Snake in the Grass (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Masters of Gameplay - full transcript
Three "Survivor" alums and a "Naked and Afraid" survivalist must dive deep to uncover the Snake.
there's a key.
Bring 'em to me
to open the box.
- It's too murky
when the waves come in.
- It's got to be straight down.
[tense music]
- I don't see anything.
- That could be something
a Snake would say
to throw us off.
* *
- The Snake
is gonna reveal himself.
* *
- Come on, Yul!
- Go, guys, we got this!
- We in the middle
of the ocean with people
that you can't really trust.
* *
This is a great chance
for the Snake
to sabotage against us.
Everyone is a suspect.
* *
- * Life on the edge,
edge is the sharp *
* Sharp like a knife,
head on a swerve *
* Swerve into turns, turn up *
* You waited for this
your whole life *
* Life on the edge,
edge is the sharp *
* Sharp like a knife,
head on a swerve *
* Swerve into turns, turn up *
* You waited for this
your whole life *
* Life on the edge,
edge is the sharp *
* Sharp like a knife
it's your life *
- I played "Survivor"
three times, lost three times.
I have a reputation.
I was pretty ruthless.
If somebody just read
about the things
that I've done with my life,
I come off pretty
straight-laced.
Spend five minutes with me,
you're gonna realize
it's the opposite.
Coming out here,
I don't even know
what we're getting into,
but whatever it is,
I will take joy in making
everyone else's dreams crumble.
- I've been
on "Survivor" twice.
First time I won,
it really gave me
that boost of confidence
that I think I was missing
for much of my life.
I'm naturally a very
introverted and shy person.
Because of that, I've learned
to try to confront
my fears and anxieties.
When you get to go off and do
something crazy like this,
you take it.
- So a lot has changed
since I won "Survivor"
14 years ago.
As far as the kind of shape
I'm in now,
I guess I'm a shape.
I think I'm, like,
100% grade B Dad bod.
So this is a great opportunity
to show what I
still have left in the tank.
I'm a savage.
I'm a beast.
I'm ready for this again.
- * It's time to go *
* *
- I'm a wilderness
survival expert,
and most people know me
from the series
"Naked and Afraid,"
but I've never done
anything like this before.
When I'm 90 years old
on my deathbed,
I want to look back and say,
I pushed myself
to the absolute limit
my entire life.
* *
- This is what I live for!
* *
- Whoo!
- That was an epic entrance.
My name is Bobby Bones,
and I'll be taking you through
this extremely harsh jungle.
Anyone scared?
- Not at all.
You guys know each other?
- Reputation only.
I'm aware of Yul.
He's one of the best.
- I've always
wanted to play with Earl.
And then Jeff, I'm a huge fan.
I've seen this guy naked
more times than I can count,
but he's awesome.
- Jeff, do I have your word
that all your clothes stay on?
- No.
[laughter]
- Do you know these guys
around you at all?
- I don't, no.
First time I've ever met
these gentlemen.
- I'm really psyched.
Earl is a friend.
I've always respected him
as a great "Survivor" winner.
Like, if there was
a zombie apocalypse,
who would I want on my team?
These guys would be it.
- Well, you guys
are four great competitors,
that's why you're here.
And now you've got
a chance to win $100,000.
- All right.
- I like that.
- There we go, all right.
- There is a slight catch.
One of you is trying
to sabotage the team.
There is a Snake
amongst you four.
- [chuckles]
- Ugh.
- One of you four already know
you're coming
into this game
to take the team down.
I have no idea
who the Snake is.
I'm looking at all you guys
the exact same way
you're looking at each other.
* *
- I am not the Snake.
- I am not the Snake.
- I'm not the Snake.
- I'm not the Snake.
I'm just myself.
That's my fatal flaw.
I cannot not be myself.
- All right, here's how
the game works, guys.
Over the next two days, you'll
have a couple of challenges.
If you can successfully
complete the challenge,
you will get a Snake Clue.
This has information
that will lead you
one step closer to the Snake.
At the end of the two days,
we'll meet at the Snake Pit
and you guys will decide
who's the Snake.
- I don't know
enough about Jeff,
but I'm actually
pretty terrified
knowing Yul
and Earl's reputation.
These guys are gamers,
they're smart,
they're manipulative,
and they're great athletes,
so that's already
a baseline for intimidation.
- I do have
the first Snake Clue though.
Would you guys like to hear it?
- Yes, sir.
- Sure, yeah.
- "Life growing up
was rather tough.
"You might say
it was even rough.
"The Snake played sports
and gave it their all.
They really
liked ones with a ball."
- You can interpret
that different ways.
Maybe they grew up out
in the wild like this man did.
- Does anyone want to admit
to playing sports with a ball?
- I played.
- I played sports with a ball.
- I'm a little bit suspicious
of Malcolm
because he scares me.
He's smarter than he looks.
You can never trust a guy
in a man bun.
- That's 90% of the sports
out there,
so I'm like, "That didn't
help me that much."
- In front of you guys,
there are four backpacks.
The Apple Watches
on top of the bags
with GPS coordinates to get
you to the first challenge.
- Cool.
- See you real soon.
- All right, thank you.
- [laughs]
- Okay.
- Hey, good to see you.
So my relationship with Yul
goes back several years.
Kind of always just had that
unique kind of bond/friendship.
We could work together
collectively
and try to flush out
who might be the Snake.
- All right.
Two of you are my friends.
- Yeah, one of y'all's
been lying already.
- I could have
a target on my back.
All three of these people,
they have something in common.
They are masters of game play.
Clearly, I'm at a disadvantage.
- * You better
kill me first *
* For our silence
is mostly the end *
* You better
kill me first *
- I've always just loved
pushing my mind and my body
to the limits.
I'm a big mountain climber.
- You still had to be naked.
- I didn't care about
the fact that it was naked.
All I cared about
was the challenge.
- This guy is insane.
The guy goes out there
and does true
survivalist things,
like, naked.
I could never do that.
This guy is a wild card.
- I don't know
what I'm capable of
with shoes
and a pair of pants on.
We're about to find out, baby.
There's $100,000 on the line.
I'm gonna use the money
to open up my own schools,
to bring my passion
of the outdoors
to those that don't have
that opportunity.
This is my game right now.
Just win, baby.
* *
- It's time
for the first challenge.
There are four buoy markers
floating offshore.
Buried in the sand
somewhere between the buoys,
there are five
metal snake pieces.
Now, to find them,
the players must locate
two underwater metal detectors
that are hidden here
on the beach.
Using the metal detectors,
players must locate
and assemble
all five snake pieces
into one complete snake
in 30 minutes or less
in order to win
the next Snake Clue.
Time starts now.
- Okay, last little bit
of strategy guys,
here's what I'm--okay.
Do we want to split up
and go fours
or groups of two...
- Two.
- We should do twos.
- So we don't let
the Snake screw us
on the metal detectors?
- Twos.
- We could send somebody
out there right away,
see how deep it is.
- That could be something
a Snake would say
to throw us off.
I know you don't know me,
you don't know to trust me.
The Snake is gonna
try to [bleep] us.
If we catch the Snake cheating,
we automatically
win this money.
- If we catch him cheating
red-handed, okay?
- I think Jeff
tries to take charge a lot,
but that's just
might be his personality,
or that might be his way of
throwing us off a little bit.
[percussive music]
* *
- There's not
too many places it could be.
- Wait,
are we going to have to dig?
- Oh, wait.
That's it. Found one!
- Got it, we're good.
- You got it?
- Yeah.
- Great.
- Oh, we got two.
We got two!
- * Pressure is bumpin',
it's comin', it's...*
- All right, so Malcolm,
you and I start in the back?
- Yeah,
I'll just go to the back.
- I'll go first,
and then we'll switch off.
- They've decided to pair off.
Malcolm is out with Earl,
and Jeff is out with Yul.
- * When the percussion,
your heart beatin' fast *
* Hearts beatin' fast,
dippin' in shadows *
* That part of me dark *
- Right here.
Let's try it down here.
- * 'Cause nothing can stop
my advance on this path *
* You catchin' that contact *
* Prepare for that combat *
[detector beeping]
* *
- Right.
- Got one, got one.
- Can we throw it?
Is it heavy?
- No.
- Okay.
- All right,
Earl's coming ashore,
bringing a segment
of the snake.
Oh.
- Shit.
- And now he's lost it.
- Oh, that worked out great.
Ugh!
And obviously, you know,
that's like,
oh, they're gonna look at me
and think I did it on purpose,
but anybody that knows me--
I'm not that stupid.
- Yo, what's up?
- It fell in this area.
- Not on purpose, trust me.
- That goes
into the mental note.
How do you lose the one thing
most valuable about--
this is a red flag.
He said,
"I'm just gonna throw it."
Like, I don't know.
