[cinematic music playing]
[Ky] If I fail, I'm letting an entire country down.
[Fernanda] Mexicans are resilient,
and we're here to prove that.
[Matt] I'm not just out here for myself.
I'm representing my country.
[narrator] For the first time ever,
seven teams representing seven regions from across the globe
will compete together for their homeland
in Southern Africa's Zululand,
where they must survive the wild
and each other... -[screaming]
...for 40 days...
[Alexa] This is our battlefield, and we're here to fight.
...with not even the clothes on their backs...
[shivering sobs]
...to win $200,000.
[screaming]
[Rene speaking]
-[Jeff] Let's go, baby! -[Pablo] Mexican power!
Previously on "Global Showdown."
[Kerra] You got this, you got this.
[Fernanda] Stack it up, stack it up.
Mexico survived an elimination challenge...
Yeah, Mexico, baby! [screams in excitement]
...sending Texas home...
[Kerra] Zululand doesn't want Texas here.
...and leaving six teams
fighting for the $200,000 prize.
Being the first team out,
it's, honestly, it feels like a nightmare.
For the next competition, survivalists were given
48 hours to bushcraft a primitive bow.
Today, they will put their builds to the test
in a challenge.
This work.
[Pablo] Building a bow is very different than shooting one.
While Australia hit roadblocks with their bow construction...
Oh, mother[bleep]!
...Dan and Rachel clashed
over the best approach for Rachel's bow...
[Rachel] We should take the time to make sure we string them
both kind of nice.
[Dan speaking]
...bringing USA Pacific's tension to a head.
[Dan] You're just like checking out of this whole competition?
Like, I get you're emotional, but it's also impacting me
and it's really selfish.
[Rachel] I came here to fight my competitors.
I was expecting them to underestimate and dismiss me,
but I wasn't hoping for that from my partner.
♪♪
-[wind blowing loudly] -[cicadas buzzing]
[birds chirping]
[Dan sighs]
Morning of day 12. Challenge day.
I'm worried about today.
Team USA Pacific is sitting just above the red line,
in fourth place, with 350 points.
[Dan] Rachel and I, we've barely
spoken a word to each other since yesterday.
And in these challenges...
Being in that kind of fragile state
during one of these challenges could be
a death sentence for us.
-Hey. -[Rachel] Hey.
Ow, ow, ow, ow. Ow!
[Rachel] Is your back still giving you trouble?
[Dan] I don't know. I think the back stuff is
getting better.
And it's like, this is less debilitating.
[Rachel] That doesn't sound fun.
[Dan] Thank you.
And, um,
I wanna say I'm sorry you felt like you didn't have
a say in your bow yesterday
when I'm putting it together.
I appreciate the acknowledgement.
I feel like I don't have a say in most things.
And, like, normally I'm like, "OK, OK, it's fine,"
but I am definitely in a more sensitive state right now,
and it's just been wearing down on me, and it just feels like
[clears throat]
I'm very often and quickly dismissed, you know?
I feel like for the past 12 days, I'm, like, begging
to be heard. I had no say in my bow.
Like, none whatsoever.
It'd be nice to have some input on the design
as to what would work best for me.
If for any reason you think that there's something better,
then that's what happens, period.
[Dan] I hear you.
[Rachel] I don't like fighting with you, 'cause I love you.
I think you're such a great person,
and this is just a hard thing. -[Dan] I'm sure I don't like
fighting with you either.
At all. I'm sorry.
I think I often, you know, can act a certain way,
and in my head it's not the same as it's, you know,
perceived on the outside, if that makes sense?
[Rachel] It does.
I don't think you have bad intentions.
I know you have the best intentions.
I know you have the best heart.
And you just get tunnel vision and you're good at what you do
and so you just lock in.
And I don't think that's a bad thing at all.
But it's just, yeah, sometimes it feels like
I'm just here to help, like,
carry the bag for you, you know? -[Dan] Yeah.
I feel so bad. She's so sweet
and so well-intentioned.
But we need more than that out here.
We have to have equal partnerships where both people
are in it.
[Rachel] Can I have a hug?
Sure.
This partner thing is hard right now.
I'm worried if that could ruin me, it could ruin us.
[Rachel] I'm very glad to have you as a partner.
-[Dan] Me too. -[Rachel] It's a hard situation.
[Dan] Yeah.
I just need to, like, bite my lip
and let her lead, I guess.
I hope it doesn't ruin me.
-[Gabby] How you feeling, Matt? -[Matt] I'm good, feeling good.
-Feeling fresh. -[Gabby] Yeah?
-Nice, that was a pretty one. -OK, now I gotta figure it out.
It's challenge day.
Today we get to put these bows that we made out here
in the wild to the test against the other competitors.
Nice, Matt!
Team USA East is currently in second place
with 480 points.
-[Matt] Oh yeah, that would -- -I'll take it.
That would've hit it too. Yeah.
-Here we go. -Let's do this today.
[Ky] Well, this is the moment of truth, Alexa.
-[Alexa] Yeah. -[Ky] As to whether
this bow is gonna fire arrows.
Been curing all night.
This bow here, getting a nice bend in it
in this tree under tension.
[Alexa] It looks like it's got a nice curvature.
[Ky] Well, I'm gonna try and string it on a log.
Yesterday, the bow broke while we were pulling it back.
Now we're gonna string it, see if we can get some tension
on it without breaking it.
-Well... -[Alexa scoffs]
-I mean, it looks like a bow. -[laughing]
-[Ky] Well, look, let's -- -[both] Set up a target.
-[Ky] And, um... -[Alexa] Give it a crack.
Far out.
To build a bow, I mean, this is a skill set
that people practice for years.
So I honestly don't know if it's gonna have the power.
If it's gonna have the capacity.
If this doesn't work, we don't know how to fix it.
This is the moment of truth, Alexa.
[Alexa] Oh, this is stressful.
[tense music builds up]
[gasps softly]
[cackles in excitement]
Ky, you [bleep] did it!
[Ky] Oh, my God!
Team Australia earns 50 points for successfully crafting
and testing their primitive bow.
Sitting in the middle of the pack in third place,
they now have 460 points.
Yeah! [chuckles]
We can make this work!
-Yeah! -[Alexa] [bleep] yeah!
In fifth place, Brazil has 300 points
and could be facing an elimination challenge.
[Fernanda] Oh, my God, the wind!
It is a very windy day,
and we're gonna have a challenge.
Do you wanna practice with this one a little bit before?
[Pablo] Yeah, I'm gonna take a shot.
Sitting at the bottom of the scoreboard,
Mexico has 250 points and is at risk of elimination.
[Fernanda] Pablo and I, we're behind in the competition,
but we still have a chance to move forward
and get in a higher rank above the red line.
We are just gonna keep on fighting
because this is not over.
[Pablo speaking Spanish]
[Fernanda] Pablo, he has won archery competitions back home.
It's definitely gonna be an asset in this competition.
The problem is that if the wind is changing in all directions,
we're not gonna be as precise as we wanna be.
-Let's go! -We have great bows.
Yeah.
[Fernanda mixing languages]
[Pablo] Yes. [in Spanish]
Let's do this!
-[grunts] -[Gabby chuckles]
Teams have been instructed to meet at the X on the map
for their next challenge.
-[Rachel] Ready? -[Dan] I think so.
