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Previously on "naked and afraid xl"...

25 days into the 40-day banishment challenge,

a deadly heat wave reached its peak...

This extreme so far is the worst it's been.

Feels like it's record-breaking heat.

...Stifling bulent's search for protein...

It is hot as hell already.

...While wes' third big-game kill

brought a huge win to the team of six.

I'm really, really happy that I can do that for the team.

But in the sweltering conditions...

I ain't feeling very good.

...Heat exhaustion ravaged the group.

And wes' medical issues...

oh, the pain is so bad.

...Took a devastating turn...

I need to medically tap you

before we end up having further complications.

...As the team lost its most prolific provider.

It's a really unfortunate loss.

That means that someone else

is gonna have to step up to the plate.

Now, with only 12 days left,

can they harness their skills... - Yeah, buddy!

- ...To prove their worth? - Yeah! Attaboy!

With my bare hands!

Aaaah!

Or will they be cast into the wild...

Tomorrow morning, we would like to see you go.

...To fend for themselves?

We're about 25 yards from the puma.

Aah! Aah!

Oh,

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Whew!

Very windy.

Oddly enough... I hate to use this word,

but it's rather cool today in africa.

And it feels like the temperature's

almost half of what it was.

We're loading everybody up both sides with firewood tonight.

That's what I figured, yeah.

Just have them strap it as much as possible.

And then getting both the roofs metered out,

'cause we're gonna get rain at some point.

So, the weather up until now

has been ridiculously hot.

It's finally at a temperature that we can manage.

And even though we've lost wes,

we're all sort of struggling right now.

We're coming up on the last leg of this challenge.

We need to get some work done and keep the mental game sharp.

Most important element of survival

is just mental fortitude.

You've got to have the right headspace to be out here

or you're not gonna make it.

Four pieces a day? Is that what you were saying?

- Yep. - Yeah.

Honor system.

Right now, the amount of food that we have left,

we're rationing out at four pieces of jerky

a day per person.

So I think we might have maybe six more days left

with what we have in there.

See all these animals coming down?

They're all following that game trail down to your...

Oh, yeah... Blind.

Want a sip before you go? Yeah.

Ryan is a skilled hunter.

He's been with me since day one,

and he provided food every single day at the other camp.

I got a large woodpecker I just shot with my bow.

- Got one! - Yeah!

- Attaboy! - Get some!

Freshwater clam. This is survival, bitches.

But he's been having a hard time since we got to this camp,

and I think he's getting a little down

that he hasn't gotten a kill since we got here.

Now that wes is gone,

it is a lot of weight on my shoulder, to do all the hunting.

I've bowhunted my whole life,

but I haven't had a big kill out here yet.

It's frustrating.

I just got to keep driving as much as I can,

make sure everybody gets fed.

That's kind of my job out here,

and I'm trying the best I can to provide.

Want to sit down, get comfortable.

Stay still.

My hunting strategy is waiting for the duikers to come down.

And they do, like clockwork, every day.

We need this.

Today started with a very cold morning

after one of the highest temperatures I've seen,

comes this cold.

This place is super unpredictable.

Off I go.

I've been alone for 18 days...

The way I like it.

Being solo in a survival situation

really pushes you to the limit.

Physically, I am drained,

but I will push myself until the point that says,

"you know what? I'm about to break. That's it."

but that point is not here yet.

Mentally, I'm still 100% there.

Oh, look at this beautiful...

How are you doing there, bubba?

What's your name?

Ricardo.

Or, shortly... rich.

I picked "ricardo"

because mondays he might be ricardo,

Tuesday he might be richie, barehanded killer.

And Saturday, if he's not behaving, we'll call him dick.

So he's a perfect member for the boma.

Being alone in this really rough environment can be challenging,

but I have no interest in joining other people.

Besides, now I have this guy.

Richard.

Mm.

That makes me smile.

Time to hunt.

Here comes one.

Two.

So let's see if we can kill something.

Africa gives you an opportunity,

you do everything you can on your part,

but it finds a way to take it from you.

It's just frustrating.

It would be great if we could have two hunters out there.

It doesn't do any good to have all of us sitting here

when somebody here is capable of sitting down there to hunt.

We need to be able to help ryan in hunting.

Somebody needs to be able to go out there and assist

in gaining meat for the team.

Does anybody feel strong enough

to pull back that 45-pound bow?

