(HEAVY BREATHING)
VOICE-OVER: Selection for the SAS is a test like no other.
I don't care if they're celebrities in their world.
They are not going to know what's hit them.
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIR)
(SHOUTING)
VOICEOVER: 17 celebrity recruits...
STAFF: Let's go, let's go.
..have volunteered to put their glamorous lives behind.
It's not about you.
It is time to create a new life for myself.
Go. (SCREAMS)
ANT: SAS selection is designed to break the most elite soldier.
They're put through the most gruelling stages of selection.
I you OK? Yes, Staff.
..by an elite team of Special Forces soldiers.
(RAPID GUNFIRE)
We haven't even started yet.
Chief Instructor Ant Middleton...
ANT: I spent 12 years in the military,
four years in the Special Forces...
I've saved lives
and I've taken lives.
..and his team of Directing Staff will make no exceptions.
Head up.
We're going to find out who they really are...
and so will they.
Go!
Break. break. Break! (SCREAMS)
Coming up... Move!
A brutal game of murder ball.
Aggression.
Fear will either keep you alive...
Eugh! WOMAN: Yes!
(COUGHING) WOMAN: Doctor.
MAN: We need a doctor.
..or it will kill you.
The recruits come face-to-face with their darkest fears.
Oi, Bambi. Stand up. I can't.
You can!
There's a fine balance between courage and stupidity.
Do not waste drinking water to fucking clean yourself.
Fucking zip it and listen for a minute.
In a remote compound, 16 celebrity recruits
have survived their first day of the brutal SAS selection course.
ANT: Alright, everyone jump on the waggons.
Let's go. Move.
Come on, guys. Let's go.
Their instructors, called DS, will test the recruits on their
ability to handle extreme danger, forcing them to confront their fears.
Fear is the number one emotion that
stops us from achieving everything in life.
It is that hurdle that people cannot get over.
And it's because they don't expose it.
That's what we do in the Special Forces.
We expose that emotion so many times that we understand it.
Let's get a move on.
We understand it so well that we make it work for us.
In the Special Forces we operate everywhere around the world.
All sorts of terrain.
Nothing is impossible to get over or to go down.
When we come to a cliff,
when we come to a mountain edge, we find a way up it or down it.
The mountains are the mere obstacle.
Nothing gets in the way of the mission.
Watch very carefully for this demonstration
because you lot are going to be doing exactly this.
OK? Alright.
Let's go.
Fast, efficient, boom. Down that within seconds.
Seconds.
VOICEOVER: But before they tackle the steep 60m rock face,
they must first climb to the top.
Put your harnesses on.
Do not freak yourselves out.
And do not let fear conquer you.
On the battlefield fear will either keep you alive or it will kill you.
It's as simple as that.
OK. Just a quick brief.
You work together.
I want to see you come down together. Talk to each other.
You don't go until you're both ready and happy.
OK. First two follow me.
VOICEOVER: First up is number 11, actor Firass Dirani
and number 17, reality star, Eden Dally.
I was on the first-ever series of 'Love Island'.
People were calling me a bully
and I feel I was only sticking up for myself and defending myself.
Come on. Let's go, let's go.
I know a lot of people will be death writing me.
Get up!
I know when they see me on this course
they will be hoping I fail straight away.
Stand up!
Let's move, come on.
That is my driving force.
I really want to stick it to them.
Come on. Let's climb. Let's go.
Almost there.
VOICEOVER: Ignoring the DS's instructions,
number 11, Firass, takes the lead,
leaving number 17, Eden, lagging behind.
Shit. Eugh. Hurry the fuck up.
Come on, move it.
You know, I always felt like I had something to prove.
Lean forward. Get up there.
That's it. You've got it.
I want to explore a different side of myself.
Keep it going.
Open your legs. That's it.
Is there something beyond me?
Let's go. Shuffle forward.
Are we going, Far? Are we going?
Are we going down? Away you go. Go.
Lean forward.
Straighten your legs and lean.
VOICEOVER: Still ignoring instructions,
Firass abandons Eden.
Number 11, what the fuck are you doing?
Lean forward. Come on.
Keep it going.
WOMAN: Good job. Wow.
Phew.
Alright, listen in.
All very well and good but you fucking left him, didn't you?
What was the detail? Stay with your partner.
Listen to the detail.
Yes, Staff.
The impact of someone that is not a team player
could lead to a mission failure...
Thank you, Staff. ..and lead to death.
I wouldn't mind going for a hard slog now.