-[Teal] Here we go! -[Frank] Here we go!
We've got our stick bow that literally it took, like,
less than an hour to make, but, you know.
Yeah, we kind of took a gamble on this, you know,
'cause sometimes less is more, and sometimes you just need
to go with your gut and gamble a little bit.
At the top of the leaderboard, USA South has 550 points.
[Rachel] All right, guys.
Let's see what the day has in store.
"Today, you will divide and conquer.
"Each member of your team will take on a distinct task.
"One of you will be your team's archer.
-The other will be the butcher." -[Teal gasps]
We can only do one thing at a time?
-Not what we were expecting. -Yeah!
Oh, gosh!
I know you haven't butchered an animal before.
We've been designated into two roles,
the archer and the butcher...
A vegetarian, too. That's rough.
...neither of which I'm familiar with.
-Wow, OK. -[chuckles]
We're gonna have to figure that one out.
Yeah, we are.
Reading that we're gonna have to make the choice between
archer and butcher, I kind of start to panic.
I'm gonna have to shoot a bow that I'm really
uncomfortable with,
or I'm gonna have to butcher an animal
which I've never done before.
"So your team's archer will test your primitive bow
by striking three targets."
In phase one, survivalists must prove
the power and accuracy of their primitive bows
by hitting three ostrich egg targets 10 yards away,
they must pierce or knock over all three eggs to advance.
For a primitive hunter, a clean kill shot is essential
for successful survival.
[Lindsey] You got him! You got him! You got him!
It was an amazing shot.
"When the archer is finished, the butcher will then pluck,
gut, and quarter a guinea fowl."
In phase two, the second team member's butchering
knowledge will be tested.
They must process a guinea fowl without tainting the meat.
One slip of the knife risks piercing the intestines
and contaminating the entire carcass.
Oh, [bleep].
Ew!
[Chad] What's going on?
[Angela] His intestines burst.
[Chad] So you spoiled all this meat.
Only the first five teams to finish
will claim a guinea fowl plus points.
Sixth place will not earn a food asset or points.
[Ky] I'm feeling a lot of pressure to get this guinea fowl
because I haven't been able to bring in any big food for Alexa.
We've had one catfish in 12 days
and I'm getting tired.
-[gasps] -Tomorrow!
-Already? -Wow.
-Again? -We had the pressure before.
We were the bottom feeders, you know?
Brazil and us, we are below the red line.
We're facing elimination.
And the next one is Pacific.
No pressure, no pressure.
I'm worried about a scenario where we come in last
because we are gonna be up against
some pretty good archers out there.
I have a lot of worry in my head.
Well, guys, I think we have a big decision to make.
[Dan] Yep.
[Rachel] Let's go talk about it.
The teams disperse to discuss who will take on the role
of archer and butcher.
[Rachel and Dan speaking]
[Dan] I know what I wanna do as far as which one of these two
I wanna take on and which I think would be the safest bet.
I wanna be the archer, but I think it's gonna be
at odds with what she wants, and I can't really push
against that because if I push against that,
I feel like she's gonna break again.
It's your call.
I can't. Yeah, I can't.
I know, I'm like, "I wanna make decisions,"
but in this one, I don't.
I just feel like
[Dan] This whole challenge, a lot of the tension has been
because Rachel wants to get up to bat.
She doesn't wanna be an accessory.
I'm comfortable doing both,
so that's the only reason I asked you.
[Dan] This is her moment to get up to bat and saying, like,
"Pick one," and she doesn't wanna pick.
Oy, vey. [sighs]
[Fernanda] So, obviously, you're gonna be the archer.
You have better aim than I do, so I'll take care
of the guinea fowl, and you take care
of the archery. -I take care of the eggs.
This is an archery challenge, and I know how to shoot bows,
but I really don't know how to make them.
But this is a very important challenge,
and I hope that we win.
I've never butchered poultry, and I'm happy to be the archer,
but we're the only team with one bow.
However, not every team has a Frank and Teal,
so I think we're in great standing.
All right. So what do you think?
[Gabby] I mean, Matt...
I've been bow hunting for so many years that I have
the sixth sense of sorts with a bow.
And I know I have got this thing.
This thing is done.
[Rene speaking]
[Alexa] So Ky is taking on the archery role,
which means that I can take on the butchery role
and she can help coach me through the process.
I'm great at following instructions.
Yeah. Yeah.
You could walk me through butchering a bird,
but I think that would be a lot. -Are you --
I don't know.
If you give good directions, if you give like,
complete directions, I could do that,
but... -I could.
I'm more comfortable shooting, but I'm not comfortable
shooting with this bow that we have, so it's just hard.
[Dan] I'm really worried about this choice
because I'm worried she's pretty ill equipped for both of these.
Honestly, I'm just worried about trying to stay
above that red line and not go to elimination.
But we might potentially be in trouble here.
You could walk me through butchering a bird,
but I think that would be a lot. -Are you --
I don't know.
If I have to rip into an animal right now,
I don't know that I have the mental fortitude to do that.
I would probably be sobbing the whole time.
I know how to shoot a bow. Like, I'm comfortable
with shooting a bow.
I would definitely feel more comfortable doing that
than experimenting,
plucking and gutting and quartering an animal
for the first time under a time limit.
-OK. -Oy.
-OK. -Pressure.
So final decision, you're gonna shoot the bow?
-Yeah. -I'll quarter the animal.
In my head, I think it's the wrong decision.
-All right, we're doing this. -We're doing it.
But every option we have is complete [bleep],
and I have a sinking feeling in my gut.
OK, your challenge starts now.
In phase one of this bow and butcher challenge,
each team's designated archer must use the bow they've
crafted to shoot three ostrich eggs 10 yards away.
[in Spanish]
Only the first five teams will move on to the final phase
of the challenge.
The sixth place team will earn no food asset or points.
That was so close.
This wind today is what I would call a son of a bitch.
And this is a handmade primitive bow.
[grunts] A little bit of wind.
It's absolutely a archer's worst nightmare.
[Alexa] Oh, so close.
The best thing you can do for me here, Dan, is
to talk about anything other than what's happening
so I don't get in my head.
But if you, like, try to tell me what to do or coach me,
it's gonna mess me up.
[Dan] In any of the previous "Last One Standing" competitions
I've been in, I was never overly worried
about being in the bottom.
I just don't have enough pick up with it.
I'll try to go higher.
But in this one, especially with the problems
we're in in our partnership right now, everything is
completely out of my hands.
[Rachel exhales sharply] Just a little more zing.
It just really upped the stakes on this particular challenge.
A lot.
[Rachel] Oy! Come on!
[Rene speaking]
Yeah! From Brazil!
[Fernanda] Oh, my God!
That was fast.
We were all like, just turning around and seeing Rene
and just like our jaws dropped because that was so fast.
[Rachel exhales sharply]
All right, Katniss.
[Dan gasps]
-You got it? -All right, one down.
Excellent.
I am just in shock.
Rachel gets an egg cracked right away.
I hit an egg before Matt Wright,
but there's still two more to go.
And so I'm just not even taking time to celebrate.
I'm locked in and moving on to the second egg.
Oy, come on!
[in Spanish]
Don't worry. Don't worry.
I know you can do this.
[Pablo speaking]
-It's losing strength? -It's losing strength.
You wanna try with the other one?
[Pablo] Wait a second.
