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- What have I gotten myself into once again?

Big snake, guys. Be real careful, Sam.

- The predators are definitely a concern.

Oh.

Hope it's not a bear. Please stay away from my camp.

- In Mongolia, when you're hunting anything in the woods,

just know that something else is hunting you.

That used to be alive. Still see a little blood on it.

- I want to win more this time than I did last time.

Yay, biggest fish.

Ah!

That went in my skin all the way.

1 don't want 10,

but 1 feel like 1 have to tap out to get some help.

1 never in a million years thought that a fishhook

would be why I would have to leave.

Male narrator: For the first time ever on "Alone,"

ten past participants return.

They've come back with one goal:

redemption.

- I deserve to be here, and I'm back.

- I want to win more this time than I did last time.

Narrator: Now a fresh hell awaits...

- The cold is an incredibly strong punch in the face.

Narrator: In the punishing wilderness of Mongolia.

- We're in the middle of nowhere.

- Mongolia's a very unforgiving land.

Narrator: They must survive in complete isolation,

enduring as long as they can.

- I'm just gonna push and push and push

until there's nothing left.

Narrator: The last one standing wins.

- Booyah, baby! Booyah! 4

Hell yeah!

Damn!

Bopped him upside the head.

Hell yeah!

Meat for the barbie, baby.

Whoo!

That has got to be the dumbest chipmunk

I've ever seen in my life.

Thank you for your life.

1 really appreciate it.

1 am really hungry.

Thank you very much.

Dude.

You...

you mean a lot to me, bud,

and 1 really appreciate .

Survival is brutal,

and I'm sorry, bud.

Just thinking about the first time 1 did this

on Vancouver Island,

just revisiting this whole test over again.

Crap, dude, do you remember what you had to go through??

Bazinga!

Squished mouse. My favorite.

Season two, I was undergoing a life-changing experience.

Whoo!

Man, it's beautiful here. Holy crap.

And 1 was really giving it my all.

My wife's gonna be--

in her heart, 1 know she's gonna be--

1 know she's gonna be disappointed in me.

Please, God, help me.

Please help me.

The reason 1 tapped on season two was the hunger.

It broke me.

1 did the best 1 could, man.

Good girl. Back home,

I'm still an electrician.

I go to a lot more primitive skills gatherings.

To come out here again,

it's a second chance at testing myself.

I've been tested once.

This time, I want to do better.

I'm a very competitive person.

1 just felt very, very badly 1 came n second.

1 want to push further than what 1 did on season two.

1 want to go past 64 days,

and ultimately, 1 want to win.,.

See you guys.

Love you. - Love you too.

- Bye. - Bye.

- Gosh, it's been so long since I've eaten meat,

1 may even forget how to gut this bad boy.

The land doesn't give up things easy.

It just doesn't.

Anybody who's gone on this show

never came out heavier than when they went in.

It just doesn't happen.

I'll leave the guts right here,

just 10 see if something comes by and eats it, 1 guess.

I mean, then I'll know

that there's a different animal around here

that 1 could potentially trap.

The struggles that 1 went through on season two

are in my mind.

1 know the cravings that are gonna come.

1 know they're gonna be intense,

and 1 know they're gonna be absolutely brutal,

but I also know that I've been in that place before,

and I'm ready to push past it.

My daughter used to always call them "chicky munks™

when she was young.

"Chicky munks."

I like my chicky munk well done.

Mongolia's gonna be the toughest location yet.

In Vancouver Island, you always had,

if you could stomach it, the seaweed.

You always had the shellfish. You always had ready bait.

Here, if you don't have food, there's nothing you can do.

1 was really excited to come out here.

A lot of people would like to be in my spot,

so it's only fair

1 keep plugging away, doing the best 1 can.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

Thank you, little guy.

This really means a lot to me.

- Can you see how many bugs are buzzing around my head?

Gosh!

Ohh.

It's crazy.

"That man's fanning himself with underwear, honey."

One of the items, the clothing items,

they give you is underwear.

Well, I haven't worn underwear in 20 years,

so turning an old pair of underwear--

new pair of underwear...

