-PHIL KEOGHAN: Previously onTough As Nails... -Let's go.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, you are
one win away
-from $60,000. -This isn't lined up.
KEOGHAN: It was do-or-die for Savage Crew,
but in the end, Dirty Hands soared...
Come on, Yesi!
...to an overall team victory.
You have won $60,000.
-[work whistle blows] -In the individual competition,
Kenji cranked out another victory,
-while Todd and Akeela fell flat. -Damn it.
-Oh. -Come on.
-KEOGHAN: Todd secured the win... -Done.
...ending Akeela's chances
at theTough As Nails title.
All you can do is do your best.
-KEOGHAN: Tonight... -[work whistle blows]
Welcome to the Battle of the Trades.
After losing the overall team competition
-to Dirty Hands... -JESSICA: Come on, Paul.
KEOGHAN: ...Savage Crew have
one last shot at redemption.
-Losing's not an option. -Everything you got.
KEOGHAN: And in the individual competition, the race
to the final four is no picnic.
What am I missing here?
This is Tough As Nails.
TODD: Good morning, Canada.
-CARLY: Yeah! -BEN: One last cheer, guys.
-BEN: Dirty. -OTHERS: Hands!
-BEN: Dirty. -OTHERS: Hands! [cheering]
BEN: There we go.
Yeehaw.
BEN: When I picked this team,
I truly just went with my heart,
and it's everything that I look for in a team.
Even though we won the whole overall thing,
we're not stepping off here.
Dirty Hands is gonna come in and dominate.
The score right now is five-three.
Let's make it six-three.
BEN: Yeah. We got to win.
PAUL: This is the last team ride.
Our journey has been a wave.
Up and down, up and down. Yup.
Paul, thanks for picking me.
PAUL: I think I did a great job
and, uh, I wouldn't have changed a damn thing.
I'm glad we all became friends.
-Yeah. -PAUL: Yeah.
Jessica, it's all good.
We're good, right?
You're amazing.
Akeela, you make me work harder.
You make me think, make me work on
my non-yelling voice.
All those things are making me better.
You have all surprised me, and I feel like
my journey was to learn to listen.
Like, Dustin, thank you for talking to me,
like, calm
-in some of the challenges. -Mm-hmm.
-I can't. No, no, no, because... -Just relax.
It's all good.
JESSICA: The thing about Dustin is Dustin
doesn't talk a lot, but when he talks,
-you want to listen. -PAUL: Exactly.
DUSTIN: Marcus, to go down four-two
and come back four-three to lead us to a win,
that's huge.
I appreciate it, for real, man.
It's the last team day. Let's pull it together.
[overlapping agreements]
JESSICA: Got to go out with a bang.
PAUL: Let's end it with a bang.
DUSTIN: We need the win today.
Good morning, Dirty Hands, Savage Crew.
ALL: Good morning.
Welcome to the Battle of the Trades.
-[chuckles] -Score right now, five-three.
Dirty Hands took out that team win
in the best-of-nine competition.
You got that $60,000 cash bonus prize,
but I still have...
$12,000 up for grabs
and the final Badge of Honor.
Savage Crew, I know you want to get some redemption.
Yes, please.
Let me tell you a little bit about how this is gonna work.
You are going to go
head-to-head, one at a time,
one discipline at a time.
The first job is using a rasp plane to take off
one-eighth of an inch off the top of this plank
so it will slide through the gauge.
This is not the ideal tool for the job,
and that's part of the challenge.
Don't break it.
Second discipline is pulling a log calibrated
to your weight 100 feet
from that yellow line down there to the finishing line down here.
The third discipline is called the standing chop.
You'll be chopping from both sides on that log
until you cut that log in half.
Be careful, 'cause if you cut the strap, it's game over.
Every time you win a discipline
for your team, you get a hatchet.
But on the fourth head-to-head battle,
you need to pick someone
on your team that will do all three disciplines.
And if you win that,
you get two hatchets for your team.
First team to collect five hatchets
wins the Battle of the Trades,
$12,000,
and today's Badge of Honor.
Dirty Hands, since you won the last
team challenge, you get to pick your first opponent.
Savage Crew, that means you get to pick
the first discipline.
Be very careful about your choices
because everybody on your team
has to compete before somebody else
gets an opportunity to go for a second time.
By the way, all three disciplines
have to be used before any of them are reset.
Take a moment to strategize, and let's get to work.
All right.
-Hey. -So, who's gonna go first?
-Who wants to go first? -I could go first.
I'll pick Carolina.
CHERYL: I decide I'm going to choose Carolina.
I think it's a fair match, and I think I might
be able to beat her.
Losing's not an option.
This is the last time we're competing for each other.
-Don't give up. -DUSTIN: Prove to yourself
and you prove to your teammates
-that you can do it. -Yeah.
Dirty Hands, who would you like to put up first?
I'm going up first.
I picked Carolina.
Let's do this. Let's...
[clicks tongue] ...axe it up.
KEOGHAN: All right, let's get the job done.
CAROLINA: I was the first one to punch out
of the individual competition,
and I am super excited that I get
to prove that I am able, capable,
and I'm tough, and that's why I'm here.
Focus. Show us what you're made of.
-Let's go. -Let's go, Cheryl.
CHERYL: Even though we've won the $60,000,
we are not gonna take our eye off of
one more shot at winning another $12,000.
So Savage Crew should be scared of Dirty Hands today.
Hey, hey, Let's go, Cheryl. Come on, Cheryl.
-You got this. -On the work whistle.
-[work whistle blows] -MARCUS: Let's go, Carolina.
