Original subtitles

♪♪

[ Animal growls ]

Hey, did you guys hear that?

Is that what I think it is?

[ Animal hisses ]

My gosh.

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[ Animal roars ]

[ Animal screeching ]

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Narrator: Deep in the heart of Africa,

the lush selati river basin

sustains one of the world's largest populations of wildlife.

But a merciless dry season has devastated the savannas,

creating a fierce competition for resources

and turning this cradle of life

into a 100-square-mile killing zone.

Here, 12 "naked and afraid" veterans

will put their lives on the line...

-Lion! -Something moved.

-Croc! -[Bleep]

...to prove they can survive these stark killing fields...

-We have dinner! -[ Howls ]

...for 40 days and 40 nights.

-[ Gasps ] -Oh, my god. It hurts so bad.

To reach the end, they must master the environment...

Get back, get back, get back.

...and face their deepest fears.

Hyenas are just out there by the water.

Don't let him in our shelter!

[ Leopard hisses ]

Narrator: But while they band together,

another survivalist starts his journey,

naked, afraid...

Matt: [ Whispering ] It's stalking me.

Narrator: ...And alone.

Matt: I definitely may have underestimated

how hard this is.

Woman: Oh, my god. It's so cold.

I'm not sure how much I can take of this.

Narrator: In a land that is kill or be killed....

Africa doesn't want me here.

Narrator: ...Will anyone make it out alive?

Africa-a-a-a-a-a!

[ Lion roars ]

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Look at all these bones.

Total kill zone.

[ Lion roars ]

That's not a good sign.

And I am terrified of some of the things out here.

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I've never seen Africa look so... Dead.

It's just, like, you know there's a lot of carnivores.

There's a lot of meat-eaters out here.

Trent: When I heard the location Africa,

I went and put a will in place.

That's smart.

Sarah: This place is creeping me out.

-Yeah. -Kind of terrifying.

It is, a little bit. Little bit.

Narrator: Traveling deep into the desolate terrain,

the survivalists deploy north of the selati river,

scattered among the area's diminishing water sources,

in four groups of three.

To the east, in the shadows of the noja cliffs,

the determined all-female trio of Melissa, kaila,

and Lindsey come together.

They'll search for safety in a deadly high-grass area,

feared by local tribes

for its extremely aggressive population of lions.

-Let's do it. -Now or never.

Got it?

I'm an environmental educator, and I love this stuff.

This is the type of stuff that I live for.

But this is Africa, and this place is a serious threat

if you are not on your toes at all time.

Yikes.

Lindsey: There are lions around,

so I guarantee that they see me right now,

even if I can't see them.

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Narrator: 5 miles to the west, at pitsi flats,

duck, Melanie, and Sarah

will occupy a barren scrub land

battered by blistering sun

and crawling with Africa's deadliest snake,

the black mamba.

Duck: I live in west Monroe, Louisiana.

Back home, you know,

I'm the predator there, no doubt about it.

But out here, you know, you kind of become the prey.

Only difference is, you naked.

After y'all.

Melanie: We're like literally in [bleep]

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Narrator: 3 miles northwest at shosho ravine,

the all-male pack of Jeremy, Gary,

and Trent combines their diverse skills.

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Gary: So what do you do? You hunt?

-You guys hunt? -I hunt, man, I love to hunt.

-Do you hunt? -I hunt as much as I can.

So, you guys are the hunting boys?

-Oh, yeah. Man, you don't hunt? -Not much. Barely.

Do you make sandwiches?

Yeah, I'll make some hog sandwiches.

Go make me a sandwich.

[ Laughter ]

Narrator: They'll inhabit an area rich with wild game

but must compete for it with leopards

and packs of vicious hyenas.

I think this is the place.

Trent: I love to hunt, but I'm in Africa now.

The animals, they're way better at it than me.

I'll start.

And if we don't make the kill, it makes the kill.

That scares me to death.

Gary: Dude, keep your eyes peeled.

-Yeah. For real. -Real dangers out here.

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Narrator: And in the final group,

"naked and afraid xl" veterans

Clarence, Shane, and Lacey return

after failing to complete their initial 40-day challenge.

I'm hungry for redemption, guys.