- Something's going on.
Earl is a really
strong competitor.
It is hard
for me to imagine Earl
making a blunder like that
because he's, like,
really good at what he does.
- Holy shit.
- All right,
Earl's coming ashore,
bringing a segment
of the snake.
Oh.
And now he's lost it.
- Go keep an eye on them.
- I mean, it was, like,
literally dead center.
- All right.
Well, let me dig around.
Earl's kicking
around the water,
and he finally calls me in,
and I start looking around,
and he's already taken off.
He's the only person
who knows
precisely where
that landed in the water
It doesn't make any sense.
[detector beeping]
- Found it!
- Yes!
- All right, give me this.
I'm working over there.
Cool.
- All right,
let's go, baby, we got this!
- Look, he dropped it
somewhere right in here.
Well, he said he tried
to throw it,
but I wasn't looking.
- It's so obvious, but like...
- Hey,
how are we gonna find it
if both of you guys got it
and you're standing there?
- We're looking
for the one you dropped!
- But that's just one
compared to the other three
that are out here.
- It's probably right there.
We just can't see.
- I don't think we should have
both of them
here though.
- Found one!
- Oh, thank God.
- There we go.
- Found one!
This is $100,000.
Let's go.
- Here, here, here.
- I'm absolutely feeling
the pressure
of time right now.
I've already
found two snake pieces.
Malcolm found one,
and that leaves
two fellow competitors that
haven't found a single piece.
- Two!
- They've just
found their third piece,
but they only have two pieces
in their possession,
as they lost the first one.
[intense music]
- Ten, nine,
eight, seven...
- And we need all five pieces
for it to even work?
- Four, three...
- Yeah, we can't find
three of them that fast.
- Time!
Come on in, guys.
Well, I'd ask you guys
how that went,
but I saw with my own eyeballs
that was poor.
Well, you don't get the clue.
- I could not be any more
disappointed in my teammates.
These guys, they go on TV,
and they play games
to win money.
We have to step up.
- There's another clue
hidden somewhere at camp.
Find the clue.
Talk about it.
Get to know each other.
I will see you guys
at the next challenge.
- So Earl's suspicious.
Like, why did you
have to throw the piece?
There's a very strong
possibility he just hurled
that thing as far
as he could into the ocean
where none of us
would ever find it
and completely
take the challenge
before we even got going.
So now we have a suspect.
[dramatic music]
* *
- We need to hustle
to get to camp.
- Yeah.
- I think the fact that we
failed this challenge
is really causing
everyone's heads to spin.
One, we're all disappointed,
and the natural thing to do
is point fingers.
Like, who screwed up,
and did they
screw up intentionally?
- That first clue,
it doesn't say much.
I mean, without us
having any knowledge
of each other's personal lives.
- Now, I'll admit.
That throw looked bad on paper.
I know that,
but, come on.
It's me.
I would never do anything
that obvious.
I am 100% trustworthy.
- We got to try to get
that clue before it gets dark
if we can.
- We need the clue.
* *
- Welcome.
- Oh, and there's a box.
- Oh, shoot, look at that.
All right.
Well, welcome to camp, fellas.
- Yeah, here it is.
- We know there's a clue
hidden here somewhere.
So are we
officially looking right now?
Should we split up?
Let's do different doubles
than last time.
Just in case.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna look
under this log over here
'cause it looks fishy.
- Nooks and crannies.
- Yeah.
- That's a thousand ants.
- Yeah.
* *
- This calls for my lucky hat.
My daddy's hat.
We'll find this clue now.
* *
- What if it's in the toilet,
man?
- I'm feeling lots
of mixed emotions
because, see, I like Earl.
I think he's
a really great guy.
I'm trying to make sure
that that's separate
from game-in Earl.
- So I need to just
keep my distance from Earl.
- You were
with Malcolm earlier.
What were your thoughts?
Did he...
- It's hard to tell at all.
I'm watching Yul pretty close.
He seems pretty serious.
- Hey!
Hey, I found something, guys.
- Yeah?
- Yo, I found a box.
- Oh--oh, wait, what?
- Ow, ow, ow.
- You found the clue?
- Yeah.
- Oh, hell yeah.
- Okay.
"The Snake went to college,
"which is real keen;
"their college walls
were leafy green.
- "From time to time
they had to cram..."
- "And he even passed
a bar exam."
- Who's a lawyer?
- I'm a lawyer.
* *
- Who's a lawyer?
- I'm a lawyer.
Ah!
This was a terrible clue.
I wish we had
never found this clue.
Because now everyone's
gonna think it's me.
But I think that would be
too obvious, I think, 'cause...
Look, I think everyone
knows I'm a lawyer.
[dramatic music]
It doesn't say "the" bar exam.
- Unless maybe you were,
like, a bartender.
- A bar exam.
- Are you a bartender?
- No, I was a waiter.
- "And the college walls
were leafy green."
- Oh,
it's a liberal university.
- Ivy League?
- Yeah, save the trees.
- I went to Dartmouth,
which is why I'm freaking out
'cause it's not me,
and that's green.
We were the Big Green.
- And that's
an Ivy League school.
- Yeah.
- So, I'm thinking,
you know, leafy walls.
- It's not--I didn't do
a bar exam.
I've got
butterflies in my stomach
because
this reads a lot like me,
but I didn't take the bar.
No one would trust me
to be a lawyer.
But Yul, I know, is a lawyer.
Where'd you go to school?
- I went to Stanford.
- Well, that's the tree.
- That's a tree.
- It's a tree.
- Only Stanford, or did you--
- I went to Stanford
for undergrad.
I went to Yale for law school.
- Which is
an Ivy League school.
- So this clue
really points at Yul,
so I'm suspicious of the clue.
Like, maybe this is some type
of misdirection,
and I am desperately hoping
he would come talk to me
to convince me
that it's not him.
I'm really trying to
decipher that bar exam part.
It's clearly
talking about someone
from an Ivy League school
and is talking about someone
that passed the bar exam.
If that doesn't point
the arrow directly at Yul,
I don't know what is.
- Do you guys wanna--
- Let's get the fire going.
And then we can, yeah.
- Then ask each other
hard questions.
- All right.
[upbeat music]
- "Growing up was rather tough,
you might say
it was even rough."
That doesn't meet me at all.
I had a great childhood.
- But that's all relative.
- Okay.
- Is it possibly Jeff?
And he's really just--
just that great at lying?
- Where do you live, Jeff?
- Pocatello.
I've got a little house
in the country.
Used to be my dad's property
before he died.
- When did he pass away?
- 2013.
He was born
with an enlarged heart
and he had 13 open heart
surgeries throughout his life.
- Really?
- So honestly,
that's why I'm here.
Take it or leave it,
on my father's grave,
I am not the Snake.
That's the damn truth.
- My mom,
she died four years ago.
- Sorry.
- She saw, you know,
"Survivor" though,
which made her very proud.
- My mother
won't get to see this.
Makes me think about her.
- Earl and I bonded
around the campfire.
I believe him.
He seems to be genuine
and authentic.
- Anyway, back to
why I am not the Snake.
I went through something,
pretty traumatic childhood.
I had a rare bone disease
called Perthes disease,
and I was not allowed
to play sports
because I was on crutches
and in a wheelchair
and all that stuff,
so that was one thing I
could not do is play sports.
- Jeff's never played
a game like this.
Yul, Earl and I know
the ropes of strategy
and psychological warfare
in the jungle
with people that
you can't really trust.
- Can you go over just
your educational history?
- Education--
University of Washington.
- What did you major in?
- Business.
- Earl's
had a very full career.
He's done a lot
of different things.
Maybe he took the bar exam.
It's certainly possible.
- Definitely no bar exam.
Clear on that.
- What was your upbringing like
and what sports did you play?
- I played
all team sports growing up.
I was terrible at basketball.
I was pretty good at football
through high school.
My parents were accountants,
pretty relaxed childhood.
Not the Snake.
I'll just sell out
to prove it to you.
I would lie for $100,000.
I would absolutely
play this game really hard
if I was the Snake.
- So, Yul,
I got some questions for you.
- Yeah, go for it.
- So these two guys
are super believable to me.
- Yeah.
- Which is why, right now,
my eyes are on you.
- I'll give you my story.
You know, growing up,
I had a lot of
social anxiety challenges,
and one of the things
I tried to do
is I wanted
to do sports, right?
Like I felt like this was
something that would give me
more confidence.
So I did track and water polo.
- Why would you choose
water polo instead of football?
- My parents were like,
"No way, no football,
too dangerous."
- To me, I don't think
Yul is being authentic.
He seems to me more
to be reading
from a mental teleprompter
than someone who's
actually telling the truth.
- * Open your eyes up *
* Take comfort
here's the sun *
- There's nothing I love more
than sitting around a fire
except one thing.