So our bow worked earlier, and then when I start shooting,
I just feel like something's off because it lost
a lot of power.
I will have to pull harder.
Yeah, pull harder.
[Pablo] [bleep].
[Rene speaking]
[Teal speaking]
Wind.
-They're all just like... -I know.
-...millimeters away. -I know.
-[Marina] Woo! -[Rene] Perfect.
-He got one! -Jesus.
Gabby's letting me know that Team Brazil hit two eggs.
Also that Team Pacific has now hit an egg.
[Matt] And it's becoming, obviously, a moment where
I need to make more happen.
-Ah, yeah, buddy. -All right.
-Questioning myself. -No, you're not.
[sighs]
-I am. -It's OK.
[Teal] The wind out here is insane today,
so I have to keep my focus.
Because the only person that can win this challenge
for Frank and I is us. And right now, that us is me.
-Yes! -That counts.
Watch that [bleep] piss.
One of them is gonna get it.
The conditions out here are wild and windy.
-[wind blowing loudly] -Ugh, wind.
The arrows are going above.
To the left, to the right. Sometimes it'll go below.
It's all so close.
I think we need a little more fling to it.
But I am just laser-focused on winning this guinea fowl,
and the pressure is huge.
-[exhales sharply] -Oh, yes!
-Number one. -Good girl.
That was [bleep] awesome.
-[Marina] Hey! -[Rene speaking]
Yeah!
-[Fernanda] Oh, my God! -Did they get all three?
Rene just got first in an archery competition,
and that is a huge moment to watch out here.
In phase two, the second teammate must
butcher a guinea fowl to ensure maximum yield
and preservation of its meat.
The head, feet, and wings must be severed
and the skin and feathers removed.
Digestive organs must also be removed and discarded
to avoid bacterial contamination of the flesh
before the carcass is butterflied.
Only the first five teams will earn the chance to butcher
a guinea fowl and keep its meat.
[Marina speaking]
[Rene mixing languages]
[Gabby] Come on, baby. Here we go.
This is it. Pressure's on, buddy.
Ah, right there, Matt.
[Matt] Sometimes when you shoot at a target,
it can feel impossible.
I'm gonna mix it up, go to the lower one.
Yeah, OK.
[Matt] I just have to focus.
-Agh! Yeah! -[Matt] Yeah!
Second egg down, one more egg to go.
[Frank and Teal speaking]
-[Frank] Ooh, yes! You got it. -[Teal] Got it!
That's two, I broke the top off of that.
That's two, good job, Teal, one more.
You got this.
-[Gabby] Oh. -You little bitch!
OK, you want to play like that?
You're doing great.
-Ooh, yes! -[Teal] Go, go, go, go, go!
Grab your chicken!
I just outshot Matt Wright with a stick and a string.
-Oh, man! -Looks like Team South
just got second place. -Well, they didn't get
second place yet.
[giggles]
You got this Frank. I know you know
every bit of this.
Don't worry, Pablo, don't worry.
You got this, OK?
[exhaling sharply]
This is, like, heartbreaking.
[Frank] This is not out of my wheelhouse
by any means.
I butcher 'em all the time.
Ducks, chickens, turkeys.
[Teal] Come on, rip that [bleep] open.
[Frank] By the time I hit the block, Team Brazil were still
working on their bird, and I was seconds behind.
If Brazil misses first place, it leaves them at risk of going
to tomorrow's elimination challenge.
[Marina speaking]
[in Portuguese]
[whispering] Come on, man. Come on, man.
-[Matt grunts] -[Gabby] I thought you had it, Matt!
[Rachel exhales sharply and speaks]
-[Teal speaking] -[Frank] Peel the legs down.
Peel the wings down. Bust the breastplate open.
Poultry in motion. Do what Frank loves to do.
[Marina speaking]
[Teal] Frank is so fast at doing this.
He is really making up time.
[in Portuguese]
[tense music playing]
[wind blowing loudly]
[Rene in Portuguese]
In this bow and butcher challenge, Brazil and USA South
are the only teams who have moved on to phase two.
Oh, that's gross.
The first to fully process their guinea fowl
will be first place and earn 100 points.
[Rene speaking Portuguese]
Some heart in there. I see a liver.
Frank is really making up time.
And his head's right there in front of your knife.
Yep.
[screaming in excitement]
We won, Brazil!
[Matt] Team Brazil, they kicked butt in this challenge.
They came here to play.
Woo-hoo!
[Marina speaking]
Yes!
[Rene speaking]
During this challenge, Brazil earned 150 points,
50 points for building a primitive bow,
and 100 points for finishing first.
Their point total surges to 400,
past the 300 and 400 point milestones.
They've earned two new items
and pick a kudu hide and a folding saw.
Whoo!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
Way to go. Way to make it work!
-Yeah! -Yes!
Teal and I, we might not be legends,
but we are definitely gonna be legendary.
USA South collects 50 points for their bow
and 70 points for their second place finish,
bringing their total to 620.
For crossing the 600 point milestone,
they choose a block of salt.
[Teal] Gonna be a good dinner tonight.
One more. Get this done.
Four teams remain in phase one,
but only three will win a guinea fowl plus points.
Team USA East has hit two eggs.
[Gabby] It's all right. You're right on it.
Team Australia and USA Pacific have hit one egg each.
[Rachel] That was embarrassing.
And Team Mexico has yet to hit an egg.
[Fernanda] When I see that other teams finish and we haven't shoot
any eggs, I just start feeling like, "What's going on?"
Because Pablo is a really good archer.
[Pablo] Why's [bleep] not with strength?
Give me the other bow.
Here it is, here it is, here it is.
Maybe this works better.
Maybe I can put the paracord to give it more strength.
[Pablo] Yeah, maybe.
-Oh, it breaks. -It broke?
-Yeah. -It broke already?
-Yeah. -[bleep]
The sad part is we were very confident
that we were going to excel in this challenge,
and suddenly the first bow,
it lost strength, and the second bow is broken,
and we haven't shot any eggs.
[Pablo] [bleep] [exhales in frustration]
-[Fernanda] What the hell, man? -[Pablo] I can't believe it.
[Alexa speaking]
-[exhales in relief] -[Ky] Shh.
-We got one more to go. -[Alexa] Yeah, good go.
[Rachel] I feel like a loser right now.
[Dan] Keep going.
Matt's still got eggs up there.
We're all doing...
-[Rachel] Matt does? -[Dan] Oh, yeah.
Inch it up, inch it up.
I know I am struggling, and that is when I have
to shake it off. I look, I breathe.
I'm feeling like a tree, where I am moving slightly
with the wind, but never broken.
And then I look at that egg and I realized that egg,
it has no chance.
-There it is! -There we go!
Gabby, get [indistinct].
[Gabby] I'm grabbing the Guinea fowl,
I'm running to the pot as fast as I can,
and I start plucking.
[Matt] All right, you got this. You got this.
Just grab that skin and start unsheathing it.
[Gabby] I've never done this before,
but I'm pretty confident with Matt's direction.
You got this, Gabby. You got this.
-[Gabby] Can I chop? -[Matt] Yep, chop, chop.
Yeah, like a champ.
Now just two of the three teams shooting
will earn a guinea fowl and points.
Is there something we can do?
-[Pablo] I think I have an idea. -[Fernanda] What?
I will break one bow
and use it as support.