-We got to finish. -Yeah, we have to, man.

-We have to finish. -Yeah, I want my bloody 40.

Yeah.

Narrator: They'll pool their experience

at makubu gorge, a treacherous rockscape

where crocodiles lay in wait

and territorial hippos trample anything in their path.

I didn't like tapping out on day 31.

You hate being so weak. I can't do it.

Want to know what it feels like to go through 40 days

and succeed, 'cause it does eat me up often.

I'm super competitive,

and not being able to finish the challenge,

it was devastating.

Clarence: The number-one thing that I learned

during my last challenge in South Africa

was death can come to anyone at any point in time,

like a thief in the night.

Can't catch my breath. [ Breathing heavily ]

I need a medic.

This time, I got my soul strong and my body strong.

When I finish Africa this time,

I'm gonna be standing tall.

-Here we go. -See them in 40 days.

Lacey: Holy crap.

Watch the thorns through here.

Oh, that dirt is hot.

-Ooh, look at that! -Our bags!

This is really long.

I'm guessing it's for the tall man.

Yeah, I'll take that one.

-Satchels. We got bags. -Whoo.

-All right. -Let's see what we got.

Narrator: Each team is equipped with a pot to boil the murky water...

Excellent.

I made a knife for the challenge.

...while each survivalist has chosen

a personal blade for protection...

Killed many a gator and many a pig with that knife.

That's a nice bow, man.

...plus, a unique tool

to increase their chances for survival.

We have got our map.

Melissa: Okay, so I'm looking at this, and I'm seeing some lions.

Kudu -- good hunting, right there.

I would just like to be where there's some sort of water

-so I can catch fish... -Agreed.

-...croc, whatever. -I like it.

-Let's go. -Let's do it.

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Kaila: Obviously, we want to get water as soon as we can, too.

'Cause this sun's gonna dehydrate us real fast.

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Guys, look, to your right.

-Holy [bleep] -Oh, yes.

Damn! What do we got?

Dude, it's a kudu.

Giant, dead, male kudu.

Immediately, you can smell death.

It permeates your nostrils and your taste buds,

and, I mean, it is just death all around us.

-Ooh, guys, this hide's good. -Yeah, this is good.

Can we utilize any of that hide for shoes?

We could take the ears right off.

Oh, sweet, yeah.

All right.

I'm sure we've got a long way to go.

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-These look fresh. -That's super fresh.

Shane: Well, that's a croc slider, right there.

Here? Oh!

-Lot of tracks over here. -Yeah.

Shane: A high-traffic game zone here.

I don't like it. I don't like it.

Keep your eyes open.

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Lacey: I think my feet are blistering.

That's exactly what I experienced last time in Africa.

-Burning lava sand? -Burning hot ground.

Yeah.

That's a game trail. What about right here?

I was just looking at that.

I like the shade here,

and I like the pre -- boma stuff already set.

And you can see what's coming into the water.

Let's clean it up and make it look all pretty.

Let's clean it up. Let's go. Let's go to work.

Game on!

[ Grunts ]

-Okay. -Looks like about high noon,

and we're building a shelter.

It's called a boma, and it keeps all the big game out.

So, the first layer is just sticks,

6 feet high, 6 feet wide.

Then you pack thorns all the way around the outside.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

I had difficulties in Ecuador with female partners.

I was kind of like, "go, go, go."

And my partners wanted me to chill.

-We need protein. -And we'll get it.

Will we, though? If we don't do anything, will we?

I have a tendency to get pushy.

I feel like, right now, our group is all talk.

And that sounds harsh,

but that's what I feel like. That was really harsh, actually.

I don't think you should ever say that again.

This time, I'm going to have to keep

my pushy, "motivational" drive in check.

-Uh, uh, no, no. -Oh, sorry.

-Which way do you want to go? -Going that way. Sorry.

-Forward. Sorry. -It's okay.

We could use that as part of the boma.

-Yeah. -We could use these trees.

Look at the perimeter, right here.

What do y'all think? Want to do it here?

-I feel good about it. -All right. Let's do this.

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Getting to meet Trent, I mean, I think he's a lot like me.

We both love to hunt. I mean, that's something

that me and him's both been doing all our lives.