-AKEELA: Anytime, let's go. -BEN: Let's go, Cheryl.
[grunts]
[Dustin groans]
CAROLINA: I start chopping, and
right away I hit the strap.
So I'm holding back because
if I cut it completely, then that's it. I lose.
-MARCUS: Keep chopping at it. -PAUL: Keep going, Carolina.
KEOGHAN: Carolina's technique,
-a little slower, more methodical. -That's it, Cheryl.
Nice pieces.
CHERYL: As a carpenter, I've used a sledgehammer,
and I'm swinging this axe the exact same way.
Cheryl with some very powerful chops.
And I use my old lady hip
to create as much power as I can.
Cheryl is getting close, giving it everything she can.
Come on, Cheryl.
KEOGHAN: Carolina moves back
-to the other side. -[panting]
Let's go, Carolina.
CAROLINA: The moment that I turn around
to do the other side, I'm able to hit it, like, really hard.
KEOGHAN: She's getting close, but Cheryl's right there.
CAROLINA: I started slow and steady, catching up.
There you go, Carolina.
KEOGHAN: Head-to-head, this is for the first hatchet.
BEN: Come on, Cheryl. Break it off.
KEOGHAN: Cheryl, very close.
[cheering]
And Cheryl gets the job done.
That's it, sister.
-[cheering, laughter] -Yes, sir.
-Wow. Wow. -You destroyed that.
CAROLINA: I didn't perform the way
that I wanted with Cheryl.
-Sorry. -Good job.
No, no, no, don't you say sorry for nothing.
CAROLINA: But I know that it's still early,
and I'm hoping that I get the chance to redeem myself.
Carolina, nice job. Cheryl,
you have earned the first hatchet for Dirty Hands.
Taking a lead one-zero. Best of five here today.
CHERYL: Rattle their cage.
[laughs] Rattle their cage.
KEOGHAN: So, Savage Crew,
you get to pick your opponent.
You want to take Yesi?
Yeah, you're gonna have to.
-We need a win. -Okay.
DUSTIN: We need a win.
Okay, who is it going to be?
I pick Yesi.
Okay, all right.
Dirty Hands, that means you get to choose
pulling the log or planing wood.
What would you like to do?
Log pull.
Log pull. Okay. Let's do it.
YESI: The last time I faced Jessica was in overtime,
and I lost.
-So this is redemption for me. -[work whistle blows]
Turn and burn. Turn and burn.
AKEELA: Get it, Jessica, move!
JESSICA: My strategy is just to get
that log over my shoulder and just
muscle my way to the finish line.
KEOGHAN: 100 feet.
JESSICA: But I very quickly realized
this thing is heavy.
MARCUS: Ooh!
-KEOGHAN: Jessica's driving. -Go!
YESI: As an ironworker, when you're pulling
something heavy, I've learned how to use
the stronger parts of my body:
the core, the legs.
I know, if I use more
of my upper body, I'm going to tire out.
Yeah, go, Yesi, go.
-Move those legs. -Get ahead.
15 feet to go. Yesi is right there.
Whoa. Yesi goes over, but she's almost there.
Come on, Yesi.
AKEELA: Come on, Jessica.
KEOGHAN: Here comes Jessica.
She's got to get
that log over the line.
CARLY: Come on, Yesi, keep going.
KEOGHAN: Got to get it up and over.
And...
-Yesi gets the job done. -[cheering]
BEN [laughs]: Good job.
YESI: I got out of this competition too early, and to...
not have had an opportunity to really showcase myself
was frustrating.
But to have this win
against someone who's still in it,
it means that I'm right there with her.
KEOGHAN: Yesi, I'm pleased to tell you
that you have earned
a second hatchet for Dirty Hands.
Good job, Yesi.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands leading two-zero.
We are back to Dirty Hands picking an opponent.
There is only one discipline left,
which is the planer.
-You're experienced with the planer. -I haven't handled it much.
-But you can figure it out. -I can figure it out.
KENJI: Now who should I pick?
-Could you go against Akeela? -I can go against Akeela.
Yeah, you should do it.
BEN: I think you should.
So, Dirty Hands, you get the next pick.
I'm gonna go next against Akeela.
KEOGHAN: All right. Step up.
AKEELA: This moment right now is super important for us
because we're down two and we need a win.
But as a firefighter, you're always put
in dangerous situations.
Uh, you got to be able to keep yourself calm
and you got to be able to focus, so bring it on.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
AKEELA: I've got a few hand planers
at my house, and I've planed
a lot of wood before.
So I grab my wood
and I compare it to the gauge because I want to know
how much I got to shave off.
KEOGHAN: Remember this rasp plane is not
the ideal tool for the job,
but got to get one-eighth of an inch
off this piece of timber
so it will fit through that gauge.
KENJI: As a jack-of-all-trades,
I've sanded before, I've sanded wood,
so my strategy is to place my wood into one vise-grip
because that's enough to hold it in place.
KEOGHAN: Look after your tool.
If it binds up too much, it will break.
What?
-Oh, he broke it. -What?
I'm starting to panic a little bit.
I'm like, "Oh, no, my planer broke."
But I thought, "What would Todd do?"
Don't worry about it. Keep going.
And Todd would not give up.
Do whatever you got to do.
So I just have to adapt
-and grip the blade. -TODD: You got it.
-BEN: It's fine. -CARLY: Shift on the fly.
-You're doing great. -KEOGHAN: This is Akeela's chance.
AKEELA: As I'm working,
I hear Kenji broke his planer.
PAUL: Great job, Akeela.
AKEELA: And I'm in my groove now.
-I can pull ahead. -Stay focused.
