The Summit (2024) s01e01 Episode Script

1
MANU BENNETT:
Deep in the southern hemisphere
lies a mystical island
created by
the raw forces of nature.
The Maori call this place
Aotearoa--
land of the long white cloud.
The rest of the world knows it
as New Zealand.
And high above its deep ravines,
its raging rivers
and plummeting waterfalls
towers a mountain,
thousands of feet high
with Antarctic winds
carrying a call far and wide,
an invitation
to reach the summit.
(helicopter blades whirring)
It's a call 16 ordinary
Americans have answered.
If they can climb the mountain
in 14 days,
they'll earn their share
of a million-dollar prize.
But if they miss that deadline,
they'll be sent home
with nothing.
In this vast
and unforgiving landscape,
they will have only
themselves to rely upon.
Oh!
MANU:
As they brave
miles of elevation
-Don't let go. (grunts)
-Come on, Amy!
Let's go!
MANU:
traverse Arctic lakes
and cross deep chasms
(bleep) Dennis!
MANU:
in subzero temperatures.
-(exhausted panting)
-You-You're okay. You're okay.
Oh, my God!
It will be the ultimate test
of their character and courage.
There you go. Nice!
Ah!
(grunts)
There.
-(screams)
-JENNYE: I'm right here.
Go. Go!
MANU:
But they won't be alone.
Becky, don't panic!
MANU:
Their every move will be tracked
by the mountain's keeper.
Go get the bag!
MANU:
who will force them
to make difficult
but necessary decisions
-along the way.
-Come on, Punkin!
"To make the summit on time,
hard choices must be made."
"When the last person
is crossing"
Ooh.
MANU:
Only those who are worthy
Sorry. We didn't,
we didn't have a choice.
MANU:
will reach the summit.
I can't get my arms-- No!
(screams)
MANU:
If they quit along the way
-I can't.
-You can!
MANU:
their money will be lost.
DENNIS:
I'll be the first one
to push you
off that mountain,
like Humpty Dumpty.
And I don't care.
-(bleep)
-I can't.
-No one said it's gonna be easy.
-(shouts)
MANU:
But if they are voted out
Someone has to go.
MANU:
those remaining
will steal the money
for themselves.
Right now, you're trying
to overplay the game.
Nick is a snake.
Do not trust him.
How am I supposed to do this?
MANU:
16 strangers are
about to embark on the most
epic adventure of their lives.
I'm not letting you go.
I'm not letting you go.
Who's got confidence now?
And it starts now.
GEOFF:
This got to be the furthest
from home I've ever been.
Like, I didn't even know that
parts of the Earth
look like this.
I feel like I should be
in pretty good shape
for whatever
this adventure holds.
BECKYLEE:
This is the most beautiful
location
I've ever seen in my life.
Any competition, to me,
my ear, you know, perks up.
Super competitive person.
When I hear that there is,
you know, a starting line,
I want to be that winner.
My body will fall apart
before I ever quit.
Kia Ora.
I'm Manu Bennett.
Hi.
Welcome to Aotearoa--
New Zealand.
Before we start,
I'd like to acknowledge
the people of this land
we call the Tangata whenua,
who historically occupied
this area and still do.
Out of respect,
I just want to acknowledge them.
Let me ask you,
do you know why you're here?
Great adventure.
Do you see this mountain?
Your challenge
is to reach the summit.
(contestants
exclaiming, whooping)
To reach a what?
JENNYE: We have to climb
a freaking mountain.
I'm feeling the weight
and the gravity of what
we're about to do.
-Wow.
-(others murmuring)
ROSE:
This is crazy.
Honey, that is a big
(bleep) mountain. (laughs)
MANU: Each of you brings
your own reason for being here.
Your reason is what's gonna
drive you up that mountain.
You have tears in your eye.
Can you explain why?
AMY:
I'm here for myself
because I've done
so much for my family,
and I'm here to do this
to prove to my family
that I can do it.
(crying)
So I just got super emotional.
I'm gonna add something
to your motivation.
Please step forward.
Want to open that bag?
(gasps)
(crying)
-That's crazy.
-Oh, my God.
That's insane.
-There's a whole bunch more.
-(all laughing)
That's a million dollars.
Take that with you
and put it in your backpack.
You're gonna carry this
to the summit.
That's a lot of money.
(laughing)
I've never seen that much money.
And I work at a bank.
Each of you will carry an equal
share of the million dollars,
and that prize will be shared
by the few
who make it to the top.
If anybody quits,
that money disappears.
It's gone.
Oh, God.
There's one more catch--
you must travel together.
You'll only be as fast
as your slowest member.
If you miss the 14-day deadline
to reach the summit
you will all go home
with nothing.
(gasps)
(bleep) just got real.
NICK:
It got serious pretty quick.
What concerns me
the most is probably,
uh, the time limit.
14 days to get to the summit.
We cannot have people
falling behind.
It's not gonna be easy,
but everyone needs to keep up.
You're going to need this.
We need a map.
(laughs)
You are now the leader.
(cheering)
MANU:
On that map,
you're going to find
checkpoints
with food and shelter,
crucial for your expedition,
that you're going
to need to reach
before sundown each day.
Otherwise, you'll be left
on the mountain
exposed to the elements.
I got you all.
-JEANNIE: Yeah!
-You better.
But I have to warn you,
there's something
you won't find on that map.
Something more sinister
that's gonna be out there,
lurking, keeping an eye
on your every move.
We call it
the mountain's keeper.
It has its own way
of sorting out who is worthy
of reaching the summit
and will force you to make
some tough decisions.
Uh-oh.
This mountain has eyes.
GEOFF:
What-what did
He said the hills have eyes
or something like that?
That something's gonna be
watching us?
The Mountain's Keeper is gonna
determine if we're worthy.
I have no idea what that means,
but I'm kind of scared.
Are you ready to go?
-ALL: Yeah.
-Let's do it.
I wish you a safe journey.
(exhales)
Your time starts now.
-I'd get moving.
-(bleep)
Who knows how to read a map?
(laughs)
Yeah, baby!
-To the summit.
-(cheering, whooping)
JEANNIE:
Summit, here we come!
PUNKIN:
My gosh. Look how gorgeous.
It's like Romancing the Stone.
Remember that movie?
(laughter)
Okay, does anybody know
where we're going right now?
(laughter)
MANU:
Traveling as a group,
they've only got 14 days
to trek over
100 treacherous miles.
Starting in a deep valley,
the group's endurance
will be tested
right out of the gate.
They face a 2,000-foot incline
to reach a precarious ridgeline
for their first checkpoint.
From there, they will then
make a steep descent
before scrambling back up
to higher altitudes
where they will have to contend
with an alpine lake crossing
and a dangerous
glacier traverse.
All before they tackle
the final icy ascent
up thousands of feet
to the summit.
JEANNIE:
This is gonna be insane, guys.
Are we there yet?
(all laughing)
-BECKYLEE: What's your name?
-DENNIS: Dennis.
BECKYLEE:
Dennis. Beckylee.
-Beckylee? (laughs)
-Yeah. Nice to meet you.
DENNIS:
At this point,
I'm here for the money.
My strategy is going to be
to win people over,
make people laugh
-Ah! (laughs)
-(laughs)
But they don't realize
that I am willing
to take manipulating,
deceiving and cheating
to the furthest extent.
I'm breaking a sweat here
too, buddy.
-Don't worry.
-Oh, dude, I'm always sweating.
DENNIS:
I'm gonna be surprised
who makes it on top.
I don't think a lot
of the other contestants
have ever faced
something like this before.
My family, they're
so excited for me.
They think I'm a cool mom.
