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- Last time on "99 to Beat"...

- Come on. No, no, no.

- I can't lose my daughter on this.

- Families were torn apart.

- Gonna miss you. [crying]

- I don't think I've ever seen a reaction like this.

- Come on, Arvind!

- A blossoming friendship was cut short.

- Arvind is on the Purple Team. - Arvind.

- It's devastating.

- But Julian and Anna held their nerve

and fought on without their other half.

- Are you kidding me? - Yeah!

- 52 have been eliminated.

48 remain.

[dramatic music]

With $1 million on the line, there's just one rule.

all: Don't finish last!

[cheers and applause]

[upbeat music]

♪

- Players, welcome back to "99 to Beat,"

where whatever you do...

all: Don't finish last!

[cheers and applause]

- 48 players left, and it's time to get going.

- Let the games begin.

[cheers and applause]

- Players, you will each have a butterfly net.

Confetti cannons will fire out a mixture of yellow confetti

and red butterflies.

The last player to catch a red butterfly in their net

before it hits the ground will be eliminated.

- I hope they're big butterflies.

- Me too. - [chuckles]

- On paper, I think Miranda's got a great chance.

This is her area of expertise, you know?

Just, like, catching bugs, using nets.

- Well, I'm an exterminator,

so I'm always catching butterflies.

I save the butterflies. I don't kill them.

- I think from a sports standpoint,

this is a rebounding game. - Yeah.

And Ronald--very, very tall.

- So I play a lot of basketball.

I look at it like rebounds.

That's my game plan. It's still almost 50 people.

I just gotta beat-- just not be the last one.

- I actually worry this game could be physical.

People who are short like me... - Mm-hmm.

- They could be literally on the short end of the stick.

- We got this. - We do. We do.

Things are gonna be great.

[buzzer blares]

[dramatic music]

- Here we go, Ken.

- Players are gonna get their butterfly nets.

Oh, look at that. - There they go.

- Confetti cannons shoot these mixture of yellow confetti

and butterflies.

They have to box each other out and net these butterflies.

- Okay, I see a few.

- They only need to get one red butterfly,

but they've got to catch it before it hits the floor.

- Ronald already has a red butterfly.

- Are you kidding me?

- I don't even see them.

- Ref!

- Ref, ref!

- Mae has one.

- Got it.

That was not easy.

- Oh!

Miranda, the exterminator! - Miranda!

She is doing her pest-control dance.

- ♪ 1-800-Miranda - [laughs] Yeah.

But there's still 16 left who need to net a butterfly.

Hang on, look at Lance.

- Easy, easy, easy, easy.

- Oh, look out!

- Oh, we're seeing physical.

- Malissa went on the floor!

- Physicality is coming out. - The physicality.

- Yes!

- Did someone push you?

- They're freaking sword-fighting

with these things.

- Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

Malissa's getting in there like a safety or a cornerback

trying to rip up-- - Well said.

The voice of NFL football, Erin Andrews, is in the house.

- Oh. - Ten players left.

- The final ten. - Final ten.

- Malissa! - Malissa's got one! Yes!

Now we have eight left.

- Sean's done.

- Seven left.

- Yeah, ref!

- Oh, Michelle got it. - Oh, she got it!

She will not be in the bottom two.

Two Wagners left.

- That's right, Collin and Anna.

- Let's go, Anna, let's go, Collin.

- That's Leandra, Collin's sister.

- Collin, above!

- Wow, six people left.

Collin has one. - Wow.

- That is $1 million right there.

$1 million.

- It's absolutely crazy, but I gotta prove it to Courtney,

I've gotta prove it to myself,

and I gotta prove it to my family.

Courtney may be gone, but there's still

a lot of dog in this fight.

- Five people left--

Mariama, Anna, Lance, Robert, and Marsha.

- Anna! - Anna, over there!

It's coming over here!

- Oh, look at Mariama.

- Fighting for it. - They're fighting for it.

Oh!

- Anna caught it! - Anna got one!

Final four--Mariama, Lance, Robert, Marsha--left.

Mariama is in the bottom again.

That's six times for her now,

more than anyone else in this competition.

- Mariama, behind you!

Behind you!

- Mariama, Marsha-- they're fighting for it.

Mariama--final three!

- Robert, Lance. Robert, Lance.

Robert, Lance. Robert--

- Robert, Lance-- they're fighting for it.

Oh, they're real.

- Ref!

- Robert got it!

- Lance and Marsha-- one is going home--

both parents, a father and a mother.

[players shouting]

- Right there, Lance! - Behind you!

- As Michaela has left, I wanna do this for her.

And the main thing to me is, I can't finish last.