Gary, he's definitely a go-getter. He's a hard worker.

I'm moving this big tree. Look at that.

Probably weights, I don't know, 300, 400 pounds.

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[ Hollering ]

Gary's louder than us.

And firewood is what that is!

Gary's not the hunter type,

but he's got a lot of other knowledge.

I think there's opportunity here

for all three of us to have a good bond.

Me and the hunter and the trapper,

the wolf pack of Africa

is breaking it down and getting busy,

'cause we need -- before the sun sets,

we need to protect ourselves from lions

and hyenas and predators,

because they're very real out here.

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Ow. The ground is hot.

Dude, there's bones over there.

-It's kind of creepy. -This is scary.

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We're in the [bleep] now.

Death -- that's all it is out here.

This is just borderline wasteland.

Well, we don't want to stay in the [bleep]

We need to move downwind

so that any of the smells we're emitting

are not gonna be detected at this water hole.

That way, not only are we not going to attract predators,

hopefully, we'll also be able

to better hunt anything that's around here.

'Cause if they smell us, they're gonna move away.

There's a tr-- hey, look, there's a downed tree.

We could put a wall there. I like this.

Long as we can get shade on it.

I don't know how long I can stand on these hot rocks.

So we're basically gonna have a circular boma here.

We're gonna gather some really big wood to begin with,

work together, bring the wood around it,

establish the perimeter,

and then pack on as many thorns as we can,

try to get it 6 feet high.

Sarah, I mean, she's naming off stuff left and right,

this, that, and the other.

Yeah, nice one, Mel.

Mel's just -- ooh, she's tough, tougher than bulls.

I got strength and brains out here with me.

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Come on, sun. Give us a break.

The heat is just oppressive.

My heart is still beating out of my chest right now.

It's brutal.

I've never been so hot.

-Mel? -What?

Duck: There's got to be Thorn trees in the shade.

That ass is gonna be red and blistering

by the time you stand out there.

I know, duck.

My damn feet are smokin'.

Can't hardly walk on 'em no more.

Damn, it's hot.

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Melissa: God, at this pace, like,

we are not gonna finish our boma by tomorrow night.

Yeah.

We have worked our tails off,

and we're building a boma that has taken all day.

Aah!

[Bleep] These thorns!

We have the advantage of having a berm,

you know, this nice big Ridge line.

So, we're only building half of a boma, really,

but it's so slow going.

Fat lion paw print.

Really?

What is that?

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♪♪

Narrator: A local game ranger arrives

with news of a gruesome discovery.

Just 1/2 mile away... Man: Back here.

...the bodies of two poachers have been found...

Oh, my god.

...killed by lions.

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Yeah, no. We know.

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-Okay. -Okay.

There are two male lions.

They have killed people here, and so, that --

I mean, it's real.

If we don't have a good shelter, it's [clicks tongue]

Kaila: This whole wall, we need to fill in.

Like, we still have all of this.

-Dude, we're [bleep] -No, we're [bleep]

There's no way. Like, there's no way.

♪♪

This sucks. Just not enough time.

It's minutes from being totally dark.

Our boma's not even close to being finished.

It's gonna have to do for tonight.

It's gonna be a long night.

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We have to keep the flame all night long,

because that is what the lions are afraid of.

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We were told that there's two male lions around here.

They killed two poachers,

and the thing that's scary about that is,

you know, once they've had a taste for flesh,

they know that they can eat it.

That makes us a little bit nervous, for sure.

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[ Animal huffing ]

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[ Rustling ]

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-Lindsey? -Yeah?

What did we just hear?

We just heard a lion.

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That [grunting]

[ Animal huffing ]

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[ Lion growls ]

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[ Lion growls ]

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Kaila: Oh, my god.

We survived night 1.

And there was a lion outside of our camp at one point.

Four toe pads, and then a big one, right here.

These tracks over here, you can see

that they lead into camp.

We got to get, like, more thorns, too,

and put them all around here.

Our top priority is making our boma a lot more secure.

We still have, like, all of this over here, too.

We'll get it. We just got to keep going.

