(HEAVY BREATHING)
NARRATOR: Selection for the SAS is a test like no other.
They're going to think they know what's coming
but they haven't got a clue.
(WHIRRING OF HELICOPTER)
Seventeen celebrity recruits...
Fight back!
..have volunteered to put their glamorous lives behind.
Give me your number!
Women are not inferior to men.
Get a grip of yourself. Eugh!
There is no room for weakness on the battlefield.
Stop fucking around!
..'cause it will get you killed.
They're put through the most gruelling stages of selection.
Are you OK? Yes, Staff.
...by an elite team of Special Forces soldiers.
Sort it out! (GUNFIRE)
There are no weak links here.
Chief Instructor Ant Middleton
and his team of Directing Staff
will make no exceptions.
Eugh!
ANT: We're going to find out who they really are...
Go!
Break. Break, break, break!
Eugh!
I have a bad feeling.
(RAPID GUNFIRE AND EXPLOSIONS)
(DOGS BARKING) Get on the fucking ground!
The heart stopping decider.
Who have you been training with?
Who will pass selection...
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) Eugh!
(RAPID GUNFIRE)
NICK: I want to go till I'm told to stop.
SABRINA: I'm in this experience to prove that women can do this.
Yes!
You don't have time to be scared.
Outstanding effort.
My biggest fear would be failure.
MERRICK: This will be the most difficult thing I have ever done.
Go!
..and who will fail?
Come on!
Abort, abort.
Not all of you have passed this course.
No other test asks as much...
Eugh! It's how we finish.
..or means as much...
(PANTS)
..to the few who make it through.
SABRINA: I honestly can't even believe what we've gone through.
Yeah, your body is just holding itself together
because it knows it's got a job to do.
NARRATOR: It's the final 24 hours
of the condensed version of the SAS selection course
and just a handful of exhausted recruits remain.
It's crazy that of 17 only 5 have made it.
Yeah.
And there's still a chance that we might not all make it through this.
Yeah, I don't think we will.
I would feel devastated if I didn't pass the SAS selection.
I'm in this experience to prove that women can do this.
I'm willing to put in all my effort to make sure I'm going to get there.
A woman can win the thing.
So, I just realised then, I'm not a sportsperson.
I'm the only person left with no sports background.
SABRINA: It's very cool. Fucking oath. It's good.
And I'm old too. I'm the oldest.
SAS selection is designed to filter out people
so they're just left with the best.
And it is brutal.
I already feel like a different me, stronger me.
But I want to go to the end, right to the very end.
NARRATOR: Having endured a fortnight of brutal physical
and psychological training,
the worst is yet to come.
(GATE CLICKS OPEN)
Watching nearby,
the DS are about to launch a simulated attack
using military operatives known as the hunter force,
to capture and detain the recruits.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(EXPLOSION)
Shit!
Fuck me!
Get on the fucking ground now!
Get on your knees now!
Get down! Eyes down!
Caught off guard, they're bound, blindfolded, and taken prisoner.
Keep your fucking head down.
Fucking move.
Get your fucking eyes down.
Over the next 24 hours the recruits will undergo
a series of hostile and confronting ordeals.
Fucking move over.
Sit the fuck up.
The course's ultimate test of survival
where only the toughest and most determined will pass selection.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
In the final days of selection
we want to see if you want it more than anyone else.
Ultimately there can only be
a couple of people that pass this course.
This is where everything that we've taught you during the course,
it's time to put it together
to see if you have what it takes to pass selection.
(DOGS BARK)
NARRATOR: Replicating a hostage environment,
the hunter force transport
and detain the recruits in a remote location.
Go. Move!
Head down.
Keep your fucking head down and get out.
Move.
Come on, let's go. Let's go. (DOGS CONTINUE TO BARK)
Cross your legs. Move!
NARRATOR: Here their first task will begin.
Get down on the ground now.
To escape captivity and evade capture.
Don't fucking move.
Escape and evasion is an integral part of SAS selection.
Put your fucking head down.
In a Special Forces operator's life,
90% of the work we do
is in dangerous situations behind the enemy lines
where it's possible that things will go wrong.
Here. And this replicates that.
You will not have the assets, you will not have the support,
and you are on your own.
And you've got to survive
to escape and evade capture.
NARRATOR: As part of the simulated drill,
Directing Staff Billy and Ollie
will now help the recruits escape captivity.
(WHISPERS) We're good to go, yeah?
Yeah.
(GUNFIRE) Run!
Move!
(RAPID GUNFIRE)
He's out. Target's down, target's down.
Get up, you people. Get up.
Take your hoods off.
Come this way.
Up. Get up.
NARRATOR: Now, freed from captivity...
14, 12 there.
..the DS place the recruits into two teams, Alpha and Bravo.
As you are, come with me. Let's go.
(QUIETLY) Get down. Just down here. Get down.