- Lance! - Let's go, Marsha!

[shouting, cheering]

Closer.

- She got it!

[buzzer blares]

- Shoot.

- Man, poor Lance.

- You did so good.

I'm proud of you.

- You did amazing, Lance.

- Lance, you're awesome, man.

- I feel like I let my family down.

I just couldn't catch a butterfly.

- People are waiting in line to hug Lance right now.

[somber music]

We love you, Lance!

- Aw, hey, Tommy.

- Aw, I love that.

[suspenseful music]

♪

- Lance, you're such a great competitor,

and I know Courtney is very proud of you.

But you finished in 48th place, and unfortunately,

your million-dollar dream is over.

[cheers and applause]

- You got it, Lance!

- And with Lance leaving, he becomes the 53rd player

to be eliminated,

so the prize now stands at $530,000.

[cheers and applause]

- Players, it's time for our second game.

Without using your hands, you must transfer six cups

from table to table by blowing up a balloon

and holding its weight with the balloon alone.

The last player to transfer all six cups

will be eliminated.

- I'm gonna dominate this.

- I think this selects out people

who are athletes, like Will.

He is quite buff. - Yeah, he's jacked.

- What's the difference between buff and jacked?

- I'm not sure.

I bet Sean really benefits from this game.

Because he's a personal trainer,

he probably has good stamina.

- I've never played a game like this before.

But I just gotta beat one person at a time

and really just focus on myself during the challenge,

and that just gets me one step closer to the million dollars.

- Malissa, you know, the football coach--you gotta have

lung capacity and good legs.

- [laughs]

- I've blown up a lot of balloons

for my daughter's birthday party,

so I have some experience.

I think it should be good.

- Hadieh and Nikki, best friends--

calm, friendly. They could do well.

- I'm feeling it today, but I'm so glad that I have her here

to cheer me up and make me feel better

and just keep me laughing through this--

- We laugh so much.

Oh, my gosh, we're like a comedy troupe.

- I would practice, right now, slow breathing.

- Good point.

Is anyone besides you doing that right now?

- [exhales]

[buzzer blares]

- And they are off.

You have to blow a balloon in a cup

and, without using your hands, transfer that cup

to the table six times.

- Jared, a barista, should be very good at this.

- [groans]

- Maybe not.

- Now he's gotta start again.

- Shoot.

Oh, yeah, Ronald, too, over here--he's struggling.

I think it's getting in the groove

of having enough pressure of that balloon in there.

It's like, once you get it, you're good.

- You got it, Kara. You got it, baby!

- Peter is through.

Nikki has moved on.

- Okay.

- Yes, sir!

- Julian's through.

- Whoo! Yes.

- Michelle has--

- That's gotta feel good.

- Let's go!

- My lungs gave up a little bit.

A little asthmatic, but still fantastic.

- Thank you.

- Seth is through.

- Straighten up the tie.

Fist pump!

- James is in.

- I look at James just to feel good.

- I agree.

I love him.

- You know who's not doing well, surprisingly?

- Who? - Malissa.

- Oh, yeah.

Oh, no.

- I'm shocked.

- Come on, Malissa. You got this.

- Seven people are still in the game.

- All the pressure is on.

I look at everybody else, and I'm far behind.

- And what the heck is happening with Sean?

He doesn't have any of his cups over there.

What is going on? - Oh, my God.

I didn't even notice that.

- Oh, come on, Sean.

- You've got it, Marsha.

- Hadieh is through.

Nikki's happy.

- This is like me in the NFL playoffs.

I don't want anyone to lose.

- And Cara Maria is through.

Dakota and Miranda-- super happy

that Cara Maria is through.

They are tight.

- Joann! Come on, Joann!

- Oh, my goodness.

Five are left. - What happened?

- You got it, Marsha!

- Jared has moved on.

[balloon deflates]

Final four--Marsha, Sean, Joann, Malissa.

Oh, no, Malissa dropped hers-- but it made it.

- Come on, Sean.

- Yeah, I think Sean is making up time right now.

- I always told myself, no matter what, just to stay calm,

stay composed, and, like, you know, really just play my game.

- Good job.

- Oh, my God, it's like a race between Joann and Marsha

right now.

They're both on their final cup.

Oh, Marsha just dropped one.

Joann's panicking.

- Can't comprehend why my balloon's not blowing up

and everybody else is over to the side, cheering.

They got theirs.

- Sean can make up time.

- Sean's making up time right now.

- He could-- - Marsha's going through!

- Three players left.

- Malissa, Sean, Joann.

Oh, Sean dropped it.

It is close.

- Let's go, Joann!

- Oh, my God!