Narrator: 2 1/2 miles northwest, at pitsi flats,

duck, Melanie, and Sarah

are waking up to the effects of the blistering African sun.

Sarah: Told you this place is savage.

Melanie: I'm burnt to a crisp.

That by-god sun has no mercy.

I feel like [bleep] and it's all because of my sunburn.

Mel really outdid herself, and I can tell you,

enough sun out here will cook you down like no other.

I am headed out to get some shade material.

Sarah: I will come, too.

Mel, you don't need to be out in that sun

-no more than you have to be. -I know, man.

Holler when that water's ready.

Melanie: There's no escape from the sun out here.

I just need to stay out of the sun today.

I say that as I can feel the sun beating on my back.

Oh, it hurts. Aah, my back.

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Narrator: 3 miles west, at makubu gorge,

the veterans are taking their first measures to secure food.

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Lacey: I want to try to get these in, Shane.

I am setting my lines up for fishing.

We can cross there. I crossed there earlier.

Okay.

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Yeah, that's interesting.

That's what crocodile scat looks like.

-Holy cow. -But smell it.

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That's definitely crocodile.

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Did you see that?

[ Whispering ] Oh. Crocodile.

I definitely believe he's stalking us.

The crocodiles are learning our patterns while we learn theirs.

Yeah, all the predators are very smart.

They didn't last millions of years

because they're dumb as posts.

I'm thinking we can hop across these rocks.

I don't know how comfortable you feel with that.

Keep your eyes on the water.

Yeah, I don't know if I'm comfortable there.

I don't want to make too much splashing

and bring a croc over to our area.

I'm gonna go the long way.

I'm going this way.

Shane: Lacey's got big balls. I like that she's a risk-taker.

You have to take risks out here to survive.

But there's a limitation to the amount of risks

that I'm willing to take,

and she's making me a little nervous.

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Narrator: 2 miles northwest, at shosho ravine,

Gary, Jeremy, and Trent

are feeling confident in their preparations.

♪♪

First time I ever made it through a night

with that much wood left over.

Gary was a powerhorse rounding that stuff up.

Gary: I'm gonna work on some shelter here.

If you want, I could do this while you guys go out and hunt.

I could not ask for a better team.

Gary, he says, "I got camp. I'll take fire.

I'll start the structure."

Jeremy and I, we like to hunt.

All right, Gary, catch you later.

See you later.

They're out there focusing on the hunting.

I'm focusing on our safety.

I'm loving my partners,

because, last time, in Brazil, I was alone.

Everything wants to bite and poke me.

Luckily, I like the suffering.

I like the biting bugs. I like the pain.

I like to eat disgusting [bleep]

But my biggest regret was that I roasted that fruit and ate it.

And I poisoned myself.

I'm feeling it hard right now.

It's burning holes in my mouth.

It hurts. Bad. [ Vomits ]

Maybe you'd better take me to a hospital.

I thought I was really gonna die.

This is my redemption.

This time around, I make it all the way through.

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Hey. Shh.

There's something in the water.

It's an animal, and it's not fish.

So, what else would be in the water?

-Croc. -Croc.

Let me make sure what's in this water.

Hey, was that a slide, right there?

See how smooth the sand is?

-Yeah. -We got ourselves a crocodile.

I wouldn't get in the water.

[ Crocodile growls ]

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-Check it out. -Think that's some kind of cat?

Come all through here.

Mm-hmm. Some sort of cat track.

Well, it's a highly-active game trail.

Trent. Trent. Just saw something moving.

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He looked right at me.

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-Can you hit that range? -He's looking.

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-Can you hit that range? -He's looking. Don't move.

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[Bleep] Right behind him.

[ Sighs ] Dang it.

All right, let's go get that arrow back.

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There's so many trail tracks.

There's a lot of big paw marks all up here.

Melissa: We finally have our shelter a lot more secure.

But to be successful as a team,

we need to continually get food.

We have to become apex predators out here.

Thorns everywhere.

See a ton of impala.

About 25 of them, it looks like.

One of those would feed us for days.

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Kaila: [ Chuckling ] Yes.

There's lots of movement in the water down there.

It looks to be fish.

Melissa. Lindsey.

There's another water source over here,

and it looks like it's full of fish.