Into assistance.

Al right.

It's time to get something good to eat.

1 made a fly rod out of willow,

so it's got a little bit of a bend,

and 1 just put a reel on there.

I've wanted to catch something fly-fishing,

oh, so much since I've been here,

so I'm gonna give this a go.

I think it-- I think it'll work.,

we'll see.

So when 1 was in Patagonia,

1 caught 36 nice-sized trout.

I used, like, a bottle rig as the reel,

and I just made a lure out of bone,

but 1 haven't found any bone out here,

and it's driving me freaking crazy, 'cause that was

what 1 was catching all of my fish off of.

In Patagonia, I was catching fish left and right,

but 1 was saving all this food

and not eating on a steady basis.

Obviously, that didn't work,

and so they actually took me off at 73 days,

because 1 was much too light.

- It's dangerous for you to stay here.

- We're taking you to the hospital.

- When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was like,

"Oh, thank God they pulled me."

First month that 1 was back, 1 quit my job.

I was feeling a little stagnant,

and so 1 moved into my truck,

and then 1 just sort of lived very, very day-to-day.

1 am extremely excited and honored

to have this opportunity again.

This is a second chance to connect with the land.

For me, that's really important,

and I would love to win.

I would love to have $500,000

so that I can have more experiences like this,

but Mongolia's gonna be tougher

than anything I've ever done.

For me, the challenge is greater physically.

I want to make sure that I'm fed,

and 1 want to make sure my body is strong,

and so this time,

I'd like to actually eat my fish.

I'm not here to starve.

I'm not playing the starving game.

I haven't been having a lot of luck with the fly-fishing,

so time to go hunting.

Let's hope my hunting pays off

better than my fishing so far.

I'll be doing still-hunting.

At this point, I'm just looking to see what's there.

If you want to get to know the land,

hunting is the way to do it.

Mongolia, opposed to Patagonia,

has a big, open expanse of grassland,

so hunting is so much easier to do.

I think I'm gonna need big game,

so I'm hunting either deer or boar.

I see a lot of boar sign.

Boars can be very dangerous

as far as running down and actually mauling people.

They will defend themselves,

so extremely dangerous animal

to be going after, hunting-wise.

1 heard something.

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Stay there.

Stay there.

Get, get, get-- no, no, no, no, no.

Oh, my gosh.

I just had a wild experience.

1 just got a grouse with a bow.

Wow.

Just drenched myself by jumping in the water to go after it.

And I'm very, very fine with that.

Just about to clean it out right now.

Wow, look at all these feathers.

Oh, there's fat.

I do not want to lose some of this fat.

1 want as much fat as 1 can have.

Let's see what you were eating.

Look at this guy. Got a grasshopper.

Huh!

A huge muscle gizzard.

Clean that off real good, put that in the stew.

Oh, 1 am excited.

Thank you.

Sorry 1 had to take your life,

but thank you for the food you'll give me.

One grouse in the pot.

Can boil it down quite a bit.

You save the majority of the nutrients this way.

Oh, my.

That's good.

That's good.

I'm happy.

Meat is a game-changer.

Meat is definitely a game-changer.

I'm sure the memory of me starving

is affecting my thoughts and actions out here now.

I'm trying to learn from that experience.

1 am trying to make sure that that doesn't happen again.

That was good.

That was good.

Can 1 have another, please?

- Ready to go for a walk.

It's charcoal 1 put on to try to prevent

my sunburned nose from getting more sunburned.

And for the glare.

There's really not a lot to be pissed off about here,

that's for sure.

It's a beautiful place.

It's hotter than blazes, but better than rain.

Over here, I found two grouse.

I'm gonna set a couple of traps for them.

First of all, I need to find a spring pole,

unless one of these willows will do.

I think that'll work.

And then 1 need to find two forked sticks,

two toggles,

and two just regular stakes

that 1 can pound into the ground.

Vancouver Island was

an extremely difficult experience.

Ultimately, it broke me.

When 1 got home,

I just wanted to bury my head in the sand

and go live under a bridge

and not deal with society anymore,

but after a while,

1 started to just accept my situation.

