Naked and Afraid XL (2015–…): Season 5, Episode 6 - No Hand-Outs - full transcript
A survivalist on a hunting expedition is bitten by a snake and requires an emergency medical evacuation. Tensions rise between teams as hunting grounds get territorial. One group scores protein while their neighbors are on the bri...
Narrator: Previously on
"Naked and Afraid XL"...
- Oh, snake right here... viper.
- Oh [bleep]
Two weeks into the
40-day challenge...
- [Bleep]
- No. No! No!
The three remaining
teams abandon the coast
and push deep into
the Palawan jungle.
We know what awaits us
in there, and it's not pretty.
Narrator: To the north, two
teams now occupy the same cave.
Guess we're gonna have
to share a house, neighbors.
But Duke, James,
Rylie, and Gabrielle
have yet to
supplement their fruit
with any significant protein...
Duke: We don't see
the kind of resources
that we were hoping to see.
Narrator: While Jeff and Laura,
35 days into their
60-day challenge,
use their fish hooks to
score an early jungle win.
Duke: Is that an eel?
Jeff: Everything I have
I will share with Laura.
I'm not ready to do
that for an entire group.
This is good, good.
[ Laughing ]
♪
Narrator: One mile South, a
grueling hike and lack of food
has left the team
of six depleted...
This is a marathon.
This isn't a sprint.
Angela: Work smarter not harder.
Narrator: And their
team leader frustrated.
Are you gonna sit
in a cave all day?
He's wasting energy
that he doesn't have.
I am not sitting
in this [bleep] cave
when there is a [bleep]
dining room out there!
Rookie [bleep] mistake.
Bye. Go on your walk, Charlie.
[Bleep]
Narrator: Now with
23 days remaining...
There it is, baby!
- Oh!
- Ow! [Bleep]
Narrator: Will anyone
escape this hellish island alive?
Come on. You got
to keep pushing.
[ Shouts indistinctly ]
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Russell: It breaks my heart.
It wasn't me belittling him
or talking down to him
or anything like that.
He just didn't want
to hear it. Exactly.
The old Russell
wouldn't have cared,
but the new Russell
is concerned.
Realize that, yeah, maybe
it is my fault, maybe it's not.
He needs to go off on his own.
He's doing what he's got
to do to get it off his mind.
Charlie's my partner, you know?
I'd do anything to help him out,
but he just wants
to go, go, go, go, go.
And we've basically
got no meat, no protein,
so I'm just suffering with that.
I know what my body can handle,
and I know when it
says stop, it means stop
'cause Duck wants
to make it to 40 days.
I love the man. I idolize
him. I look up to him.
He's like our dad
out here. Exactly.
He's actually being
a father figure to me.
Russell: It's a group decision
to conserve our calories,
but I was the only one
that really voiced my opinion
and voiced it loud, and
I'm not proud of that.
But me and Charlie both
have the same motivation.
We are here for our
redemption, and, hopefully,
none of us are so hotheaded
that we're going to hold a grudge.
♪
Charlie: I perceived
their attack
as a way to get me
to be on their side
of sitting and doing nothing,
so it justifies their action.
Can't have that.
If that's their choice,
I'm gonna go out
and better my situation.
I can find a better shelter.
I'm a leader, not
somebody to be trifled with,
but I'm also a
very sensitive guy.
We're all chasing something.
Whatever those five are
chasing, it's in that cave.
What I'm chasing is out here.
♪
♪
So, I think what we should do
is, we should start at the end,
set those ones, and then
work our way this way.
- What do you think?
- Yep, yeah.
I think we're gonna pull
another one out of the same area.
- I hope so.
- I really do.
Jeff: Laura and I have
already caught one big eel,
and I feel strong.
But there's no riding it out,
there's no coasting
to the finish line.
We are sprinters.
And when we
cross that finish line,
we will be at full speed.
Laura: I'm getting bait.
Snails. Little snail.
Jeff and I are out
here for 60 days.
We need to be putting food
in our bodies all the time.
The more hooks we
can get in the water,
the more chances
we have to catch eels.
Eels like to use the tree roots,
and they squeeze their
bodies between the tree roots,
and they make a
hole in the bank.
So you got to find
just the right habitat.
Otherwise, you might
just be wasting your time.
♪
What do you think? Like this?
Mm-hmm. Pick this up.
This feels like a
good spot. You know?
Just gonna blind cast and
see if there's anything there.
Yeah.
♪
Nothing.
Laura and Jeff have
some hooks and line,
and we do not.
We have a couple cast nets.
♪
I got to figure out
how to throw this net.
It's so dang small.
Just with a cast net, it's gonna
be really hard to get an eel.
That's 'cause the
water's kind of murky,
really don't know
what you're casting for,
but, hey, you know, blind luck
has brought in a lot
of things in the past.
Those little fish
must be pretty small.
There's something in there.
No, I thought it... it
must've been a leaf.
Rylie: When you look at
the tenets of survivalism...
Shelter, water, fire, food...
We have all of
them except protein.
So, to me, it's a no-brainer
that we should be spending
a considerable amount
of time here fishing.
I'm gonna walk around and
see if there's a spot opposite side
from where they actually
got that eel right down there.
The fact that Jeff and
Laura were able to catch
this giant 3-foot
eel in the river
is a wonderful sign
for the whole team.
♪
We got something on the line.
Got something on the line.
Don't know what it is.
♪
- Whoo! Whoo!
- Oh, you're kidding me.
Whoo-hoo!
Yeah, baby!
Yes!
Yes!
Number two!
Whoo!
Thank you, lord.
Whoo-hoo! Yeah, baby!
- Whoo!
- Is that Jeff?
I'm hearing a
lot of jungle yells,
which means it's got to be Jeff.
♪
And if I were to
guess, he's got an eel
bigger than he got two days ago,
'cause he seems
reasonably excited.
This is what I
live for right now!
Yes!
Oh, my god. I don't
remember being that happy
about anything
in my entire life.
Duke: Nice job, man. Whoo!
Thank you, Duke!
Yeah!
Got the spot, brother.
Yeah. God, I love this!
Duke: That's a hook catch.
You can't net an
animal like that,
so we feel like the only thing
stopping us from getting an eel
is that we don't
have any fish hooks.
Laura: Hey, Jeff!
[ Screaming ] Whoo!
Yeah, baby!
Oh, my god.
Number two, baby.
So awesome. Teamwork
makes the dream work!
That's right it does.
I love it!
I didn't catch even
a single minnow.
♪
♪
It tastes like...
Fatty chicken skin. I know.
Bananas?
Fruit's always
been a snack for me.
That was fantastic. Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
♪
Oh!
You know, Laura and
Jeff, they're doing awesome.
But there's a certain
amount of, uh...
Man, we'd love to
have an eel for dinner.
It's crazy to think, wow, if we
had the same items as they have,
we'd have, you know,
similar outcomes.
Duke: If those guys
upstairs, Jeff and Laura,
had even just one
available hook to trade?
Gabrielle: I think getting
one from Jeff and Laura,
that's going to
be really difficult.
Rylie: We don't really
have anything to trade.
And they don't want bananas.
They've got bananas.
They got bananas.
Maybe some firewood?
They might want fire...
We have like a day's
worth of firewood.
Duke: Hey, guys? Yeah.
Want to talk for a minute?
Jeff: Okay.
Jeff, do you have
any interest in anything
that you'd be willing
to trade for a hook?
Yeah, we, uh, definitely
are trying to hold on
to every hook we have,
'cause they're limited.
And we still have 24 days left.
♪
Not trying to make
it difficult for you.
We're just... Rylie:
Trying to survive.
So, uh, sorry.
We are gonna go.
