PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously on Tough As Nails...
You're going to be finishing off a motocross track.
-Yeah, right there! -Start tamping it. -Smooth it.
-Savage Crew... -Get the string out of the way. -No, no, no.
...hit some bumps in the road...
I am just so frustrated right now.
-Too many people try to be the boss. -Come on!
...allowing Dirty Hands to even up the team competition,
-leaving a fractured Savage Crew team. -I'm tired.
-I want to [bleep] win. -In the individual competition...
-Right into the mud! -Just don't get stuck.
Oh, Cheryl goes down!
...Marcus appeared to run on water to take the win...
-What a thrill. -while Carly and Paul... -Hate you.
-Love you, too. -...were stuck in overtime... -Paul gets the win!
...forcing Carly to punch out.
Dirty Hands, we are not done.
-Tonight... -Hey, lower your [bleep] tone when you're talking to me.
-That's irritating. -[all talking at once]
Stop screaming.
KEOGHAN: ...emotions are running high...
-[work whistle blows] -Let's go!
-...as Savage Crew and Dirty Hands... -Line 'em up.
-...are tied up two to two... -These apples is gold.
-...in the team competition. -Infiltrate!
-Both teams are stealing... -Too late. -That's crazy.
...and stockpiling for a chance to grab their third
victory and take the lead.
Let me manage the cart!
-[work whistle blows] -And the nine individual contenders
try to stake their claim
-in the competition... -I will never quit.
...to stay in the running for the $200,000 prize.
Anybody got a spare set of lungs?
This isTough As Nails.
-So, everybody's good today? -Yeah.
Marcus, Akeela,
you all were in the top two yesterday; Marcus won.
-Three seconds. -Three seconds.
-That's a three-second rule.
[laughter]
I will say the energy, like, I love it this morning.
It feels good, going into the team challenge.
-Gotta take this "W," man. -Got to take the win.
Coming in from the last team challenge,
where we lost, it's been a little somber,
and we're trying to work through these problems.
Right now, we're at the pivot point
where it's, like, it could go in our favor,
it cannot go in our favor,
and we have to stick together as a team.
This is so much like the Army.
You have a bunch of random people that have
to work together, and you don't have a choice but
to get the job done and be successful. Right?
I got my sergeant title right before I got out of the Army,
but I never got to utilize that in a mission scenario.
Having really good leadership skills
means knowing how to motivate,
encourage people, and keep the morale up.
-We're all strong personalities. -Yeah.
But it's like we have to stick together.
That is the only way we're
coming out of this with the win.
-Get it done. -It's two-two, let's bring it.
Yay!
Today's a new day, a new start.
-You know, I'm hungry for this win. -Yeah.
We haven't been up yet. It'd just be nice to get up one.
-Yeah. -I want them nervous.
I want to be able to see that nerve.
[laughter]
Unleash the monster off the chain.
[roars]
[laughter]
-JESSICA: Hey, guys. -Good morning, guys.
-Morning, Phil.
I see some apples, and I'm excited. My dad's a farmer.
Plus, we have opportunities to make money, each of us.
-The team score is tied up, eh? -Nice-looking badge.
Yeah. It'll be ours soon.
Cheryl, how are you feeling today?
I am fully operational.
Do not mistake my pain for weakness
because I am Cheryl [bleep] Lieteau.
-[laughter] -I like it.
And that's why this competition is so tight.
-Both teams with two wins. Are you kidding me? -Yeah.
Yeah!
We are here at Drummond's sixth generation apple orchard.
Wow.
Let me tell you a little bit about this job.
Down at the end of the field, there are two tractors and
trailers, one for each team.
When the work whistle blows,
professional drivers are going to drive your tractors at
exactly the same speed side by side along
a two-mile course.
Making your way through the orchard,
your job is to load as many bushels of apples as you can.
There's no specific way to do this, and every one of
the 532 bushels scattered around this orchard are up for grabs.
-First come, first serve. -Oh, wow.
And at the end, we're going to weigh your apples,
and the team that has the highest weight wins it.
We got $12,000 and today's Badge of Honor.
-Everybody, this is Lianne. -Good morning.
I want you to have a little understanding
of what you're picking up.
Got a nice bushel of beautiful apples.
-Look at that, huh? -These are ambrosia apples.
They are very crisp, and they have a hint
of honey flavor in them.
They can be used for baking,
sauteing or just a delicious treat.
CHERYL: Wait a minute.
I feel like I've heard that voice before.
Has anyone ever told you
you look a little bit like Lia from season three?
-I get that from time to time. -Can I see your eyes?
That is Lia.
[laughter, cheering]
Our Tough As Nails winner from season three, Lia.
Ah!
This is awesome. I'm psyched to see her.
I watched her move through that final competition,
and she won.
Our Tough As Nailschampion, Lia!
I want to be her.
-Hey, Lia. -Hey, y'all.
-We're in the presence of greatness. -No.
-Presence Of greatness. -I just want you to know
how much it means to me to see you all out here.
You're going to find out that you're.
here for the whole world. They see themselves in you.
It's unlike anything else you'll ever be a part of.
-Are you guys ready to get the job done? -Yeah.