NARRATOR: Taking cover, DS Billy
will brief Team Alpha - Merrick, Molly, and Nick.
The place is absolutely surrounded with enemy, OK?
I've got a safe passage for you
so fucking listen to what I'm telling you
and make sure you stick together.
DS Ollie briefs team Bravo - Sabrina and James.
(QUIETLY) Your rendezvous point is down here.
You will set your compass onto south.
Each team must complete a four hour trek across punishing terrain,
along a river, to a designated rendezvous point
where they will be extracted to safety.
So, over my shoulder behind me is south.
Keep on a bearing of south until you hit the river.
As soon as you hit the river turn left and hand rail it.
Turn left.
Given civilian clothing and navigation equipment,
the teams are sent on their way.
OK. Thank you.
Speed and stealth.
Let's go.
Stick together.
Vamoose.
(PACEY MUSIC)
MERRICK (WHISPERING): Move fast and low. Stay low.
NARRATOR: Now on their own inside enemy territory...
SABRINA: James. Get down.
(DOGS BARK NEARBY)
..the recruits must evade capture by the hunter force who
relentlessly pursue them by land
and by surveillance drones in the air.
This way.
We've got to move.
If captured, they'll fail the task and risk passing selection.
(DOGS BARK)
Escape and evasion is one of the worst things I did on selection
and it's the hardest test.
It's the hardest test.
Let's push through now.
It simulates being in a war zone.
(MOTOR BIKE ENGINE REVS)
And the total anxiety of pressure, of the thought of capture,
around every corner there could be enemy,
is enough to break any person.
(MOTOR BIKE RUMBLES)
(EXHALES)
NARRATOR: Meanwhile, back at Base Camp...
FOXY: Alright, this is a different sort of nav for them now.
We've got a strong group here. They're strong teams.
Chief Instructor Ant and Foxy
use GPS to track the teams and monitor their progress.
As long as they contour this and keep this as a reference point.
And also to judging distance at night is not that easy, is it?
No.
(DRONE BUZZES AND MOTOR BIKE RUMBLES)
Any water down here?
I can hear water down there. There's something.
Yeah, move now. Move now.
(DOGS BARK)
NARRATOR: Under heavy pursuit,
Team Alpha have located the river
and will follow its bank towards the RV point.
But they must continue to evade the hunter force.
MERRICK: There are dogs all there.
Just pause. Just wait. Wait it out.
ANT: Team Alpha are tracking well. I'm really happy with them.
OK. Let's go.
They're making good progress.
They are.
Contouring the river in exactly what they're supposed to do.
They can move faster along that
and use the noise of the river to mask their movement.
Alpha is smashing it.
It's not slippery.
Gotcha. Thank you.
JAMES: This is probably the river.
Can you hear the water? I think so.
Do you reckon it's here?
Yeah. That's a creek. OK.
Head down close to it and then head left.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Reaching a small creek which they assume is the river,
team Bravo bank left and follow the waterline.
OK.
You right, James? No?
ANT: It's not a hard route
but it takes confidence at night, doesn't it?
It's not a hard route but some people just don't have that,
they don't have that mindset for nav-ing, especially at night.
Yep.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Is that the river still?
Can you see it?
It doesn't big water in it.
This is the end.
Where the fuck are we?
NARRATOR: Given clear instruction to turn left at the river
then head straight toward the RV point,
Team Bravo have instead followed a small creek
and now find themselves completely lost in the darkness.
It says the river.
I hope we've actually followed the river.
ANT: I think number 14 needs a backup.
Number 12, I don't think he's too confident on the ground
and at decision-making.
She is good but she needs...
She needs someone there as a confidante, doesn't she?
Yep.
SABRINA: How have we fucked this up so bad?
I don't understand.
I just don't know what constitutes a river.
(DRONE BUZZES)
(MOTOR BIKE RUMBLES)
There.
Wait.
Go.
Let's go.
NARRATOR: Team Alpha have now been on the run for over three hours.
(DRONE BUZZES)
MERRICK: Drone coming! Run! Here!
But the hunter force drone is closing in.
Hurry!
Scrambling to take cover in the thick bush...
MOLLY: Get down.
..Molly's torch flicks on.
(DRONE BUZZES) Turn it off.
..temporarily exposing their position.
Shh.
(DRONE BUZZES)
NICK: Stay still. Just don't move.
(TENSE MUSIC)
(DRONE BUZZING FADES)
(DOGS BARK)
(CAR RUMBLES)
SABRINA: Shit. There's a car.
Let's go. Come on, James.
NARRATOR: Unable to locate the river and getting lost,
Team Bravo's critical error
has increased their risk of being captured.
Alright, get down. Get down. Get down.
(CAR ENGINE RUMBLES)
(DOG BARKS)
It has stopped.
Shit. James.
(DOG BARKS)
We've gotta go.
Let's run.
NARRATOR: Evading the car, Sabrina and James move quickly.
OK. We're back on track.
