-MIKE: Let's go, let's go! Work! -ALFIE: Pull this chain away.
KEOGHAN: These are the men and women...
-who keep America running. -ELIZABETH: Come on!
-KEOGHAN: Rugged... -You got it!
-hardworking individuals... -CONTESTANTS: Go, go, go, go!
who roll up their sleeves every day
-to get the job done. -ALFIE: Do not stop!
KEOGHAN: They're the first to show up...
-and the last to leave. -ELIZABETH: Move! -QUINCEY: Let's go, baby!
KEOGHAN: Tough As Nails searched the country
to find the toughest of them all.
Only 12 made the cut.
They've been ordered to report to Camp Pendleton in California
for the start of a life-changing competition.
♪ ♪
LIA: I don't think I was born with whatever brain cell
tells you to be afraid of things.
I was an active duty Marine for four years,
so I feel at home.
And I'm gonna win with such a stretch
that people are gonna be like, "We need to make this harder."
MIKE: I have mental toughness, physical toughness,
endurance.
I'm the whole package, and I'm gonna bring it.
ALFIE: I came to this competition with a heart of a lion.
I don't know how to quit.
I don't know second place. I'm here to win.
KELSY: What is that?
-Oh, no. -Oh, shoot.
KELSY: Oh, gosh.
(laughs): Oh!
KELSY: Seeing that ocean
and the military trucks,
it's breathtaking.
-(laughter) -It's just unbelievable.
I come from a town
of 900 people. (laughs)
I cannot wrap my head around what's happening.
Talk about a grand entrance.
Look who's over there, you guys-- it's Phil!
(whooping)
SARAH: First impression of everybody I see--
I-I know it's gonna be a tough competition.
Phil brought us here because we're the best of the best,
so I got to watch out for them.
KEOGHAN: Welcome to Tough As Nails!
(whooping, shouting)
You have no idea what you're in for, do you?
(laughter)
-No, you do not. -We do not.
Welcome to Camp Pendleton.
Welcome to Red Beach.
This is iconic, this beach. Chances are
if you've ever seen a photograph of a Marine training,
it happened right here on this beach.
-Wow. -Here at Camp Pendleton they have
17 miles of pristine coastline.
This is one of the few places on the West Coast
that hasn't had any development at all.
To be here is an honor, and you are standing here
because you are the best of the best
in your chosen trades.
You've all got that perfect combination of strength,
endurance, agility, life skills, mental toughness,
but in the end, only one of you
will win a 2022 Ford Super Duty...
(cheering, whooping)
...$200,000...
-MIKE: Nice. -(whooping)
...and be crowned our Tough As Nails champion.
-(cheering, shouting) -Right here!
Remember this-- what makes Tough As Nails different
is that even if you punch out of the individual competition,
nobody goes home,
because there is a team competition,
and there is lots of cash to be won.
-Yeah! -Yeah! -To get things started,
why don't you tell America what you do for a living.
I don't sit down, lay down or back down,
but this 54-year-old carpenter can definitely get down.
-(whooping, laughter) -KEOGHAN: How many times
-did you practice that, Hanger? -Yeah! -(clapping)
I'm a commercial superintendent.
-I'm the old guy here. I'm 55. -Whoo! Hey! -Oh, nice.
Name is Jerome. Heavy equipment operator from Hawaii.
The way I live is pono-- the way to live righteous.
My friends call me Tak.
I'm a foreman carpenter, also from Hawaii.
-Yeah! -I'm Christine.
I am a union ironworker
here in California.
Yeah, I'm Quincey. I'm from Lamar, South Carolina.
I'm a crane and mobile diesel mechanic.
And my motto is: "Without struggle, there's no progress."
-Beautiful, Quincey. -SARAH: All right.
I'm a fire captain.
You can call me Captain Kalimba.
-I'm like a superhero. -(laughs)
My name's Elizabeth.
I'm a general contractor from Washington.
I have a nickname-- they call me Eliza-beast.
-Ooh-hoo. -So everybody better bring it.
(laughing)
My name's Lia.
I'm from Richfield, Pennsylvania.
-Yeah! -I'm a Jill-of-all-trades.
I'm bringing everything I got.
I'm Kelsy. I'm from Mansfield, Illinois,
and I am owner and operator
of a helicopter crop-dusting business.
That's awesome.
I'm Sarah. I am a cement mason out of Queens, New York,
and my goal here is to be the first female to win
-the whole thing. -Yeah! -I like it!
-We like that! -QUINCEY: I love it.
I'm Mike, uh, from Upstate New York.
I'm a lineman, and I'm gonna bring the power.
(laughter)
The first thing we are going to do is decide which two of you
get to pick our two teams of six.
And we're gonna do that by having you take part
in a military exercise.
♪ ♪
(engine roaring)
You hear that?
That's the sound
of a C-130.
It has
a 45,000-pound payload.
That is a workhorse.
(whirring)
And what's coming out of that C-130?
♪ ♪
12 airdrops; 12 of you.
You're looking at your first job.
Who better to adjudicate the job and make sure
it's done properly than this man.
(cheering, whooping, clapping)
KEOGHAN: This is our season one Tough As Nails champion...
(cheering, whooping)
...Kelly Murphy.
Welcome, Murph.
Brought something with me.
-(excited shouts) -KEOGHAN: Oh, hold on a second.
You're the king! Raise them arms, my brother!
