and he's won seven [bleep] times.
- We're gonna look like idiots.
- Look like idiots? We're gonna be idiots.
- When you're in elimination and it's 1v1,
anything could happen down there.
And you should throw Bananas down here.
Because if you do, he will have
a first class ticket out of here.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Talk to me. What's going on?
How are you feeling?
- Remember that premonition I had before
coming into this season?
- And what was that?
- When you were like, I got Devin.
He's got me.
And I told you, I was like,
he's gonna wait for a moment to make a big move?
I'm not saying that's gonna happen,
but there is a very real possibility
that everything that they've done
has been some smokescreen
to try and, like, blindside us tonight.
- Whatever happens tonight, just stay ready.
- Listen. Go in--
- With the mindset of we're going in, I know.
Don't worry about that.
I'm mentally focused, mentally prepared
for whatever happens tonight.
- All right.
♪ ♪
- I think that I'm gonna just let whatever's
supposed to happen just happen.
Literally, that's all you can do.
- Don't even stress it, dude.
We've competed well all season. - Yeah.
- I got complete trust in you.
- I think we'll do good together.
Let's just see what happens tonight.
- More than likely going in anyway.
- So we're just gonna stay ready.
And you know, like--
- If it's anything where we can use skill set...
- Yes.
- We will wipe the floor with anybody down there.
- Yes. But listen.
Even if it's--even if it's something that we
haven't done together, let's just [bleep]
communicate the best we can.
And that's it.
- I'm not planning on losing the [bleep] elimination, dude.
So let's [bleep]-- let's get it going.
We just gotta be better than one pair.
- Yeah. - One night.
Let's bust somebody's ass.
Whoop everybody's ass in the final.
- Yeah. We're good.
- And get the [bleep] out of here $500,000 each richer.
- Yeah.
- Orlando-style. - Yeah. We're good.
[Band of Skulls' "Asleep at the Wheel"]
[upbeat rock music]
- ♪ I went upstate ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Now I'm safe and sound ♪
♪ In air-conditioned bliss, bliss ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Thank God for ABS ♪
♪ 'Cause where we are going is anyone's game ♪
♪ ♪
- Devin and Tori, winning at the exact right moment.
Congratulations.
- Thank you, TJ.
- By winning, you had to go back to the house
and interrogate all of the other pairs.
[dramatic music]
So let's bring them out.
♪ ♪
- Let's go, guys.
- Anyone's game.
- All right.
Moment has come.
Devin, Tori, you have a very important decision to make.
Which one of these pairs is being
sent directly into the zone?
Right now, who's it gonna be?
- Everybody's an incredible competitor down there,
and this is obviously a really hard decision,
but we're playing to win right now,
and the final is that close,
then we have to take a shot, so...
♪ ♪
Unfortunately, tonight...
♪ ♪
- This is obviously a really hard decision,
but we're playing to win right now,
and the final is that close, then we have to take a shot.
So unfortunately, tonight,
our vote is gonna be for Faysal and Moriah.
[dramatic music]
- Not having taken a shot at Bananas and Nany
could come back to bite us in this game.
But I firmly believe that Fessy and Moriah
are the strongest pair left in the game
outside of me and Tori.
And if we don't take this shot at them now,
we might not get another chance.
- So Faysal and Moriah, you're down here with me.
The rest of you, take your place at the draw.
- I've done four seasons with Tori, three with Devin.
I've never said their name.
And the moment they get a chance, they throw me in.
So it's kind of frustrating.
- I breathe a huge sigh of relief,
but I've seen Aneesa putting in a lot
of face time with Olivia.
And Aneesa, Jordan, Tori, and Devin are obviously
each other's number ones.
They decide to pull in Olivia and Horacio as well.
So if we don't pull the safe sword, we're 100% going in.
- In front of you, there are three daggers.
One of them is safe.
Pull that dagger, and you're good to go.
And you can choose whichever pair you want
to save with you.
So Bananas and Nany, start us off.
♪ ♪
That dagger is blank.
Step back and await your fate.
Horacio and Olivia.
Might be the most important pull of the season.
Go ahead and select one of those daggers.
♪ ♪
Horacio and Olivia, you are safe
from tonight's elimination.
- Wow. - Holy [bleep].
- And now is the ultimate decision.
Which pair do you want to save?
♪ ♪
- You know, TJ, making it this far in the game,
it's been tough.
I respect everybody that's here.
Not just as competitors, but as people.
I'm sorry...
Aneesa and Jordan...
For throwing you guys in last time,
but you guys are safe this time.
- Oh, Jesus [bleep] Christ.
- Okay, I was like, what?
- So we're gonna save Aneesa and Jordan.
The plan was executed to perfection in a sense.
Olivia and I are safe. Aneesa and Jordan are safe.
Devin and Tori are happy.