Go to your workstations and strategize.
I think Dustin would be great at crew boss.
-Yeah. -I'll take it. -Go for it. We'll listen to you.
I think we need a calm personality
at top, and I tend to bring that.
And I just want to take away the tension
from our last team challenge and just unite us all with the win.
Who's a crew boss? You crew boss.
-I seem to be on a roll. -Yeah.
Because don't fix something that's not broken. Right?
I'll be up on the trailer dumping the baskets.
You guys just keep running baskets.
Carolina, you can start on the trailer.
Are we going to continuously
-trade in and out the loading or... -Yeah.
We're going to keep fresh legs out there.
It's about the long haul. Don't sprint it out
at first because you're going to wear yourself out.
So my thing is this. This is an all-out sprint.
I think we're all capable. You know what I mean?
Remember what we talked about this morning, okay?
-We have to work together. I swear to God. -Yeah, we do.
-We do. -We have to be a family.
-We are a family. I'm in. -Do it, y'all.
Okay, guys, make your way down to your trailer.
-Let's get the job done. -Here we go.
I hope that the talk that Jessica had this morning
got into people's ears.
Savage Crew, we're all alpha, and we all want to lead.
So today is going to be a test for all of us.
But we're ready for the challenge.
CAROLINA: Let's do this.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
You got to run along this two-mile course,
picking up as many apples as you can.
At the end, we're going to put all your apples on a scale,
and the team with the highest weight will take the win.
CHERYL: Dirty Hands!
The team has a lot of faith in me as a leader.
-Line them up. Come on. -I'm injured.
Best place for me, really is on the back of the trailer
because I cannot go running through those fields.
Dirty Hands, keep 'em coming.
Got it.
Akeela is coming way over the other side.
-LIA: Well, that's less for the other team to get. -Right.
These apples is gold.
I'm going to go all-in today.
Maybe some of my teammates don't operate that way.
That's the hard part about being on a team.
I just want to win.
I've got it.
My task was to get ahead
and take as many apples as I could from Dirty Hands.
If they don't got hands on it, they ain't theirs.
TODD: Hurry, go get that one on the other side.
They're cleaning us out. They're cleaning us out.
Too late.
-Too late. Too late. -Whoo!
Things changed real fast.
Savage Crew decided to come over and take our apples.
We got to get ahead. I'm taking their lane.
Infiltrate!
Ben starts hollering, "Infiltrate!"
So we're cruising over and we're taking theirs.
It is really like a kid's game at that point.
Hey, you can't have my apples. It was just, let's get it on.
PAUL: They're ahead of us. They're taking our apples.
KENJI: Let's go. Let's go. Come on, push it.
Akeela, we got to get in front of them.
You're good. Go. [grunts]
I've never seen so many
apples flying at one time. This is fast-paced.
-Must be exhausting. -Can't work at this speed all day.
I gotta trade.
-You gotta shift? -Yeah.
As crew boss, I try to keep an eye on everyone and I have
a shift order of who's going to be on the trailer.
-KEOGHAN: Oh, I see. They're taking turns. -LIA: That's a good idea.
As a firefighter, when you go into dangerous situations,
you need to know where everyone is.
And I think we'll do better if we keep fresh legs.
Look hard, look hard.
KEOGHAN: Teams are going to run through the orchard
six times. That's the end of lap one.
Now they're making the turn for the second.
Keep on moving. 12,000!
-I got this one. -Hey, right side.
-I got it. -Carly, right up here.
KEOGHAN: They're crossing all over each other.
This is an Easter egg hunt on steroids.
-Ow, ow, ow. -Come on, man.
It's like a tornado in this apple orchard of green
-and orange shirts. -[bleep]
I'm just trying to stay positive, and I'm just
-trying to keep moving. -[bleep] damn it.
-Just throw 'em on, man. -Behind you.
No pain, no gain.
KEOGHAN: Way harder trying to pick up bushels under the big trees
with those low hanging branches.
Easier on this side of the road with the small trees.
-For sure. -Yeah, definitely.
-You like that? -Infiltrate. Take one of his.
-You like them apples? -Dustin?
-I'm not quitting. -We're going full force.
This is one of those challenges where you can't stop.
That's another moment for the other team to grab
one more extra crate than you.
[grunting]
We do not give up!
My adrenaline is so high because
me and my fiancée take a trip to an apple orchard every summer.
And I proposed in the apple orchard,
so her presence is here with me today.
No rest is happening here in this challenge.
[panting] Come on.
Marcus is used to lifting a lot of heavy containers.
Today is going back to my life skill job.
Me picking up 300-pound CO2 tanks.
I'm used to picking up the heaviest things.
LIN: Did Marcus pick up two baskets at once?
Are you kidding me?
Everybody is working together, and we're all hustling.
We've got to start stacking these. We're getting full.
But we don't have the best plan for getting
the apples inside the containers.
I'm seeing this growing concern that we're
-losing all these apples. -Paul's next.
KEOGHAN: Ah, Savage Crew have a strategy
of switching out the loaders.
-We're losing all those apples. -I know.
Some wasted work right there.
JESSICA: They're just, like, falling over.