-Let me see it one more time, baby! -(cheering, whooping)
So, as you know, Murph has served our country.
And I know that this beach is special to you.
-This is sacred ground here. -MURPH: It is.
I spent 22 years in the Marine Corps.
16 years of that was on this base, Camp Pendleton.
As a Marine,
we came in from the ocean to do amphibious assaults.
I've landed on helos on this beach.
My oldest daughter was born at the naval hospital
here on Camp Pendleton.
So to be here with you on this beach means a lot to me.
-That's so amazing. -That's amazing.
So, let me tell you a little bit about the job
that Murph's got lined up for you.
When the work whistle blows,
you're gonna be logistic Marines.
First up, run inland and find
one of the 12 airdrops.
It's first come, first served.
Unwrap your airdrop as fast as you can.
Believe it or not, those airdrops include an ATV
and trailer filled with essential supplies.
Assemble your trailer with wheels,
hook it up to your ATV--
you need to bring everything you find, even the parachute,
all 1,000 pounds of it--
and race as fast as you can back here across this line.
Getting through this soft sand without getting stuck,
will require some serious life skills.
First two of you to get the job done
get to pick our two teams of six.
Is everybody ready to get to work?
-CONTESTANTS: Yeah! -All right.
♪ ♪
See if we got a champion here worthy of wearing the belt.
♪ ♪
Let's get it done!
-(work whistle blows) -(grunts)
And they're off, Murph, they're off!
Oh, they are going for it.
ELIZABETH: I grew up on a farm.
Nobody wants to do any of the work, so I just learned
that if you could do work that nobody else wanted to do
and you didn't complain, you were valuable.
As a general contractor, I know how to manage
things that are unexpected.
I just stay calm, and I keep moving forward.
I compete every day to work harder than I did the last day,
and I've just come to believe that I cannot be defeated.
-I see this is holding it together. -KEOGHAN: Have you ever unpacked
-an airdrop before? -I have.
-KEOGHAN: What's the key? -Efficiency.
Just getting the gear laid out.
Just got to get in that rhythm, man.
MIKE: Coming into this,
I felt very confident, because...
what God has given me is...
is strength, and...
I want to choose my team.
KEOGHAN: Quincey is actually struggling with those straps.
My fingers so big, but the knot's so small...
I'm struggling.
I'm struggling bad.
KEOGHAN: You look just behind him,
Alfie is a clear leader at this point.
Yeah, he's definitely way ahead of everybody else.
ALFIE: Age is a man-made
measure of time
that's used to measure us or limit us
to where we should be
according to society, but I don't buy that.
Being underestimated is what I love.
I never quit.
I fight till the very end,
and I keep fighting till the task is done.
Originally, I'm from Chile.
I applaud my father, 'cause he was brave enough
to just jump on a plane,
have 150 bucks in his pocket and come here.
When my dad got here, he swept floors at a tire shop.
But eventually, he became the general manager
of that tire shop, and so that'
the work ethic that, I think, took me to be who I am,
and I've raised my children that way.
I'm playing for my family.
I'm playing for my retirement.
This is one shot in life.
I'm coming to win.
KEOGHAN: Oh, wow, Christine is taking off her tarp.
I would say she's in third place at this point.
Kalimba's doing very well.
And Kelsy started strong.
KELSY: I think this competition is very mental.
You need to prepare.
With crop-dusting,
you need to be on your toes any minute.
It only takes a second for something to go wrong,
and you only have a second to fix it.
I fly about eight to ten feet off the ground,
65 miles an hour, and I do about 40 acres
every eight minutes.
You got to realize that, hey,
this is a job that's really dangerous,
and keep all your focus right there,
in the cockpit and what you're doing.
Uh, my whole family has always told me,
"I don't know how you do what you do."
I don't know where the muscle comes from,
but somehow I get the job done.
I want to show all females,
don't let anyone tell you you can't do it. You can.
KEOGHAN: Lia's picking up the pace.
Got to get all these supplies off.
It's a lot. It's 1,000 pounds.
Look at this. There you go. Jerome muscling that.
MURPH: Looks like Mike almost has his trailer put together.
KEOGHAN: Yeah, Michael is moving quickly and so is Alfie.
It's gonna be a race between those two at this point.
Lia gets her ATV off the trailer.
It's rolling away from her a little bit.
Christine is making great progress, as is Tak.
Kalimba just working steadily away.
Alfie is loading up his trailer.
I have a feeling Alfie's gonna take this win.
-He's the oldest competitor. -MURPH: Well, I know that Lee
definitely showed us a thing or two.
-As did you. You're no spring chicken. -(laughs)
Elizabeth, working on the wheel of her trailer.
As is Sarah.
SARAH: Me being a female in my craft,
it requires a lot of mental toughness.
When I go to different jobs, I see the guys' faces, you know?
And I see them wondering what I'm capable of, and...
I take enjoyment out of that, you know?
It-it pushes me harder.
KEOGHAN: Mike picking up all the pieces.
Alfie pulling in his parachute.
-Very close finish here. -Oh, it's close.
KEOGHAN: I don't think anybody else is close.
It's gonna come down to these two at this point.
Kalimba's finally got her ATV off the trailer.
Whoa.
TAK: To me, tough means...
just overcoming obstacles in your life.
Like, I'm from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, and, uh,
work on the Island
is scarce.