DENNIS:
I see a lot of moms.
(laughs)
I didn't expect that.
JEANNIE:
Yeah, this is awesome.
AMY:
My husband's like, "You lie,
you cheat, you steal--
it's a game."
-I'm like, "I can't."
-Yeah, I know.
You know why?
'Cause that's who we are.
We got to motivate
each other, man.
-Mom squad.
-AMY: Yeah.
AMY:
I'm not like
your average mountain climber,
hiking, camping girl.
(laughs)
Oh, who didn't sink the fastest.
I've never seen
mountains, hardly.
Never seen snow,
except once in my life.
And here I am climbing
to get to the top of the summit.
I think Amy today is
a little safe.
That's just the mom in me,
I guess.
I met a man 16 years ago
who had three kids.
He was single dad-ing it.
And those little humans
needed me.
And I just did
everything I could do
to make them safe and secure.
And that's who I am.
A middle-aged mom
who put herself
on the back burner for 15 years.
But I think Adventure Amy
got on that plane
and just said,
"The hell with it."
Let's just, let's go!
We're doing it.
We're doing it.
I never thought I'd be doing
something like this, ever.
I mean, who dreams this big?
And I know it's gonna be hard,
but I'm gonna do it.
It's gonna be so worth it.
I'm just following
right behind you, girl.
It's great to have moms
on the trip.
-ROSE: Mama's got you.
-AMY: Yeah.
(laughing)
Dude, how are you feeling
about the group?
THERRON:
People are cool,
but I don't think
people are strategizing yet.
And I think they think
this is about to be
a "we're all in this together"
kind of game.
-It's not.
-And it's definitely not.
Alliances,
that's how you win games.
You can't do anything alone.
And you have to be strategic
with who you choose.
I'm noticing some of the moms,
Jeannie, Amy and Rose,
getting together.
We do not have time
to waste around.
I don't want anybody to think
that we're close, though.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-I think it's
gonna be too obvious.
THERRON:
I got you.
SHWETA:
I'm very strategic.
I feel like I'm gonna
run circles around
everybody else here.
And I'm smarter than
people think I'm gonna be.
If you don't think I'm a threat,
you're just not
paying attention.
PRODUCER:
Small, but feisty?
Yeah. It's not about the size
of the dog in the fight.
It's the size of the fight
in the dog.
And I got some fight.
-We got, uh, swampiness, y'all.
-Oh, God.
Oh, (bleep).
-Is there a better way?
-I'm no geologist, Bo.
(bleep)
JEANNIE:
It's quicksand!
My feet are soaking wet.
ROBERT:
We'll do a sock thing.
What do you think?
TONY:
Yeah.
We're going to squeeze out
socks really quick.
Does anybody need more water?
DUSTY:
Oh, no. I really don't want
to have to take breaks.
Robert has a little bit too much
fake camp counselor energy.
I'm telling you all,
your feet are your wheels.
Don't get a flat tire.
"Hey, guys, listen up.
Just listen to your body.
It's gonna be okay."
And I'm sitting here going
"I'm 28. I'm not 12."
I was a camp counselor
for many years, so (laughs)
I-I work in the education field.
I love helping those kids who
don't see how
they fit into the world
and helping kind of guide them
and find a place
and find who they are.
Especially junior high kids
because they're at that age
where they're still moldable.
They still need
a good role model.
It's just the best job
in the world.
It really is.
AMY: Hey, Rob,
I think you're right, there.
My feet feel so much better.
-Right?
-AMY: Good job.
-JEANNIE: Thanks, Rob.
-AMY: Good call, Rob.
-DUSTY: Yeah.
Either way-either way,
we got to move.
I think something
people are forgetting is
we are supposed to get up
to the summit in 14 days.
At this rate,
I'm really concerned
with our ability to be able
to make it up there.
Guys, we got to pick it up.
DENNIS:
Jennye, you think we, uh,
we got to pick up pace here
a little bit?
-I think we absolutely do.
-DENNIS: Yeah.
JENNYE:
Therron, I think we got
to pick up the pace, hon.
-DUSTY: Yeah.
-JENNYE: On the, the walking,
like, actually,
-'cause we're not gonna make it
on the first day.
-Yeah. Okay.
We need to go up this path
straight across from us.
Looks perfect to me.
JENNYE:
Let's do it.
(grunting nearby)
ROBERT:
Don't fall.
This incline is gonna get
some folks.
Come on.
You just got to say,
"I have no choice."
I'm gonna get
in front of you, hon.
We needed to get
to that checkpoint today.
Y'all, we got to pick up
the pace if we want to make it
-to the good camp.
-(grunts)
We got to make it
on time, y'all.
Right now there are
two groups forming.
-One slow
-Side your feet in.
Side, not toe, side.
There you go.
-JENNYE: and the other fast.
-It's bad.
It's horrible.
Just keep going.
JENNYE:
I usually fall in the front
so that we can kind of push
and keep the pace.
(grunts)
I'm okay.
SHWETA:
Are we going or what's going on?
JENNYE:
We got to go, honey.
Like, we got to go.
"Let's go. Let's go."
That's not motivating.
(panting)
Feel the burn.
(grunting)
You got everyone? I think
we're still waiting for a few.
-You good?
-Yeah.
We can go catch up with them.
AMY:
All I got to think is,
I'm gonna rest at camp.
I picked a hell of a first time
to go camping.
THERRON:
Sticker bushes above us.
GEOFF:
We're gonna have to,
uh, army crawl.
-Just keep going.
-Yeah.
You guys, you're gonna have
to crawl up here,
and there's a lot of,
like, uh, pointy things.
BO:
It can cut like a knife.
JENNYE: Be careful,
the pointy things behind you.
-JEANNIE: Careful.
-(grunts)
PATI:
It just keeps
going up and up, man.
THERRON:
Yeah, Tony.
TONY:
We're spending some time trying
to climb through,
and Therron's taking charge
with the map and
this doesn't look
like we're going the right way.
Okay, y'all,
so here's the thing.
We thought this was
the right way,
but it's a dead end.
We were here, so then we thought
that this little water bin
right here was here.
This looks like this.
Four hours into the hike.
It's a (bleep) show.
We went the wrong way
for probably 45 minutes.
You see the distance that we
made in the wrong direction,
so I think everybody's
getting kind of peeved.
It's day one.
45 minutes is a lot
of draining energy.
That's a lot. Yeah.
BECKYLEE: We have 14 days
to get this done,
and I feel like now
we have to double-book it
to make up for this mistake.
I'm extremely worried
that we're not gonna make
checkpoint.
-Guys, are we going back down?
-THERRON: Yeah.
-Ready?
-All right.
(Amy groans)
ROBERT:
When you go down,
kind of keep your feet sideways.
AMY:
Sideways, all right.
ROBERT: It'll give you
a little more traction.
AMY:
Thanks, Rob.
SHWETA:
Come on.
(breathing heavily)
Tony, you got it.
TONY:
I have not climbed
a mountain before.
I mean, I've watched
Lord of the Rings,
uh, but I've never
seen anything like this.
JEANNIE:
It's just all uphill.
-Way harder than I thought.
-Me, too.
TONY:
I can't believe that I'm here,
about to embark
on this incredible journey.
For me,
it's definitely a huge change.
I've always been the fat kid.
Kids would have pool parties
all the time, and
ugh, I wouldn't even want to go
to these pool parties
with my friends
'cause I couldn't-- like
I-I didn't-- you know.
I didn't look like
all the other kids.
I never really liked
who I saw in the mirror
for most of my life.
I mean, it's hard to enjoy your
life when you're 406 pounds.
It held me back a lot,
my weight.