Apples are literally everywhere.
KEOGHAN: They're going to have to figure out a way to
clean up their jobsite because
the baskets are taking up a lot of room.
They're not going to be able to get the apples
-they need in there. -Yeah.
-[bleep] -Guys!
We are losing apples.
I'm, like, losing my mind because every
apple counts at this point.
[bleep] damn it. We're losing...
It's okay, keep your head in it.
Savage Crew, let's go!
Let's go!
KEOGHAN: That's the halfway mark, got one more mile to go.
Gotta collect as many apples as you can in this orchard.
At the end of it all, we're gonna weigh your apple bins.
The team with the highest weight wins it.
-[grunting] -Oh, [bleep].
Guys! We are losing apples.
Apples are literally everywhere.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew is going to have to clean up
their jobsite, because right now,
baskets are taking up a lot of room.
Valuable space you could be putting the apples in.
Why are you guys keeping baskets?
-Just make room. We got a couple more passes. -Right?
Cheryl's doing a great job
at organizing here for Dirty Hands.
Look at these bins filling up.
She is working hard, isn't she?
You're doing great, Cheryl. I want you to know that.
Thank you.
Carly is the most cheerful and gentle
and kind person I've ever met.
Recover. Take care of your heart. I love you.
And I don't know if Canadians are just always nice,
but I am not always that person.
No, don't do that.
You just threw apples on the ground. No, don't!
-Let me manage the cart, Kenji. -Okay.
Carly's, like, I love you so much, but you need to get
your hand out of the way.
You know, and I'm trying to let that rub off on me.
Keep it up, Dirty Hands. I appreciate you.
I appreciate you!
KEOGHAN: That's four runs complete.
Two to go before we weigh your apples.
Let's go. Let's go. Oh, my God.
-Are you okay? -No.
-Paul, walk it out. -I'm trying to.
PAUL: It seems like an eternity.
We've been running, pushing through it.
Last year at this time I was getting
cancer treatment, right?
So I don't have a lot of cardio.
Oh, my God. I'm exhausted.
You got to keep pushing, Paul.
-I am. -Holy [bleep] balls.
Set 'em up.
-Two on your right. -Right here. Big load, big load.
-You guys got it? -Yep.
So I see Dirty Hands.
They're getting everything lined up.
-Yes. -And now they're moving over to the next one.
-CARLY: Kenji, you got that? -Yeah, I got it.
I run actually further ahead than the tractor,
and then I collect baskets and start stashing them.
-And then called Kenji! -Yeah. Right here.
Then I would say, I got it,
and I would come up and load it on the trailer.
Carly moves on and finds another stash.
CARLY: As a team, we start doing
the bunny hop thing,
and that is proving to be very helpful.
BEN: Take it up to the next one. Yesi, I need your help.
Nice work. Nice work. Nice job, guys.
YESI: We're all over the place,
but there's some type of communication
that we have as a team.
-Kenji, right here. -I got it.
We know where each of us
is at all times.
Dirty Hands!
You're a beast!
Set them right on the deck.
Marcus, damn it.
-Paul! -Akeela.
Marcus, here.
Akeela.
I have no idea what's happening.
We're not communicating effectively.
We are so far from each other.
KEOGHAN: Carolina using Dirty Hands' technique, stockpiling apples.
-Now she's separated from her team. -Where's Carolina?
Anyone know? Carolina, where are you?
Carolina, what are you doing? You hatching apples?
Yeah, just waiting on my tractor.
CAROLINA: I'm just getting exhausted,
so I'm going to just wait for the tractor
to come to me, rather for me chasing this tractor.
Damn apples.
KEOGHAN: Heading out on your final run.
This is it. You got to make every apple count.
LIA: They're making those trailers work.
KEOGHAN: They look really heavy to me.
I think it's too close to call, Phil.
-DUSTIN: Let's go. Let's go, Savage Crew! -Let's go.
Keep on moving. Dig deep!
We need as much weight as we can.
We want to be up three-two.
We want to take that extra lead to create pressure.
Dig deep, Akeela. You got to dig deep.
AKEELA: I'm not going to give up. I'm going to catch my second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth wind. Like, whatever it takes.
Ha. I need this. Come on!
DUSTIN: You're just a machine, Akeela.
Anything that you do,
you blow your lungs out while
you're doing it, and that's just how it is.
KEOGHAN: Here we go. They can see the finish line now.
Look at Jessica reaching in for that bushel.
-That's crazy. -KEOGHAN: Ben's not happy about that.
BEN: Dig deep, this is it. Let's go.
Come on!
-You okay? -Yep. Don't worry about me. I'm good.
-LIA: Here they come. -50 feet!
-DUSTIN: Let's go, y'all. -BEN: We do not give up!
KEOGHAN: Ten, nine, eight, seven
six, five, four, three, two, one.
[all shouting, cheering]
PAUL: Oh, my goodness.
[whooping, cheering]
-Good job, guys. -Good job, guys.
PAUL: Everybody worked. It was hard.
I think all of us dug deep on that one.
We worked as a team.
I'm impressed with everybody.
There was no arguing. Everybody was working super hard.