(CHUCKLES)
Next three.
VOICEOVER: Working in a trio,
the next group to scale the mountain
is number 7, Miss Universe Australia, Erin McNaught...
Come on. Let's go.
..number 16, Bachelorette, Ali Oetjen...
and number 5, Rally car champion, Molly Taylor.
In the rally car in the motorsport arena you're testing yourself
and putting yourself in risky situations
so I'm used to putting myself out there in that scenario.
But I think...
I want to know a bit more about my identity
outside of the rally driver.
Are you clear, Ali? Are you clear?
Oh, shit.
What are you doing back there? Come on, move it.
But while number 5, Molly,
and number 7, Erin, work well together scaling the mountain...
Well done, number 7.
..they are let down by fellow teammate.
Fucking move yourself.
..number 16, Ali.
I want to put myself into those fearful challenges...
Come on.
..'cause that is how I am going to grow into a stronger person
and possibly be able to inspire more people to do the same.
Come on.
What the fuck you doing?
But the reality is
I don't know how strong I'm going to be doing this.
Are you clear, Ali?
I'm afraid of sitting here and saying I can and then I can't.
Sixteen, move yourself. Hurry up.
Get off your knees. Stand up.
Stand up?
Yeah, stand up.
Oi, Bambi. Stand up. Stand up.
Stand the fuck up.
I can't. You can!
What am I doing? I can't.
And look. My hands are free.
Stand up.
WOMAN: Come on, Ali.
You've got it, Ali.
Stand up.
What do you mean?
What do you think I mean?
Stand the fuck up now.
You're like a Thunderbirds puppet. Keep your body up.
On the battlefield...
Thank you. OK.
..it's dangerous.
Come on, ladies, let's go.
Fucking Charlie's Angels.
We're looking for somebody...
Look your head up. Look up...
..who isn't afraid to make a decision...
Ali, are you with us?
Come on, Rapunzel, let's do this.
..or to do something without being pushed to do that.
Stand by for Charlie's Angels.
Away you go. Walk. Let's go, 16. OK.
Lean forward. Come on, Ali.
Open your legs and lean forward.
Start to run.
Faster. Let's go. Move.
Come on, Ali.
Come on, Ali, you can do it. Lean forward. Hips forward.
Come on, Blondie, hurry up.
Lean forward.
Go, go!
STAFF: You are now going to be known as the rock slug.
(LAUGHS) Good effort, you two. Well done.
Thank you, Staff.
You need to get a grip of your third partner though, don't you?
Number 16, it's a bag of shite.
Yeah. Number 16, get over here.
You need more courage in your conviction.
You can do it, can't you? Yeah.
Just fucking do it, then.
You're up there, you're hesitating.
No hesitations. We don't want hesitations.
Yes. Yes, Staff.
Otherwise all of this group will overtake you and leave you behind.
Yes, Staff. Understood?
Yeah. Go.
Let's fucking go!
Fast as you can.
Come on. Lean forward.
Whoo! That was awesome.
Let's go.
Good effort, number 14. Well done.
Yeah. Go. Control.
WOMAN: Oh, my god!
Whoo! He's fucking nuts, that bloke.
WOMAN: Let's go.
VOICEOVER: Last to attempt the climb are number 2, Candice Warner,
and number 9, Schapelle Corby, who is also afraid of heights.
SCHAPELLE: How do I feel about
putting my life in somebody else's hands?
Very frightened. Very frightened.
Use all your strength to pull yourself up.
I found out very early on in life that
if you're consistent...
Keep it going. ..and you just keep turning up...
You are good to go.
You'll end up passing all those people
who may have that natural ability.
That's it. Good girl.
That's what I did.
I was just consistent and I never gave up.
Keep it going. Come on. Let's go!
From that I just... I got success.
WOMAN: Absolutely killing it. Well done.
Let's go, Schapelle. Eugh!
Just keep putting that front one far up so it can hold you.
Oh! Come on.
Let's go.
That's it. Push it forward. That's it. Keep pushing it forward.
Let's move. Come on. Move!
Like fucking Driving Miss Daisy.
We're getting cold up here. Hurry up.
Come on, number 9, let's go.
SCHAPELLE: I want to stop my paranoia.
Well done.
I want to live a more free, fulfilling life.
Keep going.
That's it. Good effort. Well done.
I need to be less institutionalised.
(EXHALES)
OK. Stand up straight. Lean forward.
So, lean forward like that?
Legs astride. Let's go.
