Original subtitles

[ macaques grunting ]

angela: Oh, my god. You hear the monkeys?

They want us out of their place.

Darrin: That's the closest I've heard them.

They're keeping an eye on us.

A rabid monkey would attack me,

and there's nothing I can do about it.

So much easier if we could hunt the monkeys.

What would you do with it if you got it?

Eat it.

I'll just be the apex predator, here.

The easiest way to deal with thieving monkeys

is to kill one.

Narrator: One man and one woman...

[ animal grunts ] aah!

...Alone for 21 days...

Aah!

Cut myself up pretty good here.

...To face the most primal survival challenge

of their lives.

Man: Mmm, rat kebabs.

They have no clothes, no food, no water --

only their skills...

Oh, god, that [bleep] hurts.

...And their will to survive.

Whoo-hoo!

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darrin: Monkey takes my food, I eat the monkey.

Good morning.

I'm ready to watch the sun come up

one last time with my clothes on.

[ laughs ]

[ squeaks ]

[ chuckles ]

go get it.

Last hike with karma dog.

[ chuckles ]

she's the only family I got, and she goes everywhere with me.

But I got to leave her,

'cause I'm flying out tomorrow morning.

It's gonna be a good one.

It's 4:30 a.M., and this will be our goodbye.

Hi. Bye.

Hi, luna. I'll miss you.

Saying goodbye was a lot harder than I thought,

so I'm already missing my family,

but soon I'll be home,

and I'll have an adventure to talk about.

This island looks absolutely postcard beautiful,

but let me assure you, there's gonna be dangers.

This is not gonna be an easy 21 days.

My name is angela.

I'm from greensburg, pennsylvania,

and I'm 36 years old.

I have five kids at home, and I'm engaged to be married.

When I was younger, I did some backpacking,

got into just hiking around in the woods.

But people would think that I'm not that tough

just because of the way I present myself.

Even my dad said, "you won't make it past one day."

so I'm out here to prove to him and myself

that I can pass the most ultimate survival test

of my life.

I run marathons, so I'm used to

just concentrating and pushing through.

Narrator: Angela is a city girl

who brings a strong will and excellent physical stamina

into this challenge.

But her limited survival skills

tested in the low-to-intermediate range.

As a result, she begins with a primitive survival rating,

or psr, of 6.1.

Darrin: I have never been in an environment like this before.

This is intense.

These cliffs are, like, right down to the water.

The jungle is like boom, until they're vertical.

It's there, and it is thick.

My name's darrin.

I'm 33 years old,

and I'm working as a rock-climbing guide

and a chef.

The majority of my life I've spent alone in the mountains,

but I'm not really alone 'cause I've always had a dog with me.

When I was about 9 years old,

my parents started dropping me off

to go camping by myself.

They'd just leave me.

Narrator: Decades of experience on his own in the wilderness

will aid darrin greatly in this challenge,

but his loner attitude could present problems

dealing with a partner.

His initial psr has been set at 7.8.

Darrin: This is cool.

I can't get arrested for being naked.

It's the first time in my life

I don't have to worry about someone seeing me

and calling the rangers.

Angela: I have nail polish and toe polish on

because I want to survive pretty.

It's go time.

Hi. I'm angela.

I'm darrin. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

Excited? I'm stoked.

I'm so excited. This is gonna be a blast.

Yeah.

Darrin has this wild tarzan look.

It's not what I expected,

but he seems laid-back, so that's great.

Let's get this going.

Narrator: In addition to being given

angela and darrin have each been allowed

to bring one survival item.

I brought a machete.

I'm a professional rock climber,

so I brought a good bit of rope.

So many things we can make from this,

and making natural cordage is time-consuming,

time-consuming.

Ooh, I have the map.

Where are we?

The survivalists will be off the grid

for the next 21 days on the stifling, humid,

mountainous island of koh mook, thailand.

Towering limestone cliffs surround a dense,

nearly impenetrable jungle,

an unforgiving terrain of razor-sharp thorns

and swarms of biting and stinging insects.

Overhead, the trees are dominated

by aggressive macaques, carriers of the herpes b,

or monkey b, virus, which can be fatal to humans.

The island is overrun

by an out-of-control rat population

numbering in the thousands.