We went in to see if we can get along
as a family, and it worked.
Every single one of us. We left it on the field.
I'm super happy. When you get into a challenge
like this and you know that you gave it your all,
and you know that your teammates have done everything they could,
I mean, what better thing could you ask for?
-It didn't seem like there was any panic anywhere? -No.
No, I panicked, because I'm, like,
I'm running a lot, and I'm not getting any buckets.
I don't know what the rest of my team is thinking.
I think we lost a lot of apples.
I don't feel good about this after this challenge.
I'm starting to worry that people aren't pushing
themselves as hard as they need to be in the team challenges.
I mean, I hope I'm wrong.
KEOGHAN: All your apples are off the trailer.
They have all been weighed.
Make yourselves comfortable up there.
-LIA: Moment of truth. -KEOGHAN: Moment of truth.
CHERYL: I have no idea how much these crates weigh,
and they might have a lot more weight in their crates.
I want to hear the numbers because that's
what's going to seal the deal.
It came down to one team
collecting 5,984 pounds of apples,
and another team collecting
4,875 pounds.
So the margin is over 1,000 pounds of apples.
And the winning team today...
Dirty Hands.
[cheering]
-Yes! -Yes!
[cheering, laughter]
-Team of awesomeness! -KENJI: Crew boss!
Cheryl, this has become a bit of a ritual, three times crew boss.
-[cheering] -All right, Cheryl.
That means you get today's Badge of Honor.
-Thank you so much. -And the $12,000 cash.
-We love cash. -For you and your team, -That's it, Cheryl.
And I know this means the world to you.
Thank you very much. Give me a hug.
Hey, Ben. Aww.
How about a big round of applause
-for Lia for being here today. -Thanks, guys.
-Lia! -Lia!
[whooping]
KEOGHAN: Now you got to shift gears.
Just as this was the toughest team competition, tomorrow
is going to be the toughest individual competition.
-Get some rest. -Thank you, Phil.
-Good game, guys. -Hey, good job. Good game.
[groans]
What the [bleep] just happened?
A thousand pounds is a lot of pounds to get beat by.
It's just fact. Right?
I hustled the best way I know possible.
We got beat today. They whupped our ass.
We got our asses handed to us.
We were down by, like, over 1,000 pounds.
Yeah, that's a shellacking.
We didn't grab enough apples. That's it.
A thousand pounds, that is--
-A lot. -We didn't grab enough apples.
Let's just be [bleep] honest. They hustled their asses off.
Well, I can tell you I did my best.
I ran as [bleep] fast as I could.
I got as much as I could, and I did my best, so...
I'm sorry, but I don't believe you.
-Okay, Akeela. -I'm just being honest.
In the beginning of the challenge, you said what?
Are we going to continuously trade in and out
-in the loading, or... -Yeah.
We're going to keep fresh legs out there.
It's about the long haul. Don't sprint it out at first
because you're going to wear yourself out.
So my thing is this. This is an all-out sprint.
I gave it 115%, and if you don't believe me,
-then that's on you. -I'm just basing it off what you said.
I gave my whole heart,
and you don't believe that I didn't work and bust
my freaking ass out there, then that's on you, Akeela.
You're telling me that I didn't do the best...
Hey, lower your [bleep] tone when you're talking to me.
-That's irritating. -Lower your tone when you're talking to me.
Come on, everybody.
Come on. Take a breath.
-I'm totally fine. -Let's have 30 seconds of quiet.
-Let's have 30 seconds. -You don't have to scream.
We didn't grab enough apples, but everybody ran hard.
Did the best they could.
They did grab more apples.
And we can agree to disagree or whatever.
Screaming is not going to make anything better.
This is the first time we've been behind for a day.
We can't let this break us, you know?
No, we got to come together as a team.
PAUL: Look, Phil said he picked the best of the best.
Let's prove him right.
DUSTIN: This is a big orchard. It's quite the walk.
-[chuckles] -Yeah, it is.
We lost yesterday. I hate losing.
But it's not going to change the way that I work.
It's not going to change my drive.
When you walk into a fight, you got to be
confident that you trained hard
and that you're going to get the win.
Good morning, everyone. Come on over.
ALL: Hi, Phil.
Yesi, Carolina, Carly, you'll be on the trailer right here.
I see some serious faces, and and I think that's a good thing.
Because this is a serious time. The further
we go into this, the more heated the competition is going to get.
And if there's frustration with any of your teammates,
this is a chance to show them
what you've been trying to say with words.
Use the work that you do here to make a statement.
JESSICA: There's a lot that happened on the van ride home.
I've had doubters. I've had people that questioned me.
But you want to keep doubting me, I'm going to keep pushing,
harder and harder every time, and I won't let up.
So let me tell you a little bit about the job.
Behind you are a whole bunch of saplings.
Little babies.
KEOGHAN: These saplings need a little support.
That's why they have stakes holding
them up as they're growing.
There are storms out here. The wind starts to blow.
You got to nurture these trees because it takes
eight to ten years before an apple tree can produce
the apples that you saw out on those trees yesterday.
When the work whistle blows, you will be running down
the field and you will be grabbing
your supplies to start staking up 30 saplings.