[Fernanda] Are you sure you wanna do that?
[Pablo] It's our last chance.
I don't know what Mexico's doing, but they look like
they're remaking bows over there.
[Rachel] That's wild.
I'm like, "Oh, Rachel, this is gonna help us."
Team Mexico has broken their bows.
[Rachel] Oy, I don't understand!
It's so frustrating. It's like I'm getting so close.
-[wind blowing loudly] -[Alexa] We're gonna get it.
[bleep] yeah!
[Ky] OK, it's all over to you now, girl.
[Rachel grunting] Oy!
-[Dan] My fingernails are gone. -[Rachel] Oh, yeah.
-They don't exist anymore. -[Rachel] I don't need nails.
[Dan] With Rachel, the arrows just start going
all different directions. They were not hitting the egg.
I'm standing there trying to be stoic, trying to be supportive,
but under the surface, there's frustration.
The fact that we are in this situation,
which was so preventable.
[Ky] All right, so first thing you do,
you grab your big knife out.
Alexa's a vegetarian.
She's never butchered anything in her life,
and now I'm gonna have to talk her through it
without hands-on help.
Hold the neck out, watch your fingers,
and give a big chop to the neck. Hard as you can, come on.
Team Australia, they just got their third egg,
they're going for the guinea fowl,
and now we need to hurry up.
Perfect, now just grab it and rip it off.
[Ky] Ready? Big, big, big chop.
Yep, that's it. OK, next one.
[Alexa] As I learned the last time I was in Africa
having to survive here,
when you're here, you do whatever it takes
to survive.
[Ky] Cut anywhere you can.
-Doesn't matter, just get under that skin. -[Alexa] Yep.
[Ky] OK, get your fingers in there.
[Alexa] We're the only team, in this entire challenge
that basically hasn't eaten in 12 days.
-Skin's off? -Yep, skin's off.
You're good with the skinning.
[Alexa] So at this moment in time, I know that the only thing
that stands between us and eating
is taking apart this animal.
-[Gabby] Going up the butt. -[Matt] Yep, so right up there.
Yep, and pull just away from you and just leverage out.
Gabby, has this guinea fowl looking like it's
ready for the market.
Nice! [grunts]
-There it is, Matt. -There it is.
I'm glad that one's over.
We just sealed off third place in this competition.
It's not first like we wanted, but this competition is
very, very tough. This is no subpar competition.
This is the best in the world right now.
-I'm proud of you as a partner. -We crushed it, Matt.
We worked hard to get here.
USA East earns 50 points for their bows
and 50 points for third place.
This pushes them above the 500 point milestone to 530,
allowing them to select two ostrich eggs.
[Matt] That's awesome.
OK, legs are splayed. One, two, three.
Yeah! Yeah!
-Woo! -Woo!
[Ky] Fourth place.
Thank goodness it doesn't lead to elimination,
but it will score some food for Alexa and I.
You did that way faster than I got the arrows in.
Holy [bleep]!
-Crikey! -[Ky] Crikey!
That was a beauty of a challenge.
Australia's fourth place finish yields 40 points,
plus an additional 50 points for their bow.
This pushes them past the 500 point milestone
and lets them choose two ostrich eggs.
[Ky] Look at these beautiful...
[Alexa] [indistinct] precious cargo.
Oh, my gosh!
We have eaten one catfish in 12 days,
and now we're bringing home
a guinea fowl and two ostrich eggs,
and that's what it takes to keep going.
We are gonna eat tonight, girls!
-[Alexa] Yeah, we are! -[Ky chuckles]
With Brazil's first place finish, USA Pacific will
finish this competition below the red line
and will face Mexico
in an elimination challenge tomorrow.
The two teams are competing for the last guinea fowl,
which will give one team a valuable protein advantage.
[Rachel] I... [sighs]
I'm, like, starting to feel that panic, but I'm trying to,
like, just keep empty-headed.
Oh, thank God. OK, one more.
-[Fernanda] OK, here it is. -[Pablo] OK.
-[Pablo speaking Spanish] -[Fernanda] OK.
[Pablo] Here and here.
We need to put a really long lash in the middle,
right where the bow is broken,
and just use the splint.
[Pablo] It will bind and give the strength...
-[Fernanda] That we need? -...that we need.
[Fernanda] Hopefully.
We did what we call a Mexicanada, just something
quick to repair something.
So we managed to repair the bow.
-OK. -[Pablo] Let me try it.
Ah! You see?
One!
If we got one, we can get the other two.
¡Ahí está, papá!
One left, one left.
[grunts]
Mexico, they're catching up.
Rachel is panicking. I'm just beside myself.
[Fernanda in Spanish]
[Rachel] What in the world?
[Dan] At this point, I know we're gonna have
to go to elimination.
Rachel is in a fragile, emotional state.
[Dan] But I also know I'm just watching arrows fly
from a bow that she refused to practice on.
And the anger and frustration I was feeling yesterday
is coming back.
[Rachel] Oy! Mother [bleep]!
-[Marina] Yeah! -Yes!
Woo!
With four teams finished,
Mexico and USA Pacific are still in phase one.
The next team to shoot their remaining ostrich egg
will claim the final guinea fowl and 30 points,
ending the challenge for the other.
[Fernanda] One left, one left.
[Dan] Lo and behold, Team Mexico has two eggs.
They're catching up, and now our partnership is
under pressure to make it to the end of this thing.
[Rachel] At this point, I'm already really embarrassed
and absolutely desperate to get that third egg.
-Oh, my God! -[Dan grunting] Yes!
Hey!
[Rachel crying] OK, go, go, go.
They're done.
[Rachel] It took every bit of emotional strength
to keep that negativity locked down
because I am beating myself up right now
for not choosing to do the guinea fowl instead.
-[chuckles] -[Dan exhales sharply]
[Rachel crying] That was awful.
OK.
Get your game face on, girl! Let's go!
[roars] Come on!
Oy... [exhales loudly]
I feel like I shot for a year, but the biggest battle was
in my mind.
Just like overthinking everything.
And that was a cruel and unusual punishment.
[grunts]
That was horrible.
Good job, Dan.
[Pablo] Losing in an archery challenge...
It was very difficult.
It feels horrible going home empty handed, no points,
no guinea fowl, and with the shame face
of not be able to hit the three eggs.
This sucks. I know it sucks.
-I don't feel great. -It sucks a lot.
I just don't wanna feel worse than I feel.
I mean, it's demoralizing just being below the red line
and always being last and feel like we're failing.
But also, it's hard to be without food and compete
to other teams that are fed.
At least we know what facing an elimination feels like.
[Pablo] Yes.
♪♪
-[Frank] All right. -[Teal] Guess what time it is?
It is guinea stew pot time.
And we got a special treat to add to this.
-[Teal] Yep. -[Frank] Check it out.
[Teal] We've got some of our rock salt
that we've won today.
And we're gonna add that to our soup.
And that will give us some minerals that we need.
-[Frank] Yes. -And it will make it taste...
So much better.
'Cause everything's better with salt.
Look at that. Oh, yeah.
[Teal] Some of the only white meat.
-[Frank] Nice. -Mm!
-Mm. -[Teal] Oh, my God.
-That was good. -So good.
Can you taste the salt?
We're still in first.
[Teal] And I beat Matt Wright in the archery contest.
She did!
[Ky] Oh my goodness, what a day!