KEOGHAN: Akeela's got good technique,
using long strokes.
There you go, Akeela. Nice and smooth, baby.
AKEELA: Oh, I broke it in two.
-PAUL: Boom. Akeela just broke her planer. -[groans]
Oh, no.
-DUSTIN: Just use it. -MARCUS: Keep going.
Grab the metal and use it.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew need this win.
JESSICA: Come on, Akeela. Keep going, Akeela.
-KEOGHAN: Frantic time. -We need that win, Akeela, let's go.
-[cheering] -[groans]
CAROLINA: Come on, Akeela.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, two wins and two hatchets.
Savage Crew looking for their first.
We need that win, Akeela, let's go.
JESSICA: Use it with your gloves on, Akeela.
Akeela's planer falls apart.
-MARCUS: Keep going, Akeela. -JESSICA: But luckily,
Akeela, once she gets in that game-time mode
there's no stopping her.
-Akeela's going for a check. -Keep going through.
AKEELA: I ain't paying Kenji no mind.
It's just me and the work.
-[grunts] -CAROLINA: Keep going.
Oh, she's very close.
-PAUL: Put that back in. -KEOGHAN: It's right there.
TODD: Go, man, go.
KEOGHAN: Oh, Kenji's coming back now, looking.
He still needs a little bit more.
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Now Akeela's got to go.
Has she got it this time?
[shouts]
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Akeela gets the win.
Yeah! That's what we're talking about.
AKEELA: In that moment, I knew
I had to do that for my team,
because we just not gonna lay down.
We're gonna fight
and we're gonna come back.
-KEOGHAN: The score is two to one. -[cheering]
KEOGHAN: There's two stakes on the line
for the winner of the next round.
All three disciplines.
Let's do this.
I think it's got to be our heavy hitter,
-which we know is Ben. -Let's do it.
Let's do it. Done.
I ain't gonna let you down.
I think Dustin'll be good.
-I'm okay with that. -I'm good.
I'm putting my neck on the line for every one of you now.
So we have Dustin going up against Ben.
-Let's get to it. -DUSTIN: Ben's a big guy.
He's a strong competitor,
but I really want to prove to my team
that I'm here for them.
If I win this fourth round,
I get two hatchets and we take the lead.
-[work whistle blows] -MARCUS: Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go,
PAUL: You got it, Dustin.
-TODD: Come on, Ben. Come on, come on. -CHERYL: Let's go!
BEN: Dustin's all-around athletic,
but I'm the power guy on the team,
so, I mean, if it comes down
to strength and power, I'll take him all day.
-[grunting] -KEOGHAN: Ooh, big chops coming from Ben.
-There you go, Ben. -Nice, Ben. Nice, Ben.
DUSTIN: As a firefighter,
you use axes to force open doors
to make holes in walls.
So my strategy is accuracy with my swings.
There you go, Dustin. There you go!
KEOGHAN: Ben is taking a breath.
Dustin is almost there.
-Come on, Ben, come on. -[grunts]
CAROLINA: Go, Dustin!
-Yeah! -Haul it, haul it. -Let's go, Dus, keep going!
-KEOGHAN: Dustin's going. -CARLY: You got this. -TODD: Come on, Ben.
CARLY: You got time, you got time.
KEOGHAN: Ben is still trying to get through his log.
-AKEELA: Over that shoulder. -MARCUS: Fireman pull!
I pick up my rope,
and it is a lot heavier than I thought it was.
-JESSICA: You got it, Dustin. -MARCUS: Dig deep.
KEOGHAN: Can Ben get through his log in time?
YESI: You're good, Ben. You're good, Ben.
-KEOGHAN: Here comes Dustin. -CAROLINA: Let's go, Dustin!
-KEOGHAN: Come on. -CAROLINA: Get in there. -[grunts]
KEOGHAN: Oh, finally, Ben gets it done.
-Now he's got to dig in. -CHERYL: Nice work, nice work.
BEN: It took a lot to get through that, but I can hear
my team chanting my nephew's name,
Ethan Huck.
[chanting]: Ethan Huck! Ethan Huck!
And that's just giving me more motivation.
KEOGHAN: Ben with everything he's got.
[groans]
CAROLINA: Dustin, you got to go beast mode.
-Dustin is ten feet away from the end. -TODD: Come on, Ben.
-CARLY: Let's go! -Come on, beast mode. Beast mode.
CARLY: There you go, there you go.
[overlapping shouting]
KEOGHAN: Ben is gassed.
He's taking deep breaths.
Dustin running over to the planer.
My legs are Jell-O,
but I hear the team screaming
for me...
[chanting]: Dustin, Dustin...
...so I need to keep moving at a steady pace.
-YESI: Come on, Ben. -CARLY: Come on!
CHERYL: You're catching up!
CARLY: Dig deep, Ben.
KENJI: Keep going, buddy.
KEOGHAN: Dustin getting his gloves on. Ready to start planing.
-Go. -Now Ben can start planing.
-YESI: Yes. Nice. -TODD: Come on, man.
KEOGHAN: He's closed the gap big-time.
-CAROLINA: Keep going, Dustin. -AKEELA: Let's go!
DUSTIN: My strategy is to do the slower strokes.
Really just trying to pay attention to my tool.
-AKEELA: Come on! -KEOGHAN: Dustin, nice easy strokes.
KEOGHAN: Ben is using more rapid strokes.
-[bleep] -[Keoghan groans]
Ben a bit rough on his tools, and he's broken it.
-AKEELA: You got it, Dustin. -KEOGHAN: The race is on.
A little bit more, Dustin.