♪
Jeff: Now, our neighbors,
they're very good people,
but we are not here
to be caretakers.
It is not me that's gonna
spend my energy and my time
on a 60-day challenge pulling
in food and giving it to others.
They can do that for themselves.
This is a big-boy challenge,
and people better start to
put their big-boy pants on.
Duke: Alright, well,
back to where we were.
Rylie: Yeah. Starving.
♪
[ Sighs ]
♪
There's food right here.
Come on, puppy.
You are mine.
There we go.
Alright.
Since being at the camp, this
is the furthest that I've come,
and, uh, curious to
see what it'll reveal.
[ Indistinct
conversations in distance ]
♪
I hear people talking.
It's coming on from
that direction right there.
After all that, it comes
down to the basics.
We need firewood.
I'll go for a round, come
back with some armloads.
♪
Do you mind getting
that last... one last pile?
Yeah.
♪
They're right over there.
♪
♪
♪
Charlie: Ha!
- Oh!
- Oh, my goodness!
- What the heck?!
- Oh!
- Oh! What's going on?
- Are you serious?
What the hell you guys up to?
How you doing? Oh,
it's so good to see you!
You gonna invite me in,
or you gonna make me feel
like a [bleep] stepchild here?
Home, cave home. We're
just chopping firewood.
Dude, you got bananas?
We got bananas.
Oh, look at all those bananas.
This is freaking awesome, dude.
We got snails.
You eating snails?
Our first 21 days we
spent with snails only.
Okay. 'Cause you
know me and Laura
are attempting 60 days.
60 days. Really?
And this place is so
much more resource-rich.
Like, the bodies
of water we have.
We got two eels in three days.
With what? What'd you use?
Out of the river.
Hook with snail bait.
Okay, what size hook?
Alright. 'Cause we have a...
We got the river by us, so
it's probably the same river.
That's where we
go. But we threw it in,
and we didn't get nothing.
Duke: You guys got
hooks? Someone has hooks?
We have hooks, yeah.
We have plenty of hooks.
Gabrielle: Knowing
that they have hooks,
I think bartering would
be a great idea for us.
I mean, if they wanted to give
us, you know, four or five hooks
in exchange for a
bunch of bananas,
that would be phenomenal.
Oh, man. So, I'm gonna go back.
If I could take five bananas
with me, I would love that.
Gabrielle: Why don't
we trek with you?
You want to come with me?
- Yeah, let's go!
- Excellent.
Alright. We won't
go the way I came in.
[ Chuckles ]
Duke: I'm pretty
excited to meet up
with the other group
and trade wares.
We're in business, baby.
♪
Charlie: Alright, guys,
- I found something!
- Hey!
What the... oh, hey, I
see new Naked people!
- Oh!
- Oh!
No way!
- Surprise!
- Oh!
What the hell?
These ain't our
people. These are fresh.
- Hey!
- Hey!
I just... I just knew who
they were by their episodes.
- Nice basket.
- We brought you bananas.
- Oh, man.
- Oh, you got bananas.
Woman: Oh, thanks.
Man: Whoo!
Is that sugarcane?
Yes, sir. Here.
Whoa.
Max: They came bearing gifts.
They came with
bananas and sugarcane,
and we've been dreaming about
sugars for the last, like, week.
Charlie: Guys.
You know what Laura
and Jeff are doing?
What? They're doing 60 days.
- What?
- What?
Living the dream.
- This is our home.
- Wow.
Day 37 today. What?
37 strong.
Yeah. What?
- That's amazing.
- Any big-time kills?
We pulled a 3-foot
eel out of the river.
- No way.
- Yeah.
Another one today.
Ah, jealous.
Yeah, that was
a meal last night.
Sick.
So, when did you guys group up?
Well, we're not grouped up.
Really?
Nope.
I mean, you said that you
were neighbors in caves.
- Yeah, we're neighbors.
- Yeah.
And these guys are... they're
kind of on their own trajectory.
- Yeah.
- We've got our own pace going,
and we've got our
own food rationed.
We are not sharing resources.
♪
Laura: We like the "neighbors,
not roommates" motto.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It's working.
Woman: Okay. Alright.
We're those
neighbors, yeah. Yeah.
♪
There is some tension
between some of the people here.
There's no
question. It's evident.
It's pretty [bleep] not sharing.
They have a nice cave setup.
And there isn't really room
for the six of us to add to it,
but they were really gracious
to share what they got with us.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Yeah, I mean, you guys
enjoy those bananas,
and if you want to talk
about any gear swap,
we're really in need
of a couple hooks.
Charlie: You need one?
Yeah, I got you, I got
you. Come over here.
We thought maybe
our peace offering
would help negotiate,
you know, one or two, but...
Alright, so, I can loan you
as many of these as you want.
Oh, man, this is
huge. I'll give you four.
There's three there.
That's four more than we had.
Duke: Right off the bat,
says, like, "you need hooks?
I got you, bro." I'm stoked!
I'm stoked.
I will help you
out with this, also.
This is 65-pound test line.
Oh, man, that is awesome.
There are plenty of
eels and plenty of fish
out there to catch,
and it doesn't bother me to
share resources with them.
This is so good, man.
Yeah, dude, look, hey, love you.
Y'all are my brothers out
here just the same, so...
That's perfect.
Jeff: If Russell wants to
be a hero, I respect that.
Laura and I, we're gonna put
every hook we
have in that river.
Duke: Well, should
we be getting back?
Woman: Yeah.
James: We now
have these four hooks,
and none of the group
can wait to put it in the water
and see if we can start
catching something.
- Bye, Gabby.
- Bye, you guys.
Walk safe.
Man: Right on.
♪
♪
Duke: This actually looks
really good right here.
Could be good eel habitat.
Jeff: I think we should set
everything on our side of the river.
Laura: Yeah.
I think these guys are gonna...
They're bee-lining
it for the spot
opposite of this little
creek outlet here.
We'll set two here.
Yeah. And then, I think we
work our way up the bank...
Yeah. And look for better spots.
Cool.
Jeff: If you throw in
one hook into that river,
I'd say you have a 10%
chance of catching an eel.
Your chances aren't great.
You might get lucky.
But [chuckles] I'm gonna
fire off all rounds, man.
I'm not taking chances out here.
Right now, Laura and I have 20.
And that would be a 200% chance.
♪
Buddy, I know this
is your honey pot.
Jeff: Yeah. But I gotta...
I gotta ask, man,
where can I squeeze in?
We're gonna set ours
all the way up this side.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Gotcha. Yep.
This actually looks
really good right here, too.
I had two hooks there.
What?
James: Oh, I see
the line now, yeah.
[ Sighs ]
♪
Laura: I cover a lot of ground,
and I constantly move my lines.
Maybe we're just being greedy,
but we're out here for 60 days.
We need to replenish ourselves.
♪
There's a time to be generous,
but there's a time when
that's just self-sacrifice.
♪
There's a bunch of
tree roots on this side.
And I think it'd be
good to set there.
Duke: There's a little bit of
tension with Jeff and Laura
about their side of the river,
so we tried to avoid setting
hooks right near theirs.
Woman: Sorry, little buddy.
I think that's a good spot.
Gabrielle: We have four lines
in the water. We're really hoping
to bring something
in in the next few days.
We could use a
nice, big hunk of eel.
- Come on, little guys.
- They're in here.
They're in here.
♪
I'm gonna go over
and get firewood.
- Alright.
- Alright, Charlie.
Tell you what, we should help
Charlie out with the firewood.
- Totally.
- Mm-hmm.
- Sounds good.
- Come on, let's go. Let's go.
I've been trying to tell Charlie
for 17 days to slow down.
It's not gonna change anything.