If you don't prove that you're one of the best,
they're not gonna, you know,
keep you hired, because there's another guy
right down the road.
So I have to compete for my job
so I can provide for my family.
I need that win, 'cause I'm gonna get married soon,
and I have a new baby, so it would just mean
a lot to me if I won.
KEOGHAN: Mike is trying to tie things up
Alfie loading his last cover.
-MURPH: Mike's a little bit closer to us. -KEOGHAN: Yes, that's true.
Here he goes. Is this it?
-Is this it? -MURPH: Uh-oh.
(engine revving)
KEOGHAN: Here we go.
Alfie's starting up.
(motor rolls over, dies)
(pedal clicking)
God, please, Lord.
(pedal clicking)
KEOGHAN: Mike, he's rolling ahead.
He's looking behind him to see if anybody's close.
Meanwhile, Alfie trying to get off the mark.
But he can't find neutral on his ATV!
Come on!
-(starts motor) -Yeah.
KELSY: The trick to start an ATV
is you have to be in neutral.
It will not start if you're not in neutral.
-Come on, baby, come on. -KEOGHAN: Mike, the lineman,
crawling along-- he must be worried if he picks up speed
something's gonna fall off his trailer.
-Come on! -Meanwhile, Alfie, can he catch up?
(laughs): Only 50 yards to go.
Mike wants this victory, he wants to pick a team,
but can he hold it together and get over the line?
MIKE: Come on, come on, come on, come on.
KEOGHAN: Oh! And Mike's getting stuck
in the sand!
(engine revving)
(Mike grunts in frustration)
KEOGHAN: Can you believe it, Mike and Alfie were
just seconds away from finishing.
They would have been picking teams,
but now they're both at a standstill.
-Come on! -ALFIE: It's overwhelming to me
I've owned motorcycles since I was 13 years old
and all of a sudden
I have this thing that won't go into neutral,
which is killing me.
MIKE: I'm just like, "You got to be kidding."
I'm within feet of the finish line, and...
this is getting intense.
-Come on! -KEOGHAN: Wow,
that's a huge effort from Mike.
Those ATVs weigh a ton.
If Alfie can get this together, he could literally run
past him right at the end.
But with Mike and Alfie neutralized,
this is a chance for everyone else to catch up.
Jerome and Lia have almost finished
Stacking their trailers.
LIA: I want the weight on the front
of the trailer, so that it has weight on the ATV,
so that I can get some traction
How could I lose this? This!
-Oh, shoot, shoot, shoot. -KEOGHAN: Kelsy, losing control
of her ATV and trailer.
It's just rolling down the hill
-Sarah struggling to get that second wheel on... -Come on!
...as Kalimba fights to attach her first.
Lia tightening those straps. She's getting pretty close.
MURPH: Quincey's hooking up his trailer now.
(motor starts)
KEOGHAN: Alfie, finally getting it into gear.
-(motor dies) -(whispers): Oh, you bitch.
All right, let's go.
Oh, my God.
♪ ♪
KEOGHAN: Mike is just using brute strength
to move that trailer
-onto the back of the ATV. -(grunts)
If he does it here-- I think he's on harder ground--
he might do it.
(starts motor)
KEOGHAN: Oh, here we go!
Lia about to come down from the hill.
And over there, it looks like Jerome is doing well.
He's about to finish.
Mike finally has his trailer reattached.
But here comes Alfie-- he finally got his ATV going.
♪ ♪
You got to go fast, but if something falls off your trailer
you've got to go back and get it.
(engine revs)
♪ ♪
Mike struggling for traction in the sand.
And here comes Lia.
Lia and Mike so close!
-Yeah! -And there goes Lia!
She beats Mike by half a wheel!
-Whoo! Nice! -Mike comes in second.
-Yes! -That means Lia and Mike get to pick teams.
LIA: I can't believe it!
I won the first Tough As Nails challenge.
I'm 54, I'm a Jill-of-all-trades, and...
I have done so much in my life,
I... I can hardly believe it myself.
I started out as a Marine.
From there I was a full-time professional firefighter.
I'm a chief warrant officer in the Army Reserve.
I've been a large-caliber gunner.
I've driven tractor trailers.
I've done almost every construction trade there is,
but I am not a master of any of these trades.
But I got a pretty good handle on most of them.
Currently, I do walking trail tours
on my hobby farm with our alpacas,
horse, too many donkeys and a goat.
-Yes! -If I do win,
I would hope that I'd take the money and the truck
and use it to help others.
KEOGHAN: And Jerome with a very close third.
JEROME: Man,
don't make Lia's look fool anybody, man.
Her attention to--
just ready, you can see her focus.
She's mean.
KEOGHAN: Alfie racing to the finish line with Elizabeth right behind him.
-And Alfie crosses the line. -ALFIE: My kids
are gonna roast me when I get home on this one.
This is gonna be embarrassing, walking in the door
and having to tell them, "I couldn't find neutral."
KEOGHAN: Here comes Elizabeth!
KELSY: Bring it in, guys!
-Bring it in! -Elizabeth stuck
right at the finish line!
Everybody rushing to finish
and prove to Lia and Mike
that they deserve a place on their team.
Get it gone! Move it, move it!
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth's detached her trailer.
She's gonna pull it over the line.
That's some incredible determination.
Here comes Tak. Don't stop,
don't stop, don't stop, don't stop!
-Tak gets the job done! -Yeah!