I can't, 'cause of my shoulder being destroyed.

This is just ridiculously way too big for me.

Other than ryan, none of us have

any hunting experience with a bow.

So we got to figure out a different game plan.

I have this idea for a crossbow

using the longbow that we have,

by taking a stock of wood,

mounting it across a "y" in the front,

being able to pull it back into a crossbow.

Do you see this tree right in front of us here

that's been cut and it's got the "y"?

We can cut that out for a stock.

- Okay, yeah. - That'd be awesome.

If we had a backup that everybody could shoot,

you guys can maybe hunt and bring in some meat.

That would be the way to do it.

I'll go grab that piece. Alright.

See ya. Be back in two seconds.

This is the piece of wood

we're thinking about making the crossbow out of.

Other than ryan, none of us have any efficiency

making a kill with one of those bows.

So we are trying to make a weapon that everybody can use

and everybody can go try and hunt with.

I'm really hoping I will get a big game.

That is one of my goals.

This is a perfect time to hunt

because everything is peaceful.

I'm watching animals,

trying to be quiet as I can.

What the really?

I've never seen those birds before.

The beginning of spring

brings over 185 species of birds to south africa

to mate and lay eggs,

some traveling from as far as antarctica.

These annoying ducks.

They don't shut up. They scare the animals around

and they make it impossible to hunt.

I would try and shoot one,

but they're too far away.

Ugh.

I hate these damn ducks.

Hey, I'll sense them.

Waiting on little hard-to-kill bastards.

When the sun goes down

and you start hearing the animals run here in africa

and sounding off, it worries me.

I get nervous, I get scared, because as a hunter,

I'm also competing with other hunters out here...

You know, lions, hyenas, leopards.

They're after the same game I am,

and just as hungry as I am, so...

It's some nerve-racking times.

Oh, man.

Alright, well, at least you tried.

You look like you need to sit.

I need to sit.

I want to get a piece of jerky, too.

Okay. Mm.

What?

- Ugh. - Yeah, that's not good.

Grab that lid. Just dump it in.

Okay.

Oh, is that what we've got in that bag?

Yeah.

We might have a problem, though.

Why?

There's mold. What?!

Yeah, definitely looks like mold to me now.

It's got fuzz growing out of it.

Oh, my gosh.

That's all there is to eat right now.

That is it.

Oh, god.

We might have a problem, though.

Why?

There's mold.

Yeah, definitely looks like mold to me now.

- Yep. - Yeah.

Oh, god.

It's got fuzz growing out of it.

Mold can lead to a lot of problems...

Everything from respiratory issues

to essentially just full-system shutdown.

And that's the type of stuff that in certain circumstances

can be life threatening.

It must have gotten wet somehow.

Oh, man. In the bottom of this bag is all damp.

Yep.

All this contact-contaminated at that point.

Holy crap.

That is not something that I want to around with.

I'm not eating mold.

I'd rather go without food than eat mold

and risk problems with your brain or whatever.

It's not worth the risk.

- This has all got to go. - Yeah, give me that.

I'm gonna dump it, alright?

- That's not good news. - No.

Now, with this loss of our food,

we have to find another food source.

It's better a leopard comes over here

than over there at the boma with us, you know.

Losing the jerky

definitely puts more pressure on us

to get a kill for these last couple of weeks.

It's important to finish the crossbow.

We mount this in here.

But then all this bark's coming off.

Yeah.

It's unforgiving here in africa.

I keep having to tell myself, "you can get through this.

You can get through this."

just got to suck it up and just deal with it.

It's almost dark.

If you're trying to kill things,

'cause you don't become a barehanded killer

by sitting on your ass,

you know the darkness means all the predators are out.

Guess what... I'm one of them.

I've got me a rock.

I don't know if we'll be able to get it,

but we'll give it a shot.

Ducks.

He's chowing down on jerky across from our the boma,

making a lot of racket tonight.

Holy

just had to chuck a rock at a hyena.

Got pretty close to the entrance of the boma.

Do you want to take a look at it?

Well, all of us are gonna have problems

pulling back a 45-pound bow,

so this crossbow allows every single person,

whether they're feeling strong enough or not.

You release the trigger mechanism,

and it fires the weapon.

Looks fairly level.

Once the y-shaped tree branch is level,

a bow will be secured across the top

so it can be drawn down and held in place

by a triggering mechanism.

Are we gonna leave this handle on here?