Holy [bleep].
You will be using this stake driver.
This thing weighs about 25 pounds.
Each of the stakes, they're calibrated for your height.
Whew! [laughs]
You drive your stake in 18 inches.
Where you see red, you got to make that disappear.
Once you've done that, you need to tie 'em up
in a figure eight pattern.
First person to do the job properly is going to win $5,000.
The last two of you to finish will be going into overtime,
and one more of you are going to be punching out.
This is going to be the toughest individual challenge
that you have faced so far, and it's going to
push you right to the edge.
Now, I want to introduce you to sixth
generation apple farmer Hugh Drummond.
[applause]
Now, you don't get shoulders like that without
-a lot of hard work. -Welcome to my gym.
Yeah, welcome to your gym.
So you literally pound all the stakes in here yourself?
-I do, yes. -Wow.
Hugh is going to be walking through
the field here checking your work.
It's got to be done just right, because if it isn't,
Hugh is going to have you fix it.
HUGH: They got their game faces on.
Yeah, that's what we like to see.
All right, let's get to work.
On the work whistle.
-[work whistle blows] -Go, go, go!
-30 stakes. -CHERYL: Give 'em hell.
KEOGHAN: Last two going into overtime.
CHERYL: The work whistle blows. People start running...
[bleep]
...and I immediately turn my ankle and I fall.
KEOGHAN: You hurt yourself?
And I'm just feeling like
the lame old lady right now.
It's okay.
But I'm not going to just give up.
I can do this with my walker if I have to.
[laughs]
-CARLY: That's right, Cheryl. -Let's go.
JESSICA: For today's challenge,
you have 30 apple saplings,
and you have to
pound your post until there is no red showing.
KEOGHAN: Jessica is the first to start pounding.
You then have to tie in a figure eight around
that so it stays sturdy.
This challenge is just straight-up hard work,
and my dad always told me
your work is a representation of you.
KEOGHAN: Got to pace yourself through this job.
Akeela takes a look across at her competition.
This is a great opportunity to showcase
really what I'm about.
I'm not getting outworked. Never.
Whew.
KENJI: My initial plan is
line all the stakes out first.
KEOGHAN: Already Kenji has laid out all his stakes
on the far end of the field.
Completely different technique.
Kenji's wasting so much time,
the way he's doing it.
As I come back to start staking,
I take a quick look around
and, oh, my gosh, this gut feeling,
maybe I might have made a mistake.
Because everybody has a bunch of stakes already.
KEOGHAN: It will come down to job planning today.
CAROLINA: Get it, Akeela!
AKEELA: Come on, come on.
It's hot out here. The sun's beating on me.
My feet burning. It's hard work.
It ain't rained in a long time.
That soil was pretty hard,
and I could just hear Ben going crazy.
[grunting]
You can feel the ground shaking when Ben's pounding.
I have never worked with stake drivers before.
Maybe there is a proper technique to do this,
but I think if I just power through it,
I can get the job done.
KEOGHAN: I feel sorry for that stake. Too much force?
He's going to wear himself out.
[grunts, panting]
Oof.
Yeah.
-YESI: Go, Todd! -CAROLINA: Come on, Paul!
The biggest thing I'm noticing about the other competitors
is that a lot of them are using just their arm strength,
and I know they're going to burn out super quick.
So my strategy is to put my whole body into it and just work
in a cadence. One, two, up, slam it down.
-One, two, up, slam it down. -CAROLINA: Nice work, Jessica.
KEOGHAN: Jessica's finding her rhythm.
What about this technique from Kenji?
HUGH: See, he's using the weight of the pounder, not the muscle.
KENJI: I quickly adapted the method of just lifting
the driver and letting it fall.
If you're going to go for a long time, that's the way to do it.
KENJI: And I'm slowly catching up to people.
Oh! Arms are starting to ache for everybody.
Dustin is making good progress.
Kenji is making good progress.
It is too close to call because everybody's
using different techniques.
-Bye-bye, flamingos. -YESI: Keep it up, Cheryl!
[grunting]
CARLY: Don't stop, Todd. You got this.
CAROLINA: Come on, Akeela!
AKEELA: You'll catch up. You'll catch up.
This ain't nothing. Gimme some hard work.
MARCUS: Work is not an issue for me.
I do whatever needs to be done
to provide for my family.
Ain't nothing but easy work, baby, easy work.
Like in '95, I was going to college.
I came home for Christmas break.
My mom passed away.
Before she passed, she said, I want you to take care of
your little baby sister, which she was maybe
seven, eight years old at the time.
I had a decision to make.
Either continue to go to school,
or help take care of my baby sister.
So at the age of 18, I took on a job, and I've
been working ever since.
Ever since.
This ain't nothing. [grunts]
CAROLINA: There you go. There you go.
KEOGHAN: $5,000 on the line.
Can you outwork your competition?
Why won't you go down?
-Come on. -You're close, Ben. You're close, Ben.
CAROLINA: Get it, Dustin!
KEOGHAN: Dustin fighting for the lead along with Ben.
He has completed all his stakes, but he's got to tie off.