-Here comes Kelsy. -LIA: Come on, Kelsy!
KEOGHAN: Push! Push!
Kelsy gets the job done.
KELSY: I'm not first,
but I'm not last! (laughs)
Lia, you are our winner today. Congratulations.
Right now, you and Mike are looking at the teammates
that you will be picking from.
So watch closely.
-Elizabeth refusing to quit. -Am I across? -Yeah.
-Elizabeth, you're across. You're good. -ELIZABETH: Yes!
ELIZABETH: It's not the best way
to start off a competition, but this is a long competition.
-Here comes Hanger. Hanger, you need speed. -(contestants shouting)
KEOGHAN: Oh, Hanger, come on!
Here's Christine on her way down the hill.
We can help you, we can help you.
-KELSY: Keep your speed! -LIA: Bring it in!
-There you go, Hanger! -Let's go. -One, two, three!
-Nice! -KEOGHAN: Way to get it done!
HANGER: I'm gonna be a little hard on myself, but...
everyone coming together collectively,
helping, pulled my ATV and my trailer.
I thought that was amazing.
-KELSY: Keep moving! Keep moving! -KEOGHAN: Keep it going!
Keep it going! Here she comes, here she comes!
(whooping)
There you go, Quincey!
All the way, all the way! Go, go, go, go!
HANGER: Sarah! Yeah!
-Sarah! Yeah! -Go, go, go! -KEOGHAN: And here comes Sarah!
Oh...!
That's all right. We're gonna push you.
-I'm liking what I'm seeing. -Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Everybody's jumping in to help out.
And Sarah gets the job done.
-(whooping) -Yeah!
SARAH: It was surprising, uh, reaching the finish line,
seeing that there were so many people there already,
but then to also have the support of everybody,
it was definitely an amazing feeling.
♪ ♪
Come on!
KEOGHAN: Watch out for her.
She's coming through with a purpose.
KALIMBA: I know I'm the last person, but...
it felt good to be finished.
(cheering, whooping)
-Yeah! -KEOGHAN: Gets it done!
KALIMBA: Tough means never giving up on yourself,
never giving up on others.
Tough means finding a way when there is none.
I'm a firefighter for 21 years,
and, uh, I'm nine years sober being alcoholic.
It starts off as a way to relax to unwind after shift.
Next thing you know you're doing it
just to, like, get up in the morning.
It was a long road back,
but I want to show my sons that uh, that you can push through
any kind of obstacle, even when things are hard.
I've been through the storm and I've survived,
and I'm gonna keep on going.
♪ ♪
LIA: As I assemble this team,
I'm looking for different skill sets,
so that as we move into the challenges,
we have different individuals
that can take the lead if need be.
Lia, you found the gear.
-You were not stuck in neutral. -I don't spin my wheels.
-(laughter) -KEOGHAN: You were not spinning your wheels,
like maybe the person next to you, a little bit.
-(laughter) -Yep.
KEOGHAN: You are our winner today,
which means you can chose whether you want to be part
of the Dirty Hands legacy or the Savage Crew legacy.
LIA: I made a decision, Phil.
And it is?
I pick Dirty Hands.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands.
(clapping)
I liked Lia till a few seconds ago.
(laughter)
KEOGHAN: Lia, why Dirty Hands?
The name says it all, we're getting dirty.
Blood, sweat, tears, we're gonna get the job done.
Mike, that means, you'll be picking for Savage Crew,
so put your name on your bag.
Dirty Hands won season one,
Savage Crew tied it up on season two.
A lot of pressure on you both to represent.
MIKE: I'm happy. I wanted Savage Crew
I wanted to follow in Murph's footsteps.
To me in was meant to be.
KEOGHAN: Lia, you finished first today, that means you get
to make the first pick, probably the most difficult pick.
♪ ♪
You've got everybody to choose from.
LIA: Everyone's strong and focused.
I don't know that I can judge
how people are going to handle the pressure of competition.
♪ ♪
KEOGHAN: Lia, you finished first today.
Who would you like to pick for Dirty Hands?
Uh...
I appreciate everyone here,
their skills, their no-quit attitude.
I saw it in everyone, and I value that.
So, I think...
Jerome.
Yeah.
I picked Jerome first because he says pono,
"righteous," you know?
He's enthusiastic. He's passionate.
He has this calm, high energy,
if that's possible. (chuckles)
-Thank you. -Being picked first
was an honor.
Bring it, yeah.
KEOGHAN: Mike, as the sun sets here,
you're gonna make your first pick.
(exhales sharply)
I'm gonna have to go with, um...
the guy that's got all the lines.
-Yeah! -I'm gonna get Hanger, right there.
Yeah, baby! That's right.
-KEOGHAN: Union made. -Thanks, brother.
MIKE: Hanger amazed me.
He looked like he was a beast out there on the beach.
I'm not gonna let my teammates down.
KEOGHAN: Lia, you get the next pick.
-LIA: Christine. -KEOGHAN: Let's go, Christine.
Part of Dirty Hands.
CHRISTINE: Being an ironworker, I cut things.
I weld things. I build things.
I have a lot of skills.
-I'm just ready to rip. -KEOGHAN: Mike.
I'm gonna have to go with Elizabeth.
-HANGER: That's right. -KEOGHAN: Powerful.
-That's right. -Didn't quit.
How do you feel about the pick?
-Let's do this. -KEOGHAN: All right, Lia.
