BEN: Infiltrate!
PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously onTough As Nails...
-Line 'em up! Come on. -Got it.
JESSICA: We are losing apples!
I've never seen so many apples flying at one time. [laughs]
KEOGHAN: Cheryl once again led Dirty Hands to a win...
-Dirty Hands. -Yeah!
KEOGHAN: ...leaving Savage Crew feeling rotten.
Well, I can tell you I did my best.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe you.
Go, go, go!
KEOGHAN: In the individual competition...
-[clanging] -I will never quit!
KEOGHAN: ...Kenji pounded his way to first place.
-Kenji gets $5,000! -Yeah!
KEOGHAN: While Cheryl and Marcus fell short.
-BEN: Let's go, Cheryl. -KEOGHAN: Cheryl churned out a win,
crushing Marcus' chance at theTough As Nails title.
I'm Marcus Jones, forever be Marcus Jones.
KEOGHAN: Tonight, in the ultimate
-shopping spree, -BEN: Going to the right.
Savage Crew are on a mission to tie things up.
-Sense of urgency. -Let's go, let's go, let's go.
KEOGHAN: And in the individual competition,
packing, stacking, cracking,
the pair that falls apart
-face off in overtime. -Oh!
This is Tough As Nails.
CHERYL: I'm really happy
to have survived the overtime.
Yes.
That was pretty intense.
The last competition,
I smoked, uh, Marcus in overtime.
It feels really good,
but the leg's still bothering me.
I do want to touch on my leg injury.
It's feeling better,
but I'm concerned about my speed.
Like, if we each have to work
-more to cover whatever -Mm-hmm.
speed or running that you can't,
we're gonna do it.
-We're happy to. -Man, you guys are awesome.
AKEELA: It's a new day, sun's shining,
I'm happy about that.
-New day, new project. -Yeah, yeah.
MARCUS: The score right now,
three to two, in favor of Dirty Hands.
The other day, I punched out, but today, I'm ready to go.
We got to have this win.
Today,
$12,000 on the line for us.
CAROLINA: Right, let's tie it up.
Good morning, everyone. Or it's afternoon, actually.
-[indistinct chatter] -Good afternoon, Phil.
We have a very special job for you today.
I hope you are ready
for an inside job.
-[laughs] Yes. -We are.
KEOGHAN: As soon as the doors close tonight,
you guys are gonna be running through this store.
It's more than a football field in size
with over 40,000 items for sale.
And one of the hard things about a big store
-like this is finding things, right? -MARCUS: Right.
KEOGHAN: Today, you are going to be working off a purchase order.
-A long list, all right. -Ooh, ooh.
KEOGHAN: Purchase order has 45 items.
In the center here, you can see a description of that item.
Also the quantity,
way over here on the right, the item number,
the specific code for that particular item.
There is only one purchase order per team.
-[groans] -KEOGHAN: When the work whistle blows,
run into the entrance.
It's up to you how you divide up this job.
It's up to you where you go first.
When you get to the checkout area,
there are two marked-out sections
where you need to gather all your items before you check out.
And when you feel that you have all 45 items,
you start checking out.
And when you scan that barcode,
if you get a number
that's different from your purchase order,
you have to return your items
and then go back out
and find the right item.
As you check out your items,
you can start taking them outside.
Pack everything on your truck and trailer.
The first of you to get the job done
is gonna win...
-...$12,000. -[cheers and applause]
KEOGHAN: And the all-important Badge of Honor.
So far, Dirty Hands, you have three of these.
Savage Crew, you've got two.
Today is your opportunity
to tie things up. All right,
as soon as the store closes,
you're going speed shopping.
Who really wants to be crew boss here?
I do... I think Cheryl
-should be the crew boss. -Yeah, I think should be...
All right, I'm up for it.
BEN: In the past,
having Cheryl as a crew boss,
we noticed that we have been winning.
She's very vocal
and she has wisdom.
We're gonna start
from one end of the store
and work our way.
Now, I will be the gatekeeper of the list,
and as we're going through,
I will then send you off, all right?
Who wants to be crew boss? Who wants to do this?
-Do you want to do this? -I don't mind, I can do it.
-She's organized. -I'm pretty organized. -You're organized.
DUSTIN: Jessica, she brought us
our first team win.
We all worked together, things operated smoothly.
So, hopefully, we can pull together
as a team and get a win.
So I think we should each pair up.
-Me and Akeela. -Me and Paul.
JESSICA: And then we're each gonna divide and conquer
our numbers, one through 14.
-15 to 30, -15 to 30.
31 to 45.
Akeela and I both
have struggled with our communication.
It's something that we have to work on,
and so,
I may have strategically paired us up together.
I feel like if Akeela and I can get on the same page,
we would be unstoppable.
Are you guys okay with putting the list in our loading zone
-and leaving it there? -AKEELA: Yes.
You guys got to be patient with each other.
No negative energy, please.
AKEELA: Jessica and I,
we had our, you know, ups and downs.
But hopefully, today, we can find a way to work together.
On the work whistle...
[work whistle blows]
CARLY: We are at the hardware store,
and the job is to get through a shopping list
of 45 items, different quantities,
and we have just one work order.
-Let's go. -You got the card? -Yup.
CARLY: So we need to make sure
that our communication's really good.
-PAUL: We take our time, we do it right. -DUSTIN: Yeah.
Everybody grab a cart.
How you doing, Cheryl?
Get the carts, I'll meet you there.