- Oh no, here we go.
Here we go.
I knew it.
- It was only
a matter of time.
- I have nothing to hide.
Literally, that's me
releasing my vulnerability.
I'm telling you,
you guys are missing out!
What you see is what you get.
I am not the Snake.
- Well, you do not lack
confidence, sir.
"Survivor's" weird,
but it's not that weird.
Nothing prepares you
for the experience
that is Jeff
in the woods naked.
- You sure you want to join
us in the luxury over here?
- You know,
I'm sad that I'm gonna
miss out on the camaraderie.
I'm not gonna
turn down a hammock.
- No?
- I've never done a challenge
like this before ever.
Normally I'm having
to just survive the wild.
This one's difficult.
Good night, guys.
It's definitely a tough thing,
but you know me!
I don't back down
from a challenge.
I'm gonna find the Snake,
and I'm gonna win
this money.
- * I'm on another level *
* Let's get
that [...] established *
* They never took a loss *
* I came
to get some practice *
* I know they feel
the pressure *
* I'm at it like a savage *
* Brawlin' like
it's a calling *
* Flexin' is automatic *
- I didn't really
sleep much last night.
I don't know who the Snake is.
It could be Earl.
He flubbed
the challenge yesterday.
He could be displaying
next level strategy,
and somehow I need
to convince these people
that they're heading
in the wrong direction
if they think I'm the Snake.
* *
- Your sense of people
is like, way off.
I'm just asking you,
don't rule out Earl.
Earl is really good
at playing the game.
If he is a Snake,
he's got you completely
hook, line, and sinker.
His authenticity,
is his strongest weapon.
- I'd like to feel that
if a man's lying to my face
that I'd be able
to tell the difference.
Yul, he's trying
very, very hard
to convince me
that Earl is the Snake.
I have to go
with my gut right now.
* *
- What is going on here?
Yul's avoiding me
and not talking to me.
That's very suspicious.
Is he a Snake?
If he's a Snake,
he might not feel comfortable
coming to somebody he knows,
that I might see through it.
- Today's the day.
- Yeah, today's the day.
- By the time
sun goes down tonight,
three of us will win this baby.
- It's go time.
- That's a cool belt.
- African crocodile.
- Did you kill it?
- No, I didn't kill this one.
Alligators
and caiman, though,
we kill those suckers
all the time.
All right, onward.
[dramatic music]
* *
- Good to see you guys.
- Hey, Bones.
- Hey, what's happening
since I've seen you last?
Did anyone find the clue?
Yul, you found the clue.
And what'd it say?
- Clue said the Snake
went to college,
the college walls
were leafy green,
that the Snake loved to cram
and he even passed "a"
bar exam.
- What about that clue
stood out to you?
- Well, obviously points
the arrow at me.
I'm a lawyer.
But it also seems,
at least from my perspective,
too obvious.
- Earl, who's the Snake?
- I have my suspicions,
but not revealing just yet.
I don't wanna give the Snake
any ammo
to counter anything
right now.
- Well, this next challenge...
may bring a bit of clarity.
As you guys were, you know,
missing sleep last night,
the mosquitoes
were eating you up,
I was comfortably
in my hotel bed
thinking about how poor
that last challenge was.
[laughter]
- Oh, come on!
- We're trying.
- We're trying!
- Look at how hard this is.
- Okay, you do want this clue,
because this is the biggest
clue.
Look at that buoy out there.
[dramatic music]
It's time
for the second challenge.
There are two keys
located on a buoy that,
when combined,
will open the next Snake Clue.
The first key is located
inside the bell
on top of the buoy.
The second key is located
underneath the buoy.
In order
to retrieve these keys,
the team will have to
build a raft
using wood, flotation devices,
and there's even rope.
The team has 25 minutes
to build a raft,
gather both keys off the buoy,
and bring them safely to shore
to win the final Snake Clue.
And the challenge starts now.
[intense music]
- This will probably be
the 18th raft I've built.
- * I'ma go harder
the most *
* I'ma go harder the most *
- My strategy right now
is on the portion where
it requires kind of teamwork,
I'm not gonna
take the lead here.
- Here's how the knots will go,
like this.
- Like, if we fail on that,
then it's just basically
kind of like
signing my own death warrant.
The great thing is,
Jeff is really good
at this kind of stuff, like,
building a raft, surviving.
And if he comes up
with an idea
that causes us to lose,
clearly, it's not me.
- Let's talk about this key.
Do not drop that key
or you're gone.
- Everyone's side-eyeing Yul.
I catch Earl doing it.
I catch Jeff doing it.
Everybody knows
the prime suspect
has to be watched
because this is a great chance
for the Snake
to sabotage the raft.
- Are we good?
Lift it up.
Keep going.
- You have 20 minutes
remaining!
- Let's walk all the way
till we can't touch.
- That's right.
- Yep.
* *
- All right, kick.
Kick!
Kick with your feet.
- All right, let's do it.
Keep going.
- I told you she'd float, baby!
Whoo!
The Snake has
100 grand on the line.
He's gonna reveal himself.
- Um, we definitely
overshot the buoy.
- Less vertical,
more horizontal.
- Let's go, left.
- If I'm Earl
and I'm the Snake,
I can see myself trying to look
for ways to sabotage it,
and I did find it
a little bit odd
that he just wasn't
that out of breath.
Like, you would think
that if you're really trying,
you'd be so exhausted
from the swim.
It cast more suspicion
on Earl.
- You have 15 minutes
remaining.
- Keep goin'!
- Now they've gotta
get both keys.
- Go Yul!
Go Yul! Yes!
- One key down.
There's still
one below the buoy.
- It's definitely
not directly under me.
- I'm not
seeing anything either.
- It's way down.
- So we're really wondering
where is this key?
And we're running out of time.
[dramatic music]
- Ten minutes remaining.
* *
- Keep an eye
on him down there, Malcolm.
* *
- It's got to be straight down.
- If you are the Snake,
you're a damn good one.
- I don't see it.
- What do you mean
you don't see anything?
There's a key under the water.
Like, how do you
not see anything?
- Come on, Yul!
- Yul went down six times.
* *
- It's got
to be attached to this.
- Seven minutes
remaining, guys.
- He's sabotaging
this challenge.
* *
- Yul is the Snake.
They have one key.
There's still one
below the buoy.
Seven minutes remaining, guys.
- It's got
to be attached to this.
What if we all get on one side
and tip it,
flip it over and look up under?
- Why not?
Let's go.
Flip it, let's go.
[dramatic music]
- What's this anchor?
- Just pull it up!
Pull, pull.
- Is that it?
- We got it!
We got the key.
- Five minutes left
in the challenge!
You've got to get
those keys to me!
They have no choice
but to swim back.
The raft has floated to shore.
- Yul's the best swimmer
in our group.
He should do it.
- All right.
- Go, Yul, go!
- * Gonna win *
- Go, baby, yes!
Go, Yul, go, Yul!
- * That life is a game
and I'm going to win *
- It's Yul versus the water
for the final Snake Clue.
- If people think
I'm the Snake,
then if I don't perform well
on the challenge,
it's just gonna validate
and confirm their suspicions.
It's do or die.
- You got this Yul, go!
- Yul is swimming for his life
to prove he's not the Snake
or do that
to throw us off his scent.
- There is one minute left.
He looks gassed.
- Go Yul!
Go Yul!
- Come on, Yul!
- Go Yul!
Yul, he's working hard
right now.
It absolutely
makes me reevaluate
who I think might be the Snake.
Malcolm, he wasn't working
as hard as I wanted to see.
I want to trust Malcolm.
I just don't yet know if I can.
- 30 seconds!
- Go, go, go!
* *
Go!
- This is it.
- It's like a scene
from "Baywatch," let's go.
Let's go Yul!
- Ten seconds left.
* *
- Got it, nailed it.
Got 'em both right here.
- Go!
- Nice job, buddy.
- I'm looking at him,
and he finally makes it,
I'm like, "Good job.
Doesn't mean
you're not the Snake."
- Yes!
- Way to swim for your life!
- This is what we live for!
- Whoo!
- Yeah!
- Oh.
- How about that, Bobby Bones?
Ow!
- You like that?
- Come on.
- So the Snake
right now is sad.
- Oh, hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
- We want him sad.
- Because we're about to go
into this clue box.
You guys ready?
- Yes.
- I need the Snake keys.
[suspenseful music]
* *
- Yo.
- Yeah, baby!
- All right.
The final and most important
Snake Clue.
- Good, yes.
- Be something
we talked about last night.
- "While being a friend
is indeed a fact,
"in order to survive,
they had to stab a back.
"When you put it together,
there's an indicator,
the Snake once tangled
with an alligator."
[dramatic music]
* *
- Oh, that's bullshit!
* *
That's bullshit!
