01x02 - The Barehanded k*ller is Back

[bunniefuu]

[growling]

[grunting]

[Bulent] It's a
little armadillo.

[exhales]

I'm putting him down.

I got no knife.

But the bare-handed
k*ller's hungry.

[grunts]

He's not letting go.

He's a fighter.

He is...

very strong.

[grunts]

He is just not quitting.

He's such a fighter. [grunts]

He got nails...

like hell.

[grunts]

[grunts]

I think I just
severed his spine.

Sorry, my friend.

Today was a bad day for you.

It is survival.

It's not the question
of what I want.

It's the question of
what I have to do.

We have water.

[breathing heavily]

We have fire.

And now we got dinner.

This is only day two.

[narrator] One of three teams
stranded on a deserted island

with no map and no tools.

[Na'im] Holy [bleep].

[Bulent] Get out a
tool. We got dinner.

[Na'im] You son of a b*tch.

That is crazy.

[laughing]

[narrator] Castaways
Kerra, Na'im and Bulent

pushed deep into the
jungle for fresh water.

[man] Water, oh, I see water.

[narrator] And scavenged
debris from airplane wreckage

to create fire on day two.

Yeah!

[Na'im] Now give us the details.

How the hell did
you k*ll this thing?

Uh, Kerra doesn't
do k*lling well, so,

let's skip those, but...

at least we survive
for another day.

Before my last
challenge in Zambia,

I was vegetarian
for seven years.

I don't know what to
do. I'm not a hunter.

I don't k*ll things.

[groans] God, I'm sorry.

But survival out in
the wilderness like this,

it's just not sustainable

if you're not gonna eat protein.

At least she is
not a vegetarian.

[Na'im] Okay.

You dressing this thing?

-[Bulent] Grab your knife.
-[Na'im] Okay.

[Bulent] Let's go for it.

Okay, cool. Let's do it.

I've continued
to work on a knife

from blades of the fan.

Using, uh, this nice corner edge

of the rock, I was able to file

in some saw grooves.

The saw grooves allow
us to cut into things

uh, fairly easily.

Then, of course, they'll
sharpen this edge here.

We just have to keep
it sharp as we use it.

Na'im, you ready?

-I'm ready.
-[Bulent] Come on.

You make an incision
right down the middle.

[Na'im] I do hunt,

but I've never field
dressed an armadillo.

You know, it's sort of similar

to... to lots of other rodents.

You know, you gotta gut it,

and, uh, once you
gut it, you gotta skin it.

That's it, no bones.

[Bulent] Yeah, however...
However it's easier.

[Na'im] The knife, it's
made out of aluminum

so it's not a hardenable metal

which means that it
won't keep that edge.

-[Bulent] Ah, yeah.
-[Na'im] There we go. There we go.

Can you rip it instead
of trying to cut it?

-'Cause you're about to rip up my thumb.
-Yeah.

[Na'im] Not having the
knife to cut things with,

starts to get difficult.

Oh. [exhales]

But that's the nature
of what this challenge is.

-It's gonna take a while.
-Yeah.

[whistles]

[narrator] Three
miles to the west,

where a second team took refuge

in a cove of dense
mangrove swamps...

[woman 1] I feel like we really need
to take advantage of this low tide.

-[woman 2] This makes getting around so much easier.
-[woman 1] Yes.

[narrator] High tides forced
Candice, Rachel and Justin upriver...

[Justin] Holy [bleep].

This is crazy.

-[narrator] ...to spend night
one without fire, -[woman groans]

[narrator] and no protection
from the threats of the jungle.

-[water splashing] -[woman]
[bleep] Where'd it go?

[woman] What's that?

Do you want this
for fire starter?

Um, might as well grab it, yeah.

[Candice] Night
one was hard for us.

We had no fire

and I was eaten alive by bugs.

Um, before the tide comes in,

I wanna explore
a little bit further.

And I'm hoping we
can find something

we can start a fire with.

[Justin] Dude, there's like
netting in there. You see that?

[Rachel] I feel like we
should just go ahead

and grab some of this cordage...

-out of the tree.
-I think we should, too.

[Rachel] This is
definitely harder

without a knife. [gasps]

-[Candice] What?
-Oh, my gosh.

-We got hairbrushes.
-[Candice] Yes!

-[laughs]
-Oh.

-Cute. [chuckles]
-Hold on.

Hey, it's nice.

It's... It's like a first world
accommodation right now

and I'm loving every second.

[Justin] We have
absolutely no tools.

So we are going to
the live the definition

of one man's trash is
another man's treasure

because we have to be
creative and find ways to do things

in order to survive.

Do we walk up, discover
and explore a little more?

[Candice] I do wanna go look.

[Rachel] There's for sure it's black
palm needles in the water here.

[Justin] I'm being
super cautious.

[Rachel] Push forward.

[Candice] Yeah, I wanna
keep pushing forward.

Just to see what's
at the end of this.

What is that over there?

Right there.

-Guys.
-[Justin] What?

[Candice] There's
an actual boat.

[Rachel] There
is an actual boat.

-[Candice] We have to go check that out.
-[Rachel] To the boat.

[Candice] I just wanna see
what resources might be on it.

-[Justin] Get in up on that.
-[Candice] Wow.

-We have a life ring.
-[Rachel] A life ring. What is this?

-[Justin] There's a compartment in the boat.
-[Candice] Yeah.