Coming down. Head up, chest up.
Coming down. Chest up.
Let's go. WOMAN: Yes, girls.
A little bit faster. Go. Speed it up.
Lean forward. Keep going. Step.
Lean forward.
(GRUNTS) It's so slippery.
Stand up.
We're not there to break anybody.
Come on, get up! Come on.
We're there to bring down the barriers.
Come on, number 9. Let's do it. Come on.
And then see who you really are.
Get up! Step. You've got it.
Lean forward. That's it.
Go, come on. MAN: Come on, Schapelle.
Let's go.
You've got it, Schapelle. Lean forward.
That's it. Well done. Let's go.
Come on, move it. Let's go. Good girl.
Oh.
Fucking hell.
Oh, yes.
Well done. Really proud of you. Thank you, so much.
You should be really proud of yourself.
That was a terrific effort.
Thank you so much for pushing me so much.
Just keep going.
WOMAN: How many are there of us?
WOMAN: I'm starving.
You know what it is, Jackson?
The food? Soup.
Tomato soup.
Is that good? I think so.
I've never had it.
What!
I have only had like, ten different foods before.
Are you like, a Paleo diet or something?
No.
Just always had the same thing since I was young.
Kentucky Fried Chicken, fries, and...
Oh, you don't like to experience new foods.
Yeah. Oh.
This is huge for you then. (CHUCKLES)
Most people would know me because of my dad, Shane Warne.
Thank you.
A lot of people are saying, "Oh, you're Shane Warne's son.
"You've got it easy."
"You're Shane Warne's son, you don't need to work."
"You've never done anything tough in your life."
Deep down there's a little part of me which feels
like I've sort of let down Australia in not even giving cricket a crack.
It just tastes like tinned spaghetti.
It does.
That's exactly what it tastes like. The tinned spaghetti sauce.
I just want to make my family proud.
And this is one of the hardest things I'm ever going to do
but it's going to be as Jackson Warne,
it is not going to be as Shane Warne's son.
You're broadening your horizons at a rate of knots.
I've tasted more foods the past two days than in my whole life.
(LAUGHTER)
MAN: Do you want some more bread?
Aggression! Eugh!
A brutal game of murder ball.
He is going to become dangerous to himself and to others.
Eugh!
Doctor. Need a doctor.
And a vicious beasting...
Eugh!
It's a long time where you're in pain...
..will send one recruit home.
(PANTS)
Ow. Stop making pathetic noises.
VOICEOVER: It's the end of day two on the SAS selection course
and the recruits have been asleep for only a few hours.
(SNORING)
But despite their lack of rest, the Directing Staff expect the recruits
to be on high alert and ready to roll out at all times, day or night.
You've got five minutes to get on the parade square
without your things.
Move! Move. Five minutes.
At 10 past I want everybody on the parade square.
Let's move. Let's go.
VOICEOVER: Being late is simply not tolerated.
For the DS, every minute counts.
Five minutes is plenty of time, mate.
Yeah. Plenty of time.
Are you all ready? Come on, guys.
The enemy doesn't have timings.
When it comes we should be ready, boom, out of that door.
Get straight on the parade square.
Leave your water bottles.
Oi. Get on the parade square now.
Fucking move, number 4.
Number two, come here.
What time does it say on my watch?
00:17. 00:17.
I gave you a shout at 00:05.
I said to be out here at 10 past.
So you owe me seven minutes.
Have I given you ample time to sort your stuff out?
ALL: Yes, Staff.
And yet you tip up and your fucking water bottle's empty.
You tip up in a shit state.
Number two, come out here.
Turn around, take your hat and gloves off, put it in your jacket.
Take your jacket off.
If you are called on a time sensitive target,
it's either to save someone's life,
opo's been blown up,
or there is someone in the shit.
Every minute counts.
I want you each to go back to the accommodation,
put your hats, gloves, and jackets on your bed,
and all come out like this.
Is that understood? ALL: Yes, Staff.
You have two minutes.
Go. Move.
Two minutes. Let's go.
VOICEOVER: After a sluggish response time...
Go, go, go.
Come on, quick.
..they'll now be punished with a physical drill called a beasting.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
You owe me seven minutes.
Get in the press-up position now and hold the press-up position.
Backs straight. Feet together.
Seven minutes is a fucking long time
and you're going to stay in this position
and you're going to realise how fucking long it is.
A beasting is just to drain you physically.
It's a physical thrashing.
This is how long someone is probably suffering on the ground.