[panting]
-AKEELA: This is our space. -All right.
-Let's put it up there. -Just don't let it slide anywhere.
We only got one list,
so Jessica thought up the strategy
to keep it at the holding area.
Because we can't be running around the store
looking for somebody 'cause they got the list.
-Akeela, why don't we go get the first two? -Okay, yup.
DUSTIN: There's 45 items.
Our team strategy is to split up
in pairs so that
each pair will find 15 items.
PAUL: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
TODD: Cheryl's in charge.
-I'm gonna give you... -Speed check, speed check.
CHERYL: Speed check.
Right away, things are kind of frantic and chaotic,
so we call a speed check because
we have to calm ourselves down in this moment.
BEN: Sense of urgency now here, guys.
Why don't you send a couple people, uh...
CHERYL: All of a sudden,
Savage Crew is out.
Pew! They're scattered.
Now, I know everybody's, like, they want to go,
but I have to look at the list.
-Come on. -Okay, that's all right.
JESSICA: Come on, come on.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew already shopping,
running throughout the store.
Dirty Hands still coming up with a plan.
CHERYL: Safe and sound insulation,
four of them.
Let's go and find the-the cone.
BEN: 24 on center.
CHERYL: Our strategy is, as we move
through the store, I'm just gonna dispatch them out.
Like, go get this.
-We've been down four. Yep. -I'll get the information.
I'll go ahead of you, all right?
Here, here, here, here.
Me and Todd are teamed up, so immediately we run off
and, as a Canadian, I'm familiar with Rona,
so I know that the installation
is gonna be be in the lumberyard.
All right, let's take this up front.
TODD: Okay, I'll give you some clearance here,
-going to the right. -[imitating truck beeping]
JESSICA: It would be over here.
I'm in a home improvement store
literally every day.
-Let me see. -Ten-by-eight, is this it?
This has got to be it, this is the quick tube.
I'm always hunting for, like,
one small piece of something that I know I need.
I don't know where it is, but I have to find it.
This is like a dream for me.
KEOGHAN: Here comes Dirty Hands.
Looks like they have some insulation.
BEN: Drop her, drop her. Stop.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew coming back with an item.
Akeela and Jessica.
KENJI: It's around here somewhere.
Swivel pot, paint holder.
The hardest part of this job is
you're looking for a very small item
or a very particular item.
-This is it? -I have no idea.
KENJI: And the store's huge.
KEOGHAN: This area is more than the size of a football field.
BEN: Proof, six.
4767, 4767.
4767.
DUSTIN: 4,500 lumens.
-Yeah, red. -Yes, yes.
2353. Okay, so we got them.
-Two of those, yup. -Slowly, all these 45 items
are starting to fill up
in the loading area for both teams,
but Savage Crew are still clearly in the lead.
TODD: Come on, Ben, we got to motor.
Every time Ben and I find an item,
we got to drop it in our staging area.
[grunts]
Then we had to find Carly and Cheryl
by hollering for them.
-Carly! -Cheryl! Cheryl!
We didn't have a designated area
to find the material list.
So, we felt like we were wasting time
looking for Cheryl and Carly.
Where are they at?
KEOGHAN: Totally different strategies.
Dirty Hands have taken their purchase order
out into the field.
CHERYL: Go get the, um...
[sighs] Okay, let's go...
TODD: Got to have it ready.
I know, we're a little behind.
As opposed to Savage Crew,
who are making sure that any team member who comes back
to the loading area has access to that purchase order.
Forty-by-40 box wood.
Sense of urgency now here, guys.
Yeah, they're-they're kicking our butt.
-Yeah. -They are?
Oh, yeah. Sense of urgency.
CHERYL: I know, this is really, really difficult.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands have 28 items in their loading area.
Savage Crew still have the lead with 33 items.
AKEELA: Laminate cutter.
JESSICA: It'll be here, right here.
AKEELA: Teaming up with Jessica,
we got in sync pretty fast.
JESSICA: Lithium ion, 268.
Okay, so, 268.
She was in the army, I was in the army.
We both love cadences.
KEOGHAN: Jessica and Akeela working extremely well
together as a team.
AKEELA: We're communicating well
and Jessica's working hard.
MARCUS: Hey, Jessica.
-We can't even find this [bleep] right here. -Okay.
JESSICA: Paul and Marcus were really struggling.
I'm seeing them running around with this cart.
PAUL: This is crazy.
MARCUS: We can't find one damn thing.
But nothing's in the cart.
PAUL: Okay, let's move on to the next thing.
This is ridonkulous.
Come on, we're wasting time here.
I am not comfortable in this store.
I don't know where nothing is.
There's no carpet cleaner here.
MARCUS: It's here, it got to be.
I usually ask the clerk
to help me find stuffs.
Where's the people when you want them?
This is a bad start, man.
MARCUS: Hell, yeah.
-TODD: Two of these. -BEN: Two of these?
Yup, get a red lid, two red lids. Let's go.
-Bring 'em, follow me. -Yep.
-They already got them. -[groans] This is killing us.
TODD: We come running back with two black containers
with red lids, it's already there.
Somebody already grabbed it.
Our frustration level's starting to rise at this point.
-Oh, come on. -We got to go talk to them.
This is where the tension will start to build
as we get towards the end of this job.
Hey, you can't be sending us for stuff...
-TODD: You're sending us for stuff that's already up there. -Already got. Picked.
BEN: Let's go, guys.