-Let me look up front.
-[Rachel] A wine opener.

-A wine opener. Yeah.
-To, like, drill into the coconuts?

Oh, and a batter.

-No.
-A battery?

[Candice] It shock you?

I heard it.

-Yeah.
-[Rachel laughing]

Okay.

-[Rachel] Amazing.
-Thank you.

If we're lucky,

we'll be able to at
least get a spark,

-get a fire going.
-12.

[Rachel] What is this?

This looks like a
bed pan, maybe.

-[Candice] Where?
-Which sounds really gross, but...

Okay.

-[Rachel] We might be able to boil some water in that.
-Oh... Oh, that's...

-I think someone used to pee on that. Yeah.
-[Candice] Ew.

[Justin] Yeah.

-Candice, catch.
-[Candice] I mean, that's gonna be

-a worst case scenario for me.
-[Justin] No... Maybe.

-Holy [bleep].
-[Candice] Wait, what?

[Justin] It's a huge pelican.

-It's-- -[Candice] Oh,
my gosh. Hi, buddy.

How you doin'?

Just... I think he
has a broken wing.

[Justin] He has a broken wing?

[Candice] I think so.

-[Justin] Maybe it's not broken.
-[Rachel] Oh, oh.

-Here we go.
-[Candice] Oh.

-[Justin] No.
-[Candice] Nope. Nope.

[Rachel] Oh. He's
definitely not doing so hot.

[Candice] Should we...

What should we do?

[Justin] I mean, I don't know.

I mean, we need a fire first.

We're not gonna
k*ll a bird without fire.

[Rachel] I agree with that.

[Candice] I have no
problem getting him.

[Justin] Do you know how
to prepare a bird, Candice?

I know how to prepare a chicken.

-Oh, blimey.
-[Justin] Can you eat pelican?

[Candice] It's
literally the same.

I grew up hunting and
fishing with my dad,

so this is something

that I have a huge passion for.

I've done it all the time.

And my previous
challenge in Zambia...

[whispering] Right there.

Even though I wasn't successful

in the couple
hunts that I went on,

I'm confident if I would've
made it to 21 days,

I would have k*lled something.

[whispers] I don't know
what I'm supposed to do.

So I see this challenge
as a way to redeem myself

and all that work
that I've put into it

and all the failures

is gonna make the
success so much sweeter.

[Rachel] He doesn't
look so great.

[Candice] I know.

I get it, we need
water and fire, but...

We might not come
across another food source.

[Justin] I say we
trap him, right?

'Cause if we don't
get a fire, it's a waste

and the... the
meat starts rotting.

Maybe we can block him
in with the boat, actually,

-you know, and...
-[Rachel] Or we could use a line

-and try to lasso him.
-[Candice] Okay.

All right. I'm seriously
gonna get him them.

Damn you!

We need to, like, corner him.

-Oh! Yeah!
-[Justin] Push him back, push him back.

[Candice] Where is he?
[Rachel] He's over here.

[Candice] Hi, bud.

Oh. [gasps]

[Rachel] Do you want this rope?

-Ah, oh, buddy.
-[Candice] Okay, I got him.

I got him. I got him.

-I got him.
-I'm sorry.

-[groans] I'm sorry.
-Yikes.

[Rachel] Let's toss him somewhere
where he's not gonna die.

-[Candice] Oh, gosh.
-[Rachel] I'm really sorry, okay? [groans]

If you do that, I
will make a fire.

[Justin] I'm still
working on the fire.

Yeah, I'll work up a fire.

Are you gonna try
and put him in that?

[Justin] You think
it'll suffocate in here?

-No, it's got air vents on the side.
-Okay.

That's perfect. We'll
put that over here.

Snatch it. There
you go. There you go.

Just snatch it.

-Okay.
-Sorry, buddy. Sorry, buddy.

-Sorry, dude. Here, here.
-[Candice] Here.

[Justin] Keep lowering.
Keep lowering. Keep lowering.

Just keeping this
all the way inside.

[Candice] No, his wing's up.

-[Justin] Is he in?
-[Candice] Okay, he's in.

Okay. [exhales heavily]

[Candice] All right. Let's
go get our fire started

and come back for him.

[narrator] Five
miles to the south,

under the dense canopy
and oppressive humidity...

[Patrick] We were getting
crap falling on us all night.

[Andrew] Obviously, this
is not a waterproof shelter.

This is just to, hopefully,
stop any branches

that fall our way.

-Stop any of the big stuff. Slow
it down, -[Patrick] Mmm-hmm.

so we don't get
clubbed in the face.

-[narrator] Heather,
Andrew and Patrick -What?

[narrator] ...made camp near
an abandoned military jeep.

[Heather] Oh, my God!

-I've got a lighter.
-[narrator] But have yet to turn good fortune

-[Heather] Oh, my God!
-[narrator] ...into fire.

[man] On this island,
nothing comes easy.

[Patrick] Clearly we were
screwed last night without a fire.

[Andrew] And we
could have definitely

got rid of some bugs.

I'm kinda itching to
see what's around here.

It'd be nice to find resources
that could help us have a fire.

[Heather] Yeah.

[Patrick] There's a jeep that we
haven't looked at very much yet.

That'd be pretty good
if we can find anything

that we can salvage
out of the jeep.

I think that's a great idea.

-[man] Yeah.
-[Heather] Brake!

Found some more wire.

-[Heather] Did you?
-Yeah.

