Original subtitles

♪♪

It's just weird to think about being out here

for 40 days and 40 nights.

This jungle... The things you think about.

I have the worst dreams I've ever had in my life

every single night.

I'm talking about disgusting, grotesque,

just... horrible worst-case scenario in your life,

playing out in my head every night.

[ Gasps ] Oh, my god.

Narrator: Deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle,

nine "naked and afraid" veterans

are tackling an unthinkable survival challenge...

To endure 40 days and 40 nights

in the most remote wilderness on the planet.

- [ Gasps ] - Aah!

Narrator: To make it out alive,

they must master the environment... [ Gasps ]

Holy [bleep]

push the limits of human endurance... Ohh!

And survive each other.

Woman: I'm so [bleep] mad right now.

You want to eat? Then listen to what I say.

You're just very cocky.

Aah!

- Call a medic. - Oh, my god.

Narrator: This is "naked and afraid XL."

Captions by vitac... www.Vitac.Com

captions paid for by discovery communications

three weeks into the 40-day challenge,

the unforgiving Amazon claimed its fourth victim...

Woman: We love you, Matt.

As a flesh-eating virus

took out the group's chief provider.

If we continue at the rate that we're at,

I'm wondering who is gonna be standing.

Narrator: Then, in a stunning twist... Oh, my god!

Their world collided

with two "naked and afraid" survivalists

nearing the end of their 21-day challenge.

This is monumental.

Fernando: With the absence of Matt,

more hands would definitely help.

Narrator: Invited to join the group...

If you guys would have me, I'd be honored to stay.

What? Really?

Only chance, a former army ranger,

decided to stay the entire 40 days.

Don't have a lot of family back home,

and I don't think I'd ever find

an opportunity this rich to learn and grow.

Narrator: Now in dire need of substantial protein...

Six mouths to feed is a lot.

Narrator: Russell's attempts to assert his leadership...

I don't appreciate your cockiness.

You want to eat? Then listen to what I say.

You're just very cocky.

Have only created tension within the group.

Shannon: If I do see Russell, I say something,

and then you just tell him to shut the [bleep] up.

I don't like the tension, I don't like the drama,

and it's leaving a question Mark in my head

of what the [bleep] I'm even doing here.

♪♪

♪♪

I don't want to quit, and I'm not gonna quit,

but I don't like the tension... I don't like the drama.

Being out here against the elements and with minimal food,

it's tough in its own self,

so to have to combat the mental anguish

of listening to the bickering,

it's another added stress, and the more, the worse.

♪♪

Now being without food and water adequately for this long,

tasks such as walking, chopping wood

now seem like difficult, complex tasks.

- Chance! - What's up?

Come on down, buddy.

I just didn't want to interrupt.

No, no, no, no, no.

What you doing, man?

I'm just getting some water.

Cool. Um, do you want to go out casting with me?

I mean, sure.

Okay, cool.

I think chance...

He's soft-spoken and quiet, kind of...

Kind of sometimes, you think he's, like, grumpy or something.

Smile. [ Chuckling ] Just kidding.

I hate when people say that.

Don't smile.

Um, I'm gonna grab a termite.

Shannon: I'm, like, feeling bad

because chance was kind of like thrown onto us.

I don't know him that well yet.

You don't have to go if you don't want to go, dude.

Don't feel pressured if you want to lay low.

Um, yeah. Don't... don't feel...

I sense the hesitation in your voice.

Just a lot of drama today. I know. It's crazy.

I didn't know what I was walking into.

Yeah.

It's just... I want to focus on positive things.

Do you want to go out casting, or no?

Yeah, I'll go.

Mentally, I prepared my body and my mind to complete 21 days,

so accepting the challenge to complete 19 more days...

I wasn't really prepared for that coming into this,

especially working in a group dynamic.

Sounds like everybody's got something

they're complaining about.

I don't know. Just the competitiveness,

like, really hindered Melissa and I,

and, like, I really just don't want to focus on it.

Chance: I like being the gray man in a group.

I like just keeping my mouth shut

and letting my actions speak for itself.

It works well for me.

I can be quiet, and nobody really even notices.

It's not competitiveness.

It's just being respectful and considerate.

I don't like to be called "woman," "honey," "sweetheart."