- I kind of like it. - Yeah?

Yeah. Yeah, kind of like it.

So, what I'm doing right now

is I am fleshing this impala hide.

I'm hoping to use this hide

to make the strap for the crossbow,

and whatever's left, we can use to make shoes.

We're coming up on the last leg of this challenge.

And walking out of here,

we're definitely gonna need shoes.

Back home, I do work as a taxidermist,

and it's something I can utilize

to contribute to the rest of the team.

And I would like to hopefully get everybody a pair

before extraction.

By removing all of the extra bits,

the easier it's gonna be to work with.

Oh, that's... That'll work.

It looks good.

Pretty big kudu up on that ridge right now,

coming down the ridge.

Where's ryan?

I think he's sleeping.

Ryan has been lethargic, laying around the boma.

We all noticed that he's not got much activity in his eyes.

He's got kind of a dull look to his eyes.

If we can get him in that blind,

hopefully his attitude changes and he gets on the upswing.

Hey.

I ain't got a choice, really.

Just getting tired of it.

Kind of want to get this over with.

Don't do no good.

Ryan's a hunter. That's why he's here.

He came here to hunt.

I hope that he pulls himself out of it and steps up.

This entire adventure

has made me hate big-game hunting.

It...

Just having to, and having to try to rely upon it,

and have to do it every day...

Has made me hate it.

Literally, when I go home, I'll probably never go again.

It made it feel like a job.

Going back to bait hunting.

Last night, I didn't get much of sleep at all.

You stay here.

You got the hooks.

Haven't eaten anything for six days straight.

There's so much nutrients my body's missing.

Even though mentally I'm perfectly fine,

it's gonna take a toll on me eventually.

Nothing.

This is really, really dead valley.

It's hard to find anything living in this place.

Oh, look at this.

Yeah, he's dead.

Yeah.

He didn't make it for some reason.

But this little guy

has enough meat for bait.

That's a chicken breast sandwich for a terrapin.

Let's go. Bait out there.

You stay here, ricardo.

Let's get wet.

Hoping to catch terrapin.

Actually, I'm hoping to catch whatever is in this water.

So whatever I catch, we eat.

That's the whole idea.

There we go.

We're set. Come on, ricardo.

My lines are out of there.

They'll catch me a meal tomorrow, hopefully.

This.

Nothing but bad omens up there.

Hey, hey! How are you?

- Nothing happened? - No.

The game's not coming around camp like they used to.

And that sucks.

I don't give a damn about hunting anymore.

Just tired of dealing with it.

It's just physically and mentally exhausting.

I just lost all interest in it.

Ryan's state of mind, you know,

it affects the survival of the whole group.

If someone's just checked out, it's stressful to everybody,

and ryan's basically just stopped trying.

He doesn't want to hunt anymore,

and that's not the way it works out here.

You can't do that. You have to be there for your team.

He needs to get his head on straight,

'cause banishment is always an option.

Okay. You know what? I'll go hang with you,

if that's okay. - Yeah.

Okay.

Ryan's been with me since day one.

You know, he's like my brother out here.

We're bonded through suffering.

And you can tell he's in bad shape.

I don't want to banish him.

He's part of the family.

So we'll see what happens over the next couple days.

But I hope everything works itself out.

How do you feel?

I'm not having a very good day at all today.

It's been kind of depressing,

and I'm trying to hold it together.

'cause that's just the sucky part of the day, you know?

Well, you got me here.

You're not alone. Yeah.

Just need to get some rest.

Yeah.

So, once we get this lashed down,

I'll be lashed onto this part here.

So, it's rawhide. It was wet.

When we put it on, and it's drying,

so it's shrinking tight to this thing.

Pull it tight so that when it dries,

it's gonna be, like, super, super solid tight.

Nice.

Cool. And just let that start drying.

Cut a notch in it.

Run a channel down it... Bolt channel.

Be able to pull the string back.

And it will release the arrow easily.

Oh, my god, gwen.

God, this is amazing.

This is actually the trigger. So the bow draws back,

knocks into this spot right here,

and then this part, when pulled, releases that tension,

pushes it up, shoots the arrow out.

Be one of the coolest things

that we've ever built in the bush.

And when using a crossbow, it's ready to fire.

I don't have to do anything except release the trigger.

It's really wanting to go sideways as I'm doing it.

Not quite where it needed to go.

The crossbow is so close to being completed.