[man] The brake pedal.

[Heather] Okay.

-You got it?
-Yeah.

[Heather] Well, at least
we know we can club

-a crab to death. [laughs]
-[laughs]

-[Heather] I got something.
-[man] What?

[Heather] I got an old helmet.

-What? No way.
-[Heather] Yeah.

Yeah, dude. This thing
is older than Methuselah.

-[Andrew] What?
-Wow, check this out.

Pretty cool.

Like, I think they we're
getting attacked by bugs too

'cause there's lots of
mud on it. [laughing]

You look so dapper.

Look at that.

[Patrick] That helmet could
probably be used as a pot.

[Heather] Yeah.

So if we can get fire,

now we can boil the water.

Anything is an advantage
over what we have right now.

Looks like I found
part of a canteen

or a mess kit.

Could come in handy, though.

-Whoa!
-[Heather] Good find.

-Look at that.
-[Heather] It's a mirror.

Oh, and it's for signaling.

It's a signaling mirror.

[gasps]

That... We can use
that to make fire.

-[Patrick] No way.
-[Patrick] That's a good point.

Oh, jungle gods, please.

Make this work.

This mirror is fantastic.

We can definitely
use this to try to get

a reflection fire.

Using the sun, you
aim it at some tinder

and it starts fire.

I say we just go back and,
uh, give fire another go.

[clicks tongue] All hands
on deck kind of deal.

[Heather] Okay, well
I gotta listen to you

when you're wearing
that kind of military hat.

[bleep] Without fire starters.

Basically, the plan
is to use this battery...

um, and connect both ends

to this piece of aluminum

from a soda can of some kind

and try to conduct
enough heat...

to start a fire.

Come on, B. Please
give me something.

Let us...

Come on, now.

Oh. Finally, I've closed the...

the circuit completely.

[narrator] Linking the
terminals of a battery

creates a circuit,

allowing electricity
to flow through

the metal connector.

While some metals cause
the batteries to overheat,

the right material will resist
the flow of electricity and spark,

which can be used to start fire.

[Rachel] All right.

I don't see any smoke at all,

but this battery's,
like, gonna explode.

It's so hot.

Come on, now.

Just one tiny spark.

There's no smoke or anything.

I feel we just need something

that conducts better
than this aluminum.

Because the battery
is hot-hot bling,

I can't pick it up hot.

Gotta recalibrate
'cause this isn't working.

[groans] So frustrating.

-Hi.
-[Candice] Hi.

[Rachel] So I was
using the metal from, like,

I think, this old soda can.

But it isn't working.

[bleeping]

[Rachel] Yeah, I'm so sorry.

[Candice] No, don't be sorry.

[Rachel] We obviously
have a limited amount of time

for this to work

because I feel like
that bird is suffering.

It's in that box.

I don't know. It's
got vents, you know?

-But, I don't know if that's enough.
-[woman] Yes.

[Candice] We'll be
smart and make sure

we don't lose this food

-but, [chuckles] you know, also...
-[Rachel] Also...

Waste this life.

-[woman 1] Yeah.
-[woman 2] Yeah.

I want to put that
bird out of its misery

and I want you guys to eat.

Good protein really
goes a long way

in these scenarios.

But there's a chance
that we k*ll this animal

and then it goes to waste

because we don't
have a way to prepare it.

I'm not just trying to
[bleep] some animal

-No.
-...and suffer [bleeping]... get this [bleep] fire.

[woman screams]

[Rachel] I'm having
a really hard time

and I don't wanna
blow the battery.

It just goes back into itself
and that's why the battery

was getting hot.

I feel like we just
need something

better than this aluminum.

Alright. I'll be back, guys.

[Rachel] Okay.

[Candice] As we're panicking
trying to make this fire,

I realized we're not
using our resources

to the best of their ability.

So I think we need to look
for more metal on the beach.

Every little piece we
can work into something

that might be used
to help us with fire.

Come on.

[Heather] Let's use
that mirror to start a fire.

Something like this reflection
does warm up after a little bit,

but it's such a
big, wide, space.

[Heather] It just has to
sit there long enough.

I mean, I think we just need
to prop it up against something

so it has an angle on something.

With mirrors and all
that, it's gotta be curved,

so all of that reflection
is going in, like,

it goes into one point.

Whereas this mirror, it's flat.

-So-- -So do we put,
like, a drop of water

-on the top? Yeah.
-[Heather] For a refraction?

[narrator] The curve of a
water drop bends light inward,

creating a focused beam
like a magnifying glass.

You're trying to concentrate it

like a laser onto the leaves.

It's hard not right now.

It's not even direct sun still.

-Keeps moving on us.
-[Andrew] I know.

That's why I wish
we're near a beach.

Mmm-hmm.

[Andrew] To make
any kind of fire

with anything reflective,

you're gonna need full hot sun

and we're under
multiple layers of foliage

all over in here

and it's damp as it
could be. [clicks tongue]

It's one of the drawbacks
about having left the beach.

We found our tool to
be able to start a fire

but we don't have enough
sun to be able to use the tool.

This is, like, the
worst environment.

Damp jungle, no sun.

[Heather] Just remember,
when we go to the beach,

we're exchanging
fresh water for sunlight.

-[Patrick] That's a good point. Yeah.
-Yeah.

-So the fresh water's here--
-[man] You can't drink

-the saltwater.
-No.

This place is terrible.