Two Canadians going for two hatchets.
DUSTIN: It's neck and neck right now.
I know what this means to our team.
I know I need to lead by example.
-KEOGHAN: Ben has picked up the pace. -Keep going.
MARCUS: Need that win, buddy. Got to get ahead.
KEOGHAN: Dustin going for a check.
-[Marcus groans] -Come on.
KEOGHAN: And Dustin gets the job done.
[shouting]
DUSTIN: This is a huge,
huge point for our team,
and I never thought I would evolve
to where I am, you know, being the leader,
the one who can bring us together.
KEOGHAN: Dustin, you have won
-two hatchets for your team. -[whooping]
But I feel great.
KEOGHAN: Three hatchets to Savage Crew,
two to Dirty Hands.
Savage Crew, you get the pick.
Want to give a fellow Canadian the chance
to, uh, redeem herself.
-So Carly. -Well, yeehaw.
[laughs]
Okay, Carly, what would you like to do?
Log drag.
-You want to drag the logs? -MARCUS: Yeah.
CARLY: Paul did get me
in OT when we were doing the ATV challenge,
so I just want to kick this old man's ass. [laughs]
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle.
-[work whistle blows] -KENJI: Let's go, Carly.
-DUSTIN: Come on. -JESSICA: Let's go, Paul.
BEN: Come on, Carly.
CARLY: As a electrician,
I've handled a lot of cable,
and so I'm really good at moving big things.
MARCUS: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
CARLY: I know that the lower my center of gravity is,
the more pull I will have.
[grunts]
KEOGHAN: Paul's trying to get that weight moving.
Go, Paul!
-Ah, [bleep]. -CAROLINA: Come on, Paul.
KEOGHAN: And Paul goes down.
PAUL: This is all about
lower body strength,
and when I seen Carly pulling that log,
I went, "I'm in trouble."
[cheering]
KEOGHAN: Carly is ten feet away.
Drag that thing!
BEN: Go, Carly, go, go!
KEOGHAN: This will give a hatchet
to Dirty Hands.
And Carly gets the win.
♪ ♪
That was awesome. Hey, thanks for saving my ass.
-[laughs] -KEOGHAN: All right.
Carly, third hatchet goes to you.
Score's tied three-three.
And the win goes to the first team to collect five.
Todd, you haven't competed yet.
Right. I got Marcus.
SAVAGE CREW: Marcus Jones!
KEOGHAN: What would you like to do?
I'm going to the tables right there.
KEOGHAN: Oh, no hesitation.
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
CARLY: Yeah, Todd.
YESI: You got it, Todd.
TODD: In the past rounds, everybody's broke this tool,
but as a toolmaker I know
that the key is lifting it up
on your back stroke.
Only put power in your forward stroke.
All right, Todd's going with a new approach.
He's working on the angle.
You got it, Todd.
KEOGHAN: Marcus moving much quicker.
Sprinting through this.
Dig deep here, man. Dig deep, Marcus.
-CARLY: Looking great, Todd. -JESSICA: Marcus,
stop going to the side with it.
Go straight. No, turn it.
AKEELA: Marcus, switch your hands.
-Switch your hands. -Straight up on your wood.
MARCUS: My team was telling me,
"Don't go sideways.
Go long strokes," because
I'm making lumps in my wood.
KEOGHAN: Now he's starting to go with the longer strokes.
That's it.
AKEELA: I like that, Marcus.
BEN: That's it, Todd.
KENJI: Looking good.
KEOGHAN: Todd is out of the vise.
He's sliding.
-[cheering] -And Todd the toolmaker gets the job done.
There's an old saying.
"Winning's not everything, but losing sucks."
And I'm here to win.
Todd, you've just earned a hatchet for Dirty Hands.
Brought the score to four-three.
Congratulations.
All right.
What have we got left? We got the chop.
Now everybody has had a turn.
It's fair game for anybody.
-We have to pick someone to do the log chop. -Me.
-It's obviously me. -Yes.
And I got to go for him.
That's the only way we get the win.
Otherwise, what's next?
Ben comes back at us.
Savage Crew, who are you gonna pick?
Let's go again, Ben.
Sure, let's go. Let's go.
They made a serious mistake this time.
KEOGHAN: Ben and Dustin going at it again.
Wow.
Dirty Hands is one win away from
the team win, so it's a do-or-die moment for us.
On the work whistle.
-[work whistle blows] -Go!
BEN: Dustin decided that he wanted another go at me,
and, man, he made a mistake
-because I want some redemption. -Nice!
So my strategy this time
is, put a lot more power
into the log to get some chunks out.
MARCUS: Come on, Dustin, you got it. There you go.
KEOGHAN: This is a chance for redemption.
Oh...
-Ben. -Keep going.
AKEELA: Keep going, Dustin.
KEOGHAN: Oh, Ben cuts
the strap on his log.
Damn it.
As I am coming down on one of my top swings...
...it hits my strap.
Game over.
-Take your time. -PAUL: Relax.
DUSTIN: It's an unfortunate way to win, but...
the money on the table is big for everyone,
so I will take that win.
I need to show to my team that it's all about
-completing the job. -CAROLINA: Almost there.
KEOGHAN: And Dustin gets the job done.
[applause]
Tough break, man. That's a tough break.
Dustin, you've earned another hatchet for your team.
You've tied things up. We're going into a tiebreaker.
Dirty Hands, you get to pick your opponent.
Savage Crew, you'll get to pick any of the three disciplines.
Take a moment to strategize.
-I have a suggestion. -KENJI: Lay it on us.
My suggestion would be to pick Carolina.