Just be careful 'cause I can hear noise.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(RAPID GUNFIRE AND YELLING AND DOG BARKING)
Get on the ground! Get down!
Head down in front of you!
BILLY: I was in a conflict zone
and two of us got taken captive.
Get the fuck up.
This surreal-ness of actually being controlled by somebody else,
having a gun stuck in your mouth...
Move, move, move!
..just takes a while to sink in.
And then all of a sudden everything becomes very real.
(DOG BARKS)
Thrown cuffed into the back of a vehicle,
it's a case of trying to think about what you have to do to survive.
(ENGINE STARTS)
Keep moving!
NARRATOR: Interrogation begins.
MAN (YELLS): Who have you been training with?
This is a mind game like no other you can ever imagine.
NICK: Stay still. Just don't move.
(DRONE BUZZES)
NARRATOR: In the final stages of selection,
the recruits have been thrown into a simulated war zone.
Just be careful 'cause I can hear noise.
In a test of survival and determination
they must escape and evade capture behind enemy lines.
(RAPID GUNFIRE)
Get down!
But en route to reach the RV extraction point...
Fuck up!
Team Bravo - Sabrina and James,
have been captured and taken prisoner by the hunter force.
Failing the task.
MERRICK: Drone's coming back. Stay.
Meanwhile, Team Alpha - Merrick, Molly, and Nick,
are stuck, hiding for the past hour from another hunter force squad.
(WHISPERS) There's one more vehicle behind you.
NICK: Are they coming this way? MOLLY: Yes, they are.
NICK: Merrick, behind you.
Up that and pop over the top of that. Go.
Follow Merrick now.
ANT: Alpha Team, there they are.
They've pelted across there, Alpha have.
Right, that's our guy.
There he is. That's our contact point.
Yeah, that's it.
ANT: It looks like Team Alpha have made the RV there.
They're close to it, aren't they.
Yep.
There.
NARRATOR: After nearly 4 hours on the run...
Just get in. Get in.
..Team Alpha have arrived at what they think is the rendezvous point.
(CAR DOORS CLOSE)
..and get into the car without questioning why it's there.
Good sip each.
Is Staff Foxy here?
I have a bad feeling.
Yeah.
(RAPID GUNFIRE)
Go! Get out of the car!
Get out now.
Get out! Get the fuck down.
Don't move! Head down in front of you.
Get the fuck down. Keep you eyes down.
Put your hands in front of you.
Fucking don't move. Hands in front.
Do not fucking move.
(ZIP OF HAND TIES) (DOGS BARK)
When you are captured
you can never really replicate how it's going to be.
It will be a thousand times worse
than you ever experience on selection.
It's the scariest thing to ever consider being in, that situation.
Keep it moving. Let's go.
And so it's important to explore it within yourself.
For that reason we try and simulate
as much as we can the experiences the enemy would put you through.
Move it!
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
NARRATOR: Ambushed and captured by the hunter force,
all five remaining recruits have failed escape and evasion.
They are now transported back to Base Camp
where they'll face their next task, resistance to interrogation.
Get out of the car. Get out of the car.
Keep moving.
Alright, let's go! Hurry up!
Fucking hurry up. Move!
Get him against the wall. Up against the wall.
BILLY: Resistance to interrogation is a mechanism of staying alive
in probably the worst situation in your life.
Keep moving!
(DOGS BARK)
Keep moving!
Turn around.
You are deep in the heart of a bad place.
Get over there.
NARRATOR: Interrogations will be conducted
by two specialist Defence Intelligence personnel
with vast experience in war zones,
both led by their superior who can't be identified for security reasons.
Listen carefully.
He is known only as The Umpire.
Should you wish to leave this phase of training
you are to raise your hand and request to speak to me.
Is that clear? Yes.
If you wish to see a medic or leave this phase of training,
what should you do?
Raise my hand and ask to speak to you.
And who am I?
The Umpire.
Guard.
GUARD: Wait there. Do not move.
The recruits are taken to a holding room
where they'll be held captive as they await interrogation.
Hands out. Kneel.
I said don't move!
Do not fidget.
(SCRAPING NOISE)
They'll spend hours on end subjected to painful stress positions
and disturbing, repetitive noise
(NOISE OF BABY CRYING)
..all designed to break their mental resolve
causing the weakest among them to quit the course.
(NOISE OF BABY CRYING)
(SCREECHING NOISE)
FOXY: This is a mind game like no other you can ever imagine.
(HIGH-PITCHED SCREECHING OF BABY) (THUMP)
Do not move.
(NOISE OF BABY WAILING)
OLLIE: At the moment of capture I can remember total darkness,
excruciating and uncomfortable noises.
(HIGH-PITCHED NOISE AND WAILING BABY)
And then there are the stress positions to cope with.
Not a move. Don't move.
Keep them straight.
The pain that is going through your body
is like nothing else you've ever felt before.