The bugs are just
absolutely unbearable.

But the beach is a problem

'cause lack of a
freshwater source.

-We got a unlimited supply of freshwater here.
-[Andrew] Mm-hmm.

-We just have to come up with other ways to get fire.
-Yeah.

There we go. How about that?

-You have to get the lungs and all of 'em up.
-Yeah.

[Bulent] As long as
they're not punctured.

That's all that matters.

-[Na'im] Okay. He's out.
-[Bulent] All right.

I think we should get that...

skin off before we...

-What'd you think?
-Before we cook it? Yeah.

[Bulent] Let me do it.

It's not easy but it's
getting the job done.

There it is.

-[Bulent] Good man.
-[Na'im] Let it go.

-Good man.
-Oh!

That's the [bleep]
trophy right there.

There it is, baby.

-That's amazing.
-[Bulent] It is.

The teamwork is good
but I don't get excited.

I don't jump up and down.

I don't say, "Oh, I'm stoked."

Yeah, none of that,
because 21 days

is a long time.

And it always gonna change.

[Kerra] Guys, just
gonna try to smoke him.

-[Bulent] Uh, we will try.
-[Kerra] Okay.

Hey, guys.

-Look what I found.
-Oh, goody.

[Patrick] Whoa, whoa, bamboo.

-Whoa!
-[Heather] What?

-Yes. Yes are the man, the myth.
-And...

I love it when you say and.

I found a bird's nest.

-[Heather] Yay.
-[Andrew] Sweet.

This should be
really good tinder.

It's super, super dry.

That's awesome. You did so good.

Patrick has brought
over a piece of bamboo

on his explorations.

Andrew and I have
been talking about

the saw drill technique
for starting a fire.

[narrator] Using a
split piece of bamboo,

one side is rubbed against

the inside edge of
the other creating heat

which is absorbed through a hole

in the top piece,

'causing the surrounding
tinder to ignite.

So the hole is here.

Tinder's in here.

This is holding the tinder in...

Like this.

Then the heat comes up

and then your
charcoal ends here.

Okay.

I do it a different way,

but we'll try your way.

Uh, all right. Let's go.

Okay.

While Heather insists
we must have fire,

she's not doing
anything to attain it.

But I'm gonna bite my tongue

and see if we can make it work.

All right.

[exhales] Yeah,
but this takes...

-[Heather] A lot of energy.
-...some effort. Yeah.

I need someone

-on the other side for me. Thank God.
-[Patrick] I got you.

-[Heather] Mmm-hmm.
-Okay, see how my thumbs are holding.

-[Patrick] Mmm-hmm.
-The top is down.

Okay. Three, two, one.

-Looking good. Looking good, looking good.
-[Heather] Oh, yeah.

[Andrew] All that
smoke. Looking amazing.

[Heather] Yes. Oh, my God,

-I wanna cry.
-[Andrew] It's turning kinda black. You fight.

You fight now.

-[Heather] You got this.
-[Andrew] And you tell me when you're done

-and I'm taking it.
-[grunting] I'm about done.

[Andrew] I got it.

[Heather] Oh, that's great.

That's a lot of smoke.

[Andrew] All right,
give me that bird's nest.

-It's about to break.
-[Heather] Okay.

-[Andrew] So three, two, one.
-[Heather] Two, one.

Up, up, up, up, up, up.

Pick it up, pick
it up, pick it up.

[bleeping]

And now you'll see
any sort of a charcoal.

Man, trying to get fire
started for days now

is crazy frustrating.

I want a moment where
me and my little tribe

can celebrate and dance
around the fire in victory.

We just haven't had that yet.

Kinda clogged closed.

[Heather] Needs to be
a little bit, uh, more open.

At least we know it was working.

Yeah.

This will work.

[Heather] Yeah.

[Rachel grunting] Come on.

Don't do this to me.

Not... Not what
I was hoping for.

Huh.

Steel wool.

A total score.

Guys.

-[Justin] Yeah.
-[Candice] Yeah.

-[Candice] Steel wool.
-[Rachel] Shut up.

[Candice] Yeah, I swear.

-Here.
-[Rachel] Oh, my God.

We're able to
connect the battery

with the steel wool
to create some sparks.

Hopefully that helps
make some fire.

-[Rachel] Should be, like, instant.
-[Candice] Yes.

[Rachel whispers]
All right. Let's see.

What? Isn't that lighting?

God, I hope we haven't
torched this battery.

[Justin chuckles]

[Candice] There
you go. I saw a spark.

-[Justin] No way.
-[woman] Yes.

That seriously works.

[both] Yes.

[Justin] Dope, dude.

-Oh, what?
-[Candice] What?

-[Justin] It's on.
-[Rachel] Watch your hand. Watch your hand.

-Watch your hand.
-Okay. Lightly, lightly.

[woman] Here we go.

[woman] Yes.

Yes!

[Justin] What a badass.

[Candice] We're doing so good.

-I'm so proud of you right now.
-[Rachel] Oh, I... Thanks.

I'm gonna head down and
start grabbing [bleep] to burn.

[Rachel and Candice] Okay.

-[woman 1] We have fire.
-[woman 2] Yes.

[woman] Still a baby.

She's a fire.

Hey, ladies. I just
thought about something.

-[Candice] The tide's coming in.
-That's what I was thinking.

I want that bird.
I wanna eat it.

[Candice] Okay.

[Justin] Uh, the pelican
is currently trapped.