- Three players left. - Malissa, Sean, Joann.

- Yeah, Sean!

[dramatic music]

- Joann's through!

- Wow, Joann!

- It is between Sean and Malissa.

- I had to lock in and remember what's at stake.

I'm a single parent.

I coach, I don't make a lot of money,

and $1 million is life-changing.

- Oh, my God!

- It is close.

- You got it, Malissa.

- Malissa's through!

No, Sean!

- Oh, bummer.

[buzzer blares]

- Shoot. - Oh, no.

- Oh, brother, you did amazing.

- Oh, homey. - Well done.

- Tough one. That was hard. - Dude.

- But I think Sean--it's kind of hitting him right now.

It's amazing how close everyone is.

You have less than 50 people left,

and they're playing for that grand prize.

But the friendships that they have made,

dare say, is priceless.

- Yeah.

- Be proud of yourself.

Be proud of yourself.

- Sean--calm, cool, unflappable.

But you finished in 47th place,

and your million-dollar dream is over.

- I came to win. That's what I came to do.

But at the end of the day, these games are hard.

I still did every challenge with 110% of my heart,

sweat, blood, and tears.

- Sean is the 54th player to be eliminated,

meaning the prize now stands at $540,000.

[cheers and applause]

- Players, it's time for game three.

You will each have a sealed piggy bank

with one coin inside.

Using only a paperclip, you must remove the coin

from your piggy bank without breaking it.

The last player to remove their coin will be eliminated.

- So tough, so difficult.

- How are you feeling? - Nervous.

- I'm always nervous. - Yeah.

- I am currently a Stage 4 cancer patient.

I was diagnosed in January 2023, and since my diagnosis,

I've been on a mission to help change the stigma associated

with cancer because most people hear the word "cancer"

and think of it as a death sentence.

And as you can see, people like myself--

we can live well with cancer.

- You know what? I actually did have

a piggy bank as a kid.

My mom gave me one.

And the whole time, like, with all these games, I think of,

like, how would my mom do with these?

And she'd kill. She would kill these.

So I'm glad she's not here, because she'd probably beat me.

- Do we flip this thing over right away, and then try to--

or do I shimmy it down?

- I like Danni, the "Survivor" winner, the one who's jacked.

- I am about to rob a piggy bank,

which I've never done before.

I'm very proud of that.

So I'm extremely worried.

- Now, if you look on paper, Julian's a financial planner.

- Yeah.

- He'll be playing for his wife, Aggie,

to keep their newlywed dream alive.

- Are you worried about this one?

- I'm trying not to be too confident.

So just gotta-- just can't finish last.

- That's right.

[suspenseful music]

[buzzer blares]

- Okay. And they're off.

There's a sealed piggy bank with one coin inside.

There's a paper clip, and they have to pick at it

and get that coin out.

- My neck would be killing me,

trying to look inside that hole there.

Oh, my gosh, James already got it.

- Collin has gone through.

Wow. - Ronald got it out.

- Oh, thank goodness.

- Jake's done.

- Good job, Kevin.

- 16 players are left, so over half

have already made it through.

This is where they're gonna just start losing it.

- It really is about steady hands.

David is starting to shake.

- Crap!

- Wow, Miranda has it.

- [cheers]

- Dakota did a victory dance.

- I love it.

- David's trying to shake it out.

I don't know if that's gonna work.

- I'm resorting to shaking.

I'm just shaking this thing.

I'm just shaking it, thinking, it's a panic.

Try to get this out.

- I heard a clink there.

Queen Joann got it.

- Yeah, queen.

David got it. - David got it!

Dude!

13 people left.

- This is where you can feel the tension.

[rattling]

- Oh, wow. - Jennifer got it.

Will got it! - Will got it.

Nice. - Nice job, buddy.

- Yay. Yes, sir.

- Julian, of course.

- Financial planner. - Yep.

- You'd think he'd excel in this game.

- I got it! I got it!

- Tommy's got it.

11 players left.

- Oh, my gosh. - Anna got it.

- Ah, so that means Jake P. is the last Wagner

still to get through in this game.

- Jake, open up your paper clip like we talked about.

- Tabi's cheering on her man.

- You can do it, babe.

Whoo!

Way to go, Jake.

- Okay, we have eight people to go.

Danni looks like she's struggling.

- Seth got it.

- Seth's got it! Okay.

- There we go. - Mario's got it!

- Oh!

- Gianna's got it!

Final four. - Wow.

- You have Kara, Marsha, Julian, Danni.

- Come on, come on, come on. There you are.

There you are.

- Come on, Julian.

Breathe, like you used to tell Aggie when she was here.

- Okay.