-Jessica steaming ahead. -For you, Dad.
-Kenji not far behind. -Nice, Kenji.
He's catching up.
-DUSTIN: I'm going for it. -Here comes Dustin.
CAROLINA: Hell yeah, Dustin!
KEOGHAN: Dustin thinks he's got the job done.
-Nice work, Dustin! -Check.
Sorry, Dustin, your work is not correct.
It ain't over.
Go back and check it. Do it quick.
Oh, God.
KEOGHAN: The ties have to be right.
Figure eight, figure eight, figure eight.
-KEOGHAN: You got to get rid of the red. -No red.
[sighs] I have no idea.
[grunting, shouting]
CAROLINA: Keep going.
-Come on now. -KEOGHAN: Ben is looking worn out.
He's so close to the end.
-He's right there with Jessica. -For my mom...
-KEOGHAN: Two more stakes to go. -...who always took care of me.
And here comes Kenji with two more.
- Go, Kenji. -Meanwhile, Marcus is catching up.
-Come on, baby. -Jessica's going back for more stakes.
Dustin, first to get back for a check,
but he has a failure on one of
his stakes. He's got to move quickly.
Kenji, Jessica and Marcus came out of nowhere.
-Oh, geez. Come on, baby. -This could not be closer.
Come on, baby, come on.
DUSTIN: Man, oh, man.
DUSTIN: Where is it?!
KEOGHAN: Dustin with a failure on one of his stakes.
-He's got to check his work. -Oh, geez. Come on, baby.
KEOGHAN: Kenji, Jessica, came out of nowhere.
Meanwhile, Marcus is catching up.
This could not be closer.
-Jessica digging deep. -This is for Lindsay.
As I see that I'm coming close to the end,
I just start picking people for each post.
My dad, my mom, my sisters and my brothers and my children.
Nice work, Jessica.
-Last one. Go deep. -This is for me.
I'll never quit, and I will not stop!
KEOGHAN: Marcus side by side with Jessica.
Kenji with the last tie-off.
He's just sprinted past his competition. What a finish.
And...
Check.
Kenji gets the win and the $5,000!
Hell yeah.
This is my first win.
It's going to make people take a look at me twice.
I don't have a choice now
but to take it to full throttle.
-KEOGHAN: Excellent effort. -Yeah, Kenji.
KEOGHAN: Marcus on his last sapling.
Aw, come on. What the [bleep]?
-Check. -Good job, Marcus!
KEOGHAN: Marcus, you are not good.
Check your work. It's not complete.
YESI: Don't stop. Let's go!
Unfortunately, you had a mistake on your road.
-Damn. Where is it at? -Can I get a check?
And Jessica gets the job done. Second to finish.
JESSICA: I am in second place but I feel like a winner.
[crying]
I put my pounder on my post,
and it felt so cathartic.
It was like 15 years of therapy.
You did great.
And in that moment, I knew that these things
that I think in my head about
who I believe I am
are who I really am.
And it was overwhelming.
And Ben gets the job done.
-All right, Ben. -Ben, yay!
KEOGHAN: We are down to just six.
Akeela, Paul, Todd, Cheryl, Marcus, Dustin.
YESI: Don't stop, Todd.
There's a lot of hungry people out here.
We started out with 12 people,
now we're at nine people.
So there's 11.11% chance of getting to the end,
and my goal is I want to be the winner.
-Todd gets the job done. -Yeah, buddy.
Akeela's tying off her last sapling.
AKEELA: I'm close. Come on.
KEOGHAN: Meanwhile, Dustin's still trying to find the mistake.
Geez.
Oh, okay.
DUSTIN: I was the first one done, but I didn't pay attention
to the details, and I've been
close to overtime now
two individual challenges in a row.
-Here comes Dustin. -DUSTIN: Check.
And I can't keep cutting it close like this.
-And Akeela is good to go. -[all cheering]
-And Dustin is good to go. -[all cheering]
We are down to just three.
Paul, Marcus and Cheryl.
KEOGHAN: Only one of you is safe from overtime.
I'm good. I'm good. I'm not letting nothing stop me.
That's why I'm here today. To show cancer
does not kill everybody.
I'm thinking about my wife.
When she's beside me, I'll find the gas.
KEOGHAN: Paul's right there.
-But he's still got a lot of tying off to do. -Deena, give me the strength.
Marcus made a mistake,
-but he has no idea where to find it. -I don't see nothing.
He was the second to ask for a check.
Oh, that might be it.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl has a lot of time to make up,
operating with an injury.
This is why Cheryl's here on Tough As Nails.
She may be behind, but she's not going to give up.
ALL: Cheryl [bleep] Lieteau!
Cheryl [bleep] Lieteau.
Keep moving. Let's go.
Here comes Marcus. He thinks he's got the job done.
-Let's go, Paul! -KEOGHAN: He's running back.
-Oh, my God. -KEOGHAN: Keep it going!
-YESI: Let's go, Marcus. -KEOGHAN: It's down to the wire.
-Hurry up, let's go. -Yee-haw! -Yeah!
-And Paul gets the job done. -[cheering]
Good job, Paul.
Anybody got a spare set of lungs?