He's got ventilation,

but the water is
all coming back.

-We gotta move the tide's coming in quick.
-[Justin] Okay.

[Justin] So we
gotta check on it,

before it gets too
late and it drowns.

Yeah, our trap's
already underwater.

[grunting]

[groans] I feel so bad.

Justin!

Help me, he's drowning.

Oh!

[Candice] Oh, my God.

[Justin] Oh, my God.

[Candice] Yeah, our
trap's already underwater.

[bleeping]

Justin!

Oh, [bleep]!

Help me, he's drowning.

[Justin] I got it. I got it.

-[groans] So, sorry.
-Oh, my God.

-[groans] Oh, my God.
-Sorry, buddy.

-Sorry, dude.
-Grab him.

I'm so sorry, dude.

[Candice] Oh, God.

-[Justin] Give me the [bleep].
-[Candice speaking]

[Justin] I'm so sorry.

[Candice] Okay. He's dead.

[bleep]

-You all right?
-Holy [bleep].

I was a scout sn*per
in the Marine Corp.

Went to Iraq two times.

Have a Purple Heart.
Got blown up three times.

And here, I am getting emotional

about having to k*ll this bird.

-Thank you for sacrificing your life for us.
-Sorry, buddy.

We are sorry.

Thank you.

[Justin] I rescue
animals. I rescue cats.

I've literally rescued mice.

But the end of the
day, you wanna survive,

you gotta do what you gotta do.

-[both exhales heavily]
-'Kay.

-Are you okay?
-Yeah, I'm okay.

Sorry you had to
do the worst part.

Sorry, buddy.

[Candice] It can take
two people to process.

-I could process. You can get water.
-Yes.

[Andrew] This is the moment
when confident people stop.

-And we should not.
-Oh, look at that.

Some good stuff right there.

-It's starting to catch.
-[Andrew] Yeah.

I got it.

[Heather] You gonna get
breathe... breathe in and out.

Nice.

-Proceed.
-Oh.

How's it coming?

-Not great. Yeah.
-I need a break.

[Heather] I wanted
to do it sideways.

It's a lot more effective
than the flat way with it.

I wouldn't mind
continue to try this.

But I would need...

-someone on this side.
-That's not gonna work.

Okay.

[grunts]

Let's do it your way. 'Cause
I don't know how to do it.

-So... Yep -No, no, no.

[Andrew] I wanna do it your
way. You know how to do it.

You had a plan
too. Let's try it.

[Heather] I respect
Andrew's opinion.

But I live in this environment.

I was literally
born on the Bayou.

I know how to make fire
in this kind of environment.

When I'm trying to give effort and
someone says, "That won't work."

I just... This is frustrating.

[Heather] I didn't
try to be mean.

Just giving you an observation
of timing and surroundings.

Felt like we've had
six ways. I've tried five.

Maybe we should all
just, like, take a breath.

[Heather] I always like to
try a fire plough. Okay. So...

Stay in this canal right here.

Yesh. Coming back.
Bring it up higher.

Going back down, like ploughing.

[narrator] The simplest of the
friction fire methods, a fire plough,

is made by rubbing one stick in
the notched groove of another,

to create an amber.

-You want me to go for that.
-Yeah.

Smells like campfire. Right?

-[Patrick] Let me take a turn now.
-[Heather] Sure.

-I take longer strokes.
-[exhales hard] I know.

[Andrew] This is not
friction fire friendly.

[Patrick] We could always
look around tomorrow.

Try to see if we could
find a good hardwood.

Yeah. For sure.

[sighs]

It's gonna be another
night without any sleep.

[Candice] Not having
a knife or a machete.

All I have is a real thin
rock in my bare hands.

And I'm hoping
that will do the trick.

So we can put everything
on it to good use.

I've never processed
a pelican before.

I'm assuming it's like processing
a deer that might go up the belly.

You know, you just start
by peeling back the skin

and you break the bones.

And then it's easier and
easier to work with the animal.

One of my favorite things when I
harvest an animal and process it,

is the sound of the skin
ripping away from the animal.

[grunts]

And I know it's
disturbing. [chuckles]

But I don't know why.
It's just so satisfying.

[grunts]

I pedicure my toes.

But not my hands.

And this is why.

Like, how can I
process game and fish

if I've got acrylic nails on?

This rock is not a knife,
but it's doing its job.

It's gotten me this far already.

So, it's definitely working.

I feel like in life,

people are always
underestimating me.

Guys are like, you don't
know how to do this and then,

I don't even waste
my time telling them.

I just show them.

And eventually they start to
respect you and earn your trust.

And I think it'll be
the same out here.

w*r paint.

How's it look?

I really do feel like a badass.

Not gonna lie.

[laughs]

I makes me so happy that
I can provide to my team.

You know, it's day two and we
have water, fire, and now protein.

This really does empower me,

and I hope it empowers
all the other women.

I just harvested this pelican
with no knife and my bare hands.

Dinner is ready to be cooked.

Girls rule, boys
drool. [chuckles]

There he is.

Thanks, Bulent.

Anytime.

-Here.
-All right.

Mmm.

-Armadillo is really tasty.
-This is some armadillo.

And I know it's
cliche to say it,

-but it kind of tastes like chicken.
-Mmm-hmm.

-Not bad at all.
-[Kerra] Yeah.

-Definitely gamey, but not bad at all.
-[Kerra] Yeah.

