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♪♪

[ Thunder crashes ]

Narrator: Previously, on "naked and afraid xl,"

7 days into the epic 40-day challenge,

Africa's unpredictable weather

pummeled the three remaining teams once again...

Huge chunks of hail! Oh, my god. I'm so cold.

...dealing a devastating blow to the recently merged group.

[ Voice breaking ] I think I'm gonna go home.

If there was one person that I needed, it was him.

Narrator: The all female team of Melissa, Lindsey, and kaila

fought off hypothermia in the freezing rain.

This is sick and twisted.

...only to see their once reliable source of catfish

show signs of drying up.

None of them are surfacing at all,

I usually get it on my first or second shot.

♪♪

Ugh!

Narrator: And with the remaining redemption duo,

simmering tensions came to a head...

She doesn't collect any wood.

She doesn't split any of the wood, and she's gonna complain?

Yeah [bleep] you [bleep]

Shane is driving me nuts.

Narrator: ...Causing Lacey to venture out alone...

What the heck?

...and invite another group back to her camp.

How will Shane react when people come back with me?

She takes the [bleep] fire starter, too.

That's really [Bleep] childish.

Narrator: With 31 days remaining...

Africa doesn't want me here.

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

Aah!! Africaaaa!

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captions paid for by discovery communications ♪♪

-Damn, it's hot. -Our boma's right there.

I heard Lacey's voice.

Brought you a gift, but you can't eat it.

-My fire starter? -Well, I have that, too, yeah.

Yeah.

I would greatly appreciate it if you're gonna leave

for 10 hours trampling off hiking

that you would let somebody know that you took that.

That's my tool.

You've had a horrible attitude,

and I needed a break from you.

But what did you use the fire starter for today for?

I accidentally grabbed it when I grabbed rope.

I think that's really inconsiderate

and crazily narcissistic.

That I accidentally took the fire starter?

I don't think you accidentally did it at all.

Jay, look! Friendship!

You left with the fire starter!

Lacey: On accident this morning.

That's irrelevant.

That's another part of your narcissistic attitude.

You just brush it off like it means nothing.

♪♪

Boy, you got to be freaking kidding me.

Lost his mind.

Can we talk for a minute, please?

Fine.

♪♪

We just kind of sat there like... "Awkward!"

It felt like we were invisible.

Shane: Didn't make any sense for you to take the fire starter.

But with the way that our relationship

or whatever you want to call it has gone over the last 24 hours,

it is not inconceivable

that someone like you would be sabotaging.

It was in the rope.

I reached up, grabbed the rope and the hooks,

and put them in my bag quietly.

You know why I did that? You were asleep.

No, I wasn't.

Your head was down. You looked asleep.

Doesn't make a difference.

It does. I was trying to be polite, Shane.

You got to just let things slide sometimes.

I can't let someone taking a tool from me slide.

Oh, that's [bleep]

You know I'm not gonna leave you.

You're minimizing it again like I --

you're devaluing everything I'm saying, and that's [bleep]

No, you're maximizing!

I'm not maximizing anything. You are maximizing.

I'm discussing the fact that it's very terrifying for me.

They're ridiculous. They're like a married couple.

I'm frustrated at this moment.

We had some difficult communication breakdowns,

but I'm here to support you.

I want you to make your 40.

Shane, I did accidentally take the fire starter.

I apologize if that caused you any undue stress.

I accept your apology.

All right, let's do this.

All right, I'm sorry. Me, too. I'm sorry.

Africa -- difficult.

The interpersonal relationships --

extremely difficult.

I am gonna do whatever I can to get through these 40 days

and avoid him as much as possible.

-Hey, you guys. -Hey.

We have been poor hosts.

Yeah, we're sorry about that.

What, are you guys married?

As you can probably see, we had a rough 30 hours,

and our personalities clashed drastically.

It's all good, man.

We kind of just dropped in.

-I'm really not that way. -No.

I don't know what the hell she's thinking,

taking the fire starter.

Shane: I'm telling you! Like, right?!

Sarah: She did that [bleep] on purpose!

Gary: I think Shane could have handled it differently,

but as soon as I heard the fire starter left the boma,

and he was upset about it,

there's something that I understood about that.