It's a different situation when you're a woman.

I don't have a lot of experience working as a team with women

'cause ranger battalion is exclusively male.

So it's not so much that I have an issue with females.

It's more of a lack of experience.

No, I'd rather somebody show me how first, honestly.

Whatever.

♪♪

All right, so, the way I throw,

hang it over your shoulder like this.

- Okay? - Mm-hmm.

Chance wants to learn how to throw the cast net,

and I'm willing to teach. I love teaching.

Throw it up and out.

It'll go up, open up, and drop straight down.

I think it's important to have a mentor and a role model.

We can go step out in the water

and let you try it a couple of times if you want.

Okay.

For me, that person is Russ.

I naturally gravitate towards alphas and males,

so it's easier for me

to establish a bond and a working relationship

with that personality type.

All right, you ready?

Russell: When chance got here,

it gave a new meaning to this challenge for me.

All of a sudden, chance comes into my life,

and I'm just incredibly eager to want to help him out.

- Aah! - Aah!

- You lost... did you get him? - Yeah.

You got both of them? Yeah. All right, I'm good.

[Bleep]

Hey, Russ, I appreciate it, man.

Hey, no worries, partner.

At least I know my batting average right now.

Yeah, dude.

I mean, you're batting .300.

Actually, I'm batting 1.000.

Or 1.000... That's what it is, right?

Obviously, I don't watch baseball.

♪♪

Chance: If I'm going to stay longer

and stay with this group,

I feel like it would be helpful for the team

to get to know a little about my background.

I had a four-month to Iraq,

and then six months to Afghanistan,

going into areas where conventional borders

hadn't been in at least four years.

It was during the special operations surge.

Lost a lot of buddies that deployment,

so that one sucked the most.

Just as a soldier, like, I felt like I had to be numb,

I had to be cold,

I had to change who I was to do my job effectively,

and I did,

but then it crumbled everything else once I got back home.

Once you kind of wire your thinking in a certain pattern,

army doesn't, like, unwire you.

The side effects of war...

You don't really realize them

until it's [bleep] crash and burn.

Fernando: Today, chance opened up about his past

and his military time

and the challenges he faced during his deployments.

I was an alcoholic,

staring down my barrel every day last year.

Now I'm good to go.

Chance is not ashamed to share, like,

really dark parts of his past.

I imagine they have trained, like, psychologists

to help with the PTSD, right?

I've got more help from my ranger buddies

than I ever have from any program.

Russell: Chance... He's had a pretty rough life.

Question is... Is chance mentally prepared

to do the 40-day challenge?

You know, that's the question.

[ Sighs ]

[ Wind howling ]

This is not gonna be pretty.

We're all sitting in the shelter.

We got a good campfire going,

but... it is about to get gnarly out here.

[ Thunder crashing ]

Fernando: It's gonna be a long, long night.

There is a pretty insane storm hitting us right now.

All I can hear are trees cracking in the distance.

I'm just hoping none of them fall on us.

[ Crashing continues ]

We're just trying to survive here

and function the best that we can.

[ Crashing continues ]

♪♪

Ow! [ Gasps ]

Good god, that hurt!

Oh, my god.

[ Gasps ] Ow!

[Bleep] Aah!

- Damn it. - Ow!

God, I hate those [bleep]!

Narrator: Colonies of army ants

numbering in the hundreds of thousands

swarm across the jungle floor.

Their toxic bites are powerful enough

to kill spiders and small animals in their path.

I hate ants!

They are literally everywhere.

Ow! It bit me. Bastard!

Chance is attempting to kill all of them

by crunching them,

but as you can tell, the whole ground moves.

The fight for my life.

[ Thunder crashing ]

- Ow! [ Gasps ] Oh, my god! - You okay?

This is actual torture.

It's wet, miserable,

with nowhere to go and hide from these ants.

They are tearing us apart right now.

At this point, we may have to abandon our shelter.

Absolutely horrible.

Damn you!

♪♪

That was [bleep] extremely brutal last night.

Yeah.

That was really taxing on us.

Yeah.

Chance: We had the rain from all night,

and midway throughout the night,

there's this infestation of ants.

It was like the entire shelter just got swarmed,

and they just got worse and worse and worse.

- So brutal. - Yeah.

