-You got to pick it up! -Previously on Tough As Nails...
Got to move this material. It's drying fast.
ALFIE: Don't worry about straightening it.
Bro, it's gonna set.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew melted under the pressure...
SARAH: One person needs to talk.
-...while Dirty Hands... -It's a check.
-(cheering) -...sealed the win.
KEOGHAN: You are also the winners
of $60,000.
-Yes, sir. -...for the overall team competition.
It was just unleashed emotion and joy.
MIKE: I'm upset.
We're just breaking apart. It hurts right here.
We need to get it together.
-(work whistle blows) -KEOGHAN: In the individual competition...
You got to complete ten parking spots.
...Elizabeth pulled into the winner's spot.
Fantastic job.
Forcing Tak and Quincey into overtime.
One move left!
LIA: You're neck and neck!
Quincey gets the win!
Tak punched out.
Tonight, the final team challenge...
-How about a battle of the trades? -(work whistle blows)
...one last chance for Savage Crew to earn money.
-It's not over. -LIA: Go, go, go, go, go.
KEOGHAN: But Dirty Hands, already up 5-3...
-LIA: You're in the game. -...are looking to go out
-with a bang. -TAK: Yeah, boy.
KEOGHAN: And the remaining contenders
in the individual competition
try to stack and pack their way to the final four.
-ELIZABETH: So close. -KEOGHAN: Got a jammed-up nail gun.
No, it's not gonna catch.
(groans) I thought everything was right.
KEOGHAN: This is Tough As Nails.
KALIMBA: What do you guys think about today, like,
how are you feeling going into today's team challenge?
-Feeling good. -JEROME: Yeah.
Winning everything-- we winning everything.
QUINCEY: I believe Savage Crew gonna be
setting their differences aside today.
-Maybe. -You think so?
I think they may pull together and try to work hard.
QUINCEY: The team score today
is Dirty Hands five, Savage Crew three.
Not to be greedy, but even though Dirty Hands wn
the overall team challenge,
$12,000 is still up for grabs,
and we gonna go for it.
All we got to do is just get out there and work.
LIA: We're gonna win today.
KALIMBA: Yeah.
ALFIE: This is the last challenge
that we're gonna share as Savage Crew.
We need to win, and we know what it takes
and we know what we got to do.
SARAH: I noticed, in the last team challenge,
we're all used to doing our own thing back home
and, you know, we're experts in our crafts.
But when it comes to a team challenge, like,
-we got to get over that. -KELSY: Right.
-HANGER: You're right. -SARAH: You know, come together.
Well said. And we've all come together,
from different parts of this world,
and with different, uh, abilities.
Construction worker, a mason,
a pilot, a carpenter,
superintendent, a lineman.
But we came together as Savage Crew.
You-you guys are amazing, I just wanted to point that out,
that, you know, like,
I picked you guys to be on my team.
-HANGER: Yeah. -And I feel like I'm responsible.
And I want us to win.
-SARAH: We know that this is ours. We need it. -HANGER: There we go.
We want it. That's how we have to operate.
And let's take this win,
and walk away with no regrets, you guys.
No regrets.
(horn blows)
ELIZABETH: What we got here?
LIA: Rebar. Look at all those beams.
-Welcome to the Thunderdome. -Scrapyard.
Good morning.
-CONTESTANTS: Morning, Phil. -Yep, it's a scrapyard.
MIKE: Coming into today's team challenge,
you know, we're looking for redemption.
We need this win.
Welcome to our final team challenge.
Score stands right now at five to three.
Dirty Hands took out the team competition
for the overall win,
and won that $60,000 cash bonus prize.
But I have...
-...$12,000 up for grabs. -(applause)
I tell you what we're gonna do today.
How about a battle of the trades?
What do you think about that?
-Yeah. -Yes.
(laughs) This is gonna be awesome.
KEOGHAN: We're gonna get you guys to go
one at a time, head-to-head,
one challenge at a time.
Up first, here you'll see a set of scales,
and behind that is a concrete block.
You are going to smash your weight in concrete.
You're gonna put it into that steel cage,
through a tight five-by-five-inch hole
and tip the scale.
This is about power-to-weight ratio.
Over here, a skill job.
You will be using a grinder
to cut a slice of seven-inch pipe,
and put it on the stand.
Sparks will be flying.
And then, if you look over there,
those two bikes each have
a 50-foot chain wrapped around them.
You have to undo all that
and throw those bikes onto the scrap heap as fast as you can.
-Everybody ready to get to work? -(cheering)
KALIMBA: What Dirty Hands does
is work together as a team in stressful situations.
This is something different,
it's gonna be individual, one-on-one.
I think we're both evenly matched
in this type of competition.
Dirty Hands, because you won the last team competition,
you get to pick your first competitor.
Let's go.
KEOGHAN: Choose carefully.
Once somebody's been picked, that person
can't be picked again until everybody on the team
has had a turn.
Every time you win a challenge,
you win a stake for your team.
But on the fourth round,
one person from each team will have to complete
-all three challenges. -Oh, my God.
-I like it. -KEOGHAN: If you win that,
you will get two stakes.
-(contestants oohing) -So you got to think
very carefully about who that person is.
First team to collect five stakes
wins today's team competition,
$12,000, and today's Badge of Honor.
-KELSY: Yeah. -Strategize, think very carefully
about your choices, 'cause it could be the difference
between winning and losing.
-LIA: Who's feeling it? -KALIMBA: I'll go first.
Who do you want me to call out, guys?
-Call out Mike. -We call out Mike first.
If she calls out Mike, then they're gonna do the concrete.