It wasn't like she walked out with his teacup from his house.

This is survival in the middle of Africa.

♪♪

Narrator: Five miles south at the noja cliffs,

Lindsey, kaila, and Melissa

haven't had a meal of catfish in five days.

♪♪

All right, so, what's the plan, ladies?

Lindsey: Let's go up on the Ridge,

see if maybe we'll get a catfish, right?

-Yeah. -Absolutely.

You think the catfish are getting harder?

Oh, for sure. Yeah, they're smart.

They're going underwater.

So if we want to get one,

we're gonna have to really go quietly.

Melissa: The past couple of days hit me hard.

Today is the first day where I feel like we need protein.

Kaila: Just got to keep fighting,

'cause we have a whole lot of the hill left in front of us.

Melissa: So, I want to approach them from, like,

a totally different angle.

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These guys are just insanely sensitive.

♪♪

♪♪

1, 2, 3.

Oh, he got out of it.

Kaila: Aw, man. [Bleep] Where'd he go?

Oh, there he is.

I see a dorsal fin coming up.

Ready?

Ugh! [Bleep]

Are you [bleep] kidding me? Barely missed it.

Gosh damn it.

Over it. Over it!

It's getting harder every day, so I'm starting to think

we're gonna need another means of food.

♪♪

Come on.

Shane: Right now, we're building separate

lean-tos inside of the boma,

making it big enough to accommodate more people.

♪ Workin' hard ♪

♪ to stay alive ♪

♪ I'm workin' to survive ♪

Shane: I think maybe with this group,

maybe we can curb some of the tension that happened.

My goals are always the same -- 40 days.

Don't care how it gets there.

I have no ego in this except for 40 days.

-T.i.a., baby. -Yep.

T.i.a. -- This is Africa.

Africa, I'm here!

You think that's enough?

Oh, I don't think this is nearly enough, no.

Lacey: We're trying to figure out how to dome the roof of our huts,

so we decided we'd come and get some palm fronds.

That's really hard to find.

♪ See my palms in my hand ♪

♪ you know I'm gonna thrive ♪

Is there any palm fronds left for us?

Uh, I'm sure there are somewhere.

You're sneaky, Gary,

sneaking out without telling everyone

where you're going and getting all the palm fronds.

[ Chuckling ] No! Sneaky!

I didn't think you guys were gonna use palm fronds.

Lacey already gave me [bleep]

Like I was taking all the palm fronds.

You see how she is, man?

There's plenty of them around.

It's her undermining sarcasm.

And she thinks it's cute

in that [bleep] condescending tone that she has.

As insensitive and mean as that guy seems,

he's extremely sensitive.

I love how you said, "yeah, there's more I'm sure.

Get off your ass and get them yourself."

[ Laughs ]

I think that I'll get along good with him

because he's a good guy. He's extremely generous.

But when he feels crossed,

that's when he will speak up and stand his ground.

I understand it.

I respect him.

We've got some figs here that are ripening every day.

Oh [bleep] right on.

Thank you, Shane. Yeah.

Shane: I'm very glad that Gary is here.

We do click very well.

He sees things the way that I see them.

I was worried that I might get a little bit ostracized,

even in a group setting,

so I'm glad that someone here has my back.

Wow. My mouth is kind of watering.

Gary: People focus so much on hunting,

but climbing is a very powerful survival skill.

And I utilize my skills to feed my tribe,

climbing this tree like a monkey for my group,

and the baboons can't do [bleep] about it.

[ Imitates monkey screeching ]

[ Laughs ]

Melissa: Everything's hot as [bleep] I'm, like, woozy.

Trent: Take a break, Mel. I think we're good.

I think everybody's about out of gas.

[ Chuckles ] It's been a long day with no food.

Getting stuff done.

[ Tarzan scream in distance ]

Seriously?

So, everybody, I climbed a fig tree and got everybody figs.

What?

Gary is the man.

Right there is delicious figs.

We all busted butt today.

Well, now we get a nice treat for dinner.

Lacey: Well-done, sir. That is a massive amount of figs.

And this is the best food we've had in 12, 13 days.

All: Mangia.

[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

Today, we relocated from our camp

and met up with Shane and Lacey

in one of their shelter little lean-tos.