KENJI: Who wants to do this?
Carly ought to call her out.
CARLY: I don't know what she's gonna pick, though.
Don't worry. It don't matter.
-It don't matter. -It doesn't matter.
-You're a beast. -I know, I'm just like...
-You brought it every game. -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands,
what would you like to do?
We would like to have a round against Carolina.
CAROLINA: I know that Dirty Hands underestimates me,
but I know I'm strong.
I know who I am.
So bring it. [chuckles]
Okay. Carolina, Savage Crew,
what would you like to do?
Let's go to the work tables.
KEOGHAN: Okay. The team score is tied up.
You win this, you get $12,000 and today's Badge of Honor.
Step up. Let's do it.
Who do you want talking?
I like when Akeela does.
DUSTIN: Okay.
-We'll go through Akeela. -This is all you.
This is the last team competition.
It's all on this.
♪ ♪
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
CARLY: I've used a circular saw, a table saw.
A planer, not so much.
So I'm trying to find my inner Todd.
Carly is going with Todd's method of angling
-the piece of wood. -BEN: Get a feel for it.
CARLY: And the planer breaks,
like, right away it pops out.
-Already. -That's okay, that's okay.
Use it by hand.
-That's it, Carly. -There you go. There you go.
AKEELA: Find your rhythm.
KEOGHAN: Carolina working left and right.
Nice, easy strokes.
I have sanded so many cars
and motorcycles, and...
I feel very comfortable doing this job.
AKEELA: Get that middle.
Get it all the way across.
Carolina told the team,
"I only want to hear from Akeela,"
and I felt great honor in that.
Come to the right, Carolina.
On your right.
So I just want to be clear.
I'm trying to keep the panic in my voice down.
Good job. Get that bike sanded.
I like that.
KENJI: Get tough with it, Carly.
Get tough with it.
Carly is starting to pick up the pace.
AKEELA: Let's speed up a little bit, Carolina.
Let's go.
KEOGHAN: Carly is checking her gauge.
AKEELA: Now let's check it. Put it through.
And Carolina with her first check.
-TODD: You got to go fast, Carly. -AKEELA: Let's go.
CAROLINA: My plank gets stuck, so...
on purpose,
I push it again
so that it will make a mark,
and now I know where I have to shave the most.
You got to go fast, fast, fast.
That's four hatchets apiece.
Everything is on the line for both of them right now.
-BEN: Come on, Carly. -KEOGHAN: The teams are depending on them.
-High gear now. High gear. -[grunts]
Keep going. Keep going, Carolina.
-Who's gonna take this win? -Let's go. Let's go, Carolina.
-KEOGHAN: Carolina thinks she's got it. -Push it through.
KEOGHAN: Into the gauge.
And Carolina gets the win for Savage Crew!
[laughter]
CAROLINA: It feels like I just won
a million bucks.
-You're amazing. -Oh, God.
I love you.
Oh, my God. See how good you are?
-This was all you, sister. -It's all you.
CAROLINA: Savage Crew has taught me,
every time I'm willing to ask for help
or I'm willing to receive the help, like, magic happens.
And I'm so happy that I made
my teammates proud.
That was an incredible competition.
Carolina, you knew that you were up against a tough competitor.
The toughest, and I love her.
Carolina won fair and square.
-I'm proud of you. -I'm proud of you.
Carolina, I'm gonna give you the honor of putting in
that fifth and final hatchet.
[cheering]
And it seems only fitting, Carolina,
that I hand over this Badge of Honor to you,
along with the $12,000.
-She earned every bit of that. -She deserves it.
AKEELA: For Carolina to bring this home for us
and win this final team challenge,
I'm just-just proud.
You're gonna make me cry.
[laughs, exhales]
-$12,000. That goes to you as well. -Thank you.
Take that back to your team and share it.
[whooping, cheering]
-Thank you. -Great job.
AKEELA: I am grateful that
my journey through
the team competition was with Savage Crew.
That's what I'm talking about.
We had our differences, but we all came together,
and, uh, we worked through it.
KEOGHAN: We now transition into individual.
We are down to five.
Dustin along with Kenji,
Ben, Jessica and Todd.
By the end of tomorrow, we will have our final four.
DUSTIN: The team competition
is completely over, it's-it's all individual,
and it's literally anyone's game at this point.
It's gonna be a very, very tough battle.
So I got to find some inner strength
to keep going.
Get some rest. See you tomorrow.
-Whoo! -Thank you, Phil.
♪ ♪
Today's race is for the final four.
Jessica, you just go into your possessed mode.
-[laughs]: Going to the dark side. -PAUL: Exactly.
The race is getting tight.
Honestly, my biggest competition now
is Kenji and Todd.
I always end up second behind Kenji,
and, you know, Todd is a hard worker.
He's got a ton of experience.
But to be honest, you know, we're at the top five.
Everybody's at the top of their game right now.
Dustin, I don't have to say nothing.
SBD: silent but deadly.
Every competitor at this point is really strong,
but Ben's my biggest competition.
I beat Ben twice in the team competition.
I feel like I can beat him again.
Regardless of what happens,
I want the win to stay in this van.
Exactly.
YESI: At the end of the day,
it's the final top four.
-You guys are gonna dust Dustin. -Oh, boy.
-The guy's consistent. -CHERYL: He is.
I'm tired of hearing about Dustin, Dustin, Dustin.
Yesterday was tough for me.
It's hard, I mean,
when you lose like that, you-you do
feel like you let the team down a bit.
This is a race to the final four,
and Dustin's a huge threat to me,
so I'm bringing it.