These creatures transmit more human diseases

than any other life form on the planet.

But where there are rats, there are also predators,

including the extremely toxic king cobra, which, at 19 feet,

is the world's largest venomous snake.

I have never been to the jungle before.

I've never left the u.S. Before,

so this is a totally new experience for me.

I've been living off the land

and training to since I was a little kid.

Do you have a family at home?

Um, I have a dog. That's it.

[ laughs ] that's family.

Darrin: I haven't found anyone

to, uh, fully understand my wild ways,

and I'm not gonna change my ways, really,

so, uh, I just have a dog.

She's the best family I've found so far.

You?

Zero dogs, but five kids.

You've got five kids? That's enough to take care of.

[ laughs ] yeah.

Angela seems cool, but she's got nail polish and toe polish.

I hope she's not someone that is so used to

the luxuries of life that she can't live without them.

[ macaques grunting ]

do you hear that?

Yeah.

Monkeys.

Nice. That'd be cool.

I've never seen a monkey before.

They're usually quite selfish and territorial.

I have a good eye for movement.

You don't want to know how many things I killed

as a little kid.

I like to try everything.

So far this year, I've eaten, like,

three types of chipmunks, two types of squirrels...

Ugh.

...A bunch of marmots, a couple little birds.

I had emu and ostrich...

Geez.

...Lots of buffalo, lots of elk, deer,

wild turkey and domestic turkey,

spruce grouse, a goose,

a couple ducks, a couple porcupines.

Hm.

Angela: Darrin and I couldn't be more polar opposites.

He'll kill anything that moves.

I'd better stay on his good side,

or I could wind up on the menu.

So, have you spent a lot of time out in the wild.

I have. I've backpacked.

But I've never roughed it to this extreme.

I've definitely lived off the land,

but I've never had to spend this much time

with a stranger in a stressful situation before, so...

I hope you're not too worried.

[ both chuckle ]

I try not to bite.

So far, you seem okay.

Darrin and I are about two years apart,

but I feel like I'm a little bit more of the adult, maybe --

like the way older sister, or the aunt.

Oh, nice!

Big clearing, the ocean's right here,

and it looks like we have a cave.

Whoa, that's lucky.

The cave seems to be pretty clean.

I don't see any sign of snakes or too many spiders.

I like it.

But any little holes we see down around the base of it,

I'm plugging up with some dirt and some rocks,

so if there's something in it,

at least make it a little more difficult

for it to crawl out while we're there.

Darrin talks a lot.

He's a little bit like he's a guide on this trip

and I'm his student,

so hopefully those roles change a little bit.

Darrin: Want to work on a fire now?

Okay.

Whatever we can get. Yeah.

There's some palm fronds.

Like, those things are really pokey, so, like,

to break the tinder up,

I usually rub it between my hands,

so if it's thorny... Okay.

Darrin: I work as a guide,

and I'm very keen to teach the skills that I have.

I'm not expecting to have a dry spindle and fire board.

Just trying to make the best tinder I can,

'cause everything's wet here.

[ squeaking ]

I have started hundreds of fires with a bow drill,

but never in an environment like this.

This is hot and humid.

Good job.

Just start stacking around this.

Okay. Got it.

Angela: I'm so happy he got the fire started.

Darrin: Now we got fire, dude. We're set.

Like, at least we'll stay warm tonight

and keep a few of the bugs away

'cause, like, they're getting us.

[ laughs ]

angela: First night here, we're gonna sleep in the cave.

At least we have a fire and we're warm.

Yep.

[ chittering ]

darrin: God.

A rat just crawled up on me in the middle of the night.

Darrin: We got these rats crawling around our camp.

One of them took a little nibble on my toe.

Ew, no.

I think something just crawled over me.

Oh, my god!

Yeah, three rats crawled on me last night.

One of them took a little nibble on my toe,

but it didn't break the skin, at least, so I got lucky,

but definitely build a sleeping platform tonight

so we can get up off this ground.

Angela: To protect myself from the sun and the dirt

and anything that might crawl on me,

I cut some big leaves down and made a skirt.

I offered to make darrin a skirt,

but darrin prefers to be naked.