Fernando: It'll make you lose your mind,

getting bit over and over and over again.

Honestly, I'm feeling really depressed and kind of apathetic,

like, even, about everything.

Mm.

♪♪

[ Hissing ]

Shannon: The ants... they're terrible.

That's the only thing that I don't like

about being out there.

Get more encendio.

Narrator: The sap that flows

from the tree locally known as "encendio"

gives off a fume similar to turpentine,

making it ideal for fire-starting

or repelling biting insects.

Hope this works. That would be nice.

We need to get some good food, good protein.

Our bodies are really getting worked from the jungle.

We're just running low on everything.

We're using everything up.

It's just not as easy as it once was.

I saw a big one.

♪♪

Russell: All we talk about is food.

It's funny.

Everybody... this whole group,

that's all we talk about, is food.

And it's warranted.

And it's a lot easier to work and stay focused

when you don't have hunger pangs.

You know, it's crazy how much your mind obsesses

over food.

So, what do you guys say?

Why don't we all just, like, grab a weapon

and, like, go on, like, a family hunt.

You know, see if we can't find something.

Sounds good to me.

I really hope that we can all kind of, like, work together.

Russell: I'm definitely looking forward

for the opportunity to prove myself.

Amber: Russell wants to take this upon his own

to be like some sort of leader,

but we don't need a leader of our group.

We all have our skills.

We all bring something to the table.

First family hunt, huh? Family hunt.

♪♪

This is... This is gnarly in here.

Very dangerous.

Chance: Amber and Russ were kind of in the lead

as we were walking down.

We didn't really make a plan beforehand.

And in my experience, tactically,

it's good to have some kind of plan,

especially if you're hunting as a group.

♪♪

Listen. [ Buzzing ]

Just listen for a second.

[ Leaves rustling ]

Russell: It's going up the tree.

[Bleep] Damn it.

I don't know.

They move through this [bleep] a lot easier than I do,

so... He's long gone.

- This is ridiculous. - Yeah.

We should have stopped and planned.

Chance: When Russ made the decision

to move ahead by himself, it didn't sit well with me.

As far as where I stand with Russell, as a hunter,

I'm not sure.

Now we're heading back home.

Giovanna: Everybody seems to be

kind of on different wavelengths,

and there's no communication.

[Bleep] Man, seriously?

Now the arduous trek

back through all this nasty damn black palm...

Having something killed to throw on the plate

makes it worth it.

Walking back through it with nothing

just makes me feel stupid.

[ Grunts ]

♪♪

Chance and I are feeling really frustrated

with the way that just went down.

Well, that won't ever happen again.

There should be a plan. I hope not.

I think next time we try to go on a family hunt...

[ Chuckling ] Try telling that to Russell.

He's very antsy.

He wants to get something with the bow.

I said, "do you have visual? Do you have visual?"

And he said, "no, no, no," and I'm like, "okay."

I think that we should have stopped

and talked about it as a group.

Yeah, definitely.

And I think that the fact that you two rushed in there

was just honestly like a little hard-headed

and not clear thinking,

and we really should have talked about it first.

It... well, whatever.

We're not getting anywhere. I should just stop talking.

That's fine. I'm being honest.

If you have no visual, what are you doing right now?

Just wait. I believe you.

It's just frustrating. [ Sighs ]

Chance: I feel like there's a lot of pride issues

in this group.

I've hunted before.

I've shot deer before.

Stalking in the woods

is something that I am proficient in...

Not so much basket-weaving or shelter-building,

but this is like what I did in the military... ranging.

Ranger. Raids, ambushes.

I don't deal well the way they do

in talking peacefully and having communal talks.

I'm a very aggressive person.

I've performed at a very elite level in the military,

and our speciality was direction action...

Raids and ambushes.

Silent approach.

Stealthily killing somebody in the woods

is not much different

from stealthily walking in the woods towards an animal.

Amber: Chance worries me a little bit.

I was kind of like, "holy hell."

I'm just gonna make sure

everything is taken away from him,

no knifes around him, nothing crazy like that.

My entire career in the military was based around, like,

stealthily creeping into people's houses

without them waking,

and putting barrels in their faces without them knowing.

Giovanna: Chance... he actually has

really dark parts of his past, so that's scary.