Lindsey: Oh, sweet, okay.

[ Chuckles ] I'm so excited.

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Look at all the fish jumping. Do you see them all?

-That's crazy. Yes! -Oh, yeah.

-There's so many of them, -oh, it's deep mud.

-Oh, yes. -Oh, my gosh.

It's down to my knee.

How do you noodle?

Stick your fingers underwater and move them like worms.

Let them, like, bite your hand.

Oh, god! [ Laughs ]

You can noodle!

-Oh, you -- -aah!

That's so weird.

Aah!

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Whoop!

Aah! Oh.

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-Ohh! Ohh! -Oh, you had it!

[ Laughs ]

They're just taunting us.

I think they've outsmarted us.

It stinks that we have an abundance of food right here

and we can't quite get it.

Oh, it's very frustrating.

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Gary: So, what'd you guys kill?

-Time. -Check it out.

I gathered a lot of wood.

-Oh, you're the man. -Oh, yeah.

-A lot of wood. -You've been busy.

Doing some housekeeping for my hunters.

-[ Laughs ] -Right on. We appreciate it.

I'm like your damn housewife.

[ Laughs ]

Housewives of Africa.

[ Laughter ]

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Well, me and the wolf pack got a fire going.

Heard a few footsteps outside the boma.

Don't know what it was, but... We're doing all right.

[ Animal growling ]

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Shane: Yo, Clarence?

Clarence, get your ass up.

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Lacey: Hey!

-Hippos? -Stop. Yeah. See them?

-Where? No. -They're big.

[ Hippo grunts ]

Crap.

Ohh.

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Clarence, hippo.

Clarence: Hippo tracks?

-Huge. -Damn.

At least two. There's a track of one, and two,

and a little one. So, we have a family.

Big.

So, that makes this area even more dangerous.

'Cause they will do anything to protect their young.

I'm gonna be chopping more thorns

and putting them back up on the boma.

Lacey: Clarence has struggled on past challenges.

Clarence: Watch out for the thorns.

Lacey: But after seeing the tracks this morning,

I totally appreciate Clarence.

He's smart, and he knows a lot about Africa.

He's an amazing asset to have on our team.

Clarence: Here we go.

Lacey: Is that what I think it is?

Those are figs. They're up really high.

There's some right there and some up there.

I can see at least a dozen, if not more.

I would climb it, get up there

and get the figs before the monkeys, but...

Based on past experiences,

I realize that sometimes my judgement's not so great.

If I had to do a risk assessment of my own, I'd say...

7% chance that I would fall.

Hey, you found a fig tree.

Yeah. I'm just gonna need a little help

-getting past the thorns. -Yeah, yeah.

Lacey: Okay.

Up, up, up.

-Thorns. Come over here. -I'm coming. I'm coming.

And just spot me?

Shane: Climbing up a sycamore fig tree

does make me a little bit nervous.

I just got to work with her a little bit

and rein her in just a little bit,

but, you know, I got to do it on a nice, cooperative level.

[ Lacey grunts ] Ah. Made it past the thorns.

-You good? -Guide me to the first one.

Yeah, I'm workin' -- I got -- aah.

Aah! I got spiked. I'm good.

Our first fig!

There you go. There's one. Uh...

Now, how ripe do these have to be, before I go any further?

Throw that down to me.

-Oh, that's not ripe. -No?

No. I wouldn't pick any of them. So, you should come down.

Yeah, I'll just scoot down, Shane.

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All right, I'm running out of energy.

Aah!

Oh, yeah, I'm bleeding.

Ow. Thorns.

Shane: I can't do [bleep] for you, Lacey. I'm so sorry.

-Shane? -I'm coming. I'm coming.

Nope, you're gonna have to -- oh, man, I'm gonna fall.

I'm about to fall, Shane.

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[Bleep] Me.

I'm -- I'm falling.

Aah! Aah!

Lacey: Oh, man, I'm gonna fall.

I'm -- I'm falling.

-Aah! Aah! -Girl, I got you. I got you.

I don't know where your legs are cut, but I got you.

Yeah.

Next time we go up there, let's clear the thorns out.

Ground!

-My ass. -I'm gonna go, uh...