-Quincey. -Ah. -KEOGHAN: Quincey.
-CHRISTINE: All right. -Let's do work.
Quincey's a Mack truck.
KEOGHAN: There's a good reason major colleges like Clemson
-were recruiting this man to play football for them. -All right, all right.
That was a good pick right there.
-MIKE: Alfie. -HANGER: Good pick.
-And your reason why? -He's got the orange on already.
(laughter)
We're gonna go with Tak.
-KEOGHAN: Going with Tak. -(clapping)
TAK: I am not the strongest guy on the job site,
but technique over power is everything.
KEOGHAN: Mike, next pick.
Uh, Kelsy.
-Yeah! -ELIZABETH: Yeah! -HANGER: Yeah, Kelsy!
-(clapping) -LIA: Yeah.
KEOGHAN: Okay, Lia, I know it's tough,
but you need to make your final pick.
We're going with Kalimba.
KEOGHAN: Kalimba, you're over on Dirty Hands.
(clapping, cheering)
Sarah, that means you're a part of Savage Crew.
-My girl. -SARAH: There's gonna be a time
that I have a opportunity to prove my skills.
I'll just wait for that chance.
We have our two teams.
LIA: Boy, bring it!
KEOGHAN: Go to your vans, get some rest.
Fantastic job today, super impressed.
LIA: Go, Dirty Hands!
-MIKE: Savage! -OTHERS: Savage!
MIKE: We're gonna bring it this season.
-MIKE: Savage. -HANGER: Savage.
Savage Crew.
-We're gonna go undefeated. -KALIMA: Be ready, guys.
Let's do it, baby. Let's go.
Dirty Hands is my team. I love everybody.
LIA: I'm so glad you guys are on my team.
I just want a bunch of people
with the same alo as me, and I got them.
Let's go.
SARAH: Let's make these Benjamins.
♪ ♪
CHRISTINE: This is the team.
LIA: This is the team.
KALIMA: I believe in us.
I mean, what do they have that we don't have?
Well, they don't have us. That...
(laughter)
LIA: Quincey...
tell us why you're a legend.
QUINCEY: You know, I-I played football.
I guess I made a few great plays.
-Don't be so modest. -(laughter)
Did you play in college, or...?
No, I didn't play in college.
I sustained, like, three injuries
my senior year in high school.
-Oh, wow. -Aw, man. -Yeah.
I was one of the stars on my high school football team.
My goal was to finish off with a state championship.
COMMENTATOR: Number 66, Dequincey Walker.
You know, and then things happened.
I shattered my leg, broke my tibular,
tore all the ligaments up in my ankle. It just...
It was heartbreaking.
Yeah, pretty much just ended my whole football career.
-All the plans that I had, -LIA: Oh, man.
-all the visions I saw. -Wow.
It was pretty hard to deal with for a little while.
My family, my coaches,
they were all preparing me to g out and play college football,
so that was a turning point in my life.
But...
this Tough As Nails competition is my redemption.
It's tough when you see a future for yourself,
and then it just all goes away.
You overcome it, man.
MIKE: This is the winning team. I feel it.
-Oh! We are. -HANGER: Oh, yeah!
-We are. -Yeah. Yeah.
KELSY: We're not accepting losing.
MIKE: No.
What experience does everybody have?
I'm currently a cement mason.
My grandfather was my dad, growing up.
He was a mason for 20-plus years,
and he was a hard worker.
I got a lot of determination and drive watching him.
I have some bricklaying experience,
some tile apprenticeship,
uh, eight years military.
-Oh. Thank you for your service. -HANGER: Yeah.
SARAH: My grandfather passed away in 2016,
and I decided to leave the military to be closer to family
Losing him was probably the hardest thing I've had to do.
My grandfather and me were besties.
While he built my mom's house, I stuck to him like glue.
He taught me whatever I showed an interest in.
My battle buddy referred me to a program,
Helmets to Hardhats,
and they had a cement mason apprenticeship.
(whirring)
I feel like it was a sign from my gramps.
Every day I try and pass
those same values he instilled in me to my nephews.
My alternate life goal would be
to take the land my grandfather left in South Carolina
and build a property that we can keep in the family,
just to keep my grandfather's legacy going
and to keep the family tight-knit.
Anything I do, I do for my grandfather.
I know my grandfather believed in me,
so I got to believe in me, too.
I'm-a give it whatever I got.
(waves crashing)
♪ ♪
(helicopter blades whirring)
♪ ♪
(engines roaring)
Dirty Hands, Savage Crew, bring it down.
Come on, Dirty Hands!
MURPH: All right, form it up.
-Good morning, everybody. -CONTESTANTS: Good morning.
So, as you know, we are here to find out
who is the toughest of them all,
but in the end most of you will be earning your money
in the team competition.
The first team to get to five wins
will get a cash bonus prize of $60,000.
-(cheering) -Yeah! -HANGER: Yeah!
And for today's job, I have $12,000...
-(whooping) -Yeah! -...and today's Badge of Honor.
You want to collect as many of those as you possibly can.
Now, guess what's arriving on the beach right there,
with all those supplies, you see that?
♪ ♪
Holy moly.
-KEOGHAN: It's an L-CAT. -Whoa.
MURPH: It stands for "landing craft air cushion."
They're doing marine exercises right now.
And look at the payload that that thing has.