All we need to do now is work on that trigger mechanism,

because I did not hit my target.

Oh, god. That's in there.

Just went way into the dirt. - We'll get it.

Good evening, richard.

I'm definitely hungry.

I'm gonna go check out that line I left.

These doggone ducks.

They won't stop screaming.

There's nothing on the lines.

Can you guys shut the up, seriously?

The way I look at survival is,

as long as your mental, intestinal fortitude

is strong enough, you can push through pretty much anything.

But these birds and ducks,

they keep going and going and going.

And it's driving me crazy.

I don't know what to do.

Unless there's a bomb that kills all of them,

they're not gonna go anywhere,

and I doubt I'll be able to kill all of them.

What do you think about that, little birdie?

You want to talk to dick?

Yeah. Complaint department.

I'm tired of ducks.

Nonstop, the entire night long.

Everybody has a breaking point.

Can't wait to get the out of this place.

It's the middle of the night.

Ryan's sleepwalking,

stumbling around.

I don't think he knows what he's doing.

- Oww! - Ryan, ryan, ryan.

Wait, wait.

Ryan was standing, looking this way

and wobbling as though he was gonna fall backwards

onto that and...

It makes me very nervous.

I don't know what's going on with him.

Me and richard, we got about zero sleep.

The entire night long, these ducks kept screaming,

and screaming and flying over.

They're loud.

God, they sound like total ass.

I make this place my kingdom,

but not every kingdom is paradise.

This is not a place to thrive.

This is a place maybe you can get by,

but eventually, it will eat you.

So I'm leaving for a better, happier kindgom.

Last minutes in this damn place. I can't wait to get out.

I had enough of these ducks.

We're gonna sail into the unknown,

go to a different location, get closer to extraction.

There's a couple of water spots in the middle I have to find.

Still 12 miles from the day 40 extraction point,

bulent sets his sights on a watering hole

5 miles northeast.

Got the fishing lines, the fish hook, the firestarter.

Alright, richie.

Time to sail.

You keep the boma safe.

Adios.

I'm exhausted because I haven't slept.

Eventually gonna affect my mental game.

So it's good to move somewhere else

so I can get back into my mind-set.

I'm gonna give it all I got.

I'm gonna sprint till the end, finish this challenge,

and make this as epic as I can.

Worried about ryan. He's pretty...

...Down.

Yeah.

Ryan's sleepwalking last night makes me very nervous

because it's a sign of major depression

and I'm really getting concerned about his overall well-being.

Hey, ryan.

- Ryan. - What?

Can you come join us real quick?

Pretty please?

We still have 10 days left.

And it is really a liability to the tribe

when somebody is off the mental game

and their mind is not here in africa.

Last night, I saw you sleepwalking.

You stepped over me, and you were standing over me like that.

And I looked up, and you were so wobbly,

I was like... 'cause I was...

I was not gonna be able to catch you.

And you would have fallen and hit your head

on both the logs and the fire pit,

like at the same time.

And I was just like...

And that's why I was like, "jon, jon!" 'cause...

Want to make sure

that that's something that does not become worse

the longer that we're out here.

'cause something like that can really mess you up,

you know, if you fall into the fire,

you fall into a log.

There's not a spot to fall that you wouldn't get hurt.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm just glad that we all have maydays left.

This has been terrible.

Very painful place.

Spent 30 years of my life doing paramedicine,

firefighting, law enforcement.

My whole career, I've been trained

to recognize traumas, injuries,

bad emotional things that have happened to people.

Ryan's in a pretty fragile mental state right now.

He's spiraling downward.

Throughout the 40-day banishment challenge,

each team will receive an updated xl rating, or xlr,

which tracks their progress

and likelihood of success.

After 10 days alone at his current camp...

What the?

...Diminishing resources...

It's hard to find anything living in this place.

- ...And lack of sleep... - Tired of ducks.

...Have forced bulent north toward extraction.

I'm exhausted,

but I'm gonna sprint till the end.

His xl rating drops from 6.1

to 5.8.

Definitely looks like mold to me now.

After the unexpected loss of their meat reserve...

We have to find another food source.

...The team of five feels the pressure to provide...

This entire venture has made me hate big-game hunting.

...Leading to impressive innovation...

God, that's amazing.

...But also signs of a mental decline.

It is really a liability to the tribe

when somebody is off the mental game.

Their xl rating falls again,

from 5.6

to 5.1.