Kara has got it.

Oh, this is gonna be hard.

Oh, man, Marsha's in the bottom four

for the third game in a row.

- Yes, ma'am! Yes, ma'am.

- Marsha's got it! Down between Julian and Danni.

Danni or Julian are going home.

Financial planner versus "Survivor" winner.

- You got this, Julian.

- Julian, Danni-- both impact players.

- Danni, just pick it out.

Just pick it out.

- One of them's going home very soon.

- It's all about the position of the coin.

Get the coin to the right spot.

- Gentle.

Get it on the edge, and then tip it out.

- [whispering] You could hear a pin drop right now.

- Over in the corner of my eye,

I can see her red jumpsuit,

and I know it's time to go and it's time to hurry up

and get this coin out.

- Look at Tommy, already crying.

He doesn't want either... - Fun contestants.

- Friend to go. - You can do it.

Just take a breath.

You're good.

You got it.

- Lift, and then just let the gravity take it.

Let the gravity take it.

- You got it, guys. You got it!

- Whoever goes home will be devastated.

Oh, my God!

- Wow, two left!

Julian, Danni--one of them's going home very soon.

- You got it, guys. You got it!

- so good.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Come on, Julian.

[cheers and applause]

- Oh, my God!

[buzzer blares]

- Bro...

- Julian, the financial planner, is going home.

- Oh, remember just a couple challenges ago...

- It changed so fast. - His wife, Aggie, left us.

[groans] He was such a steady guy.

- Right now I'm devastated,

not being able to get closer to that million dollars

to afford that house for me and Aggie.

- Hey, you're an amazing man.

- Unfortunately, Julian, one of my favorite players,

and one of theirs, is going home.

- Love you. - Sorry.

- Okay, we've had some heavy hitters going home,

from Lance to Sean to Julian.

This is brutal.

[somber music]

Julian, what a great run.

You put just as much passion and effort

into helping your wife Aggie's game as your own.

But you finished in 46th place,

and your million-dollar dream is over.

[uplifting music]

♪

- Julian is the 55th person to leave, meaning the prize

now stands at $550,000.

- Players, you have reached the halfway point,

and it only gets harder from here.

[suspenseful music]

Players, for the first time in the competition,

there will be team captains.

Captains will be chosen at random

and will pick four players they want on their team.

- Oh, make me team captain.

My team gonna be stacked.

- It's like gym class. [chuckles]

- In this challenge, each player has a small sailboat

and, one at a time, must use a fan

to sail that boat down a channel of water

and dock it in their harbor

until all five boats are secured.

The losing team from each of the three heats

will face off in an elimination playoff.

- Oh, my gosh.

- The last team to dock all of their boats

will be eliminated.

- [whistles]

- Yikes.

- A twist.

- Would it be better to stay with family, or no?

- If we lose, then we're all going home.

I don't know. I don't know.

- The team captains chosen at random

for heat one are Jake C...

- Mama's boy. - Yeah.

- Leo, and Gianna.

- Fun, very popular, but will people take her seriously?

- The captains of heat two will be

Ronald, Miranda, and Jake P.

- One of the Wagners.

- Okay.

- Well, that's an easy first-round

draft pick for him-- his wife, Tabi.

- The captains of heat three will be Mario, Preston...

- The second Wagner family member captain.

- And Michelle.

- Wow.

- Michelle's a great leader.

- Okay, Ken.

The players are moving into the center

so the captains can start making their selections.

- Good luck, Ronald.

Good luck.

- I wonder what these captains are going through--

who they're looking at, what they're trying to figure out

they need on their team.

- Is, like, Jake gonna pick all the Wagners?

Are you choosing your family member or the best?

- One at a time, captains will now

select members of their team.

- David R. - Peter.

- Nikki. - Seth.

- Let's go.

- Put me on any team with that guy, and I believe in myself.

- Kara.

both: Dakota.

- Obviously.

- My man from Philly, Big Willie.

Come on, Will. - Kevin.

- Leaving his wife to hang.

Drama in the arena.

- And you wanna-- you wanna start?

- Yeah, I think that's probably a good idea.

- Okay, yeah.

- I hand-selected these people.

We're gonna make it to the end.

I'm super confident in my team.

I feel so lucky to have them.

It was really hard to choose.

- We want the edges to be the last two we fill in.

So these are people I know I can rely on

and that will talk to me when we're in the heat of stuff.

So I made my choices based on that.

- Our boats are already docked.

- They're already docked.

- We are in the safe zone.

I visualized it. We finish.

I picked my perfect dream team,

and I have so much faith and trust in my teammates,

and we are going to absolutely crush this.