All the supplies, when you land on the beach,
straight from the water onto the land,
and you can get those supplies into the front line.
MURPH: No matter where you're at, your Marines need
the ammunition, the food, supplies.
Without logistics, the forward elements,
-they don't move on at all. -Those L-CATs dropped off
those two containers that you can see on the beach.
They're filled with lifesaving supplies
that keep the front lines fed, watered and ready for battle.
When the work whistle blows,
you will run to your supply containers
and then use all the equipment you find inside
to match this staging plan.
You'll need C-wire to set up a perimeter fence,
set up a 305 tent,
load essential supplies onto four wooden pallets,
then repair the stranded Humvees.
Final part of your mission is to raise an American flag.
That will signal a Marine to drive out of the staging area
towards the front line.
This is all about teamwork.
Have you made a decision about
who's gonna be the crew boss, Savage Crew?
-Sarah. -We're gonna go with Sarah.
I do have experience as a supply specialist,
so it's my time to shine.
What about you, Dirty Hands?
-Lia. -We picked Lia. -Lia.
I've done this a number of times
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Korea.
I have no doubt we can do this.
KEOGHAN: Everybody ready to get to work?
-CONTESTANTS: Yeah! -KEOGHAN: Let's do it!
Teamwork makes the dream work.
That's the recipe for our success.
We're gonna give Dirty Hands a run for their money.
Lia's had to unpack air drops.
She's put up C-wire.
So I feel confident in my team.
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle!
♪ ♪
KEOGHAN: On the work whistle!
(work whistle blows)
-HANGER: Let's go! -LIA: Go, Dirty Hands!
♪ ♪
QUINCEY: Let's get there, let's get there.
-TAK: I got it. -ELIZABETH: Okay.
LIA: Start clearing and organize.
SARAH: Okay.
Where do you want these? Where do you want these?
Put them on the side,
off to the side, we got to get the pallet.
I have military experience, eight years served.
The challenge is similar to my job--
I was a unit supply specialist,
and we handle all the logistics of any unit mission.
So it was very familiar.
I've done it several times.
Water containers, next pallet.
LIA: Get it out of the way, get it out of the way.
Not in the center, this is where the tank goes.
My strategy going into the challenge is
to first unload the container,
position some things out of the way
because I have to get the tent out,
and that's going to take six of us.
From there, have a fence team,
have a team to work on the Humvees,
and have a team to work on supplies.
JEROME: Okay, I got one pallet.
LIA: Take the pallet where it belongs,
out to the side.
ELIZABETH: You guys got to do assembly line,
'cause we're gonna wear ourselves out.
-Yep. -They're trying to move
too much material at once,
so I go back in my head, on the farm.
We always do assembly lines.
It's a quick way to move materials a long distance
without exerting a lot of energy.
There you go.
Savage Crew going with supply chain.
Dirty Hands, breaking off, doing their own thing.
-LIA: Help with these. -TAK: I got them myself.
-Get the big stuff. -LIA: We'll need you for the big stuff.
I need everybody.
SARAH: We need people doing sandbags.
I'll start filling them up.
SARAH: Let's do pallets while they fill that.
-Water containers. -Second pallet.
Second pallet, copy.
MIKE: Sarah started giving those directions out,
and I was happy to see her be excited to,
you know, take this on.
She was just like,
"Okay, this is what I do."
KEOGHAN: Four ammo cases, one trip.
That's gonna save some time right there.
-I need everybody in. -Okay.
Everybody for the tent, let's go!
JEROME: One, two, three.
Okay, Christine's leading.
She calls the shots.
-Let's go. -KEOGHAN: Great teamwork.
Dirty Hands starting their 305 tent.
We need to flip it up.
Being an ironworker, you have to be versatile.
I have a big voice, and when I give direction.
I give it clearly.
-Two, one, flip. -LIA: Flip it over.
CHRISTINE: Our idea is to get the tent set up first.
It's probably one of the quicker things
that we're gonna do today.
Come on, y'all, get that tent open,
-get that tent up. -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands working on
their first two pallets.
Savage Crew look like they're one pallet ahead.
Now, they're moving on to putting up their fence.
ALFIE: Work it together, brother.
We got a lot of spikes to do.
HANGER: As a carpenter,
I've installed many fences.
This is what I've done my whole life.
I didn't have to think about it. It came natural.
KEOGHAN: You see the red line?
He's got to get it under the ground.
Fencing, that was one of my first construction career jobs
of learning the level side,
learning the hard work, bust my hands up.
But, yeah, it was tough.
-Bring it in! -JEROME: Wait, wait, wait.
LIA: Pull it straight. Wait, wait, wait.
They're having to stop their individual tasks right now to...
-To go and work on the tent. -Pull out.
Go, go, go.
As tight as you can, tight.
Good.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth working on the sandbags.
Be calm, guys. Be calm and steady.
Savage Crew have already got one, two, three, four, five.
They're working on their sixth stake.
Go to the next one. I got you.
HANGER: That way we're not burning ourselves out.
-I know what you mean. -Sarah is doing the pounding.
Let's get that power going, get those stakes in the ground.
Talk about power-to-weight ratio,
Kelsy's carrying a bundle of C-wire
that's almost as big as she is.
Dang, this stuff is sharp.
CHRISTINE: Everyone to this side.
-Push up! Up. In, in, in. -KEOGHAN: Beautiful.