CARLY: Ben and Todd come back,
and they grabbed something
that's already been grabbed.
That's a wake-up call,
like, okay, we need to shift gears here.
Here, let... May I? I just want...
Yes, here. Why don't you do it?
You're better, your eyes are clear.
It's okay, don't worry about it.
CHERYL: Carly, I know
she's very meticulous.
She's got that eye for the details,
so I delegate the list to her.
CARLY: Do you guys want to grab the ten things of manure?
KENJI: Okay.
CARLY: My plan of attack is
Cheryl and I go to the loading dock and put everything in order
from, like, the first thing on the list
to the last thing on the list,
because we need to check everything before we check out.
All right, let's start at the top of the list.
Okay, so we have extendable pole saw and pruner.
-AKEELA: Just one. -We're almost finished finding items.
I'm looking over at Dirty Hands,
and I feel like we are definitely ahead of them.
MARCUS: This right here, we couldn't find.
Oh no, no, no, I know where that is.
That's this. Come on, Akeela.
-High beam level... -High beam level.
And it's going to be red.
They're coming back and asking for what the next item is.
And now we are dialed and working as a well-oiled machine.
Vapor barrier, 100 square foot roll.
Yeah, one of them.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew have 43 items.
Dirty Hands have 41.
They're closing the gap.
There you go. Need one?
-Yeah. -All right.
Pole vaulting!
Thirty. Thirty... Oh!
KEOGHAN: Ooh, that doesn't sound good.
-We broke a stove, bro. -I know. [chuckles]
Come on, let's go.
JESSICA: Come on, Savage Crew! [whoops]
-Speed check. -Speed check.
Dirty Hands called for a speed check.
Their code for "slow down."
CARLY: Work light, 4,500 lumens.
Four foot level. Are we ready to check out?
Check.
I think we've got everything
that we need, we've checked it off the list,
and now we can start checking out.
Hey, somebody get over here and help.
[indistinct chatter]
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, the first to hit the registers.
Savage Crew started checking out just before us.
Man, we're packing, they're checking out.
-CHERYL: You got the card? -Okay, all right.
CHERYL: This is a close competition.
I am not losing this.
KENJI: What do you want to go with first?
-[indistinct chatter] -Speed check. Speed check.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands hot on the heels of Savage Crew.
-5175. -5175, yup.
Wow, this is just so close.
The first team to check out all 45 items
and pack them on their truck and trailer
is gonna get that $12,000 prize.
JESSICA: I've got 350 foot roll compact.
It is...
JESSICA: 117060.
Correct.
Jessica gives me the scanner,
and I just start scanning.
We have to get the accurate item.
-849181. -Yes, that's correct.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew the first to leave the store
and heading outside.
Yup.
CARLY: 000462778.
-Got it. -Come on, come on, come on.
CHERYL: What's next, Carly?
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew outside,
loading the truck.
Dirty Hands also loading.
Both teams neck and neck.
JESSICA: EZ Sand.
CAROLINA: EZ Sand.
BOTH: 465110.
-CAROLINA: One, zero. -JESSICA: Yeah. One, one.
-CAROLINA: One, zero. -JESSICA: Oh, this says "tan!"
-I need tan, I need tan. Go. -Where is it at?
-Ugh! -Let's go, let's go, let's go!
-CARLY: Bring it over here, we got to hustle. -BEN: I know.
JESSICA: EZ Sand.
-CAROLINA: EZ Sand. -ALL: 465110.
-CAROLINA: One, zero. -JESSICA: One, one.
One, zero.
JESSICA: Oh, this says "tan!" I need tan.
-I need tan. Go. -Where's it at?
-Ugh! -Let's go, let's go, let's go!
KEOGHAN: Jessica's identified a mistake.
This has left the door open for Dirty Hands.
AKEELA: It's gray sand.
We needed tan.
So we take off for it.
-Look around. -I know.
KEOGHAN: Savage crew's mistake has allowed Dirty Hands to catch up.
They're just one item behind.
Who's gonna be the first team
to load all 45 items on their truck and trailer?
-Four... -4078.
JESSICA: That's not it.
KEOGHAN: Another error for Savage Crew.
JESSICA: You got it?
Okay, set it down because I have to do that last.
Hey, this is wrong, I need mystic oak.
Do you remember where we got this?
-It is mystic oak. -No, it's not, it's antique oak.
Go get mystic oak. Take it back to customer service.
KEOGHAN: Desperately close here at the finish.
-AKEELA: Come on! -KEOGHAN: But Savage Crew has another costly error.
AKEELA: As we're making up for our mistakes,
Dirty Hands is catching up.
That's a stupid mistake.
-Come on. -JESSICA: Hey, we got to step it up.
-Did you put the other one back? -AKEELA: Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Now Dirty Hands has the lead.
-Up and over. -Okay, we have the spray paint
and the EMT.
-AKEELA: Let's go, let's go! -Come on. Traffic cone.
It's getting down to the last few seconds of the challenge.
The tension in the room was kind of boiling.
-Come on! -Right here, scan this.
-Scan this, scan this! -JESSICA: 941516.
What else? What else?
DUSTIN: Okay, hold that strap there.
[grunts]
Very even at this point. Too close to call.
-4100000. -41000. Good.
Five of tho... Six of those.
As we're finishing up,
I see Savage Crew right behind us.
-407127. -So, 47127
-That's 382030. -Got it.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands is the first to check out, they're paying up.