So, as a team member,
I need to help him out.
♪
♪
Everybody's getting firewood.
I'm not the only one
doing it anymore.
♪
To see my team up
and about like that,
that means everything to me.
Everything.
♪
Come through a lot together,
especially Duck, Russell, and I.
Sometimes even family
members grate on you.
♪
Russell: We speak
our minds. We get loud.
But we take a
second to go cool off.
We come back. We're
best friends again.
You, give me a hug! [
Exclaiming indistinctly ]
You're my buddy out here.
You know we care about you.
Duck: Charlie's a go-getter,
you know, and he just thinks
I guess everybody should
be with him all the time
and right there by him.
And other people's
bodies don't react like his.
♪
And it's got me about
dizzy all the time.
♪
[ Groans ]
Ooh, lightheaded.
Stood up too fast.
♪
[ Thud ]
- Ooh! Oh, my god!
- [ Gasps ]
- What happened?
- [Bleep]
- Duck?
- Duck.
♪
[ Groans ]
Ooh, lightheaded.
Stood up too fast.
[ Thud ]
- Ooh!
- [ Gasps ]
- Oh, you okay?
- Oh [bleep]
- What happened?
- Smacked his head.
- [ Groaning ]
- Yeah, sit down.
Sit down.
Max: Let him
chill. Let him chill.
- Just go slow.
- Ohh [bleep]
- Look at me. Look at me.
- Am I bleeding?
Look up at me so I can find out.
Where'd you get
hit? Top of the head?
Right there. That part feels
like it's busted wide open.
- Watch your back.
- Watch your back, Duck.
Can't really see. It's too dark.
Russell: This cave is not the place
you want to pass out standing up.
That's not too bad.
It's not too bad.
We're working on
very little calories.
Bananas are not protein.
It burns up just like that.
Fishing might be a
little protein in the body.
Might be in our favor.
I am gonna go hunt for
some snails, a.K.A. Bait.
- Oh.
- Hey.
The hunger is affecting
Duck a little different than me,
and I really want
to provide for him
and relieve that hunger stress
and that hunger pain for him.
So I'm hoping I can
bring back some eel.
♪
♪
I'm gonna go set my hooks,
let them hang out there
in the water, the branch.
That's what I'm gonna do.
I choose to be the one
going and getting food
because, you know,
I care about my team.
If I can just fish
and get some eels,
I can complete the
rest of this challenge
and feel like I
provided for the group,
I got my win, and
make everybody proud.
The bobber will be in and out
of the water as the branch moves
and all that good stuff,
so... be pretty good.
One down, five to go.
♪
♪
James and I are
up at first light
to go check the lines.
[ Sighs ]
Today is eel day.
We only have four hooks, but
we've got them all in the water,
they're all baited, and
we're hoping for some eel.
♪
Ah, this one looks pretty still.
It's actually kind of
caught on some roots.
Nothing on it.
10 feet forward on your left.
♪
What?
This is Jeff's line, like
right on top of ours.
♪
He... he didn't see it.
It's basically tied
to the same branch.
I don't know how he
wouldn't have seen it.
Dude.
The fact that Jeff
and Laura set hooks
right where we have our
hooks, I'm... I'm shocked.
I can't believe what I'm seeing.
Nothing.
I'm gonna move
it a few feet out.
Yeah, but the same time, I
don't want to give up our spot
because somebody came after us.
No, no.
James: All we want to do
is some simple little fishing,
and now it's gonna
become an epic fight
over the best spots in
this very narrow creek.
I know that they're putting a
full press on that river, but...
You got to share the space.
They were twisted together.
James: Jeff and Laura,
they have about 20 hooks.
We're sitting out
here with four hooks?
Yeah, don't get your
lines on top of ours.
I pulled the hook that
was right across the way.
Those guys set on top of
it, and they were all twisted.
What the [bleep] nothing.
I have probably too
much faith in humanity.
Hungry humanity.
♪
Oh [bleep] there's
something on this line.
♪
Aha! Oh, my god.
I cannot [bleep] believe this.
[ Chuckling ] We
got another eel.
This is three
eels in three days.
[ Screaming ]
♪
Hear that? Mm-hmm.
Another eel.
Think they might be
having eel for dinner again.
I don't know. I think, for
our group, nice high-five.
We're happy. We're good.
I don't know that we're
gonna need as much cheering.
Maybe we're just
a little stronger.
Don't need the extra cheering.
Laura: Morning, neighbors.
Jeff!
Can I hand you something?
Jeff: What is that?!
Oh, my gosh!
I frickin' love you!
I love you, too. Oh, I love you!
[ Laughing, screaming ]
Yes!
If it's loud all the time,
it just becomes
annoying and deafening.
Yes!
Who's got the best partner ever?
Laura: I do! I do!
Yes!
Yes!
Oh!
Like, "yeah, yeah!"
♪
We're eating
breakfast after dinner.
[ Laughs ] I'm gonna get fat.
Hell yeah!
♪
♪
♪
This eel is huge.
This is a feast.
Sometimes I would love
to share what we get.
I want to see that.
But you can't come out
here and try to be the hero
and provide for every person.
It didn't come easy.
It was a lot of
hard-earned work.
Jeff: We are not
here to give handouts.
"Naked and Afraid XL"
is not a welfare program.
If people cannot
get their own food,
then they should
not be out here.
♪
♪
Duke: Hey.
Did you, uh... did you set
some more hooks out there?
I did.
We had one at that...
You know, where there's
that downed log just upriver?
And then you put a line there.
Um... ♪
I mean, it's...
It's still a river.
And I kind of
think it's free game.
We're all surviving.
So... Gabrielle: Wow.
We haven't had
any success with eel.
It's not worth busting our
butts down by the river.
James, Duke, Rylie,
and I are very hungry.
We have to start hunting.
We have to start
bringing in protein.
♪
Rylie: We're gonna head
up where we have noticed
some reptile activity.
Keep an eye out.
♪
Rylie: We're just being
as quiet as we can.
We're looking up.
We're looking down.
We're looking in
the tree branches,
because these vipers,
they're brown. They're green.
So is the forest.
The problem is,
they're so camouflaged.
♪
Oh, my god.
- Holy [bleep]
- What is it?
You see that viper right there?
Hanging on that branch.
Aah! Oh [bleep]
Yeah, he's not happy.
Mnh-mnh.
Narrator: The most
lethal snake on the island,
the Philippine pit viper,
has a strike speed of
almost 3 meters per second,
often reaching its prey faster
than the blink of a human eye.
I actually am
scared now to move.
This is his home territory.
He's gonna move a
lot faster than we will.
He's got the upper hand here.
Gabrielle: This is very,
very, very dangerous.
We have to have this meal.
Rylie: Think you can
pin him from here?
No, I can't pin
him while he's up.
I can wrap him and
bring him to the ground.
Yeah. Let's try that.
But I don't know which
direction he's gonna go.
♪
Come on, buddy. He's
gonna want to go up.
Mm-hmm.
Let him get my stick.
Just be careful lowering it,
'cause he's headed...
Pointed at you now.
Mm-hmm.
Holy [bleep] you got to pin him.
♪
- I got it. Hold on.
- Pin him.
You got to get close
to his head, okay?
Aah! Aah!
Just be careful lowering it,
'cause he's headed...
Pointed at you now.
Gabrielle: Mm-hmm.
Holy [bleep] you got to pin him.
- I got it. Hold on.
- Pin him.
You got to get close
to his head, okay?
Aah! Aah!
Pin him, pin him.
Alright, it's... it's
pinned real tight.
You got him? It's
all the way down.
You got all the
time in the world.
Take your time.
He's... he's been decapitated.