(WHITE NOISE)
You just want it to end.
(BEEPING NOISES)
You. Stand up!
Get up.
You. Stand.
Hand on your head. Stand.
Arms out, full extension.
Do not move.
NARRATOR: The recruits will be interrogated one by one.
Turn.
Number 10 Merrick is first to undergo the technical questioning
while Chief Instructor Ant and The Umpire watch on nearby.
MERRICK: The biggest doubt I have about myself
is probably the ability to see in myself what other people see in me.
He is as sharp as a pin, number 10.
I've had failures in life.
I couldn't even get through high school like a regular kid.
Look up.
I'm doing this to get back my self confidence.
He is a dark horse. Yeah.
He's smart, he's bright, he knows what he's doing,
and he is slowly creeping to the front.
INTERROGATOR: Let's have a little chat, sunshine,
about what you've been doing.
NARRATOR: To survive the interrogation phase, the recruits
must maintain a cover story which was given to them 24 hours earlier.
You must say that you were working
with the Australian Land Search and Rescue Board.
You should slowly drip feed information about your cover story
if you are captured.
If you feel you or other lives are in danger,
reveal the real story, that you were undertaking an SAS selection course.
I'm here as a volunteer ambassador.
A volunteer ambassador for what?
For the Australian Land Search and Rescue Board.
You're sure it's the Australian Land Search and Rescue Board?
Yes. Because you seem like
you're some sort of fucking doubt there.
FOXY: Even though it's a training scenario, it's horrible.
It's really horrible.
No, it's the Australian Land Search and Rescue Board.
FOXY: It's very difficult to keep your guard up.
It doesn't really make sense to me.
You don't know what their agenda is,
you don't know where they're going with certain techniques
that they use.
The money that we raise will go towards an app
that will act as a satellite beacon for people who are lost in the bush.
(TENSE MUSIC)
FOXY: You play the game properly because essentially if you don't,
then you fail the course and it has all been for nothing.
NARRATOR: It's the final stages of selection...
(THUMP) (NOISE OF BABY CRYING)
..and the five remaining recruits await interrogation
as they're held in stress positions and subjected to disturbing noise.
All designed to send them to breaking point and VW.
INTERROGATOR: Let's have a little chat, sunshine.
NARRATOR: During questioning,
each recruit must maintain a cover story given to them by the DS
who watches on with intelligence personnel known only as The Umpire.
He's thought about it.
I'm here as a volunteer ambassador.
A volunteer ambassador for what?
When you're captive, obviously people want information from you
that is of strategic importance.
So you've got to have a story that's convincing.
We help promote fundraising events.
BILLY: If you don't give the hostage-takers
a little bit of information
you get people killed.
Let's get this bloke out of here.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Turn.
Told you he's sharp.
He's got that confidence.
Resistance interrogation is about being
able to switch off and switch on.
Sit.
Switch off when you're in the stress positions.
(NOISE OF BABY WAILING COMING FROM HEADPHONES)
Listening to babies crying at a high pitch.
(NOISE OF BABIES SQUEALING)
(NOISE OF BABIES WAILING)
And then when you get dragged out of that
and go into an interrogation you need to switch on
and really be psychologically agile as to what is coming at you.
(HIGH-PITCHED NOISE)
NARRATOR: Mentally and physically exhausted
from being held in stress positions...
(NOISE OF BABY GASPING AND CRYING)
..and subjected to disturbing noise for over four hours...
Turn.
..number 5, Molly, must now face interrogation.
Number 5, she has been clinging on by the skin of her teeth
the last three or four days.
She has literally been pulling it out of the bag when she needs to.
THE UMPIRE: I want him to stand over her,
you know, use his presence and see how she goes with that.
What's your real reason why you're here?
(SCOFFS) I... I...
(WHISPERS) It's not fucking funny. Answer the question.
I'm confused because I came here for a good cause
and now I'm here, made to be feeling like I'm...
Why do you keep looking down?
Why can't you look me in the eye and tell me the truth?
I can look you in the eye.
You're not telling me the truth because you keep looking down.
I was looking at my...
No.
Tell me the truth.
I'm here trying to raise money for a charitable organisation.
How much money have you raised?
I don't know.
I just spread awareness and I help spread the message.
I don't get involved in the actual donations.
Sounds like bullshit to me.
I think I'm finished here.
Have a think about it, Molly.
Get her out of here.
Turn! Move.
NARRATOR: Rattled by the questioning...
Come on, let's go. Move.
..Molly returns to the suffering of the holding cell
where the freezing temperature is starting to take its toll.
(EMOTIONALLY) I can't feel anything.
Down on your knees. Go. Down.
Can't stop shivering.
Sit back. Don't move.
(HIGH-PITCHED SCRAPING NOISE COMING FROM HEADPHONES)
Move.
NARRATOR: Number 6, Nick, is next.
ANT: Quick heads up.
Number 6 has been an ox all the way through the course.