CARLY: Pay now, credit card, swipe.
KEOGHAN: But Savage Crew right there with them.
-The EZ Sand. -465111.
PAUL: Marcus, let's go.
-Go! -JESSICA: 111.
-Okay, go, go, go, go, go! -PAUL: Line up!
AKEELA: Come on!
BEN: Don't worry, go in.
AKEELA: Get the straps!
Strap it down!
-Tie it up! -Wrench it down, wrench it down!
JESSICA: Get the strap.
Wrench it down!
-Press it! -Press it, press it!
-[alarm blaring] -Dirty Hands with the win.
[cheering]
[horn honks]
-Yeah! Yeah! -Yes.
We're psyched. Four badges!
We got one win left to get that bonus
of $60,000.
And we're gonna take it.
-Hey, listen. -It's good, we did great.
JESSICA: It's fine, you guys.
It's not, though.
-It is fine, we did great. -AKEELA: No, it's not.
-Akeela, tell me we didn't do great. -Did not... I'm not gonna lie...
-We did great. -No, we did not.
Let's keep a positive attitude.
AKEELA: Whatever I'm saying is not negative, man.
I'm just being honest with the situation.
-Listen... -We know we all tried hard,
but we made mistakes that we need to fix.
You guys don't want to be honest,
we'll keep losing like this.
I don't want it to be okay.
You know, "It's okay we lost." No, it's not.
We just kept stumbling on all these small mistakes.
JESSICA: We didn't get swamped... Literally within seconds.
-Seconds. -Seconds.
For us to succeed,
we got to come to some common ground,
and I'm not sure
how to get there yet.
Guys, it doesn't get any closer than what just happened
-right there. -DUSTIN: Absolutely not.
Cheryl, you were the crew boss once again,
and I am going to give you this fourth Badge of Honor.
So, that is for you.
Great job.
And, uh, another $12,000.
No, we love the cash.
The team score right now
is four to two, and this is a best of nine competition.
Dirty Hands, you're one win away
from winning that $60,000.
So tomorrow,
got to think about yourselves as individuals.
I promise you a rocky, bumpy, lumpy road.
Uh-oh.
Guys, I'll see you in the morning.
-All right. -Thank you.
JESSICA: Moving forward as a team
is gonna be a challenge.
Dirty Hands is one win away from that 60,000
grand prize for the overall team competition.
So we have to come out with at least
two more wins. It's a hard spot to be in
because until we're all synced up,
it's not gonna happen.
But I'm not gonna stop trying.
Akeela.
-JESSICA: Me and you-- we freaking killed that. -AKEELA: I know.
We were winning.
CHERYL: I really want to see
Savage Crew against Savage Crew
-in overtime. -Oh, wouldn't that be sweet?
[chuckles] Oh, my God.
CHERYL: I survived
the last overtime challenge.
And even though I'm exhausted,
there's part of me that feels much stronger,
and especially up in the mind.
I want, you know, all of us going into the individual--
set yourself up for success.
Remember who you are.
We live in this world
that's constantly telling us who we should be.
It's taken me half a century
to find myself in there.
What a waste.
It's wild.
You got that, now you realize that,
then you're letting yourself be free.
The world has changed.
It's safer to be me.
I mean, I've lived in a world where it was, like,
it was constantly,
"Where you from? Who are you?"
Like, this questioning of your very identity,
and you get lost in that.
Like, who am I?
Am I Black? Am I white? Am I gay?
-Am I, you know? -"Is it wrong?"
Am I a girl? Am I...
You know, it's like, "What am I, who am I?"
Just, like, I'm trying to be me.
CARLY: I admire you.
DUSTIN: So, today's
individual day
-and it's my mom's birthday. -Oh!
Happy birthday, mama.
She's a tough woman, she-she's been through a lot.
My mom's battled
addiction, along with, uh,
multiple back surgeries and chronic pain.
She keeps going regardless.
She's been sober now for
13 years, 14 years.
-Awesome. -Yeah.
My mom is the big driving force in my motivation
to not quit, so I really want
to push it and come in first today.
ALL: Savage Crew! [whooping]
Good morning, final eight.
-Hey, Phil! -Hey!
Come on over.
So, what might be happening here today?
We are talking about packing, stacking,
tracking and unpacking.
-Yeah. -Okay.
When that work whistle blows,
you are going to take these building supplies
and you're gonna load them onto these trucks.
This is kind of like a giant game of Tetris.
Once you've finished packing, then you hit the track.
You'll see that we have two identical quarter-mile tracks.
They're a mirror image of each other.
We have bumps and lumps,
we've got rocks and we've got logs.
If anything falls off the back of your truck,
you're gonna have to stop, put it back on your truck,
make it all the way through this quarter-mile course.
Last part of the job,
unpacking everything
and putting it back on your pallet. Finally,
blowing the work whistle to stop the clock.
Well, we are down to eight in this individual competition,
Just like we did in the first individual competition,
you're gonna be working in pairs.
-Oh, boy. -I like working in pairs,
so I really want to be the first one
to jump the gun so my partner doesn't get taken.
I'd like to pitch myself to Kenji.
-KEOGHAN: Kenji. -DUSTIN: His attention to detail
is something that I need in a job like this.
JESSICA: I'd like to pitch myself to Todd.
I think it would be a good balance
of strength and mindset.
I also want to pitch myself to Todd.
With the years he has
and the years I have of experience,
I think we can get this thing done.