-Get him out of the way. -Get him first with Quincey,
-not with Kalimba. -CHRISTINE: Yeah.
Okay.
-Quincey and Mike. -Yeah.
The first challenge was critical with strategy,
just because once you do a challenge, you're done
until you go through the rest of the team members.
So, we knew nobody else would have to go up against Mike.
DIRTY HANDS: One, two, three, Dirty Hands!
We get to choose what that first challenge is.
What do you think you guys are strong at?
I'm just, good mentally, you know, so...
Yeah, I'd be good with the concrete.
We need to be smart on every decision.
HANGER: We need to make sure
we utilize our skills to the best of our ability...
ALL: Savage Crew!
...so we can take this win.
So, Quincey, you'll be representing Dirty Hands,
and who would you like to pick from Savage Crew?
QUINCEY: I guess it would be a fit
if me and Mike go together. (laughs)
MIKE: All right.
KEOGHAN: Mike, did you have a feeling
you might get picked out first?
-I did, yeah. -(laughter)
So, Savage Crew, you get to pick the discipline.
We're gonna go on the concrete. I think it's, you know...
LIA: Oh, no surprise.
-Two bulldogs. Two bulldogs. -MIKE: Right.
-Big dogs. -LIA: It'll be epic.
We got a diesel mechanic
against a lineman smashing concrete...
-(laughter) -...here in a scrapyard.
That's what you call Tough As Nails.
-Yeah. -KEOGHAN: Shall we get to work?
-Yeah! -Let's go. -All right, let's do it.
QUINCEY: I wasn't surprised
when Mike chose the concrete.
ELIZABETH: You got it, Mike.
QUINCEY: He already came up there
with his guns out, flexed his muscles a little bit,
and showed his tattoos.
It's what America want to see, baby.
LIA: Yeah, give America what they want.
KEOGHAN: Gloves on, let's make it a good one.
MIKE: I love a good challenge,
he's a great competitor.
I do weigh more than Quincey does,
so, you know, I got a lot of concrete to break up.
(work whistle blows)
-SARAH: Go, Mike. Go. -KELSY: You got it, Mike.
KEOGHAN: Lot of smashes coming from Quincey.
-Corners. Corners. -Come on, come on.
QUINCEY: My strategy right away was bust the corners.
Next corner, next corner.
QUINCEY: That way, you can work your way
towards the middle
and get smaller pieces in order to fit
in that little five-inch hole.
Yeah.
-Get mad, get mad. -HANGER: Yeah.
-Mike, Mike. -You can rest tonight.
KEOGHAN: Mike has almost broken up
all his concrete.
(whoops) Using a lot of power.
HANGER: You're doing great, Mike, you're doing great.
I can't see Mike, but I can hear him back there.
-(cheering) -Just sounded like
cannons going off behind me.
So I-I know I got to pick it up.
-CHRISTINE: Breathe, breathe. -Breathe.
KEOGHAN: Quincey starting to load.
Using his hand as a hammer.
-You see that? Boom. -He's got hammer-hand.
KEOGHAN: Looking for pieces that will weight this down.
First to tip the scale gets the first stake for their team.
-MIKE: It's not easy. -SARAH: Yo, ditch it, ditch it.
MIKE: Some of the pieces are too big.
-HANGER: Come on. -Keep going, Mike.
KEOGHAN: Mike smashing a piece on the ground.
MIKE: So I start smashing as hard as I could,
but, you know, you feel like you're just going
-in slow motion. -KEOGHAN: Oh.
Lost a bit of time there. Here comes Quincey again.
Look at the way he's sliding up the hammer.
Excellent technique.
Oh, this is gonna be close.
Both Quincey and Mike have to have smashed enough concrete
to tip a scale with their weight on the other side.
Oh, Quincey's starting to teeter a wee bit.
-TAK: Come on, Quincey. -HANGER: There's a skinny one.
There you go. Right there, right there, right there.
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
-(cheering) -And Quincey gets the win.
(whoops)
-CHRISTINE: Yes. -(cheering, applause)
QUINCEY: Putting that spike n for my team, it felt good.
Round one, we're 1-0. Still got a ways to go.
MIKE: This is our last team challenge, and ultimately,
I failed.
(sighs) I'm just glad it's not over yet.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew,
you have the next pick.
Take a moment to strategize.
What can we do at this point?
KELSY: We have either grinder and bike,
that they have to pick from.
If we do Kalimba,
I feel like she's gonna pick the grinder.
I like Sarah, because Sarah can do either.
I'm cool.
We have to get a point.
No matter what Kalimba picks,
Sarah is a strong competitor on our end.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew going with Sarah.
-Who would you like to pick? -We're gonna pick Kalimba.
-You called me out, girl? -(laughter)
KEOGHAN: Kalimba, have you made
-a decision? -We're gonna do the bike.
Sarah is probably one of my closest friends here.
There's nobody else that I'd rather go up against.
We have a fire captain against a cement mason.
Dirty Hands have one stake,
Savage Crew trying to even it up.
-(work whistle blows) -(applause)
Nice and smooth.
-HANGER: Come on, Sarah. -KEOGHAN: Kalimba's moving
very quickly with that long chain.
When I'm not working as a fire captain,
I work at a day care,
and I'm untying knots on shoes all the time.
I'm hoping that translates.
Good job, Kalimba.
-KELSY: Pick it up. -KEOGHAN: Sarah's struggling with that chain, it's tight.
SARAH: I realized I had
wasted time starting at the wrong end.
Sarah, pick it up.
Come on, come on.
SARAH: The only way I could make time up
was follow the chain through...