The biggest event
that has changed my life was
my wife got pregnant
and my, and my son was born,
and I was just like,
"I can't be a good father
and be this heavy," because
I just could feel myself dying.
So, I'm like, "I can't
I want to see this kid grow up."
I just knew I just had
to do something, and I did.
I started eating healthy
and I started working out,
and just-- I mean,
my workouts were walks.
And that turned into,
"I'm gonna run a marathon,"
and I did.
I went from that
down to 260 pounds,
and just like, really embracing
this, like, new body
and what my body could do.
And now I'm here for my kids.
-CHILD: Da-da!
-I'm here for my wife
and I'm here for the
ten-year-old version of myself
that thought
he wasn't worth anything,
'cause I'm gonna
prove him wrong.
MANU:
The group is only five hours
into their trek,
but the mountain
is quickly taking a toll.
(exhales):
Oh, my God.
I mean, where the hell
is this camp at?
MANU:
If they don't dramatically
increase their pace,
they won't make it
to the checkpoint before sunset.
(bleep)
JEANNIE:
I'm just going without stopping.
I think that's the most
easiest way to do it.
This is much harder
than I thought.
There's no path.
Either you got to step
on a bush
BECKYLEE:
I'm just pushing you.
Don't stop.
or step in a sinkhole
Ooh, ooh, ooh,
do not put your foot there.
JEANNIE:
Watch out here, too.
It's a big hole.
or step on top of a rock.
I was hoping there'd
be some kind of path here,
but there's nothing.
(panting)
Look how far we got, man.
DUSTY:
Hey, Dennis, one sec.
DENNIS:
Hey-hey, guys, I-I don't
even think we're halfway up.
We-we got to keep going.
Guys, we not gonna make it
if we don't go.
-Let's go. They'll pick it up.
-JENNYE: Suck it up.
I know it's hard.
-(grunts)
-JEANNIE: I'm so exhausted.
TONY (panting):
We got this.
We got this.
My backpack is so heavy.
-(both panting)
-TONY: Yeah.
You're doing good, man.
One step at a time.
Whoa.
-Tony?
-We're good.
(grunts)
Come on, Tony. Right here.
Tony, don't get hurt.
I'm good.
DUSTY:
Good job, Tone.
I could definitely tell
Tony was struggling.
He was doing a good job
of hiding it verbally,
but he was struggling,
and I fe-- I really feel bad.
It's the last little push
right here.
BECKYLEE:
Are you okay?
Tony? Tony?
-Hold on! Wait, hold on!
-(overlapping shouts)
-DENNIS: Hey, guys, Tony's down.
-NICK: He all right?
BECKYLEE:
Tony? Take his pack off.
JENNYE:
Uh-oh.
-BECKYLEE: Take his pack off.
-AMY: Pour some water on him.
PUNKIN:
Tony? Tony, can you hear us?
AMY:
He's shaking. Oh, God.
(wind whistling)
(Tony panting)
DUSTY: It's the last
little push right here.
-PUNKIN: Are you okay?
-No.
-Tony? Tony?
-PUNKIN: Hold on.
-DENNIS: Hey, guys, Tony's down.
-(overlapping shouts)
PUNKIN:
Uh-oh.
-Hang on.
-Is he okay?
-Just got to give him
some space.
-Pour some water on him.
BECKYLEE: Take his pack off.
Take his pack off.
He just went down, like
-Wait, who is that?
-JEANNIE: Tony. Tony.
SHWETA:
Oh
ROSE:
Keep him in the shade, guys.
Geoff, stay in the shade
right there.
AMY:
Oh, God. He's shaking.
-ROSE: Is he okay?
-AMY: Come on, Tony,
come on, Tony.
-MARK: Hey, how we doing?
-AMY: No, he doesn't look good,
he doesn't look good.
MARK:
You all right?
What hurts?
Can you talk to me?
Where's the pain?
Right there? Okay.
JEANNIE:
You know what, Tony,
I saw him sweating,
man, like crazy.
I said, "Tony, how you doing?
Is-- this is hard?"
and he's like,
"Yeah, it's hard," it's--
-It is hard.
-I'm gonna be honest,
what if it's just,
like, his glucose level?
What if it's just his body?
This is so mental, right?
Like, are you serious?
I don't know what to think.
I think maybe Tony's taking
a little break,
I think maybe
he needs a little water.
He needs a granola bar.
So I'm just sitting and waiting.
I don't even know how to feel.
-What?
-I don't know how to feel.
ROSE:
Watch his head. Watch his head.
JENNYE:
Watch his head.
-ROSE: Call the medic.
-MARK: You got it?
MARK:
This is Claudia.
She's our doctor.
she's gonna have a chat here.
Let's have your knees up.
CLAUDIA:
That hurt?
CLAUDIA: The biggest concern
is that this is your heart
causing the pain, okay?
-All right?
-Okay.
Please don't.
I know.
TONY:
Let me just take a minute.
-CLAUDIA: We're giving you
a minute.
-And I'll be fine.
JEANNIE: The way Tony did this,
like, he
persevered, and look at this.
Like, we got to just get there.
-THERRON: Oh, damn.
-JEANNIE: Is that for
THERRON:
That's
I think they're coming
to get him.
I-- if I just have, like,
five minutes, I'll be fine.
GEOFF:
Tony's literally saying,
"Just five minutes,
I-I swear I'll get up,"
but, you know,
when it's something
as serious as that,
you can't mess around.
Ultimately,
it's the doctor's call.
And I'm watching Tony
watch his money
just dissipate just like that,
and that-that's crushing.
Just wanted to do more.
MARK:
One, two, three.
Go straight legs.
-(grunts)
-Okay, take-- wait.
-(grunting)
-(overlapping chatter)
-(applause)
-Good job, Tony!
MANU:
As the first member of the group
is taken off the mountain
-Love you, Tony.
-MANU: so, too, is the money
he was carrying.
The first casualty
of the grueling trek ahead.
AMY:
Bye, Tony.
JEANNIE:
Bye, Tony!
Wow.
BO:
Tony didn't quit.
His body quit on him.
-ROBERT: If you're hurting
-PUNKIN: Yeah.
communicate up.
BO:
I mean, that hit home,
because that could easily be me
or any one of us.
So, uh, that gave me
a cue to, uh,
watch what my body's telling me.
-Let's do this for Tony, guys.
-JEANNIE: Yeah.
-Hey, we got new motivation now.
-JEANNIE: Yeah,
-we definitely do, man.
-THERRON: Absolutely.
We got a reason.
JEANNIE:
Watch your footing coming up.
NICK:
When Tony goes down,
it's a wake-up call
because this is definitely
not easy.
My legs are giving out,
my calves are tightening up.
This is pretty difficult for me.
Being an ex-athlete, I've been
through a lot of stuff,
uh, physically and mentally.
At how uphill
this is gonna to be,
this is gonna be pretty tough
for Amy and Pati today.
And I'm thinking,
"This is only day one."
I'm not sure
how long they're gonna
make it in this game.
THERRON:
Are y'all serious? Okay
-What the hell?
-This
THERRON: Oh, God.
Okay, positive thoughts.
The back is moving
a lot slower than the front.
Bo has been slowing
the group down.
-We're almost there.
-BECKYLEE: You good, Bo?
Yeah. Little breather.
THERRON:
We're taking five-minute breaks
every 12 steps.
If I don't make it
to the checkpoint today,
I'm gonna be very devastated.
You can't walk across
New Zealand so easy.
I'm trying not to show
signs of weakness,
but I'm struggling right now.
-Hold up!
-Hold up!
Uh, you know,
I'm a little older, I'm sore.