Get your fucking arse down, number 9.
Someone's bleeding out.
They haven't got a couple of minutes let alone seven minutes.
And when you're drained physically, it can get into your head.
Am I fit enough? Is this course right for me?
Straighten your back, number 4.
Stop fucking around or we stay here all night.
Have I got what it takes?
Get off your fucking knees, number 4.
Get off your legs, number four.
(GASPS)
VOICEOVER: Collapsing under pressure
is controversial glamour model, Arabella Del Busso.
A lot of people think that I am an evil, con artist.
Get off your knees, number four.
Not even five minutes.
Don't get me wrong,
I have told lies through my life
but I want people to know that I'm not this evil person
that the media are portraying me as.
Straighten your back, number four.
I won't fucking tell you again.
Number 12, number 15, straighten your back.
One minute left.
But it's a long time when you're in pain.
It's a long time when you're suffering. Isn't it?
(EXHALES)
(ARABELLA GROANS)
Number 4, stop making pathetic noises.
Alright, stand up.
All of you stand up.
Minutes, that's all we're talking about. Minutes.
I will drill this into you every single day until it sinks in.
Go back into the accommodation and get in your beds.
Is that understood? ALL: Yes, Staff.
Go. Move. Get out of my sight.
VOICEOVER: As the recruits head for the dorm...
Number 4!
..the DS turn their attention to recruit number 4, Arabella.
Let's go. She is summoned for questioning.
Being a model, you know,
people just think, oh, she lives this luxury life.
She's always glammed up.
But that's far from me.
Arabella Del Busso
has apparently used more than ten known aliases in her past.
False cancer treatment. Yikes.
"Twenty-nine year old,
"digitally altered photos of herself to appear pregnant."
Jesus Christ. Con woman.
(HARSH MUSIC)
(DOOR SLAMS SHUT)
What was your purpose for coming here?
Why did you want to do this?
Purely just wanted to come here
and obviously try and rebuild myself.
I just don't know where I'm at the moment.
The best baseline to ever start with is honesty, integrity, truth.
Yep.
To me, I'm looking at you
and I can see deep fucking issues in your face right now.
It's written all over you.
You should knock down all that crap
and be fucking true to yourself for a start.
Then you can rebuild.
So whatever is bothering you,
throw it on the table and you will be able to move forward.
Um... I...
My ex-partner was a NRL player
and obviously we separated late last year.
But now since then I've faced quite a scrutiny in the tabloids.
About what?
Um...
Come on. That I'm a liar. That...
What have you lied about?
So, not everything that I've
lied about is what the media is saying but...
Forget the media. I'm asking you.
I'm asking you to tell us - your chance to tell us the truth.
What did you lie about?
Yeah, so, I told my partner that I had a pregnancy scan.
OK.
And I showed it to him and said it was ours
when in fact it wasn't our scan at all.
So, it wasn't yours. So why did you do it?
Why? What purpose?
Our relationship was kind of coming to an end
and I didn't know how to deal with losing someone
because I feel like I've lost like, you know, family members...
So, you wanted to cheat the person into staying with you?
Is that what you were doing?
To dry and draw him back in.
(HARSH MUSIC)
(SNIFFS)
Take a breath. I hate thinking about this.
My father once said to me, because I was a little shit,
he said, "You've got a choice of being a thief or a liar."
Be a thief.
For fuck's sake be a thief. You know why?
Why?
'Cause you can get to the bottom of a thief.
You can't get to the bottom of a liar.
You can't move forward in your life if you can't fucking be honest.
Do you agree with that? Yes, that's correct.
Guard!
ARABELLA: I have told a lie but the way that I see it,
a little white lie here or there is not going to hurt anyone.
I'm sure we all do it.
I'm honestly not the only person in the whole of Australia
that has told a white lie here or there.
VOICEOVER: Rattled by the interrogation,
Arabella is now questioning her place on the course.
You can sort this out.
You can face it once and for all. You've got this.
Go back to the accommodation.
Listen to me.
Go back to the accommodation, sleep on it.
In the morning if you feel the same I won't question it.
(BIRDS CHIRP)
(MAN YAWNS)
What does your watch say exactly?
06:01:52.
VOICEOVER: It's early morning and the recruits are preparing for the day.
Arabella must now decide if she will continue with the others
or take the easy way out and voluntarily withdraw.
People will... Like, they're going to judge me no matter what.
But they haven't lived my life.
They don't know the extent of things that I've been through.