KELSY: Good job, Sarah.
...and just not get too panicky when things aren't going my way.
-Just stay in it. -KEOGHAN: Cement mason Sarah
is good at working with her hands.
-This is close. -Right on.
KALIMBA: There's just a lot of chain
to bring through.
You got to hurry up. She right there.
KALIMBA: I hear Jerome say, "Oh, no,
-she's right there." -Move. Go, go.
KALIMBA: So I started panicking a little bit.
-Okay, good job. Go. -Come on, Sarah. You got it.
TAK: There you go, there you go,
there you go, there you go.
-Come on, come on. -Kalimba's got a huge
-amount of chain. -QUINCEY: There you go.
Go, go, go. Yep.
-Come on, come on. -Sarah's very close.
KEOGHAN: Kalimba's got her chain caught around the crank.
KELSY: Yep, you got it.
HANGER: Oh, oh, you got it.
Come on, come on!
HANGER: Come on.
KEOGHAN: And Sarah gets the job done!
(cheering, applause)
-HANGER: Ooh, I love you. -SARAH: It feels really good
to put us back on the board.
-(cheering, whooping) -Boom!
Hopefully everybody's momentum is up,
and we have a shot.
Team score now stands at one apiece.
(applause)
We go back to Dirty Hands.
You need to put up a competitor.
I'm next, Phil.
-Lia, you're next? -Yep.
We want to save the big guns for a little later on.
Who have you chosen to go against?
Picked my good friend Kelsy.
And we know what's left to compete on.
The grinder.
KEOGHAN: We're going to the grinder.
I have multiple grinders around my hangar.
My grinder's a little bit smaller,
but we're tied up one to one.
I just want to go out with a bang.
Kelsy, our crop duster, going up against Lia,
our Jill-of-all-trades.
(work whistle blows)
SARAH: Keep it straight.
JEROME: Let the blade do the work.
LIA: One thing I've done recently
is small engine repair.
Working with lawn mower blades,
I-I use a grinder to get out the big nicks
-in the blades. -QUINCEY: No pressure, Lia. No pressure.
LIA: My goal is to keep ahead of Kelsy
-and get us that second stake. -SARAH: Less pressure.
Oh, ah.
ELIZABETH: Let the blade work for you.
MIKE: Let the blade work it for you.
KELSY: My tools back home
are a lot more lightweight.
It's so heavy that I'm not getting that blade in straight.
SARAH: Straighten the wheel, Kelsy,
straighten the wheel.
Ooh.
KEOGHAN: Kelsy and Lia facing off on the grinder
in our battle of the trades.
SARAH: Kelsy, keep it light.
KEOGHAN: We're tied up at one stake each.
First team to collect five of them will get the $12,000.
Keep it straight, Kelsy.
KEOGHAN: Ooh.
KELSY: And I'm not getting that blae
-as straight as it needs to be. -SARAH: Right there.
KELSY: So I was trying to get up on top of it
so I could see.
That's it. That's better, that's better.
Lia rotating her pipe.
Turn the pipe, Kelsy, turn the pipe.
Line it right up with that first cut. Good.
KEOGHAN: Jill-of-all-trades is almost through.
JEROME: Yeah, you can break them off already.
HANGER: Give it all you got. Do not slow down.
KEOGHAN: Has she got enough to get it done?
And Lia drops the pipe.
And Lia gets the job done.
Good job.
KELSY: Wasn't my day on that grinde.
Ugh, it's frustrating.
Team score now: two stakes to Dirty Hands,
one stake to Savage Crew.
-But we know what happens next. -Yeah.
-Fourth round. -The fourth round.
-KELSY: That's right. -ALFIE: For the fourth round,
you have to pick a player that's gonna go through
all the disciplines.
Taking the chain off the bik, the cutting of the pipe,
breaking up concrete, and it's gonna give you
two stakes.
It gets real serious right now.
Okay, so, who do we want to represent us?
I would like to say Elizabeth.
Power-to-weight ratio with the concrete?
-That's a good point. -I've got it.
ELIZABETH: I feel like
we do have a chance for redemption.
I have learned from watching each discipline,
so I feel confident that I can win this challeng.
Maybe Christine can do it.
Do you want to do all three?
I mean, I'm used to cutting pipe,
I'm good with a grinder.
Okay, Christine doing the three.
-We want you to do it. -Okay.
I would like another two grand in our pockets.
I know it's a little bit more pressure,
two spikes you can get instead of one.
I need to stay calm and not let Savage Crew get ahea.
On the work whistle.
(work whistle blows)
JEROME: Good job, good job.
KALIMBA: Let's go, let's go. Come on.
KEOGHAN: Christine, almost freed
the front of her bike.
LIA: There you go. Good, good, good.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth still trying to move big wads of the chain.
MIKE: You got it, girl, you got it.
KEOGHAN: Oh, and the tangle.
-HANGER: Oh, oh. -KELSY: Oh, come on.
HANGER: Come on.
Good job, good job.
KEOGHAN: Both bikes are almost free.
KALIMBA: Let's go, let's go.
-You got it. Go, go, go, go! -KELSY: Throw the bike.
-Throw the bike. -And Elizabeth
-throws her bike off into the pile. -ALFIE: I love it.
-KELSY: Yep, stay focused. -KEOGHAN: Already onto the grinder.
-LIA: Go. Go, go, go. -Go, go, go.
-KEOGHAN: And Christine's bike free. -LIA: You got this.
CHRISTINE: The chains just took forever,
but I'm very proficient with a grinder.
LIA: Come on, Christine.
-Nice, nice. -This is where I got to make up the time.
Yeah, you got it.