A year ago I thought I was done.
Radiation is horrible.
They're technically burning everything out inside of you.
I'd sleep for eight hours,
up for two, and it felt like I was working 16-hour days.
But when I'm six feet under, that's when my fight's done.
Till then, uh-uh, no way.
That's for you, Deena.
-I am proud of you, though, Marcus. -Hey...
I got to get my flamingos.
-I got you. -Let me hold this, okay?
-Proud of you, Cheryl. -We're gonna get you right.
CHERYL: I dread going into overtime.
Marcus is twice my size.
I got to make sure that this sets me up for success.
-Not your day today, Cheryl. -It's tough.
But I didn't see you stop.
I didn't see any of that commitment stop.
No. I was like I'm not coming back down this field.
So I just made sure that every one of them was 100%.
Yeah. Marcus, for you,
got to be so frustrating, right?
I mean, you worked so well.
You were right there with the leaders
all the way to the end and then...
-One detail. -One detail.
You're not giving up, are you, Marcus?
Heck no. Ain't let them bother me. I'm ready to go now.
-We can go right now if you want to. -You're ready to go right now?
MARCUS: I just wanna go right now.
Get it over with, man.
How about a big thank-you to Hugh today, everybody?
-Thank you, Hugh. -You're welcome. -Lot of respect for you.
Lot of respect.
KEOGHAN: All right, everybody, let's go to overtime.
MARCUS: I've been taking care of my family since I was 18.
Winning the $200,000 would really be beneficial to me.
-Whoo-whoo! -Yes, sir! -KEOGHAN: Two warriors.
CHERYL: As a carpenter, if I want to make some money,
I got to get up out of bed and go to work.
I've never been one to let pain stop me,
and I can't afford to let that happen today.
Marcus and Cheryl, both valuable teammates,
both highly competitive, and both tough as nails.
Cheryl, you ever pressed apples before?
-No. -Okay.
-What about you, Marcus? -No, never.
Looks like we're going to have some apple juice now.
Yeah. When that work whistle blows,
go to the back where those big bins are with the apples.
Use buckets to put those apples into your grinder.
You can use this to help press down your apples
inside the grinder so that those teeth
make contact with your apples.
Before you start grinding,
take cheesecloth, line that container,
because everything's going to go down inside there.
Then bring that over to your press and start pressing.
You want to get all that juice out.
You're going to have a lot of apple skin and pulp,
which you can discard into an empty bushel.
The first of you to completely fill up
four of these glass gallon jugs will be safe.
The other one will be punching out.
Are you ready to get this job done?
-Always. -Yeah.
All right, let's get to your stations.
All right, you guys, let's go.
Sure, I got a lot of experience in different things,
but I'm so competitive,
I do what I got to do to make it happen.
JESSICA: You got this, Marcus.
Marcus is taller, he's got bigger muscles.
But I'll tell you what, I'm going to kick his ass.
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
My leg is hurting,
so I'm going to do my best
to set myself up each step of the way for success.
So I get that cheesecloth bag into the basket,
the baskets where we deposit the waste.
So, I separate those three out,
and I'm bringing all the bottles over to where I'm filling them,
so they're readily accessible
when I need to cap those things
without wasting a lot of juice.
Marcus has already started grinding up those apples.
Come on, Marcus.
This not a hard challenge. It's just knowing what to do,
how to do it.
I had a thing to help push down the apple.
[grunts] Dang it.
MARCUS: As I started grinding,
I notice nothing coming up.
The teeth is not catching nothing.
It's just sitting there spinning.
I'm thinking you just dump your apples
in this thing, and you just start grinding.
So, that's what I do.
Nothing's happening.
Remember, you've got to look after your equipment.
There was something I was doing wrong,
but I didn't understand how
to use that tool any better
than to muscle it down. [chuckles]
BEN: Let's go, Cheryl.
[Cheryl grunting]
BEN: Let's go, Cheryl.
Come on, Marcus. You got it, buddy.
KEOGHAN: The first of you to fill up four gallons wins it.
Marcus and Cheryl are struggling with this.
Good job, Marcus.
I realized we had too many apples. It's hard to grid.
-YESI: There you go. -AKEELA: Better. -PAUL: Oh, yeah.
MARCUS: Less apples, you get a better grind.
JESSICA: Good call, Marcus.
CARLY: Marcus is moving very quick, though,
he's losing a lot of the apples
outside of the cheesecloth and the bucket.
KEOGHAN: Now Cheryl's realizing she's maybe got too many in there.
There's a lot of trial and error
with that grinder.
Realizing I was feeding it too many apples.
-Come on, Cheryl, dib. -Come on.
I just keep going at my pace,
cranking as I'm grabbing apples,
and I'm grinding, and the basket gets filled.
-BEN: Good job, Cheryl. -KEOGHAN: Cheryl's the first
to go across to her press.
[bleep]
CARLY: Get that there. Get that there.
That's it. That's it.
CARLY: Nice work, all. It looks good.
CHERYL: I get it all centered, I start screwing it, and I'm like,
"I can just grab a handle and just run around this thing."
Think about it.
-Good technique. -Way to work.