* *
- Who has been talking about
alligators this morning?
Jeff.
* *
- From my perspective,
this exonerates me.
If they still think
I'm the Snake,
they deserve to lose.
Like, I'm sorry, it's like,
"I'm not the Snake."
- All three clues have to do
with the one Snake.
It doesn't not exonerate
the other two.
It doesn't make it--
- I'm telling you,
this doesn't fit me at all.
- I definitely have not
tangled with an alligator.
* *
Well, here's the thing.
I've actually had some
experience with an alligator.
I'm not revealing that.
Any one of these guys
could have tangled
with an alligator--
not just directly Jeff.
That's too easy.
- Do you guys know
of one of you
who stabbed someone
in the back on a show
and tangled with the alpha male
on the show?
* *
Do you guys know
of someone--
- Saying "survive"
does not mean "Survivor."
* *
Does not mean that.
- I know I'm not the Snake.
The clue we found in camp,
it pointed directly
towards Yul.
Now this clue
points directly at me.
* *
So, of course,
my obvious reasoning
says that maybe I shouldn't
point the finger at Yul.
- I'm 0 for 3 on these.
- So now I'm starting to look
at Malcolm.
- All right, guys.
Your coordinates will
lead you to the Snake Pit,
and I will meet
you guys tonight.
- Got a lot to think about.
- You've got a lot more
to think about.
* *
[dramatic music]
* *
[snakes hissing]
* *
- It's good to see you guys.
The Snake Pit
is where each of you
will have one final opportunity
to plead your case as to who
you think the snake is.
So the game is still happening
right now.
Here's how it works.
At the end of the Snake Pit,
if three of you agree
on who the Snake is
and you're right,
that team will share $100,000.
If you're wrong,
the Snake gets all the money.
You guys are great competitors,
so all four of you
would have been A+ Snakes.
If you're not the Snake,
it'll be your job to convince
your teammates
that you are not the Snake.
* *
Earl, let's talk
about the first clue.
- What stuck out to me
about that first clue,
it mentioned
growing up playing sports.
So immediately I knew I had
an out with people like,
"Hey, I did not play sports,
and here's the reason why."
- Jeff, do you trust
what he's saying?
- I don't think Earl is lying.
Malcolm,
he's built like a linebacker.
Have you seen
the size of that man's neck?
You know,
I mean, it's a thought.
- Let's talk about
the first challenge.
Jeff, how many snakes
did you find?
- Two.
- I found the other one.
And then I handed that
off to Earl.
- Earl, what happened?
- I said,
"All right, we're going
to throw it on the sand,
but I missed it."
Holy shit.
Hopefully people don't think
I'm that stupid,
that I'm just gonna, like, do
something like that on purpose.
- There's another side to that.
If I were the Snake,
my strategy
would be to do exactly
what Earl did.
- The other thing was I thought
I had to read
at some point how you overcame
your disease
and became a very
physically strong person.
- It's a childhood disease,
and growing up,
I didn't play sports.
I did not.
You could have been out
in the open.
You could have just asked me
directly to get clarification.
- Malcolm, how do you feel?
Tell the truth.
- So I can't get over
the last clue.
Jeff has talked about
being up close
and personal with alligators.
I mean,
that's extremely literal.
- If the final clue
is taken literally,
you have to assume all
the clues are taken literally.
And bar exam?
- The ones with college,
if they're covered
in leafy green, I thought,
could mean
it might be Ivy League.
Malcolm went to Dartmouth,
and I went to Stanford
for undergrad,
but I went to Yale
for law school.
I know that I'm not the Snake,
therefore maybe
Malcolm's the Snake.
- I do know
that Dartmouth is green.
- It could be someone
that was a bartender.
- Malcolm used to be a waiter.
He worked at a bar.
- I worked at a bar.
- Do you have
to take a bartender test
or do they
call that a bar exam?
- No.
- I did start
to look at Malcolm
a little different
after reading that.
- Malcolm,
care to defend yourself?
- Stanford also has a tree,
so let's hold on to that
a little bit,
and I am not a lawyer.
- It could be someone
that did high jump in track,
leaping over that bar,
and Yul did track.
And he took a bar exam.
- Jeff, don't overly rely
on your gut intuition
because I'm telling you,
your gut is wrong,
and you will find out tonight.
I did find us the camp clue,
and it's pointing at you.
- Yul, I am the one person
I know that's not the Snake.
I have played the game
balls out,
and I've been 100% open,
honest, and free
the entire time.
- Earl, who do
you think the Snake is?
- Oh, my God.
Ugh!
- Yul, we already had
some kind of connection,
but you never acted
like you were part of my team,
which I find suspicious.
- Uh, for most of this game,
I thought Earl was the Snake.
- But how did you think
that most of the time
I was a Snake when nothing
was ever even relating to me?
- Earl, I'm sorry.
- Everything still kind of
points to Yul,
and we could be wrong,
but you're still
not convincing me now.
You're saying sorry.
- Huh.
You guys
are making a big mistake.
- Tell me why.
- Uh, okay.
A couple of things.
Because we do know each other,
I didn't want to put you
and us
in that kind of situation
where our friendship
would be seen as a reason
to try, like, get you convinced
one way or the other.
* *
You and I
both played "Survivor."
We play "Survivor"
in a certain way,
and I just kind of just
didn't want
to go to that point.
- But you did.
- I did eventually, yeah.
I did.
* *
All I'll say is,
whoever is the Snake
played a hell of a game.
* *
- It is now time to vote
on who you think is the Snake.
[suspenseful music]
If three of you agree on who
the Snake is and you're right,
those three
will share $100,000.
If three of you agree
and you're wrong,
the Snake takes all the money.
Up first, Malcolm.
[dramatic music]
* *
Jeff, you're next.
* *
Yul.
* *
Earl, last vote.
* *
There's $100,000 on the line.
Let's see who you guys
think is the Snake.
* *
First vote.
Yul.
Second vote.
Yul.
Third vote.
Jeff.
Two votes, Yul.
One vote, Jeff.
If there's a split decision,
the Snake
automatically wins the money.
* *
Your final vote...
* *
Yul.
That's three votes Yul,
one vote Jeff.
If Yul is the Snake,
the team will share $100,000,
but if Yul is not the Snake,
the Snake will take home
all the money.
It's now time to find out.
* *
Will the real Snake stand up?
* *
- Sorry, boys.
- Oh! No!
- Excellent.
- I knew it.
- Good job.
- Well played.
- Good job.
- Congratulations, man.
- No, no, oh, dude.
- Good job.
- Oh dude, you're so good.
- Sit back down, sit back down.
- Oh, Malcolm!
- Great job.
- Let's talk about the game
a little bit.
Let's go
to the first challenge.
- You just handed me
the first challenge, man,
and I don't know if I
ever found the one you lost,
but I stomped on everything
hard, just to check everything
got driven into the dirt
within 10 feet of that beach.
- Okay, let's talk
about your clue from camp.
"The Snake went to college,
which is real keen.
Their college
walls were leafy green."
- Every wall at Dartmouth
is covered in ivy.
- "From time to time,
they had to cram,
he even passed a bar exam."
- What was that?
- Bartending school.
- Oh!
- We said that.
- You said this!
- Let's talk
about the next challenge.
Was there anything
that you did to where
you were trying
to sabotage the competition?
- I knew I needed to get us
as far away
from the buoy as possible,
so that's when I started
aggressively swimming
in the wrong direction
and just ripping with my arm.
Also, I lied
about where a key was,
7 feet under the water.
It's way down.
I can try again in 30 seconds
or somebody else can go now.
And the idea
was to slow things down
but also wear out Yul.
- Oh, God, he's good!
- I never saw a key.
- Let's talk about
the last clue.
- Out of these three,
I'm the only one
who's very backstabby,
as you might have noticed
from the past 48 hours,
and I've gone
alligator wrestling in, like,
Colorado at a farm.
- I just want to say
kudos, man.
You played an excellent game.
If I could have
done things differently,
I would have made
more of an effort
to engage with Earl,
but the best person
won the game.
The Snake won.
We all got bit.
Kudos to him.
- Hey, my hat's off to you.
- Cheers, buddy.
- Malcolm, congratulations.
That's a heck of a game, man.
That was awesome.
Take a walk.
You're the champ.
- That was the most stressful
two days of my life.
- You did a good job.
- Yul is a "Survivor" legend,
Earl is a "Survivor" legend,
and these guys are smart,
they're manipulative
and they're great athletes,
so the fact
that I managed
to come out on top,
I'm feeling
pretty good right now.
- I'm sorry, bro.
- Oh, don't--no sorrys.
No, guys, no, no.
- I got bit hard.
My target was on Yul
from early on in the game.
Like, it didn't
sound believable.
It sounded like he was just
going through the steps,
and--God, I'm sorry, Yul.