[Na'im] Into day two,
we're eating meat

which is wild.

He is quite tasty.

We got a fire going.

And, hopefully tonight, we'll
be able to get some shut eye

with a full belly of food.

And wake up in the
morning and keep charging.

Mmm. Oh, these [bleep] bugs.

Where did they come from?

We're just trying to
enjoy our first dinner.

And we can't even enjoy it to its
fullest, because of the [bleep] bugs.

Mosquitoes bag.

...bad.

And so far, they just
seem like jackasses.

[Kerra speaking]

[sighs] Oh, my God.
I'm getting eaten alive.

I got to stand up.

But here's our well-done
pelican, AKA dinner.

You know what it taste like?

When you go to the fair and
you get those giant turkey legs.

-Yeah.
-It tastes just like that.

-The same.
-See?

It's actually really good.

[Patrick humming]

[Heather] I've got literally
bugs flying around my lady parts.

Oh, God.

My hooter.

[groans]

Seems like last night, the
mosquitoes weren't so, so bad.

And that is not
the case tonight.

There are thousands
all over us right now.

Hasn't even gotten
totally dark yet.

And so I think tonight we're
in for a rude awakening.

Um...

Close your eyes. I'm
gonna pee right here.

'Cause maybe it will help keep

-ants from my head.
-Okay.

Okay. I got ya.

[grunts]

[Bulent speaking]

[Kerra] It's non-stop.

And no one's gotten
any sleep tonight at all.

I can't even speak. I'm like
so out of breath and tired.

Oh, [bleep]...

I don't know if you
can see this or not but...

There's no chance to
close your eyes and sleep.

And there's no sign of these
things slowing down at all.

[sobbing]

I feel like I need
to rip my skin off,

to ever be comfortable again.

[Heather] Oh, my God.

I'm like, literally
at this point just

ripping layers of skin off.

They're like masters of hell.

It's disgusting.

l literally have
what looks like boils,

but they're bites.

I can't stop itching.

This is awful.

I'm getting eaten
the [bleep] up.

This is hell.

[Andrew] Everything that can
suck your blood, got us last night.

-It's like raining debris from this tree again.
-I know.

It's that wind's picked up.
It's knocking everything loose.

Ooh.

This might be a tick.

You got two up here.

One there and one there.

And that one's stuck.

-They are stuck.
-Ow.

Oh, I have two on my p*nis.

-[Heather] Do you?
-Yes.

-I have three.
-Oh, God.

Didn't you have
three in your butt crack

-which has got you tapped out before.
-Yep.

I woke up this
morning with five ticks

on my little castaway.

And knowing my
history with ticks,

[chuckles] and my
past challenges,

this is definitely
freaking me out.

I have more than
one tick in my butt.

[screaming in pain]

[Patrick] I just have
'em in between my legs.

Luckily, they didn't take
the prime real estate.

Last night was a full as*ault.

It was...

-terrible.
-It was...

one ex-mother-in-law away
from my worst nightmare.

[all laugh]

We need to get fire done

and that opens the door

to everything else
we can do after.

Boil water, cook food,

work and get rid of
bugs with the smoke.

[Heather] Let's try
fire plough again.

[Andrew] Yeah. It's
just not big enough.

So for that, we gotta
throw that piece away.

We keep going back to
that piece for some reason.

I can't find any other
pieces. That's the problem.

It's just not big enough.

We need something
wider and harder.

I can search around. Try to
see if I can find something.

-You are the explorer. That'd be great.
-Yeah.

We need to maneuver the barrel

to a safe location, probably
where you're standing.

[Bulent] Just like this.

-Maybe call that a caveman drag.
-[Na'im laughs]

[Kerra] Last night, the fire
situation didn't help with the bugs.

So we're gonna
build a fire trough

that will disseminate
the heat better.

[Na'im] Soil is tough.

[Kerra] And we're
gonna flip the barrel over.

[Na'im] So let's do this.

[Kerra] That way, it still
contains the heat and the smoke.

Kind of, like, bellows
out onto the ground.

And then hopefully these bugs
will be a little bit under control.

[Bulent] Gonna
get really, really hot.

-I need another stick.
-[Kerra] How can I help?

Whoa. This is the
problem. It's heavy.

We're dumping the ash on this...

On top of everything.

Keep going, keep
going, bro. Keep going.

-Okay.
-There we go.

[narrator] A natural
drying agent,

wood ash, absorbs
moisture from insects,

making them less
inclined to linger.

-[Na'im] That's the head of my armadillo.
-[Bulent] It is.

[Na'im] It's still hot.

So be careful.

[Bulent] But there's
still embers in here.

Team work so far has been great.

It's been really natural.

Bulent's been a great mentor.

He's super knowledgeable.

You know, Na'im is willing to go
along with whatever needs to get done.

The bugs, they don't seem
as bad as they were last night.

It's definitely gonna be
better than what it was.

I can feel it.

And, I thought of this idea,

of combining this
crazy plane crash

that we've stumbled upon

and to honor our first k*ll,

we decided to name our
team, the Flying Armadillo.

Flying Armadillo.

Yeah. This is my
super excited face.

I definitely would love

to go find the termite mound,

because I'm not gonna make it
through another night like last night.

-[Rachel] Yeah. Let's do it.
-We've gotta do something to change our circumstances.

I'm hoping that there's a nice
termite mound around somewhere

to burn in our fire tonight.