[Bleep] Yeah.
[ Both laugh ]
Thanks, buddy.
Feeding some hungry girls.
We got our first win.
Gosh.
The boys are gonna be excited.
♪
We got a little viper.
Oh, snap.
You got a snake?
They got a snake!
It's good for morale, and
that's actually great calories,
a little bit of protein.
Snake kebab!
Gabrielle: Anybody
could catch a snake kebab.
This is a viper kebab.
Viper kebab!
I'm, like, always gonna
think about that, I think,
the time we took
down a frickin' viper.
Tastes like a chicken's wing.
Mm-hmm. It's pretty good.
There's not much to
these little fellas, is there?
No, there's not.
♪
Did you guys get a snake?
Yeah. Really?
We did.
Gabby and I.
Oh, cool. Nice.
Good job.
Will be a good
little snack, huh?
♪
Well, good luck to you guys.
I hope you catch a big one.
♪
♪
Charlie: I'm not getting my
batteries charged up again.
- We kind of been starving.
- Yeah.
Woman: And it's hump day,
day 20. It's just the halfway point.
Makes your 21-day one
feel like a breeze now.
Ain't no easy walk
in the park doing 40,
at least not for me.
♪
So, it's the morning of day 20.
Mnh!
50% done.
I'm about to go check my lines.
Let's pray.
♪
There's line one.
Gonna trust.
Alright.
♪
Alright. Now, this is the one
that I had the most hope on,
'cause it's in a prime location.
♪
Whoo. Whoo!
That is breakfast.
Now, that's what
I'm talking about.
We need a win.
Who do you call?
Russell sage.
Now I'm excited 'cause
I'm feeding my team,
feeding my people.
Win for Russell.
Win for Russell.
That's gonna taste so good.
♪
Hey, you guys.
Charlie: What do you got, Russ?
Russell got an eel.
Oh, no way!
- Nice.
- Oh, wow!
Whoo!
- Good job.
- Nice.
- Super, super stoked.
- Heck yes. Yes.
For Russell to pull out
an eel is so uplifting,
because now we all
know we have a chance.
We know we're not gonna starve.
It's just persistence.
It's getting out of the
cave and being persistent,
something I've been
preaching from day one.
It's working.
Good job, brother.
Max: First catch of many more.
Russell: Yes. I'm happy
I could provide for y'all.
Duck: It's delicious.
You know what that
smells and tastes like?
- Mnh-mnh.
- Success.
Mm-hmm.
♪
I have never been so excited
to be with such an
awesome group of people.
You guys, y'all are my family.
You always will be from now on.
So, yeah.
To the wolf pack.
To the wolf pack,
the six-pack wolf pack.
[ All howling ]
Yeah, baby.
♪
♪
One.
There's two.
Day 21.
Today's a great
day. I'm loving it.
I'm just going around
to hunt for snails,
and I think I see
number three right there.
After eating that
eel, I felt energized.
And I felt not only energized,
I was in a good mood.
If I can just fish
and get some eels,
I can start catching
them back-to-back.
I want my family to be fed,
and I want to be
the one to feed them.
Day 21 on my last XL,
I just wasn't really
in a good place.
There was some people
there that liked me,
some people that didn't,
and it made for a
tough challenge.
But here, I am who I am,
and they love me for it.
If you ask me to do a
60-day, 80-day, 90-day,
I don't give a [bleep] damn.
It's with those
people, I'll do it.
♪
There's another guy.
There you go. Good boy.
This is the first time I've
been to this part of the jungle.
I normally stay on that
side of the creek bed.
Come on, snails.
Ow.
What the [bleep] was that?
Oh [bleep]
[Bleep] Snake just bit me.
[Bleep] Damn it!
Narrator: Throughout
the 40-day challenge,
each team will receive
a shared "Naked and
Afraid XL" rating, or XLR,
which tracks their progress
and likelihood of success.
38 days into their
60-day challenge...
Number two. Jeff
and Laura continue
to pull eels out of their
claimed fishing spot...
[ Screaming ]
Narrator: Taking in
more protein in three days
than the rest of the
teams combined.
If people cannot
get their own food,
then they should
not be out here.
Narrator: Their XLR
rises from 9.2 to 9.6.
For their neighbors,
a trade for hooks
has yet to yield
results... Duke: What?
You got to share the space.
Narrator: Forcing
Rylie and Gabrielle
to hunt one of the jungle's
most venomous killers.
- Yeah.
- Whoo!
Feeding some hungry girls.
Their XL rating
rises from 7.5 to 7.8.
One mile South,
Charlie's efforts have
rallied his teammates... ♪
Inspiring Russell to deliver
a major win for the team.
Whoo!
Breakfast.
Narrator: Their XLR
rises from 7.9 to 8.3.
Ow. But has his
quest for redemption
taken a sudden step
in the wrong direction?
Snake just bit me.
Ow.
What the [bleep] was that?
Oh [bleep]
It's a [bleep] snake.
Just bit me. [Bleep] [Bleep]
Damn it!
♪
I got him pinned.
I ain't letting you
get away, buddy.
You may want to get
somebody over here.
It's a baby.
♪
Man: I'm on my way.
♪
Russell: We were just
walking, looking for snails,
and all of a sudden, it
felt like a fire ant [bleep]
- Oh, yeah.
- Where?
On the toe.
Right there.
We're gonna determine
whether it's venomous or not.
Alright. The rangers
are looking at it.
They're taking pictures of it,
but we're gonna get
you treated right now.
Alright. Well, it's got fangs,
so my money's on venomous.
Narrator: Because their
features have yet to fully develop,
juvenile snakes are
notoriously difficult to identify.
I want a positive I.D.
on that little [bleep]
A lack of muscular control
causes young snakes to
release all their venom in one bite,
making them twice as
deadly as an adult snake.
Russell: I can't tell
you if I feel anything
because, like,
my heart's racing.
Try to relax, okay?
Alright, but I'm
feeling lightheaded.
Good, deep breaths, okay?
♪
♪
This isn't me
tapping yet, is it?
♪
You can cut the [bleep] toe off.
I got to get my 40.
♪
Yep.
♪
Snake got me.
[Bleep] Viper?
It has fangs.
They can't
identify it right now,
so we don't know what it is.
Russell, I need
to have the doctor
try to explain what's going on.
Okay?
So, since we don't know if
the snake is venomous or not,
your safety's our priority.
So what we want to do
is bring you to the
hospital as soon as we can.
This is a tap.
David: Russell, we
can't identify that snake,
and that's dangerous.
It's not a chance we
are willing to take, so...
You go to bush
camp, you're not out.
You go to hospital, you're out.
Oh [bleep] me.
♪
Duck: Do I need to go
get the rest of the crew?
They probably want to see him.
Right back, bro. Right back.
Woman: Let's go.
Hey. Russ done got snake-bit,
and they're making him tap.
- What?
- Oh, my god!
- No way!
- What?
No way!
- [Bleep]
- Oh, my god.
Max: He got bit by a viper?
They don't know.
They can't identify it.
They're going
right there with him.
- Oh, my god.
- [Bleep]
Yo, Russ!
Russ!
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Russ.
You'll be okay.
Woman: Russell,
you'll be alright.
[Bleep] Dude.
We love you.
God bless, Russell!
Oh, my god.
♪
Narrator: Next time on
"Naked and Afraid XL"...
Got some bad news, Charlie.
Russell got snake-bit.
- What?
- We got to step up.
James: We're not catching
any fish, not catching any eels.
We got to get out of here.
Charlie: The hike's
gonna be uphill.
Woman: Holy [bleep]
Open area, jungle, mud.
It's gonna be difficult.
Not slowing down. I'm gonna
continue to go at my pace.