I'm excited to see you guys perform.
TODD: Right now I'm thinking
the biggest competition is Jessica.
Her mindset is so good, she stays so focused.
And so, it's full steam ahead, and I'm not punching out today.
Jessica and Dustin are gonna go against each other...
-Yeah, they're going down. -...in overtime today.
♪ ♪
Good morning, everyone.
-Good morning, Phil. -Morning.
We're down to just five.
Today it's all about getting down to the final four.
You can't make any mistakes.
The job today is making a picnic table,
exactly like that one.
The specifics about the job
are laid out on your picnic table assembly plan.
When that work whistle blows,
you're going to be making the picnic table in two parts.
The first part is to put together the two A-frames.
Once you get your A-frames together,
you'll move on to the second part,
which is putting on two boards for your seats,
three boards for the tabletop.
Once you have your table complete,
we want all tools on the picnic table
and we don't want anything else lying around on this deck.
We just want to have a nice, clean jobsite at the end of it.
Now, if you win today,
you guys are gonna get paid $9,000,
plus you will be going into the final four.
Last two of you today to get this job done
will be going into overtime.
By the end of the day, one more of you
will be punching out.
So give it everything you've got.
Are you ready to get to work?
-Yeah. -Yes. -Okay.
JESSICA: I'm tired of coming in second,
I'm tired of coming in third.
I'm getting that money today,
and there's no backing down.
I will not give up.
[work whistle blows]
♪ ♪
BEN: Today's individual job is building a picnic table.
First step is, we need to complete two A-frames.
Yesterday the team challenge
humbled me because
I realized I can't always
rely on my strength.
That's where the nerves come from,
and at this point it's anyone's game.
KENJI: I've done a lot of woodworking,
but going into this challenge,
I am very nervous because
every competitor that made it to the final five,
they're all tough.
I can't make any mistake.
Come on, baby.
As a remodeling contractor, I work with lumber, but...
using a handsaw cutting four-by-four posts is just
not something I do very often.
Come on, Dustin.
DUSTIN: My strategy is to use the C-clamps
to hold the wood
to the deck I'm working on.
I don't want to have to worry about
holding the wood still.
KEOGHAN: Dustin's getting some good leverage
because he has his clamp.
Todd the toolmaker,
-this man is all about precision. -Yeah.
TODD: There's a lot of attention to detail in this challenge,
and sometimes I work
too fast and miss some details.
Today I'm gonna stay focused on details.
AKEELA: Nice and smooth, everybody.
KEOGHAN: Kenji and Ben are starting to drill.
JESSICA: Come on, baby.
KEOGHAN: Dustin's about to start work on his drilling.
Sweat is pouring off Kenji.
He's putting his A-frames together,
he's working on his second.
KENJI: I'm moving at a very good pace.
I feel like I'm ahead of everybody.
I just have to keep up the good work.
KEOGHAN: Step one done for Kenji.
A-frames are complete.
KENJI: Now I have to move on to making
the top of the table
and the two benches.
KEOGHAN: And Ben with his A-frames complete.
BEN: I noticed that Kenji is already ahead of me,
and I'm determined to catch up to him.
But what I'm learning is that
I truly just need to stay calm because
those little details are what's gonna cost me.
[groans]
KEOGHAN: Todd gets his A-frames done.
-CARLY: Yeehaw! -PAUL: All right.
CARLY: Think through it, Todd.
KEOGHAN: That leaves just Dustin and Jessica
-to complete their A-frames. -[groans]
JESSICA: I'm starting to panic because I realize that
I'm in the back of the pack.
This is ridiculous.
KEOGHAN: Jessica completes her A-frames.
-Good job. Good job. -Good job.
-KEOGHAN: But Todd, Ben
and Kenji have streaked ahead.
Let's see what Jessica can do.
And finally, Dustin has his A-frames together.
[cheering]
-Come on, Dustin. -Good going!
KEOGHAN: Everyone now assembling their table.
This is a race for the final four.
TODD: Got things where I want 'em.
Now it's just a matter of
drill and repeat, drill and repeat.
CAROLINA: Doing good, guys.
KEOGHAN: Kenji very close.
He's packing up his tools.
The work area has to be clear.
Nothing can be left out on the working area.
-Kenji's going in for a check. -Check, please.
This is for $9,000.
And Kenji gets a thumbs down.
KENJI: I'm a bit confused.
I don't know what's going on.
I need to take a step back
to figure out what's wrong.
Check.
KEOGHAN: Check's no good.
Forgot something.
I get a thumbs down.
I go to my checklist,
and I make sure everything's checked off.
Come on, baby.
KEOGHAN: Todd's packing up his tools.
-Let's go, Todd. -Come on, Todd.
Check.
Really?
No way. I read everything.
How can I get a thumbs down?
CAROLINA: Details.
Part of this job is,
once you're done, you have to pick up
everything, all of your tools, put it in the box,
and also clean up
your whole work area.
TODD: I grabbed the blueprint, and it says all edges have to be
straight and square.
And I thought maybe the ones that I didn't cut
weren't straight or square.
Check.
Jessica's asking for a check.
She's made up a huge amount of ground.
And a thumbs down for Jessica.
[quietly]: Pressure is definitely getting to everybody.
I made it very clear that
once you complete your picnic table,
don't leave anything on the deck.
What am I missing here?
I don't understand. My picnic table-- it's perfect.
All my measurements are good.
Those are 15 inches.
KENJI: Yeah, 15 over.
I am falling behind,
and I'm getting pretty frustrated.
I'm looking at the direction,
but I'm not seeing a crucial mistake.
