American Grit (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Double Time - full transcript
WWE Superstar John Cena and "The Cadre" reveal the next evolution that will test the competitor's survival skills, decision making and, their ability to work individually and as a team as they are challenged to build shelter, purify water and build a fire. The cadre will be forced to strategize how best to lead their team, because only one team will shine during the evolution and be safe from facing "The Circus". With up to a million dollars of prize money at stake, these competitors will work together with only two options: to persevere and win or give up, "ring out" and go home.
JOHN: Previously
on "American Grit"...
- Go!
- Let's go.
JOHN: In the last Evolution,
the teams, led by
our four military heroes,
had their powers
of observation tested.
Let's go,
Tony and Ivette.
JOHN: Tee put all of her faith
in her two
remaining team members
and they gave it
their best shot.
Come on, baby.
TEE: Right now we need this.
In this game,
second means nothing.
JOHN: But Team Noah
could not be stopped.
Well-oiled machine indeed.
JOHN: And they made Noah proud
with a win
for the fourth time in a row.
Yeah!
(cheering)
- Team Noah again!
JOHN: Back at base camp,
frustrations mounted
and the other teams
turned on Team Noah.
They're hanging out
in a hot tub.
It's time to start
playing dirty.
JOHN: While Maria's
constant conflict
started to wear
on her team.
She faced the Circus
against Marine daughter Haze,
and equestrian Ivette,
who were determined
to hold on.
Hug it like
you're hugging your kids.
In the end, Maria lost her grip
on the $250,000 prize.
There we have it.
Tonight, will Team Noah
be able to keep
their winning streak going?
♪ ♪
NOAH: Team Noah's
going strong.
We're on top.
The other teams have
a lot to worry about.
And we're off.
And how can
the rest of the teams
deal with such
a dominant force?
TEE: There are just two people
left remaining on your team.
Your back
is against the wall.
This is where you prove
that you have American grit.
NICK: I'm sick and tired
of losing.
I told my team that you're
not coming back
unless you either have a win
or in a body bag.
JOHN: Who will be
the next contestant
to give up, ring out--
(bell rings)
And go home
on "American Grit"?
(dramatic percussive music)
MAN:
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
♪ Whoa-oh-oh
♪ All alone now
♪ We in the fire
♪ Gonna burn it down
♪ Get out alive
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
KJOY: Do you guys feel stronger
or weaker without Maria?
We'll find out tomorrow,
I think.
GOLDIE: That was
a very mature answer, Cam.
I'm proud of you.
We don't need that (bleep)--
I'm just kidding.
You know, you never want
to lose a teammate,
but we all kind of looked
at each other and said,
"We're okay with this."
You will be surprised
how closer your team gets
when you start
losing members.
I believe we will.
We're KJoy's
boy toys now.
Yeah!
I love me some of my boys.
♪ ♪
JOHN: Competitors, it's another
brisk and beautiful day
in the Pacific Northwest.
Evolution day.
I already told you guys,
I'm fired up.
Survival is the key
to today's Evolution.
We are fortunate enough to be
in great company of our cadre,
but also fortunate enough
to actually be standing
on a survival skill
training ground
for US troops
during World War II,
and it is here
that we will prove
whose team survival skills
are the best.
On the sound of the horn,
you guys will race to get
materials to build shelter.
Come back here
and build shelter.
Then you will race to get
materials to purify water.
Then you'll come back
and purify water.
Then you'll race to find
materials to make a fire,
and come back
and build fire.
Sounds simple, right?
We thought so too,
so here comes the curveball.
On your journey,
there are some materials
that you can choose
that are closer.
But they make the task
harder to complete
once you get back here.
There's also the choice
of going the longer distance,
and it will make that task
a whole lot easier.
You won't know just how easy
the farther task will be
or how hard
the closer task will be,
so it's up to you
to weigh your options
and make that call
in the moment.
The team who builds shelter,
purifies water,
makes fire first,
wins the Evolution.
Oh, one more thing.
So a lot of times
in the US military,
you're not allowed
to pick your own job.
That's the same case here.
Each of you has been
randomly selected for a task.
The team can give advice,
but only the person chosen
for the job can do the job.
Cadre, it is now time
to get with your teams
and form a game plan.
What do you guys think
about going the longer route?
Look, Team Noah has won
four Evolutions in a row.
Enough.
It's time for someone
to knock him down.
We've done really well
with taking the time
and making it work for us.
The rest of the competitors
here would love to see us fail,
but we've got two people
that live in the outdoors.
This could be
a really good Evolution for us.
We know what our legs
bring to the table.
- Well, our speed is--
- So we got to bring that speed.
Is our advantage.
Today's Evolution is gonna
be a lot of endurance,
so today I'ma need Ivette
to kind of keep the pace
and push Tony to his limits.
Going the furthest route's
the best way to go first.
CAM: I agree.
We've been coming
in second place too long now,
and I think the reason
why we were
in second place most of the
time is because we had Maria.
ALL: Reaper!
All righty, this Evolution
will not only test
your strength and endurance.
It will test
your decision making
and your ability to work
as an individual
as well as part of a team.
Three, two, one, go.
(air horn blares)
WOMAN: Go, go, go.
MAN: Get it.
Get it.
- Come on, Lisa.
- Watch your step.
WOMAN: Don't mind them.
WOMAN: Let's go.
Pick it up.
- Let's go, Red.
- Good job, Goldie.
HAZE: Come on, girl.
JOHN: The teams must run
a quarter of a mile
to a fork in the trail.
Here, they may choose
a route on the left
for a further, easier task
or a route on the right
for a closer, harder task.
Come on, come on,
come on, come on.
This is further.
JOHN: All teams are headed
to the furthest shelter.
Each competitor has been
allocated a job.
Come on, Lisa.
JOHN: Remember, only the
competitor chosen for the job
can do that job.
CAM: Right here,
K, come on.
Come on, K.
Grab the end, let's go.
CLARE: It was quite crowded
when we got there.
I just really want us
to grab and go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Bring it back.
Tony!
TONY: Right behind you.
Everybody chose
the same strategy.
Catch her.
Right there.
Right there.
Come on, Lisa.
Come on.
JOHN: The teams are close
to base camp
but it's Team Tee
arriving first.
TEE: Let's go.
Pick it up, Ivette.
JOHN: Each team can use
two competitors
to construct the shelter.
After that, it will be
one team member per task.
Let's go.
Get over here, so--let's go.
And let's start building.
Open.
Good job.
Good job.
Let's build right here.
JOHN: Here come
the rest of them.
Bringing up the rear,
Team Nick.
Everybody arriving
with shelter.
Let's get started.
Let's get started.
Come on, KJoy, let's go.
We need three stakes,
one tent pole,
one guideline,
one mallet.
We got the stakes.
Let's start putting the stakes
in the ground.
We know the stakes are gonna be
in a triangle.
We put the tent pole in first.
Then we put the stake
down here.
Let's stand this up
in the middle
so we know how hard
to pull it.
Get it in, Tony.
Do the triangle pole.
- Right here.
- See that?
- See that mid-piece?
- Look at this.
Team Nick closing the gap.
Seems to be some construction
going on here in Camp Tee.
- Put that there.
- Put it in in here?
- Is that good?
- Are we good?
JOHN: Team Nick,
you are good to go.
Let's go.
Let's pick it up.
Team Nick,
they've made shelter.
They're off to get water.
KJOY: Nice job, Jim.
CAM: Go, go, go.
NICK: Come on, guys.
Suck it up.
You know
how bad we need it.
I told my guys
to go long on the water.
It's a risk
but we are ahead right now,
and even if the other teams
do catch up,
our task
should be a bit easier.
Yeah, that's just
where you need to be.
You--
You good?
Lot of confusion going on.
You're not supposed
to be through there.
There's no way
that's where that's going.
Yeah.
JOHN: Team Tee's shelter's
looking good.
- You're good to go, guys.
- We good. Let's go.
- Go go go go go go go.
- Run.
Team Tee second out.
TEE: Pick it up.
Pick it up.
CAM: We going left?
Jim?
- Left?
- Yeah.
Long strides.
JOHN: You got the advantage,
you're still taking
the longer path.
- Still taking long.
- Cam's carrying the water back.
Get it started.
JOHN: Team Rorke's shelter
is complete.
Good, let's go.
Let's go.
Go, go.
Go, go, go, go.
- We can go.
- Go, go, go, go, go.
Team Noah's out.
And in last place.
We haven't said that too often.
IVETTE: Pick it up, Tony.
Pick it up.
Easier, easier.
We're going to the right.
Going to the right.
- No, we--
- We're going to get short.
We're going short so hopefully
we can gain some time
on the next one.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Come on, Goldie.
RORKE: I've asked Goldie
to go long on water.
My gut tells me
that will pay dividends.
HAZE: We get to the fork
in the road.
It's Goldie's mission.
I turn to her and say,
"Goldie, short or long?"
And she says, "Short."
Come on, come on.
Accelerate through the turn.
♪ ♪
"You will need
the following items:
"five gallons
dirty drinking water,
"one quart container,
"and a handful of sand
"and a handful of pebbles,
handful of charcoal."
Use your sock.
- Okay.
- Take off your sock.
Come on, Goldie.
Charcoal--
pour 'em out!
- Come on, quick.
- Okay.
- Charcoal.
- We come up to this water,
and it's a five-gallon jug,
a sign that says you've got
to take off your dirty sock
and stuff it full of rocks.
Just a handful.
All you need is a handful.
And it just--
it looks miserable.
Long strides.
Stretch it out.
We win.
CAM: Running to the water
the long way,
it was a really far distance.
Come on, guys.
And I know KJoy was struggling
and I kind of said to myself,
"Uh-oh, did we make
the right choice?"
- Go.
- Let's go.
Look, it says charcoal.
Sand, pebbles.
DAVID: It's a bit of a hustle
and bustle going on.
Everyone's trying to figure out
what they need to do,
and Mark gets going
on what he needs to do.
Grab that water
and get out of there.
DAVID: I am so thrilled
that we have the strength
of Mark the ox
to carry that five-gallon
water jug back to base camp.
(panting)
Come on, Goldie.