Everything went perfectly.
- Here we go.
- You four are safe.
Go ahead and rejoin the group.
Bananas and Nany, you're down here with me.
- Thank you.
We're back on the stage.
I've never been happier.
- Bananas and Nany, how you feeling?
- I'm here, I'm in the sand,
I'm ready to get this job done, TJ.
The final's right there.
So I'm not going home yet.
- I dodged 15 [bleep] bullets, TJ,
and I finally got hit by one.
So um, It's a shame we gotta go in
against the two of them,
but that's what we came here to do.
The only thing worse than going home first
is going home last, especially when you are
this close to the final.
To top it off, being sent home by Moriah?
I don't know how I'd feel about that.
I mean, that would be--
that'd be pretty traumatic, I'm not gonna lie.
Sending her home, though, I mean,
that's gonna be pretty traumatic too.
Either way, tonight's gonna be a painful ending.
- All right.
Tonight, you'll be playing Bridge It.
As you can see, there are two giant towers
right here in the middle of the Zone,
each with two rope bridges attached.
Now, those rope bridges are missing the rungs
that are needed to climb to the top.
You and your Ride or Die are gonna start on either side
of this giant tower.
When I say go, you're gonna grab the available rungs
and work your way up this bridge
using the same three rungs.
If you fall or drop one,
you have to start all the way at the bottom.
The pair to get to the top of their tower fastest
and hit that button will win tonight's elimination round
and stay in the game, going for $1 million.
The losing pair goes home.
Good luck. Get it done.
- Thank you. - Good luck, guys.
- Good luck.
- Tori and Devin saying our name was stupid.
But it is what it is, and we're ready to get it done.
- This elimination is all gonna come down
to balance and coordination,
and me and her are pretty athletic as a pair,
and I think we'll do just fine.
I've already had every type of loss
you can think of these past three seasons.
And this has been one [bleep] roller coaster this season,
and we're this close, so it sucks
we're going against Bananas and Nany,
but may the best team win. - Yep.
- And that's it.
- And whoever comes back, they better [bleep] is what I feel.
- I am more than prepared to compete tonight.
- What's motivating us is having the road
we've had to trek to get here.
We do not want it to end in this way.
And I want to get this one to a final and help her win.
- Well, to get each other to a final and to win.
- And this is just one big-ass obstacle left in the way.
♪ ♪
- All right, everyone ready?
[air horn blares] Go!
♪ ♪
- Oh, jeez. - Oh.
- I'm just hoping I'm nimble enough to pull this off.
Bananas isn't the greatest at a lot of things,
but it's the stupidest [bleep] that he excels in.
And this is a prime example of some [bleep]
that Bananas would be good at.
But Moriah and I, we're gonna have to find a way
to get this done, because I can feel it.
After this elimination, TJ is gonna announce the final.
- Good.
- Bananas and Nany winning--
we need this to happen.
Even though Bananas has won this game seven times,
Fessy and Moriah won the mini final.
They've done very well in endurance
and strength-related things,
and I don't want to see that team in a final.
- There you go.
Steady.
There we go.
- Every single move is critical.
It takes balance. It takes strength.
It takes focus.
But I'm looking across at Nany,
and she's basically mimicking exactly what I'm doing.
And we're just slowly making our way up towards the top.
♪ ♪
- I was a gymnast,
and I was a cheerleader all my life.
So twisting my body and moving it in weird positions,
it's just normal to me.
I'm not going home tonight. I'm winning.
I refuse to leave this game
right before the final when I've worked so hard
to get to where I am today.
- There we go.
- Come on, Nan.
- Good job.
- Keep it slow so you don't startle me.
- I feel like Bananas and Nany are like the epitome
of what a good challenge team is.
They really give it their all,
and they surprise people time and time again.
It just shows that experience does pay off in this game
and they're an amazing pair together.
♪ ♪
- Fessy, stop and look at what Johnny is doing and copy.
- Oh. - Oh.
- It's okay. - It's okay.
- This elimination is hard.
I mean, every single time somebody moves
one of those beams and tries to create a ladder,
it either falls through, one falls off.
I mean, this is honestly anybody's game.
♪ ♪
- Oh, [bleep]. - Oh.
- It's okay. - It's okay.
- [bleep].
The most difficult part about this elimination is,
every single time I'm getting somewhere,
it falls off, so I have to start over.
And I look over at Fessy and he's too heavy for this.
He looks like a freaking elephant
on like a mini tricycle.
I don't know how this is gonna go.
- Fessy is [bleep] awful.
I mean, horrible.
I feel so bad for him.
But him and Moriah are just--
this is just not their elimination.
- Let's go, let's go.
- [yells]
- It's okay. - [bleep].
- Stay patient, guys. You got this.