- Three heats with three teams,

each with five boats and one fan.

Just don't be the last team in your heat to get all five boats

from one end to the other.

It looks so simple, but then what do I know?

I was just the fourth lead of "The Hangover,"

so I don't have much credibility.

[buzzer blares]

- You got it. You got it. Yeah, nice.

- Now in this heat, we have Team Jake C.,

Team Gianna, Team Leo.

- Get it straight. Get it straight. There you go.

- A lot of fanning.

- This could be one heck of a bicep workout, Ken.

- You're doing great, Peter.

- Peter is doing a great job for Team Gianna.

- Peter's docked.

- Collin got his in for Team Leo.

Team Jake C. is really struggling.

- Shoot.

Tommy has put team Jake C. back in the game.

- Row, row, row your boat all the way to that finish line.

- Beautiful, Tommy!

- Do what works for you, Jen.

- Oh, Jennifer's got some momentum.

- Jennifer has docked.

- You know what? They're all on their last boat.

Miko is on his way to victory for Team Leo.

- Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

- There you go. - Yes!

- Get it into the wall. Hook it! Hook it!

- Jake C. came back. - Jake C. came first!

- Wow!

- Team Leo and Team Jake C. have moved on.

- So team Gianna will have to go on in the next challenge.

- I wanna see someone do it first,

you know what I'm saying?

- Then maybe you should go third, because that will

give you time to see two people go.

- Yeah, I'm going head-to-head against my wife, Tabitha.

And I didn't want her to be on my team,

just in case we were in the bottom.

I didn't want both of us to be going home.

- Because these are gonna be easy.

All you gotta do is put it on the wall and fan.

I mean, the stakes are as high as they can be,

but I think we got a good team.

I think we're gonna pull together.

- When we anchor the boats, we wrap it,

and then hook it over the bottom.

- Time to sail away. Ready?

all: One, two, three.

Win!

[laughter]

- Sail it!

- Team Jake P., Team Ronald, Team Miranda.

[buzzer blares] - Here we go.

- Look at Team Miranda go.

Look at that.

Sheer willpower.

- And she's docked. - [sputters] She docked!

That was a--oh, my God, that's the best first leg

so far in this competition.

- Their technique is great on Team Miranda.

- When I dip, you dip, we dip.

- We can dock it, get some margaritas afterwards.

- This is a booze cruise for Team Miranda.

- The best team.

- ♪ Team Miranda - Wow.

- Yes, faster. You got it, Jake. Like that.

- Holy cow. - Jake is picking up steam.

Robert is stuck with Team Ronald.

Team Jake P. can pull off the upset.

- You got it, babe. Good job, good job!

- Kevin's found his flow.

Robert has found his groove.

- Dock the boat, Robert. Fan it in.

- Team Ronald is through.

- Team Jake P.--they're on their way to elimination round.

- I love our team. I love our team, guys.

We have the best team of pirates I have ever assembled.

We're lifting that anchor, and we're going after that booty.

- Yeah, we are.

- I think Mario is the best general manager so far,

just choosing the best draft picks.

- Good job, GM. - I think we have the team.

- Good GM, dog. - I think we got the team.

- I'm agreeing.

- You'll hook from the top. - We got it. Get ready.

- We got it, team.

all: Team Preston, Team Preston!

- Whoo!

[buzzer blares]

- All right, Team Michelle, Team Preston, Team Mario.

- Look at Team Michelle.

Mae got stuck early, Ken.

- Look at everyone on Team Michelle's freaking out.

- Mae needs help here.

- Team Preston-- two more to go.

- There you go! Dock it.

- Team Mario-- Joann is docked.

- Team Michelle hasn't even had one dock yet.

- Mae, bring it back. Bring it back.

- She should tag out, which is what she's doing.

Grant is stuck.

- Keep going! Keep going! - I'm pinned.

- Team Michelle are way behind.

- Team Preston is through.

- Great job, my son. - That's for you, Dad.

- Grant is in the harbor now.

- Still, is it too little, too late for Team Michelle?

Team Mario-- final boat is docked.

- That's over. [cheering]

- Team Michelle is headed for the elimination round.

- This is the elimination playoff.

Team Michelle, Team Gianna, Team Jake P.--

whichever team fails to dock five boats in their harbor

will be eliminated.

- Team Gianna may need a miracle to survive,

and Peter might be the guy to provide it.

[buzzer blares]

Okay, and they're off.

- All right, you got this, Mari.

- Jake P. first.

Peter first, of Team Gianna, and Mariama of Team Michelle.

- Mariama, get a little lower, hon.

- Keep it going, Jake. You got it!

- Beautiful job, Peter!