I'd like to pitch myself to Dustin, too.
I like the speed that you work at.
BEN: Like to pitch myself to Paul.
I know how to load a truck, so I'd like to work with you.
I'm pitching myself to Ben also.
I love Tetris.
Okay, Akeela, get in there and start pitching yourself.
No, I'm not pitching to nobody.
I can work good with anybody here.
That's interesting. Okay.
Let's make the pairings official.
-Dustin and Kenji. -All right.
I decided whoever pitched to me first was who I was
-gonna take. -Yeah, buddy.
KEOGHAN: Todd, Jessica.
Next pairing.
Paul and Ben, all right.
And that leaves Cheryl and Akeela.
Now, we're gonna run this in two heats.
The loser from each heat is gonna go against each other
in a battle-back heat.
If you lose that one,
you'll go from working together as a pair
to fighting it out in overtime. Now,
if you win today,
$6,000.
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: $3,000 each.
Someone from each team pick a chisel
and we'll see what heat you're in.
Dustin, Kenji. Todd, Jessica.
Get down to your trucks.
Setting the time.
-On the work whistle. -[work whistle blows]
-Nice, man! -Go.
-Nice! -Go.
Nice, nice, nice, nice.
KENJI: Okay, now close the gate.
My plan is making sure
that the load is wide as possible.
Everything that is in the middle is heavy
and nothing's gonna move around.
Now start loading tires onto here.
DUSTIN: Kenji is very methodical.
He always has a plan for everything.
We need to beat Jessica and Todd
or we're going to end up
in a final heat.
TODD: Talk to me.
Well, I was thinking about stacking it up.
There's a lot of stuff.
There's a ton of tires,
there's wheelbarrows, ladders.
But I'm very confident Jessica and I can win this,
because I've moved my kids in and out of colleges.
I know how to get a lot of stuff in a small space.
JESSICA: Can I push this in here, Todd?
I know that insulation is sturdy.
If we stack that in the back of the truck,
we'll have more room for the rest of the items.
KENJI: Now start loading tires onto the stick.
What is going on?
Put it in, put it in. Good.
-It's not exactly road legal. -[laughter]
Good job.
This is what you call ultimate creativity.
[laughing]
KEOGHAN: Both teams are completely loaded up,
almost at exactly the same time.
-Go. -Let's go.
-CARLY: Come on! -KENJI: Just slow and steady.
KEOGHAN: Look how wide that is.
Transport Canada would stop those guys in a minute.
Oh, they'd be done.
Oh, that corner is tight.
TODD: I knew this was coming right out of the gate.
Watch your mirrors for me.
JESSICA: Okay, there's a hole over here.
Ooh.
KENJI: There you go, there you go.
-Key is not to have anything fall out. -Yeah.
As a firefighter, I've driven fire trucks
on a lot of country roads and logging roads,
but this is definitely
one of the bumpiest roads I've driven in my life.
-TODD: Are you happy? -JESSICA: Yeah.
-TODD: We're gonna give her a little... -JESSICA: Easy, easy.
-That was a toughie. -Oh!
Some of the divots are really deep,
and so I'm starting to get a little nervous,
because if something falls off our truck,
it's just gonna cost us time.
-Just don't rough it. -TODD: Got it.
Good job, man, you're doing great.
CHERYL: Oh!
Dustin and Kenji's hose is touching the ground.
-Oh, flag up, flag up. -Flag's up.
They got to get out of the vehicle.
Just lift this up.
The rubber tube
keeps touching the outside of the course.
Nothing's falling off,
it just keeps touching the course.
KEOGHAN: We got another flag.
And it's just costing us time.
Slow and steady.
TODD: This is what I don't like, right here.
-These dang rocks. -Oh, my gosh.
TODD: Watch our load.
[group exclaims]
Oh, the wheelbarrow's gone.
Got to get out.
We look back and we lost the wheelbarrow.
We run over, toss the wheelbarrow,
and get back around,
snap on the safety belts, take off.
Keep going, keep going.
DUSTIN: Is this the end?
Yeah, that's the end.
Almost there, almost there.
-KEOGHAN: We got another flag. -[group exclaims]
This is a chance for Jessica and Todd to catch up.
The hose comes off again, and it's frustrating.
-CHERYL: Keep going! -That's it, that's it, no.
KEOGHAN: Here come Todd and Jessica.
-Catch-up time. -Come on!
Go, go!
KEOGHAN: Neck and neck, side by side.
-AKEELA: Get in there! -Okay.
[cheering, exclaiming]
KEOGHAN: Everything back onto the pallets.
Stuff is flying off the back of the truck.
TODD: Come on, toss the tires to me.
Jessica's just an absolute animal.
[grunting] Watch out, Todd!
-KEOGHAN: Tires are flying. -Let's go, Todd!
Damn, she's in beast mode right now.
-Get everything on the pallet. -[group cheering]
-Get in there. -Come on, guys, come on.
[cheering continues]
-Come on, nail it. -And... -[work whistle blows]
Todd and Jessica get the job done!
-We're feeling awesome. -We feel great.
-We rock. -Yeah.
DUSTIN: We barely lost.
But you got to let go of the heat
and we got to fix all the little errors we had.
KEOGHAN: All right, Akeela, Cheryl, Ben and Paul.
Heat number two.
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
And look at them go.
CHERYL: The work whistle blows,
and Akeela starts throwing me everything.
And we get the hose in, the ladder in.