Small fireplace. They surrounded it with sand.

So, we are into communal living for sure now.

There's a lot of prospects on the horizon

that I'm excited about.

Fear, excitement, starvation...

Umm...fluctuating body temperatures,

sanity, insanity -- it's all here.

♪♪

Ugh!

Damn it!

Gary: Over there -- wait. Is that a scorpion?

Right there. That little scorpion.

-Is that a scorpion? -To your left.

-Where's the scorpion? -Right there?

No, no, no, no. In the sand.

Right around the corner.

Aah!! Oh, my god!

Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!

Aah!

-Where's the scorpion? -Right there?

Gary: No, no, no, no. In the sand.

Right around the corner.

Aah!! Oh, my god!

Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up!

Aah!

Melanie: I just got stung by a [bleep] scorpion.

You got stung by a scorpion.

Melanie: Uh, yeah, you've got definitely some kind of a [bleep] here.

Shane: Whoa, look at these pincers.

Holy [bleep] that's a big [Bleep] scorpion.

Narrator: There are over 30 poisonous scorpions in Africa.

I think I got him.

Luckily for Melanie, this is not one of them.

-I think I got his head. -That little piece of [bleep]

Same spot, same butt cheek.

Cook it up! You should have took off running, dummy.

-He just sat there. -[Bleep] You get.

I'm gonna eat him piece by piece, leg by [bleep] leg.

[ Laughter ]

♪♪

Lacey: So, that was, like, an all right night

for you guys' first night here.

Gary: Melanie gets stung by a scorpion.

-That was exciting. -It was exciting.

-[Bleep] Scorpion! -[ Laughs ]

Sarah: Mel is really, really funny, charming.

It was Mel's lighthearted humor that kept me

going in some of the nastiest times,

and I do believe that that is a survival skill,

and she is the best I've ever known at it.

Looks like it's gonna be super, super hot today.

Gary: Oh, yeah, it is.

Extremely hot.

♪♪

Whoa!

Today, I expanded our perimeter

to try to find some more food.

Find a clearing. I look out.

There's a big, massive pool of water,

probably 50 yards in circumference.

That's super cool.

I'm like, "damn!

I wonder if there's any catfish in there."

Find a little rock, 'cause I know they like to hide

underneath shade in the rock and stuff.

Almost had him.

Oh.

He's big.

Dude, that [bleep] thing is like this big.

No joke.

I couldn't get my hand around his whole body

to pin him into the mud.

He was so big.

He was bigger than the diameter of my hand.

I'm really excited to let everybody know

that I got a plentiful food supply.

It's kind of a long walk in,

but we should get a [bleep]-ton of meat.

♪♪

Oh! That dirt is hot. Phew!

I've got good news and bad news.

-What happened? -Oh, bad news first.

Bad news -- I did not catch anything with the bow.

I learned a little bit.

Great news -- I have a catfish hole that is croc-free.

Melanie: Really?

And I'm telling you right now,

I put my hands around a 10-pounder.

The water level's about to my knee.

When you step into the muck,

there is no threat to our safety.

And if we go down and work as a team, we will feast for days.

Oh, man.

That's exciting.

Sarah: Right? Great job, Shane.

Gary: If we can get a good score today, chow down tonight.

Oh, my god. If we catch a catfish -- oh, god.

Food.

Food!

Trent: So, I got my knife, got the bow.

Seems like everyone's on the same page

of working hard as a team,

and that's the only way we can get through this,

as a big group.

-This prospect gives me energy. -Oh, no doubt.

Sarah: You find energy that you didn't even have.

Gary: Let's go!

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Melanie: Holy mother flipper it's hot out.

Sarah: Yeah.

Gary: I know.

Shane: Little more than half a mile.

Oh, man.

I feel like I'm burning already, too.

Yeah, man. I'm hurting.

♪♪

Holy [bleep] it's hot.

Lacey: Fast, fast. Faster, faster.

Shane: I'm trying.

Oh [bleep] dude, it's hurting.

My back. [Bleep] This [bleep] Sucks.

Gary: Hey, guys, Melanie needs to rest.

Oh, god!

I'm still sunburned, and it hurts a lot.