Go right through the middle, eh.
Alright, here we go.
What?
Right.
ARABELLA: I've had to survive,
I've had to make mistakes along the way to be able to realise,
OK, you know what?
You can't do that in life.
But it is what it is. I can't take it back.
It's just a matter of moving forward now.
Yeah, she was a special type of person.
I don't trust someone with six names. I'm sorry.
She almost didn't want to say...
Open her mouth in case a skeleton or a bone came out of her mouth.
(LAUGHTER)
When someone VWs that is not my problem.
I'm not looking to self develop people.
That's down to them to do that.
If someone is not up to scratch physically or psychologically,
they're like a poison apple.
We don't want that to bleed into the other recruits
because it will cost someone's life.
Move!
VOICEOVER: One costly mistake...
Do not waste drinking water to fucking clean yourself.
..lands Firass in hot water.
Our three VWs, two of them will thank this man here.
(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS) Let's go.
Left hum vehicle. Left hum vehicle.
VOICEOVER: It's day three of the SAS selection course...
Seatbelts.
..and the recruits are being pushed to tackle fear head on.
In order to do this the DS have
planned a task that is fierce and dangerous.
I don't care if they're celebrities in their world.
Off you get.
They've chosen to enter our world and they will adhere to our rules.
Form up.
Alright, listen in, and listen carefully.
But before they can commence, Chief Instructor Ant
needs to address issues of discipline within the group.
Who's heard of the phrase 'Loose lips sink ships'?
Anyone? SOME: Yes, Staff.
What do you think that means?
Talking more than you need to.
Bang on.
Number 11, step out here.
VOICEOVER: On day one, actor Firass
drew attention to himself for the wrong reasons...
What are you doing?
..by walking away without permission...
Go and get in that water. Move. Now. Move!
Fucking turn your back on a fucking rank.
Get down and crawl back to me.
Hey? Hey? Who the fuck are you heying?
..resulting in punishment for the entire group...
Get down to your neck.
My leg's killing me. I actually can't.
..and the involuntary withdrawal of recruit number 1, Roxy Jacenko.
This is what happens when you have a fuckwit on your team.
On the way back from the previous task,
when I said to you that we might be running this afternoon,
what did you reply?
Ahh... What did you reply?
I said, "I hope so." I hope so.
I... Shut the fuck up for two seconds.
He hopes that you're fucking running this afternoon.
Well, guess what you're going to do? ALL: Run.
You're going to fucking sprint to the DS,
around the DS and back to me.
Number 11, you're going to stay here.
Do not be last. Move!
Move it. Move!
You got your wish, number 11. You got your wish.
Hurry up! Let's go!
VOICEOVER: Unimpressed with number 11,
the recruits face a brutal beasting.
Come on. All the way round.
And down? Yep.
ANT: Warfare is no joke.
There is no room for mistakes.
Come on. Hurry up.
You must take it seriously.
Hurry the fuck up. Move!
VOICEOVER: Straining to keep up with the other recruits
is number 9, Schapelle.
(PANTS)
Number 9, move.
I feel like I have good mind control.
But on any endurance level I don't think I've been pushed that far.
You're about to get lapped, number 9. Keep coming.
Right, go round number 11 and say thank you, back to the top.
Thank you, number 11. Thank you, 11.
You, Blondie, move it. You're always last, number 16.
Fucking move.
You two, not good enough. Move.
Come on.
Come on, number 9, all the way. Keep it going.
VOICEOVER: Not coping with the beasting,
Schapelle slows to a walk.
No-one said walk. Let's go.
Staff, my time has come. Your time is come?
I need to VW.
Why do you want to VW?
I had enough.
I can't run this far one second longer. I cannot.
Good effort, you two at the front. Well done.
(SOMBRE MUSIC)
Don't cry.
Alright? Put yourself together.
What's wrong with number 9?
Fucking hell.
You'd better be Fucking shitting me.
What's wrong, number 9?
I'm finished, Staff.
Look me in the eye. Are you done? I'm done, Staff.
OK. See the medic.
Pass me that number.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Out of three VWs,
two of them will thank this man here.
Number 11, come and stand here.
Look at your team.
It's not about you.
Do not be that selfish prick.
If we can't keep him quiet, it's over to you lot now.
'Cause it will be one of you next that will go.
Now get in there. Fucking line up.
(WIND HOWLS)
(BIRDS CAW)
SCHAPELLE: I feel like trust has regained itself to me.