Yul, I'm sorry.
I got it wrong.
[snake hisses]
Bring 'em to me
to open the box.
- It's too murky
when the waves come in.
- It's got to be straight down.
[tense music]
- I don't see anything.
- That could be something
a Snake would say
to throw us off.
* *
- The Snake
is gonna reveal himself.
* *
- Come on, Yul!
- Go, guys, we got this!
- We in the middle
of the ocean with people
that you can't really trust.
* *
This is a great chance
for the Snake
to sabotage against us.
Everyone is a suspect.
* *
- * Life on the edge,
edge is the sharp *
* Sharp like a knife,
head on a swerve *
* Swerve into turns, turn up *
* You waited for this
your whole life *
* Life on the edge,
edge is the sharp *
* Sharp like a knife,
head on a swerve *
* Swerve into turns, turn up *
* You waited for this
your whole life *
* Life on the edge,
edge is the sharp *
* Sharp like a knife
it's your life *
- I played "Survivor"
three times, lost three times.
I have a reputation.
I was pretty ruthless.
If somebody just read
about the things
that I've done with my life,
I come off pretty
straight-laced.
Spend five minutes with me,
you're gonna realize
it's the opposite.
Coming out here,
I don't even know
what we're getting into,
but whatever it is,
I will take joy in making
everyone else's dreams crumble.
- I've been
on "Survivor" twice.
First time I won,
it really gave me
that boost of confidence
that I think I was missing
for much of my life.
I'm naturally a very
introverted and shy person.
Because of that, I've learned
to try to confront
my fears and anxieties.
When you get to go off and do
something crazy like this,
you take it.
- So a lot has changed
since I won "Survivor"
14 years ago.
As far as the kind of shape
I'm in now,
I guess I'm a shape.
I think I'm, like,
100% grade B Dad bod.
So this is a great opportunity
to show what I
still have left in the tank.
I'm a savage.
I'm a beast.
I'm ready for this again.
- * It's time to go *
* *
- I'm a wilderness
survival expert,
and most people know me
from the series
"Naked and Afraid,"
but I've never done
anything like this before.
When I'm 90 years old
on my deathbed,
I want to look back and say,
I pushed myself
to the absolute limit
my entire life.
* *
- This is what I live for!
* *
- Whoo!
- That was an epic entrance.
My name is Bobby Bones,
and I'll be taking you through
this extremely harsh jungle.
Anyone scared?
- Not at all.
You guys know each other?
- Reputation only.
I'm aware of Yul.
He's one of the best.
- I've always
wanted to play with Earl.
And then Jeff, I'm a huge fan.
I've seen this guy naked
more times than I can count,
but he's awesome.
- Jeff, do I have your word
that all your clothes stay on?
- No.
[laughter]
- Do you know these guys
around you at all?
- I don't, no.
First time I've ever met
these gentlemen.
- I'm really psyched.
Earl is a friend.
I've always respected him
as a great "Survivor" winner.
Like, if there was
a zombie apocalypse,
who would I want on my team?
These guys would be it.
- Well, you guys
are four great competitors,
that's why you're here.
And now you've got
a chance to win $100,000.
- All right.
- I like that.
- There we go, all right.
- There is a slight catch.
One of you is trying
to sabotage the team.
There is a Snake
amongst you four.
- [chuckles]
- Ugh.
- One of you four already know
you're coming
into this game
to take the team down.
I have no idea
who the Snake is.
I'm looking at all you guys
the exact same way
you're looking at each other.
* *
- I am not the Snake.
- I am not the Snake.
- I'm not the Snake.
- I'm not the Snake.
I'm just myself.
That's my fatal flaw.
I cannot not be myself.
- All right, here's how
the game works, guys.
Over the next two days, you'll
have a couple of challenges.
If you can successfully
complete the challenge,
you will get a Snake Clue.
This has information
that will lead you
one step closer to the Snake.
At the end of the two days,
we'll meet at the Snake Pit
and you guys will decide
who's the Snake.
- I don't know
enough about Jeff,
but I'm actually
pretty terrified
knowing Yul
and Earl's reputation.
These guys are gamers,
they're smart,
they're manipulative,
and they're great athletes,
so that's already
a baseline for intimidation.
- I do have
the first Snake Clue though.
Would you guys like to hear it?
- Yes, sir.
- Sure, yeah.
- "Life growing up
was rather tough.
"You might say
it was even rough.
"The Snake played sports
and gave it their all.
They really
liked ones with a ball."
- You can interpret
that different ways.
Maybe they grew up out
in the wild like this man did.
- Does anyone want to admit
to playing sports with a ball?
- I played.
- I played sports with a ball.
- I'm a little bit suspicious
of Malcolm
because he scares me.
He's smarter than he looks.
You can never trust a guy
in a man bun.
- That's 90% of the sports
out there,
so I'm like, "That didn't
help me that much."
- In front of you guys,
there are four backpacks.
The Apple Watches
on top of the bags
with GPS coordinates to get
you to the first challenge.
- Cool.
- See you real soon.
- All right, thank you.
- [laughs]
- Okay.
- Hey, good to see you.
So my relationship with Yul
goes back several years.
Kind of always just had that
unique kind of bond/friendship.
We could work together
collectively
and try to flush out
who might be the Snake.
- All right.
Two of you are my friends.
- Yeah, one of y'all's
been lying already.
- I could have
a target on my back.
All three of these people,
they have something in common.
They are masters of game play.
Clearly, I'm at a disadvantage.
- * You better
kill me first *
* For our silence
is mostly the end *
* You better
kill me first *
- I've always just loved
pushing my mind and my body
to the limits.
I'm a big mountain climber.
- You still had to be naked.
- I didn't care about
the fact that it was naked.
All I cared about
was the challenge.
- This guy is insane.
The guy goes out there
and does true
survivalist things,
like, naked.
I could never do that.
This guy is a wild card.
- I don't know
what I'm capable of
with shoes
and a pair of pants on.
We're about to find out, baby.
There's $100,000 on the line.
I'm gonna use the money
to open up my own schools,
to bring my passion
of the outdoors
to those that don't have
that opportunity.
This is my game right now.
Just win, baby.
* *
- It's time
for the first challenge.
There are four buoy markers
floating offshore.
Buried in the sand
somewhere between the buoys,
there are five
metal snake pieces.
Now, to find them,
the players must locate
two underwater metal detectors
that are hidden here
on the beach.
Using the metal detectors,
players must locate
and assemble
all five snake pieces
into one complete snake
in 30 minutes or less
in order to win
the next Snake Clue.
Time starts now.
- Okay, last little bit
of strategy guys,
here's what I'm--okay.
Do we want to split up
and go fours
or groups of two...
- Two.
- We should do twos.
- So we don't let
the Snake screw us
on the metal detectors?
- Twos.
- We could send somebody
out there right away,
see how deep it is.
- That could be something
a Snake would say
to throw us off.
I know you don't know me,
you don't know to trust me.
The Snake is gonna
try to [bleep] us.
If we catch the Snake cheating,
we automatically
win this money.
- If we catch him cheating
red-handed, okay?
- I think Jeff
tries to take charge a lot,
but that's just
might be his personality,
or that might be his way of
throwing us off a little bit.
[percussive music]
* *
- There's not
too many places it could be.
- Wait,
are we going to have to dig?
- Oh, wait.
That's it. Found one!
- Got it, we're good.
- You got it?
- Yeah.
- Great.
- Oh, we got two.
We got two!
- * Pressure is bumpin',
it's comin', it's...*
- All right, so Malcolm,
you and I start in the back?
- Yeah,
I'll just go to the back.
- I'll go first,
and then we'll switch off.
- They've decided to pair off.
Malcolm is out with Earl,
and Jeff is out with Yul.
- * When the percussion,
your heart beatin' fast *
* Hearts beatin' fast,
dippin' in shadows *
* That part of me dark *
- Right here.
Let's try it down here.
- * 'Cause nothing can stop
my advance on this path *
* You catchin' that contact *
* Prepare for that combat *
[detector beeping]
* *
- Right.
- Got one, got one.
- Can we throw it?
Is it heavy?
- No.
- Okay.
- All right,
Earl's coming ashore,
bringing a segment
of the snake.
Oh.
- Shit.
- And now he's lost it.
- Oh, that worked out great.
Ugh!
And obviously, you know,
that's like,
oh, they're gonna look at me
and think I did it on purpose,
but anybody that knows me--
I'm not that stupid.
- Yo, what's up?
- It fell in this area.
- Not on purpose, trust me.
- That goes
into the mental note.
How do you lose the one thing
most valuable about--
this is a red flag.
He said,
"I'm just gonna throw it."
Like, I don't know.
- Something's going on.
Earl is a really
strong competitor.
It is hard
for me to imagine Earl
making a blunder like that
because he's, like,
really good at what he does.