He has been consistent. Definitely a front runner.
Who are you here with?
Here with all the ambassadors for the big hike.
FOXY: As a Special Forces soldier
you stay psychologically nimble within those interrogations.
And what are you doing here?
I've been trekking.
For how long?
Since yesterday.
Why?
FOXY: Give a little but not too much.
Answer me. Why?
For a fundraiser.
Otherwise you're going to be in a world of hurt.
Explain to me what these markings on this map are.
NARRATOR: Caught with a map,
James is dangerously close to blowing the cover story.
This is supposed to be a point where we picked up some rations.
INTERROGATOR: Who calls it rations?
Anybody.
What does RV stand for?
I'm not sure.
Rations and Various.
I don't think he's got the mental capacity to get through this phase.
Yeah. I'm not good with this stuff.
I'm just still confused about the whole scenario
of why I got brought here.
The scenario? Of what this is.
That's another very military term.
Scenario. Rations.
He just hasn't got that sparkle, that initiative, I don't think,
to be able to get himself out of this situation.
Yep.
Guard.
NARRATOR: With James, Nick,
and Sabrina all faltering on the cover story,
they're sent back to the misery of the holding cell
where they have now been detained for over six hours.
(NIGH-PITCHED NOISE OF WAILING BABY COMES FROM HEADPHONES)
But as even more time passes
and the torment continues...
Not a move.
Don't move.
(EXPLOSIONS OUTSIDE)
..the recruits are physically and mentally wearing out...
(BEEPING NOISES MIXED WITH WAILING OF BABIES COMES FROM HEADPHONES)
Mercy.
..forcing one of them to raise their hand for The Umpire.
(DESOLATE MUSIC)
(CRICKETS CHIRP)
(SNIFFS)
Number 5, what do you need?
Blanket. (CRIES)
I can't sit in that room anymore.
(SOBS AND EXHALES)
You're wishing to withdraw?
Yep. Yep.
No shame.
ANT: Come here, Molly.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
(SOBS)
You have been brilliant on my course, do you hear that?
(SOBS)
Absolutely amazing.
Thank you so much.
This has been life-changing, honestly.
Absolutely brilliant.
You're at the end of this thing.
I appreciate it.
You've done absolutely amazing. We've been so proud of you.
Oh, thank you so much.
The pleasure you are and your smile has been keeping us going as well.
I really appreciate it. You've been amazing.
Let's get you nice and warm. Come on.
We'll take you into the medical room and get you nice and warm.
Well done.
Thank you.
Oh fuck. Come on.
(RINGING TONE)
NARRATOR: Number 5, Molly, takes a moment to call home.
(CRIES)
How are you?
(SOBS) Ahh, shite.
I just...
In the interrogation
and it's just fucking I don't know what temperature.
I just can't stop shivering.
(SNIFFS)
I'm coming home.
One of my biggest failures is not
making the most of some opportunities that I have had.
So, I was so close but I just...
Yeah, I dunno.
I just, like, I'm just in so much pain right now, it's unreal.
MOLLY: It's easy to get overwhelmed by everything that's happening
and I didn't appreciate the opportunities I had
or push myself to make the most of them.
But yeah, it has been unreal.
We've had so much fun.
And to really find out like, where your limit is.
It was pretty cool.
MAN: You're amazing.
I yeah, just got really scared by it all.
(QUIETLY CRYING)
MOLLY: I've learnt a lot about myself, you know,
not over-thinking things, taking one step at a time,
and just proving to yourself
that you can do stuff that's really uncomfortable.
And I thought I already did that and do that
but this has just taken everything to a whole new level
that I've never experienced before.
SABRINA: Come on, James!
MERRICK: If I go all the way to the end
that will truly be one of the greater moments of my life.
Go!
NARRATOR: A titanic final push for selection.
Eugh! Are we finished?
I refuse to quit.
Come on.
SABRINA: I've just gotta keep going.
This is something I have to do for me.
Come on!
But not all of you have passed this course.
NARRATOR: After the VW of number 5 Molly,
only four recruits remain.
(NOISE OF BABY WAILING)
Stand up.
Move.
They've been in interrogation for over seven hours...
Step up.
..and none have broken their cover story.
Stand up straight.
But after faltering earlier,
the interrogators decide to question number 14 Sabrina for a second time.
She must resist questioning without revealing the truth
or come clean when she believes her cover story has been blown.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
So...
So, this whole ambassador thing that people are talking about,
this whole trek started yesterday?
The trek started yesterday. Yep. And what about before that?
We were here since Sunday.
Shall we say four days?
We'll say four days.
Alright.
Some people have said four days,
some people have said five,
some people have said more.
But they're not all telling the same story.
Your story is not true.
In what way?
Because the people who are here with you,
they don't have the mental dexterity to keep up their story.
People? There's more than one with me?
Don't play games.
THE UMPIRE: Sabrina continuing with this story is a waste of time.