The people that I was recruited with, they really had my back.
(BIRDS CAW)
And I had to put my trust in them.
This was the reason I came to join this is to open doors myself
and start to live in society better than I have been.
So it's time to create a new life for myself.
Let's go!
I'm most fearful of what's going to come out of me.
Just drag him over the line.
It's like harnessing a beast with inside yourself.
Go! VOICEOVER: One recruit goes too far.
Eugh!
What the fuck are you doing?
Change your attitude.
(BIRDS CAW)
In the Special Forces selection,
we're there to push you psychologically
to see if you can deal with the horrors of war.
Right, the next task is called murder ball,
which is bizarre 'cause it's with a tyre.
And theoretically there should be no murder.
What it is, is essentially rugby league with no rules.
The purpose of murder ball is to pit people against each other
and allow them to show us that they can control their aggression.
Because controlled aggression is the key to winning a battle.
In the Special Forces,
every night you go into combat you have to manage fear.
The fear is there, you've just got to manage it because you know you're
either going to have to hurt someone
or you're going to get fucking seriously hurt or killed.
And it's about what you do with that fear.
Fear is an emotion.
It's an important one but it's one
that can have a negative impact and it's up to you what you do with it.
You allow it to focus you onto what you need to do which
is essentially engage in extreme violence, controlled aggression.
Is that understood? ALL: Yes, Staff.
Mark a line. Go about 20m down.
Just dig your heal in. Make a straight line.
VOICEOVER: Divided into two teams,
the recruits must fight for possession of a tyre
and drive it across the opposing side's goal-line
using whatever means possible.
MAN: Hit 'em hard. WOMAN: Yep.
Are you ready? TEAM: Yes, Staff.
VOICEOVER: Number 11, actor Firass,
will take on rugby union player Nick and AFLW player, Sabrina.
Go. Get in there now!
You got it? The two of you go, go.
Work out what you're going to do.
Eugh!
Get it!
Alright, let's get some aggression and get the tyre off him.
I got it, Nick.
(STRAINING)
Just drag him over the line.
Both of you, drag him over that line. Let's go.
Eugh!
I'm quite stubborn. I'm from blood of resistance.
I'm from freedom fighter stock
so with this experience there is no way I'm going to quit.
Get after him. Get after him.
Go on. Go on.
Drag him over that line. Let's go.
Get into him.
Number 8.
VOICEOVER: TV personal trainer Shannon
and reality star Eden are called in.
WOMAN: Go, Eden.
Concentrate on the tyre.
NICK: Every day after school with my brothers in the backyard
we would play footy and then they'd go too hard and put the shoulder in.
Think about the goal. What's the mission?
So it was good training to grow up with them.
It's almost a selection course in itself.
Come on, then. Concentrate on the tyre.
(PANTING)
I am most fearful of what's going to come out of me
during the most strenuous and stressful times.
Go!
Right, stop. Get back to your lines.
Let's go. Move. Let's go.
VOICEOVER: With neither team managing to take possession of the tyre,
DS Foxy calls an end to the round.
Come on, let's go. Staff.
Straight back in. WOMAN: Good effort.
Come on, hurry up.
(EXHALES)
Try not both go to the ground.
If you're down on the ground you're useless. Try and keep our feet.
VOICEOVER: Next, four recruits from each team will meet head-on.
Go on, then.
Get in there. Let's go.
Come on, then, let's have some tactics.
Go.
AFL is very high-pressure and very high contact
and in a short amount of time
you're getting hits physically and mentally.
Go. Good girl. Straight for that line.
What I've learnt playing football is you always have those fears
but you cannot let it get in front of what you're actually doing.
WOMAN: Go, Sab.
VOICEOVER: Number 14, Sabrina, crosses the goal line for her team.
Much better.
Right, bring it back. Go on, get back.
MAN: Come on, Merrick.
Next is comedian Merrick,
the oldest recruit, taking on Olympic swimmer, James.
Go on, then, seek some aggression. Don't wait.
WOMAN: Go, Merrick.
When I'm presented with something dangerous
I tend to default more to fight than flight.
Come on, then!
Come on!
VOICEOVER: Merrick loses the tyre and lets his team down.
Good effort, number 12. Well done.
Eugh!
I am 46 years of age.
Being physically hurt worries me.
But I fear not doing it more than I fear the action of doing it.
Fifteen.
WOMAN: Go, Nick.
WOMAN: Go, Shane.
Controlled aggression is using your aggression in a positive way.