- Hold!
- Oh, my gosh.
We need a shelter.
- Medic!
- [ Moaning ]
"Naked and Afraid XL"...
- Oh, snake right here... viper.
- Oh [bleep]
Two weeks into the
40-day challenge...
- [Bleep]
- No. No! No!
The three remaining
teams abandon the coast
and push deep into
the Palawan jungle.
We know what awaits us
in there, and it's not pretty.
Narrator: To the north, two
teams now occupy the same cave.
Guess we're gonna have
to share a house, neighbors.
But Duke, James,
Rylie, and Gabrielle
have yet to
supplement their fruit
with any significant protein...
Duke: We don't see
the kind of resources
that we were hoping to see.
Narrator: While Jeff and Laura,
35 days into their
60-day challenge,
use their fish hooks to
score an early jungle win.
Duke: Is that an eel?
Jeff: Everything I have
I will share with Laura.
I'm not ready to do
that for an entire group.
This is good, good.
[ Laughing ]
♪
Narrator: One mile South, a
grueling hike and lack of food
has left the team
of six depleted...
This is a marathon.
This isn't a sprint.
Angela: Work smarter not harder.
Narrator: And their
team leader frustrated.
Are you gonna sit
in a cave all day?
He's wasting energy
that he doesn't have.
I am not sitting
in this [bleep] cave
when there is a [bleep]
dining room out there!
Rookie [bleep] mistake.
Bye. Go on your walk, Charlie.
[Bleep]
Narrator: Now with
23 days remaining...
There it is, baby!
- Oh!
- Ow! [Bleep]
Narrator: Will anyone
escape this hellish island alive?
Come on. You got
to keep pushing.
[ Shouts indistinctly ]
captions paid for by
discovery communications ♪
Russell: It breaks my heart.
It wasn't me belittling him
or talking down to him
or anything like that.
He just didn't want
to hear it. Exactly.
The old Russell
wouldn't have cared,
but the new Russell
is concerned.
Realize that, yeah, maybe
it is my fault, maybe it's not.
He needs to go off on his own.
He's doing what he's got
to do to get it off his mind.
Charlie's my partner, you know?
I'd do anything to help him out,
but he just wants
to go, go, go, go, go.
And we've basically
got no meat, no protein,
so I'm just suffering with that.
I know what my body can handle,
and I know when it
says stop, it means stop
'cause Duck wants
to make it to 40 days.
I love the man. I idolize
him. I look up to him.
He's like our dad
out here. Exactly.
He's actually being
a father figure to me.
Russell: It's a group decision
to conserve our calories,
but I was the only one
that really voiced my opinion
and voiced it loud, and
I'm not proud of that.
But me and Charlie both
have the same motivation.
We are here for our
redemption, and, hopefully,
none of us are so hotheaded
that we're going to hold a grudge.
♪
Charlie: I perceived
their attack
as a way to get me
to be on their side
of sitting and doing nothing,
so it justifies their action.
Can't have that.
If that's their choice,
I'm gonna go out
and better my situation.
I can find a better shelter.
I'm a leader, not
somebody to be trifled with,
but I'm also a
very sensitive guy.
We're all chasing something.
Whatever those five are
chasing, it's in that cave.
What I'm chasing is out here.
♪
♪
So, I think what we should do
is, we should start at the end,
set those ones, and then
work our way this way.
- What do you think?
- Yep, yeah.
I think we're gonna pull
another one out of the same area.
- I hope so.
- I really do.
Jeff: Laura and I have
already caught one big eel,
and I feel strong.
But there's no riding it out,
there's no coasting
to the finish line.
We are sprinters.
And when we
cross that finish line,
we will be at full speed.
Laura: I'm getting bait.
Snails. Little snail.
Jeff and I are out
here for 60 days.
We need to be putting food
in our bodies all the time.
The more hooks we
can get in the water,
the more chances
we have to catch eels.
Eels like to use the tree roots,
and they squeeze their
bodies between the tree roots,
and they make a
hole in the bank.
So you got to find
just the right habitat.
Otherwise, you might
just be wasting your time.
♪
What do you think? Like this?
Mm-hmm. Pick this up.
This feels like a
good spot. You know?
Just gonna blind cast and
see if there's anything there.
Yeah.
♪
Nothing.
Laura and Jeff have
some hooks and line,
and we do not.
We have a couple cast nets.
♪
I got to figure out
how to throw this net.
It's so dang small.
Just with a cast net, it's gonna
be really hard to get an eel.
That's 'cause the
water's kind of murky,
really don't know
what you're casting for,
but, hey, you know, blind luck
has brought in a lot
of things in the past.
Those little fish
must be pretty small.
There's something in there.
No, I thought it... it
must've been a leaf.
Rylie: When you look at
the tenets of survivalism...
Shelter, water, fire, food...
We have all of
them except protein.
So, to me, it's a no-brainer
that we should be spending
a considerable amount
of time here fishing.
I'm gonna walk around and
see if there's a spot opposite side
from where they actually
got that eel right down there.
The fact that Jeff and
Laura were able to catch
this giant 3-foot
eel in the river
is a wonderful sign
for the whole team.
♪
We got something on the line.
Got something on the line.
Don't know what it is.
♪
- Whoo! Whoo!
- Oh, you're kidding me.
Whoo-hoo!
Yeah, baby!
Yes!
Yes!
Number two!
Whoo!
Thank you, lord.
Whoo-hoo! Yeah, baby!
- Whoo!
- Is that Jeff?
I'm hearing a
lot of jungle yells,
which means it's got to be Jeff.
♪
And if I were to
guess, he's got an eel
bigger than he got two days ago,
'cause he seems
reasonably excited.
This is what I
live for right now!
Yes!
Oh, my god. I don't
remember being that happy
about anything
in my entire life.
Duke: Nice job, man. Whoo!
Thank you, Duke!
Yeah!
Got the spot, brother.
Yeah. God, I love this!
Duke: That's a hook catch.
You can't net an
animal like that,
so we feel like the only thing
stopping us from getting an eel
is that we don't
have any fish hooks.
Laura: Hey, Jeff!
[ Screaming ] Whoo!
Yeah, baby!
Oh, my god.
Number two, baby.
So awesome. Teamwork
makes the dream work!
That's right it does.
I love it!
I didn't catch even
a single minnow.
♪
♪
It tastes like...
Fatty chicken skin. I know.
Bananas?
Fruit's always
been a snack for me.
That was fantastic. Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
♪
Oh!
You know, Laura and
Jeff, they're doing awesome.
But there's a certain
amount of, uh...
Man, we'd love to
have an eel for dinner.
It's crazy to think, wow, if we
had the same items as they have,
we'd have, you know,
similar outcomes.
Duke: If those guys
upstairs, Jeff and Laura,
had even just one
available hook to trade?
Gabrielle: I think getting
one from Jeff and Laura,
that's going to
be really difficult.
Rylie: We don't really
have anything to trade.
And they don't want bananas.
They've got bananas.
They got bananas.
Maybe some firewood?
They might want fire...
We have like a day's
worth of firewood.
Duke: Hey, guys? Yeah.
Want to talk for a minute?
Jeff: Okay.
Jeff, do you have
any interest in anything
that you'd be willing
to trade for a hook?
Yeah, we, uh, definitely
are trying to hold on
to every hook we have,
'cause they're limited.
And we still have 24 days left.
♪
Not trying to make
it difficult for you.
We're just... Rylie:
Trying to survive.
So, uh, sorry.
We are gonna go.
♪
Jeff: Now, our neighbors,
they're very good people,
but we are not here
to be caretakers.
It is not me that's gonna
spend my energy and my time
on a 60-day challenge pulling
in food and giving it to others.