Christine's starting down low.
Steady hand.
MIKE: Her blade's frickin' wearing out.
-KELSY: Oh, wow. -MIKE: She's pushing
-too hard into it. -KALIMBA: Come on, Christine.
-HANGER: Come on, Elizabeth. -KEOGHAN: Christine's blade
is worn all the way down.
KELSY: Oh, yeah. Yeah!
-Good job! -And Elizabeth gets it done.
KELSY: Over. Let's go!
-Good job, good job. -Way to go, Elizabeth.
-JEROME: Got to change your blade. -LIA: Change your blade.
KEOGHAN: Christine's looking to change out the blade.
This is gonna eat up time.
Elizabeth's moved on to the smashing.
She's down on her knees, she's using her flexibility,
she wants to keep those pieces small.
MIKE: Let her do her thing, let her do her thing.
ELIZABETH: As a general contractor,
I bust out concrete every day by hand.
-ALFIE: Good. -KELSY: It's not gonna take much of that.
ELIZABETH: I know I can do very small movements
and it would break really easily.
-HANGER: She's comfortable. -I've done it my whole life.
KEOGHAN: Can Christine catch up?
And she finally gets it done.
-KALIMBA: Now come on, you got it. -LIA: Go, go, go, go.
-TAK: Let's go. -KALIMBA: Corners, corners.
-KEOGHAN: Catch-up time. -LIA: There you go, there you go.
From the outside.
Christine is hitting a lot harder.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth, that's a new technique.
We haven't seen that before.
ELIZABETH: If I can load it up in my shirt
as much as I can carry every trip,
-that would save me some tim. -Wow.
-KALIMBA: Go, go. -Go, go, go, go, go.
-KALIMBA: All the big ones. -Christine starting in
with some big pieces.
-LIA: You got it. -KEOGHAN: Remember that each has to smash
their body weight in concrete.
-JEROME: There you go. -It's got to go through
-a tight hole. -LIA: Hit it with another one.
-Hit it with another one. -Five by five inches.
LIA: There you go. There you go.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth back to her T-shirt.
-Wow. All right, look at this. -You're in the game.
-She wants this win for her team.
QUINCEY: There you go. Put them all in there.
Come on, Christine, move fast.
-It's starting to move. -KELSY: Go, go, go,
go, go, go!
-HANGER: Oh, oh, oh! -KELSY: Yeah!
-Oh, my gosh! -KEOGHAN: And Elizabeth
gets the job done!
(cheering, applause)
KEOGHAN: Two stakes for Savage Crew...
-(cheering) -...and that brings the score
to 3-2.
ELIZABETH: I feel really good. I got two pins.
That let us take the lead, but it's not over.
Now I just have to sit back and let my teammates
do the rest of the work unless it comes around again.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, you still have a chance to catch up.
Absolutely.
Savage Crew, you've got the next pick.
My righteous brother Jerome.
Jerome, how do you feel about that?
-I was waiting all day. -You were...
-(laughter) -JEROME: Come on.
-What would you like to do? -Want to cut.
Get to your grinders, let's get to work.
(work whistle blows)
KEOGHAN: Hanger wants to bring it for his team.
-Keep moving, keep moving. -CHRISTINE: Rotate.
KEOGHAN: Not if Jerome can help it.
LIA: Nice, Jerome. Nice.
JEROME: When Hanger picked me, he did the wrong move.
All my life, um, from 17 years old to now,
I use the grinder.
SARAH: Straighten it up. Straighten it up.
KEOGHAN: Hanger's fighting that blade.
Oh, wrong move, brah.
KEOGHAN: He just burned up that blade.
Jerome keeping it smooth,
still on his first blade.
JEROME: Yeah, I could have done that job,
uh, with my eyes closed.
KEOGHAN: And Jerome gets the job done,
and wins it for Dirty Hands.
LIA: Yeah, baby!
TAK: Yes, sir, brother.
KEOGHAN: Team score's three to three.
HANGER: 31 years utilizing a grinder.
I'm gonna have 55,000 carpenters saying,
"What are you doing, Hanger?"
KEOGHAN: Alfie and Tak, the only two left
who haven't competed.
You're gonna go head-to-head and see who can break the tie.
First to five wins it.
$12,000 in my pocket and today's Badge of Honor.
-Let's go. -On the work whistle.
-(work whistle blows) -(applause)
Tak is wriggling that chain, now he's on his way.
TAK: Unraveling the chains off this bike,
it's kind of like a puzzle.
I'm not really good at puzzles,
but I need to win.
KEOGHAN: Tak moving very well.
-HANGER: Go Alfie. -KEOGHAN: Nice move from Alfie.
-Come on! Come on. -Yeah!
Savage Crew want this win bad today.
-You got to get that one out. -TAK: In this challenge,
everything relies on "I" and not "we."
So I can't give up.
-KEOGHAN: Alfie ripping through this chain. -SARAH: One more.
(all cheering)
KEOGHAN: Tak is not giving up.
-Come on. -Come on, Alfie.
-(cheering) -KEOGHAN: And boom!
-Savage Crew with the win! -(cheering)
HANGER: Yeah!
This is a moment of success.
(whooping)
ALFIE: We're here,
we're finally focused.
We've had some ups and downs along the way,
but that's behind us.
We're here to take care of business today.
Savage Crew, taking the score to 4-3.
There is one challenge left over there.
Savage Crew, you now have to pick somebody
to compete, and someone from Dirty Hands to compete against.
SARAH: If Elizabeth does it, we have to still
pick somebody who hasn't...
-Kalimba, Kalimba. -Exactly.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, have you made a decision?