If I could not see darrin naked

for the remainder of the challenge,

that would be great.

What do you want to use for the platform?

I was gonna stand two ends up on forks,

and then a crosspiece,

and then an "x" brace on this end,

the other end should just sit up on the dirt pretty well.

All right.

And it'll be, really, like, only two poles

for a rat to run up on to us,

rather than from any direction they please.

Darrin: I know there's cobras on this island,

and rats are a cobra's favorite food,

and I definitely don't want a cobra coming hunting

in our cave at night.

[ monkeys hooting ]

darrin, do you hear those monkeys?

Yeah.

They sound -- that's the closest I've heard them.

Me too.

They're keeping an eye on us.

They know the second you're not looking.

A rabid monkey would attack me,

and there's nothing I can do about it.

[ macaques screeching ]

the heat and humidity are killing us,

so we've got to take a break from building our platform

and go get some food and water.

But if you take two steps into the jungle,

the ground's covered in thorns,

so I'm gonna make some sandals for us.

Angela, got to size them to your feet.

I'm gonna shorten it a little bit.

So, basically, we'll use the inner strands from the rope

to bind these together.

This will open up a whole new ball game

of where we can maneuver.

Then what did you say -- how did you do the ankle?

So, now you're gonna do a heel loop,

and it just goes right off your heel

on these points right here.

Angela: So, what do you wear if you're gonna

take a girl out on a date or something?

I'm usually shirtless and in flip-flops, so...

[ laughs ]

does that prove to be successful?

[ laughs ]

I don't go out on very many dates.

It seems like he knows how to talk a lot about

technical things and maybe instructional,

so I just want to engage with him a little bit more.

[ laughing ] he'll either tell me to shut up

or talk back to me.

It's really thick here.

So much easier going with sandals.

It is.

I wouldn't be able to walk this far without these shoes.

And we found running, fresh water.

That's really great.

I doubt it's safe to drink, but we'll sanitize this,

and we've got good, running, fresh water,

so that's pretty good. That's great.

I don't see a single coconut.

I think animals eat them.

Rats chew into the ends of all the coconuts and just --

they get into them before we can find them even.

Maybe there's meat in it.

Yeah, see all the bugs coming out of the hole in it?

Oh, yeah.

Can't eat that.

Darrin: But at least I can drop some hot rocks

into a half coconut shell and boil some water.

Boiling our water in the coconut husk

is kind of good because the rocks end up depositing

a little ash in the water,

and it gives us some potassium and calcium.

As you boil in the coconut shell,

it kind of gives it a little coconut flavor,

and it's kind of like drinking coconut tea,

so pretty stoked about it.

It actually tastes pretty good.

It's the end of day 2, and we're laying here.

It's thundering and lightning out.

[ thunder crashing ]

[ rain pouring ]

listen to that rain coming down.

Wow.

Right now, I am just skinning down some bamboo

so I can use it to brush my hair a little bit --

sort of like a modified comb or hair pick or something.

And now I'm gonna tie it on to this bamboo

and hopefully be able to make a little comb

so my hair's not such a mess.

Taking care of myself makes me feel human

and keeps my morale up, which I really need today.

It's not beautiful, but at least my hair isn't tangled.

We need to try to go in the jungle a little bit deeper

and look for coconuts because I'm so hungry.

I feel really weak.

There's lots of monkeys.

I hear them.

I'm not sure if we're following them

or they're following us.

Maybe they know where the fruit is.

It's day 3, and we're already kind of hungry.

No food, and just want to make sure I have energy

to sustain myself for another 18 days.

Oh, my god.

I see bananas that don't look too bad.

Let's take them.

You hear the monkeys?

They want us out of their place.

Geez, that is heavy.

Is it?

If we eat them and they're not ripe,

they're gonna cause us some stomach problems, so...

Yeah, I can't stand unripe bananas.

No seeds in them, hardly.

All right. Bring them.

Let's go.

I'm worried it's gonna get too dark, darrin.

I do not want to be here in the dark.

Some monkeys are up there howling.

They're all mad we're down guarding the bananas.

Yeah, they want to get at them.

I don't know exactly where the monkeys are,

but they know exactly where we are.

I wish there was tigers here to eat the monkeys.