KEOGHAN: You got to fight to be in the final four.
What am I missing?
PAUL: Jessica's just dumbfounded,
and I'm looking at her water bottle in the corner, it's like,
"Take a sip of water."
What am I missing?!
$9,000 up for grabs.
All you got to do is make a picnic table.
What am I missing?
I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
And time is ticking.
What am I missing?
BEN: When I went back, I noticed that I had a screw
sticking out a bit.
It needs to be flush.
So I screwed that down.
-Check. -KEOGHAN: Ben with another check.
There's $9,000 on the line.
Ben gets the job done!
-[cheering and whooping] -Yes!
I got the $9,000.
To make it this far is amazing.
Now that I'm in the final four,
I'm bringing every last inch of me.
Oh, God.
What am I missing?
Ugh, what am I missing?
Jessica asking for a check.
-KEOGHAN: Thumbs up for Jessica. -[shouting]
I did it!
-[whooping] -Yes!
In the Army, I did my boot camp,
and I was the only female out of my whole company.
[cheering]
And I had to work
twice as hard just to be considered equal.
And I will battle tooth and nail
to come out on top.
And those boys better watch out.
-Keep going, guys. -Come on, Dustin.
You got this.
Last few minutes of the challenge,
it's me, Todd and Kenji.
JESSICA: Come on.
I know I just need to keep going.
AKEELA: Let's go, Dustin. Come on.
There's still a chance for me to stay out of overtime.
What can possibly be not done?
I don't see anything out of place.
I checked dimensions. I'm looking and I'm looking.
What don't they like?
Now I'm really concerned.
That's out.
Oh, and Todd's now starting to take out screws.
-Kenji running back. -Check.
KEOGHAN: Kenji for a final check.
Keep going, guys.
KENJI: I get another thumbs down
and I run over to the other table
and I'm measuring again.
It's 96 inches, eight feet.
I ran over to mine.
102.
Oh, crap.
I need to cut it down to eight feet.
All right, Kenji, let's pick it up.
YESI: Good job, Kenji.
KEOGHAN: Dustin's asking for a check.
DUSTIN: I feel confident in my work.
I'm hoping I get a thumbs up.
KEOGHAN: And now Dustin with a thumbs down.
Check.
KEOGHAN: Kenji's going in for another check.
[shouting]
And Kenji gets the job done.
I am so proud
that I made it to top four.
Growing up, I've always been an underdog,
so I want to go all the way.
DUSTIN: I'm feeling nervous.
Todd works well with tools.
He has years of experience.
But I'm here for a reason.
That was a tough one, guys,
but it is always about the little details.
Dustin, your bench was too long.
Todd, your work area wasn't clear.
TODD: I'm not happy about my performance,
but knowing that I'm going into overtime,
I have to re-center my focus.
Let that go.
It's gonna be a battle with Dustin.
He is a quiet animal.
Dustin, Todd, by the end of the day,
one of you will be punching out.
[whooping, applause]
TODD: Through all my years,
the way I approach jobs is
mapping out everything, knowing everything,
but overtime-- it's not anything
that you can preplan.
So I have to trust myself to be able to adapt and beat Dustin.
DUSTIN: It's my first overtime and, mentally, I'm ready.
I'm here for my mom.
She's the one who taught me
how to never quit.
I got to prove to her
and everyone else that everyone's hard work
to help me out along the way isn't lost.
KEOGHAN: Welcome to overtime here at Rock Maple Lodge.
That's Peter back there. He owns the place.
TODD: Oh, hi, little doggie.
He also owns the place.
-So you just make yourself comfortable. -Hi, buddy.
[laughter]
AKEELA: Yeah, you want to lay down?
[barks softly]
KEOGHAN: So, behind me here,
those two machines are portable milling machines.
A machine like this can cut about four pickups' full
of lumber in one day.
Your job today is on this work order.
You've got to cut
eight two-by-fours and four two-by-eights.
When that work whistle goes, you're gonna roll your logs
up to a hydraulic arm.
That hydraulic arm is gonna
lift that log up onto the machine.
You will secure it in place.
You'll set the cut that you want using this ruler on the machine.
Then you can cut.
You'll make some eight-by-eight pieces of timber,
and then from there, you can make your two-by-eights
and then your two-by-fours.
Don't forget to look after
your equipment, because if you break a blade,
you're gonna lose time while we get an expert
who's gonna step in and fix it.
As you cut, you'll stack your timber on these sawhorses.
First of you to get the job done,
into the final four.
If you're last, you'll be punching out.
-[whimpers] -KEOGHAN: All right.
Let's get to your machines and let's get to work.
-Let's go, Todd. -All right, Dustin.
-Come on, Dustin. -Let's go, Toddy.
On the work whistle.
[work whistle blows]
DUSTIN: Today's job is using
a portable mill to cut
four two-by-eights and eight two-by-fours.
The first step is using the log-rolling tool
to roll the log uphill.
Attaboy.
Todd is using his cant hook.
[grunts]
Dustin did it by hand.
-There you go. -There you go, Dustin.
KEOGHAN: He's got the hydraulic arm
rolling it onto the machine.
I've never milled lumber.
I just got to try and stay calm.
But also, I definitely don't want to punch out,
so I need to move as fast as I can.
KEOGHAN: Todd has got his in position for that hydraulic arm.
I've heard about a lot of these mills.
I've never run one, but being a toolmaker,
I run a lot of equipment, and I know
that everything has a breaking point,
so I'm starting out slow.
-There you go, Dustin. -KEOGHAN: Dustin lining up for his first cut.
I line up my blade...
KEOGHAN: Now he can go forward.