We start piling up the tires.
-[grunts] All right. -Insulation.
AKEELA: Throughout this competition,
Cheryl's grooving, and she's shown
that she has so much experience and knowledge,
and I think that me and Cheryl will make good partners.
[grunting]
Paul jumps in the back of the truck,
and I'm throwing him tires,
because the tires took up the most room.
My toughest competition is Ben.
I don't want to go into overtime against him.
I want to win this challenge.
-[grunting] -CHERYL: Wow, this bed
is way smaller than I thought.
It looks like my junk drawer,
except bigger.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl's looking for a tie-down.
Yep, right there.
These guys are getting ready to roll.
BEN: The panic set in
because Cheryl and Akeela had their truck loaded
-and it was loaded pretty nice. -Come on, come on.
PAUL: Let's drive.
Is that two-by-four gonna stay?
KEOGHAN: You got to go, guys, you got to go.
Get your belt on.
The race is on.
Ben and Paul's packing looks pretty solid,
but I don't know if it's gonna stay on with all these bumps.
-She good? -I don't know, but no flags yet, buddy.
-CHERYL: Look at these pits. -AKEELA: I know, I know.
These pits...
I'm driving the truck
and I'm trying to straddle
some of these holes,
and I'm thinking, "We got this."
Holy... Look at these rivets.
I know. It's freaking nuts.
I'm worried about that hose, man.
[engine revs]
I'm stuck.
Oh!
[bleep]
-BEN: Let's go. -PAUL: Yeah, I'm trying to, buddy.
Oh!
I'm stuck.
-BEN: Oh, boy. -PAUL: I'm stuck big time.
Oh, that's not good.
Hang on, we... I'm gonna have to blow it.
-AKEELA: Up, Paul, come on! -JESSICA: Nice work, nice work.
MARCUS: There you go.
Watch this down here... [groans]
-Yeah. -There it goes, yeah.
KEOGHAN: Oh, Paul and Ben-- they've lost a tire.
JESSICA: What do you think, Todd?
TODD: I think we're closer to the 6,000.
[Jessica and Todd laugh]
Drop it in the tailgate.
Watch your up and down. Come on.
YESI: Oh, whoa, whoa! -KEOGHAN: Oh!
That's not gonna last long.
-CHERYL: We're losing it. -MARCUS: Oh...
-KEOGHAN: Oh, and they're off. -[group exclaiming]
CHERYL: This giant bag
of insulation falls out,
and I'm like, "Oh, my gosh."
-That's not good. -We got to go.
We stuff it in
and I, personally,
am a little nervous.
-[group exclaims] -KEOGHAN: Oh, right away.
Oh, man.
[Akeela grunts]
Get tough. [grunts]
AKEELA: We can't even get
a few feet off this track.
Every couple feet we move...
...something falls off.
Nah, this [bleep].
[laughing]
Where they at? Oh, they're way up there.
KEOGHAN: Ben and Paul have a substantial lead now.
-I want that six grand, brother. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, watch my side.
[group clamoring]
AKEELA: It's okay.
-[grunting] -Come on, let's go!
-Go, come on, you got it!
Let's go, lead!
[clamoring continues]
I've always wanted to do this.
-[work whistle blows] -Ah.
KEOGHAN: Ben and Paul get the win.
I'm open to your strategy on the next one.
It's all right.
We had a plan, um,
and it just... it just didn't work out.
So we're gonna adapt
and we're gonna come up with a different plan.
KEOGHAN: Dustin and Kenji,
Akeela and Cheryl,
one more heat for you to determine who will be
going into overtime.
Time to get to work.
[work whistle blows]
Let's go, let's go.
KENJI: We have one more shot to stay out of overtime.
We want to use the same strategy.
We're just gonna execute it better.
Hey. No, get up there.
In the last heat,
Cheryl took the lead, and this time
I'm gonna speak up.
Watch your hands.
Akeela and I learned that the most important thing
is to make sure that load is secure.
-In the hole. -Understood.
Okay, okay.
The hose was the only thing that caused us problems,
so hopefully we can stop that from happening again.
-Ready? -Yeah, I'm ready.
KEOGHAN: Kenji and Dustin getting into their cab.
We got to go!
CHERYL: Get in the truck.
[grunts]
This is a lot closer than they were last time.
That might hold. Let's see.
-KENJI: Take it easy. -DUSTIN: Our load looks solid.
It looks good.
It's the ugliest load, but it might do it.
[laughing]
How are they getting through this?
KENJI: Very good, very good.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl's coming around,
-it's good driving. -BEN: Go, Cheryl!
Just watch your up and down, watch your mirror.
Oh!
KEOGHAN: Can that load hold?
Be careful.
KENJI: Look at you go.
Almost there, slow down.
-[group exclaiming] -CARLY: Oh no!
I can't believe this.
KENJI: Oh my God,
that stupid tube.
-Okay. -[group clamoring]
KEOGHAN: Akeela and Cheryl are holding it together.
-Catch-up time. -CHERYL: Come on, let's go.
Almost there, buddy.
Almost there, almost there.
You're doing a good job, come on.
[group exclaims, clamors]
Almost there, almost there. Got it.
BEN: You want it!
JESSICA: Girls! Come on, Akeela!
KEOGHAN: It's not over yet.
Let's go.
CARLY: Yes, let's go, you got it!
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Up to the top and...
-[work whistle blows] -stop the clock.