It won't last forever.
Come on, use that handle.
HAZE: There you go.
- Good.
IVETTE: Come on, Tony.
Tony, come on.
Tony, come on.
A five gallon water jug
is really heavy,
and it is very hard--
it's very hard
to not be able to help.
Hold it behind your back.
Try this here.
Keep your chest up.
Yep, two hands.
Good, pick your chest up.
Good.
HAZE: Goldie's losing steam,
and she's just falling behind
and it's starting to become just
a shuffle rather than a run.
Come on, Blue.
Come on.
Hey, no, no, no, no.
Come on, let's just keep moving.
- It's not that easy.
- Just keep inching forward.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
JOHN: Today's
fire-water-shelter Evolution
is in full swing.
After completing
the shelter task,
all teams are en route back
to base camp to purify water.
Team Nick were the only team
to go long
with their easier water task.
♪ ♪
Goldie from Team Rorke
was allocated the water task
and is struggling.
Keep moving.
Let's keep moving.
Inching forward.
Inching forward.
Good.
HAZE: Okay, we need
to push ourselves
and we're pushing ourselves.
GOLDIE: I have to carry
this huge five-gallon
container of water
back to base camp.
We're in last place,
but we still feel like we got
a shot in this game.
NOAH: Look at this.
The big man,
doing big man stuff.
- Pick it up, Tony, pick it up!
- Come on, Lisa.
MARK: We're second or third
to take off,
but luckily we got in front
and we got--
we were the very first team
to get back here
for the second challenge.
- I just did--
- Where's Red?
Have they showed up again?
MARK: No, not yet.
Team Noah chose
the shorter route.
Let's see if it pays off.
They're gonna have to do
more work.
Purifying the water through
sand, rocks, and charcoal
is a slow and tedious process.
LISA: Put the sock filter
into the bottle.
Drape it over the side.
We're gonna pour
the dirty water through
and that goes in the end.
You got it.
NOAH: This is very similar
to what us in the infantry
would do.
It's all about surviving
in the wilderness.
Tomorrow, in Circus day,
we're going to be home
chilling in the Jacuzzi.
Here comes Ivette.
Here comes Tony.
Come on, I can't have you go
to the Circus. Come on.
TEE: Stop talking and run.
Tony, Ivette.
Here they are.
- I can't touch it. Oh, my God.
- Open it.
Where's the funnel?
Went shorter but seem to be
a little tired.
Hey, Red.
Hurry up.
I don't care
if you pass out.
Let's go.
JOHN: And now the longer route.
Give it all you got, K.
Water purification,
only so many ways
you can do it.
I think we're gonna be way
faster (indistinct)..
How much do we have to make?
Once you fill the quart
container to the line.
MARK: Where's the line?
It's on the very top.
There's a lot to fill.
Team Nick
took the longer route.
They don't have the sock
and rocks to purify through.
I believe it's as simple
as pouring it into the jug.
Next step.
CAM: Once you
fill your pour tank,
this has to be
considered complete.
Okay.
We're good?
- Yeah.
- All right, let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Wow.
Cam, what do you think?
Short, long?
- Short, short.
- Let's go.
Hurry up.
JOHN: Team Noah is losing
the lead to Team Nick.
Is today the day that they will
lose their crown?
Team Rorke
still on their way in.
- Breathe.
- Come on.
Come on, Goldie.
We just got to go left up here
and we're almost done.
- Almost done.
- Almost done.
(panting)
Hold it with two hands
like a baby.
Come on, Blue.
Come on.
Dude, do not tell me
they went short.
If my team went--
I think they went short.
If they did, we're done.
Man, the seconds must feel
like minutes at this point.
- All right.
- Are we done?
JOHN: Team Noah close.
They're out.
- Are we good?
- Let's go.
JOHN: Team Noah out.
NOAH: We decided to go with the
further distance on the fire.
My team has the endurance
so they can make it,
and I'm hoping
that getting back
in that easier starting
of the fire
will help us win this.
- Almost there, baby.
Almost there.
- Boom. Stop.
- Team Tee out.
TEE: Run, Tony, run.
JOHN: Team Rorke in,
and it seems as if they've
chosen the most difficult.
Why did we--
why did we change?
Why did we go short?
All we had to do
was pour water in.
They left four minutes early
because of it.
We--we made the call
to go short.
Yep.
JOHN: Rorke, I've seen that
stare before from my own father,
when I trashed
his Mickey Mantle autograph.
RORKE: I haven't been I think
sincerely upset
in this game yet.
I mean,
I'm absolutely livid hot.
It robs me of my ability,
I think,
to help mentor
and guide the team.
What does it say?
Just take it
and read directions later.
Let's go.
Oh, boy.
"Build fire.
First team."
JOHN: Team Nick are
on their way back to camp
after retrieving
the short distance fire.
Come on.
JOHN: Team Noah have chosen
the longer route.
You got it.
JOHN: And as we saw
with the water,
that easier task
has huge benefits.
My team is so strong,
and right now,
I just feel like I'm kind of
slowing it--the team down
to keep pace
with everybody else.
MAN: Come on, Lisa.
Come on.
Breathe, Tony.
Tony's always been a little bit
hesitant in the run department,
and he's never really lived
up to the expectations
that I kind of had for him.
Tony!
Get your ass!
Come on, let's go.
(coughs)
Get up.
Get up.
Come on!
TONY: She picked me up and
started pulling me,
and I was just like--
I just couldn't breathe anymore.
Slow, slow.
Right there.
HAZE: That's how you do it.
That's how you do it.
We should have stuck
with the plan.
We'd be in second place
right now.
Let's go, Red!
JOHN: So now the foot race
is on.
Team Noah going
for five wins in a row.
Team Nick hoping
to be the first
to knock them
off their perch.
But they went the shortest
distance for fire,
so this is gonna be
a harder task.
Hurry up!
Team Tee, let's go.
JOHN: Team Rorke languishing
in last place.
You're doing great, Goldie.
♪ ♪
Hey!
Hurry up.
- Hurry up!
- Is that Team Nick?
I think I hear Team Nick.
Let's go.
Come on, KJoy.
Suck it up.
And I have--I have
Team Nick here.
- Come on, baby, let's go.
- Are they in?
No, no one's in yet.
Come on, hurry up.
Come on, hurry up.
Don't stop running now, Jim.
Let's go.
Put that--give me instructions.
Okay, it's time
to make some fire.
Take the dry bag
containing the items
back to the camp site.
Start a fire.
Build a fire high enough
to burn the fuse.
Starting a fire is not that hard
if you know what you're doing.
I knew this is
right up my alley.
This is something that we've
trained on in the military,
I think every branch
has trained on,
but the special operations
kind of harp on it
in a different--different way.
- Good, good, good.
- We're good.
We're good.
We're good.
- Team Rorke, out.
- Let's go long.
- Come on.
- You good?
HAZE: Hustle.
Put the wheels on, Goldie.
We got to do this.
Jim, you're good.
Noah's not.
- You're good.
- Use a striker.
Slow and smooth.
Hard strokes.
Right in there.
Like this, Jim.
Like this.
Like that.
Strike it hard.
- Like that.
- Yeah! Yeah!
CAM: Keep going, keep going,
keep going.
The difference between winning
and losing this Evolution
will be the ability of Jim
to build fire,
and with only a flint and some
wood scraps in this cold weather
it's going to be tough.
Team Noah are known
for their comebacks,
and let me
tell you something,
they are coming back.
Lot of friction.
Lot of--hard.
- Harder.
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Here we go. Here we go.
- Yes. Yes.
- Just like that--don't stop.
- I saw some. I saw some.
Come on.
Ton, seriously?
Tony,
I'll (bleep) drag you again.
Come on.
- You want that--
- Come on Jim.
Keep--here we go.
Slowly, slowly.
Stack.
Slowly stack.
JOHN: You've got fire.
Now it just needs to be
big enough to light the fuse.
NOAH: It's down to the wire.
Team Nick has their fire going
but they haven't burned
through that rope yet.
I'm just looking out,
waiting for--
to see a sign of my team.
They can get here,
Clare can get this fire going
in seconds,
and we can pull off
a photo finish.
Come on, y'all.
I hear some people.
Here comes Green.
JIM: Come on, come on, come on.
Here we go.
Here we go.
CAM: Come on, Jim.
JOHN: The difference between
winning and losing
this Evolution
will be the ability of Jim
to build fire.
- Yeah!
- There you go.
NICK: Slowly, slowly, stack.
Slowly stack. Slowly stack.
Slowly stack.
JOHN: Fire needs to be
big enough to light that fuse.
There we are.
Last lap.
Pick it up.
You should start right here
on this side.
You realize that?
There you go.
CAM: We got this, Jim.
JOHN: Team Noah and Team Tee
are in hot pursuit
with the easier fire task.
This is down to the wire.
You got
a little something going.
You're gonna need
a little more.
KJOY: You're still good, Jim.
You're still in the clear.
JOHN: Other teams have matches
and faster-burning fuel.
They can make fire
in no time.
I am a fire starter!
Yeah!
I hear some people.
Here comes Green.
JOHN: Team Noah
are back to base camp.
They better be quick.
Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah!
Aah!
JOHN: It's over.
It is over!
(cheering)
It is a go.
Team Nick
has won the Evolution.
♪ ♪
JIM: You know what?
With great battles
come great victories,
and Noah's team
is more than formidable.
It just makes it
so much sweeter a victory.
- Excellent!
- I am a fire starter!
Flares and celebrations
for all!
This might be the beginning
of the Team Red era.
We took down Green.
Let's just keep it rolling.
NICK: I'm really proud
of my team.
This is actually the first job
that they got on target.
Now we just have to repeat it,
do it again.
JOHN: Nick, the sweet taste of
victory for you and your team.
Congratulations.
You've won the Evolution.
You're safe
from the Circus.
(applause)
Whoo!
Team Noah, your first taste
of defeat,
and now along with that,
a very difficult decision
awaits,
as Noah, Rorke,
you must choose a member
of your team to face the Circus,
and Noah, you must do this
for the first time.
Tee, we already know
that Tony is going to go,
because Ivette
went to the Circus last week.