Just feeling the warmth of the sun hurts.

[Bleep]

♪♪

Trent: Poor Melanie. Her sunburn is just killing her.

I'm trying to hold the pot lid over her back.

It's such a long hike.

She is miserable.

Melanie: [ Crying ] I can't. I can't go anymore, man.

It [bleep] hurts.

Oh, Mel.

Lacey: Oh, are you okay?

It [bleep] hurts!

We got you, Mel.

Mel needs to just find someplace to lay down.

Back to the shelter?

I think so.

I feel like absolute [bleep]

And there's no point in me trying to be superhero

and play in the sun when I physically can't.

I'll walk back with you, Mel.

Sarah: Oh, man. Melanie's in rough shape right now.

I know she needs support.

I know she needs someone just to be there for her.

Mel's my partner.

We've been together since day one.

So, anytime I see something going on with Mel,

I'm ready and willing to sacrifice some of my own time

and my mental energy in order to make sure that she's doing okay.

Gary: The sun takes people down.

It hit Mel hard today.

Lacey: It's hot out. I'm getting dehydrated.

I'm getting frustrated, but I'm still here.

Survival depends on teamwork.

You got to bring something to the table,

'cause we're not gonna baby anybody.

♪♪

Okay, so, here we are.

-Ooh. -Right on.

Bet it feels nice on your feet.

Oh, it does.

Trent: Catfish are jumping.

Look at them all jumping in the middle.

I know.

Let's get to it!

Gary: You got to, like, pull the mud into you.

They're actually buried in the mud.

You just got to get them between your legs.

Aah! That one's huge!

There's a big one. I told you.

Oh, I got -- ohh!

Damn it! I almost had one.

Now we're fishing in Africa, boys.

Aw, you son of a bitch.

Catfish are [bleep] everywhere. [ Imitates whipping ]

-All right. -Oh!

[Bleep] I just missed him!

Trent: Oh, dude, he just ran into me.

Oh! Yeah.

Tried spearing him. Didn't work.

Oh! I stepped on him. I had him for a second.

We got on our hands and knees and scooped them in.

There's -- right here.

Damn it.

Oh, man.

Get him?

-Damn it! -Damn it! I almost had one.

Everything we tried backfired. Everything we tried failed.

Aah!

Piss me off, man.

Ugh!

Gaah!

It's insanity.

Gary: We might not get a whole lot of meat today,

but we'll get something.

Just keep working at it.

♪♪

Lindsey: What's the plan for today?

♪ Hunt, hunt, hunt, and then hunt some more ♪

♪ hunt until we got something besides catfish ♪

We are one-third of the way done.

It's now time for us to kind of, like, step up

and do something more, do something bigger.

We want a big-game kill.

I think it would be awesome

if one of us came back with something.

Oh, heck yeah. I want some steak tonight.

I think we can do something.

I grew up hunting since I was a little, tiny girl with my dad.

I used to go out all the time.

My dad taught me everything that I need to know

about hunting and fishing and trapping.

I definitely want to be the first female to kill

a huge animal out here.

-Good luck, Melissa. -Goodbye, ladies.

Kaila: Good luck.

♪♪

♪♪

Lindsey: Kaila and I are out on a hunt right now.

Some rocks.

When she gets into position, across the reeds from me,

I'm gonna start throwing rocks into the reeds to start drawing

whatever is in there towards her.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Sighs ] Nope. Nothing.

[ Sighs ] Dang it.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

I'll reach in, and I need --

yeah, you take care of that.

You're gonna go up around that side, Gary.

Yeah, I'll trap wide.

Oh, yep. Got him?

One jumped.

Okay, don't let him out. We're cornering him.

Oh, yeah, they're in here.

I need the bags. I need the bags.

Want to work as a team, please.

Oh, I got my hands on one.

Oh, he's pretty big. Oh, I'm touching one.

Gary -- Gary, get him.

No, he's hitting my hands.

I got -- I got -- oh!

-I almost had him. -I chased him your way.

He's coming your way, Gary.

[Bleep]

-No, no. Keep him trapped. -I see him.

Oh, he's got him stuck. Keep him in there.

Get me a spear. Get me a spear.

Oh, he's way up in there.