My muscles are aching
a little bit,
but I am not gonna quit.
Don't necessarily want
to stand out,
but I want people
to notice, "Hey,
there's something different
about that guy."
I'm from Gun Barrel City, Texas.
I'm a basketball coach
and I'm still teaching,
but I'm looking at retirement
at the end of the year.
I like spending time
at the house with my family,
on the sofa watching TV
and my three mutt dogs,
Fatty, Red and Deedee.
Get that.
I'm taking on this challenge
to show that I still got it.
I mean, I got calves enough.
I can hang with
these young bucks. (laughs)
-Yeah. All right, here we go.
You ready?
-Got it?
-Let's push it, y'all.
-I hear you.
MANU:
If the group does not reach
their officially designated
checkpoint camps by sunset,
they will be required to create
makeshift bivvy camps
wherever they happen
to be on the trek.
We got to make it, girl.
MANU:
These impromptu camps
lack the tents and food
-crucial for their
ongoing journey.
-Hey!
Oh, we just leave Rose behind?
So sorry.
PUNKIN:
There's a hole coming up
on your left.
Watch your foot.
Come on.
This is it.
THERRON (laughs):
Manu!
ROSE:
We made it?
Manu's here.
-NICK: Manu.
-Thank the Lord. God
You're running late.
You've missed
your first checkpoint.
I feel for you,
but I did tell you,
this mountain is not a joke.
Now, do you see the sun?
It's already on its way down,
and there's a canyon there
that you're just not going
to be able to cross tonight.
It's too dangerous.
You're gonna have to sleep here,
on the trail, in the dirt,
drinking from the stream
and eating only
the freeze-dried food you have
with you in your backpacks.
If that keeps happening,
you're not going to make
the 14-day deadline.
Do you understand?
Tomorrow it gets harder.
So settle down,
have a good sleep if you can.
It's gonna get cold.
I'll see you tomorrow.
NICK:
We're gonna have
to set up a bivvy camp.
Who wants to start the fire?
I've never set up a bivvy
in my entire life.
I can tell you,
I am not looking forward
to this.
Absolute fail.
There's definitely becoming
a little hostility up here.
AMY:
My God.
Why isn't this
not working for me?
THERRON:
We're okay, we're okay,
we're okay.
DENNIS:
Ugh, I don't even have
my jacket on, dude, it's cold.
We didn't make it
to a checkpoint.
I was pissed.
People think
this is just a game,
people think this is a vacation.
If we don't make it up
the summit in 14 days,
nobody makes any money.
We leave here with nothing.
I really think we could have
been here, like,
two, three hours earlier.
We went 45 minutes
the wrong way,
and then we also had
to backtrack.
Probably added an hour or two.
ROBERT:
I still don't think
some people are, like,
-their head's in it yet.
-Mm-mm.
I don't think they realize
the seriousness
of what we're doing.
DUSTY:
It's just hard 'cause it,
two-thirds of us, physically,
are capable.
Yeah.
DUSTY: Day one,
not making the checkpoint,
I am actually
pretty happy about,
because that's gonna set a fire
underneath some folks' butts
that I don't think
otherwise they would have.
I think, like, 80% of the group
could move faster.
Frankly, there's, like,
probably four people that,
they're probably
pushing it at, like, 90%
-and they could push it 100.
-ROBERT: Yeah.
DUSTY:
We got Pati, Amy,
physically,
not prepared to be here.
I know that Bo's a great guy.
Physically,
he shouldn't be out here.
At the end of the day,
they're slowing us down,
and they-they could cost us
literally a million bucks.
PATI:
If I leave this bivvy open,
is an animal
gonna get me for real?
The bugs are bad.
I might have to close my bivvy.
GEOFF:
I've got it.
ROBERT:
I mean, it was cold.
It was not a restful night.
Not great sleep.
BO:
Oh, my God,
I don't even know if I can
get out of this sleeping bag.
I'm sore. Can I get to my feet?
I start on my knees.
Uh, I-I tried it once,
I-I went back down.
Just like-- but I acted,
I played it off
like I was stretching, you know,
in case somebody was watching.
AMY:
Good morning, Punkin.
-You married?
-I am.
-Oh.
-I have a-- two years.
-Two years.
-We've been together for seven.
Did you meet him
over there or
-No. Her.
-Oh.
-GEOFF: We got another day.
-THERRON: And we're gonna do
the same thing today,
but make it to the checkpoint.
(laughter)
-You still have the map, right?
-I got the map.
THERRON:
We really have to give it
a move-on,
and make it to checkpoint
because there's no way
we can sleep in bivvies
a second time.
That sleep last night sucked.
We need to get
-to number two tonight.
-Yeah.
THERRON:
Today, I'm hoping,
by giving someone else the map,
I can take some of that heat
off of me from the first day.
So if we get lost,
I love you, Shweta. (laughs)
-JENNYE: Come on, girl.
-SHWETA: We are not starting
at point zero today,
we're starting at negative one.
Yeah.
Oh, God, this is steep.
Grab the grass,
make sure it's alive.
-Grab it low.
-ROSE: Okay.
JEANNIE:
Definitely gonna have
to grab stuff here, guys.
PATI:
Grab low, grab green.
JEANNIE:
It's really wet here, too.
(laughs):
Grab low, grab green.
Whew! My legs on fire.
-Very wobbly.
-GEOFF: Got it. I'll relay it.
Last uphill and then
we'll snag the bag.
Huh?
My legs are going to kill me
if we do not start walking.
Every time we catch up,
you guys head out again.
No, we're stopping
to wait for you.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be
frustrated, we're just
not moving. Y'all ready?
Yeah, start breathing, Bo.
We need you.
This is gonna be
the hardest part of the day.
BO:
So, as I'm climbing
that mountain,
I'm-I'm obviously
thinking about Tony.
It made me self-aware
of my own body.
DUSTY:
Do you want me to take
your bag to the top?
I'll get it up
to the top if you want.
Every muscle on my body
is cramping.
Day two, carrying more bags.
Shouldn't be starting yet.
THERRON:
This next part is gonna be
a little hard.
It's down, and there's a rope.
I'm so afraid of heights,
this isn't good.
BECKYLEE:
Go slow and be kind.
Please don't let me die,
Jesus.
ROBERT:
We got something up here.
THERRON:
Oh, no.
JEANNIE:
What is it?
-NICK: Oh, damn.
-ROSE: Oh, my God,
heights, heights, heights.
JEANNIE:
Whoa!
DENNIS:
Wow.
-What the?
-Oh
-No way.
ROBERT:
We got something up here.
THERRON:
Oh, no.
JEANNIE:
What is it?
-AMY: What the
-DENNIS: No way.
We took our time hiking,
and now,
we're facing
a difficult obstacle,
and it's getting me
kind of worried 'cause
we might not make
this checkpoint again.
"A deep gorge blocks your path
to the summit."
(grunts) No.
JEANNIE:
Here, just breathe, baby.
AMY:
Therron, you could do this, man.
I'm afraid of heights, too.
You're okay, babe.
Okay, I'm back.
ROBERT:
"To continue,
you must select a leader
"who will then choose
a crossing partner.
"After crossing,
the leader will choose
"the next pair to cross
and so on.
So think about who would be
the best leader for you."
It looks like two people
are going to be on each side
of that, so you want to be
a similar size and weight
-to the person you're with.
-ROBERT: What you're going
to have to do
is walk on each side of the rope
and leaning into
each other, scooch out.
I don't know who died
and made Rob king,
but I don't like
to be mansplained
by anybody what to do.
THERRON:
I don't know who the leader is,
but I would like
to go in the first--
I just want to get it done.
ROSE:
I think Bo should be the leader.