I started to really work on my mind.

The mistake that 1 think 1 made on season two

was that 1 put too much pressure on myself.

I stressed out about it way too much.

This time, I want to just calm down a little bit.

I guess I've never done this with snare wire before.

Normally, cordage works really good for it to release.

It's wanting to twist on me.

Wow, this trap's not supposed to be this hard,

damn it.

Piece of .

It's always something.

What in the flying ?

, I thought it was supposed to be cold

in this country.

1 appreciate the sun,

but could you give me a little cold?

A little too much to ask for?

Baking over here.

Well, it works.

Ugh.

All right, well, that took, like,

four times longer than it was supposed to.

The sun is just frickin' killing me.

I just feel like going back to my shelter and laying down.

And look at that.

Over here, I see some canine scat.

Phew.

And then 1 see something over there

that looks kind of maybe like an old gut pile or something.

I'm not sure.

Some sort of deer met its fate.

It makes me nervous.

- Just thinking about all the work I've done.

Constantly trying to make improvements.

Getting firewood, building a cabin.

Staying out here long-term,

it seems like it's all about trying to make things

as similar to the way things are at home

as you can.

1 can't believe Tm in Mongolia.

This place is so different from Vancouver Island.

I'm actually able to walk through this terrain

without falling every five minutes.

The hills and the mountains don't stop.

My entire experience on Vancouver Island

was spent slogging through the jungle.

This is tough.

What ultimately ended my time

was an ankle injury that my brother suffered.

- Josh has taken himself out of the competition.

It was definitely a bummer coming out so early.

Since being on "Alone,"

my blacksmithing company has picked up a lot,

and there's a lot I can do with the money,

improving and expanding my blacksmithing company,

but what's most appealing having a second chance

is showing the skills that 1 wasn't able to before,

making my friends and family proud back at home.

- Be well.

- I definitely have a lot of unfinished business.

- Love you, hon.

- I want to see what I'm truly made of.

- Bye, hon. - Bye.

Ooh, food cravings.

Definitely the worst part about this.

Any food right now sounds good.

I definitely notice myself getting a lot skinnier.

I can, like, kind of see my ribs now,

which I couldn't before.

Here in Mongolia,

1 don't have an ocean full of resources 10 rely on,

but I'm trying multiple ways to obtain food.

Got this guy onto the new line.

I'm fishing.

I am setting lines in the water overnight.

I've woven a gill net.

I've gone upriver, I've gone downriver,

but so far, I'm just not really turning up anything.

1 don't want to focus on starving,

but there's just no food.

I've never pushed myself this far before,

and I'm worried about it.

Good news.

1 saw a ground squirrel

on that horizontal birch log back there,

so I'm gonna set some snares over there.

I'm just gonna be setting these

on all of the downed birch logs in the area.

It's very easy to set snares,

not very...

Calorie-consuming.

1 just have it set up nice and wide,

close to the size of the animals

that might be in this area.

Even if the animal is a little bit smaller than the snare,

it can still catch the side of this,

and it can still snare itself.

Everyone here has spent considerable amounts of time

in the wilderness in past seasons.

They've reached their breaking points.

1 don't know where my breaking point is,

and 1 definitely want to show them what 1 have to offer.

They don't really know what I'm capable of yet.

1 successfully set 50 traps,

which 1 am very excited about.

I'm still feeling optimistic.

1 know the food's gonna come.

It's just a matter of time.

- There's a wolf.

Whole pack of them

at the base of the valley right over there.

They might have made a Kill.

This is quite a bit different wilderness

than you'll find in the United States.

So vast.

Much more wild and fierce.

The animals aren't as afraid of man

as they are in the States.

That's not that far away.

It must be a decent-sized pack of wolves.

1 don't see nothing.

They aren't that far over there, though.

Closer this time.

Too close to my shelter.

- Oh.

Ahh,

Oh, it's cold.

And to think I pondered dipping my entire body in this.

Hell no.

What's it called, like the Polar Bear Club,

or some crap like that?

You guys are crazy.

What's the point?

Those people who just go jumping into frigid water.