How long do you think we're going to carry on with this
until we get the truth?
We need the truth.
All we need is for someone to step up and tell the truth.
Someone to be a leader.
Someone to take responsibility for helping other people.
And the first thing you can do is start by being honest with me.
OK?
You need to admit to what's happening.
It's not that hard.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
SABRINA: We...
We are here to...
participate in a selection course.
For what?
It's called the SAS selection course.
Yep. Yep.
Well done her.
Because she co-operated with us.
She should be rewarded for that.
It'll be interesting to see what happens with the others
after this now.
NARRATOR: After being exposed,
Sabrina has come clean at exactly the right time and passes the task.
(SCREECHING NOISES COMING FROM HEADPHONES)
Step forward.
She has obviously understood the consequences
but at the moment those three haven't.
I have a funny feeling they will keep
trying to string that bullshit conversation along.
They need to realise that if they don't start doing what she's done
then potentially they could end up getting killed.
(DOOR SLAMS OPEN)
Alright, get up. Get up.
Up, up, up. Get up.
NARRATOR: Unaware of Sabrina's admission...
Head down.
..Nick, James, and Merrick, must now do the same.
Hands together. If not, they will fail the task...
Stop.
..and be instantly removed from the course.
Not one single one of you is doing the right thing.
The evidence stacks up to prove that you're fucking lying.
Your whole story is fucking garbage.
ANT: Come on.
Your cover story is broken now.
THE UMPIRE: Yeah, it's time.
Pick it up.
You can make this fucking right now, you blokes.
On three. One, two, three.
Fucking get back there.
So now let's see what you have to say for yourselves.
Who have you been training with?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(YELLS) Who have you been training with?
Come on!
We've been training for SAS course.
We'll see.
Taken a while for that switch to be pressed.
Fucking blood from a stone.
NARRATOR: After a gruelling 12 hours of being on the run,
captured, and then interrogated,
the DS bring the final four recruits together
to discuss their performance.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
Take a look at each other.
That nightmare is over for you now.
You four will progress to the final stage of this course.
Congratulations, you four.
(UPLIFTING MUSIC)
It's not over but well done.
Follow me.
NARRATOR: A mere three hours after interrogation,
the remaining four recruits will now undergo their final task
to determine whether they pass or fail selection.
Bergens on. Straight up to me.
ANT: Everything that we've taught you is put into this final day...
Hurry up.
..and we expect you to ramp it up
100% more than you've ever done before...
Let's start speeding up.
..because you know that there are still people that won't make it.
There are still people that won't fit that mould
and you could be one of those.
Pin your ears back. Very important.
What you're about to embark on is what's called a Sickener.
NARRATOR: The Sickener is a three-phase operation.
Phase 1, a punishing 3km artillery resupply
carrying heavy sandbags and ammunition containers.
Phase 2, an arduous casualty evacuation
through unforgiving terrain to a waiting chopper.
And Phase 3, a final sprint up the steep incline
to an extraction point 4km up the hillside.
If you find yourself knocking on the Grim Reaper's door,
kick the fucker down,
get through it, and crack on.
Is that understood? ALL: Yes, Staff.
Some of you can't afford to fuck up today.
Simple as that.
This is the survival of the fittest. It's gonna hurt.
It's gonna be the worst thing that you've experienced,
I promise you that.
Hopefully I'll see you at the end of it.
Go. Move. Shift.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Move. Quick, quick, quick.
NARRATOR: Heavily weighed down... Go, go, go!
..the recruits need to make their way to an RV point
as quickly as possible.
You're in fucking enemy territory. Go, go, go.
ANT: This isn't the case that you've got to the end of the course
and we expect you to be tired.
Hurry up! ..and mentally drained...
Come on, hurry up, hurry up!
This is where you give your best effort.
Let's go!
We don't stop because you're fucking tired.
Get moving!
Find it within yourself to fucking get to the end.
ANT: This is where the human mind and the human body...
Hurry up!
..push beyond any limit that you thought was possible.
Time, time, time. We haven't got fucking time!
Let's get fucking moving.
Let's go!
(STRAINS)
Keep going, 14. Keep going.
Get on with it. Dig deep.
Let's go. Come on, you can do it.
ANT: We want you to go until you can go no more.
I need a fucking burst from you.
Come on! Let's go, move it!
NICK: I remember the phone call from Dad.
He said, "I've got terminal cancer and I've got a couple of years."
And it all sort of hit me and I just cried for bloody half an hour.
I want to just, whatever time is left,
have it the most loving, awesome experience.
That's why I'm here 'cause I want to level up who I am
and what I can handle
and to build bullet-proof resilience
because life is going to throw a whole truckload of challenges at you
and I want to be ready for it.
OLLIE: Alright, put that down there.
NARRATOR: First to finish Phase 1 is number 6 Nick.
Let's move, come on.
Number 12 James struggles in next.