[Alexa] Ooh!
[giggling]
[Alexa] Chicken or the egg, which came first?
We're gonna go with the chicken,
just because that's not gonna last
as long as these beautiful eggs will.
-So... -[Alexa] No.
The first time in this challenge,
Alexa and I feel kind of food abundant.
I mean, it's no nyala, it's no warthog,
but let me tell you, this is the most we've had
and it feels pretty good at the thought of being able
to fill our bellies.
I mean, it definitely tastes like chicken.
Yeah, it does.
-Good job, honey. -Tastes like life.
Tastes like life. Tastes like hope.
-[Ky chuckles] -Tastes like energy.
Tastes like we're not going to elimination tomorrow.
Definitely does taste like that.
[giggles]
[Dan] Well, we have to get a fire going.
At least we got a guinea fowl.
[Rachel] Do we have any coals left?
-[Dan] Let's get some grass. -[Rachel] Oy.
We are up for elimination tomorrow.
Our whole competition is at stake now.
It was really hard to not
just, like, give up.
Yeah.
[Rachel] I hate the fact that
Dan and I are up for elimination,
and I hate the fact that I feel like it's largely my fault.
I was definitely overwhelmed,
[voice breaking] probably underprepared.
-[Dan] Come on! -There you go.
[Dan] I hate to say it,
'cause it makes me sound like an asshole,
but, you know, Rachel wanted some of the reins
handed over to her.
And it bit us in the [bleep] ass.
Night number 12.
But we have food.
-[Marina speaking] -[Rene] Yeah.
[in Portuguese]
-Mm! -[Marina] Mm!
[rhinoceros snorting]
[rhinoceros snorting loudly]
[snorting continues]
Wow.
[indistinct]
[Rene] Whoa!
[rhinoceros snorting]
[Rene speaking]
-[snorting continues] -[Marina gasps]
[Rene] Whoa!
-[Marina exclaims] -[Rene grunts]
Ooh!
Morning of day 13, gonna head out on a hunt.
Get in position up here,
see if we can make something happen.
After the archery competition, I myself am humbled as hell,
so I'm gonna do a little archery practice,
just keep myself sharp, going out on a hunt.
Sometimes you don't see any actual game to hunt,
but what you do see is just a clump of dirt,
an elephant dung,
something to get a couple practice shots in.
I'd been -- I'd have been dead.
I didn't come this far to not get ahead.
And the more food you have, you become king.
I know I can't give a single inch to Team Brazil,
Team Australia, Team USA South.
All of them are absolute competitors
and you gotta treat 'em as such.
The wind direction is finally different.
It hasn't been this direction since the very first week
we got here.
So this morning might just be the magic one.
Oh.
[sighs]
[Pablo] Today we'll face elimination challenge.
We'll take it with all we got.
We're not ready to go home yet.
So I will keep trying till my hands and my feet
and my legs give out.
And that's the way it's gonna be.
[Frank] I just wanted to have some protein,
something to eat before the challenge.
I'm pretty calm about it.
We've been there before,
and we've worked great together, so...
Yeah, I feel very stoic.
This is just the cards that we were handed,
and we need to play them as well as we can.
OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
¡Ay, ay, ay! ¡Eso, [bleep]!
Got a fish!
[grunts] OK.
This is a good sign.
This is protein that we're gonna use to fuel ourselves
before the elimination challenge.
-Hi, Pablito. -[Pablo] Hello.
[Fernanda] I bought flowers and fish.
-[chuckles] -[Pablo] Oh, very nice, very nice!
[Fernanda] It's a little one, but it's breakfast, you know?
Yeah.
It's nice to have something to eat before the challenge.
-[Fernanda] Yeah. -[Pablo] Excellent.
That's super cool.
Today, we're not gonna give up without a fight.
Mexico, we're tougher than everybody else thinks.
We're just gonna focus on what we have to do,
which is win.
-There you go. -[Pablo] Oh, thank you.
[Rachel] It's gonna be a doozy of a day,
but I'm ready to push,
and I'm ready to do whatever needs to be done
to stay in this thing.
Ah! [grunting]
Pain is different today.
Pain is in a different spot.
-[exhales sharply] -[Rachel] It makes me nervous
that you've been like compensating
in a weird way or something.
Going down my left leg.
[Rachel] That's not good.
I have this new nerve pain shooting down my left leg,
which is a very new experience for me.
But my whole -- all the leg muscles
in my left leg are twitching.
Stop twitching.
[grunts in pain]
With my health issues, I can't move quickly.
It's the worst thing that could happen in this moment.
I'm sure I can like push through it
when the adrenaline comes, but it's like
very constant and weird and painful.
At this point, I have to put my mind in a calm,
cool headspace.
I am determined to win, and I need to get
to the other side victorious.
Crazy we have another challenge today after yesterday.
[Rachel] I know. [chuckles]
That's one more is at stake than ever.
I'm nervous about Dan's leg. He is genuinely injured.
Today, he's almost going in slow motion.
And that's definitely gonna affect our competition.
Hey, we're probably gonna have to run today.
[Dan] I know.
[Rachel] I'm gonna do everything I can in this challenge
to keep us from being eliminated.
But I know we're in trouble.
[tense music playing]
[Ky] Just gonna move slightly more up, try a new spot.
[Alexa speaking]
Ky and I decided to go fishing.
Our priority this morning is
food, food, food, and more food.
I've got a good feeling about this place.
Yeah, me too.
Looks like a nice spot.
Looks like somewhere where catfish might like to hang out.
I wonder how the elimination's going?
[Ky] Mm.
Haven't heard anything from any camps, yeah.
[Alexa speaking]
Team Pacific and Team Mexico are heading to elimination
today, and I would be so shocked
to see Team Pacific eliminated.
Mexico have been consistently at the bottom of the ladder,
and I believe Team Mexico's going home.
-Yes! -[Ky speaking]
[Alexa] Woo-hoo! Ky!
Yay!
This is good news, girl.
-You got one! -[Alexa] Yep.
Tally ho, It's a little boy!
[Ky] That's all right, it's still delicious!
[Alexa] Feel like you have. Yeah, you have.
-[Ky] Another one! -[Alexa] This is great.
Oh, baby! [chuckles]
Get ready to feast, girl!
I think every location has a code.
[Alexa] Yeah, it does.
[Ky] It takes a while to figure it out.
-And then, sometimes... -[Alexa] Oh! Ky!
[Ky] ...you crack the code
and you get fish! Yeah!
-So good. -[laughing]
[Alexa] So good.
[Ky] Alexa and I cracked the code of Zululand.
Every mouthful of food here could be the difference
between us walking home with $200,000
or walking home empty handed.
Six fish.
Beautiful fish.
I feel like this is a new beginning for us, Alexa.
[Dan speaking]
When I won the previous "Last One Standing,"
it was like, I felt like I was on the top of the world.
It meant so much to me.
It meant a lot to a lot of people, which like,
[whispering] I don't know.
The entire like LGBTQ community,
I've learned that just like seeing a queer person,
a gay man succeeding
on a platform like this,
in these outdoor spaces,
it means so much.
It's part of what drives me out here, to do well,
to make people proud, to inspire people.
But now I'm like, with my back and this pain in my leg
right now, this is like my worst nightmare.
[bleep]
[Matt] Well, hello, Gabby.