We're gonna go with Elizabeth
against Kalimba.
Let's go.
KEOGHAN: Okay.
Elizabeth did really well in round four,
but as a firefighter,
I've worked with a sledgehammer quite a bit.
It doesn't make me nervous.
KEOGHAN: Dirty Hands, this is to catch up.
Savage Crew, one stake away
from winning the final team challenge.
We need this so bad.
This is our last chance
to take $12,000 home for our families.
On the work whistle.
-HANGER: Come on, Elizabeth. -KELSY: You got this, Elizabeth.
KEOGHAN: Savage Crew, one stake away from winning
the final team challenge and $12,000.
Dirty Hands fighting to keep their hopes alive.
-On the work whistle. -(work whistle blows)
-(whoops) -Yes, sir.
KEOGHAN: Big power coming from Kalimba.
Going around the outside, making some big smashes.
-Yep, yeah. -Oh, yeah.
KEOGHAN: Elizabeth going back to her old technique
of getting down low, making small pieces.
-There you go, there you go. -SARAH: Elizabeth and Kalimba
have different techniques, but Savage Crew
is really confident in Elizabeth's abilities
to take the win.
KEOGHAN: Kalimba smashes them down on the ground.
She's got to try to break up these bigger pieces.
Elizabeth, back to the T-shirt technique.
Everybody around the country
-is gonna be following this technique now. -Oh, yeah.
KEOGHAN: Ah, Kalimba's trying the same thing.
Going with the T-shirt.
Kalimba has learned from watching her competition.
That's smart.
Elizabeth is firing her pieces into the scale.
The scale is starting to teeter.
-Yes, yes. -Elizabeth is starting to move, and...
-...Elizabeth gets the move for Savage Crew! -(cheering)
Yes! Yes!
ELIZABETH: We just won it. I mean, that was crazy.
HANGER: I am so proud of her. I am so proud of her.
ELIZABETH: I got to help my team
secure a win that was crucial.
SARAH: Way to hustle, man. Proud of you.
ELIZABETH: My team needed something to help them feel complete,
and I really feel awesome that I got to be a part of bringing
my team back together and us leaving on a high note.
Savage Crew, I'm very pleased to tell you,
-I do have today's Badge of Honor. -(applause)
Since there's no crew boss, hand it through your team.
Everybody should get a touch of that.
And also, $12,000.
-KELSY: Yeah. -KEOGHAN: You guys managed to get
a little bit of extra payment
at the end in the team competition.
-Congratulations. -(applause)
-The sun is setting... -Yes.
...and when it rises again,
we go from a team competition into the individual competition.
Five competitors left.
And by the end of the day?
We'll be down to four, our final four.
All right, get some rest, everybody.
-Good night. -Ah.
I'm so excited.
-(whoops) -(laughter)
HANGER: Today was a great day, man.
MIKE: I feel so much better now.
We showed each other the most
-unconditional love today. -Yeah.
MIKE: And you guys now are gonna be part
-of my family at home, too. -HANGER: Absolutely.
KELSY: Yeah, absolutely.
You know, I start knocking on your back door,
-you better have dinner for me. -(laughter)
I'll have the dog bowl out for you.
-HANGER: Hey, I'll take it. -MIKE: It's the weight off
of my shoulders, getting redemption.
We're all happy, and we're smiling.
Now I can just focus on going
to the individual competition.
That $200,000 is getting closer for me,
and I'm fighting for my family at home.
KELSY: Mike and Elizabeth,
don't worry about us, like, we have your back.
Mike's gonna be running hard to keep up with me.
-MIKE: I am. -(laughter)
CHRISTINE: It's officially over.
-The teams... -Yeah, it's officially over.
Oh, yeah.
(sighs) Bittersweet.
QUINCEY: There's five people left competing.
-Three Dirty Hands, right? -CHRISTINE: Yep.
Three Dirty Hands and two Savage Crew.
I mean, everybody in this van is,
just, has the biggest heart and is super caring.
-LIA: Yeah. -I love Quincey's smile.
And I also love the way you love your family,
and the way you speak of your family,
and your parents and where you grew up.
Thank you.
-Lia, I love your determination. -Yeah.
KALIMBA: And I also love how you're just a truly,
like, genuine and authentic person
that hasn't let struggles in your life define you.
LIA: Wow.
KALIMBA: Jerome, you are the most, like, straight-up person...
This weird, you guys. Stop it, for real.
-CHRISTINE: But we love you. -You guys weird right now about it.
-Don't even say nothing... -(laughter)
And I love how one of you guys are going to win.
CHRISTINE: You guys better bring your A-plus game today.
-KALIMBA: Yes. -TAK: Let's go.
-JEROME: Man... -KELSY: Oh...
MIKE: This looks pretty fun.
-Good morning. -CONTESTANTS: Morning, Phil.
KEOGHAN: Welcome to today's jobsite.
The team competition is over,
we are down to the individual competition.
Because we're working in a confined space,
I'm gonna ask those of you who are not competing today
to go and wait for us in overtime.
The rest of you, stay here
and I'll tell you what your job is.
QUINCEY: It's down to the final five.
Somebody gonna be punching out today.
If I win the $200,000,
it'll mean so much to me and my family.
You know, I didn't come this far to turn back now,
so, you know, I'm all in.
It's gonna get busy in here real fast.
There is a serious shortage of wood right now,
so the recycling pallet business is exploding.
Up and down this street, the price is constantly changing.
Look over there, look at that.
The price is changing right now.
Guy just changed the price.
-Now it's $5.50. -LIA: Supply and demand.