- Holy shit.
- All right,
Earl's coming ashore,
bringing a segment
of the snake.
Oh.
And now he's lost it.
- Go keep an eye on them.
- I mean, it was, like,
literally dead center.
- All right.
Well, let me dig around.
Earl's kicking
around the water,
and he finally calls me in,
and I start looking around,
and he's already taken off.
He's the only person
who knows
precisely where
that landed in the water
It doesn't make any sense.
[detector beeping]
- Found it!
- Yes!
- All right, give me this.
I'm working over there.
Cool.
- All right,
let's go, baby, we got this!
- Look, he dropped it
somewhere right in here.
Well, he said he tried
to throw it,
but I wasn't looking.
- It's so obvious, but like...
- Hey,
how are we gonna find it
if both of you guys got it
and you're standing there?
- We're looking
for the one you dropped!
- But that's just one
compared to the other three
that are out here.
- It's probably right there.
We just can't see.
- I don't think we should have
both of them
here though.
- Found one!
- Oh, thank God.
- There we go.
- Found one!
This is $100,000.
Let's go.
- Here, here, here.
- I'm absolutely feeling
the pressure
of time right now.
I've already
found two snake pieces.
Malcolm found one,
and that leaves
two fellow competitors that
haven't found a single piece.
- Two!
- They've just
found their third piece,
but they only have two pieces
in their possession,
as they lost the first one.
[intense music]
- Ten, nine,
eight, seven...
- And we need all five pieces
for it to even work?
- Four, three...
- Yeah, we can't find
three of them that fast.
- Time!
Come on in, guys.
Well, I'd ask you guys
how that went,
but I saw with my own eyeballs
that was poor.
Well, you don't get the clue.
- I could not be any more
disappointed in my teammates.
These guys, they go on TV,
and they play games
to win money.
We have to step up.
- There's another clue
hidden somewhere at camp.
Find the clue.
Talk about it.
Get to know each other.
I will see you guys
at the next challenge.
- So Earl's suspicious.
Like, why did you
have to throw the piece?
There's a very strong
possibility he just hurled
that thing as far
as he could into the ocean
where none of us
would ever find it
and completely
take the challenge
before we even got going.
So now we have a suspect.
[dramatic music]
* *
- We need to hustle
to get to camp.
- Yeah.
- I think the fact that we
failed this challenge
is really causing
everyone's heads to spin.
One, we're all disappointed,
and the natural thing to do
is point fingers.
Like, who screwed up,
and did they
screw up intentionally?
- That first clue,
it doesn't say much.
I mean, without us
having any knowledge
of each other's personal lives.
- Now, I'll admit.
That throw looked bad on paper.
I know that,
but, come on.
It's me.
I would never do anything
that obvious.
I am 100% trustworthy.
- We got to try to get
that clue before it gets dark
if we can.
- We need the clue.
* *
- Welcome.
- Oh, and there's a box.
- Oh, shoot, look at that.
All right.
Well, welcome to camp, fellas.
- Yeah, here it is.
- We know there's a clue
hidden here somewhere.
So are we
officially looking right now?
Should we split up?
Let's do different doubles
than last time.
Just in case.
- Yeah.
- I'm gonna look
under this log over here
'cause it looks fishy.
- Nooks and crannies.
- Yeah.
- That's a thousand ants.
- Yeah.
* *
- This calls for my lucky hat.
My daddy's hat.
We'll find this clue now.
* *
- What if it's in the toilet,
man?
- I'm feeling lots
of mixed emotions
because, see, I like Earl.
I think he's
a really great guy.
I'm trying to make sure
that that's separate
from game-in Earl.
- So I need to just
keep my distance from Earl.
- You were
with Malcolm earlier.
What were your thoughts?
Did he...
- It's hard to tell at all.
I'm watching Yul pretty close.
He seems pretty serious.
- Hey!
Hey, I found something, guys.
- Yeah?
- Yo, I found a box.
- Oh--oh, wait, what?
- Ow, ow, ow.
- You found the clue?
- Yeah.
- Oh, hell yeah.
- Okay.
"The Snake went to college,
"which is real keen;
"their college walls
were leafy green.
- "From time to time
they had to cram..."
- "And he even passed
a bar exam."
- Who's a lawyer?
- I'm a lawyer.
* *
- Who's a lawyer?
- I'm a lawyer.
Ah!
This was a terrible clue.
I wish we had
never found this clue.
Because now everyone's
gonna think it's me.
But I think that would be
too obvious, I think, 'cause...
Look, I think everyone
knows I'm a lawyer.
[dramatic music]
It doesn't say "the" bar exam.
- Unless maybe you were,
like, a bartender.
- A bar exam.
- Are you a bartender?
- No, I was a waiter.
- "And the college walls
were leafy green."
- Oh,
it's a liberal university.
- Ivy League?
- Yeah, save the trees.
- I went to Dartmouth,
which is why I'm freaking out
'cause it's not me,
and that's green.
We were the Big Green.
- And that's
an Ivy League school.
- Yeah.
- So, I'm thinking,
you know, leafy walls.
- It's not--I didn't do
a bar exam.
I've got
butterflies in my stomach
because
this reads a lot like me,
but I didn't take the bar.
No one would trust me
to be a lawyer.
But Yul, I know, is a lawyer.
Where'd you go to school?
- I went to Stanford.
- Well, that's the tree.
- That's a tree.
- It's a tree.
- Only Stanford, or did you--
- I went to Stanford
for undergrad.
I went to Yale for law school.
- Which is
an Ivy League school.
- So this clue
really points at Yul,
so I'm suspicious of the clue.
Like, maybe this is some type
of misdirection,
and I am desperately hoping
he would come talk to me
to convince me
that it's not him.
I'm really trying to
decipher that bar exam part.
It's clearly
talking about someone
from an Ivy League school
and is talking about someone
that passed the bar exam.
If that doesn't point
the arrow directly at Yul,
I don't know what is.
- Do you guys wanna--
- Let's get the fire going.
And then we can, yeah.
- Then ask each other
hard questions.
- All right.
[upbeat music]
- "Growing up was rather tough,
you might say
it was even rough."
That doesn't meet me at all.
I had a great childhood.
- But that's all relative.
- Okay.
- Is it possibly Jeff?
And he's really just--
just that great at lying?
- Where do you live, Jeff?
- Pocatello.
I've got a little house
in the country.
Used to be my dad's property
before he died.
- When did he pass away?
- 2013.
He was born
with an enlarged heart
and he had 13 open heart
surgeries throughout his life.
- Really?
- So honestly,
that's why I'm here.
Take it or leave it,
on my father's grave,
I am not the Snake.
That's the damn truth.
- My mom,
she died four years ago.
- Sorry.
- She saw, you know,
"Survivor" though,
which made her very proud.
- My mother
won't get to see this.
Makes me think about her.
- Earl and I bonded
around the campfire.
I believe him.
He seems to be genuine
and authentic.
- Anyway, back to
why I am not the Snake.
I went through something,
pretty traumatic childhood.
I had a rare bone disease
called Perthes disease,
and I was not allowed
to play sports
because I was on crutches
and in a wheelchair
and all that stuff,
so that was one thing I
could not do is play sports.
- Jeff's never played
a game like this.
Yul, Earl and I know
the ropes of strategy
and psychological warfare
in the jungle
with people that
you can't really trust.
- Can you go over just
your educational history?
- Education--
University of Washington.
- What did you major in?
- Business.
- Earl's
had a very full career.
He's done a lot
of different things.
Maybe he took the bar exam.
It's certainly possible.
- Definitely no bar exam.
Clear on that.
- What was your upbringing like
and what sports did you play?
- I played
all team sports growing up.
I was terrible at basketball.
I was pretty good at football
through high school.
My parents were accountants,
pretty relaxed childhood.
Not the Snake.
I'll just sell out
to prove it to you.
I would lie for $100,000.
I would absolutely
play this game really hard
if I was the Snake.
- So, Yul,
I got some questions for you.
- Yeah, go for it.
- So these two guys
are super believable to me.
- Yeah.
- Which is why, right now,
my eyes are on you.
- I'll give you my story.
You know, growing up,
I had a lot of
social anxiety challenges,
and one of the things
I tried to do
is I wanted
to do sports, right?
Like I felt like this was
something that would give me
more confidence.
So I did track and water polo.
- Why would you choose
water polo instead of football?
- My parents were like,
"No way, no football,
too dangerous."
- To me, I don't think
Yul is being authentic.
He seems to me more
to be reading
from a mental teleprompter
than someone who's
actually telling the truth.
- * Open your eyes up *
* Take comfort
here's the sun *
- There's nothing I love more
than sitting around a fire
except one thing.
- Oh no, here we go.
Here we go.
I knew it.
- It was only
a matter of time.