CHERYL: And that juice is coming out,
and I start filling up my first jug.
CARLY: Nice.
Oh, and Cheryl's got one gallon full.
-Working on to the second. -JESSICA: Whoo.
KEOGHAN: Marcus with his first gallon complete.
MARCUS: I had a rhythm going.
As a CO2 technician,
every job is different.
As time go, you'll learn more,
and you'll pick up more things that, hey, oh,
I know how to do this, and then end up doing it.
KEOGHAN: Fast learning curve, you guys.
[Marcus grunts]
CHERYL: I'm squeezing and squeezing
and ring around the rosie-ing.
And Cheryl's got her second gallon done.
BEN: Good job, Cheryl.
KEOGHAN: Marcus close to finishing his second.
AKEELA: Come on, Marcus.
CAROLINA: Oh, no.
KEOGHAN: Marcus's juice is coming out of his machine.
Don't want to waste anything today.
-Second gallon for Marcus. -Yes.
-JESSICA: Good job, Marcus. -KEOGHAN: And three gallons
-for Cheryl. One to go. -CAROLINA: You got this.
Cheryl's ahead of me. I-I speed up my process
because I won't punch it out till I win that $200,000.
KEOGHAN: Oh, Marcus has got a lot of juice.
-CAROLINA: Come on! -KEOGHAN: Marcus moving on
-to his fourth gallon. -JESSICA: Come on, Marcus.
Marcus is catching up.
Cheryl with three and a half gallons.
Marcus with three and a quarter.
BEN: Squeeze that juice-o.
CHERYL: I am getting into this state of fatigue, which
sometimes happens at work, where we start
to get punchy, and I start
getting kind of punchy.
[grunts]
You've got to look after your equipment to the end.
It's got to make it, Cheryl.
You don't want to lose this 'cause you've got broken gear.
Will Cheryl's grinder stay in one piece
to the end, or has she damaged it too much?
CAROLINA: Watch it, watch it. Easy.
DUSTIN: Way to go, man.
CHERYL: It's quite possible that Marcus,
whatever he's grinding now,
can press out everything that he needs.
I'm like, just take whatever's left
in this basket and go.
TODD: Come on, Cheryl.
-CAROLINA: Come on. -KEOGHAN: They're working on
that fourth gallon. It's too close to call.
Good job, Marcus.
There we go.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl's squeezing out this fourth gallon.
Marcus, this is where it counts, buddy. You got to dig deep.
-[Marcus grunts] -You got it.
KEOGHAN: Marcus picking up apples desperately.
He knows he's got to grind more.
[grunts]
CHERYL: I know I'm pressed out, and I'm like,
this isn't enough.
JESSICA: Marcus, don't give up, buddy.
I got to squeeze.
You're good, you're good, Cheryl.
Cheryl, with everything she's got.
TODD: Come on, Cheryl. Don't stop.
KEOGHAN: We're getting close.
-[cheering] -Yes!
[whooping, cheering]
-KEOGHAN: And... -[others whistling]
...Cheryl gets the win.
-Good work, Marcus. -Crew boss, what up.
-That was close. -Marcus.
That was so close.
It's all good. Good job, Cheryl.
-Cheryl, you're a beast. -Good job, Cheryl.
-Firecracker. -I wouldn't call it winning,
I would call it surviving to
go at it another day.
No matter what, injury or not,
you still did a hell of a job.
-Awesome, awesome, awesome. -Thank you.
That's why you got a great team member right here in Marcus.
The thing about Marcus is he's just such a beacon.
He's always there smiling,
and he's our coach. He's the one
-that we ride or die with. -Appreciate that.
So proud of you.
Marcus, thank you
for just giving it everything you got.
Never backing off.
Sorry to tell you, I do need you to punch out.
MARCUS: I gave it my all. No hard feelings, no sorrow.
My new teammates,
they're like family to me now.
That drives me to make more money in this team competition.
Appreciate all of y'all love and support.
I am Marcus Jones, forever be Marcus Jones.
-[cheering] -OTHERS: Marcus Jones.
-Lot of love for you. -Already.
I think everybody deserves a little cider. What do you say?
-[cheering] -Hey, drink up.
KEOGHAN: All right, we'll have a toast
-to Marcus Jones. -Whoo.
KEOGHAN: And let's toast Cheryl Lieteau!
Yeah.
Everybody got one?
-That's good, huh? -Oh, wow, this is delicious.
-TODD: That's what I'm talking about. -JESSICA: Oh, that is amazing.
BEN: That's good stuff.
Let's see how crispy that is.
-Oh, wow. -Oh...
DUSTIN: Wow.
-OTHERS: Wow. -PAUL: Okay.
-The New Zealand busker. -How do you like them apples?
-[laughter] -Mmm.
KEOGHAN: You guys are gonna be running through
-this enormous store finding 45 items. -Let's go!
-This is nuts. -Whoo!
They're kicking our butt.
-The tension is boiling. -Kind of frantic.
We are not losing this.
KEOGHAN: We have a bumpy road.
You're gonna be working in pairs.
-Oh, boy. -[grunts]
The tires are whizzing past my head.
-Oh! -I'm stuck.
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