-Pop it in! Legs go down. -Good teamwork.
Faster. Faster, like this.
Savage Crew, moving on to their fourth pallet of supplies.
They've got their MREs. They've got their ammo.
They've got the water, one more pallet.
That's gonna be loaded up with sandbags.
Attagirl. Hell yeah.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands are yet to finish off their pallets.
They've got the water, ammo,
but they've staggered their job here, Murph.
They've got supplies lying out all over the place.
Not as well organized at all.
LIA: Up! Go all the way up!
-I need somebody on this leg. -KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands have their tent up.
-That might save them some time. -LIA: All right.
Everybody, find your job.
Back to the fence.
KEOGHAN: Look at the power come from Mike.
And that is the hardest part of the ground right there.
That is gonna take some work.
Dirty Hands, the minute that they opened their container,
they ran and put their tent up.
We have a totally different strategy.
-Shovel, shovel, shovel... -We're going to take care of different tasks
and eventually all gravitate to the tent.
And we're confident in Sarah's plan.
SARAH: Talk to me, Alfie.
-You good? -Huh?
ELIZABETH: You want my help or you know how to do it?
SARAH: Go help him, I got it. I got it, I got it.
KEOGHAN: Now we're moving on to the Humvee, and...
Whoa, look at Elizabeth.
Sliding in to help Alfie, like she's stealing home plate.
-ALFIE: One more to go. -KEOGHAN: These tires are no joke.
-Changed out one of these before? -I have.
-You almost up? -I'm up.
ALFIE: The challenge is to change a flat tire on a Humvee,
then there is a broken Humvee behind it,
so we have to make it able to tow.
I was probably ten years old
when my father had us take an engine apart,
and so that kicked in.
LIA: Okay, wire team!
Let these guys hammer the posts.
Get the wire laid out.
♪ ♪
KEOGHAN: Look at Sarah,
carrying four sandbags over to the pallet.
Come on, Mike!
They must be towards the end now.
(grunts)
Wow. Did you see her just lift that thing up?
-That's, uh... -MURPH: That's pretty heavy.
Don't worry about that, we'll that together.
ELIZABETH: 100 pounds, 150 pounds, that's nothing.
I can lift a 200-pound plate compactor up off the ground
into the back of my truck in ten seconds.
(grunting)
Are we sure it's in the right spot?
LIA: Right in between each post.
Come on, guys, keep it up!
KEOGHAN: Who is gonna get the win here today?
MIKE: Keep going down to here.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew getting their C-wire out.
-They've got their stakes in the ground. -SARAH: Where we at, Hanger?
We got to run the other one. It's a pyramid.
-MIKE: Yep. -Good communications. -Yep.
(engine starts)
Let's go, let's go, driver.
-Come on. -SARAH: Hold up, hold up.
Already, Savage Crew hooking up their Humvee.
-SARAH: I can rock it on. -KEOGHAN: But they still have to put up their tent.
Dirty Hands have their tent up,
and they're finally starting to pound in those posts.
LIA: We're pounding fence posts into the sand.
How hard could that be?
Well...
(metal clanking)
(grunting)
KEOGHAN: Quincey, everything he's got.
Look at the strain on his face.
QUINCEY: That sand is not like sand
that you walk on on the beach.
Oh, it felt like I was trying to drive through concrete.
I was looking at Christine,
and her and Kalimba, oh, my goodness.
(clanking)
KEOGHAN: Oh, Christine's got some power in those arms.
-Come one! -KEOGHAN: As is Kalimba.
I'm like man, oh, yeah, we got a strong team.
-KEOGHAN: Good to go. -I'm going to the truck.
-ELIZABETH: Lift and pull. -KEOGHAN: Beautiful.
Savage Crew, getting out their 305 tent.
-Ah, in! -Next.
Savage Crew have their tire repaired.
They have their hitch on.
Their pallets are almost complete.
They've almost completed their outside perimeter
with the three spools of the C-wire.
Their tent is being assembled as we speak.
And over here, Dirty Hands finishing
the last stake in the ground
before they can get all their C-wire out.
They have two of their pallets complete.
They're working on the sandbags
as Quincey works away repairing their Humvees.
QUINCEY: My job as a mechanic,
anything that has wheels and moves,
if it breaks down, I fix it.
Let's go. Let's go, Dirty Hands. Let's go!
I'm changing the tire and I'm like, "I got to do it quick."
I go as hard as I can.
You go get the next one, I'll get the first one.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands desperately need to get that C-wire in.
Everybody on wire, I'll do sandbags.
ELIZABETH: We gotta lift it!
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew getting their tent up.
Push your asses down!
One, two, three!
-(Mike grunts) -ALFIE: Whoa.
KEOGHAN: Look at that, Murph.
Look at that transformation.
-ELIZABETH: Now make sure they snap! -The tent is up in the air.
LIA: Come on, Dirty Hands! Keep moving.
JEROME: Keep going to the end.
KALIMBA: Right here, right here, right here.
Go, go, go.
Let him rest on my knee, let him rest on my knee.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew trying to figure out how to get that clicked in.
-Down or up? -Up! Let's try up!
-Okay. -(Sarah grunts)
SARAH: We're struggling building the tent,
but it's definitely crucial, um, that we keep a cool head.
I'm so focused on getting my team across the finish line.
My biggest competition right now is ourselves,
and we can't beat ourselves.