- I'm starting to get worried that the more time we take
to do this, Fessy and Moriah are eventually gonna
catch on to some technique, and they're gonna start
getting moving on this.
♪ ♪
- Come on.
- That's a good strategy.
- Just calm.
There you go, Nany.
- Looking at this, it's just a tower.
It's a big jungle gym, at least in my eyes.
So tonight is gonna come down to just a whole lot
of patience and balance.
It could have been a good one for myself and Olivia.
But that's fine. We'll just stay safe.
- Careful.
Careful, careful, careful, careful.
- Just get up.
- That's it.
♪ ♪
- Stay there, though. Stay there.
- Come on, Nan.
- Nany, you got it. Now listen.
Here's--no, Nany, here's what you do.
- Don't--don't talk to me. Please.
- I know--make sure you're centered.
- I know. - All right.
- Just please-- - Yep.
Put that right hand--yep.
- There you go.
And make sure you have pressure on all the [bleep] rods.
- I know. I know.
- Got this, Nan.
- There you go.
- Oh.
- You gotta be [bleep] kidding me.
- Oh, my God.
You did not just drop the last stick.
- We're still in it, Moriah.
Now we're all back to an even playing field.
So as long as Moriah and I figure this out before Nany,
we're still in this game.
[dramatic music]
- [gasps] - Oh!
- You gotta be [bleep] kidding me.
- We're still in it, Moriah.
- What the [bleep]?
It is so frustrating, because I was so close.
- Come on, Nan. You know what to do now, okay?
- You know what to do, Nany.
- You got it, Nany. You know what to do.
- [bleep].
Now I just gotta start from the beginning
and get it done quick.
- [bleep].
- [bleep] dang.
Fessy wants to win so bad, which makes me
want to try even harder.
And I know that I have what it takes to win a final,
so the two of us together, we're a team to beat.
And if we can get through this elimination,
Fessy and I will win the final, 100%.
- There you go. Yep.
That's exactly what I was gonna tell you.
- I got it. I got it. Just please stop talking.
- No, you're helping, but you're just
distracting me at the same time.
♪ ♪
- Good job. Good job.
- Come on, babe.
- [gasps]
- Oh, good catch. - Nice catch.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God.
- Center that. Center that.
Center that. Center it, Nany.
- The look on Nany's face,
it's just focus and determination.
It's like the cutest thing.
I mean, this is like Nany at her best.
She is so close to placing her final peg,
hitting the buzzer, and sending Moriah and Fessy home.
So now it's just about Nany staying focused
and coming through for the win.
- Make sure you're centered.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
- Hit it.
[air horn blares] [cheering]
- Good work, guys.
- That was so sick, Nany.
- Great job, Nany. - Oh, my God!
- Nany, that catch. - Hell of a win.
- Actually, thank you for not saving us.
Because this is a [bleep] cool-ass elimination, so.
- Good job, Nany. - Glad I gotta go in and win.
- Nany is something special. She really is.
When it's time to play and it's time to work,
Nany shows up every time.
- Come here you little [bleep].
- Jump on me. Get up here.
Get up here!
- Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- We're still in the game.
And we're still here.
And I'm really happy about it.
Going against Fessy and Moriah, I mean,
they're a really strong team,
so we didn't really know what to expect,
but Banany, you can't get rid of us.
Like, we are still here. We never expire.
- I'm so proud of us.
If we came all this way only to fall short
at like the last possible second, like,
I was gonna be devastated, but it was gonna be
more devastated for this one here, so.
- That's my Ride or Die talking.
However, if we lost tonight,
I would have been just as devastated
because we're a team.
This is my boy for life,
and I'm so happy that we crushed it tonight.
And you know, let's get to this final.
That's what we came here for.
I love you.
- Good job, guys. Good game, Moriah.
- You did great, Moriah.
Fessy, you too, bro.
- This is my first elimination loss
since I've come on to "The Challenge,"
and actually, I'm handling it a lot better than I thought.
You know, I've always put so much pressure on myself
that I have to win, I have to win, I have to win,
But I couldn't figure it out.
So I gotta give it to Nany and Bananas.
They killed us. - Fessy, he's so heavy.
I just feel like this wasn't an elimination for us,
but we did our best, and we had fun.
- And I'm happy to go out with her,
because honestly, I wouldn't have got
as far as I did without her.
You know... - Thank you, Fessy.
- She busted her ass for me all season.
And like, one little thing we couldn't get done at the end,
but that's what "The Challenge" is about.
You gotta do every little thing perfect.
Proud of you. Champ in my book.
- Thank you, you too. Always.
- Well, that was a very, very difficult elimination.
I saw both pairs really giving it a go.
But Moriah, Faysal, unfortunately,
you lost tonight's elimination round.
This ends your time here on "The Challenge."
Take care. - Yes.
- Appreciate it, Teej. - Awesome season, guys.