Then we'd have less monkey problems.

[ monkeys chittering ]

yeah.

Sounds like there's some monkeys up there

right above our camp.

Oh, my god, these monkeys are on attack.

I hope that they leave us alone tonight.

I do not want them coming in our cave at night

while we're sleeping.

[ monkeys chittering ]

I don't know

what was the biggest game changer for us --

the bananas or the sandals.

I mean, without the sandals,

we might not have found the bananas.

Mm-hmm.

Ooh, I see a monkey over there above our bananas.

Really?

He just moved down.

Darrin: The monkeys smell our bananas,

and they know they're here,

so I'll just be the apex predator here.

[ darrin grunting ]

the easiest way to deal with thieving monkeys is to kill one,

and then the rest of them will be scared of you.

Monkey takes my food, I eat the monkey.

Narrator: While keeping a watchful eye on their stash of green

darrin and angela, who have spent the better part of week 1

without nourishment,

cannot afford to wait any longer for them to ripen.

Darrin: I kind of want to dig a baking pit

so I can steam some bananas,

hopefully convert their starches into some sugars

that we can eat.

How long do you think it will take to bake?

Hours.

Oh.

Could we just wrap them in something

and put them in the fire?

The outsides will burn and blister,

and they won't cook to the inside.

You got to slow-cook them.

So, like, cooking them over the open fire

I don't really think it would work.

We have enough where we could try one each way, right?

Yeah, I just know that a steaming pit

is what most jungle natives do to cook stuff like that.

It doesn't hurt to try, right?

Angela: I think darrin is used to being alone a lot,

so it's either his way or...His way,

so he probably isn't even aware of how annoying he is.

Darrin: Like, cooking in the fire,

the skin and the outside burns

before the middle even gets close to being cooked.

For this, you got to sit here and watch them

and turn them and move them.

Do you want to try one?

I'll try one if you want to try one.

Yeah, I'll try one, for sure.

They're still really hard.

Ooh.

Mm.

I don't know.

[ chuckles ]

is yours sweet, darrin?

No, it's pretty starchy.

They'll be a lot moister if we steam them

as opposed to bake them.

Okay, but this wasn't a terrible idea, right?

'cause I think that process is gonna take

a significant time longer than this, right?

So even if they don't taste the best,

at least you have some starch and sugars in your belly, right?

Mm.

So, how far do you need to dig that?

Close to a foot or so.

That way, I can line it with rocks.

'cause then you'd build a fire on top of the rocks,

and then cover it up with dirt.

Okay.

So basically they slow-cook and steam.

The slower you cook them,

the better the conversion of starches to sugar.

We've got to get those rocks super, super hot.

Just using this mud to seal up the edges

so we don't lose too much heat.

I don't plan on opening the pit up

until about dark tonight for dinner.

I'm just gonna let it sit as long as possible,

and late tonight, we'll open it up

and call that good then.

I'm one of those "I can set it aside

till tomorrow or the next day" people, so...

Yeah, and I do everything right away.

[ chuckles ]

I don't live on a schedule.

I live on hippie indian stoner time.

[ laughing ] I live on real-people time.

Let's try them.

There's our bananas.

Seedy but yummy.

They're sweet. Good job.

I told you this was the best way to cook them.

You were right.

Narrator: The bananas provide some relief for darrin and angela's

but steaming them is very time-consuming,

so they supplement their meager diet any way they can.

[ machete chopping ]

darrin: I knew I'd be hungry here,

so it's not like it's a surprise,

but so far, all we had to eat was palm hearts

and banana hearts, and my stomach's starting to --

I'm definitely feeling the emptiness of it.

It's starting to shrink.

In situations like this, I mean, this is tough.

A little bit of food should make us feel better.

Angela: Even though we're eating just very little,

it does help, but it's really -- it's not a meal at all.

Our bodies are still starving.

Do you see that big monitor lizard

laying there dead?

No, it's alive. Oh, my god.

Something definitely tore it up, 'cause it's already bloody.

Oh, no.

Oh!

Darrin: Angela told me she's a vegetarian,

but in a survival situation,

you have to take what you can get

when it means staying alive.

What are you thinking? You want to eat it.

It's a lot of meat.