Y'all can keep that . That's ridiculous.

This feels a lot more like it's going to be home

that Patagonia did.

In Patagonia, 1 felt like 1 was invading an area,

where here I feel like I'm, you know, coming home.

My time in the wilderness was ended around day 33.

We're sliding into winter.

Food's scarce for everybody.

I've been a vegetarian against my will.

I lost all of my muscle mass,

and I just looked so weak and broken.

That's when 1 felt it was time for me to go.

1 kept hearing my wife's voice ringing in my head, saying,

"When you need to come home, come home."

In terms of work, I'm still working in accounting.

1 think Tm the only white-collar worker

on any season 1 can remember.

To be brought back again for a second time,

it's amazing.

1 didn't feel like 1 left Patagonia and 1'd failed,

but 1 didn't attain the prize that 1 had come for.

I've got people to provide for,

things 1 want to do for my family,

and that's my goal this time.

I'm here to win the money for my family.

This time around,

1 feel like 1 can handle all the hunger,

so I'm not leaving unless they pull me out this time.

Oh, 1 see a grasshopper.

The key to catching the grasshoppers

is to let them jump one time,

and then grab them on the ground

when they're disoriented,

trying to prepare for another jump.

1 have never caught grasshoppers in the wild,

toasted them, and eaten them,

and that's what's about to happen right now,

'cause these guys are just too hefty,

and they're everywhere,

and they're just asking to be eaten.

11 get over the hump with this one,

then this might be a regular delicacy.

Look how big that thing is.

I've increased my set of skills.

I've put on a lot of weight.

1 went into Patagonia much thinner,

thinking that 1 needed to be a little bit more streamlined

so 1 could function on a lower caloric input.

1 realized that was part of my downfall,

so I've spent the last couple of months

just eating like a ridiculous fat man.

So here we go.

Now it looks like this-- just charred.

So, uh...

Here we go.

No time like the present, right?

And here we go. And here we go.

You're dead, right?

Oh, yeah, you're dried.

Al right.

One, two, three.

Well, there--

that actually wasn't--

That actually wasn't bad.

What did it taste like?

Like an unseasoned, very, very charred hamburger,

and it was the size of a cockroach.

1 mean, 1 got some protein out of that,

and you can put right on the bottom of the screen

how much protein each grasshopper has

right...now.

Oh, that's more than 1 thought.

Cool.

I'm over the hump.

I'm a grasshopper-eater.

Watch out, you hopping sons of bitches.

'Cause they're everywhere.

1 got two more in my pocket.

Damn.

That made me feel good.

I like that I can just walk around,

find these grasshoppers, char them, and eat them.

I'm gonna make a whole pot of grasshoppers,

sit back and eat them like popcorn and watch the sun set,

'cause I'm in Mongolia,

and I know I'm gonna be

the last one standing this time.

- 1 think that's a wolf.

1 don't know if it was in a fight or what.

Whatever it is, I'm glad it's not over here.

Al right.

Pretty eager to get some food.

It's been six days.

My stomach is making noises.

I've got a little bit of hope this morning.

I still have 50 traps working for me.

Fingers crossed. Maybe we'll have something.

Just doing the best 1 can to get food out here.

So far, I've been unsuccessful, but...

keeping high spirits.

Ah, no fish.

Let's go check those traps.

Maybe we got something.

So far, nothing.

Still no luck.

Nah.

Unfortunately, didn't catch any animals

in any of the 50 traps,

no fish in the line that 1 had set.

Just feel like my stomach is, like, eating itself.

It's not a good feeling.

This season, 1 really wanted to come out and prove myself

and show that 1 have the skills

to survive out here.

I want to be here until the end.

I want to be the last person here...

But, uh...

1 don't know how much gas 1 have in the tank.

Knowing that I can leave anytime that I want--

1 can just push that button, go home, and see my family--

it's definitely something

that's weighing heavily in my mind.

I'll check in the morning tomorrow.

Fingers crossed that I've got some food.

Otherwise...

I think I'm gonna turn away from this challenge.

- Good morning.

It's day seven.

1 got up early this morning, and...

1 checked all the traps.