Come on, let's speed it up. Come on.
Let's go, let's go.
He's followed by number 10 Merrick.
Just fucking get through it.
Get a move on!
Number 14 Sabrina is last to complete the first phase of the Sickener.
Bergens off as quickly as possible.
Hurry up. Go. Let's go. Come on, 14.
Fucking hell.
Right to the very end... Turnaround.
..the DS make selection as difficult and uncomfortable as possible.
Walk into the water.
By entering the icy six-degree water...
Right, get down here.
Go all the way to the shoulders
..the recruits face two options - quit
or complete the final two phases cold and soaking wet.
You have an opportunity now to give me your fucking armband.
Be on the freedom bed, you can be in a hotel tonight.
How about that?
No, Staff. Good deal? You want it?
ALL: No, Staff. We will see.
MERRICK: When I first took this on I thought I was doing it for me
and in my mind for a long period of time
I thought I'm doing this for me.
And then I realised I'm not doing this for me,
I'm doing this for my family.
The stronger I am,
the more confident I am for my family,
the better I am for them, the better they are for me.
We're now going to move tactically to an extraction point.
When I say go you will move, get your bergens.
This is a team effort, alright?
Go!
You said you want this, let's move it then. Prove it.
Let's go. Stop fucking fanning around and get on with it.
Come on, that's good.
Keep that momentum.
Casualty! Casualty! We've got a casualty.
NARRATOR: The recruits must now work together...
Come on, get to it.
..to simulate a battle casualty evacuation...
Hurry up.
..and meet the aircraft at the extraction point.
Let's go.
Let's go. It pays to be a winner.
Get into a flow with it. Get momentum.
Come on. Eugh!
It's how we finish. Let's go!
We have a second casualty.
Let's go! James.
Eugh! Fuck.
(PANTING)
Throughout my life,
showing emotion is not something
that I've ever been very comfortable with
because for many years of my life
I was embarrassed
and ashamed of that performance at the London Olympics.
When I retired from swimming,
that ambition that has always driven me
got away from me a little bit.
I had a sense of loss.
So if I pass selection that would be the start of a new life for me.
Get moving!
Number 10, he is down.
SABRINA: Being a woman in a male dominated sport is challenging.
Even now in this day and age I'm still fighting prejudice.
Fighting against what people think I should be.
Let's go!
And the SAS selection, it's very male dominated, just like AFL.
It has got males running the show just like the AFL.
And I'm willing to show that a woman can win the thing.
Let's go.
A woman can get through selection.
And that's why I'm here.
Just go as far as you can, drop me, and then go for the bag.
OK. I can hear something. Can you?
That's your freedom. That's your extraction.
Drop me. OK. Go back for the bag.
Go back for the bag.
Come on, get this organised. One of you take fucking charge.
James, drop Merrick. The only voice I've heard is 14.
Drop Merrick. Go for the bags.
The only one that's got
a set of fucking balls to make a decision here.
That is the best noise in the world.
Come on, James!
Let's go!
Right, everyone up. Everyone up. Come on.
NARRATOR: As the chopper lands...
SABRINA: Let's go.
..the recruits only have seconds to reach it.
You need to make the RV.
Let's go! Come on!
Let's go.
SABRINA: Come on, J. Let's go.
Let's go! Eugh!
Abort mission.
Come on!
Abort, abort, abort.
You fucked up getting there.
(PANTING)
Let's go, come on, you can do it.
You need to make that RV.
NARRATOR: In a task replicating war zone conditions...
Come on!
..the last four recruits are literally
running to the end of the selection course.
Eugh! Abort mission.
Come on!
The DS have other plans in mind... Abort, abort, abort.
..and have called off the evacuation.
Get in there.
You fucked up getting there.
If we're pushing people to their utter limits
and they don't know when the end is, that's because war is like that.
It's never really over.
Just as that helicopter is flying in,
you think you're going to get lifted off and saved
and then you suddenly see the helicopter get shot out of the sky
and then it's not over.
So the final Sickener is to show you
that complacency is what fucks you up
and you should always remain switched on
and always ready for the unexpected.
See the flare? That's your fucking next destination.
Listen in.
This is a fucking gunfight that you didn't want.
This is a firefight you weren't expecting at the end of the mission.
This is where you lot need to dig deep
into the dark recesses of your mind to find that fight.
This is where we fucking live. This is where we thrive.
And it's up to you now to show us
that hundred and fucking fifty percent.
Does that make sense? ALL: Yes, Staff.
Are you happy with that? Yes, Staff.
Alright. Leave your bergens here.
Fucking go. Move! Come on!
Let's fucking see it.
NARRATOR: Barely time to catch their breath...
Come on! ..the recruits now start
the final phase - a gruelling 4km uphill sprint.
Go! Sprint!
Come on, team. Let's go.
FOXY: Come on!
I want to go until I'm told to stop.
Come on, let's go.
This is something I have to do for me.