I start my saw.
Oh, going too fast, and that's what stalled it.
-You're gonna break that band right off. -Slow...
Take your time.
Oh, he's gonna break that band.
Watch your eyes.
Oh, he can't even hear you.
ALL: Oh!
KEOGHAN: Remember, you're working
for a spot in the final four.
All you have to do is cut
eight two-by-fours and four two-by-eights.
Oh, he's gonna break that band.
Watch your eyes.
KEOGHAN: Look after your equipment.
Take it easy.
ALL: Oh!
Oh...
I hit my throttle up.
It goes too fast and my blade falls off.
KEOGHAN: Dustin's gonna need his blade replaced.
DUSTIN: It's uncomfortable waiting.
The anticipation is killing me.
Todd is letting that machine cut through like butter.
DUSTIN: I look over at Todd
and he's not even touching his machine.
I'm baffled.
This machine is running itself.
He's just going for a stroll.
["The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss II playing]
TODD: Once you get to the end, you got to do a lot of process.
You have to shut the plate off.
You got to bring it back,
unhook the clamp, rotate it 180 to make
an eight-inch by eight-inch block.
KEOGHAN: Dustin has got his machine
up to speed again.
This time I learned from just watching Todd.
I got to let the machine do the work.
KEOGHAN: Now he's getting a feel for it.
Dustin's getting through his first cut
as Todd starts his second.
JESSICA: There you go, Dustin.
Nice, Dustin.
KEOGHAN: Todd and Dustin both starting their fourth cut.
DUSTIN: I finally caught up, so now I got to push through
and just keep going.
Come on, Dustin.
[Carolina whoops]
KENJI: You got it, Todd. Keep going.
TODD: Right now, I've got my eight-by-eight piece cut.
I got to decide if I'm gonna make
two-by-eights or two-by-fours.
I choose to get the two-by-fours out of the way,
so I go down two inches, and I cut all the way through.
Come back, now I'm down four inches.
Cut it through.
Come back, go down six inches.
At that point, you've got to rotate the two-by-eights
and cut them in half to get the two-by-fours.
KEOGHAN: Todd finishing off his two-by-fours
as Dustin completes his second two-by-eight.
TODD: Now I have to start
on my two-by-eights.
Oh, I got X's on both those?
KEOGHAN: Dustin has a couple of rejected pieces
-of timber. -Gee.
I was going on just the eyeball,
the rough eight-by-eight cut, and it needs to be
a true two-by-four or a true two-by-eight.
So now I got to start all over.
TODD: I notice I'm ahead of Dustin.
I know that I just need to stay focused.
Nothing else matters
except for the task at hand.
Let's go, Dustin.
CARLY: Let's go, Todd!
Let's go, let's go.
[whooping]
CHERYL: Come on, Todd.
KEOGHAN: Todd thinks he's got the job done.
This is for a spot in the final four.
Are you kidding me?
-KEOGHAN: Oh... -CHERYL: Come on, Todd, you got it.
You got it, Todd. Keep going.
KEOGHAN: Todd has got a rejection
on one of his two-by-eights.
Three out of four are good.
He's got to go back, he's got to go to his third log.
TODD: Come on.
He's got a bunch of bark on the last two-by-eight.
That's why it was rejected.
CARLY: You're good.
Todd has to get a whole other log
to get one piece.
So this allows Dustin
time to catch up.
Let's go, Dustin.
DUSTIN: Mentally, I'm trying to stay focused.
I just have my family in my ear telling me
that I can't give up,
I can't quit.
YESI: Let's go, Todd.
AKEELA: Come on, Dustin.
[cheering]
AKEELA: There you go, Dustin.
KEOGHAN: Todd thinks he's made his final cut.
This is another two-by-eight.
Todd gets the job done.
-[exclaims] -[cheering, whooping]
TODD: I'm in the final four.
That's amazing.
You're in your element there.
TODD: I'm very gracious that I'm here.
Statistically, I got a 25% chance of being
theTough As Nails champion.
I'm ready for the fight.
I want to be the one to win.
I just want to say well done to both of you.
You got a lot of fight in you, Dustin,
and what a fierce competitor.
I'm glad I went against you, man.
Yeah, you kicked my ass.
TODD: I knew it was gonna be a long run.
Todd's been on my radar. He's-he's the man.
-He can work. -Oh, yeah.
Well, huge respect to both of you.
Dustin, unfortunately,
I do need to ask you to punch out.
Yeah. Thank you.
I was here to win the competition.
I wanted that belt.
But this journey took me
to the next level of being able to be a leader.
My team showed me that I am someone
who can be looked at in a time of trouble.
Like I said, nothing needs to be said
-when the people know me. -[applause]
I'm going home a new person.
All right, we go from here down to the final four.
Todd, Jessica, Ben and Kenji.
We will be crowning one of you our Tough As Nailschampion.
-CARLY: Ow! -KEOGHAN: Get some rest.
See you tomorrow.
-Thanks, Phil. -JESSICA: Thanks, Phil.
[indistinct chatter]
Good job, buddy.
You gave me a hell of a fight yesterday.
-That's all good. -I'm, I'm all right.
I seen it when it twitched.
Yeah, you were in the zone.
I saw it and it was like, it's over.
KEOGHAN: Next time, the season finale ofTough As Nails.
-We're down to the final four. -[work whistle blows]
You'll back up your truck,
picking up three loads along the way.
Panicking.
KEOGHAN: This is the toughest gauntlet
inTough As Nails history.
This is do-or-die.
Everything down on the line.
I can do this today.
-I'm just unstoppable. -[shouting]
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