Team Nick, I get
to hang out with you guys.
Looking forward to it.
JOHN: And I am very excited.
Everybody,
head back to base camp
as Noah and Rorke,
they've got
some picking to do.
RORKE: Now my fear is that
the team is going
to start breaking down
because we have back to back
to back last place.
I mean, not only
are we not winning
to give ourselves immunity
and take a break,
we are coming
in last place.
Dead last.
(dramatic music)
- All right.
- Going in.
- Home sweet home.
- Home sweet home.
CAM: We are the ones to finally
topple over Team Noah,
and what a feeling that is.
HAZE: I'm so mad.
Team Rorke's going back
to Circus again.
It'd just be nice
not to go once.
Just once.
I was just like,
"I'm sorry, Dad."
I don't want to cry
over this.
I don't think
you disappointed him.
Oh, no, I think we did,
'cause we didn't--
he was like,
"Why didn't you listen to me?"
I need to stop crying
over it.
- It's so (bleep) stupid.
- And you will.
Honestly, we've done
so many things wrong
during Evolution, like--
HAZE: It's just nice
to have somebody
to take your mind off of things
for a little bit.
I mean, he really, like--
he is a happy person,
and that's just, like--
having that positive energy
around me,
he's always smiling.
He's always got
his little Cam smile,
and I don't know, I feel
like I'm blushing right now.
(laughs)
(exhales sharply)
I always mess up in matches,
and like, there's been times
where I mess up so bad,
and it just like,
throws off the--
and I just, like,
I throw it out the window,
you know what I mean?
It can't be like that.
You're so cute.
Yeah?
- Yeah, you made me better.
- Okay.
- I'm gonna stop crying now.
All right.
♪ ♪
GOLDIE: So let's call
a spade a spade.
The best that I could give
was putting one foot
in front of the other.
But the fact
that you walked--
that's where--in the first run,
that's where to me,
I was like,
"What's happening here?"
Like, you quit
in the beginning.
I didn't quit.
That's the way it seemed,
because you were walking.
I'm a grown-ass woman.
I don't have to lie to you.
If I'm telling you
I gave you 100%,
that's what I gave you.
Is it more beneficial for me
to slow down a little bit
'cause I can't breathe--
or is it okay--
I'm telling you,
if you can still see straight--
But can I finish saying
what I'm saying?
Absolutely.
Today, we feel--I feel
that she didn't give her all,
and I expressed that.
Or would it be
more beneficial for me
to pass out on the course--
Yes. And that's my answer
right there.
Or fall down on the course?
That's what we also--
we do if we came here.
But we want to be
feeling like we--
I feel like
I did nothing all.
I feel like this is
an attack Goldie session,
that's what the (bleep)
I feel like right now.
When I compete, I'd rather have
a medic drag me out.
Okay, well, that's you.
All right, well, then that's
what I want on my team.
Ugh.
And when are we gonna Evolve?
Oh, you still--
why are you yelling?
I'm not yelling.
Oh, you're not yelling.
You know,
she took it personally,
and one thing we said
in the beginning
was we're not going
to take anything personally,
and we're here to compete.
So if we stayed at
the same level, can you lower?
(bleep),
I'm not gonna do this.
All right.
(slams door)
I slam doors to keep
from slamming my fist
in somebody face.
Is this when the bell rings?
Like...
♪ ♪
(uplifting music)
- Oh!
- Oh!
Is that cold beer?
JOHN: We have some beers,
we got wine.
This is what an off day
looks like.
This food had just got here.
It's hot, it's ready.
MAN: Awesome.
JOHN: You guys sit down.
I'll bring these around.
Five star. Mount Rainier
in the background.
Yeah?
Not too bad, right?
The service sucks, though.
(laughter)
- 21st birthday?
- Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna need
to check your ID.
I grew up watching John Cena
every week on TV.
To sit down and have a beer
with John Cena
was like a dream come true.
JOHN: Congratulations
to you guys.
You guys call it.
To Team Reaper's first win
out of many, all right?
- Yeah.
- All right.
ALL: One, two, three, Reaper.
To Team Reaper.
CAM: I am a fire starter!
NICK: Dude.
John Cena's best friend.
John Cena's best friend.
♪ ♪
Look, I'm never gonna
beat you up
or take somebody's head off
for changing the plan,
but something's wrong
with the team.
I mean, it's a different feeling
right now.
What's going on?
I could just sense a tension
that was way beyond,
"Hey, we lost a challenge."
There was something else
going on here.
He does not have the right
to tell me
whether I did or did not
give 100%.
He don't feed me,
he don't fund me,
and it's another "F"
that I'ma leave off.
RORKE: Goldie's been
disrespected.
If we didn't address that,
there would be no point
in me teaching anything else.
I think you're just here
to push yourself
as far as you can go
and that's honorable in itself.
You can appreciate that saying,
you know,
I think you're just here
to kind of test yourself,
pretty disrespectful,
and out of my last assault team
with 20 people,
there were about three guys
I couldn't stand.
I would never want to see them
other than work.
One was, you know, a medic
but if I got shot
and started leaking,
I would want that medic
patching me up
quicker than any human alive,
'cause he excels
at that job.
I just want to make sure
we have a team
that can move forward together.
There's deeper things for you
and for me while we're here.
Right?
You hear me,
and I respect your why.
And I respect yours, too.
So let's just do this as a team.
Let's test yourself.
All right.
I'm sorry.
I love you, Mario.
♪ ♪
- Sir.
- Thank you.
NOAH: I don't think there's
any easy way
to send somebody
to the Circus.
There's always that possibility
that when somebody goes
to the Circus,
they may not return.
What's on your mind, Mark?
He's just been staring
at the fire.
He's out.
You know, everyone perceives
strength and weakness as
the best and the worst,
and that's not what strength
and weakness is.
Weakness is giving up
on yourself.
The strength is
pushing yourself,
doing the best you can.
That's all you can ask for.
As far as the Circus goes,
that's a brand new experience,
but you know,
I do feel nervous.
I'm excited
because I hope
there's elephants, giraffes,
and a trapeze act.
What drives you, Clare?
Um, I'm not a natural athlete.
I really have to work hard
to be an athlete.
I mean, running does not
come to me easily,
but darn straight,
I was gonna look like the
strongest runner yesterday,
you know?
You can't give in to
those doubts in your mind.
You have to push them
out of your mind and say,
"This might hurt,
but I can do it."
I've weighed out a whole bunch
of different things,
and I don't think I will
officially know
until I have to say
who it is.
You know, the Circus has been
a big fear for me,
and it's just new for me
to wrap my brain around.
You know, all of the sport
things that I have done
have just been personal goals
and for fun.
Right.
Like, the last marathon I ran,
the goal was to finish
the marathon.
I wasn't running for speed.
I told you, I got beat
by a person with one leg.
Like it's so bad.
(laughter)
When I think about the fact
that I have to send one person
to the Circus
and they may not come back,
uh, that's stressful.
I got to think about it.
First time I've had to do it.
♪ ♪
JOHN: Good evening, everybody.
We are here once again
at the Circus.
Noah, for four weeks,
your team has avoided
this moment.
Four weeks they've had
their safety.
Team Noah,
welcome to the Circus.
Tee, because you're down
to only two team members,
and Ivette faced the Circus
last week,
Tony, you will have to face
the Circus.
Please go stand by Tee.
Come on.
You got this.
Rorke.
I know how tough Tony is
in the fight,
so my choice for this round....
is my man Mario.
Yes, finally.
All right, bud.
JOHN: Noah.
I'm sending to our first Circus
without a doubt,
the glue that is
holding my team together.
I'm sending...
Lisa.
I chose Lisa
because Lisa has heart,
and what I'm working on
with Lisa
is tapping into
that inner strength.
I think once we find it,
she will be unbreakable.
Lisa, your thoughts on
facing the Circus.
I feel like a lot of times,
I might think that people
are underestimating me,
but that's not really the case.
Honestly,
I underestimate myself.
Nobody on my team
ever speaks badly of me.
I do.
NOAH: Lisa is much stronger
than she allows herself
to realize
and this is going
to test her.
She will come back
to the Green Team
stronger than ever.
Lisa, Tony, Mario,
as invincible as you think
you all are,
one of you tomorrow
will give up.
One of you tomorrow
will ring out.
One of you tomorrow
will go home.
(bell rings)
Head back to base camp,
get your rest,
because you are going
to need it.
Thank you.
♪ ♪
Knocky knocky.
- Guess who.
- Girls of the grit.
LISA: The girls of the grit
who faced the Circus,
they kind of came in
and they were cheering me up.
You're gonna
come back stronger.
You're going in there
for Lisa.
KJOY: So the minute that you
start to think in your head,
"Oh, my gosh,
this is impossible,"
put it in a bubble
and send it away.
Don't even let it
come into your head.
Especially it's the fifth week
into it
and you're, like, just going
into it for the first time.
GOLDIE: Remember your kids.
LISA: Girls of the grit made me
feel so beautiful today.
ALL: Girls of the grit!
Whoo! Girls of the grit!
Whoop whoop!
LISA: I just, I mean,
I really want to be strong.
I really want to be
a stronger person.
I really want to do well
for the team.
I don't want to be
the weakest link.
♪ ♪
JOHN: You seemed
extremely excited
when chosen to face the Circus
yesterday.
Do you think you are
underestimating the Circus?
That's where you give it all,
and that's where you back
everything that was said.
I don't quit.
Why?
A big part of it
has to do with my mom.
Being a single parent
and having to work multiple jobs
just to put food on the table,
and she'd come home
and see three kids.
That's what I came here for.
If I really, really want
to make an impact,
I think the best way for me to
do it is to work with children.
Children are sponges,
and if they learn something
positive from day one,
if you teach them
to be dedicated,
so if I can instill that
in the youth, it'll to me--
I mean, maybe I won't
change the world
but I can change
individuals' worlds.
Mario's perspective on life
as a 24-year-old man
is years beyond
where he should be.
He's already looking
to give back to the community.
Having that foresight,
maybe he has the same foresight
to the competition.
- Oh, God.
- Oh, my God.
This is how I warm up
for competition.