- Bye, guys. - Great season.
- Kill it, Nany.
- It really is a Shakespearean ending
to our little romantic affair, because had to send her home.
But better her than me, I guess.
Get home, get everything done.
- Great work, Fes. Great work, Moriah.
- Bye, babe.
- Oh, my God. Kill me, I'm crying.
Bananas, I hope you win "The Challenge"
because you deserve it.
And thanks for being so sweet to me.
- Love you, Fess. - Kill it.
Much love, Fess. - Bye.
- Good game, Moriah.
- I'm just thankful that I was allowed
to be here this season.
I'm glad I brought Moriah.
You know, she taught me a lot of things, mostly patience.
But I wouldn't have done anything different.
I picked the most badass Ride or Die.
And we stuck by each other's side.
It just wasn't in the cards for us.
- Yeah. Jog it out. Get the [bleep] out.
- Not only did he bring me here,
but even through our bad times,
he has been a good friend to me.
And he has been a good partner.
He doesn't show his emotions a lot,
but Fessy is a good guy.
Take my word for it.
- Bananas and Nany.
- Whoo-hoo! - Wow.
- Yeah!
- Well done.
- That's just how it's done.
- Knowing this is the third elimination
that I've gone into this season,
and I have won, like, that never happens to me.
So this is the best feeling ever.
- Congratulations to you.
- Couldn't have done it without her.
- Nope.
- We ride together, we die together, Nan.
- It's just such a happy moment for me.
- All right.
You guys ready for the final?
all: Yes!
- Let's go to the final.
[all cheering]
[Blink-182's "All the Small Things"]
- I'm so excited.
I'm so proud of every single person.
We have worked so hard to be here,
and honestly, I think each team would be happy
if any of us won. Like, I'm just excited.
I can't believe we made it this far.
- We did it! We're gonna the final, baby!
- I cannot wait to run this final.
I know it is going to be absolutely miserable.
But I wouldn't want to run it with anybody else than Devin.
Last season, both Devin and I got so close to that win,
so we are going to kill this final.
We are gonna get our first win together.
- God. Finally.
- TJ, we want to start the final right now.
Let's do it right now.
Throw it at me. I am ready.
- We did it!
[cheering]
- I'm going to have to run this final with Jordan.
Drill Sergeant Jordan.
And that is scarier than running a final, period.
So I am looking forward to pushing myself.
- ♪ Keep your head still, I'll be your thrill ♪
♪ The night will go on ♪
♪ The night will go on, my little windmill ♪
- All right, so stay ready.
Because I'll see you soon.
- Let's go get them! - Yes!
- Let's go!
- We have cleared this monumental hurdle.
- Oh, my God. - We did it!
[cheering]
- But you see the peak of one mountain,
and you think you're at the top,
but there's an even bigger mountain behind that,
and what's looming behind the mountain
we just got to top of is the final.
[dramatic music]
And that is a terrifying climb.
- Oh, my God. Let's go! - Let's go celebrate!
- We're here.
- Oh.
- Whoo! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Surprisingly, weirdly enough,
I'm okay with going home.
Obviously I would have loved to win tonight
and go to the final, but you can't--
I mean, we did everything we could this season.
- Yeah.
- We [bleep] balled out, Moriah.
And, like, we just-- one little thing
we couldn't get done at the end,
but that's what "The Challenge" is about.
You gotta do every little thing perfect and--
- Yeah. - But we tried.
- Go! [air horn blares]
- The most difficult part was
trying to grab our last piece.
When we would go to grab it, it would fall off
and for Fessy, he's so heavy, I just feel like
this wasn't an elimination for us,
but we did our best and we had fun.
- This is my first elimination loss
since I've come on to "The Challenge,"
and, actually, I'm handling it a lot better than I thought.
You know, I've always put so much pressure on myself that
I have to win, I have to win, I have to win.
And now I look back, I've won five in a row
and, I mean, I consider myself nimble and good at balance
but I couldn't figure it out.
So I gotta give it to Nany and Bananas,
they [bleep] killed us.
- Yes. I hope they avenge us.
- You know, I've taken a lot of losses--
back-to-back final losses and DQ'd last season
and then it's looking like
last elimination before the final.
But, you know, it's all a part of the journey.
[upbeat music]
- This is my rookie season,
but I am so happy to get this far.
I could say that I have almost made it to a final.
I'm with my guy, Fessy.
I'm so thankful for the experience.
I've learned so much about the game and myself.
- Proud of you. You're champ in my book.
- Thank you. You too, always.
♪ ♪
- This is going to be a 100-hour final.
- 100 hours of nothing but work.
- Let's go, let's go! - [groans]
- Nothing but suffering.
- Ow! [groans]
- Stop yelling at me! - Go!
- Whoo! - Oh, my God.
- It's $1 million on the line.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