[Gabby] How was your walk around?
[Matt] Back without any food, but I'll tell you what,
I hunted hard today.
[Gabby] So Pacific and Mexico should be
facing off right about now. -[Matt] Mm-hmm.
[Fernanda] We do have a scroll.
-[Pablo] Oh. -OK.
"Head to the X at high noon for your elimination challenge."
-Oh my gosh. -Great.
[Matt] Dan has won "Last One Standing" before.
He's got second on the previous one.
Right.
[Matt] I mean, Team Mexico knows they have to
fight, fight, fight.
-[Gabby] Yeah. -If Team Pacific thinks
they don't have to... -[Gabby] Mm-hmm.
...might catch 'em off-guard.
It's hard to say who's coming through with it.
Team Pacific has one big negative,
and their partnership has bashing heads,
while Team Mexico is in perfect unison
and great morale.
Who knows? Team Mexico
was the underdog.
If they can take out Jeff and Team Texas,
they can probably take out Dan and Team Pacific.
[Matt] Yeah.
It'd be something else if they put them out
of the challenge.
[Gabby] Mm-hmm.
[Matt] Only time will tell which team ends up emerging.
[tense music playing]
[Dan] I've never been in an elimination
challenge before.
It's an entirely new beast to go up against,
but Mexico hasn't been doing great in the actual
normal challenges.
I mean, they've been at the bottom,
but not gonna lie, with my back hurting,
I feel like it's anybody's game at this point.
[sighs]
-Hello again. -OK.
-Hello. -Ready to fight?
-Right, we're ready. -Ready for battle.
I'm really sad to send you guys home.
-OK, we will see that. -Yeah, we'll see.
[Fernanda] OK.
"Today, you will boil water after building a double tripod
cooking device."
Today's elimination challenge will test each team's bushcraft
and fire-making skills.
They must construct two tripods,
as well as a removable crossbar and suspended J-hook
that can support their water pot.
Beneath that, they must build a fire hot enough
to get their water to a rolling boil.
A well-constructed tripod lets survivalists boil water
and remove the pot safely.
Placing the pot directly on a fire's coals
can cause dangerous spills.
-[boiling water spills] -[Stacey screams]
[Dan] "The first team to successfully build their structure,
"create fire, and boil water will remain safe
"from elimination.
"The team who fails will be immediately eliminated
and extracted from the competition."
[exhaling sharply]
Each team is provided with a pot for water
and a 50-foot length of paracord
and is allowed to use any items they've earned
from the past 13 days
to aid them during the competition.
Your challenge starts now.
[Fernanda] Pablo and I were facing yet another legend.
Dan knows how to work under pressure.
He knows how to win the game.
Ve, acércate.
But the thing is that he getting injured,
Pacific are really struggling.
-Más, más, más. -[Dan] Get it wet, get it wet.
-[bleep] -You're OK.
[Dan] Ow! [grunts in pain]
Remember, smooth and steady.
[Dan] My body's failing me in the moment I need it most.
[grunts]
I'm starting to feel like we're gonna be
in trouble here.
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to get through this thing.
Oh, my God!
USA Pacific and Team Mexico are battling
to avoid elimination.
The first to build a dual tripod and boil water
continues in the competition.
Mexico is first to gather water,
while Pacific fights to catch up.
[Dan grunts]
[Dan] Usually, my secret weapon is
my ability to just be completely relentless.
I can just push through anything, but this one,
it's not happening. The pain is too much.
-Put it off to the side. -All right.
[Dan] All right, ready? Let's go get our tripods.
-Are you gonna make one? -[Rachel] Yeah.
Rachel and I are obviously wired a little bit differently,
but I know I'm going to need Rachel to win this thing.
[Fernanda] Let's get this fire going.
For our strategy, I'm working on the fire,
and Pablo is getting the materials that we need
for the tripods.
If you want a fire to really burn,
it takes some time to burn a lot of materials,
so you need some fuel.
So we have the fuel burning since the beginning.
-[Pablo panting] -[speaking Spanish]
[Pablo] Let's go.
[Rachel] We're gonna go the same length, like this high?
[Dan] Sure. They can be longer, and we --
oh, [bleep]. -[Rachel] OK.
-[Dan] I'm so slow. -[Rachel] It's OK.
We're gonna do it right. We're gonna do it once.
They can be longer and we just tie it right,
it's no big deal.
Each competitor must construct a tripod using three branches
of equal length, securely tied at the top with paracord.
When lashed properly, the tripod legs spread outward
and transfer the load into the ground,
creating a secure base.
Oh, mine are way longer than yours.
-OK. -No, those are great.
[Rachel] OK, OK.
With challenges like these, one of the big things is
things breaking, falling over.
And so, Dan and I are looking for nice, big, sturdy pieces.
We wanna make sure we build tripods that last
and really making sure that we do things
very, very securely.
[Pablo and Fernanda panting]
-[Fernanda in Spanish] -OK.
We got it. We got it.
[Fernanda] OK.
We have the fire. Yeah, baby!
-Pablito! -[Pablo] Let's go!
[Fernanda] As soon as we hang the pot from the cross-post,
it's gonna start to warm up.
So I'm just making the fire as strongest as possible.
OK.
I see that Dan and Rachel are working on the structure
and not the fire.
So we're having like totally different strategies here.
[Rachel] Right now I am just working on my tripod,
making sure she's nice and steady.
Definitely over-tying it, but that's OK.
[Dan whispering] OK.
That's on.
We need to get this water at least a foot above the ground
in order to have a big fire underneath it
to get a lot of heat on there and get the water boiling
as quick as possible.
You don't need coals, though, you just need heat.
[Rachel] We aren't too worried about getting fire
right in the beginning because we know we can get a big fire
going fairly quickly, and it's more important to us
to have that structural integrity
to make sure that we don't have any accidents
that set us way back in the challenge.
[in Spanish]
[panting]
OK.
[in Spanish]
-[Dan] OK? -[Rachel] Yep
I'm just like, over tying to make sure we're good.
[Dan] That's probably -- that's great.
-That's good. -[Rachel] Cool? Excellent.
-All right, I'm gonna go get tinder. -[Dan] OK.
I need more sticks.
Like a double seven kind of deal.
I'm feeling really good about our tripods and crossbeam.
Now I am focusing on pot hook
and Rachel is going to grab some firewood.
Need to divide and conquer.
Ah, [bleep]!
Oh, my God.
I'm so slow right now, more than normal.
OK. I need a couple seven sticks.
Dan's plan is to collect two seven sticks
and tie them together to form a J-hook.
The J-hook will evenly distribute
the weight of the water pot to both tripods,
keeping the structure balanced.
[bleep]
[grunts]
My muscles and my whole leg are just spasming.
When I normally get into these challenges,
I just see the task at hand.
I figure out what needs to be done
and I do it what I think is the most efficient way possible.
[grunts]
But I'm not able to concentrate fully on what I'm doing.
I'm having trouble even finding the right stick because my head
is clouded with the pain in my leg.
[in Spanish]
[Rachel] Looking back and forth between ours and Mexico's tripods,
I feel really confident that we're gonna have a solid
piece of equipment.
Mexico has tiny little twigs.
It doesn't look very sturdy.
[Fernanda grunting]
[in Spanish]
A leg breaks on my tripod, and I just panic.