Mind getting the thorns out of my ass?

-Nasty, nasty. -They hurt.

I know.

-Ow. -I know.

Lacey: Was that risk worth it?

Maybe we should've cut the thorns down.

At least we know we can get them next time, though.

Wait till they're ripe.

You got some good scratches, though, girl.

I would like her to tone down

just a little bit, for this environment,

because I don't want her to cost me my 40 days.

7%.

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Gary: The hunter and the trapper,

they got up at sunrise to go hunting.

Last night, I heard some noises outside the boma.

I don't like how the boma stands right now.

I want it to be more fortified.

We need lots of Thorn bushes, lots of them.

Look at those babies.

With lions, it's got to hurt them.

They're tough.

I want to be able to sleep like a baby tonight.

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Look, right up on that rock. It looks like a fresh kill.

Something tore it up, didn't it?

Look at that. Holy cow.

Wow.

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That's fresh.

-That's last night. -Yeah.

-It's not rotted at all? -No.

Jeremy, that hide, we can make shoes.

Look at the gut sack right there.

-I wonder what killed it. -I know it's not a leopard.

They'd have pulled it up in a tree.

Hyena would've finished it, ate all the bones.

It might be a lion.

Jeremy: Predators are here. You ready?

I mean, you walk around this place and easily find

where something's been attacked and killed.

But it definitely become a good food source for us.

[ All howling ]

-What do you got? -Impala.

It was a kill on a rock we came across.

Man, that looks fresh.

-We get lunch today. -What do you guys think?

Should we cook it and eat what we can, or...?

I think we should, uh, enjoy it a little bit...

-Mm-hmm. -...Smoke some of it.

If you guys know how to smoke it, I know how to eat it.

[ Laughter ]

Set it right here for the moment.

Yeah, we can't keep it in here. [ Laughs ]

I've never had an impala.

All right. There's your Turkey leg.

-[ Laughs ] -Are the brains edible?

If you want to eat 'em...

-I'll watch you eat 'em. -I want to eat 'em.

-There's some bait. -That's back strap.

-That's a whole piece of meat. -Yeah.

The only thing about that piece of wood is,

that's in here permanently.

We don't want the smell of blood and meat in our shelter.

Draw the lions and hyenas in.

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Oh, it's coming along nicely.

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How's wild impala?

Needs a little salt and pepper.

Got some sand.

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Kind of a mix between pork and beef.

Mm-hmm.

How you fixin' to cook that brain?

I'm gonna do it right here in the --

-right there? -Don't you think?

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That brain looks disgusting.

You know, I think Gary's a stud.

He wants the eyes, and he wants the brain.

I've killed a lot of animals, and I've never ate the brain.

Where is Gary?

Gary: Hey.

Got brain puddin' for you.

[Bleep] Looks disgusting.

I'm -- I'm ready to see you try your brain.

Me and Trent ain't never seen no [bleep] like that before.

Now, do tell what you're tasting when you eat that.

Yes.

Impala brain, gentlemen.

You just went all in there.

Mmm.

-Mmm, that's good. -You swallowed it quick.

Yeah, it's good, 'cause it's so soft.

Yeah, you a lyin' son of a bitch, too.

I see it in your eyes.

[ Laughter ]

That's why you swallowed it.

'Cause something good, I keep in my mouth, and I taste it.

[ Laughter ]

I'm already thinking ahead, you know?

You never really know where your next meal's gonna come from,

or if it's gonna come.

-Oh, where's your eyeball? -Got it.

I always plan for the worst, hope for the best.

Brains, eyeball -- I'm already operating in that zone,

so that way, when it comes down to the worst,

it might even still feel like the best to me.

This old boy is not gonna eat any damn eyeball out here.

-Ohh! -[ Laughs ] He got me!

Dude, look at your shoulder! [ Laughs ]

It's all over me.

Oh, yeah. If that'd have went in my mouth,

I'd hit you.

[ Laughter ]

♪♪

Trent: We got meat.

I don't think we should have that in here tonight.

This is Africa. This isn't America.

Night 3, we were smoking some of that impala.

It's necessary to keep the smoke on it all night.

Otherwise, the meat has a chance of just going rotten.