- I have nothing to hide.
Literally, that's me
releasing my vulnerability.
I'm telling you,
you guys are missing out!
What you see is what you get.
I am not the Snake.
- Well, you do not lack
confidence, sir.
"Survivor's" weird,
but it's not that weird.
Nothing prepares you
for the experience
that is Jeff
in the woods naked.
- You sure you want to join
us in the luxury over here?
- You know,
I'm sad that I'm gonna
miss out on the camaraderie.
I'm not gonna
turn down a hammock.
- No?
- I've never done a challenge
like this before ever.
Normally I'm having
to just survive the wild.
This one's difficult.
Good night, guys.
It's definitely a tough thing,
but you know me!
I don't back down
from a challenge.
I'm gonna find the Snake,
and I'm gonna win
this money.
- * I'm on another level *
* Let's get
that [...] established *
* They never took a loss *
* I came
to get some practice *
* I know they feel
the pressure *
* I'm at it like a savage *
* Brawlin' like
it's a calling *
* Flexin' is automatic *
- I didn't really
sleep much last night.
I don't know who the Snake is.
It could be Earl.
He flubbed
the challenge yesterday.
He could be displaying
next level strategy,
and somehow I need
to convince these people
that they're heading
in the wrong direction
if they think I'm the Snake.
* *
- Your sense of people
is like, way off.
I'm just asking you,
don't rule out Earl.
Earl is really good
at playing the game.
If he is a Snake,
he's got you completely
hook, line, and sinker.
His authenticity,
is his strongest weapon.
- I'd like to feel that
if a man's lying to my face
that I'd be able
to tell the difference.
Yul, he's trying
very, very hard
to convince me
that Earl is the Snake.
I have to go
with my gut right now.
* *
- What is going on here?
Yul's avoiding me
and not talking to me.
That's very suspicious.
Is he a Snake?
If he's a Snake,
he might not feel comfortable
coming to somebody he knows,
that I might see through it.
- Today's the day.
- Yeah, today's the day.
- By the time
sun goes down tonight,
three of us will win this baby.
- It's go time.
- That's a cool belt.
- African crocodile.
- Did you kill it?
- No, I didn't kill this one.
Alligators
and caiman, though,
we kill those suckers
all the time.
All right, onward.
[dramatic music]
* *
- Good to see you guys.
- Hey, Bones.
- Hey, what's happening
since I've seen you last?
Did anyone find the clue?
Yul, you found the clue.
And what'd it say?
- Clue said the Snake
went to college,
the college walls
were leafy green,
that the Snake loved to cram
and he even passed "a"
bar exam.
- What about that clue
stood out to you?
- Well, obviously points
the arrow at me.
I'm a lawyer.
But it also seems,
at least from my perspective,
too obvious.
- Earl, who's the Snake?
- I have my suspicions,
but not revealing just yet.
I don't wanna give the Snake
any ammo
to counter anything
right now.
- Well, this next challenge...
may bring a bit of clarity.
As you guys were, you know,
missing sleep last night,
the mosquitoes
were eating you up,
I was comfortably
in my hotel bed
thinking about how poor
that last challenge was.
[laughter]
- Oh, come on!
- We're trying.
- We're trying!
- Look at how hard this is.
- Okay, you do want this clue,
because this is the biggest
clue.
Look at that buoy out there.
[dramatic music]
It's time
for the second challenge.
There are two keys
located on a buoy that,
when combined,
will open the next Snake Clue.
The first key is located
inside the bell
on top of the buoy.
The second key is located
underneath the buoy.
In order
to retrieve these keys,
the team will have to
build a raft
using wood, flotation devices,
and there's even rope.
The team has 25 minutes
to build a raft,
gather both keys off the buoy,
and bring them safely to shore
to win the final Snake Clue.
And the challenge starts now.
[intense music]
- This will probably be
the 18th raft I've built.
- * I'ma go harder
the most *
* I'ma go harder the most *
- My strategy right now
is on the portion where
it requires kind of teamwork,
I'm not gonna
take the lead here.
- Here's how the knots will go,
like this.
- Like, if we fail on that,
then it's just basically
kind of like
signing my own death warrant.
The great thing is,
Jeff is really good
at this kind of stuff, like,
building a raft, surviving.
And if he comes up
with an idea
that causes us to lose,
clearly, it's not me.
- Let's talk about this key.
Do not drop that key
or you're gone.
- Everyone's side-eyeing Yul.
I catch Earl doing it.
I catch Jeff doing it.
Everybody knows
the prime suspect
has to be watched
because this is a great chance
for the Snake
to sabotage the raft.
- Are we good?
Lift it up.
Keep going.
- You have 20 minutes
remaining!
- Let's walk all the way
till we can't touch.
- That's right.
- Yep.
* *
- All right, kick.
Kick!
Kick with your feet.
- All right, let's do it.
Keep going.
- I told you she'd float, baby!
Whoo!
The Snake has
100 grand on the line.
He's gonna reveal himself.
- Um, we definitely
overshot the buoy.
- Less vertical,
more horizontal.
- Let's go, left.
- If I'm Earl
and I'm the Snake,
I can see myself trying to look
for ways to sabotage it,
and I did find it
a little bit odd
that he just wasn't
that out of breath.
Like, you would think
that if you're really trying,
you'd be so exhausted
from the swim.
It cast more suspicion
on Earl.
- You have 15 minutes
remaining.
- Keep goin'!
- Now they've gotta
get both keys.
- Go Yul!
Go Yul! Yes!
- One key down.
There's still
one below the buoy.
- It's definitely
not directly under me.
- I'm not
seeing anything either.
- It's way down.
- So we're really wondering
where is this key?
And we're running out of time.
[dramatic music]
- Ten minutes remaining.
* *
- Keep an eye
on him down there, Malcolm.
* *
- It's got to be straight down.
- If you are the Snake,
you're a damn good one.
- I don't see it.
- What do you mean
you don't see anything?
There's a key under the water.
Like, how do you
not see anything?
- Come on, Yul!
- Yul went down six times.
* *
- It's got
to be attached to this.
- Seven minutes
remaining, guys.
- He's sabotaging
this challenge.
* *
- Yul is the Snake.
They have one key.
There's still one
below the buoy.
Seven minutes remaining, guys.
- It's got
to be attached to this.
What if we all get on one side
and tip it,
flip it over and look up under?
- Why not?
Let's go.
Flip it, let's go.
[dramatic music]
- What's this anchor?
- Just pull it up!
Pull, pull.
- Is that it?
- We got it!
We got the key.
- Five minutes left
in the challenge!
You've got to get
those keys to me!
They have no choice
but to swim back.
The raft has floated to shore.
- Yul's the best swimmer
in our group.
He should do it.
- All right.
- Go, Yul, go!
- * Gonna win *
- Go, baby, yes!
Go, Yul, go, Yul!
- * That life is a game
and I'm going to win *
- It's Yul versus the water
for the final Snake Clue.
- If people think
I'm the Snake,
then if I don't perform well
on the challenge,
it's just gonna validate
and confirm their suspicions.
It's do or die.
- You got this Yul, go!
- Yul is swimming for his life
to prove he's not the Snake
or do that
to throw us off his scent.
- There is one minute left.
He looks gassed.
- Go Yul!
Go Yul!
- Come on, Yul!
- Go Yul!
Yul, he's working hard
right now.
It absolutely
makes me reevaluate
who I think might be the Snake.
Malcolm, he wasn't working
as hard as I wanted to see.
I want to trust Malcolm.
I just don't yet know if I can.
- 30 seconds!
- Go, go, go!
* *
Go!
- This is it.
- It's like a scene
from "Baywatch," let's go.
Let's go Yul!
- Ten seconds left.
* *
- Got it, nailed it.
Got 'em both right here.
- Go!
- Nice job, buddy.
- I'm looking at him,
and he finally makes it,
I'm like, "Good job.
Doesn't mean
you're not the Snake."
- Yes!
- Way to swim for your life!
- This is what we live for!
- Whoo!
- Yeah!
- Oh.
- How about that, Bobby Bones?
Ow!
- You like that?
- Come on.
- So the Snake
right now is sad.
- Oh, hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
- We want him sad.
- Because we're about to go
into this clue box.
You guys ready?
- Yes.
- I need the Snake keys.
[suspenseful music]
* *
- Yo.
- Yeah, baby!
- All right.
The final and most important
Snake Clue.
- Good, yes.
- Be something
we talked about last night.
- "While being a friend
is indeed a fact,
"in order to survive,
they had to stab a back.
"When you put it together,
there's an indicator,
the Snake once tangled
with an alligator."
[dramatic music]
* *
- Oh, that's bullshit!
* *
That's bullshit!
* *
- Who has been talking about
alligators this morning?
Jeff.
* *
- From my perspective,
this exonerates me.