The smoke from those is
supposed to help deter bugs.

There's no way I can make it
through 21 days of last night.

There's termites everywhere.

And all this wood is
like, termite infested.

So I'm sure there has to be
a couple of termite mounds.

-Yeah.
-I mean, there's no way.

-'Cause they would drown.
-Exactly.

-Yeah.
-So I'll push up.

Can you guys do that
while I coat my back?

-Of course. Of course. Yeah. We'll get that.
-Okay.

Oh, it's so itchy.

-Good luck.
-Thanks.

-Typically they'll be up in the tree.
-Okay.

Right, so they're like little nests,
right? You know what they look like?

Kind of like a...
almost like dirt,

-growing out of the side of the tree.
-Yeah.

-Or like a beehive almost.
-They have little holes in them.

[Rachel] The bugs
are horrendous.

I feel like a large part of that

is because of the dynamic tides.

You know, when
the tide goes out,

we're left with all
this swampy marsh.

And the bugs are flourishing.

And then the tide comes back in,

it kind of pushes them
up the bank towards us.

And they just have a feast.

So, I'm really hoping that

the termite mound will
help give us some relief.

Oh, that looks promising,
up there on the left.

Oh, yeah.

She's a real beaut.

Kind of terrifying,
actually. [chuckles]

[narrator] Burning termite
nests, releases naphthalene.

A chemical used for
fumigating insects.

[Rachel] It's just
disintegrating.

-[Justin grunts]
-Careful.

Um...

How about trying to chop
this whole tree, though?

Not being able to
chop things, cut things,

is incredibly difficult.

A knife or some kind of blade

is something we have
desperately been lacking

out here in this
survival situation.

Your knife is your life.

With those termites, the
wood is probably compromised.

-Yeah, this already looks broken.
-It's not gonna be...

Yeah, it's not gonna
be like a really solid

bit, so maybe, we can...

Hell, yeah.

-Oh, yeah. They're biting me.
-Yeah, they're mad.

Okay.

Oh, there you go.

Think you got some...

[Justin] We've gotta go now.

They're gonna start crawling
up. They're already crawling up.

-So let's get out of here.
-Argh.

Yeah. They're savage.

This is hopefully gonna be

an extreme game changer for us.

We need this.

[Patrick] Trail Gods,
let me find something

that we can really use as
a team to get the fire going.

I feel like our team morale

really depends
on us getting fire.

If I could rub a magic lamp
right now, and find anything,

it'd be a fire starter.

I don't want people
to feel stressed out,

because we're gonna go
another night without fire.

No one's excited for that.

I'm gonna follow this creek up.

See what I can
maybe find up here.

Oh.

Some termite mound.

This will be good if we
can get the fire going.

Feel like I'm getting
close to a dead end.

This vegetation's
getting so thick.

Been walking for a while.

Mostly just seen black
palms through here.

But here is my watering hole.

This challenge is much more
difficult than all the other challenges.

Having no items has
never been done before.

Las thing I wanna be doing is
drinking out of someone's used bottle

that washed up on shore.

But in a survival
situation, you have to do...

things you wouldn't
normally wanna do.

Ooh. Look at that.

Something's coming
down to the water.

[whispers] It's a
warthog. It's a warthog.

It's a [bleep] warthog.

With the tail and everything.

[normal voice] Damn.

[sighs]

We're definitely taking a risk
every time we drink this water,

without having boiled it.

[Andrew] You can see the holes
where it has been bitten through.

It's super light.

That's been a termite home.

[Heather] This is the same
kind of wood we're dealing with.

-[sighs]
-Damn it.

All the wood, the second it
hits the ground, it's just like,

covered in termites
and they just chew it up.

And just crumbles
in your hand to dust.

I keep mentioning fire
and I keep mentioning fire.

And I keep telling everybody
how important it is that we need fire.

But we have to have fire.

Like, I can't
explain it anymore.

[Andrew] I mean, I've tried
about five different methods of fire.

Yeah. Well...

[Andrew] I just don't
wanna feel blamed.

[Heather] I'm not
blaming anyone.

-I'm just saying that we need to really focus on fire.
-Hey.

So, um, that would be ideal.

Hey, guys.

-[Heather] Hey.
-[Patrick] I got water.

Sad news is,

there's a pig upstream.

He was right by
where our water was.

Fantastic, you know.

Like, anybody want a biscotti
with your side of [bleep] water.

The pig was like, in the water

and then coming out
when he heard me.

[Heather] Oh, great. Okay.

So it's all tainted from all the
way there, all the way down.

-Probably, yeah.
-Fantastic.

g*dd*mn it.

[Patrick] Maybe being
marooned like Robinson Crusoe

isn't as exciting as I
thought it was gonna be.

[wood creaking]

What the [bleep] is that?

Watch your head.

What is that sound?

[wood creaking heavily]

[Heather] Oh, my God.

[bleep]

[animal howls]

[Candice] Ah. Oh, buddy.
Okay. I got him. I got him.

[narrator] The CRR,

or Castaway Rescue
Rating weighs each group's

level of skill, ingenuity,
and problem solving,

to predict their odds of
being rescued off the island

after 21 days.

Here he is.

[narrator] Kerra,
Na'im, and Bulent,

enjoyed their first
significant food win.

It kind of tastes like chicken.

[narrator] And seem
poised for success.

Flying Armadillo.

[narrator] Their Castaway
Rescue Rating rises

from 68 to 74%.