Give him a chance
to lead and use
his coaching skills
to bring us all together.
-I disagree with that.
-ROSE: Why?
-PUNKIN: Just pick.
Let's pick. Come on.
-But why?
-I'm just curious why.
-I'm not afraid of heights.
Hey, why don't we get Becky
to be the leader?
-Becky, go ahead, Becky.
-Go ahead, Becky.
-Becky, be the leader.
-I think we got our leader.
-Is everyone okay with that?
-GEOFF: We're good.
Let's get it going.
It felt great to be chosen.
It felt like
I had my first glimmer
of power in this game.
I am very aware of how
people perceive me.
Like, I come across very smiley,
and I'm a blonde,
and my name is Becky.
Like, come on.
So, funny enough,
I was a theme park princess.
You know, I did the gown,
the glass slippers,
uh, the parade wave,
and I love the attention I got
from being with kids
all day and smiling.
But I also have this side of me
where I like to lead people.
Um, I can be
a little more aggressive
and a little bit bossy.
So, I traded my glass slippers
for a pair of steel-toed boots.
ROSE:
I'll go first with you
if you want, Becky.
-You want to go first?
-I've been in the back.
-I'm excited to go.
-Let her go first, man.
Let's get it done, me and Rose.
All right, let's do it.
-Are you ready? Yeah?
-NICK: Come on, guys.
-BECKYLEE: Okay, let's go.
-DUSTY: Here we go.
SHWETA:
Yeah!
BECKYLEE:
Hold on tight to me.
ROSE:
That's going to get real wobbly.
Let's get off the wood
in three, two, one.
You good?
-Relax, relax. Settle.
-GEOFF: Keep going.
-Don't listen to them.
-AMY: Keep going, girls.
One, two, three.
Oh, my God. I can't
believe how much it's wiggling.
BECKYLEE:
Hey. You're doing good.
Relax, relax.
-Calm.
-ROSE: Okay.
(grunting)
DUSTY:
Y'all got it.
ROBERT:
You got this, ladies.
Relax, relax, relax. I got it.
PATI:
No, no, no. Relax, relax.
Settle out, settle out.
-BECKYLEE: We're good.
-JEANNIE: You got this.
You got this. Just breathe.
I was shocked at how
incredibly hard it was.
ROSE:
My arms.
BECKYLEE:
Maybe I came in
a little overconfident
that I would be able
to do any obstacle no problem.
We got to get quickly over this
part. This is the hardest part.
It's going to get tighter soon.
You're almost there. Keep going.
-Don't stop.
-Come on, gals.
-ROSE: Easy.
-BECKYLEE: Sorry.
(whimpering) No!
(screams)
AMY:
When Beckylee and Rose fall,
all that's going through
my head is,
if they can't do it,
there's no way I'm going
to be able to do it.
And that sun's doing this.
Guys, I can't sleep
in a bivvy again.
BECKYLEE:
I think, yeah,
just the small steps.
It's front foot one,
the back foot two.
ROSE:
Okay. One.
This whole thing
has been reminding me
of my military training.
I have three combat tours.
And I was
a Blackhawk helicopter pilot.
I used to be a badass,
and I'm looking to find that
again in myself here.
BECKYLEE:
Don't lean that way.
Stay with me. Stay with me.
ROSE:
But I don't want these people
to know my military experience
unless for a strategic reason.
-One, two.
-PATI: Keep it up, girls.
-One, two.
-You got it. You're so close.
You're so close.
ROSE:
My strategy is deception
of perception.
I want everybody to think I'm
just a mom with pretty nails.
-Keep going. One, two. One, two.
-Oh, my God.
-One, two.
-PUNKIN: Look how fast
they did that.
One, two. One, two.
(contestants cheering)
-(whooping)
-JEANNIE: Yes!
-Oh, my goodness.
-PATI: Nice!
That was harder than I thought
it was going to be.
Good job!
Are you okay with Punkin
and Jennye?
I already told
them-- feel
like I verbally
committed to them
that I would.
Punkin and Jennye.
Why are they talking it over?
This is Becky's decision.
Um
People are already
forming connections.
And Rose is
vocal in who she thinks
should go and shouldn't go.
And she wanted Amy and Bo over.
But I said, you know,
let's get Punkin and Jennye
because I trust Punkin.
Let's think about that
while we send them.
I feel confident about them.
Is that okay?
NICK:
I don't like this one bit.
SHWETA:
Is, like, Rose influencing
what's going on?
PATI:
Okay, you guys, calm down.
A fun fact about me is that I've
never been relaxed in my life.
Red Rover, send Punkin
and Jennye right over.
-Oh!
-Come on.
Oh, yep, that's--
That is far down.
GEOFF:
Let's go, let's go,
let's go, let's go.
-PUNKIN: One, two. One.
-Careful.
-Relax.
-Two.
Lean back, lean back.
-One.
-Oh, you're pulling me.
-Okay, you good?
-Yep.
BOTH:
One, two. One, two.
PATI:
Good job, ladies.
BOTH:
One, two, one, two. One, two.
GEOFF:
Good stuff, y'all.
BOTH:
One, two, one, two.
GEOFF:
Good pace, good pace.
BOTH:
One, two.
PUNKIN: I feel confident
with Beckylee as a leader.
She seems like she
has a level head.
BOTH:
One, two. One, two.
You're doing great.
PUNKIN:
But at the same time,
you have to have a partner
to make it across this rope.
And with Tony gone,
the numbers are odd right now,
so somebody may not make
it across this bridge.
-PATI: Hey, way to go!
-(contestants cheering)
PUNKIN:
I just need
to make sure Beckylee
chooses the right people to
come across at the right time.
-(bleep) that.
-JENNYE: Oh, we made it.
We got to keep moving.
Who are you gonna send?
-Keep this in mind.
There's an odd number.
-BECKYLEE: Yeah.
So the last one
might not make it over.
-Ooh.
-Yeah.
You realize that
there are 15 of us.
NICK:
Everyone can see that we have
an odd number of people
in the group, so everyone
is panicking a little bit.
Why is it taking so long?
Why are they arguing?
NICK:
Because we don't know
what's going to happen
if you don't have a partner.
Me and Dennis would like to go,
if you're okay with that.
BECKYLEE:
Okay.
Geoff and Dusty, come on over.
-THERRON: Geoff and Dusty?
-ROBERT: Geoff and Dusty.
-Let's rock.
-Boom.
-I feel good.
-Start right away.
Yep, we're good.
Just like that.
ROBERT:
Right now they have Geoff
going with Dusty.
Geoff and I said
we would go over together,
but that all changed over there.
BECKYLEE:
Okay, um, what are you thinking?
-Rob and--?
-ROSE: Or I think Amy.
Do Pati and Amy.
Maybe they have an agenda
and a reasoning behind it.
-GEOFF: All good.
-ROBERET: I don't know
what they're thinking.
DUSTY:
We are dialed.
ROSE:
They're rocking it.
Keep up the pace,
keep up the pace.
GEOFF:
One, two.
-You're almost there.
-NICK: They got it.
PATI:
There you go. You got it.
(contestant whooping)
-(contestants cheering)
-Let's go, baby!
All right, so, come on,
announce the next name now.
You guys, we got to go quick.
JEANNIE:
Who's next?
BECKYLEE:
Amy and Pati.
PATI:
Oh, hell no.
-Let's go. We got it.
-All right.
THERRON:
Rose is influencing Beckylee.
-DENNIS: Oh, yeah, 100%.
-NICK: It's definitely Rose.
BECKYLEE:
All right, girls. You got it.
AMY:
Ready?
Come on, Amy.