I think 'cause it was already injured,

so I don't know what else was eating at it first

and biting at it.

I don't know.

I guess it's kind of just a risk versus reward.

All reptiles are definitely very dirty critters.

Getting sick this early on in the game

could really be devastating,

where later on, it might not be that bad.

I can play it safe and just eat bananas.

I'm gonna try this one.

Narrator: The bananas are ripening --

that will give angela and darrin a valuable food source

for the remaining week and a half

of the challenge.

The high potassium will keep their muscles from cramping,

and the vitamin b6 can help protect against

mood swings and irritability.

That's so great.

The bananas are at least a ticket to not starving

before we get out of here,

but we just got all these monkeys

that definitely know they're there,

and the second we turn our backs,

they try and get them.

I've been throwing lots of rocks at them,

but they're still there keeping an eye on us,

so I'm not gonna let my guard down one bit.

I've never had to deal with thieving monkeys before.

Leave our bananas alone, little monkey.

Day 11 out here.

Angela's down swimming in the ocean, washing off.

I'm on guard-the-banana duty.

Angela: They wait all day long,

and they just want to steal our bananas.

They're like little thieves.

There he is. They are so crazy.

I don't know what it's gonna take to get rid of them.

Darrin: So much easier if we could hunt the monkeys.

What would you do with it if you got it?

Eat it.

Oh.

It's just a baby.

Well, they're little thieves is what they are...

Yummy little thieves.

If it was legal to kill them,

I would have already made a bow and some arrows

and been trying.

I could eat all those bananas right now.

So could the monkeys.

We got all these bananas,

and they provide us lots of sugars, and that's good,

but we also need protein to survive.

We got rats crawling all around our shelter cave at night.

I know my partner won't eat them,

but I'll definitely eat rat if I catch them.

It's just a different form of squirrel, in my opinion.

Got it set.

I'm just adding some weight for a little extra punch.

The trap I'm making is a paiute deadfall.

I've been making traps like this since I was about 9 years old.

Three sticks make the trigger mechanism,

plus a bait stick,

and they're tied together with a cordage,

and then for the weights, I just used a big, long, flat

piece of driftwood that washed up on the beach.

I used a little piece of banana for bait,

and they got to kind of tug on it,

and that frees the trigger stick and makes the trap drop.

[ rock clatters ]

got my first rat.

Yeah. Look at him.

Mmm, yummy rat.

[ rock clatters ]

rat number 2 for the night.

Two rats on a stringer.

[ chuckles ]

that'll be a good breakfast.

My trap just went off.

Oh, there he is.

Squished rat butt.

Angela: Ugh! Darrin, enough already.

There's rat number 3 for the night.

Not even midnight.

[ chuckles ]

angela: Darrin's a little bit crazy.

I think he just really likes to kill things.

He's so crazy about killing these rats and these monkeys.

Rat number 4.

Pancake rat.

[ chuckles ]

it's really pissing me off.

Rat for breakfast.

Darrin: Mmm, rat kebabs.

There's it's testicles.

Testicles!

[ giggles ]

mmm.

[ chuckles ]

and that's cleaned and prepared rat kebabs.

Angela: Darrin's really starting to creep me out,

but I promised myself and my dad that I could do this.

I'll just muscle through it.

Darrin: Mmm. Rat-be-cue.

Crunchy, crispy rat kebabs.

Sure you don't want to try rat, angela?

Angela: No, I don't want to try it.

Not even try it?

No.

It's the most disgusting thing I've seen,

and I'm not sure if the rats have diseases,

and it's kind of creepy.

What's it taste like?

It tastes just like barbecued chicken.

Darrin: My partner won't eat the rats,

but, hey, that's her prerogative,

'cause they're pretty damn yummy.

I left the organs in the chest cavities

because that's where a lot of your nutrients are.

Rat lung.

Try a kidney.

Mnh-mnh.

Angela: To see all of its organs and guts --

that was really gross.

I'll stick to bananas today.

Just like eating squirrel.

[ high-pitched voice ] hi, my name is whiskers.

I think darrin actually feeds off

when people are kind of appalled by him.

I think he feeds off that attention.

So I just really pay no attention

when he's acting out a little bit.