[Candice] A natural boat.

[narrator] For Candice,
Rachel, and Justin...

I heard it.

...team work and problem
solving lead to a much needed win.

-[Rachel] I'm so proud of you right now.
-[Candice] Thanks.

[narrator] But relentless bugs
continued to torment them.

-I'm not gonna make it through another night like last night.
-Yeah.

Still, their Castaway
Rescue Rating rises

from 53% to 66%.

Jungle Gods, please.

Andrew, Patrick, and Heather,

continue to struggle with fire.

This is like, the
worst environment.

Damp jungle no sun.

[narrator] But the
only friction created

has been among each other.

[Andrew] Let's do it your way,
'cause I don't know how to do it.

Their team Castaway
Rescue Rating

falls from 62% to 52%.

[Patrick] Watch your head.

Holy [bleep].

[Heather] Oh, my God.

[Andrew screams]

[Heather] Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

[Andrew] Holy crap.

Big old tree.

-This giant tree, I mean, huge...
-[wood creaks]

[Heather] Oh, my God.

It's hanging there.

[Patrick] If that had been
our tree, we'd be dead.

[Heather] I'm gonna go closer.

[Patrick] Yeah,
yeah. Be careful.

[Andrew] With this
huge canopy overhead,

these trees and these
branches are giant.

And I don't know what we could
do that would stop a branch like that.

I mean, that's
thousands of pounds.

So I think that's
just inherent danger,

in being out in an
environment like this.

[Heather] You can see the
part where it was attached.

I mean, this is huge.

Here you can see where the
rot... The wood just rotted off.

That's where it fell off of
this tree that's above us.

You could see on this tree where
it's knocking other pieces down.

I mean, it just came
colliding through

and took out everything
in its little wake,

as it came through.

It's crazy.

There's like part
of it still up there.

But it is a hard wood.

So I think it'll be a good one
for us to bet against the bamboo.

I was just asking the universe
and the jungle to please help us.

Give us a hard board.

And give us something
to make fire with,

and then this thing
came barreling down.

So, the universe is listening.

-Come take a look at this, Andrew.
-[Andrew] Yeah.

[Heather] I think this
will give us some options.

If I looked around
here for any kind of new,

like, really hard wood that
we can try a friction fire with.

[Heather] Right.

Um, it can't be too fresh.

[Heather] Now that we
know our water is tainted,

I'm at my wit's end.

You know? And it takes a
lot for me to stress for that.

But you know, if we don't
have any fire at this point,

and we're drinking the water
that's coming from upstream,

this is a very, very
dangerous location.

We need to create
the intense fire

that we absolutely
are... hungry for.

They're pretty dry.
I've already got one off.

I think this will be
good for resistance.

See that.

[Andrew] I mean,
that can't be that dry.

It has green leaves
an inch away.

I mean, there's ways to be done,
as long as you sit there and dry it out.

[Andrew] How are
we gonna dry it out?

Well, once you get it
detached from here,

and then we can
strip everything off,

it'll have more air to it.

-So we can just strip off the outside of it.
-Yeah.

It's just, I think, one of
the rules of friction fire is,

don't use new moist wood.

-Uh...
-I mean, there's a lot of rules.

But like, I've done
it quite a few times.

I'm not setting the
rules for friction fire.

I'm just telling you what
the rules for friction fire are.

I'm not making it up,
I'm not trying to fight you.

I'm just telling you

-wet wood does not...
-Well, I'm not trying to argue with you either.

-but I actually have done it.
-Wet wood does not start friction fire.

And I don't wanna waste our
energy on methods that don't work.

I will always listen to
everyone's opinions,

but there are some facts that
are just bigger than us out here.

And that means, things like, you know, the
wood that you trying to start a fire with

has to be dry.

Friction fire is crazy hard.

We gotta follow all the rules
that have been set long before us.

Not our opinions.

But, like, what are the rules?

Wood has to be... One has to
be hard, one has to be soft wood,

-that means super dry.
-Wait. No, you wait a minute.

You just said what
our opinions are.

And I know what that
kind of catty comment was.

And I'm gonna address it now,

so we can get out of the way.

I actually have
created friction fire,

-multiple ways, multiple times.
-Then do it.

-And so...
-I just feel like, I'm the one over here doing the...

I'm the one doing
most of this heavy lifting.

-That's it.
-I just think that we need to be more option

instead of being so negative.

-Kind of like, you are-- -I'm not
being negative. I'm trying to be honest.

I'm trying to be-- I'm just
telling the truth about friction fire.

There are certain rules. I'm trying
to follow those rules, so that it works.

So that we don't continually try
and try and try using up our muscles

in a dehydrated state
and it doesn't work.

I just wanna follow the rules.

I don't think that I'm
better than those rules

that have been set by primitive
survivalists for a 1000 years ahead of me.

[Heather] Right, but if
you don't try anything

and continually say it's not
gonna work, then it won't.

You are repeatedly saying
that it's never gonna work.

Friction fires don't work.

-It's so hard--
-That's a lie.

You're just making stuff up.

-I never said that.
-I'm not lying.

I said it's hard and it is hard.

Because we've been trying
for multiple days to do it.

That's just the truth.

And then when I
try, you bark orders

and you continually say,

I know how to do this. I've
done it. I've done it. I've done it.

But you haven't
done it out here.

-Then no problem. I will do it.
-Then do it.