-PATI: I hate heights.
-AMY: Easy.
-Easy.
-PATI: Okay, okay.
-I'm terrified.
-I'm behind you, baby.
Don't look down.
-You got it.
-PATI: I'm trying.
Don't stop, ladies.
Keep going.
-AMY: Relax.
-PATI: I-- (grunts)
-One, two.
-Okay.
One, two. You got it.
Careful, careful, careful.
That's good. Settle.
-ROBERT: You got it, ladies.
-Settle.
They're moving a lot.
Hold me, hold me, hold me.
-You're good, you're good.
-Hold my arms.
We're good, we're good.
We're good. We're good.
We're good.
-Keep going.
-Save it, save it, save it.
We're okay. Get it together.
Hold it, hold it.
(grunting)
BECKYLEE:
Oh, my God.
(wind whistling)
JEANNIE:
They're moving a lot.
AMY:
We're good, we're good.
Keep going.
You're okay.
-ROSE: Come on,
save it, save it.
-We're okay.
Get it together.
AMY:
Hold it, hold it.
(grunting)
SHWETA:
Ah.
JEANNIE:
Oh, no.
Keeping pace is imperative
to making checkpoints.
BECKYLEE:
Hey, guys, try to lean
on each other.
AMY:
But also, I need to get
across the bridge
and tell Rose she needs to
just take it down a notch.
One, two. One
-Great pace.
-AMY: Two.
We're halfway, Pati. One.
They're doing it. I'm so proud.
Go over. Step it in. Step it in.
-Thought they were
about to fall there.
-No, they're good.
-They're keeping momentum.
-One, two.
Almost there, Pati.
PATI:
We're you're doing this
for our family.
Hang on, please.
One, two. Go, go.
-(contestants cheering)
-Go, baby, go.
PATI:
We did it.
(sobbing) We did it.
PUNKIN:
Good job.
(sobbing)
-PATI: Hey, you guys,
call the next one.
-BECKYLEE: All right.
AMY:
Call it. Call it.
BECKYLEE:
Dennis and Therron.
DENNIS:
Fearless, man. We got this.
Don't worry.
You got it, buddy.
THERRON:
Yeah, I'm so scared.
-DENNIS: Don't be afraid.
-THERRON: Okay.
-Oh, God.
-DENNIS: It's okay.
I haven't been up to the cliff
to look down yet,
and immediately my stomach
starts to turn and I'm like,
I cannot do this.
-Ready? We got this.
-Wait.
THERRON:
But there's a lot of people
who are afraid of heights,
and I don't want to start
rubbing people the wrong way
by psyching them out
when they are also scared.
Okay.
One, two.
-Whoa.
-I got you.
-Okay.
-I got you, I got you.
-Nothing bad's gonna happen.
-THERRON: All right.
DENNIS:
All good.
Come on
Dennis!
DENNIS:
Don't look down.
Don't look down.
-ROSE: It's okay, guys.
-ROBERT: Learn from it.
DENNIS:
We're gonna make it
over this time.
Things can go wrong
in any second of the day.
I work as a trauma
critical care nurse,
so I see gunshot victims,
motor vehicle accidents.
-You lead. You lead.
I'll follow.
-One, two. One, two.
DENNIS:
I have to stand up 12, 16 hours
a day at the hospital,
so, climbing a mountain,
I don't think this will be the
hardest thing I've ever done.
At all.
Don't slow down.
Don't slow down.
THERRON:
Oh, God, it's pulling me.
Oh, whoa, whoa.
Hold it, hold it.
DENNIS: I'm absolutely going
to make it to the end.
We got this. We're almost there,
we're almost there.
No matter what it takes.
Got it, we got it.
(cheering)
Let's go!
THERRON:
We did this!
You see that? We did it.
Shweta and Jeannie.
JEANNIE:
Oh, my God. We're next.
They're not trying
to lose their map.
JEANNIE:
We'll be on the same page.
You ready?
-Two.
-One.
Holy Jesus.
-One, two.
-One.
-Two.
-One, two.
One, two.
You got it, girls.
-JEANNIE: Oh, my God.
-SHWETA: Wait, I'm not--
-I'm not on.
-It's okay, it's okay.
-Let me get my balance!
-One, two.
No, we can't wait.
-JEANNIE: Okay, ready?
-SHWETA: I'm not ready.
You got this. You got--
-Jeannie, you're
pushing forward.
You're pushing forward, Jeannie.
Jeanie, stop.
JEANNIE:
Oh, my God!
PATI: It's Bo.
I mean, he just tries so hard.
He does try really hard,
but that's the thing.
If it's not Bo, who?
SHWETA:
I'm really not vibing this
because we have to go in twos,
and there's 15 of us.
One person
is getting left behind.
I think that person's
going home.
-One. Two.
-They got it, they in there.
(cheering)
-Jeannie--
-(laughter)
JEANNIE:
I can't believe I did that.
NICK:
I'm nervous.
I think we all kind of
had a general idea
of who we were going
to go across with,
and, uh, that changed
after group one went.
So, uh,
it's a crapshoot, and,
uh, it's not a good feeling
if you're not across
the bridge right now.
BECKYLEE:
Wait, let's-- Can we talk?
Not to pull you out
of your celebration,
but I think we should talk.
-I just wanted
to get your thoughts.
-Okay.
BECKYLEE:
So, where's your head at?
I think that we need
to pull over strong people.
Like, Nick deserves to be here.
ROSE: But here's the thing.
Bo's mental fortitude
and his persistence to keep on
and not complain
and drive on is very motivating.
Um, look, listen,
this is the toughest decision
we've had to make.
But I think that we need
to have Nick and Rob here.
JEANNIE:
Yeah. Nick and Rob.
BECKYLEE:
I'm really struggling
because I feel
this connection with Bo.
He reminds me of my dad.
You know, I don't want
to be the one
to make that call,
because I love him as a person,
but I am starting
to question, like,
can he do this?
Rob and Nick.
It's all right.
It's all right. Shh.
-All right, Rob.
-All right, here we go.
-PATI: He understands.
-JEANNIE: He does. He does.
I think he was
talking to the boys.
-Ready?
-Let me get a little forward.
BO:
I'm sitting here
with my game life
in the balance,
and I hope they
bring me along with them.
NICK:
Good pace.
Still got some stuff to prove.
SHWETA:
He knows.
-ROBERT: One. Two.
-NICK: Perfect.
MANU:
With the majority of the group
having crossed the obstacle
More than halfway.
MANU:
what will happen
to the odd man out?
-NICK: No, you're okay.
-PUNKIN: There you go, guys.
Keep talking.
MANU:
There's still
a mountain to climb,
over $900,000 at stake
and less than 13 days
to get it done.
-Two. One, two.
-GEOFF: Yes, sir!
(cheering)
-DENNIS: Let's go, baby.
-GEOFF: Let's go!
DENNIS:
Yeah, baby.
MANU:
It's now time
for the mountain's keeper
to present the group
with their first crucial
decision of the journey.
-NICK: What's that noise, guys?
-ROSE: You guys, look.
THERRON:
What on earth?
-Oh, my God.
-GEOFF: Mountain keeper?
PUNKIN:
What is going on?
What do you want?
It's dropping something.
Go get it. Yes. Go, Geoff.
-NICK: Go for it, Geoff.
-GEOFF: Whoa! Whoa!
AMY:
What is it?
ROSE:
Go, go, go.
Wait. Should we open it
as a group?
-Open as a group.
Open as a group.
-Open as a group.
-What is it?
-We're gonna open it--
-PUNKIN: Let's bring it back.
-GEOFF: Bring it back.
-Hey!