Get it. Let's go.
It's like harnessing a beast with inside yourself.
Run, number 7.
Come on. Drag her. Drag her with it. Go.
When you're on the battlefield
you know you're in a very scary and dangerous situation
where you are actually very scary and dangerous to someone else...
WOMAN: Well done.
Go, number 6.
Yes!
..and it's about stepping on the accelerator and using it
to get yourself through hard times and then coming off the gas again.
Get back to your lines. Move.
Up and move.
Alright, listen in.
You've got two minutes to get some water down your necks.
Two minutes to get some water down your necks. Make it happen.
Is this dream team? OK.
Thank you. Mine's full.
MAN: Cheers.
Let's go, team. Let's go.
WOMAN: Let's go. WOMAN: OK. Let's go.
Let's stick together.
WOMAN: Is that the last one?
Let's go. Come on. Together.
(PANTING)
Ahh.
Number 11, get here.
What the fuck are you doing?
Can I speak, Staff?
Why are you fuck washing yourself with drinking water?
Because I'm trying to get lighter.
That's fucking for drinking. I drank.
Right. Go and wash yourself off in the fucking river now. Move.
Do not fucking waste drinking water to fucking clean yourself.
ANT: Everything relates to the battlefield.
It's the smaller things that will trip you up
if you don't pay attention to them.
Get in there.
Get on your belly. Roll over and wash yourself off.
Wash your face.
ANT: In a war zone, you could go on to an operation
that you think will last two or three hours
but you're out there for two or three days.
Right, move.
Number 11, come here.
Do you not understand what I'm trying to do?
Do you think I'm being a prick?
Do not understand what I'm trying to do?
That's drinking water.
You've got one Jerry can to last you.
Don't waste the good water, yeah?
That whole well could last you 24 hours in a war zone,
in a battlefield.
Start switching on.
Now, you can either go through this course
and be the course clown
or you can turn it around right now.
Because I know you're smarter than this 'cause I can see it.
Fuck off back there. Move.
VOICEOVER: With every action under scrutiny, the final round resumes.
Number 5. MAN: Go, Molly.
Rally car champion Molly faces Australian swimmer, Shayna.
MAN: It's yours, Shayna. Come on, Shayna.
Run. Let's go.
Get moving. TEAM: Go, Molly!
Come on, aggression.
Biggest highlight of my career was 2018,
Commonwealth Games,
myself and my team in the 4 x 100 Freestyle relay.
Won gold and broke the world record.
Take her with it. Pick it up and take her with it.
Go for it.
SHAYNA: I think when it comes to doing something,
it is 70% mental and 30% physical.
This course may be hard physically
but when it comes to being hard mentally
I'm a fighter who flourishes in a tough environment.
Number 6, let's go.
WOMAN: Go, Nick.
Eugh!
Go. Number 17, let's go.
Number 6, go on.
Grab it. Good effort.
(EVERYONE GRUNTS)
Go. Go back to your locations.
(SHAYNA GROANS IN PAIN)
I think she got hurt, Shayna.
I think she got winded from Badger.
Hey, outstanding.
Good effort. Winded.
Good girl. Good effort. Well done.
(GASPS FOR BREATH)
WOMAN: Good work.
(GASPING FOR BREATH)
MAN: In through your nose, Shane. WOMAN: It's alright. Suck it up.
(GASPING) Right in the chest.
Come on. You're right. Big, deep breaths.
You're right. Come on.
You did really well. You did so well.
Standing your ground.
(TAKES DEEP BREATHS)
(GRIM MUSIC)
VOICEOVER: Back at base, the recruits are bruised and battered.
That's it, got to move. Got to move.
Then Shayna.
After being winded during murder ball,
number 13 Shayna is nursing a big hit to the ribs.
Watch your leg.
(SHAYNA WINCES)
MAN: You're not going to walk?
(THUMP) Ooh, shit.
MAN: We need a doctor. WOMAN: Doctor? Staff?
SHAYNA: I'm OK. I'm fine.
OK. Staff?
Staff!
We need a doctor.
Urgent. Jackson, call Staff.
We need a doctor. Go call Staff and get a doctor.
WOMAN: Take some deep breaths through your nose.
(SHAYNA GASPS) Out through your mouth.
In through the nose, out through you mouth.
You're OK. You're OK.
First jeep far left. Just chill, relax.
It happens.
What has happened to her?
Just collapsed?
Is that the one that got the hard hit?
NICK: Yes, Staff.