Too much.
When your will is about
to be broken, what drives you?
I'm not gonna lie.
I'm not gonna go in
and say that I'm not scared,
but I also know
that I've been
through a lot of crap
in my life.
I watched both parents die,
and anything in my life
is gonna be harder
than muscle fatigue.
I'm gonna think
of the marathon that I ran.
I was at the bottom
of the hill,
and I was looking up
at the top of the hill,
and nothing--nothing
could get me through it,
and there was a Marine,
and I had on my shirt my name,
and then I had "For Dad."
He said,
"Lisa, I see you, Lisa,
"and I see that you're running
for your dad.
And he sees you, too."
And then all of a sudden
I just--
I had this burst of energy
and I made it over the hill.
I desperately want you to see
that soldier on the hill today.
I do, too.
So you give 'em hell
out there, okay?
Thank you.
JOHN: Lisa feels she's
outgunned and she's not.
She has a very tough road
ahead of her,
but this competition
is about people traveling
down difficult roads.
(bleep)!
Ah!
(laughing)
(laughter)
Team Noah.
Welcome to your first Circus,
and to the competitors.
Today, facing the Circus
you know your very life
in this competition
hangs in the balance.
After you've finished
with the obstacle portion,
you will land
on the endurance platform,
but please, do not take the
obstacle portion for granted.
If you finish first,
you will have a major advantage.
Today's test is called
"Double Time."
I will blow a horn,
and the timer will start.
You'll run down your lane
to a log.
Touch that log, run back
up your lane within 20 seconds.
Eventually, through the test
you'll have less time
to accomplish this goal,
so as you become
more exhausted,
we will demand that you work
harder back and forth.
Back and forth.
Until one competitor
can no longer go.
They can either no longer re-set
their timer and it runs to zero,
or they can physically
no longer compete.
They will give up.
They will ring out.
They will go home.
Ladies and gentlemen,
simply put, we're gonna run.
TEE: Running has never been
a strong point for Tony,
so I'm worried about,
is he gonna be able
to go the distance?
Competitors, get to
your starting positions.
(applause)
NOAH: Just like
in the military,
a lot of people
go into it
not sure
if they can handle it,
and they come out stronger
on the other side.
And that's what I want to see
for Lisa.
RORKE: He needs to get
to that platform first
and give yourself
full advantage.
Mario's a strong competitor.
This would be a tremendous blow
to not get him back.
(cheering and applause)
Tony, let's go, get it!
Let's go, Tony!
- Keep working, Lisa!
- Tony!
Competitors, the Circus
will push you to the limits.
Here's where you prove
your American grit.
All we ask is all you got.
GOLDIE: Here we go, Mario.
MAN: Let's go Lisa.
JOHN: Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
(cheering)
First to the climbing wall
is Mario,
Tony a close second,
Lisa holding her own early on.
(applause)
Mario absolutely flew
up those ropes.
Good job, Mario.
Let's go, Tony.
- Pick it up.
- Good job, Lisa.
JOHN: But it still wasn't fast
enough to shake Tony,
who was right on his heels.
- Mario, Mario!
- Let's go, Lisa!
JOHN: Lisa needs to dig deep
to stay in the picture.
All right, Lisa.
JOHN: On to
the Giant's Ladder now.
NOAH: All right, Lisa,
you're good.
I'll see you down there,
Mario.
JOHN: Mario's like Spider-Man
on this thing.
He's getting away
from Tony.
Lisa with a lot
of work to do.
Mario, a little shaky
on the beam.
- All right, Lisa!
- Let's go, Lisa.
Let's go, Lisa.
You are doing fantastic.
Raleigh and Henry are gonna be
so proud of you.
Mario, Mario, Mario!
JOHN: Tony's catching up.
But catching his breath
as well.
(whispering)
Okay.
Mario's killing this.
BOTH: Mario! Mario!
JOHN: Lisa, no fear.
She's still in this.
Mario's first
to the cargo net.
Rorke's got to be proud.
- Mario!
- You're killing it!
Tony is nowhere!
JOHN: Mario is really putting
everything into this.
Come on, Tony.
Bring it.
JOHN: Mario needs to hurry,
because here comes Tony.
All right, Mario.
JOHN: You got to
make it official.
Mario is the first to arrive
on the endurance platform.
Nice job.
Good job.
Careful now.
Let's go.
JOHN: Tony has arrived
on the platform second.
Lisa, still giving it all.
She's not a quitter.
She'll start first
in the sprinting
double-time endurance.
Let's go, Lisa.
Come on, Lisa.
Okay.
JOHN: Lisa has arrived
to the platform.
We'll get her test started
immediately.
NOAH: Tony looks tired.
Endurance running
isn't his thing.
Lisa's a marathon runner.
She can still pull this off.
At the ready.
Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
All right, push-ups.
For the first ten circuits
of double time,
the clock will be set
at 20 seconds.
After that,
there will be less time.
Good job. Good job.
JOHN: Okay, Tony.
Your double time will now begin.
The clock's still set
at 20 seconds.
(air horn blares)
All right, there you go.
There you go.
MAN: There you go, Lisa.
JOHN: Mario, you'll begin
in 12 seconds.
Good job.
Good job, Lisa.
JOHN: Okay, we now have three
competitors in the challenge.
Whoever cannot complete the
sprint within the time frame
or who gives up will be
the competitor to ring out.
(air horn blares)
- There you go. Good job.
- Let's go, Tony.
DAVID: Good job, Lisa.
Good job.
- Come on, you got this.
- Just like that.
You're doing awesome.
(air horn blares)
Good job.
JOHN: This is only
the first round.
20 seconds, but it's got to be
wearing 'em down.
(air horn blares)
(cheering)
(air horn blares)
Good job.
JOHN: Keep pushing.
No resting.
RORKE: Good job, Mario.
JOHN: Competitors, your time
will be shaved by five seconds.
You now have 15 seconds
to go back and forth.
- You got this.
- Come on, Lisa, focus.
- You got it, Lisa.
- Come on, Tony.
(air horn blares)
You got this, Mario.
MAN: Come on.
Push it, push it, push it.
WOMAN: I like it, I like it.
(air horn blares)
JOHN: Those legs will start
feeling tired now.
- Keep it going.
- Good job, Lisa.
(air horn blares)
- Hang close.
- Good job.
- Hang close.
- Nice and smooth.
(air horn blares)
WOMAN: Whoo!
JOHN: This endurance is on.
No one close to ringing out.
- Keep focused.
- Good job, good job.
All right, baby.
Bring it home.
MAN: There you go, Lisa.
(air horn blares)
- There you go!
TEE: Easy there, baby.
JOHN: Okay, let's crank it up.
- All day, all day.
Competitors, your time will now
be shaved to ten seconds.
MAN: Stay focused.
TEE: Get your rhythm.
Ten seconds.
Two, one, go.
(air horn blares)
- This is where you win.
-All right, Mario.
JOHN: Competitors, your time
will now be shaved
to ten seconds.
You only have
that short time
to run to the log and back.
Go!
(air horn blares)
Ten seconds, ten seconds.
MAN: You've got to move.
You've got to move.
You've got to move.
Come on, get up there.
Dig in for it.
JOHN: Three, two, one--
(air horn blares)
- Dig deep, dig deep.
- Go, go, go.
Come on, come on.
MAN: No resting
between turning back around.
Don't quit. Come on.
Two, one, go.
(air horn blares)
- Get to it, get to it.
- Do it, Lisa, do it, Lisa.
- Find it, find it, find it.
- Want it, Lisa.
Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig.
NOAH: Go, Lisa. Go.
TEE: Easy there, Tony.
We want it, Lisa.
We want it.
Two, one...
(air horn blares)
- Go, do it, Lisa. Do it.
- Hang in there, hang in there.
- Go, go, go, go.
- Come on, come on, come on.
Two, one.
(air horn blares)
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
- Down the hill fast.
- It's gotta be fast.
WOMAN: Let's go, Lisa.
JOHN: Come on, come on, come on.
- Come on, Lisa.
- Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Come on.
Four, three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
Go, go, go, go.
(cheering)
Push it, Lisa, push it!
♪ ♪
(beeps)
That's it, that's it.
Good job.
Good job.
Keep your head up.
Breathe. Breathe.
You did great, baby.
All right?
- Get up, baby.
- Walk it off, walk it off.
Good job, baby.
ALL: Lisa! Lisa!
Lisa! Lisa!
NOAH: Awesome.
That was so much work,
all right?
That was so much work,
all right?
I'm very proud of Lisa.
We hate to lose her,
but I think
she's going home
with her head
a little bit higher.
She was a critical part
of our team.
She was the heart,
she was the glue
holding us together,
and now we're gonna
have to adjust,
keep driving home,
and uh,
and make Lisa proud.
That was awesome.
All right?
DAVID: Lisa will
definitely be missed.
She talks about being
a Rocky for moms,
and she's gone out there today
and shown that,
and she shows it to us
every day.
She keeps us together
and she never complains,
and all those things are going
to be extremely missed.
Mario, Tony.
Congratulations.
You survived the Circus.
Please, go join your teams.
(applause)
Whoo, Mario!
Go, Mario.
Lisa.
- All we ask is all you got.
- Uh-huh.
You gave it all you had today.
I did.
Thank you.
Lisa, time to ring out.
Okay.
Thank you.
All of you,
thank you very much.
- Thank you.
Thank you for everything.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay.
We love you, Lisa.
- We love you, Lisa.
- We love you.
I'm done here at the Circus,
but I'm--I'm not done.
I'm not done with life.
Even when I fall,
I get back up.
There's a Chinese proverb
which is
"Fall down nine times,
get up ten."
I fell down.
I'm back up.
I wish that I didn't
run out of steam.
I wish I ran harder.
I wish that I could be here
with them till the end,
but I'm still proud
to be part of that team.
We're all proud of you.
JOHN: Next time.
Stay steady.
Come on, baby.
Ooh.
JOHN: Can Team Noah take back
their gritty crown?
So this where we go.
It's gonna be a game-changer
for "American Grit."
Up, down.
JOHN: Rorke's finally fed up
with his team.
ALL: One!
- Up!