KEOGHAN: In all seriousness, up and down this street,
that happens all the time.
See the pallets behind you?
-They're all smashed up? -Oh, yeah.
You would think that someone might just throw that
in a dumpster, but no.
Hugely valuable.
Your job today is to repair ten pallets.
Got to do it as fast as you possibly can.
When the work whistle blows, grab a pallet,
take it to the workstations.
First, you got to remove all the broken slats
off both sides of the pallet.
Make sure all the stray nails are flushly hammered in
or pulled out.
All the tools you need to get the job done
are laid out on the jobsite.
And each of you have a stack of useable slats
to replace the broken ones.
Keep in mind that they're all different sizes,
so many will need to be trimmed to fit.
The first of you to complete ten pallets
and hang your hammer on the wall,
will be the winner of today's challenge.
The last two of you to finish the job will go into overtime,
and by the end of the day,
one more of you will be punching out,
losing your shot at getting into the final four.
The good news is: if you win today's job,
you will get a 566-piece mechanic's tool kit.
-Sounds great. -ELIZABETH: Hey.
KEOGHAN: Okay, everybody.
Ready to get to work?
-ALL: Yeah! -Grab a workstation.
ELIZABETH: Thinking about the people I'm going up against.
Quincey is very focused,
very detail-oriented.
Jerome is very calm and very relaxed.
Mike's got a lot of strength.
And then Lia can have incredible speed.
So they're not gonna make it easy for me.
KEOGHAN: All right, I'm gonna get Guillermo in here,
he's gonna check out your work.
He owns this place. Guillermo.
Thanks for coming out. Make sure they do a good job.
On the work whistle.
(work whistle blows)
Jerome's coming back for another pallet,
and being very methodical with his selection.
JEROME: The pile of broken pallets,
you couldn't take the top one, you have to go find the ones
with less damage on them.
So, look for the easiest pallets.
Less to repair. That's the challenge.
Remember, you've got to get ten pallets complete today.
Last two of you going into overtime.
MIKE: We have to smash the old boards out
that are cracked or broken and then grab
a new board from the pile.
Use the air nailer to nail it in.
My boards were all longer than my pallets, so,
you know, I took the handsaw
and, you know, started cutting them.
That thing was flimsy. (laughs)
Nice. Thank the Lord.
KEOGHAN: Whoa, Jerome with the first pallet complete.
And he's off to the pile to get a second.
Guillermo, what do you think?
Oh, yeah. Ready to go, ready to go.
KEOGHAN: Thumbs-up, Jerome. One pallet complete.
ELIZABETH: My first pallet I selected was severely damaged.
I'm taking forever to repair it.
I really want to avoid overtime.
Jerome is already on his second pallet,
and I'm still working on my first?
If this happens again, I-- it's over for me, I'm done.
KEOGHAN: Mike, you have one pallet complete.
Thumbs-up, Quincey, one for you.
Thumbs-up, Lia, one pallet complete.
Elizabeth, you have a pass, first pallet complete.
Jerome takes the lead with two finished pallets.
MIKE: We started off with 12 individuals that are toug,
and now we're down to the final five.
It's coming right down to the end here,
and there's no messing around or no time for mistakes.
Jerome has the lead at this point.
Six on the stack, working on the seventh.
Elizabeth is starting to catch up.
Solid with five.
Five complete, getting a sixth.
I got a lot better at my pallet selection,
and I was fortunate enough to get several pallets
where I didn't have to cut any boards.
I want this win.
KEOGHAN: Mike has got four.
Working on his fifth.
Quincey, got four, working on his fifth.
And Lia with four, working on her fifth.
LIA: I use pallets on the farm, where-- to keep the hay
up off the ground, and feed in feed bins,
but nothing compared to this.
This was pretty intense.
LIA: I need a check down here!
Let's inspect that, Guillermo.
Ah, no, it's not gonna pass. Look at that corner.
LIA: Coming.
-Too big a gap right there. -What about this one?
(groans) I thought everything was right.
Elizabeth and Jerome coming down to the finish.
Elizabeth, you're passed on your ninth.
-Yeah, he's passed this. -KEOGHAN: Jerome gets his ninth one.
Elizabeth and Jerome both at nine.
Ten pallets, this to stay in the final four.
(whoops) This is close, everybody.
And Elizabeth looking for a check on number ten.
-Solid. -Ten pallets for Elizabeth!
-She gets the win. -Good job, Elizabeth.
-You got the tool kit, 566 tools. -Yeah.
-Congratulations. Going through to the final four. -GUILLERMO: Good job, Elizabeth.
-Good job. -ELIZABETH: I made it to the final four.
And this win today felt awesome for me,
because now I've got two individual wins in a row.
I just need to continue on that path.
KEOGHAN: And Jerome with his tenth pallet complete.
JEROME: Final four, I feel good.
Blessed for... I come this far already.
One more challenge closer to the prize.
Super excited.
Nice job. Very nice job.
Three competing, only one spot left.
Two of you going into overtime.
Quincey knows what it's like to be in overtime and so does Lia.
Mike has never experienced it.
Come on, Mike. You got it.
Mike, you have your ninth one complete.
Going for his tenth.
Go Quincey and Lia!
Lia, you are good with nine, you need one more.
And Quincey, right there with her,
working on his ninth pallet.
-JEROME: Uh-oh, uh-oh. -ELIZABETH: What happened?
KEOGHAN: Quincey with a jammed-up nail gun.
He's gonna need to get that cleared up
before he carries on.
ELIZABETH: So close.
QUINCEY: I'm on a roll, and then my nail gun gets jammed.