-ROBERT: We'll be right back
with you, Bo, one second.
PUNKIN:
Are you all not worried
about what's in this bag?
-What does the note say?
-AMY: Read the note.
"A person was left behind.
You have a choice as a group.
"If you want them
and their money
"to continue up the mountain,
"use the provided gear
to rescue that person.
"However, you can
choose to abandon them
"and their money if you
believe it will keep you
on track to reach the summit.
The choice is yours."
-JEANNIE: Oh, my God.
-PUNKIN: That's
a big decision.
Do we want to bring Bo over
and keep him and his money
or do we want to
abandon him and go without?
I say bring Bo.
We're really about to hold up
this time for one person?
Listen, I know this is sad
and I love Bo.
He's been pushing himself.
But we're not going
to make a checkpoint today.
And a lot of the times today
I was being told to hold
because we were waiting on Bo.
I would leave Bo over there.
This is just hard.
This is just hard.
We know what needs to happen,
it just, it sucks.
THERRON:
It does suck.
(wind whistling)
GEOFF: "A person was left
behind. Use the provided gear
"to rescue that person.
However, you can
"choose to abandon them
if you believe
it will keep you on track
to reach the summit."
THERRON:
I would leave Bo over there.
I think that's
the tough decision
we're going to have to make.
Hey! Come get me, Geoffrey!
All in favor for bringing Bo
over, raise your hand.
That's one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine.
-That's everybody.
-GEOFF: Party majority.
-Let's go. Moving on.
-Let's bring him over.
-PATI: Hey, B!
-Yeah!
We ain't leaving you behind.
We got you, Bo.
We got you, baby.
We're racing the clock.
We still got to make checkpoint.
But to not have to cut anybody
off at this obstacle
and cut their dreams off
at this point,
I'm absolutely going
to take that because I know
we're all here for a reason.
Come here, big dog.
Come here.
Come here.
(cheering)
All right, Bo,
we're getting you over.
We're going
to hook you up, and then
you're going to go
over on a tightrope like that.
-Let's go.
-Let's go.
GEOFF: You got a lot of
people in your corner, man.
-You got it, Dennis?
-Yeah.
-GEOFF: Let's get it, Bo.
-NICK: You got it, boss.
We'll keep it sturdy.
GEOFF: There you go.
There you go. Good footing.
BO: You don't know what
kind of friends you have
until you run into these people.
It would be easy to let me go,
but they want me to stay,
and I love them all for that.
(all cheering)
-Yeah!
-Yeah, buddy!
You did that.
I love you, man.
We are not going fast enough.
To get to where we need to go
is not easy.
Leaving Bo was probably
the right decision,
and eventually,
we will find out.
ROBERT:
We got this.
PUNKIN: We got to pick it up
just a little bit.
We're definitely worried that
we won't make it to checkpoint.
And also, we have to
reach the summit
in 14 days,
or nobody gets any money.
Last night we had to
sleep in bivvies.
Freakin' freezing.
And now people are struggling.
BO: Phew!
I can't catch my breath.
-ROSE: Hey, guys, hang on.
-JEANNIE: Oh, my God.
ROSE:
Can you guys hold up?
-JEANNIE: We have to
get to camp.
-GEOFF: Yeah. And if we don't
make this camp,
then every single day is
-further and further.
It adds on to each other.
-I know!
We're never gonna make
the summit in 14 days.
This is supposed to be easy.
-Imagine when we
-I know!
we're starting to use
the ice picks.
(exhale echoes)
JEANNIE: Come on, Bo.
Over 50 club, let's go.
Even though I'm 56,
I know that I can keep up with
all these young kids,
because at work
I do the same thing.
Just got out of work.
-I've got some mums.
-I work at Trader Joe's.
We have 18-year-olds,
and I work harder.
I hustle.
And they're like, "Damn,
this girl's a mom! She's 56.
She's doing this
better than me." (laughs)
Come on, guys, let's do this.
Everyone else did it,
we can do it.
I'm gonna conquer this.
I have to do what
it's gonna take to win,
because I'm a badass mom.
(Jeannie laughs)
It's slippery.
Just go slow, Nick.
-NICK: How do I catch up to you
if I go slow?
-(laughs)
I love that!
(wind whistling)
AMY
Oh, my God, it's a checkpoint.
(all shouting, cheering)
GEOFF: Hey, we sleeping good
tonight, y'all!
Come on!
MANU:
15 climbers, and nearly
$940,000 in cash have finally
reached their first
of nine checkpoint camps,
where they will find much needed
food and shelter
for the night ahead.
-THERRON: Someone kiss it!
-(all cheering)
MANU:
Initially strangers,
they now share a common goal:
to climb the mountain in 14 days
and claim their share
of the prize.
-PATI: Is that wine?
-JEANNIE: Oh, my God!
MANU:
But on this mountain,
things are never as simple
as they appear.
-(excited shouting)
-This is so good!
Oh, you're going wine.
I'm going wine.
I'm going fancy with it.
I'm starting to realize
that making checkpoints
is a massive advantage
in this competition
because everyone is
so much happier.
If we can continue
to make checkpoints,
it's gonna fix a lot
of our problems.
If you guys had to describe
today's challenge
in one word, what would it be?
Powerful.
Yeah, life-changing for me.
I'm not sure this is a word,
but family-esque.
(laughter)
Hey!
I can hear a celebration.
-Hey, Manu!
-Manu.
Well, congratulations.
You've reached your first
checkpoint camp.
ALL:
Yes!
(laughter)
-You're in my seat.
-(laughter)
Well, I can tell you right now,
even though you can
celebrate this moment
you're not moving fast enough.
You're falling behind
on reaching that summit.
I don't want to be the person
who ruins your celebration,
but these checkpoint camps
come at a cost.
Tonight, you're gonna get to
steal somebody's cash.
How you gonna do that?
You're gonna vote somebody
off this mountain.
Each of you needs to vote,
and the person with
the most votes will leave.
But they'll also leave
their cash behind.
And you're gonna divide that
between you evenly.
DENNIS:
Oh, hell yeah.
Coming into this game
I wanted to be strategic
from the start.
And now we have
the opportunity
to steal someone's money
by voting someone out.
People are upset,
but in the back
of everyone's head is:
"Money, money, money, money."
And no one wants to say it
but me.
It's a tough decision.
I'm gonna leave you to it.
BO:
Somebody's gonna be
getting eliminated.
I feel like I don't have
a fighting chance in hell
because if it's not me,
then who is it?
And I'm thinking that's it,
I'm out.
(wind whistling)
-So this is gonna happen
every checkpoint.
-Mm-hmm.
Someone has to go, by a vote.
Oh, God.
With Tony gone,
we've lost somebody already,
and we don't want to lose
anybody else.
Geez.
Every checkpoint comes
at a cost.
I feel wrong about that.
Whose money are we gonna steal?
The whole family/team aspect,
that goes out the window
so quickly.
So, listen, what do you think
about this?
-(sighs heavily)
-You know who we all have
in our heads.
Bo, right? Everybody, I think,
is on the same page.
Somebody's going home,
and right now the name
being floated around is Bo.
He is basically a risk,
because if he just quits,
we actually lose his money.
So we need to vote Bo out
tonight, before that happens.
I don't know.
BO: Yeah.
I'm vulnerable,
but it's not over.
Early in my coaching career,
we're down 29 to 8,
and I just tell 'em
keep fighting, keep fighting.
I tell you what, we won.
So now I'm thinking
what do I need to do
to adapt to this situation
and keep going further
in this game?
I got the fire to keep going.
SHWETA:
It's tough seeing Bo struggle.
I really don't know if he can
physically do it.