Dan and Rachel have their structure ready,
and we still don't have ours? -You need to keep calm.
[Pablo speaking]
[in Spanish]
[Fernanda] OK, OK, OK, OK. [bleep]
Did we choose the right strategy?
I don't know if we screw it up from the beginning.
[Rachel speaking]
[Fernanda speaking]
[Fernanda in Spanish]
In this elimination challenge, competitors must build
a dual tripod structure and boil a pot of water.
USA Pacific successfully completed their tripods
and are now working on their fire and J-hook...
...while Mexico has active fire,
but now has to rebuild one of their tripods.
I think we're ahead of Pacific because we started the fire
earlier, but the leg on Fernanda's tripod breaks.
It just set us back in time, and time here is precious.
-[Fernanda] Calm and easy. -[Pablo speaking]
The tripod started to break, but the good thing is that
Pablo thought ahead and brought a lot of materials
so that we can choose from that.
I feel that it's a little wobbly.
[Pablo speaking]
With this one, you can give it more structure.
-[Fernanda] OK. -Go for it.
[Fernanda] I'm trying to do the best that I can, focus.
I just need it to tie it very, very tight,
make some tweaks...
I think it's stable enough for the exercise, OK?
...put the cross post, and we're done
building the structure.
Going for more firewood, OK?
[Pablo] Yeah, and grab some small sticks.
OK.
Pablo is working on a hook.
And I'm getting grass, branches, and any material
that we can burn.
We need fuel to make this baby
Just light up.
It's thick. [grunts]
We're gonna want a lot of high flames for ours
just to boil it as quickly as possible.
Nothing burns hotter than dry grass.
[Fernanda] It's odd to me that Pacific didn't think about using
their hides as a tool.
[Rachel speaking]
[Fernanda] You can use it as a way to transport firewood.
I mean, it's very useful.
[Rachel grunts] OK.
[Fernanda] Maybe Dan and Rachel are
forgetting like the basic things.
Oy!
Right now I'm just setting up a little burn pile.
[Dan] OK, this is two seven sticks.
[Rachel] OK.
You're gonna have to hold the pot.
-[Rachel] OK. -And hang up there.
[Dan] Let's try to suspend the pot like a foot,
foot and a half up. -[Rachel] Really that high?
[Dan] So we can fit a lot of wood under there with big flames.
OK.
-Good? -Sure.
OK.
I will start tying this if you wanna get the fire going.
-I know you have the fire starter -- -[Dan grunts in pain]
[Rachel] Nice and easy, nice and easy.
[Dan] Rachel and I have been going through a lot together,
but today she's focused.
She sees that I'm slowing down and that I'm in pain,
but she's picking up the slack
and we're supporting each other very well.
-[Rachel] Oh, you got it. -[Dan] We've got fire.
[Rachel] I love it!
And then I'll run and grab more grass after, too.
-[Dan speaking] -[Rachel] Good.
It's nice and hot.
Got, like,
four different bundles around it, so it shouldn't fail.
We can tie paracord onto the pot.
This is the moment that you need to take time to do this right.
Do this right so it's stable.
If this falls apart, we're [bleep].
Yeah. I'm finished with the hook.
I'll gather just even more grass.
-[Dan] Lots of grass. -Yeah.
[Fernanda exhales sharply] Good fire.
This is power.
[in Spanish]
I see Team Pacific build their tripods and the crossbar.
The competition is very close, so nerves are running
through our veins, and in my mind it's,
"Come on, come on, come on, Fernanda.
Let's go, let's go."
[Fernanda] Is your hook ready? Like, uh,
did you like how it's going? -[Pablo] Yeah.
OK. [in Spanish]
[Fernanda] Yeah.
I'm gonna move to the other direction because the wind is
going this way. -[Pablo] Yeah.
-OK. -[in Spanish]
[Pablo] Espérame, espérame. A ver.
[Fernanda] OK.
-[whispering] OK. -[in Spanish]
Team Mexico is the first to finish building their structure
and successfully hang their pot over the fire.
To complete the challenge, they must bring the water
to a boil and then remove the crossbar from the tripods
and replace it without spilling the pot of water.
[in Spanish]
I'm just trusting with all of my faith
that that hook that Pablo made just resists,
because if it breaks and this water falls,
it's game over.
[Rachel] All right, Dan.
The other team has their pot in the fire.
So,
how are we doing? -Very close.
-Don't worry. -[Rachel] OK.
I feel like I'm usually trying to play catch up
when it comes to Dan.
And this time I'm actually waiting on him sometimes.
So I know he must be hurting.
-[Dan] OK. -[Rachel] OK.
[Dan] Mm-hmm. Ready?
[Rachel] All right. This makes me nervous.
-[Dan] Ready? -[Rachel] Yep.
-Nice and centered. -That's good and stable.
[Rachel] OK, I don't know if it's stable up here, though.
OK. Excellent.
-Great. -All right, I'll just gather
more grass? -[Dan] More grass.
Both teams have finished their builds.
Now it comes down to who can boil their pot of water,
then safely remove and replace it first.
[Pablo] We both built different structures.
Ours was very close to the ground,
and Team Pacific's tripod is too big.
I think that it was a mistake to make it that big,
because you need to make a big, big fire.
And...
[Dan] Ah, is it too high?
It's a little too high, I think.
[bleep]
I think I need to lower it. I'm sorry.
-You need to lower it? -I'm sorry.
OK. You don't think we need to build up the fire?
We can try. What do you want?
What do you vote? Build up the fire?
I mean, building up the fire would be faster.
[Dan] OK. All right.
Just 'cause there's so many ties on there.
The wind is screwing -- I thought we could
just put big flames under, but the wind's screwing it up.
Put more grass on my side, yes.
[Rachel] OK.
I thought it was gonna sit lower when I tied it.
Yeah, no worries.
Keep feeding it. You're doing great.
-See if it would go straight up. -[Rachel] Yeah, we're fine.
[Dan grunts]
[Rachel] Two days in a row, the wind is kicking my butt.
Whee! Ah, biscuits!
[Pablo] We need to concentrate it more.
[Fernanda] That's awesome. OK, protect from the wind.
Burn for Mexico.
[in Spanish]
[Fernanda] Pérate, pérate.
-Ah! [bleep] burns! -[Pablo] Dale, dale.
You can come here and I blow up.
OK, blow.
-You have like longer lungs... -[Pablo] Yeah.
-...bigger lungs. -[Pablo] Yeah.
[Fernanda] You have bigger lungs. We need more power.
[blowing strongly]
Oh, my God. The wind!
[Dan] All right, they're using their hide.
-[Rachel] That's smart. -[Dan] That's a great idea.
We dropped it by the flags.
We look over and we see that Mexico is using
one of their hides to kind of block the wind.
So we figure we'll try that too.
This is covering the wind from one direction.
I can't really tell what their pot's doing.
[Rachel] I know they're blowing to get it going,
but I think we're OK without that right now.
But ours is plenty hot enough, we don't need to blow on it.
[Dan speaking]
[blowing strongly]
[Fernanda] I see bubbles, I see bubbles, OK.
[Pablo] I see it too.
[Fernanda] We need more power.
It needs to be like a rocket stove under there.
[Pablo] We just need to blow.
[Fernanda] Having a lower tripod when it's a windy day,
I think that we have an advantage here.
Our pod is like right inside the fire,
so we don't need to burn that much material
or kindling to have a strong fire.