-ALFIE: Mike! -I think it's down.
-ELIZABETH: Push it in, push it in! -(Mike grunts)
ELIZABETH: Come down a little!
-Push it in! -Yep.
-There! It went. -Good.
Turn it, turn it, turn it.
We realized the tent was
not staged according to the plans,
so we had to reposition it really quick.
ELIZABETH: One, two, three!
-KELSY: Stop. -SARAH: Right there, stop!
Good leadership coming from Sarah today.
Where's the flag, you guys?
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew getting to the final part of their job.
While Dirty Hands desperately working to finish
their fence, Humvee and sandbags.
LIA: Dirty Hands, keep moving!
Should have went posts first.
MIKE: Don't let it touch the ground.
-HANGER: You're military. -We're raising this for you.
Can you hold this end?
-Put it up, put it up. -Go, go. Let it go.
-Let it go, let it go. -Got it?
HANGER: Go, go, go, I got this.
-Inside, inside, inside. -KEOGHAN: Savage Crew gets
their American flag up.
QUINCEY: Let's go, let's go!
We got to finish!
KEOGHAN: Here comes Sarah, crew boss today,
directing the Humvees out of the camp.
MIKE: Come on, guys.
SARAH: They gonna pull all the way out. Back up!
KEOGHAN: Incapacitated Humvee being pulled out.
Those Humvees need to get outside the perimeter fence
to complete the mission.
Sarah, the crew boss today, leading her team to a win.
♪ ♪
ELIZABETH: Yeah!
Savage Crew with the win!
(cheering)
(overlapping shouting)
♪ ♪
Keep going, Dirty Hands! Keep going!
-Lift her up. -Let's go.
-(cheering) -Savage Crew!
SARAH: I had to come out and prove myself today.
Especially being a veteran,
I wanted to make my battle buddies proud.
To be here at Camp Pendleton was an honor.
I will take this memory for the rest of my life.
I'm honestly at a loss for words, you know?
Just to be here, in this moment, I'm thankful.
(exhales)
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands refusing to give up.
They've got their American flag up,
and their perimeter fence complete.
They're putting all their supplies onto their pallet.
Come on, Christine!
KEOGHAN: They have their Humvees hooked up.
HANGER: You guys did not give up,
-you did not give up! -(whoops)
-KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands getting the job done. -(cheering)
-(whooping) -SARAH: There it is!
KALIMBA: Was I disappointed we lost?
No, because I don't take it as a loss.
I take it you either win or you learn.
We just became a team,
so we had to learn
each other's skills and strengths and move forward.
It was the first competition. We have many more to go.
Fair to say that Savage Crew did a fantastic job today.
LIA: All right, yeah!
I also loved the fact that Dirty Hands refused to give up,
and they got the job done.
-Yeah! -(others agreeing)
Great leadership from Lia and from Sarah.
Wow, Savage Crew is off to the races.
We are on top of the world.
We can take this thing all the way.
Lia, this was a tight one.
I'm not disappointed, Phil.
Everybody did their very best,
and I couldn't ask for better team members.
(speaks Hawaiian)
I was looking at my teammates.
Everybody was so positive.
So, for the next challenge,
we stay together, and it'll get done.
KEOGHAN: Sarah, well done.
$12,000 goes to you and your team.
-That's $2,000 each. -(cheering, whooping)
-ELIZABETH: Go, Sarah. -Congratulations, Sarah.
-Nice work. -And the Badge of Honor from Murph. That's the first.
-Yeah. -Savage Crew up one-zero. Dirty Hands, it ain't over.
-It ain't, it's just begun. -KEOGHAN: Yes, it has.
You're standing next to teammates
who are the best of the best in their trade.
Scrappy, highly-motivated workers...
Dirty Hands!
...who will do anything to help you
-win the team competition. -KELSY: You okay?
Remember, the first team to win five Badges of Honor...
(cheering)
...gets that cash bonus prize of $60,000.
(cheering, whooping)
KEOGHAN: And then, there's the individual competition.
A head-to-head battle.
ALFIE: I woke up with one purpose only
-Fire coming. -To win.
KEOGHAN: You'll have to rely on your strength...
endurance, life skills...
KALIMBA: I have fought fires where the elevator is out,
but if people's lives are in danger,
you just have to keep on moving.
-TAK: Push it! -KEOGHAN: And most of all...
mental toughness.
(all shouting)
-KEOGHAN: This is gonna be close. -JEROME: What's happening?
Go down there and get that one that's not turning!
-KEOGHAN: In the end... -(yelling)
...only one of you will survive....
Oh! Got to be careful he doesn't flip this.
...win $200,000...
ELIZABETH: This one's for all the outcasts, guys.
-QUINCEY: Oh... -ELIZABETH: Go, go, go, go!
...and be crowned Tough As Nails champion.
How about a big round of applause for Murph?
(cheering)
KEOGHAN: 22 years serving in the military.
Murph, it's been an honor to have you here.
You, too, Phil, thank you for having me.
All right, you guys, we'll see you back
for the next team challenge.
MIKE: You guys did not quit.
SARAH: Good hustle, good hustle, man.
QUINCEY: Oh, man. What a great time today.
HANGER: I don't know about you guys, but I'm hungry.
-KELSY: Uh-huh. -JEROME: Crab legs on you guys?
MIKE (laughs): Yeah.
-No more burritos. -(laughter)