And I start panicking a little bit,
because I know we're all neck and neck.
I got to get this thing fixed
and get it back going because
I have to stay out of overtime today.
(groans)
-Damn. -ELIZABETH AND JEROME: Uh-oh.
KEOGHAN: Quincey, still trying to get his nail gun working.
He's gonna need to get that cleared up before he carries on.
QUINCEY: Luckily, I got some experiene with nail guns
and-and-and power tools.
Go, Quincey and Lia!
I was able to unjam my gun and go back to work.
KEOGHAN: And nine is good for Quincey,
working on his tenth.
Lia, Quincey, Mike, only one guaranteed spot
left in the final four.
None of you want to go into overtime.
Who's gonna be safe?
MIKE: I'm sweating.
You got it, Mike. You got it.
QUINCEY: Lia's beside me,
she's on the same number of pallets I'm on.
Mike's on the other side of me,
he on the same number of pallets I'm on,
and we're all just neck and neck.
I can't afford to fall behind.
I got to pick up the pace here,
because I'm not punching out today.
KEOGHAN: Quincey's sweating like crazy now.
-Gonna be close. -Looks close, right?
Look, he got a cut.
KEOGHAN: Quincey stacks his tenth one.
-What do you think? -JEROME: Let's go, guys. -ELIZABETH: You got it.
-That's it, looks good, done. -KEOGHAN: And... done!
-Quincey has the hanger... -Yes!
...and he's safe from overtime!
(Quincey whoops)
QUINCEY: Broke my overtime streak.
I'm feeling good. I can finally breathe.
Here I'm now in the final four, ready to get the job done.
Ten.
I've been to overtime and I really don't
want to do it again.
But I'm gonna go out there, and it's going to be a fight
because I've made it this far,
and I want to be in the final four.
-(sighs) -Good job, guys.
QUINCEY: Boy, that was fun.
MIKE: I performed very well
for myself on this challenge.
Fought all the way till the end.
I haven't been in overtime.
Uh, I've been trying to avoid it.
But I'm gonna fight tooth and nail to win it.
KEOGHAN: Guillermo, thank you for having us here
-at your pallet yard. -ELIZABETH: Yeah. Thank you very much.
You ready for this?
All right.
KEOGHAN: So, Mike and Lia,
you will be fighting it out for one last spot
in the final four in overtime.
MIKE: It's gonna be
-David and Goliath. -David and Goliath.
KEOGHAN: And you're playing what role?
-The big guy, I guess. -Yeah, the big guy.
-The big guy. -We know how that story ends,
but I don't know, I don't think
you're gonna give it up that easily.
Not that easy.
Today's overtime is going to be about
keeping your cool, because each of you
needs to build a rocking chair
just like this one here that Elizabeth
is sitting in so comfortably.
You've got to make the seat for your rocking chair.
You can see that the cradle is already done.
When the work whistle blows, go and study your work plan.
You need to make six dowels.
You are gonna be making the dowels by hand,
you have to size them up
using this die right here.
It's about precision, because if you hit too hard,
you split the wood.
You want to use your dowels to join the seat together
so you can build your chair.
The first of you to get your rocking chair completed
will be in our final four,
stay in contention for that Tough As Nails title.
If you finish last today? You will be punching out.
MIKE: I've never built furniture before,
but, you know, I love the pressure.
That's what my job gives me every day.
It's life or death when you're working on the line,
so you have to have that mental sharpness.
Okay, let's get to work. Mike, you'll be here.
Lia, you'll be working over there.
-(applause) -KELSY: Yeah, guys.
LIA: First thing about Mike you notice is,
"He's a big guy, and he's powerful."
When people first see me, thy see someone kind of average.
I'm five-foot-three, 120-some pounds.
There's nothing about me that says
I'm super-duper capable.
But you can't judge a book by its cover, honestly.
On the work whistle.
Let's go, guys.
(work whistle blows)
-KELSY: Come on. -JEROME: Okay, let's go.
(applause)
(whoops)
LIA: Mike and I are given a bunch of wooden pieces
that we have to assemble,
using dowels which are not the right size.
So we have to take the dowels down
to the right size to assemble together
and make a rocker chair.
SARAH: Let's go, Mike. Come on.
-Focus, Mike. Focus. -Yes.
MIKE: My strategy is gonna be
thinking of, uh, doing Legos with my son Landon.
You see the picture and you lay out exactly the pieces you need.
Good job, guys.
KEOGHAN: Lia gets through her first dowel.
CHRISTINE: Nice job, Lia.
KELSY: Did he just cut himself?
Oh, my gosh, he did. Be careful, Mike.
CHRISTINE: Watch your fingers.
MIKE: I think I cut myself
on the box cutter.
I was trying to move my dowel out of the way,
and it caught me.
KELSY: Mike's bleeding.
KEOGHAN: Mike, you all right?
MIKE: Yeah, I'll keep going.
And then, as soon as I start hammering
the-the first dowel,
uh, blood just started going everywhere.
And I was just like, "This is gonna suck,"
but you got to just push through it.
CHRISTINE: Good job, Lia.
Good job, Mike.
LIA: We have a hammer,
a little template to slam the dowels down
and size them.
It's time-consuming and...
not just easy to make a dowel.
KEOGHAN: Mike is keeping ahold
of his dowel as he works.
That helps to keep his dowel steady.
Lia hitting at different speeds.
-LIA: Oh, son of a gun. -(all oohing)
Oh, no!
-Come on, Mike. -Nice job, Lia.
KEOGHAN: Mike, who picked teammates for Savage Crew,
battling it out against Lia,
who picked Dirty Hands.