Oh, there's it's heart.

Thump, thump. Thump, thump.

Thump, thump. Thump, thump.

[ laughs ] oh.

This is why I don't have a girlfriend.

Darrin's personality's definitely out there and crazy,

so if I met darrin on the street,

it would be someone that I would make my distance from.

I didn't sleep at all last night --

maybe a minute here and there, but I was just --

I don't know, just very uncomfortable with darrin.

But I'm gonna keep my mind busy,

and I'm gonna try to make a blanket.

Darrin: How's the blanket coming?

It's kind of trial and error, but we have time.

Most of the weaving I've seen with the coconut fronds,

they leave them on the stakes and splay them out,

and that holds them down,

and then you weave against them.

I mean, I don't know how to do that,

so I'm just doing the best that I can.

Want me to show you?

Um, I don't know.

So, you want to make a blanket, right?

If you leave them attached to the frond on one side,

then that holds it for you.

Then start tying these ends together.

And then you can start folding these over

and weaving them through.

And then just ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch.

I'd like to try things my way,

but darrin thinks he's the expert on everything --

I mean, whether it's how I cook bananas

or how I weave something.

Whatever I do, darrin has a way to correct me,

so it's really annoying, but we only have a couple days,

so I'm just gonna appease him and just be calm about it.

I think he's the kind of person

that would keep an argument going,

so I don't really want to play into it.

You all right?

Mm-hmm.

You're really quiet.

I'm a little down today.

I feel really weak, and...

[ voice breaking ] right now, I miss my family the most.

I think if I could at least talk to them once a day,

it would be fine,

but just not hearing from anyone is really hard.

Darrin just isn't a person

that I would spend a lot of time with.

Here I can't distance myself with him.

We're stuck together, and that's it.

Darrin: When I'm backpacking, I'm always alone.

It's always difficult to work with a person

you've never met before, and having to work as a team

every single day, day in, day out,

especially if she doesn't have too much skill or experience,

so I'd rather be out here by myself.

Narrator: 18 days ago, angela and darrin set up camp

on thailand's secluded koh mook island,

with primitive survival ratings of 6.1 and 7.8.

Angela has shown great resilience

despite the island's scarce resources

and her disdain for her partner's

unorthodox eating habits.

Darrin: Sure you don't want to try rat, angela?

No.

Darrin has proved to be a skilled survivalist...

Thump, thump.

...But his strange behavior has caused his partner

to distance herself from him.

An exhausting extraction lies ahead,

and upon completing the challenge,

their psrs will be reevaluated.

Darrin: You're really quiet.

Darrin: My partner, angela, seemed very down yesterday,

and I didn't know if she was upset at me or not.

I have no clue, truly, what she's thinking,

but I heard some coconuts fall last night,

and I might just take a little walk back there

for a few minutes and see if I can't find one.

Looked like there was one more coconut on this tree yesterday.

[ milk splashes ]

I've been counting the coconuts on the trees

so I know which ones fall off.

[ laughs ]

hey, angela? Yeah?

Told you I thought one fell off that tree.

Oh, good.

Angela: I think darrin knows that I'm really pissed off,

so he brought a coconut back,

and I think that was kind of his way to say,

"oh, maybe I've done something.

I'm not sure exactly what I did,

but I could tell by your mood that you're not real happy,

so I brought this coconut as a peace offering."

thank you.

You're welcome.

Maybe I'm too sensitive sometimes.

18 days, and I'm still getting used to darrin,

and I'm sure darrin's adapting to me

as much as I'm adapting to him.

I should just appreciate how much he's trying to help me.

Wouldn't mind some rat bacon.

[ chuckles ]

[ machete chopping ]

for our extraction,

we think that we'll probably have to swim a little bit,

so we decided to build rafts out of bamboo.

So, we're just gonna do two long?

Yeah, it'll just be two long.

Yeah, I think that should be enough length.

'cause we don't want to carry more than that.

Yeah.

Darrin: I know how to swim,

but I'm not a long-distance swimmer,

and I don't know how far I'm gonna have to swim.

Having a little flotation device

just makes it all that much easier on me.

Two joints, and then two or three wide.

That should make a paddleboard that'll hold us up.