They can do that for themselves.
This is a big-boy challenge,
and people better start to
put their big-boy pants on.
Duke: Alright, well,
back to where we were.
Rylie: Yeah. Starving.
♪
[ Sighs ]
♪
There's food right here.
Come on, puppy.
You are mine.
There we go.
Alright.
Since being at the camp, this
is the furthest that I've come,
and, uh, curious to
see what it'll reveal.
[ Indistinct
conversations in distance ]
♪
I hear people talking.
It's coming on from
that direction right there.
After all that, it comes
down to the basics.
We need firewood.
I'll go for a round, come
back with some armloads.
♪
Do you mind getting
that last... one last pile?
Yeah.
♪
They're right over there.
♪
♪
♪
Charlie: Ha!
- Oh!
- Oh, my goodness!
- What the heck?!
- Oh!
- Oh! What's going on?
- Are you serious?
What the hell you guys up to?
How you doing? Oh,
it's so good to see you!
You gonna invite me in,
or you gonna make me feel
like a [bleep] stepchild here?
Home, cave home. We're
just chopping firewood.
Dude, you got bananas?
We got bananas.
Oh, look at all those bananas.
This is freaking awesome, dude.
We got snails.
You eating snails?
Our first 21 days we
spent with snails only.
Okay. 'Cause you
know me and Laura
are attempting 60 days.
60 days. Really?
And this place is so
much more resource-rich.
Like, the bodies
of water we have.
We got two eels in three days.
With what? What'd you use?
Out of the river.
Hook with snail bait.
Okay, what size hook?
Alright. 'Cause we have a...
We got the river by us, so
it's probably the same river.
That's where we
go. But we threw it in,
and we didn't get nothing.
Duke: You guys got
hooks? Someone has hooks?
We have hooks, yeah.
We have plenty of hooks.
Gabrielle: Knowing
that they have hooks,
I think bartering would
be a great idea for us.
I mean, if they wanted to give
us, you know, four or five hooks
in exchange for a
bunch of bananas,
that would be phenomenal.
Oh, man. So, I'm gonna go back.
If I could take five bananas
with me, I would love that.
Gabrielle: Why don't
we trek with you?
You want to come with me?
- Yeah, let's go!
- Excellent.
Alright. We won't
go the way I came in.
[ Chuckles ]
Duke: I'm pretty
excited to meet up
with the other group
and trade wares.
We're in business, baby.
♪
Charlie: Alright, guys,
- I found something!
- Hey!
What the... oh, hey, I
see new Naked people!
- Oh!
- Oh!
No way!
- Surprise!
- Oh!
What the hell?
These ain't our
people. These are fresh.
- Hey!
- Hey!
I just... I just knew who
they were by their episodes.
- Nice basket.
- We brought you bananas.
- Oh, man.
- Oh, you got bananas.
Woman: Oh, thanks.
Man: Whoo!
Is that sugarcane?
Yes, sir. Here.
Whoa.
Max: They came bearing gifts.
They came with
bananas and sugarcane,
and we've been dreaming about
sugars for the last, like, week.
Charlie: Guys.
You know what Laura
and Jeff are doing?
What? They're doing 60 days.
- What?
- What?
Living the dream.
- This is our home.
- Wow.
Day 37 today. What?
37 strong.
Yeah. What?
- That's amazing.
- Any big-time kills?
We pulled a 3-foot
eel out of the river.
- No way.
- Yeah.
Another one today.
Ah, jealous.
Yeah, that was
a meal last night.
Sick.
So, when did you guys group up?
Well, we're not grouped up.
Really?
Nope.
I mean, you said that you
were neighbors in caves.
- Yeah, we're neighbors.
- Yeah.
And these guys are... they're
kind of on their own trajectory.
- Yeah.
- We've got our own pace going,
and we've got our
own food rationed.
We are not sharing resources.
♪
Laura: We like the "neighbors,
not roommates" motto.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It's working.
Woman: Okay. Alright.
We're those
neighbors, yeah. Yeah.
♪
There is some tension
between some of the people here.
There's no
question. It's evident.
It's pretty [bleep] not sharing.
They have a nice cave setup.
And there isn't really room
for the six of us to add to it,
but they were really gracious
to share what they got with us.
Yeah, thank you so much.
Yeah, I mean, you guys
enjoy those bananas,
and if you want to talk
about any gear swap,
we're really in need
of a couple hooks.
Charlie: You need one?
Yeah, I got you, I got
you. Come over here.
We thought maybe
our peace offering
would help negotiate,
you know, one or two, but...
Alright, so, I can loan you
as many of these as you want.
Oh, man, this is
huge. I'll give you four.
There's three there.
That's four more than we had.
Duke: Right off the bat,
says, like, "you need hooks?
I got you, bro." I'm stoked!
I'm stoked.
I will help you
out with this, also.
This is 65-pound test line.
Oh, man, that is awesome.
There are plenty of
eels and plenty of fish
out there to catch,
and it doesn't bother me to
share resources with them.
This is so good, man.
Yeah, dude, look, hey, love you.
Y'all are my brothers out
here just the same, so...
That's perfect.
Jeff: If Russell wants to
be a hero, I respect that.
Laura and I, we're gonna put
every hook we
have in that river.
Duke: Well, should
we be getting back?
Woman: Yeah.
James: We now
have these four hooks,
and none of the group
can wait to put it in the water
and see if we can start
catching something.
- Bye, Gabby.
- Bye, you guys.
Walk safe.
Man: Right on.
♪
♪
Duke: This actually looks
really good right here.
Could be good eel habitat.
Jeff: I think we should set
everything on our side of the river.
Laura: Yeah.
I think these guys are gonna...
They're bee-lining
it for the spot
opposite of this little
creek outlet here.
We'll set two here.
Yeah. And then, I think we
work our way up the bank...
Yeah. And look for better spots.
Cool.
Jeff: If you throw in
one hook into that river,
I'd say you have a 10%
chance of catching an eel.
Your chances aren't great.
You might get lucky.
But [chuckles] I'm gonna
fire off all rounds, man.
I'm not taking chances out here.
Right now, Laura and I have 20.
And that would be a 200% chance.
♪
Buddy, I know this
is your honey pot.
Jeff: Yeah. But I gotta...
I gotta ask, man,
where can I squeeze in?
We're gonna set ours
all the way up this side.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Gotcha. Yep.
This actually looks
really good right here, too.
I had two hooks there.
What?
James: Oh, I see
the line now, yeah.
[ Sighs ]
♪
Laura: I cover a lot of ground,
and I constantly move my lines.
Maybe we're just being greedy,
but we're out here for 60 days.
We need to replenish ourselves.
♪
There's a time to be generous,
but there's a time when
that's just self-sacrifice.
♪
There's a bunch of
tree roots on this side.
And I think it'd be
good to set there.
Duke: There's a little bit of
tension with Jeff and Laura
about their side of the river,
so we tried to avoid setting
hooks right near theirs.
Woman: Sorry, little buddy.
I think that's a good spot.
Gabrielle: We have four lines
in the water. We're really hoping
to bring something
in in the next few days.
We could use a
nice, big hunk of eel.
- Come on, little guys.
- They're in here.
They're in here.
♪
I'm gonna go over
and get firewood.
- Alright.
- Alright, Charlie.
Tell you what, we should help
Charlie out with the firewood.
- Totally.
- Mm-hmm.
- Sounds good.
- Come on, let's go. Let's go.
I've been trying to tell Charlie
for 17 days to slow down.
It's not gonna change anything.
So, as a team member,
I need to help him out.
♪
♪
Everybody's getting firewood.
I'm not the only one
doing it anymore.