I could bury that overnight, and it'd be good tomorrow.

-It won't spoil. -Y'all take that meat

out of this shelter for 12 solid hours,

I don't want no part of it.

I don't agree with having meat, even if it's cooked,

in the boma, at all.

It's too dangerous.

It's exactly what lions and hyenas eat.

And they'll smell that,

and they're more likely to come in the boma.

Gary: That's what hyenas eat.

That is the meat they eat, and they know it's in here.

Gary, I'm not trying to argue with you or fight with you.

I'm just talking about safety, like staying alive to eat again.

I think it's worth the risk. Trent, what do you think?

Trent: We got three guys. We got a boma.

There's gonna be smoke on it all night long.

We can bury it tomorrow, but until it's cooked,

I want to be able to tend it.

That's what my thinking.

Safety is being compromised, for sure.

Hyenas break through bones.

I'm completely disagreeing with this.

We have that meat in here tonight, we're screwed.

Ugh!

Narrator: As they work to make their Mark in Africa,

the 12 survivalists have no idea that they're not alone.

Three days earlier, at the far southeast edge of the basin,

a lone "xl" veteran entered the African bush.

This is Matt Wright. I'm here to earn my redemption.

I had to leave the Amazon a little early.

It's been eating away at me ever since.

[ Voice breaking ] The, uh, bacteria can't be treated.

To make sure I save my foot, I've got to go.

[ Sighs ]

Man: Sorry, brother.

Being able to survive 40 days solo out here

is the most epic redemption I could ask for.

Narrator: He's equipped with only a pot, a knife,

a bow, and a camera.

No teammates will help him.

He's completely alone.

It's just...Isolation.

Everything is this eerie-ass shade of gray.

Right here on this trail,

I could actually see cat tracks,

about the size a leopard track would be.

And it's literally right here.

One thing I know for sure is,

I'm gonna be sleeping with one eye open.

♪♪

It's sometime in the middle of the night right now.

[ Hyenas yelping ]

There's like a whole stampede of [bleep]

♪♪

There's some stuff out there

that's pissed off right now that I'm here.

Narrator: To follow Matt's ongoing adventure,

watch the discovery go original series,

"naked and afraid savage."

Yet another thing out here that could kill you.

Narrator: Download the discovery go app.

♪♪

Trent: Night 3, we were smoking some of that impala.

It's necessary to keep a smoke on it all night.

Otherwise, the meat has a chance of just going rotten.

My only argument is the hyenas. That's it.

It's not to say that you're wrong and I'm right,

or I'm right and you're wrong.

It's we have different opinions.

Just, if the hyenas come,

then all's I'm gonna ask from you is this,

is my next call, a little more respect.

Gary knows what he's talking about.

That's all.

♪♪

I'm willing to take a chance.

And what we need now is fire and boma,

'cause if there's a spot thin enough

for a starving, rogue lion or a hyena

to get through, we're screwed.

♪♪

I want to... Fortify my boma,

'cause I'm all about safety.

I agreed to do this just tonight and not again.

♪♪

♪♪

Me, Jeremy, and Trent, the wolf pack... ♪♪

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[ Hyenas yelping in distance ]

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[ Rustling ]

♪♪

What the hell?

Ah. Ah! Ah!

Narrator: This season on "naked and afraid xl"...

These animals will eat you.

And there's a whole lot of them.

You got him. Put his head in the bag.

In the bag. Oh, yeah!

Cheers, baby!

What? Yeah!

The females right now are kicking ass.

-Lion! -Every minute, every hour,

you're fighting for food, you're fighting for water.

This is Africa. You can't make plans.

♪♪

Naked people!

Oh, my god! [ Gasps ]

Are you serious?

[Bleep] Pisses me off.

[ Thunder crashes ]

♪♪

These storms are brutal. They are wicked. They are cruel.

You don't value anyone but yourself.

Woman: We are getting frustrated.

She doesn't know what [bleep] hunger is!

Melanie: It hurts so bad.

Clarence: If I die out here, it's still worth it.

I'll go fighting, kicking, and screaming.

Buckle up, buttercup.

I wanted redemption, but I don't know if I can last.

♪♪

[ Lion roars ]