Hang on. I think I got him.

-That's an eel. -An eel?

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!

Put him in the bag?

Oh, he's coming out. He's coming out.

Yeah, get him in the bag. Drop him in a bag.

[Bleeping]

-[Bleep] He is tough. -I know he is, huh?

Trent: I think I got him.

-That's an eel. -An eel?

-[Bleep] -Put him in the bag?

Oh, he's coming out. He's coming out.

Yeah, get him in the bag. Drop him in a bag.

[Bleeping]

We got him. Get it here.

Hold on. Hold on. You got him.

Put his head in that bag.

In the bag. In the bag. In the bag.

I'm working on it.

[Bleep]

Oh, yeah!

Whoo!

I got it! I got it! I got it!

Whoo-hoo! Nice job, boys! Nice job!

Whoo! We did it!

That's something to eat!

Boom -- a three-foot eel.

Nice job, boys.

And we swam around in there for about two hours

or more looking for fish,

and we finally prevailed on our last plight.

[Bleep] Worth it.

The morale boost that that gives,

it helps a ton, especially for Mel.

Dude, badass.

It feels really good that we're out here as a team working

and caught a meal, a good meal that we could all eat and enjoy.

Hey, let's hear it for Shane

for actually leading us to this food, man.

-Whoo! -Nice, Shane. Oh, yeah. -Thank you. -Killed it! Literally.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

[ Baboon squealing ]

♪♪

Shane: Ohh, does that look [Bleep] yummy.

Gary: This is so good. This is restaurant-style.

Lacey: Oh, my god. This is so fatty and so good.

Trent: I'm just swallowing chunks.

Oh, yeah. It's delicious.

Oh, my god. I'm so aroused right now.

[ Laughs ] I like when you're aroused, Mel.

That means something good is happening.

Lacey: Don't spit it out! Swallow it.

It's liver, and it's really good for you.

-You can't waste it. -That's iron.

You get it down? Mm-hmm.

Lacey: She's one of six people, and we share everything with her.

So, if she's gonna waste all the food we give her,

all the work that we do,

I mean [bleep] that was just dumb and rude.

Melanie: When you came back with this [bleep] oh, my god.

It just gave me new energy just seeing the damn thing.

I was ready to -- I was done.

I was tapped mentality.

But we all had a nice, substantial, sizable meal,

so I'm feeling great right now.

You guys are out there every day.

It's much appreciated.

I know my team knew that I was hurting,

and they really picked me up,

and I'm so grateful to them for it.

This gives us absolutely hope and optimism,

knowing that there is food out there now --

like, that we have a place to look.

Well, for me, it's energy for one more day.

And it's more energy for the next day.

I mean, we're running on such low energy,

but it's exciting to know that

I'll probably have a little more energy tomorrow.

Oh!

My belly's full. Mm-hmm.

♪♪

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Lindsey: Kaila is actually now trying to go into the reeds.

I'm still up on the Ridge acting as spotter.

♪♪

Kaila: Walking through that tall grass is definitely scary.

I know that there is some hyena dens

that are in there that I've seen already.

There's lions that hide out in there.

So you have to be really cautious.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Rustling ]

Oh, shoot.

Holy [bleep]

Ugh!

It's frustrating.

You're not gonna get something right off the bat.

You have to be super patient.

Ah, that's good, though. That was close.

I saw the butt of it, but I wasn't even in range

to even try and throw my spear.

So, over the next couple of days, my game plan for hunting

is to just track them,

follow their every move and their patterns,

and then just be really patient.

Yeah, he was -- pew!

He was booking it down past the water.

♪♪

[ Monkeys squealing ]

♪♪

[ Melanie moans ]

[ Coughs ]

Uh-huh.

[ Retching ]

First, I was nauseous and then super-[Bleep] sick.

I don't know if it's reaction to the sun.

Or the sunburn, but it [bleep] me up.

I guess that's why nobody comes out here naked.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Melanie retching ]

Sarah: Oh, Mel.

I don't know what the hell is going on.

I don't know if it's heat stroke.

Like, I feel like absolute [bleep]

I just want to lay down and go to sleep, but...

Can't, 'cause there's sun everywhere.

The sun is a [bleep]hole.