And now ryan's grip on the challenge

may be slipping away.

He's spiraling downward.

Ryan seems really melancholy.

Everything right now is weighing on him

so deeply in an emotional sense

that being able to just hold him and comfort him

might just give him the boost that he needs.

We'll see how it goes.

Ryan's kind of melancholy,

and... Trying to help him stay here in africa.

But it's getting harder and harder.

Concerned about ryan's physical and mental health.

Producers decide to pull him from the group

to better evaluate his situation.

We're gonna go up and talk to dave.

Come on. Yeah, yeah.

We just want to kind of get a feel

for how you're feeling.

You want to sit down here?

Alright, you need a hand?

Everything's good, yeah.

Mentally, how do you think you're doing?

I'm like... I don't know.

I have no desire to do anything.

What we're concerned about is...

And with the amount of weight you've lost

and what's the amount of food you're not eating,

with the amount of rest you're not getting,

with the amount of hydration you're not getting...

We're not equipped to handle depression...

Yeah. ...In a situation like this.

For your safety more than anything else,

we don't want to leave you in an environment like this.

It's taking its toll.

So we know you would never quit this on your own,

because you're tough as hell.

But we think the best thing for you

is to pull you from the challenge.

We think it's best.

Okay? Mm-hmm.

The guys are making me medically tap.

- What? - What?!

- Mental health. - For real?

It's depression and all that, you know.

How you feeling about that?

It is what it is.

I gave it what I can give it. But I did all I could,

but my mental health got to me too bad.

I can't help that.

Got to respect you for being able to step up to that.

I've known ryan since day one,

and the person leaving here today

is not the same ryan that I knew

when he first walked into this challenge.

And seeing that was a really difficult thing for me,

but we know it was the right thing to do.

Mental health is just as real as physical health,

and it's something that needs to be taken into consideration

in a survival scenario.

- Oh, ryan. - Yeah.

- I'm sorry. - It's okay.

- I'm gonna miss you. - Ah, I'll miss you, too.

We'll see you, buddy. I love you, man.

I love you, too.

It's almost the end, and we're still losing people.

It's scary.

- We love you, ryan. - I love y'all, too.

It'll be alright.

Lasted 30 days.

Gave it my 110%.

That's all I can do.

That's all anybody can do, I guess.

There's no words to really explain it or why it hit.

That's just the world of depression... things happen.

There is a stigma associated with it,

far as people looking down like, "oh, he's crazy."

it's not crazy, you're just born without the chemical production.

There's no shame at all

in going and getting treatment.

I start to see greenery on top of the trees,

so I must be getting closer to a water source.

I am getting tired.

I'm hoping this thing is very close.

Oh, man.

We'll finish this out for ryan, right?

- Mm-hmm. - Yep.

I would really like to put this crossbow to use.

Can do it tomorrow.

I wish ryan was here to help us finish it out.

I think he'd be real proud of us,

and I think he's gonna be real happy

when he sees it put to use.

The notch is riding up on this a little bit.

This needs to be tied down.

So, this right here? Yeah.

Okay.

I'm definitely gonna miss ryan,

but I got a great group of people here.

The fact that we were able to come together as a team

and actually make this into a reality

is a pretty awesome thing.

- What do we think? - Ooh, that looks nice.

That looks good.

This is kind of a revolutionary mechanical tool,

and it sort of brings this whole team hope right now.

I am so excited about this frickin' crossbow.

This is a survival situation.

And in order for us to succeed as a team,

we do need good chemistry.

And I'm actually really excited about the group right now.

I smell smoke or fire.

Oh, I see naked people.

Naked people!

Hello! - Holy

- what?! - Who the is that?

Next time, on the two-hour season finale

of "naked and afraid xl"...

My entire existence is here to kill.

They welcome me with open arms because I'm the shooter.

I don't see bulent down at the blind.

You were supposed to be there.

They all went down to your blind.

These people think I'm their worker.

You, I'll go hunting whenever the I want.

By tomorrow morning. We would like to see you out.

I'm happy to go.

They are so full of.

I was the wrong person to banish.

Holy crap.

I've never taken my body this far, ever.

That's a snake. Watch out, watch out.

Watch out. - Whoa! Snake!

Can care less how they do, really?

They're a bunch of bitches.

- Uh, is that bulent? - Alright! Well!

Holy

this is gonna be awesome.

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