Whatever is coming in my life this is a part of that steppingstone
to set me up for whatever it is.
It would crush me to have that growth taken away from me.
Come on, 10, find the fucking fight. Let's go.
MERRICK: If I go all the way to the end,
complete the course and win,
and I hear those words congratulations,
that will truly be one of the greater moments of my life.
That's worth sacrificing a lot for.
It's not the legs that are hurting it's your fucking head winning.
Come on.
Come on!
(PANTING)
SABRINA: What I've learnt playing football
is you always have those fears of failing.
But I think I have what it takes to pass.
I've just gotta keep going.
Last big drive. Let's go, number 6.
Number 12, let's go.
JAMES: I've spent a lot of my life in the water
so running hasn't come naturally to me.
I do find myself getting increasingly nervous
but fear is definitely a driving force
behind me wanting to be successful.
Get a shift on.
NARRATOR: All four recruits refusing to be beaten...
Number 14, let's move. ..finally approach the site.
Grab a water bottle each.
Sit down. Rest whilst you can.
NARRATOR: After a brutal fortnight,
surviving 21 punishing tasks,
11 VWs...
MERRICK: Well done, guys.
..and 2 recruit culls,
the last four recruits have made it all the way to the end.
All that remains is for the DS to decide
if any or all of them will pass.
This is it, crunch time.
We must now choose who has passed this course and who hasn't.
It's as simple as that.
Who would you have by your side and who you wouldn't.
If we're going to talk about people we want next to us
14 is that person that will never let you down
regardless of where she is.
(GUNFIRE)
Aggression. Determination. You've got a mountain behind you.
Everything we're looking for.
And up here, I tell you what,
is the hardest I've ever seen number 12 work.
Pulled it out of the bag at the last moment.
He pulled it out of the bag today.
Why didn't he do it for the fucking rest of the course?
Go!
FOXY: He is not emotional
and sometimes it's that emotion that drives you to fucking dig deep.
And being emotionless has been his fucking Achilles heel, I think.
Number 6. He has given everything. You can tell that.
He has been consistent throughout the course.
Good, number 6. Well done.
Let's go! (GUNSHOT)
Number 10, he sits between the pack.
Are you OK? Yes, Staff.
For me, consistency throughout, he's been there.
But would you have him by your side?
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
You four stand-up, turn around.
Shoulder to shoulder.
The course is now complete.
During every single hour of every single day
every task we've been assessing you, nit-picking,
ripping apart your personalities, trying to dig deep into who you are.
And that ultimate question that we ask ourselves,
would we have you in our team?
You're stood here so you succeeded in your own right.
Feel proud of that.
But not all of you have passed this course.
When I call your number out you will hand me your number
and you will head over towards the medic.
It's just not your time.
Number 12.
Well done.
Just wasn't enough but you should hold your head up high.
You succeeded in your own right.
Thank you.
Well done, mate. Well done. Cheers, Ollie.
Awesome. Cheers, Foxy.
Outstanding job, big man. Well done.
This is how cutthroat it is.
This is how real it is.
All three of you...
have passed this course.
Well done.
Oh, my god!
(LAUGHS)
SABRINA: Oh, thank you so much. ANT: Brilliant. You've done so well.
You can give me a hug. I'm a hug girl.
Well done. Well done. Thanks.
Passing selection is unbelievable.
(SABRINA CRIES)
ANT: You guys, you've earned your numbers.
You can keep them. Well done.
OLLIE: This will be a sense of achievement
that will expand every aspect of their life.
Badge!
It's a life changer.
Holy snapping duckshit. How about that, eh?
NICK: To get through with Merrick and Sabrina,
just amazing experience.
I feel like I've learnt a truckload. About myself too.
Definitely bullet-proof for life. For sure.
I couldn't have done it without you.
SABRINA: I have so much respect for the SAS.
To embark on this and to pass selection,
for them to embrace me as one of their own,
I'll never be able to explain how much that means to me.
(SOBS)
OLLIE: It's an incredible feeling.
It's amazing to know that you've made the grade.
It's the best club in the world, and the hardest.
To be honest, it probably is the hardest thing they'll ever do.
They'll never do it again.
Fuck yeah!
(LAUGHS AND COUGHS)
Fuck yeah! Whoo!
MERRICK: To pass it and to get through it and to survive it
is one of the greatest achievements I've ever had in my entire career.
Fuck yes!
I did this course to rebuild my own confidence
and to show myself my own capabilities
but I ended wanting to learn more about the soldiers
that sacrifice what they do
and how hard it is for them to give over so much of their lives for us.
Alright, you fucking maggots.
Come on.
We've all got different strengths.
We've all got different weaknesses.
Let's get us some beers. (LAUGHTER)
And if you're courageous enough to think right, fuck it,
I'm going to commit to myself,
that's courage.
And you will find a place next to us on our team.
(VICTORIOUS MUSIC)
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