Gary: Sun is hunting you down.

Sun is the devil.

I'm very concerned about Melanie.

I've been with her this entire time,

and I've seen her wax and wane from her sunburn condition,

and it doesn't seem to have ever gotten completely better.

Every day she spends out in the sun

just makes it worse and worse and worse.

I wonder at what point there will be a breaking point.

♪♪

[ Baboons squealing ]

Shane: The catfish hole was very successful,

but having to deal with 100-degree heat yesterday,

it was too far away to go there every day.

We need to find a viable food source that's closer.

♪♪

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♪♪

♪♪

[ Exhales sharply ] How the [bleep] did I miss him?

♪♪

Oh, man, these days are brutal.

Just need more food. There's not a lot.

It's dirt, rocks, thorns, and dead.

I have no idea how these animals survive out here.

These are some tough, tough animals.

Damn it!

I'm dehydrated again. I can't get enough water.

I can't get any energy.

Every time I bend over, I stand up and get dizzy.

We got to get some protein.

♪♪

Gary: The figs that's been sustaining us

have been pillaged by the baboons.

They've stripped all of our figs from the trees.

The resources are dwindling out here.

I got to see if we can come up with a kill so we can eat.

There's no vegetation out here to eat.

♪♪

Trent: So frustrated right now.

If a buck were to walk in front of me,

I don't have the strength to even pull the bow back.

I sat there. Seriously, I'm going,

"I couldn't even pull it back if I wanted to."

Even if you had water out there,

I don't think it's possible to sit in one spot,

'cause it's not full shade.

It just sucks the life out of you, that heat.

♪♪

Melanie: The sun has burnt the [bleep] out of me.

It's burnt my back. It's burnt my legs.

It's burnt my feet. It's burnt my face, my lips.

Everything is scorched.

I could really get back into the full swing of things,

because let me tell you, it [bleep] sucks

to be confined to literally shade,

and everyone else is out doing things

and being productive.

I literally don't know what to do.

♪♪

♪♪

Oh [bleep] I think I got one.

Oh [bleep] man!

That would have meant everything.

It's so hot. I'm getting dehydrated.

I can feel it.

Ugh.

So I'm gonna set that there and check it in about 20 minutes.

♪♪

We are sweating our butts off and working hard.

Melanie is laying there, just -- nothing.

I mean, she's not out there collecting firewood,

not going fishing. She's not being helpful.

That's a huge rock weighing us down.

♪♪

♪♪

How's our firewood looking for tonight?

Sarah: We still need some.

You all right, Mel?

[ Voice breaking ] No.

What's going on?

I'm not here.

You know -- you know how I am, and this isn't me.

Yeah. You're too isolated.

I just sit in here, and I hide from the [bleep] sun all day.

That's why I said, yeah, you're in your head.

Yeah, it messes with your head out here.

I'm sitting in the blind all alone, and the thoughts just --

it's so easy. They just go crazy.

But you got anybody -- anybody in this camp

will bend over backwards for you.

You know that, right?

You got five protectors around you.

[ Sighs ]

Out here is survival, and me, I'm a team player.

I want everybody to win.

If you have a teammate or a comrade that's going down,

part of the survival challenge is not just to get myself there,

but to get them there, as well, and make them

healthy and happy again.

Got to stay positive.

You let that mental start working on you, you're done.

I'm not a negative drain on a group,

and right now I [bleep] am.

You're not a drain. And I hate it.

Well, those are your words. You're not a drain.

I feel like I am.

Every single person here is a help.

Lacey: Hey, Mel.

Hey.

Trent's out here [Bleep] you?

No. Trying to.

Trying to [Bleep] you?

♪♪

Do you want the truth?

Straight.

You're not really helping.

♪♪

Now, when there's a team, you take care of the sick.

You take care of the afflicted. You take care of the slow.

Look at elephants.

When they march, they put the slowest ones in front

so they can all take their pace.

Yeah, but when someone gets super old,

they kick them out and let them die.

♪♪

Narrator: 12 days into his solo quest for redemption,

Matt Wright has moved north

to the abandoned camp of duck, Sarah, and Melanie

and hopes to succeed where they did not.

Matt: Hunting in Africa is tough as hell.