Dustin and Kenji--
they have saved themselves from overtime.
No OT, baby. No OT.
-All right. Sorry. -All right.
This is my second time in overtime,
and even though I'm limping around,
I'm not gonna let that stop me.
Before we go to overtime,
I do want to award the $6,000
to our winning team.
The fastest time today is going to go...
Canadians.
[cheering]
-[laughs] -Good work, man, good work.
I'm ecstatic right now.
I'm bringing home the money, baby.
But I'm also noticing that
Paul is my biggest competition at this point.
We've been at it neck and neck since day one,
and I'm gonna keep my eye on Paul.
$3,000 each-- that's got to feel good.
-Yeah! -Yeah, yeah.
Unfortunately,
Cheryl and Akeela, you will be going to overtime.
This is the first time I'm in overtime,
and Cheryl's resilient, she's tough,
but I don't plan on punching out today.
CHERYL: Going into this overtime,
some folks might be underestimating me,
but I get my hands dirty,
calloused, broken and bruised every day.
My wife would say to me right now
I better get my ass in gear and take this win.
AKEELA: Everything's on the line today,
but I'm a fighter.
And when you walk into a fight, you got to be confident that
you trained hard leading up to this point,
and that going forward, you're gonna get the win.
Welcome to overtime.
We're looking at a construction obstacle course.
Down the end there-- those concrete mixers
are going to be mixing up concrete.
When that work whistle goes,
you're gonna be picking up
heavy buckets of concrete
and then running them through this obstacle course.
First thing you have to do is go through
a bunch of tires.
And then you're gonna have to be
a bit of a gymnast walking across
-that beam. -[laughing]
Back down through these tires
and then start filling up this tube with concrete.
Got to fill it all the way up to the red line.
First of you to get it done
stays in the individual competition.
If you're last, you'll be punching out.
Okay.
So,
I haven't had to do this before, but Cheryl,
I need to have a conversation with you.
The medic came up to me
and said, "Cheryl's got a really bad
muscle strain."
There's a concern that if you do this
and you slip, you're gonna tear something,
an injury that could affect
your team's ability to being the team champions.
You got a really important decision to make.
CHERYL: I hear you, Phil.
Whatever you want to do, Cheryl.
If Phil's saying is true,
but I'm behind you whatever you do.
You know, I appreciate everybody's concern,
-BEN: Yeah. -um, but I
have to run my own race.
I'm gonna go for it.
We're behind you.
We got you.
CHERYL: I don't want to re-injure myself,
but there's also a part of me thinking
I'm not handing any member
of Savage Crew anything easy.
Akeela--
she's not gonna take it easy on me just 'cause I'm limping,
and I think that's awesome.
Because even if I do lose this,
tomorrow's another team challenge,
and I'm gonna make sure
she's worn down.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
-YESI: Movin' and groovin'. -CAROLINA: Nice.
I just kind of get into a little side-gallop,
'cause I know if I lead with my strong leg
and the back leg follows, I'll be okay.
KEOGHAN: That's it, Cheryl.
There we go, find a rhythm.
AKEELA: We got two pails to use to
load cement with,
and fill up cylinders
to the red line With cement.
CHERYL: Working in construction,
I build forms.
I don't pour concrete.
[bleep]
Kind of dumps a little heavy.
So, my plan is I'm gonna fill one bucket
and I'm gonna split it in half between the two,
'cause I know the weight of concrete.
You got this, Akeela.
AKEELA: I don't know how this mixer works.
I thought the wheel was gonna be
a little bit heavier than what it was.
It was actually very light.
So I quickly realized
the way to do the mixer is
to let the wheel kind of guide you which way.
KEOGHAN: Akeela coming back with
-two buckets full. -Yes!
AKEELA: I instantly realized
these things are heavy. [grunts]
They were close to 65 pounds.
But my traps ain't just for show,
so I get into the tires and I shrug it.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl's got two buckets.
-[group clapping] -CARLY: Nice work, Cheryl.
CHERYL: My plan is to work smarter, not harder.
Cheryl's found a nice method of going through the tires.
CHERYL: I'm just putting the weight down,
working my way through the tires.
That's it, Cheryl.
AKEELA: I get to the beam and I realize
I'm not gonna be able to balance with these two.
I'm just gonna have to deal with this first load.
KEOGHAN: Akeela is coming across, cradling the bucket.
Damn it.
KEOGHAN: Akeela touches down.
Got to go back and try again.
YESI: Nice, Cheryl.
The balance is gonna be tough for Cheryl,
but she is determined.
CHERYL: I get over to the balance beam
and I know the walk the iron workers do--
you know, put your feet out.
-YESI: Find your rhythm. -CARLY: You got this.
YESI: Smooth as clay.
I start doing the walk...
And I'm just not feeling secure.
I feel my feet wobbling.
[exclaiming]
BEN: That hurt.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl trying to get her first bucket across.
[exclaiming]
[bleep]
Boom, over I go. I just let go
of the bucket and I fall.
[panting]
That hurt. I had the worst
pit in my stomach when I seen that happen,
and immediately we're all concerned for Cheryl.
[bleep] get up, Cheryl.
Cheryl did take a hard fall.
It kind of threw me off a little bit because, you know,
I don't want anybody to be hurt.
[Cheryl panting]
CHERYL: It looked a lot worse than it was.
I'm not even sure
if I actually made contact
with that balance beam when I went down.
So, I'm like, "All right,
go back to the beginning."