If they still think
I'm the Snake,
they deserve to lose.
Like, I'm sorry, it's like,
"I'm not the Snake."
- All three clues have to do
with the one Snake.
It doesn't not exonerate
the other two.
It doesn't make it--
- I'm telling you,
this doesn't fit me at all.
- I definitely have not
tangled with an alligator.
* *
Well, here's the thing.
I've actually had some
experience with an alligator.
I'm not revealing that.
Any one of these guys
could have tangled
with an alligator--
not just directly Jeff.
That's too easy.
- Do you guys know
of one of you
who stabbed someone
in the back on a show
and tangled with the alpha male
on the show?
* *
Do you guys know
of someone--
- Saying "survive"
does not mean "Survivor."
* *
Does not mean that.
- I know I'm not the Snake.
The clue we found in camp,
it pointed directly
towards Yul.
Now this clue
points directly at me.
* *
So, of course,
my obvious reasoning
says that maybe I shouldn't
point the finger at Yul.
- I'm 0 for 3 on these.
- So now I'm starting to look
at Malcolm.
- All right, guys.
Your coordinates will
lead you to the Snake Pit,
and I will meet
you guys tonight.
- Got a lot to think about.
- You've got a lot more
to think about.
* *
[dramatic music]
* *
[snakes hissing]
* *
- It's good to see you guys.
The Snake Pit
is where each of you
will have one final opportunity
to plead your case as to who
you think the snake is.
So the game is still happening
right now.
Here's how it works.
At the end of the Snake Pit,
if three of you agree
on who the Snake is
and you're right,
that team will share $100,000.
If you're wrong,
the Snake gets all the money.
You guys are great competitors,
so all four of you
would have been A+ Snakes.
If you're not the Snake,
it'll be your job to convince
your teammates
that you are not the Snake.
* *
Earl, let's talk
about the first clue.
- What stuck out to me
about that first clue,
it mentioned
growing up playing sports.
So immediately I knew I had
an out with people like,
"Hey, I did not play sports,
and here's the reason why."
- Jeff, do you trust
what he's saying?
- I don't think Earl is lying.
Malcolm,
he's built like a linebacker.
Have you seen
the size of that man's neck?
You know,
I mean, it's a thought.
- Let's talk about
the first challenge.
Jeff, how many snakes
did you find?
- Two.
- I found the other one.
And then I handed that
off to Earl.
- Earl, what happened?
- I said,
"All right, we're going
to throw it on the sand,
but I missed it."
Holy shit.
Hopefully people don't think
I'm that stupid,
that I'm just gonna, like, do
something like that on purpose.
- There's another side to that.
If I were the Snake,
my strategy
would be to do exactly
what Earl did.
- The other thing was I thought
I had to read
at some point how you overcame
your disease
and became a very
physically strong person.
- It's a childhood disease,
and growing up,
I didn't play sports.
I did not.
You could have been out
in the open.
You could have just asked me
directly to get clarification.
- Malcolm, how do you feel?
Tell the truth.
- So I can't get over
the last clue.
Jeff has talked about
being up close
and personal with alligators.
I mean,
that's extremely literal.
- If the final clue
is taken literally,
you have to assume all
the clues are taken literally.
And bar exam?
- The ones with college,
if they're covered
in leafy green, I thought,
could mean
it might be Ivy League.
Malcolm went to Dartmouth,
and I went to Stanford
for undergrad,
but I went to Yale
for law school.
I know that I'm not the Snake,
therefore maybe
Malcolm's the Snake.
- I do know
that Dartmouth is green.
- It could be someone
that was a bartender.
- Malcolm used to be a waiter.
He worked at a bar.
- I worked at a bar.
- Do you have
to take a bartender test
or do they
call that a bar exam?
- No.
- I did start
to look at Malcolm
a little different
after reading that.
- Malcolm,
care to defend yourself?
- Stanford also has a tree,
so let's hold on to that
a little bit,
and I am not a lawyer.
- It could be someone
that did high jump in track,
leaping over that bar,
and Yul did track.
And he took a bar exam.
- Jeff, don't overly rely
on your gut intuition
because I'm telling you,
your gut is wrong,
and you will find out tonight.
I did find us the camp clue,
and it's pointing at you.
- Yul, I am the one person
I know that's not the Snake.
I have played the game
balls out,
and I've been 100% open,
honest, and free
the entire time.
- Earl, who do
you think the Snake is?
- Oh, my God.
Ugh!
- Yul, we already had
some kind of connection,
but you never acted
like you were part of my team,
which I find suspicious.
- Uh, for most of this game,
I thought Earl was the Snake.
- But how did you think
that most of the time
I was a Snake when nothing
was ever even relating to me?
- Earl, I'm sorry.
- Everything still kind of
points to Yul,
and we could be wrong,
but you're still
not convincing me now.
You're saying sorry.
- Huh.
You guys
are making a big mistake.
- Tell me why.
- Uh, okay.
A couple of things.
Because we do know each other,
I didn't want to put you
and us
in that kind of situation
where our friendship
would be seen as a reason
to try, like, get you convinced
one way or the other.
* *
You and I
both played "Survivor."
We play "Survivor"
in a certain way,
and I just kind of just
didn't want
to go to that point.
- But you did.
- I did eventually, yeah.
I did.
* *
All I'll say is,
whoever is the Snake
played a hell of a game.
* *
- It is now time to vote
on who you think is the Snake.
[suspenseful music]
If three of you agree on who
the Snake is and you're right,
those three
will share $100,000.
If three of you agree
and you're wrong,
the Snake takes all the money.
Up first, Malcolm.
[dramatic music]
* *
Jeff, you're next.
* *
Yul.
* *
Earl, last vote.
* *
There's $100,000 on the line.
Let's see who you guys
think is the Snake.
* *
First vote.
Yul.
Second vote.
Yul.
Third vote.
Jeff.
Two votes, Yul.
One vote, Jeff.
If there's a split decision,
the Snake
automatically wins the money.
* *
Your final vote...
* *
Yul.
That's three votes Yul,
one vote Jeff.
If Yul is the Snake,
the team will share $100,000,
but if Yul is not the Snake,
the Snake will take home
all the money.
It's now time to find out.
* *
Will the real Snake stand up?
* *
- Sorry, boys.
- Oh! No!
- Excellent.
- I knew it.
- Good job.
- Well played.
- Good job.
- Congratulations, man.
- No, no, oh, dude.
- Good job.
- Oh dude, you're so good.
- Sit back down, sit back down.
- Oh, Malcolm!
- Great job.
- Let's talk about the game
a little bit.
Let's go
to the first challenge.
- You just handed me
the first challenge, man,
and I don't know if I
ever found the one you lost,
but I stomped on everything
hard, just to check everything
got driven into the dirt
within 10 feet of that beach.
- Okay, let's talk
about your clue from camp.
"The Snake went to college,
which is real keen.
Their college
walls were leafy green."
- Every wall at Dartmouth
is covered in ivy.
- "From time to time,
they had to cram,
he even passed a bar exam."
- What was that?
- Bartending school.
- Oh!
- We said that.
- You said this!
- Let's talk
about the next challenge.
Was there anything
that you did to where
you were trying
to sabotage the competition?
- I knew I needed to get us
as far away
from the buoy as possible,
so that's when I started
aggressively swimming
in the wrong direction
and just ripping with my arm.
Also, I lied
about where a key was,
7 feet under the water.
It's way down.
I can try again in 30 seconds
or somebody else can go now.
And the idea
was to slow things down
but also wear out Yul.
- Oh, God, he's good!
- I never saw a key.
- Let's talk about
the last clue.
- Out of these three,
I'm the only one
who's very backstabby,
as you might have noticed
from the past 48 hours,
and I've gone
alligator wrestling in, like,
Colorado at a farm.
- I just want to say
kudos, man.
You played an excellent game.
If I could have
done things differently,
I would have made
more of an effort
to engage with Earl,
but the best person
won the game.
The Snake won.
We all got bit.
Kudos to him.
- Hey, my hat's off to you.
- Cheers, buddy.
- Malcolm, congratulations.
That's a heck of a game, man.
That was awesome.
Take a walk.
You're the champ.
- That was the most stressful
two days of my life.
- You did a good job.
- Yul is a "Survivor" legend,
Earl is a "Survivor" legend,
and these guys are smart,
they're manipulative
and they're great athletes,
so the fact
that I managed
to come out on top,
I'm feeling
pretty good right now.
- I'm sorry, bro.
- Oh, don't--no sorrys.
No, guys, no, no.
- I got bit hard.
My target was on Yul
from early on in the game.
Like, it didn't
sound believable.
It sounded like he was just
going through the steps,
and--God, I'm sorry, Yul.
Yul, I'm sorry.
I got it wrong.
[snake hisses]