BOTH: Six.
JOHN: And I join
the competition.
Who will be the next contestant
to give up...
Okay, we got ourselves a race.
Ring out, and go home
on "American Grit"?
Ready to rumble.
on "American Grit"...
- Go!
- Let's go.
JOHN: In the last Evolution,
the teams, led by
our four military heroes,
had their powers
of observation tested.
Let's go,
Tony and Ivette.
JOHN: Tee put all of her faith
in her two
remaining team members
and they gave it
their best shot.
Come on, baby.
TEE: Right now we need this.
In this game,
second means nothing.
JOHN: But Team Noah
could not be stopped.
Well-oiled machine indeed.
JOHN: And they made Noah proud
with a win
for the fourth time in a row.
Yeah!
(cheering)
- Team Noah again!
JOHN: Back at base camp,
frustrations mounted
and the other teams
turned on Team Noah.
They're hanging out
in a hot tub.
It's time to start
playing dirty.
JOHN: While Maria's
constant conflict
started to wear
on her team.
She faced the Circus
against Marine daughter Haze,
and equestrian Ivette,
who were determined
to hold on.
Hug it like
you're hugging your kids.
In the end, Maria lost her grip
on the $250,000 prize.
There we have it.
Tonight, will Team Noah
be able to keep
their winning streak going?
♪ ♪
NOAH: Team Noah's
going strong.
We're on top.
The other teams have
a lot to worry about.
And we're off.
And how can
the rest of the teams
deal with such
a dominant force?
TEE: There are just two people
left remaining on your team.
Your back
is against the wall.
This is where you prove
that you have American grit.
NICK: I'm sick and tired
of losing.
I told my team that you're
not coming back
unless you either have a win
or in a body bag.
JOHN: Who will be
the next contestant
to give up, ring out--
(bell rings)
And go home
on "American Grit"?
(dramatic percussive music)
MAN:
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
♪ Whoa-oh-oh
♪ All alone now
♪ We in the fire
♪ Gonna burn it down
♪ Get out alive
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
KJOY: Do you guys feel stronger
or weaker without Maria?
We'll find out tomorrow,
I think.
GOLDIE: That was
a very mature answer, Cam.
I'm proud of you.
We don't need that (bleep)--
I'm just kidding.
You know, you never want
to lose a teammate,
but we all kind of looked
at each other and said,
"We're okay with this."
You will be surprised
how closer your team gets
when you start
losing members.
I believe we will.
We're KJoy's
boy toys now.
Yeah!
I love me some of my boys.
♪ ♪
JOHN: Competitors, it's another
brisk and beautiful day
in the Pacific Northwest.
Evolution day.
I already told you guys,
I'm fired up.
Survival is the key
to today's Evolution.
We are fortunate enough to be
in great company of our cadre,
but also fortunate enough
to actually be standing
on a survival skill
training ground
for US troops
during World War II,
and it is here
that we will prove
whose team survival skills
are the best.
On the sound of the horn,
you guys will race to get
materials to build shelter.
Come back here
and build shelter.
Then you will race to get
materials to purify water.
Then you'll come back
and purify water.
Then you'll race to find
materials to make a fire,
and come back
and build fire.
Sounds simple, right?
We thought so too,
so here comes the curveball.
On your journey,
there are some materials
that you can choose
that are closer.
But they make the task
harder to complete
once you get back here.
There's also the choice
of going the longer distance,
and it will make that task
a whole lot easier.
You won't know just how easy
the farther task will be
or how hard
the closer task will be,
so it's up to you
to weigh your options
and make that call
in the moment.
The team who builds shelter,
purifies water,
makes fire first,
wins the Evolution.
Oh, one more thing.
So a lot of times
in the US military,
you're not allowed
to pick your own job.
That's the same case here.
Each of you has been
randomly selected for a task.
The team can give advice,
but only the person chosen
for the job can do the job.
Cadre, it is now time
to get with your teams
and form a game plan.
What do you guys think
about going the longer route?
Look, Team Noah has won
four Evolutions in a row.
Enough.
It's time for someone
to knock him down.
We've done really well
with taking the time
and making it work for us.
The rest of the competitors
here would love to see us fail,
but we've got two people
that live in the outdoors.
This could be
a really good Evolution for us.
We know what our legs
bring to the table.
- Well, our speed is--
- So we got to bring that speed.
Is our advantage.
Today's Evolution is gonna
be a lot of endurance,
so today I'ma need Ivette
to kind of keep the pace
and push Tony to his limits.
Going the furthest route's
the best way to go first.
CAM: I agree.
We've been coming
in second place too long now,
and I think the reason
why we were
in second place most of the
time is because we had Maria.
ALL: Reaper!
All righty, this Evolution
will not only test
your strength and endurance.
It will test
your decision making
and your ability to work
as an individual
as well as part of a team.
Three, two, one, go.
(air horn blares)
WOMAN: Go, go, go.
MAN: Get it.
Get it.
- Come on, Lisa.
- Watch your step.
WOMAN: Don't mind them.
WOMAN: Let's go.
Pick it up.
- Let's go, Red.
- Good job, Goldie.
HAZE: Come on, girl.
JOHN: The teams must run
a quarter of a mile
to a fork in the trail.
Here, they may choose
a route on the left
for a further, easier task
or a route on the right
for a closer, harder task.
Come on, come on,
come on, come on.
This is further.
JOHN: All teams are headed
to the furthest shelter.
Each competitor has been
allocated a job.
Come on, Lisa.
JOHN: Remember, only the
competitor chosen for the job
can do that job.
CAM: Right here,
K, come on.
Come on, K.
Grab the end, let's go.
CLARE: It was quite crowded
when we got there.
I just really want us
to grab and go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Bring it back.
Tony!
TONY: Right behind you.
Everybody chose
the same strategy.
Catch her.
Right there.
Right there.
Come on, Lisa.
Come on.
JOHN: The teams are close
to base camp
but it's Team Tee
arriving first.
TEE: Let's go.
Pick it up, Ivette.
JOHN: Each team can use
two competitors
to construct the shelter.
After that, it will be
one team member per task.
Let's go.
Get over here, so--let's go.
And let's start building.
Open.
Good job.
Good job.
Let's build right here.
JOHN: Here come
the rest of them.
Bringing up the rear,
Team Nick.
Everybody arriving
with shelter.
Let's get started.
Let's get started.
Come on, KJoy, let's go.
We need three stakes,
one tent pole,
one guideline,
one mallet.
We got the stakes.
Let's start putting the stakes
in the ground.
We know the stakes are gonna be
in a triangle.
We put the tent pole in first.
Then we put the stake
down here.
Let's stand this up
in the middle
so we know how hard
to pull it.
Get it in, Tony.
Do the triangle pole.
- Right here.
- See that?
- See that mid-piece?
- Look at this.
Team Nick closing the gap.
Seems to be some construction
going on here in Camp Tee.
- Put that there.
- Put it in in here?
- Is that good?
- Are we good?
JOHN: Team Nick,
you are good to go.
Let's go.
Let's pick it up.
Team Nick,
they've made shelter.
They're off to get water.
KJOY: Nice job, Jim.
CAM: Go, go, go.
NICK: Come on, guys.
Suck it up.
You know
how bad we need it.
I told my guys
to go long on the water.
It's a risk
but we are ahead right now,
and even if the other teams
do catch up,
our task
should be a bit easier.
Yeah, that's just
where you need to be.
You--
You good?
Lot of confusion going on.
You're not supposed
to be through there.
There's no way
that's where that's going.
Yeah.
JOHN: Team Tee's shelter's
looking good.
- You're good to go, guys.
- We good. Let's go.
- Go go go go go go go.
- Run.
Team Tee second out.
TEE: Pick it up.
Pick it up.
CAM: We going left?
Jim?
- Left?
- Yeah.
Long strides.
JOHN: You got the advantage,
you're still taking
the longer path.
- Still taking long.
- Cam's carrying the water back.
Get it started.
JOHN: Team Rorke's shelter
is complete.
Good, let's go.
Let's go.
Go, go.
Go, go, go, go.
- We can go.
- Go, go, go, go, go.
Team Noah's out.
And in last place.
We haven't said that too often.
IVETTE: Pick it up, Tony.
Pick it up.
Easier, easier.
We're going to the right.
Going to the right.
- No, we--
- We're going to get short.
We're going short so hopefully
we can gain some time
on the next one.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Come on, Goldie.
RORKE: I've asked Goldie
to go long on water.
My gut tells me
that will pay dividends.
HAZE: We get to the fork
in the road.
It's Goldie's mission.
I turn to her and say,
"Goldie, short or long?"
And she says, "Short."
Come on, come on.
Accelerate through the turn.
♪ ♪
"You will need
the following items:
"five gallons
dirty drinking water,
"one quart container,
"and a handful of sand
"and a handful of pebbles,
handful of charcoal."
Use your sock.
- Okay.
- Take off your sock.
Come on, Goldie.
Charcoal--
pour 'em out!
- Come on, quick.
- Okay.
- Charcoal.
- We come up to this water,
and it's a five-gallon jug,
a sign that says you've got
to take off your dirty sock
and stuff it full of rocks.
Just a handful.
All you need is a handful.
And it just--
it looks miserable.
Long strides.
Stretch it out.
We win.
CAM: Running to the water
the long way,
it was a really far distance.
Come on, guys.
And I know KJoy was struggling
and I kind of said to myself,
"Uh-oh, did we make
the right choice?"
- Go.
- Let's go.
Look, it says charcoal.
Sand, pebbles.
DAVID: It's a bit of a hustle
and bustle going on.
Everyone's trying to figure out
what they need to do,
and Mark gets going
on what he needs to do.
Grab that water
and get out of there.
DAVID: I am so thrilled
that we have the strength
of Mark the ox
to carry that five-gallon
water jug back to base camp.
(panting)
Come on, Goldie.
It won't last forever.
Come on, use that handle.
HAZE: There you go.
- Good.
IVETTE: Come on, Tony.
Tony, come on.
Tony, come on.
A five gallon water jug
is really heavy,
and it is very hard--
it's very hard
to not be able to help.
Hold it behind your back.
Try this here.