Okay.

We're here.

And that's the cliffs right above us?

Yep.

So as long as we keep those cliffs to the left of us,

it looks like they lead us right out.

Narrator: To make it to their extraction,

darrin and angela must cross the island

on a hazardous three-mile trek

through the dense and rain-soaked jungle

to this beach,

and then swim through choppy ocean currents

to deep water, where they'll be rescued.

[ rain pattering ]

angela: The rain is awful,

but it's keeping the mosquitos out, right?

Yep.

Oh. I'm stuck. Hold on.

Angela: Our bamboo rafts are so long.

I can't really take a full stride

without banging into the back of my calves.

Ooh, it's picking up.

Now it's really raining.

What do you think the ocean's gonna be like?

Choppy?

Hope it lets up a little bit, but we'll see.

I'm so anxious to get to the water part.

I am really unsure about how far the swim is,

and if the weather gets worse, then it's more windy,

the chop is more severe,

and it will be way more difficult to swim.

[ thunder rumbles ]

we made it.

Hey, look, there's our boat.

Oh, my god. It's kind of far.

Yeah.

This is really dangerous.

We're both really weak.

This looks really far.

And I don't even want to think about sharks

and bad things that might bite me.

Darrin: There's whitecaps on some of the waves,

and the wind's picking up.

I'm not a powerful swimmer.

I do not have swimming endurance.

Just swimming into this little cove

when they dropped me off blasted me.

It was hard for me, and that was on day 1.

Oh, well. Suck it up and go for it.

[ thunder rumbles ]

angela: When I run marathons, my strategy is I see the end,

I am completely focused on the end,

and I'm not stopping until I get to that boat.

I think darrin still has his raft.

I can't see it, but I can't see it floating there, either.

[bleep] hurts really bad. My hip popped out of place --

I'm not sure what to do, really.

He's getting drifted away by the current,

and I'm not sure that I have enough strength

to go swim back to him and help him paddle back in.

Angela!

Hang on. I'm coming!

Oh, thank you.

Darrin: My partner did not want to see me fail,

and she came and saved my bacon.

You're welcome.

Her help was insanely beneficial to my success

in getting to that boat, and without it,

you know, who knows what would have happened.

Sometimes you need help in life.

Ocean swimming's no joke, right?

No, it's not.

Freaking -- that's the hardest thing I've done --

I don't know, maybe ever.

[ both laugh ]

angela: I came here,

and my nails were polished, my toes were polished.

I felt sort of human.

But I'm leaving here completely stripped of all of that.

This experience has shown me

that two people from different worlds

can work together and accomplish something pretty amazing.

Darrin: 21 days with a total stranger,

which is something I haven't always been the best at

in my life, but it's something I strive to improve at.

Angela: I did learn some survival skills from darrin.

He has a great skill set.

I think he's just lacking on the social side.

Darrin would stay here forever if he had the chance.

He's really good at being alone and killing things

and living off the land.

Start as a team, finish as a team.

Yes! Thank you. All right.

We're going home.

Yep.

Let's get out of here.

Narrator: Over the course of the 21

darrin's diet of bananas and rat kebabs

kept his weight loss down to a total of only six pounds.

Even though his loner attitude

didn't mesh well with his partner

and he needed an ocean rescue to complete the challenge,

darrin exhibited a vast knowledge of survival skills.

As a result, his psr rises from 7.8 to 8.2.

During her three weeks on the island,

angela lost a total of 15 pounds.

Angela may have struggled with dealing with a bossy partner,

but her training as an endurance athlete

was a big reason this team was successful in the end.

Her psr increases from 6.1 to 6.3.

Thailand's remote koh mook island

was a worth adversary,

but these two survived to tell about it --

naked and afraid.

Darrin: The rat was yummy.

I'm almost home, ready to see the kids.

There's our house.

[ laughing ] oh!

Finally back home, and we're making cookies.

Oh, there's my dad!

How many days did he say I was gonna make it?

Oh, one. That's right, one.

That's half.

[ laughs ]

oh, it's you! Oh! How's my baby?

[ barking, whimpering ]

come here. Come here.

Aww.

You ready to go to the mountains?

This is the good life, the mountain life.

It's my life.