♪
To see my team up
and about like that,
that means everything to me.
Everything.
♪
Come through a lot together,
especially Duck, Russell, and I.
Sometimes even family
members grate on you.
♪
Russell: We speak
our minds. We get loud.
But we take a
second to go cool off.
We come back. We're
best friends again.
You, give me a hug! [
Exclaiming indistinctly ]
You're my buddy out here.
You know we care about you.
Duck: Charlie's a go-getter,
you know, and he just thinks
I guess everybody should
be with him all the time
and right there by him.
And other people's
bodies don't react like his.
♪
And it's got me about
dizzy all the time.
♪
[ Groans ]
Ooh, lightheaded.
Stood up too fast.
♪
[ Thud ]
- Ooh! Oh, my god!
- [ Gasps ]
- What happened?
- [Bleep]
- Duck?
- Duck.
♪
[ Groans ]
Ooh, lightheaded.
Stood up too fast.
[ Thud ]
- Ooh!
- [ Gasps ]
- Oh, you okay?
- Oh [bleep]
- What happened?
- Smacked his head.
- [ Groaning ]
- Yeah, sit down.
Sit down.
Max: Let him
chill. Let him chill.
- Just go slow.
- Ohh [bleep]
- Look at me. Look at me.
- Am I bleeding?
Look up at me so I can find out.
Where'd you get
hit? Top of the head?
Right there. That part feels
like it's busted wide open.
- Watch your back.
- Watch your back, Duck.
Can't really see. It's too dark.
Russell: This cave is not the place
you want to pass out standing up.
That's not too bad.
It's not too bad.
We're working on
very little calories.
Bananas are not protein.
It burns up just like that.
Fishing might be a
little protein in the body.
Might be in our favor.
I am gonna go hunt for
some snails, a.K.A. Bait.
- Oh.
- Hey.
The hunger is affecting
Duck a little different than me,
and I really want
to provide for him
and relieve that hunger stress
and that hunger pain for him.
So I'm hoping I can
bring back some eel.
♪
♪
I'm gonna go set my hooks,
let them hang out there
in the water, the branch.
That's what I'm gonna do.
I choose to be the one
going and getting food
because, you know,
I care about my team.
If I can just fish
and get some eels,
I can complete the
rest of this challenge
and feel like I
provided for the group,
I got my win, and
make everybody proud.
The bobber will be in and out
of the water as the branch moves
and all that good stuff,
so... be pretty good.
One down, five to go.
♪
♪
James and I are
up at first light
to go check the lines.
[ Sighs ]
Today is eel day.
We only have four hooks, but
we've got them all in the water,
they're all baited, and
we're hoping for some eel.
♪
Ah, this one looks pretty still.
It's actually kind of
caught on some roots.
Nothing on it.
10 feet forward on your left.
♪
What?
This is Jeff's line, like
right on top of ours.
♪
He... he didn't see it.
It's basically tied
to the same branch.
I don't know how he
wouldn't have seen it.
Dude.
The fact that Jeff
and Laura set hooks
right where we have our
hooks, I'm... I'm shocked.
I can't believe what I'm seeing.
Nothing.
I'm gonna move
it a few feet out.
Yeah, but the same time, I
don't want to give up our spot
because somebody came after us.
No, no.
James: All we want to do
is some simple little fishing,
and now it's gonna
become an epic fight
over the best spots in
this very narrow creek.
I know that they're putting a
full press on that river, but...
You got to share the space.
They were twisted together.
James: Jeff and Laura,
they have about 20 hooks.
We're sitting out
here with four hooks?
Yeah, don't get your
lines on top of ours.
I pulled the hook that
was right across the way.
Those guys set on top of
it, and they were all twisted.
What the [bleep] nothing.
I have probably too
much faith in humanity.
Hungry humanity.
♪
Oh [bleep] there's
something on this line.
♪
Aha! Oh, my god.
I cannot [bleep] believe this.
[ Chuckling ] We
got another eel.
This is three
eels in three days.
[ Screaming ]
♪
Hear that? Mm-hmm.
Another eel.
Think they might be
having eel for dinner again.
I don't know. I think, for
our group, nice high-five.
We're happy. We're good.
I don't know that we're
gonna need as much cheering.
Maybe we're just
a little stronger.
Don't need the extra cheering.
Laura: Morning, neighbors.
Jeff!
Can I hand you something?
Jeff: What is that?!
Oh, my gosh!
I frickin' love you!
I love you, too. Oh, I love you!
[ Laughing, screaming ]
Yes!
If it's loud all the time,
it just becomes
annoying and deafening.
Yes!
Who's got the best partner ever?
Laura: I do! I do!
Yes!
Yes!
Oh!
Like, "yeah, yeah!"
♪
We're eating
breakfast after dinner.
[ Laughs ] I'm gonna get fat.
Hell yeah!
♪
♪
♪
This eel is huge.
This is a feast.
Sometimes I would love
to share what we get.
I want to see that.
But you can't come out
here and try to be the hero
and provide for every person.
It didn't come easy.
It was a lot of
hard-earned work.
Jeff: We are not
here to give handouts.
"Naked and Afraid XL"
is not a welfare program.
If people cannot
get their own food,
then they should
not be out here.
♪
♪
Duke: Hey.
Did you, uh... did you set
some more hooks out there?
I did.
We had one at that...
You know, where there's
that downed log just upriver?
And then you put a line there.
Um... ♪
I mean, it's...
It's still a river.
And I kind of
think it's free game.
We're all surviving.
So... Gabrielle: Wow.
We haven't had
any success with eel.
It's not worth busting our
butts down by the river.
James, Duke, Rylie,
and I are very hungry.
We have to start hunting.
We have to start
bringing in protein.
♪
Rylie: We're gonna head
up where we have noticed
some reptile activity.
Keep an eye out.
♪
Rylie: We're just being
as quiet as we can.
We're looking up.
We're looking down.
We're looking in
the tree branches,
because these vipers,
they're brown. They're green.
So is the forest.
The problem is,
they're so camouflaged.
♪
Oh, my god.
- Holy [bleep]
- What is it?
You see that viper right there?
Hanging on that branch.
Aah! Oh [bleep]
Yeah, he's not happy.
Mnh-mnh.
Narrator: The most
lethal snake on the island,
the Philippine pit viper,
has a strike speed of
almost 3 meters per second,
often reaching its prey faster
than the blink of a human eye.
I actually am
scared now to move.
This is his home territory.
He's gonna move a
lot faster than we will.
He's got the upper hand here.
Gabrielle: This is very,
very, very dangerous.
We have to have this meal.
Rylie: Think you can
pin him from here?
No, I can't pin
him while he's up.
I can wrap him and
bring him to the ground.
Yeah. Let's try that.
But I don't know which
direction he's gonna go.
♪
Come on, buddy. He's
gonna want to go up.
Mm-hmm.
Let him get my stick.
Just be careful lowering it,
'cause he's headed...
Pointed at you now.
Mm-hmm.
Holy [bleep] you got to pin him.
♪
- I got it. Hold on.
- Pin him.
You got to get close
to his head, okay?
Aah! Aah!
Just be careful lowering it,
'cause he's headed...
Pointed at you now.
Gabrielle: Mm-hmm.
Holy [bleep] you got to pin him.
- I got it. Hold on.
- Pin him.
You got to get close
to his head, okay?
Aah! Aah!
Pin him, pin him.
Alright, it's... it's
pinned real tight.
You got him? It's
all the way down.
You got all the
time in the world.
Take your time.
He's... he's been decapitated.
[Bleep] Yeah.
[ Both laugh ]
Thanks, buddy.
Feeding some hungry girls.
We got our first win.