Keep your chest up.
Yep, two hands.
Good, pick your chest up.
Good.
HAZE: Goldie's losing steam,
and she's just falling behind
and it's starting to become just
a shuffle rather than a run.
Come on, Blue.
Come on.
Hey, no, no, no, no.
Come on, let's just keep moving.
- It's not that easy.
- Just keep inching forward.
(dramatic music)
♪ ♪
JOHN: Today's
fire-water-shelter Evolution
is in full swing.
After completing
the shelter task,
all teams are en route back
to base camp to purify water.
Team Nick were the only team
to go long
with their easier water task.
♪ ♪
Goldie from Team Rorke
was allocated the water task
and is struggling.
Keep moving.
Let's keep moving.
Inching forward.
Inching forward.
Good.
HAZE: Okay, we need
to push ourselves
and we're pushing ourselves.
GOLDIE: I have to carry
this huge five-gallon
container of water
back to base camp.
We're in last place,
but we still feel like we got
a shot in this game.
NOAH: Look at this.
The big man,
doing big man stuff.
- Pick it up, Tony, pick it up!
- Come on, Lisa.
MARK: We're second or third
to take off,
but luckily we got in front
and we got--
we were the very first team
to get back here
for the second challenge.
- I just did--
- Where's Red?
Have they showed up again?
MARK: No, not yet.
Team Noah chose
the shorter route.
Let's see if it pays off.
They're gonna have to do
more work.
Purifying the water through
sand, rocks, and charcoal
is a slow and tedious process.
LISA: Put the sock filter
into the bottle.
Drape it over the side.
We're gonna pour
the dirty water through
and that goes in the end.
You got it.
NOAH: This is very similar
to what us in the infantry
would do.
It's all about surviving
in the wilderness.
Tomorrow, in Circus day,
we're going to be home
chilling in the Jacuzzi.
Here comes Ivette.
Here comes Tony.
Come on, I can't have you go
to the Circus. Come on.
TEE: Stop talking and run.
Tony, Ivette.
Here they are.
- I can't touch it. Oh, my God.
- Open it.
Where's the funnel?
Went shorter but seem to be
a little tired.
Hey, Red.
Hurry up.
I don't care
if you pass out.
Let's go.
JOHN: And now the longer route.
Give it all you got, K.
Water purification,
only so many ways
you can do it.
I think we're gonna be way
faster (indistinct)..
How much do we have to make?
Once you fill the quart
container to the line.
MARK: Where's the line?
It's on the very top.
There's a lot to fill.
Team Nick
took the longer route.
They don't have the sock
and rocks to purify through.
I believe it's as simple
as pouring it into the jug.
Next step.
CAM: Once you
fill your pour tank,
this has to be
considered complete.
Okay.
We're good?
- Yeah.
- All right, let's go.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Wow.
Cam, what do you think?
Short, long?
- Short, short.
- Let's go.
Hurry up.
JOHN: Team Noah is losing
the lead to Team Nick.
Is today the day that they will
lose their crown?
Team Rorke
still on their way in.
- Breathe.
- Come on.
Come on, Goldie.
We just got to go left up here
and we're almost done.
- Almost done.
- Almost done.
(panting)
Hold it with two hands
like a baby.
Come on, Blue.
Come on.
Dude, do not tell me
they went short.
If my team went--
I think they went short.
If they did, we're done.
Man, the seconds must feel
like minutes at this point.
- All right.
- Are we done?
JOHN: Team Noah close.
They're out.
- Are we good?
- Let's go.
JOHN: Team Noah out.
NOAH: We decided to go with the
further distance on the fire.
My team has the endurance
so they can make it,
and I'm hoping
that getting back
in that easier starting
of the fire
will help us win this.
- Almost there, baby.
Almost there.
- Boom. Stop.
- Team Tee out.
TEE: Run, Tony, run.
JOHN: Team Rorke in,
and it seems as if they've
chosen the most difficult.
Why did we--
why did we change?
Why did we go short?
All we had to do
was pour water in.
They left four minutes early
because of it.
We--we made the call
to go short.
Yep.
JOHN: Rorke, I've seen that
stare before from my own father,
when I trashed
his Mickey Mantle autograph.
RORKE: I haven't been I think
sincerely upset
in this game yet.
I mean,
I'm absolutely livid hot.
It robs me of my ability,
I think,
to help mentor
and guide the team.
What does it say?
Just take it
and read directions later.
Let's go.
Oh, boy.
"Build fire.
First team."
JOHN: Team Nick are
on their way back to camp
after retrieving
the short distance fire.
Come on.
JOHN: Team Noah have chosen
the longer route.
You got it.
JOHN: And as we saw
with the water,
that easier task
has huge benefits.
My team is so strong,
and right now,
I just feel like I'm kind of
slowing it--the team down
to keep pace
with everybody else.
MAN: Come on, Lisa.
Come on.
Breathe, Tony.
Tony's always been a little bit
hesitant in the run department,
and he's never really lived
up to the expectations
that I kind of had for him.
Tony!
Get your ass!
Come on, let's go.
(coughs)
Get up.
Get up.
Come on!
TONY: She picked me up and
started pulling me,
and I was just like--
I just couldn't breathe anymore.
Slow, slow.
Right there.
HAZE: That's how you do it.
That's how you do it.
We should have stuck
with the plan.
We'd be in second place
right now.
Let's go, Red!
JOHN: So now the foot race
is on.
Team Noah going
for five wins in a row.
Team Nick hoping
to be the first
to knock them
off their perch.
But they went the shortest
distance for fire,
so this is gonna be
a harder task.
Hurry up!
Team Tee, let's go.
JOHN: Team Rorke languishing
in last place.
You're doing great, Goldie.
♪ ♪
Hey!
Hurry up.
- Hurry up!
- Is that Team Nick?
I think I hear Team Nick.
Let's go.
Come on, KJoy.
Suck it up.
And I have--I have
Team Nick here.
- Come on, baby, let's go.
- Are they in?
No, no one's in yet.
Come on, hurry up.
Come on, hurry up.
Don't stop running now, Jim.
Let's go.
Put that--give me instructions.
Okay, it's time
to make some fire.
Take the dry bag
containing the items
back to the camp site.
Start a fire.
Build a fire high enough
to burn the fuse.
Starting a fire is not that hard
if you know what you're doing.
I knew this is
right up my alley.
This is something that we've
trained on in the military,
I think every branch
has trained on,
but the special operations
kind of harp on it
in a different--different way.
- Good, good, good.
- We're good.
We're good.
We're good.
- Team Rorke, out.
- Let's go long.
- Come on.
- You good?
HAZE: Hustle.
Put the wheels on, Goldie.
We got to do this.
Jim, you're good.
Noah's not.
- You're good.
- Use a striker.
Slow and smooth.
Hard strokes.
Right in there.
Like this, Jim.
Like this.
Like that.
Strike it hard.
- Like that.
- Yeah! Yeah!
CAM: Keep going, keep going,
keep going.
The difference between winning
and losing this Evolution
will be the ability of Jim
to build fire,
and with only a flint and some
wood scraps in this cold weather
it's going to be tough.
Team Noah are known
for their comebacks,
and let me
tell you something,
they are coming back.
Lot of friction.
Lot of--hard.
- Harder.
- Come on, come on, come on.
- Here we go. Here we go.
- Yes. Yes.
- Just like that--don't stop.
- I saw some. I saw some.
Come on.
Ton, seriously?
Tony,
I'll (bleep) drag you again.
Come on.
- You want that--
- Come on Jim.
Keep--here we go.
Slowly, slowly.
Stack.
Slowly stack.
JOHN: You've got fire.
Now it just needs to be
big enough to light the fuse.
NOAH: It's down to the wire.
Team Nick has their fire going
but they haven't burned
through that rope yet.
I'm just looking out,
waiting for--
to see a sign of my team.
They can get here,
Clare can get this fire going
in seconds,
and we can pull off
a photo finish.
Come on, y'all.
I hear some people.
Here comes Green.
JIM: Come on, come on, come on.
Here we go.
Here we go.
CAM: Come on, Jim.
JOHN: The difference between
winning and losing
this Evolution
will be the ability of Jim
to build fire.
- Yeah!
- There you go.
NICK: Slowly, slowly, stack.
Slowly stack. Slowly stack.
Slowly stack.
JOHN: Fire needs to be
big enough to light that fuse.
There we are.
Last lap.
Pick it up.
You should start right here
on this side.
You realize that?
There you go.
CAM: We got this, Jim.
JOHN: Team Noah and Team Tee
are in hot pursuit
with the easier fire task.
This is down to the wire.
You got
a little something going.
You're gonna need
a little more.
KJOY: You're still good, Jim.
You're still in the clear.
JOHN: Other teams have matches
and faster-burning fuel.
They can make fire
in no time.
I am a fire starter!
Yeah!
I hear some people.
Here comes Green.
JOHN: Team Noah
are back to base camp.
They better be quick.
Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah!
Aah!
JOHN: It's over.
It is over!
(cheering)
It is a go.
Team Nick
has won the Evolution.
♪ ♪
JIM: You know what?
With great battles
come great victories,
and Noah's team
is more than formidable.
It just makes it
so much sweeter a victory.
- Excellent!
- I am a fire starter!
Flares and celebrations
for all!
This might be the beginning
of the Team Red era.
We took down Green.
Let's just keep it rolling.
NICK: I'm really proud
of my team.
This is actually the first job
that they got on target.
Now we just have to repeat it,
do it again.
JOHN: Nick, the sweet taste of
victory for you and your team.
Congratulations.
You've won the Evolution.
You're safe
from the Circus.
(applause)
Whoo!
Team Noah, your first taste
of defeat,
and now along with that,
a very difficult decision
awaits,
as Noah, Rorke,
you must choose a member
of your team to face the Circus,
and Noah, you must do this
for the first time.
Tee, we already know
that Tony is going to go,
because Ivette
went to the Circus last week.
Team Nick, I get
to hang out with you guys.
Looking forward to it.
JOHN: And I am very excited.
Everybody,
head back to base camp
as Noah and Rorke,
they've got
some picking to do.