-Come on, Cheryl. -There you go, Cheryl.
KEOGHAN: Akeela is now past the balance beam
with her two buckets.
-BEN: Good job, Cheryl. -TODD: Let's go, now.
KENJI: Good work, Akeela.
AKEELA: I set the buckets down on the haystack
and I realize, "How am I gonna lift this up?"
Because these buckets are heavy.
I realized I needed some help,
so I called on my dad.
Come on, Dad. Come on, me.
He did concrete all his life, all types
of construction work. So when I called upon my dad,
the spirit came through me
and he said, "Put it on your shoulder."
-[grunts] -KEOGHAN: Two for Akeela.
Now we got to get a good pour.
That's my dad.
My dad do concrete.
CHERYL: Akeela's pouring hers in
just as I was arriving, I'm pouring mine in.
So I'm thinking, I'm not letting up,
and I'm gonna just keep going.
KEOGHAN: And Cheryl gets her first pour.
There you go.
KEOGHAN: She's made it to the end,
that's her first bucket.
JESSICA: Good job, Akeela.
-Akeela going back for her -AKEELA: Come on.
-third and fourth bucket.
AKEELA: I'm not close to my dad.
I haven't spoke to my dad in a few years.
Throughout my life,
I've always wanted somebody there
that would teach me these trades.
I hear you, Dad.
Somebody that would teach me how to do this
to a house or do this to my car.
Come on. This, too.
Yep.
JESSICA: There you go.
AKEELA: My mom taught me how to survive,
but I've always wanted
my dad to be there,
and, uh, he just wasn't there.
Akeela looks like she's halfway through
on the tube. -You work your ass off.
That's the third and fourth bucket, she's going back
-for five and six. -Come on. -KENJI: Nice, Cheryl.
-That's it, Cheryl. -Come on, Akeela.
KEOGHAN: Refusing to give up today.
YESI: To witness Cheryl not stop--
she's teaching us a lot, that you just find your own
rhythm and put your head down and work.
-KEOGHAN: That's it, Cheryl. -There we go.
Dad, this for you.
We ain't talked in a long time.
I love you, though. All right?
I got all the love for you, right?
This competition has caused me to dig deep
and confront a lot of things that, um,
on a normal, day-to-day basis, I probably wouldn't have.
I care about you, all right?
Just know that.
I didn't realize
how much, emotionally,
this was gonna affect me.
JESSICA: Seeing Akeela talking to her dad
and working through that, you see
the vulnerable side of Akeela.
It really touched my heart, because that's
the part that we don't see very often.
CAROLINA: Come on, Akeela!
AKEELA: Come on!
CHERYL: As I'm going back to fill that tube up,
I'm looking at her tube.
And I'm like, "Oh, yeah, she's ahead."
But I'm like, "I'm not giving up."
The last thing I'm doing is quitting.
-Good work, good work. -KEOGHAN: That's good work, Cheryl.
-Akeela going back down -Let's get it.
-for seven and eight. -Come on.
So we're getting close,
we're getting down, I can see I only got a couple
buckets left.
And, uh, my arms are burning.
[grunts]
But my dad's spirit is getting
stronger and stronger.
I know you see me.
My dad is telling me,
"No, we got to finish this to the end."
As Cheryl gets her sixth bucket in.
Good job, Akeela.
Thanks, Dad.
KEOGHAN: And... Akeela with the win!
[whoops]
JESSICA: Nice work, you both.
-Hey, sister. -Good job.
-CHERYL: I just wanted to see you sweat. -I know.
-[laughs] -I know.
KEOGHAN: You okay, Akeela?
Yep.
I'm still in the competition, but for me,
this is bigger than the competition.
Throughout our lives, we carry
a lot of anger, a lot of resentment
about things that happened in the past
that we just don't have control over.
And I didn't realize how much resentment I carried.
I grew up hard, right?
[sniffles] And, uh,
there's one thing good I can say about my dad
is he works hard.
And he was with me the whole time.
My life isn't measured by
the world championships I've won
or the fights I've won. When something hits
your heart and it hits your soul,
it's a little bit different.
And today, this one hit my soul.
Cheryl, you made her earn it today, huh?
I'm not going out without a fight.
[laughing]
KEOGHAN: But that's why you're here on Tough As Nails.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, I do need you to
punch out of the individual competition.
You got it.
I'm absolutely proud of myself for what I've achieved.
I came here to show people how tough I am
and you don't do that by backing down.
Well, it's been a pleasure.
It feels great to have the support of my team.
-Yeah, Cheryl! -You did it, good job.
I know they value me as their
team leader, and I'm looking forward
to showing Savage Crew
what we're really made of.
KEOGHAN: So, tomorrow,
back to the team competition.
Team score right now:
four to two.
I'll see you tomorrow.
-CHERYL: Good job, Akeela. -Yeah, good job, man.
Hey, thanks.
♪ ♪
CHERYL: Hey, Marcus.
I-I guess I'll be sitting next to you now.
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KEOGHAN: Next time onTough As Nails...
Dirty Hands, you're one win away from $60,000.
-Assembly line. -Come on, Savage.
-I got one. -Check.
-PAUL: What happened here? -AKEELA: We all got to
-work together. -KEOGHAN: Only seven
-of you left. -CARLY: Dig deep!
-BEN: I ain't giving up today. -AKEELA: This is intense.
KEOGHAN: And it's the most explosive
individual challenge ever.
BEN: That was awesome!