Gosh.
The boys are gonna be excited.
♪
We got a little viper.
Oh, snap.
You got a snake?
They got a snake!
It's good for morale, and
that's actually great calories,
a little bit of protein.
Snake kebab!
Gabrielle: Anybody
could catch a snake kebab.
This is a viper kebab.
Viper kebab!
I'm, like, always gonna
think about that, I think,
the time we took
down a frickin' viper.
Tastes like a chicken's wing.
Mm-hmm. It's pretty good.
There's not much to
these little fellas, is there?
No, there's not.
♪
Did you guys get a snake?
Yeah. Really?
We did.
Gabby and I.
Oh, cool. Nice.
Good job.
Will be a good
little snack, huh?
♪
Well, good luck to you guys.
I hope you catch a big one.
♪
♪
Charlie: I'm not getting my
batteries charged up again.
- We kind of been starving.
- Yeah.
Woman: And it's hump day,
day 20. It's just the halfway point.
Makes your 21-day one
feel like a breeze now.
Ain't no easy walk
in the park doing 40,
at least not for me.
♪
So, it's the morning of day 20.
Mnh!
50% done.
I'm about to go check my lines.
Let's pray.
♪
There's line one.
Gonna trust.
Alright.
♪
Alright. Now, this is the one
that I had the most hope on,
'cause it's in a prime location.
♪
Whoo. Whoo!
That is breakfast.
Now, that's what
I'm talking about.
We need a win.
Who do you call?
Russell sage.
Now I'm excited 'cause
I'm feeding my team,
feeding my people.
Win for Russell.
Win for Russell.
That's gonna taste so good.
♪
Hey, you guys.
Charlie: What do you got, Russ?
Russell got an eel.
Oh, no way!
- Nice.
- Oh, wow!
Whoo!
- Good job.
- Nice.
- Super, super stoked.
- Heck yes. Yes.
For Russell to pull out
an eel is so uplifting,
because now we all
know we have a chance.
We know we're not gonna starve.
It's just persistence.
It's getting out of the
cave and being persistent,
something I've been
preaching from day one.
It's working.
Good job, brother.
Max: First catch of many more.
Russell: Yes. I'm happy
I could provide for y'all.
Duck: It's delicious.
You know what that
smells and tastes like?
- Mnh-mnh.
- Success.
Mm-hmm.
♪
I have never been so excited
to be with such an
awesome group of people.
You guys, y'all are my family.
You always will be from now on.
So, yeah.
To the wolf pack.
To the wolf pack,
the six-pack wolf pack.
[ All howling ]
Yeah, baby.
♪
♪
One.
There's two.
Day 21.
Today's a great
day. I'm loving it.
I'm just going around
to hunt for snails,
and I think I see
number three right there.
After eating that
eel, I felt energized.
And I felt not only energized,
I was in a good mood.
If I can just fish
and get some eels,
I can start catching
them back-to-back.
I want my family to be fed,
and I want to be
the one to feed them.
Day 21 on my last XL,
I just wasn't really
in a good place.
There was some people
there that liked me,
some people that didn't,
and it made for a
tough challenge.
But here, I am who I am,
and they love me for it.
If you ask me to do a
60-day, 80-day, 90-day,
I don't give a [bleep] damn.
It's with those
people, I'll do it.
♪
There's another guy.
There you go. Good boy.
This is the first time I've
been to this part of the jungle.
I normally stay on that
side of the creek bed.
Come on, snails.
Ow.
What the [bleep] was that?
Oh [bleep]
[Bleep] Snake just bit me.
[Bleep] Damn it!
Narrator: Throughout
the 40-day challenge,
each team will receive
a shared "Naked and
Afraid XL" rating, or XLR,
which tracks their progress
and likelihood of success.
38 days into their
60-day challenge...
Number two. Jeff
and Laura continue
to pull eels out of their
claimed fishing spot...
[ Screaming ]
Narrator: Taking in
more protein in three days
than the rest of the
teams combined.
If people cannot
get their own food,
then they should
not be out here.
Narrator: Their XLR
rises from 9.2 to 9.6.
For their neighbors,
a trade for hooks
has yet to yield
results... Duke: What?
You got to share the space.
Narrator: Forcing
Rylie and Gabrielle
to hunt one of the jungle's
most venomous killers.
- Yeah.
- Whoo!
Feeding some hungry girls.
Their XL rating
rises from 7.5 to 7.8.
One mile South,
Charlie's efforts have
rallied his teammates... ♪
Inspiring Russell to deliver
a major win for the team.
Whoo!
Breakfast.
Narrator: Their XLR
rises from 7.9 to 8.3.
Ow. But has his
quest for redemption
taken a sudden step
in the wrong direction?
Snake just bit me.
Ow.
What the [bleep] was that?
Oh [bleep]
It's a [bleep] snake.
Just bit me. [Bleep] [Bleep]
Damn it!
♪
I got him pinned.
I ain't letting you
get away, buddy.
You may want to get
somebody over here.
It's a baby.
♪
Man: I'm on my way.
♪
Russell: We were just
walking, looking for snails,
and all of a sudden, it
felt like a fire ant [bleep]
- Oh, yeah.
- Where?
On the toe.
Right there.
We're gonna determine
whether it's venomous or not.
Alright. The rangers
are looking at it.
They're taking pictures of it,
but we're gonna get
you treated right now.
Alright. Well, it's got fangs,
so my money's on venomous.
Narrator: Because their
features have yet to fully develop,
juvenile snakes are
notoriously difficult to identify.
I want a positive I.D.
on that little [bleep]
A lack of muscular control
causes young snakes to
release all their venom in one bite,
making them twice as
deadly as an adult snake.
Russell: I can't tell
you if I feel anything
because, like,
my heart's racing.
Try to relax, okay?
Alright, but I'm
feeling lightheaded.
Good, deep breaths, okay?
♪
♪
This isn't me
tapping yet, is it?
♪
You can cut the [bleep] toe off.
I got to get my 40.
♪
Yep.
♪
Snake got me.
[Bleep] Viper?
It has fangs.
They can't
identify it right now,
so we don't know what it is.
Russell, I need
to have the doctor
try to explain what's going on.
Okay?
So, since we don't know if
the snake is venomous or not,
your safety's our priority.
So what we want to do
is bring you to the
hospital as soon as we can.
This is a tap.
David: Russell, we
can't identify that snake,
and that's dangerous.
It's not a chance we
are willing to take, so...
You go to bush
camp, you're not out.
You go to hospital, you're out.
Oh [bleep] me.
♪
Duck: Do I need to go
get the rest of the crew?
They probably want to see him.
Right back, bro. Right back.
Woman: Let's go.
Hey. Russ done got snake-bit,
and they're making him tap.
- What?
- Oh, my god!
- No way!
- What?
No way!
- [Bleep]
- Oh, my god.
Max: He got bit by a viper?
They don't know.
They can't identify it.
They're going
right there with him.
- Oh, my god.
- [Bleep]
Yo, Russ!
Russ!
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Russ.
You'll be okay.
Woman: Russell,
you'll be alright.
[Bleep] Dude.
We love you.
God bless, Russell!
Oh, my god.
♪
Narrator: Next time on
"Naked and Afraid XL"...
Got some bad news, Charlie.
Russell got snake-bit.
- What?
- We got to step up.
James: We're not catching
any fish, not catching any eels.
We got to get out of here.
Charlie: The hike's
gonna be uphill.
Woman: Holy [bleep]
Open area, jungle, mud.
It's gonna be difficult.
Not slowing down. I'm gonna
continue to go at my pace.
- Hold!
- Oh, my gosh.
We need a shelter.
- Medic!
- [ Moaning ]