First of you to build your rocking chair
gets the last spot in the final four.
-LIA: Oh, son of a gun. -(contestants groaning)
Oh, no.
KEOGHAN: Hit it too hard.
LIA: Snapping dowels,
having to start over again, it's a process.
And I had no strategy whatsoever.
I'm winging it.
And then it dawns on me
that I have a little step,
so that I can get a little height.
KEOGHAN: Lia, talk about getting on top of the jobsite.
LIA: I can get straight above it,
so I'm not hitting at an angle,
and that's what I had to do to get the job done.
KEOGHAN: Mike is pulling it from the bottom.
Good job, Mike.
KEOGHAN: He's got his first dowel complete,
ready to stack the long support seat pieces
as well as the connecting pieces.
You got it.
ELIZABETH: Come on, Mike!
KEOGHAN: Mike is taking a second
to line up all the spacers.
KELSY: He's stacking them.
MIKE: You have to have a really good, organized plan
on how you work this.
One wrong move could set you back.
(rooster crows)
-(laughs) -KEOGHAN: Chickens are yelling out for you.
Those are roosters.
Uh, those roosters are yelling out for you, sorry.
I knew she was gonna correct you.
(screeching)
KEOGHAN: Lia's first dowel on her seat.
And Mike with his first dowel in.
MIKE: I'm getting into a rhythm
of doing these dowels correctly.
You know, just staying at a steady pace.
Listening to my wife in my head saying, you know,
"Take it nice and easy,
don't be a bull in a china shop."
There you go, Mike.
Mike with four dowels in.
Lia working on her fourth.
(contestants groan)
It's okay! We got another side.
Don't worry about it.
LIA: In the process of trying to make
a new dowel, I-I broke one or two.
KEOGHAN: Whoa. Watch that.
LIA: But I'm not gonna beat myself up.
I'm just gonna keep moving.
ELIZABETH: Nice.
Mike gets that fifth dowel in.
One more piece of dowel for Mike.
SARAH: One more. One more.
Don't take a chance on breaking it, take your time.
Mike has the saw out, cutting his sixth dowel.
Lia doing a great job pushing out the broken dowel,
pushing the new one through.
LIA: I'm feeling like I'm way behind Mike,
but the same thing that's happening to me
could happen to Mike,
so I just-- you can't stop.
KEOGHAN: Beautiful work. Look at that.
-Straight, straight, straight. -That's nice work, Lia.
Both Mike and Lia working on their sixth and final dowel.
MIKE: My forearms were burning,
going through, hitting those dowels,
and I was like, "Whatever, just keep going, Mike,
just keep going."
Oh...
Mike has a break.
Now he's got to make another dowel from scratch.
That's a disaster.
Lia's now looking to get this sixth dowel in.
Mike and Lia fighting it out to stay in the final four.
There you go.
-Come on, Mike. -KEOGHAN: There's a little bit of dowel
left at the top.
Lia's cutting off her sixth dowel.
Got to be nice and flush, all six of them.
She's checking.
All right.
LIA: Excuse me, Phil.
KEOGHAN: And Lia gets into the rocking chair.
-(applause) -(exhales)
Taking the win and going into the final four.
Now let me in here, let me in here.
I just love competing.
Everybody here has such a great heart,
and it's so much fun to push ourselves against each other.
I had no idea which one of us was-was gonna sit
in that rocking chair first.
-Lia, you're a beast. -Thanks.
-Good job. -Thanks, brother.
MIKE: Today was a tough day.
I came here to win and to be
the next Tough As Nails champion.
So taking a loss was heartbreaking for me.
But Lia's a great competitor.
Her being the one able to pick Dirty Hands
and me being able to pick Savage Crew,
we kind of grew a bond together.
And I have so much respect for her.
I mean, my family just grew bigger now, and, you know,
I-I love it and I wouldn't change anything for the world.
Lia, congratulations for making it
through to the final four.
-You deserve it. -MIKE: Yes.
Coming here opened
my eyes up to women that are in the trades,
because, back home, I don't see that.
And to see Lia, Elizabeth, Kelsy,
Sarah, Christine, Kalimba in these trades
normally you see men in
is a huge thing, 'cause now my little girl Sicily
can see you guys work hard.
-(applause) -HANGER: That's right, that's right.
MIKE: These women are strong,
and I hope my daughter can be
just as-as strong as them, and I want her to.
Your daughter's gonna be amazing.
-Thank you. Thanks. -She's got a good dad.
KEOGHAN: Mike, unfortunately,
-after your journey... -Yes.
...all the way through to the final five,
-I do need to ask you to punch out. -Yes, sir.
MIKE: I feel blessed that I had the opportunity to compete,
and it's not always all about the money.
It's about coming together and having these memories
and understanding of each other so we can bring it
back home and understand ourselves even better.
Lia, congratulations.
You've made it through to the final four.
Along with Elizabeth, Quincey and Jerome.
This is gonna be a hard-fought battle.
Tomorrow one of you will be crowned
our Tough As Nails champion.
-LIA: Oh, Tak! -TAK: Lia.
-Yes. -Good job, Lia.
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KEOGHAN: Next time, the seasn finale of Tough As Nails.
-Down to the final four. -ELIZABETH: It's gonna depend
on who can make the least mistakes
and who can go the fastest.
KEOGHAN: Who will be the first to go
over their K-rail and go into the final three?
Whoa! Got to be careful he doesn't flip this.
KEOGHAN: Welcome to the final challenge
-on Tough As Nails. -KALIMBA: Let's go.
-SARAH: Yeah, let's go. -KELSY: Come on.
You are our Tough As Nails champion.