But the obvious choice is
not always the right choice.
Can we walk over here?
Like, would you rather
have somebody
who can't carry
their own weight,
or have somebody that's
bringing us all down?
Rose is bringing down the mood.
Bringing down the mood.
-ROSE: Bo should be the leader.
-I disagree with that.
-Why?
-Just pick.
Every time we catch up,
you guys head out again.
THERRON: No, we're stopping
to wait for you.
I think, right now,
there's two people,
and obviously
the first one is Bo.
-SHWETA: The second one
is Rose.
-The second one is Rose.
I see both sides.
I love Bo, but it would be smart
to get him out of this game.
But Rose has rubbed people
the wrong way.
I know Bo's not gonna quit.
Do we take that chance with Bo
and get rid of Rose?
She's really bossy,
and the moms,
I feel like, are gonna
stick together,
and that kind of scares me.
We don't know what Amy,
Jeannie, and Rose are thinking,
and that's what I'm scared of,
is an uncertainty
of where their head's at.
-(overlapping chatter)
-Hi.
What's the word over here?
I think so.
ROSE:
Why?
Who are you saying it as?
ROSE:
On one hand, we have
Bo-- slower, heart, integrity,
coach, who wants to be here,
but
I'm voting for Jennye.
She's charging so hard
up the mountain.
I think she is selfish.
She took off and left us.
Guys, we're not gonna
make it if we don't go.
(bleep)
Suck it up. I know it's hard.
(grunts)
ROSE:
If any one of them
would've broke a leg back there,
and everyone just kept running,
or anything.
PUNKIN:
Or fell down,
like Tony fell down.
ROSE:
I don't like being bullied.
ROBERT:
You are throwing out a name
that is somebody
who is up front trying to help,
keeping us going.
I get that. I get that.
ROBERT:
I don't think
that's the right choice
because, if we
don't get up there,
we don't get the money.
So, is the game plan we just
chuck people off the back
-and keep going?
-ROBERT: No. That's what
I said, it's not.
-I just said it's not.
-That's what it
kind of felt like.
The thing that, to me,
is we have one person
who I love very dearly
who we're carrying
the backpack of.
That is slowing
other people down.
I will carry his backpack
the whole way.
But that's gonna
wear you down and we're not
-gonna get up there.
-We're all here for a reason.
So what about my reason?
So my reason doesn't count?
-SHWETA: We didn't say that
your reason doesn't count.
-Okay.
This is what
I'm trying to find out.
Like, who are you voting then?
SHWETA:
I think that things are still
pretty up in the air,
to be honest with you.
You know they're
saying Rose's name.
-I know. I know.
-And it's the hardest thing
I know. Me, too.
Today's gonna be a tough one.
If I had my way,
I would vote off Bo.
But now,
they all threw Rose's name out,
and, as a mom, I can't do that.
This is so hard for me.
God.
(wind whistling)
THERRO:
We have to vote someone out.
We're all here,
so let's get started.
ROBERT:
It's not about
just cutting somebody,
it's what do we need
to make sure
we keep hitting checkpoints?
Bo, we love you.
People are carrying bags.
BO:
I know I still have
the fight in me.
$62,500.
You know, that amount of money
is a whole year's salary
for a teacher.
I still want to be here,
and I can improve.
AMY:
Are we just voting off
the slower players?
Because that very well
could be me.
I do feel it's a little ironic
that we just voted to save Bo.
Like, him and his money
would be gone,
and now, we can vote
and divide that money.
That's just, that just
seems hypocritical.
ROBERT:
The truth of the matter is,
Rose, your name has come up.
Because of, sometimes,
the way you've talked
to people and made them feel.
ROSE:
That's kind of a shock.
I'm a military spouse,
and that's just kind of how I'm
trained to communicate.
I never even considered
that my name
was gonna be brought up.
I wanted everybody to think
I was something I'm not,
but maybe I should have been
honest about
my military experience.
DUSTY:
There's a lot more to it,
I-I think you guys
would all agree,
than just getting checkpoints,
of course.
But personality-wise
and toxicity-wise,
anyone who can make
the person next to them better,
anyone who brings
the group's morale up
is A-OK in my book.
DENNIS:
Time's running out,
and there's a lot of emotions
being thrown out,
and, at some point,
we have to make a decision.
It's gonna be
a hard decision, guys.
Who wants to vote for Bo?
Please raise your hand.
Anyone that wants
to vote Rose out,
please raise their hand.
I will have to vote Rose.
Right back at you.
That way it gives it one-one
this way.
-I'm gonna vote for Rose.
-Who's voting for Rose?
Is that nine?
Am I counting right?
-Yeah.
-Mm-hmm.
-Okay.
-(crying)
ROSE:
I'm really disappointed.
(Amy crying)
ROSE:
I didn't want their fake hugs.
Do you want to get the knife
out of my back?
The mountain will show
people's true colors.
Stay true to who you are.
-So, we have the money
that we need to disperse.
-Rose's money.
-I love this.
-Grab two bundles, y'all.
SHWETA: I am not shocked
that Rose went home.
I am shocked
it wasn't unanimous.
-Just took too many.
-Pass it around.
Rose is gone, and we stole
that money from her.
I don't care about
your feelings out here.
We still have a lot more days
on this mountain,
and every day gets harder.
GEOFF:
It's not an easy thing.
MANU:
14 days.
I'm stressed out
because clock's ticking.
MANU:
$1 million.
And a high-altitude game.
(grunts)
Holy crap.
You can't see a thing.
MANU:
Along the way,
they'll confront decisions
that will test
their moral boundaries.
-(screams)
-Go get the bag!
AMY:
He's got two options,
and both of them are bad.
DENNIS:
To potentially make more money
in this game,
it's only gonna get me
to be more evil.
He couldn't handle
being man to man with me.
BECKYLEE:
We need you to be
fast and nimble.
Just let me do it.
MANU:
With an impossible choice
GEOFF:
When the last person
has crossed, then use this axe
to cut the support rope,
leaving that person behind,
along with their money.
(crying)
BECKYLEE:
This is so messed up.
MANU:
With eliminations
at every checkpoint
The most likeable people
are the scariest people.
-So, that's me.
-(laughs)
NICK:
You're putting a big target
on your back,
which is perfect for me.
Put your hand up.
What?
I'm trying to get the numbers,
and I cannot.
MANU:
Those who trust the wrong people
will pay the price.
Since I met you on day one,
you've never changed.
(chuckles)
The Korean cockroach
survived another day.
Remember, who's got your back,
and who's got a knife
at your back.
So you were gunning for me.
I wasn't gunning for you.
SHWETA:
Last night, I ran that vote.
I don't like anybody questioning
my judgment or my character.
MANU:
Those who don't think
they can
You guys, I can't.
MANU:
will be pushed
(screams)
(grunting)
-Don't let go.
-I can't.
JEANNIE:
Please, God.
I have to keep doing
this stupid (bleep).
MANU:
Those who think they can
(screams)
MANU:
may have met their match.
PUNKIN:
The mountain's keeper!
-Here. I'm right here.
-(screams)
-Jump, jump!
-(crying out)
Oh, my God.
MANU:
All the way to the top
Whoo! I did it.
-You made it!
-Good job, Amy!
I'm so proud of myself.
I feel like a superhero.
MANU:
of the summit.
Let's go!
-Oh, my God. (screams)
-One more push.
The normal rules do not
apply out here on this mountain.
-(screaming)
-NICK: Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
If you don't get
to the top in time
(grunts)
(bleep)
MANU:
you're gonna have
carried all of your cash
for nothing.
I know, I know, I know, I know.
I'm sorry.
(screams)
(wind whistling)
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