- Five people are going home.

Either it's Team Gianna, Team Michelle, or Team Jake P.

Some of our favorites will be gone.

- Reset, Mariama. - Reset it! Reset it!

- It's still turning.

- The boat is sideways.

Oh, my gosh.

- Team Michelle have had a reset already.

- Oh, she's stuck. - Oh, my gosh.

- Ah, damn it.

- Something that all three of these teams dealt with before--

tough starts.

Sucks it right out of you, as we see with Mariama.

- Kind of panicking right now.

- Hey, bring it backwards! - It's moving.

Why do you want me to bring it backwards?

- Mariama, grab it. Grab it.

Grab it. Bring it back. Bring it--

- No, Mariama, come here!

- Oh, my gosh. - Oh, no!

- Five people are going home.

Either it's Team Gianna, Team Michelle, or Team Jake P.

Some of our favorites will be gone.

- And this is the elimination round, Ken.

It's now or never for these teams.

- Mariama, grab it. Grab it.

Grab it. Bring it back.

You can turn the boat around.

- No, Mariama--come here! - Turn it.

- We've got some people that are confident on our team

that think they know they can do it,

and they're not performing.

- Bring it back. - Mariama, bring it back here.

- Turn it around and put it back?

- Right here.

There it is. - There you go!

- Look at Peter. - It'll go in.

- It is docking.

Lordy, lordy. - You got this, honey.

You got this.

- Let's go! Go, go, go, go, go!

- Come get it, come get it!

- Oh, Jake did well.

Did Jake, like, dock faster than Peter?

No. - Peter, run back.

- Wow, Team Gianna's in the lead.

- Yeah, Jennifer!

- Yeah, Jen! Yeah, Jen!

[bell dings]

- Great job! - Yeah, Jennifer!

- Come on!

- Mariama, slap that thing.

Big slaps.

- Move it up!

- Can Mariama dock that first

and vital boat for Team Michelle?

- There you go! [cheering]

- Lock it in!

- Mariama got it!

Team Michelle are back in the game.

- Good job, Mama. You pulled through.

You pulled through.

- Let's go, Rebekah. You got this, girl!

- Look at that. Rebekah's quickly catching up.

- Yeah, she is. - Wow, great technique.

Gianna is stuck in neutral. - Let's go, Gianna!

- Kind of panicking right now. - Let's go, Gianna!

Let's go! - Great job by Rebekah.

She docked in!

That was the fastest dock so far.

[bell rings]

- Grant, Grant!

- Grant is next.

- Okay, they're saying like this.

- Good job, Bekah. - Fan even lower.

Good job. There you go. - Big one, Gianna. Big ones!

- Come on. - Whoa, look at Anna!

- Keep going. Keep going.

Keep going! - Keep going!

- Anchor. Yes, yes, yes! - Get it in there, Anna!

- Get behind it! Yes! - Whoo!

- Team Jake P. is in the lead with three boats.

- Gianna is about to dock her third.

- Come on, Gianna. You got this.

You got this.

Dock, dock, dock, dock. - Dock in, girl.

Team Michelle are behind on two.

- Yes! Let's go. Let's go.

- This is where we catch up. This is where we catch up.

- Grant is doing great, much better than last time.

He's learned from his mistakes.

- There you go! - You got this.

- Let's go, David.

You got it, David.

- Good job, Gianna.

- Oh, great job by David A. Look at that.

Powering past Alex. - So good.

- Come on, David. Yeah, baby. You got it.

- I think Grant needs to calm down a little bit here.

He has been fanning too hard in the harbor.

- Yeah. I agree.

- Spin it! Spin it!

- Yeah, bro!

Come on! Come on!

- David A. is in.

Grant has just docked Team Michelle's third boat,

and Alex is in the harbor for Team Jake P's fourth.

- You're still in this, Alex.

- Come on!

Yo, you are locked and loaded.

You got this, baby. Come on. You got it.

I'm a very competitive person, which sometimes

is kind of funny when you're a priest.

My life is shepherding people towards a shared purpose,

but I still like to win, and I play to win.

- Look at James.

He's America's favorite at this point,

with a fanning technique like that?

Come on, now. - Let's go, James.

Come on, baby.

- James, there was never any doubt on my end.

- Oh, my God, MVP.

He's in the harbor.

He is on the verge of victory.

- Bring it home, James!

- She can't do it.

- You've got it!

- She's gonna lose it for us.

- Yes, she is. - Reset it. Reset it.

- And for the second time today,

Mae is passing the fan without docking a boat.

- Can we not do it twice?

- No, I have to do it.

[cheers and applause]

- Look at Michelle, fighting to stay alive in the competition.