And hunting in Africa

while continuing to change locations -- real tough.

♪♪

Ugh!

Day 13.

Yes! Yes!

I'm out here alone,

and it makes me feel very good that I'm able to thrive

where, obviously, the others had to leave.

Makes me want to find them,

bring them the meat that I've got,

share everything that I have and my knowledge.

I feel like the only way to really get that redemption

is to join a team and finish this.

♪♪

Narrator: To follow Matt's ongoing adventure,

watch the discovery go original series,

"naked and afraid savage."

Matt: Yet another thing out here that could kill you.

Narrator: Download the discovery go app.

Narrator: At noja cliffs,

a dwindling supply of catfish drove kaila and Lindsey

on a hunt for more protein, but with no luck.

Kaila: Holy [bleep]

As a result, experts have dropped their xl rating,

or xlr, to a 6.8.

At makubu gorge, the newly merged team

found early success... -Boom. -Oh, yeah.

Narrator: ...But has since failed to sustain enough food

for a large group... Oh [bleep]

...or their struggling teammate...

-[ Retching ] -Oh, Mel.

Narrator: ...Dropping their xlr from a 7.2 to a 6.7.

♪♪

You're not really helping.

Trent: Now, when there's a team, you take care of the sick.

Look at elephants.

When they march, they put the slowest ones in front

so they can all take their pace.

Yeah, but when someone gets super old,

they kick them out and let them die.

Oh, Mel ain't super old. Mel's got a lot of fight in her.

I disagree with you.

I'm not saying

that we should kick her out and let her die.

I'm saying that she's got to make a decision.

I'm not gonna let someone sit there and --

no offense to you, but just talk around the issue,

the real issue.

♪♪

Lacey: We're here to survive,

and if something is gonna hinder us from that,

there's two things you can do.

One, you can leave and stop being a liability.

Or, two, you can get up and stop being a liability.

♪♪

I didn't mean to be heartless.

It's just I'm more of a matter-of-fact kind of person.

Trent: I see Lacey's point.

I understand.

But I don't believe it's every man for himself.

Shane: Lacey, what she said to Melanie is horrible.

But that didn't surprise me

because she is an instant- gratification, uber narcissist.

♪♪

Melanie: Lacey just told me I'm useless, and it hurt.

I can't be the deadweight on this team.

♪♪

Having me sit around doing nothing would do more harm

than me not being here.

♪♪

[ Voice breaking ] I'm just...Not in it anymore.

[ Sniffling ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Voice breaking ] I'm leaving, guys.

Trent: You mean tapping-out time?

Yeah. Why?

I'm, like, mentally checked out, and I just can't get it back.

♪♪

I'm really sorry I haven't been everything

I should have been for you.

I'm really sorry, guys. I tried.

No, don't say sorry.

Sarah: We care about you, Mel.

We care about what's best for you.

Trent: I'm not mad at you.

Africa's not easy.

The days are sweltering hot.

I'm just tired of suffering,

and I can't let it drag my team down.

Yeah. You're tapping out?

Sarah: Mel has been my partner since day one.

I thought that Mel and I

would walk to the finish line together.

So, I'm gonna have to continue this journey without Mel,

but it's far from alone.

The great Africa claims another one.

She made the right decision for herself.

I respect that.

I'm all about using a little fluff to motivate somebody.

They're not gonna sit there and listen to a whole bunch

of [bleep] when we can't barely take care of ourselves.

I don't bring drama. I bring truth.

I bring cold, hard fact.

She had to go.

Shane: Lacey's a nefarious, highly manipulative human being.

Everything she says is calculated and manipulating.

You're gonna talk [bleep] about people,

play little mental games,

Karma's gonna bite you in the ass.

♪♪

Narrator: Next time on "naked and afraid xl"...

-Hey! -People!

Lacey: We found a trio of females out here.

I don't really get along that well with females,

but we'll see.

-Aah! Ow! -You all right?

Passed out and fell in the [bleep] fire!

I'm in pain. I can't do anything.

Shane: If Mel was a burden

and come back with one hand, "you are a burden."

Lacey: I don't feel safe in that group,

and I don't feel welcome in that group.

[ Hyenas screaming ]

Trent: Lacey?