RORKE: Now my fear is that
the team is going
to start breaking down
because we have back to back
to back last place.
I mean, not only
are we not winning
to give ourselves immunity
and take a break,
we are coming
in last place.
Dead last.
(dramatic music)
- All right.
- Going in.
- Home sweet home.
- Home sweet home.
CAM: We are the ones to finally
topple over Team Noah,
and what a feeling that is.
HAZE: I'm so mad.
Team Rorke's going back
to Circus again.
It'd just be nice
not to go once.
Just once.
I was just like,
"I'm sorry, Dad."
I don't want to cry
over this.
I don't think
you disappointed him.
Oh, no, I think we did,
'cause we didn't--
he was like,
"Why didn't you listen to me?"
I need to stop crying
over it.
- It's so (bleep) stupid.
- And you will.
Honestly, we've done
so many things wrong
during Evolution, like--
HAZE: It's just nice
to have somebody
to take your mind off of things
for a little bit.
I mean, he really, like--
he is a happy person,
and that's just, like--
having that positive energy
around me,
he's always smiling.
He's always got
his little Cam smile,
and I don't know, I feel
like I'm blushing right now.
(laughs)
(exhales sharply)
I always mess up in matches,
and like, there's been times
where I mess up so bad,
and it just like,
throws off the--
and I just, like,
I throw it out the window,
you know what I mean?
It can't be like that.
You're so cute.
Yeah?
- Yeah, you made me better.
- Okay.
- I'm gonna stop crying now.
All right.
♪ ♪
GOLDIE: So let's call
a spade a spade.
The best that I could give
was putting one foot
in front of the other.
But the fact
that you walked--
that's where--in the first run,
that's where to me,
I was like,
"What's happening here?"
Like, you quit
in the beginning.
I didn't quit.
That's the way it seemed,
because you were walking.
I'm a grown-ass woman.
I don't have to lie to you.
If I'm telling you
I gave you 100%,
that's what I gave you.
Is it more beneficial for me
to slow down a little bit
'cause I can't breathe--
or is it okay--
I'm telling you,
if you can still see straight--
But can I finish saying
what I'm saying?
Absolutely.
Today, we feel--I feel
that she didn't give her all,
and I expressed that.
Or would it be
more beneficial for me
to pass out on the course--
Yes. And that's my answer
right there.
Or fall down on the course?
That's what we also--
we do if we came here.
But we want to be
feeling like we--
I feel like
I did nothing all.
I feel like this is
an attack Goldie session,
that's what the (bleep)
I feel like right now.
When I compete, I'd rather have
a medic drag me out.
Okay, well, that's you.
All right, well, then that's
what I want on my team.
Ugh.
And when are we gonna Evolve?
Oh, you still--
why are you yelling?
I'm not yelling.
Oh, you're not yelling.
You know,
she took it personally,
and one thing we said
in the beginning
was we're not going
to take anything personally,
and we're here to compete.
So if we stayed at
the same level, can you lower?
(bleep),
I'm not gonna do this.
All right.
(slams door)
I slam doors to keep
from slamming my fist
in somebody face.
Is this when the bell rings?
Like...
♪ ♪
(uplifting music)
- Oh!
- Oh!
Is that cold beer?
JOHN: We have some beers,
we got wine.
This is what an off day
looks like.
This food had just got here.
It's hot, it's ready.
MAN: Awesome.
JOHN: You guys sit down.
I'll bring these around.
Five star. Mount Rainier
in the background.
Yeah?
Not too bad, right?
The service sucks, though.
(laughter)
- 21st birthday?
- Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna need
to check your ID.
I grew up watching John Cena
every week on TV.
To sit down and have a beer
with John Cena
was like a dream come true.
JOHN: Congratulations
to you guys.
You guys call it.
To Team Reaper's first win
out of many, all right?
- Yeah.
- All right.
ALL: One, two, three, Reaper.
To Team Reaper.
CAM: I am a fire starter!
NICK: Dude.
John Cena's best friend.
John Cena's best friend.
♪ ♪
Look, I'm never gonna
beat you up
or take somebody's head off
for changing the plan,
but something's wrong
with the team.
I mean, it's a different feeling
right now.
What's going on?
I could just sense a tension
that was way beyond,
"Hey, we lost a challenge."
There was something else
going on here.
He does not have the right
to tell me
whether I did or did not
give 100%.
He don't feed me,
he don't fund me,
and it's another "F"
that I'ma leave off.
RORKE: Goldie's been
disrespected.
If we didn't address that,
there would be no point
in me teaching anything else.
I think you're just here
to push yourself
as far as you can go
and that's honorable in itself.
You can appreciate that saying,
you know,
I think you're just here
to kind of test yourself,
pretty disrespectful,
and out of my last assault team
with 20 people,
there were about three guys
I couldn't stand.
I would never want to see them
other than work.
One was, you know, a medic
but if I got shot
and started leaking,
I would want that medic
patching me up
quicker than any human alive,
'cause he excels
at that job.
I just want to make sure
we have a team
that can move forward together.
There's deeper things for you
and for me while we're here.
Right?
You hear me,
and I respect your why.
And I respect yours, too.
So let's just do this as a team.
Let's test yourself.
All right.
I'm sorry.
I love you, Mario.
♪ ♪
- Sir.
- Thank you.
NOAH: I don't think there's
any easy way
to send somebody
to the Circus.
There's always that possibility
that when somebody goes
to the Circus,
they may not return.
What's on your mind, Mark?
He's just been staring
at the fire.
He's out.
You know, everyone perceives
strength and weakness as
the best and the worst,
and that's not what strength
and weakness is.
Weakness is giving up
on yourself.
The strength is
pushing yourself,
doing the best you can.
That's all you can ask for.
As far as the Circus goes,
that's a brand new experience,
but you know,
I do feel nervous.
I'm excited
because I hope
there's elephants, giraffes,
and a trapeze act.
What drives you, Clare?
Um, I'm not a natural athlete.
I really have to work hard
to be an athlete.
I mean, running does not
come to me easily,
but darn straight,
I was gonna look like the
strongest runner yesterday,
you know?
You can't give in to
those doubts in your mind.
You have to push them
out of your mind and say,
"This might hurt,
but I can do it."
I've weighed out a whole bunch
of different things,
and I don't think I will
officially know
until I have to say
who it is.
You know, the Circus has been
a big fear for me,
and it's just new for me
to wrap my brain around.
You know, all of the sport
things that I have done
have just been personal goals
and for fun.
Right.
Like, the last marathon I ran,
the goal was to finish
the marathon.
I wasn't running for speed.
I told you, I got beat
by a person with one leg.
Like it's so bad.
(laughter)
When I think about the fact
that I have to send one person
to the Circus
and they may not come back,
uh, that's stressful.
I got to think about it.
First time I've had to do it.
♪ ♪
JOHN: Good evening, everybody.
We are here once again
at the Circus.
Noah, for four weeks,
your team has avoided
this moment.
Four weeks they've had
their safety.
Team Noah,
welcome to the Circus.
Tee, because you're down
to only two team members,
and Ivette faced the Circus
last week,
Tony, you will have to face
the Circus.
Please go stand by Tee.
Come on.
You got this.
Rorke.
I know how tough Tony is
in the fight,
so my choice for this round....
is my man Mario.
Yes, finally.
All right, bud.
JOHN: Noah.
I'm sending to our first Circus
without a doubt,
the glue that is
holding my team together.
I'm sending...
Lisa.
I chose Lisa
because Lisa has heart,
and what I'm working on
with Lisa
is tapping into
that inner strength.
I think once we find it,
she will be unbreakable.
Lisa, your thoughts on
facing the Circus.
I feel like a lot of times,
I might think that people
are underestimating me,
but that's not really the case.
Honestly,
I underestimate myself.
Nobody on my team
ever speaks badly of me.
I do.
NOAH: Lisa is much stronger
than she allows herself
to realize
and this is going
to test her.
She will come back
to the Green Team
stronger than ever.
Lisa, Tony, Mario,
as invincible as you think
you all are,
one of you tomorrow
will give up.
One of you tomorrow
will ring out.
One of you tomorrow
will go home.
(bell rings)
Head back to base camp,
get your rest,
because you are going
to need it.
Thank you.
♪ ♪
Knocky knocky.
- Guess who.
- Girls of the grit.
LISA: The girls of the grit
who faced the Circus,
they kind of came in
and they were cheering me up.
You're gonna
come back stronger.
You're going in there
for Lisa.
KJOY: So the minute that you
start to think in your head,
"Oh, my gosh,
this is impossible,"
put it in a bubble
and send it away.
Don't even let it
come into your head.
Especially it's the fifth week
into it
and you're, like, just going
into it for the first time.
GOLDIE: Remember your kids.
LISA: Girls of the grit made me
feel so beautiful today.
ALL: Girls of the grit!
Whoo! Girls of the grit!
Whoop whoop!
LISA: I just, I mean,
I really want to be strong.
I really want to be
a stronger person.
I really want to do well
for the team.
I don't want to be
the weakest link.
♪ ♪
JOHN: You seemed
extremely excited
when chosen to face the Circus
yesterday.
Do you think you are
underestimating the Circus?
That's where you give it all,
and that's where you back
everything that was said.
I don't quit.
Why?
A big part of it
has to do with my mom.
Being a single parent
and having to work multiple jobs
just to put food on the table,
and she'd come home
and see three kids.
That's what I came here for.
If I really, really want
to make an impact,
I think the best way for me to
do it is to work with children.
Children are sponges,
and if they learn something
positive from day one,
if you teach them
to be dedicated,
so if I can instill that
in the youth, it'll to me--
I mean, maybe I won't
change the world
but I can change
individuals' worlds.
Mario's perspective on life
as a 24-year-old man
is years beyond
where he should be.
He's already looking
to give back to the community.
Having that foresight,
maybe he has the same foresight
to the competition.
- Oh, God.
- Oh, my God.
This is how I warm up
for competition.
Too much.
When your will is about
to be broken, what drives you?
I'm not gonna lie.
I'm not gonna go in
and say that I'm not scared,
but I also know
that I've been
through a lot of crap
in my life.