James is the anchor man.

He fell down! Could he get up?

He may not get up!

- He's got it!

[bell rings]

[cheering]

- Team Gianna has gone through--

James, Gianna, David A., Jennifer,

and, of course, Peter.

- Smoked it.

- Peter's sermon to James made him the hero

who brought it home for Team Gianna.

Wow.

I'm exhausted.

- But we're not done yet, Ken.

We're about to lose every member of Team Michelle

or Team Jake P.

- And two Wagners are going home, no matter the outcome.

- Michelle is close to docking here.

Kevin McAllister trying to get their final boat in.

- How great is Team Michelle doing right now?

- Let's see Mae, if she can go here.

- Let's go. Let's go! You got this.

You got this.

- Mae got stuck last time.

- Mae's boat is firing along,

but is there enough time to catch Kevin of Team Jake P.?

- I didn't come here to just lay down and die.

I'm gonna get this boat to the dock.

- They're doing so much better.

It really is up to Mae.

- Kevin's gonna have to pick it up, Ken.

- Exactly. - Go! Gotta move!

Gotta move faster, faster!

- There is a world Team Michelle wins.

Oh, my God.

- Five people are going home.

Either it's Team Michelle or Team Jake P.

- Kevin is gonna have to pick it up, Ken,

because both Team Michelle and Team Jake P.

have only one more boat to dock.

- And two Wagners are going home, no matter the outcome.

- Mae, you gotta do fast strokes!

- Lower, lower, lower--

- You gotta get below the freaking thing.

- Lower and stronger. Feel that wind.

- Oh, my gosh!

- Mae's now stuck for the third time this game.

- Michelle had to have her on our team.

- Mae's getting stuck again.

- It's like a reoccurring nightmare for her.

- You can do it, Mae!

[overlapping speech]

- Yes. - Yes, guide that in there.

- You got it. You got it. You got it.

[dramatic music]

- Barring a storm, Team Jake P. will win.

- Hook it, hook it, hook it, hook it!

- Hook it!

- [screams]

- Once he crosses that line... [bell dings]

Victory for Team Jake P.

Team Michelle is eliminated.

- Don't touch me. Don't touch.

- I'm sorry, girl. You tried your best.

You just kept working. - It was rough.

It was rough. - Sorry.

- Michelle, the most fiercest competitor of the game,

is gone.

- These are people that I have grown to love and care about,

and as a captain, I feel like I let my team down.

- Michelle, you didn't let us down.

- And we've lost more Wagners. - Yeah.

- They started with 12.

We're now down to just 6 remaining.

- It was freaking messed up, both rounds.

- I just hate this feeling. I really do.

If someone let my team down, and that's why I'm going home--

I don't wanna feel that way, but it's hard not to.

- Getting stuck in neutral too many times

was too much for Team Michelle to overcome.

- I know someone who is very happy Ciara isn't leaving--

Mario.

- Team Michelle-- some heavy hitters here.

We hate to see you go.

Grant, Mae, Mariama, Michelle, Rebekah,

your million-dollar dream is over.

[cheers and applause]

[soft dramatic music]

♪

- With five people eliminated, the prize has just grown

by another $50,000,

and it now stands at $600,000.

[applause]

[suspenseful music]

- Players, you each have a pair

of boxing gloves and a hammer.

You must each hammer a nail into the wood

and successfully hang a picture onto it.

The last player to hang a picture will be eliminated.

- Gloves alone are awkward.

- Random art with a hammer and some nails

meets Floyd Mayweather.

- Ken, it's a piece of art they're hanging.

That's like a Picasso.

- Yeah, it's rare.

There are only, like, 48 of them in the world.

- [laughs]

- I love that the picture is of Ken and Erin.

- Nikki and Hadieh-- best friends, allies.

- They're real estate agents, so I wonder

if they hang a few pictures when they're

trying to show a house.

- I am in real estate, and I do some renovations,

so I have used a hammer and a nail.

But I've never done that wearing boxing gloves,

so this is a first.

- Tap, tap, tap.

- Yay!

- People shouldn't underestimate me in this game.

I put up all my kids' furniture all by myself, so I love it.

- You cannot move at all.

- And Jennifer--she plays video games for a living.

Low-key, she's staying in the game.

She's resilient.

- I've held a hammer in my life,

and I've used it, but with boxing gloves?

Who came up with that?

- Well, this is difficult, huh?

When I'm not doing hair, I do help my dad renovate houses.

I have never done it with boxing gloves on.

I'm a little nervous because those gloves look real tight.

- Seth means business. He took off his sport coat.

- Whoa, and rolled up the sleeves.