She said she might have a broken rib.
Feels like a broken rib.
She is being looked after. Don't worry about it.
Go. Move. Let's go.
Alright. Let's grab you a blanket.
(COUGHS)
She got crushed at one point. She got battered on that one.
Even the one where it was just the girls.
She was under the pack there.
Is it sore up here? No.
There. There. Yep.
If you'd fractured a rib you would have punched me by now.
But fractured ribs... That's good then.
..they're bloody painful. Yep.
This is just a bruise. You've just had a cracker of a hit.
Big hit, yeah. A big hit.
So, what I think has happened is you've run yourself low on fluids.
Your blood sugar is a bit down and everything has just hit you.
Yep. OK. Thank you.
VOICEOVER: After rehydrating, Dr Sam gives the all clear.
Shayna can continue with her fellow recruits.
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
How are you? Well done, Shayna.
Thanks, man.
Well done. Hey, Badge.
(CHUCKLES)
I'm right. Don't worry. OK, good. Awesome.
Don't stress. Oh fuck.
I was just saying before it's a fucking
unbelievable amount of combat like, in body contact,
when we've never really done it before.
Yep.
VOICEOVER: The DA's head in for their daily brief
to track the recruits' progress.
Number 6. Number 6.
I mean, when he went down that mountain today
he went down there like someone possessed, didn't he?
probably a little bit reckless, I'll be honest.
Of course, on the murder ball,
different fucking league, isn't it?
Yeah. Yep.
You can't fault him for his commitment.
And sometimes maybe a bit reckless
where he goes in full steam ahead
and he's taken his foot off the gas when he's gone through the wall.
Number 13, she got hit so hard.
Yeah.
I've not really noticed her until obviously today
when she got absolutely poleaxed and cracked on with it.
She has just gone from no-one noticing her
to the effort of the day.
Mmm.
Right, who wants to start on number 11?
You know what's annoying about him? He is capable...
Yeah, exactly. He's very capable.
He just cannot wind it in.
But he's not a team player, mate.
I think he is being ruled by his ego
and I think a lot of his back-chatting
is 'cause he doesn't want to look a twat.
I mean, if he doesn't control it then he's going to become dangerous.
Yep.
To himself and to others.
I think we should bring him in.
Yep. Yep.
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
Number 11.
(GRIM MUSIC)
(CLEARS THROAT)
(HARSH MUSIC)
(DOOR SLAMS SHUT)
(EXHALES) What's going on?
Shut the fuck up.
You literally cannot keep your mouth shut, can you?
If there's a silence, you have to fill it with some shite.
Am I right?
No, I can. Why don't you then?
I have been.
You have been? Seriously?
Yeah.
OK.
What's your reason for being here?
Um... Look.
I'm getting to a point in my life where...
(CLEARS THROAT)
You know, I want to kinda jump a chasm of self-discovery,
see if I can actualise,
see if I can become the person I've envisioned.
I just want to push myself to excavate, I guess. You know?
You use a lot of long words that mean nothing.
No... Yeah, you do.
No. Quiet.
You do. No...
In simplest terms... OK.
No, I mean... You're confident.
Shut the fuck up.
Let's get one thing straight. One singer, one song.
When we're singing you listen. Absolutely.
You get that? Yes.
Let's make that clear from the fucking start.
'Cause you know what?
You will not win. So don't even fucking try it.
I'm not trying...
How about you fucking zip it and listen for a minute.
OK.
So, how do you fucking describe yourself.
The Hollywood bullshit fucking crap, that means nothing.
Tell us who you are.
I'm a straight-up guy. I'm a straight-up person.
I'm a hard worker. I've worked hard for my career.
I've broken boundaries that some of my community hasn't broken.
And I've done it for myself.
Great. I've paved my own way.
Awesome. Well fucking done.
Do you actually want to be here?
Absolutely.
Right. I'm gonna say something now. Yep.
As it stands at the moment, your effort...
Right? Is good.
But your mouth is going to fuck you up.
We ain't here to fight you.
We're here to fucking find out who you are.
That's what I'm still trying to find out.
Well, let me give you that... Take my advice.
Change your attitude.
Your front will stop you finding out who you are.
Because you think you've got to put a front up. You haven't.
Get rid of it and you'll find out who you are.
Guard.
Up.
(EDGY MUSIC)
(DOOR SLAMS SHUT)
Actors don't know who they are. They don't, mate, because...
They've got a front up all the time. I know.
They can't drop the acting bit.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
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