Unfortunately, didn't turn up with anything.

Haven't had any food vet, so definitely feeling it.

Fingers crossed that 1 pull in some fish.

You know, everything's not always gonna go your way.

You're not always gonna have food when you need it.

You need to really push yourself

to make things happen,

but after spending even a week out here,

1 realized it doesn't matter how hard you practice.

In the end, it just comes down

to how you're gonna handle things mentally.

And unfortunately, just haven't gotten any luck.

1 think this place may have got the best of me.

Right now, having dinner with my family

just sounds so much better to me than $500,000.

Ah, man.

This is Brad.

- Hey, Brad.

- 1 think it's time for me to go home now.

Yep, there they are.

How's it going?

It's tough to leave this place.

I have a lot more that I wanted to do here,

and 1 mean, 1 knew 1 was gonna be put through

a hell of a challenge,

but the lack of food

on top of the isolation has just been so difficult.

I'm not surprised that hunger is what drove me out.

I'm just surprised that it was so soon.

I feel like I let myself down.

I don't feel I've quite hit my breaking point yet--

I have a little bit left in me--

but part of me is afraid to reach that point.

This was an incredible experience,

and 1 just want to make sure

I'm leaving this place on good terms.

- Sun's going down.

Prime fishing time.

Try and grab this cricket

without it jumping away from me.

Hopefully this guy will get me a nice fish.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Look at that.

How about that presentation, boy?

One cast.

Boom.

I feel much more prepared than I was last time

when I was coming into it with a whole lot of hesitation

and uncertainty.

This time, I'm coming into it

with a totally different mind frame.

Patagonia, 1 was doing that mostly for myself.

Two fish. Not too shabby.

My wife and 1 weren't on the same page,

whereas this time, it's a total team effort.

Got one.

Damn, you're strong.

She's helped me from beginning to end.

She's been the one who's really, really propelling me

to go the distance this time, and she keeps telling me,

"If you ever feel you need to tap, then remember

that you're out there for us,"

so instead of feeling like I need to be home,

I'm gonna be drawing from that strength

knowing that she's pushing me to be out here.

Wow.

Man, that's pretty.

1 caught four fish.

1 don't brag, but today,

if you were to look up "kicking ass,"

pretty sure it would have my picture there.

Patagonia, 1 had a fish fridge.

And I'm gonna seal it off kind of like a grate

just to keep anything from getting down into it,

keep them from washing away.

Here,

1 have the fish holding tank.

I'll probably eat one tonight,

and then I'll save the rest for tomorrow.

But 1 have them in this little tiny isolated wading pool.

Look at that one.

Nice, huh?

So--and they're just here whenever [ want them.

1 hope the fish in my holding tank are alive,.

They should be.

They should be fine.

I'll take one out this morning, probably,

cook up a fish for breakfast,

get a little protein to start my day.

1 can't wait.

Oh, .

Are you kidding me?

So 1 just got some really, really disappointing news.

I came back to my wading pool,

and every fish is gone.

That was foolish of me.

Of course there's predators in the area.

Of course they're gonna find these fish

in this little shallow pond.

1 probably had five pounds of fish in here,

and 1 can see...

Blood.

Pieces of fish.

I mean, they were just easy pickings.

That was dumb.

I just fed a whole family of something.

Damn.

And it's too rocky here to see any tracks.

My guess is that it's wolves.

Could have been anything.

Oh, .

It's beyond disappointing.

Oh, well, 1 guess that's a step down

from the fish fridge,

because 1 just got totally taken.

In a survival situation,

every bit of protein that 1 can get is vital.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Oh, well.

It's in the past now.

What am 1 gonna do about it? Cry?

Right now, this is redemption,

so whether it be 1 am starving to death

or I'm injured,

I'm not taking myself out of this competition.

I'll get over it.

I'm over it right...

Now.

It's a pit viper.

It's coiled up and ready to strike.

- I'm in the midst of a really bad MS attack.

My legs aren't functioning.

- Whoa.

How long can 1 push myself

on zero calories today?

1 need protein.

- There's wolves,

I just heard something pretty large cross the river.