[in Spanish]
-[Pablo]¿Por el aire? -[Fernanda] Por el aire, sí.
Blow on it. It's more effective.
Oh, it sure is hot.
[Dan] Yeah, we got heat, that's for sure.
I need to go grab más grass.
[Dan] We got bubbles on the bottom.
If I find any bubbles in my pot, means it's boiling,
means it's getting hot. -[Dan] They've got some bubbles.
[Rachel] OK. That's OK.
We got some bubbles, too.
[Dan] I'm peeking over at Team Mexico,
and they're starting to get little bubbles.
We are starting to get little bubbles.
We couldn't be closer right now.
Everything is riding on getting this water to boil.
[Fernanda] Blow, Pablo, blow!
I see bubbles in the bottom, and there's a lot of vapor
coming out of it, so that's good.
We need more grass. We need more power.
[Pablo speaking]
It's very stressful.
The pressure is on for Team Mexico.
We have to give everything.
[Fernanda in Spanish]
[Rachel] I feel like my skin is boiling, so the water
should be soon.
Mexico is fast.
I see them starting to grab more grass
as we grab more grass.
We're definitely feeding off of each other.
[Dan] So close! The water is steaming.
[Fernanda] We have a lot of vapor coming out of the water.
The bubbles are coming, but we need more bubbles.
[Fernanda] Come on, baby! Come on, baby!
-Oh, my God! -[Rachel] Go, go, go!
I'm really nervous.
[Dan grunts]
-[Fernanda] Blow! -[Dan grunts]
[in Spanish]
[Fernanda] We're so close to the finish line.
-[Dan] We're doing great. -[Rachel] We're doing so well.
-[Dan] Go, go, go. -[Rachel] Amp it up.
Maybe some more grass. Bring up the heat underneath.
-[Dan] We got this. -It's boiling!
Oh, my God. We did it.
[Pablo] Yeah!
[Rachel] Well, I mean, this isn't over yet.
While the water is boiling, Pablo and Fernanda's place
in the competition isn't secure.
To demonstrate their double tripods effectiveness,
they must move the boiling pot to the ground
and then return it to the tripods without spilling.
[in Spanish]
-How are we doing? -[Dan] Good, I think.
OK.
[Rachel] Yeah, I think it's gonna fall over.
You knock that pot over,
Not only do you have to refill it and start over,
but your fire's out, too.
[in Spanish]
[Pablo] I'm just holding my breath.
Our movements are very precise.
Just a little spill can mess this whole thing up.
No, yo sí estoy viendo.
-[Pablo] OK. -OK, there it is.
Now place it back.
I'm just like, "Oh, my God."
As we're moving the cross post,
I feel like we're like an open-heart surgeons.
[in Spanish]
[Rachel] It's going to end up spilling.
-Yeah. -[Fernanda] Oh, my God.
Oh, [bleep].
I think their pot's less stable.
[Rachel] I think it's gonna fall over.
In this dual tripod elimination challenge,
Team Mexico was the first to bring their water
to a full boil
and move their pot to the ground.
OK, there it is.
Now place it back.
To complete the challenge, they must return it
to the tripods without spilling.
[in Spanish]
[Pablo] Sí, yo estoy libre.
[Fernanda] Oh, my God! Oh [bleep]!
-Ooh, they just hit the pot! -[Fernanda] It didn't spill!
-It didn't spill! -[in Spanish]
[both scream]
-[Rachel] [bleep] -[Fernanda and Pablo cheering]
Africa!
-We won. -We won again.
We won again.
We're the elimination challenge experts.
We sent Jeff home. We sent Dan home.
We are the true legend slayers.
And now we rise like the flame and we're staying in Africa.
[in Spanish]
-Yeah. -[mariachi yell]
[Fernanda and Pablo cheering]
We should have lowered the tripods.
[Rachel] Didn't even think about it.
If we had just lifted it up and spread out the tripods
a little bit, we could have gotten that thing lower
and focusing heat on our pot, and that could have been
the difference between winning and losing here.
-Good fight. -Good fight.
-[Rachel] Yeah. -Good fight.
This is my seventh challenge.
Up until now, I've finished every single one,
and I took home the title in the "Last One Standing."
So to be out here and not only be eliminated,
but also to not finish and not reach the end of the challenge,
it's, um, it's devastating.
-Guys. -[Rachel] Congratulations.
-It's well earned. -Seriously.
I want you to make sure you win this, OK?
We didn't lose to the losers. I want you to go all the way.
-Thank you, [indistinct]. -You're at the bottom, but you're not staying there.
Just remember, you're gonna feel like you're at the bottom
of the bottom in this competition sometimes,
and things change.
You just gotta keep climbing, like you're doing right now.
-[Fernanda] Thank you, guys. -Proud of you guys.
Coming from both of you is amazing.
-We respect you. -[Dan] You too.
[Rachel] I've just really disappointed myself.
I definitely wanted to do more.
I wanted to go further and learn things
and show off things,
and I kind of feel like I fell short there.
-[Rachel sniffles] -Anyone that's out here
taking on these challenges
is a [bleep] beast.
Just because you lost does not mean you weren't
worthy of being out here.
No one's gonna think less of you, OK?
Thank you, Dan. I love you.
Me too.
[Rachel] I can't believe we're doing this right now.
[Dan] This partner competition has been tough for Rachel and I.
Sometimes we communicated well, but other times we didn't.
I do, like, get tunnel vision.
In the previous competitions, obviously it worked.
This time, maybe it hindered me a little bit.
Rolling through decisions really quickly by myself
without taking other things into account as much as I might
need to. Nobody's perfect.
That's something I definitely need to work on.
It sucks to be the second team eliminated.
I really thought we would be here on day 40...
-Yeah. -...but everybody really brought
their A game. They were amazing. -Yeah, they did.
Feels like the end of the world to be
out of the competition now, but I fought hard.
I think some of the competitors out there are probably relieved
to see me go.
I came in with a target on my back, and, you know,
if I got back up to my full health,
we would have been formidable out there.
This was the toughest competition of my life by far.
With USA Pacific's elimination,
five teams remain in the "Global Showdown."
Today, we've noticed how great our partnership is
and that when we communicate well,
when we strategize together,
we can work together well.
Hola, boma.
[Pablo] Hello, little boma.
-[Fernanda] Our boma! -[Pablo] We're back.
-OK. -So,
let's let the neighbors know we're back.
-Ready? -[both] One, two, three.
¡Viva México, cabrones! [celebratory shout]
[mariachi yells]
[Rene] Wow!
[Frank] That can only mean one thing.
[Teal] You wanna talk about quiet assassins?
Mexico has proven that they are a fighting dog.
-[Fernanda] Mexico, baby! -Mexico's having a great day.
-[Pablo and Fernanda cheering] -[Matt chuckles]
It's definitely a shocker.
I feel like both Dan and Jeff,
they underestimated the competition.
They haven't been humbled enough.
Right now, the survivalists out here are some
of the very best in the world,
and they are dropping like flies.
[celebratory shout]
-[Alexa] What an upset! -[Ky] Holy cow!
USA Pacific is out.
We are floored.
I cannot emphasize enough how crazy
this challenge is out here.
I mean, this is like nothing we've ever seen before
in "Naked and Afraid" history.
Anyone can be out at any time.