Double duty here.

- It's game time.

Here we go. - Let's go.

[buzzer blares]

Okay. - Okay, and they're off.

They are awkwardly putting a hammer in one of the gloves.

[dramatic music]

- Oh, Ronald's already got his nails.

- Are you kidding? - Look at this.

I feel like Seth could solve a long division problem

in boxing gloves and be fine.

Why not hang a picture?

♪

There's Dakota. - What?

- Wow, he put it in his mouth.

- In his mouth. Smart.

Look at David. I knew David would do well.

- Oh, my gosh, Kevin, be careful.

Holy cow. - Dude, are you crazy, dude?

♪

- This artwork is gorgeous.

It better be well centered.

Ronald hung his picture.

- Come on!

- David R. did too.

- Ref, ref, ref!

- Whoa, Miranda! - Miranda!

- Good Lord.

- Oh, no. Oh, no.

- Ref, ref.

- Stormm is in.

Jennifer is on the ground because she lost her nail.

- Wow, lost a nail, picked it up with her mouth.

It's like a roller coaster.

This is not for the weary.

It's $1 million.

Someone dropped it?

- Broke it.

- I'm calling my lawyers.

11 players left.

- Will is through.

- Whoo!

- Gianna has moved on. - Right.

- Ref!

- Carlene is through.

Marsha is struggling.

- James keeps dropping it.

Use your mouth, James.

Use your mouth.

- Oh, my God. - Seth is having problems too.

- Get it in there, Seth.

- You got this, Hadieh.

- One person is on the verge of elimination.

Jennifer--oh, my God.

Oh, no, no, no! Don't do that.

- Jennifer--oh, my God. Oh, no, no, no!

Don't do that. - This shot freaks me out.

My dentist would be pissed.

- This is not working.

You're trying to stick the nail in like this into the wall.

The nail falls.

No, no, no.

- Wow, six people left--

Jennifer, Nikki, Seth, James, Marsha, Hadieh.

- We have some heavy hitters left here.

- No pun intended.

- How is James doing?

Oh, no, he keeps dropping it.

- Can't even grip the nail, because I can't move

the fingers or thumb together.

It's driving me insane.

[dramatic music]

- Marsha's about to complete.

She's through.

Final five.

- Ref, ref, ref, ref.

Yes, yes!

Yeah, baby! - Oh, look at that.

Hadieh is going through.

- Ken, there's only four people left.

- Hadieh's friend, Nikki.

- Nikki, you got it.

- James, Jennifer, and Professor Seth.

- James is through.

- Final three. One of them's going home.

- Jennifer, Nikki, or the professor.

- Jennifer and Nikki still can't get

that nail fixed in the wall. - Yeah.

Look at Seth.

He's about to hang a picture.

- Yeah.

- Oh, my God.

- Seth did it.

- Final two.

Jennifer versus Nikki.

- You got it, Nikki!

- Jen. Come on, Jen. You got it.

Hang it, hang it!

- Jennifer's through.

- Wait, wait.

- Put the hammer on the table. Put the hammer on the table!

- Wait, wait, wait.

Jennifer's got to get her hammer back on the table.

- Jennifer's through. - Jennifer is through...

[buzzer blares]

- Oh, no.

- Meaning Nikki is eliminated.

[somber music]

- Oh, I'm so sorry.

- Nikki.

- Oh, it's just so frustrating.

Everyone around me was getting it, so I don't know.

That was the one for me.

I just couldn't do it.

- You did so well. I love you so much.

- They've been fun.

They've been standing together, obviously,

throughout this entire competition.

This isn't fun. - You're so awesome.

I am so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

- Nikki, your sense of calm and steadiness

really shone through.

You finished in 40th place,

and your million-dollar dream is over.

[cheers and applause]

- I love you. You're amazing.

- Nikki is the 61st player to be eliminated,

meaning that the prize now stands at $610,000.

[cheers and applause]

Players, a massive congratulations to all of you

for making it this far.

- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Yes, yes.

One of you is going home with $1 million.

- Yo!

[cheers and applause]

You all fought hard. You never gave up.

And most importantly, you remembered that golden rule.

all: Don't finish last!

- We'll see you next time on "99 to Beat."

- Next time on "99 to Beat"...

- Come on!

- We're past the halfway point,

and the pressure is starting to affect our players.

- Shut up!

- Welcome to "99 to Beat."

James and Seth get all tangled up.

- Medic, medic, medic. - I can't watch this.

- We love you, James. - Put it in!

- And there's more broken dreams

and family heartbreak...

- Oh, my God.

- As 39 players remain,

fighting it out for $1 million.

- That was absolutely ridiculous.