I watched both parents die,
and anything in my life
is gonna be harder
than muscle fatigue.
I'm gonna think
of the marathon that I ran.
I was at the bottom
of the hill,
and I was looking up
at the top of the hill,
and nothing--nothing
could get me through it,
and there was a Marine,
and I had on my shirt my name,
and then I had "For Dad."
He said,
"Lisa, I see you, Lisa,
"and I see that you're running
for your dad.
And he sees you, too."
And then all of a sudden
I just--
I had this burst of energy
and I made it over the hill.
I desperately want you to see
that soldier on the hill today.
I do, too.
So you give 'em hell
out there, okay?
Thank you.
JOHN: Lisa feels she's
outgunned and she's not.
She has a very tough road
ahead of her,
but this competition
is about people traveling
down difficult roads.
(bleep)!
Ah!
(laughing)
(laughter)
Team Noah.
Welcome to your first Circus,
and to the competitors.
Today, facing the Circus
you know your very life
in this competition
hangs in the balance.
After you've finished
with the obstacle portion,
you will land
on the endurance platform,
but please, do not take the
obstacle portion for granted.
If you finish first,
you will have a major advantage.
Today's test is called
"Double Time."
I will blow a horn,
and the timer will start.
You'll run down your lane
to a log.
Touch that log, run back
up your lane within 20 seconds.
Eventually, through the test
you'll have less time
to accomplish this goal,
so as you become
more exhausted,
we will demand that you work
harder back and forth.
Back and forth.
Until one competitor
can no longer go.
They can either no longer re-set
their timer and it runs to zero,
or they can physically
no longer compete.
They will give up.
They will ring out.
They will go home.
Ladies and gentlemen,
simply put, we're gonna run.
TEE: Running has never been
a strong point for Tony,
so I'm worried about,
is he gonna be able
to go the distance?
Competitors, get to
your starting positions.
(applause)
NOAH: Just like
in the military,
a lot of people
go into it
not sure
if they can handle it,
and they come out stronger
on the other side.
And that's what I want to see
for Lisa.
RORKE: He needs to get
to that platform first
and give yourself
full advantage.
Mario's a strong competitor.
This would be a tremendous blow
to not get him back.
(cheering and applause)
Tony, let's go, get it!
Let's go, Tony!
- Keep working, Lisa!
- Tony!
Competitors, the Circus
will push you to the limits.
Here's where you prove
your American grit.
All we ask is all you got.
GOLDIE: Here we go, Mario.
MAN: Let's go Lisa.
JOHN: Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
(cheering)
First to the climbing wall
is Mario,
Tony a close second,
Lisa holding her own early on.
(applause)
Mario absolutely flew
up those ropes.
Good job, Mario.
Let's go, Tony.
- Pick it up.
- Good job, Lisa.
JOHN: But it still wasn't fast
enough to shake Tony,
who was right on his heels.
- Mario, Mario!
- Let's go, Lisa!
JOHN: Lisa needs to dig deep
to stay in the picture.
All right, Lisa.
JOHN: On to
the Giant's Ladder now.
NOAH: All right, Lisa,
you're good.
I'll see you down there,
Mario.
JOHN: Mario's like Spider-Man
on this thing.
He's getting away
from Tony.
Lisa with a lot
of work to do.
Mario, a little shaky
on the beam.
- All right, Lisa!
- Let's go, Lisa.
Let's go, Lisa.
You are doing fantastic.
Raleigh and Henry are gonna be
so proud of you.
Mario, Mario, Mario!
JOHN: Tony's catching up.
But catching his breath
as well.
(whispering)
Okay.
Mario's killing this.
BOTH: Mario! Mario!
JOHN: Lisa, no fear.
She's still in this.
Mario's first
to the cargo net.
Rorke's got to be proud.
- Mario!
- You're killing it!
Tony is nowhere!
JOHN: Mario is really putting
everything into this.
Come on, Tony.
Bring it.
JOHN: Mario needs to hurry,
because here comes Tony.
All right, Mario.
JOHN: You got to
make it official.
Mario is the first to arrive
on the endurance platform.
Nice job.
Good job.
Careful now.
Let's go.
JOHN: Tony has arrived
on the platform second.
Lisa, still giving it all.
She's not a quitter.
She'll start first
in the sprinting
double-time endurance.
Let's go, Lisa.
Come on, Lisa.
Okay.
JOHN: Lisa has arrived
to the platform.
We'll get her test started
immediately.
NOAH: Tony looks tired.
Endurance running
isn't his thing.
Lisa's a marathon runner.
She can still pull this off.
At the ready.
Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
All right, push-ups.
For the first ten circuits
of double time,
the clock will be set
at 20 seconds.
After that,
there will be less time.
Good job. Good job.
JOHN: Okay, Tony.
Your double time will now begin.
The clock's still set
at 20 seconds.
(air horn blares)
All right, there you go.
There you go.
MAN: There you go, Lisa.
JOHN: Mario, you'll begin
in 12 seconds.
Good job.
Good job, Lisa.
JOHN: Okay, we now have three
competitors in the challenge.
Whoever cannot complete the
sprint within the time frame
or who gives up will be
the competitor to ring out.
(air horn blares)
- There you go. Good job.
- Let's go, Tony.
DAVID: Good job, Lisa.
Good job.
- Come on, you got this.
- Just like that.
You're doing awesome.
(air horn blares)
Good job.
JOHN: This is only
the first round.
20 seconds, but it's got to be
wearing 'em down.
(air horn blares)
(cheering)
(air horn blares)
Good job.
JOHN: Keep pushing.
No resting.
RORKE: Good job, Mario.
JOHN: Competitors, your time
will be shaved by five seconds.
You now have 15 seconds
to go back and forth.
- You got this.
- Come on, Lisa, focus.
- You got it, Lisa.
- Come on, Tony.
(air horn blares)
You got this, Mario.
MAN: Come on.
Push it, push it, push it.
WOMAN: I like it, I like it.
(air horn blares)
JOHN: Those legs will start
feeling tired now.
- Keep it going.
- Good job, Lisa.
(air horn blares)
- Hang close.
- Good job.
- Hang close.
- Nice and smooth.
(air horn blares)
WOMAN: Whoo!
JOHN: This endurance is on.
No one close to ringing out.
- Keep focused.
- Good job, good job.
All right, baby.
Bring it home.
MAN: There you go, Lisa.
(air horn blares)
- There you go!
TEE: Easy there, baby.
JOHN: Okay, let's crank it up.
- All day, all day.
Competitors, your time will now
be shaved to ten seconds.
MAN: Stay focused.
TEE: Get your rhythm.
Ten seconds.
Two, one, go.
(air horn blares)
- This is where you win.
-All right, Mario.
JOHN: Competitors, your time
will now be shaved
to ten seconds.
You only have
that short time
to run to the log and back.
Go!
(air horn blares)
Ten seconds, ten seconds.
MAN: You've got to move.
You've got to move.
You've got to move.
Come on, get up there.
Dig in for it.
JOHN: Three, two, one--
(air horn blares)
- Dig deep, dig deep.
- Go, go, go.
Come on, come on.
MAN: No resting
between turning back around.
Don't quit. Come on.
Two, one, go.
(air horn blares)
- Get to it, get to it.
- Do it, Lisa, do it, Lisa.
- Find it, find it, find it.
- Want it, Lisa.
Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig.
NOAH: Go, Lisa. Go.
TEE: Easy there, Tony.
We want it, Lisa.
We want it.
Two, one...
(air horn blares)
- Go, do it, Lisa. Do it.
- Hang in there, hang in there.
- Go, go, go, go.
- Come on, come on, come on.
Two, one.
(air horn blares)
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
- Down the hill fast.
- It's gotta be fast.
WOMAN: Let's go, Lisa.
JOHN: Come on, come on, come on.
- Come on, Lisa.
- Three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Come on.
Four, three, two, one.
(air horn blares)
Go, go, go, go.
(cheering)
Push it, Lisa, push it!
♪ ♪
(beeps)
That's it, that's it.
Good job.
Good job.
Keep your head up.
Breathe. Breathe.
You did great, baby.
All right?
- Get up, baby.
- Walk it off, walk it off.
Good job, baby.
ALL: Lisa! Lisa!
Lisa! Lisa!
NOAH: Awesome.
That was so much work,
all right?
That was so much work,
all right?
I'm very proud of Lisa.
We hate to lose her,
but I think
she's going home
with her head
a little bit higher.
She was a critical part
of our team.
She was the heart,
she was the glue
holding us together,
and now we're gonna
have to adjust,
keep driving home,
and uh,
and make Lisa proud.
That was awesome.
All right?
DAVID: Lisa will
definitely be missed.
She talks about being
a Rocky for moms,
and she's gone out there today
and shown that,
and she shows it to us
every day.
She keeps us together
and she never complains,
and all those things are going
to be extremely missed.
Mario, Tony.
Congratulations.
You survived the Circus.
Please, go join your teams.
(applause)
Whoo, Mario!
Go, Mario.
Lisa.
- All we ask is all you got.
- Uh-huh.
You gave it all you had today.
I did.
Thank you.
Lisa, time to ring out.
Okay.
Thank you.
All of you,
thank you very much.
- Thank you.
Thank you for everything.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay.
We love you, Lisa.
- We love you, Lisa.
- We love you.
I'm done here at the Circus,
but I'm--I'm not done.
I'm not done with life.
Even when I fall,
I get back up.
There's a Chinese proverb
which is
"Fall down nine times,
get up ten."
I fell down.
I'm back up.
I wish that I didn't
run out of steam.
I wish I ran harder.
I wish that I could be here
with them till the end,
but I'm still proud
to be part of that team.
We're all proud of you.
JOHN: Next time.
Stay steady.
Come on, baby.
Ooh.
JOHN: Can Team Noah take back
their gritty crown?
So this where we go.
It's gonna be a game-changer
for "American Grit."
Up, down.
JOHN: Rorke's finally fed up
with his team.
ALL: One!
- Up!
BOTH: Six.
JOHN: And I join
the competition.
Who will be the next contestant
to give up...
Okay, we got ourselves a race.
Ring out, and go home
on "American Grit"?
Ready to rumble.