Chance: Most of my buddies, when we have arguments,

it ends up in fistfights, and then we hug,

and I can't do that here.

It's just frustrating.

I feel dumbed down.

Look, I really don't want to talk about it anymore.

♪♪

♪♪

Chance: It's just frustrating.

I feel dumbed down.

Look, I really don't want to talk about it anymore.

Well, I think the point more is just, that, like,

moving forward, let's do a... yeah.

Let's just... I don't think anyone did anything wrong.

- It's just... - No, I think...

He did try... He just tried to take it over,

just rushing the bush with a bow.

[Bleep] Everything.

And I'm just like, I knew he was gonna make it

"the Russell show."

Feet are okay?

Nope. Feet are thrashed.

Well, Gia made a really good point,

that we should come up with a plan next time

instead of just rushing in from the hunt, so...

All right, well, what good would a plan have done on that one,

where nobody could walk?

Um, it maybe would have been beneficial to encircle the area,

and... maybe for the people

who have the most, like, stalking experience, maybe...

Like you and chance... To maybe start moving in

while the rest of us maybe, like, hung in the perimeter,

waiting for it to run?

That may work on a different scenario,

but this one... It wouldn't have worked.

We were going in there blind, anyways.

Okay, so, I'm wrong? I'm not saying you're wrong.

It's better for you to chase it in one direction?

I'm just saying that it's one of those things

you kind of have to jump on the moment

you get down there and see it, go in and...

I guess from now on, it's just your hunting show,

and you can just do whatever you want.

No, next time, grab the bow and go in there, then.

I mean, it's just a lot of verbal disagreeing.

I was the only one that was in there.

Everybody else held back.

I don't... I don't want to argue.

I just... that's how I feel.

It's just [bleep] hunting as a group

pisses me off in general.

Giovanna: I really try not to argue with Russell.

Obviously, he is who he is,

and he does and says things sometimes that make you cringe.

You have all of us as an asset, you know.

So before you rush in there, say, "hey,"

look at chance and be like...

Let him set the perimeter since you have the main bow.

You know what I mean?

That's all they're asking.

Yeah, nope, we can definitely do that next time.

I think that the group is intimidated by Russell

for some reason.

I mean, I'm not intimidated by him.

He's got little man syndrome sometimes.

He's crazy. He's mean. He's unpredictable.

That's all... just don't rush in next time on the bow.

- That's all we ask. - All right. I think we got it.

- I think we got it. We're good. - We're good?

Yeah. We got it. I mean... ♪♪

When we got back to camp... Unsuccessful hunt, obviously...

The team was very upset with Russ.

Frankly, it upset me, as well.

Russ put a lot of time and effort into it.

But from the girls,

I haven't seen that the entire time I've been here.

So, uh, they really have no room to talk.

♪ There's no easy [bleep] way in the jungle ♪

♪ everything's difficult ♪

♪♪

Oh, no.

♪♪

[Bleep]

- No. - Yes.

- They're back, man. - Wow. They're really back.

No!

Yeah. They're back.

We are having a repeat of last night.

No, it's not raining. No, it's not windy.

But what we do have are ants.

We have a bunch of [bleep] ants.

Damn it, bugs. Get out of my [bleep] crack.

I just don't know if I can handle it.

[Bleep]

♪♪

[ Birds chirping ]

♪♪

You would think that something so small and insignificant

couldn't do any damage, but it's not the case here.

I think it's time to change our situation.

It's time to step up.

- Morning, brother. - Morning.

We only have a finite amount of resources.

I think it would be beneficial for us

to go back up to where Matt and I

had picked off our first pig.

We haven't seen any sign of pigs for a while.

Do you prefer to go by yourself entirely,

or do you want someone to go with you?

Oh, dude, I mean, [bleep] I'd love the company, brother.

It's just... I just want to get some hunting time in.

I'd be cool with both of y'all coming, if you want.

You guys, what are you doing?

That's the plan.

The hunt? Yeah. You want to come?

All right.

Amber: When I woke up this morning,

I noticed the guys were kind of making

this "man power" thing.

What if we go out for two nights instead of one,

and make it kind of more...

Get as much bang for our buck as we can?

Feeling a little bit like, "what are you doing?

Like, we're a team."

- Sounds good. - Sounds like a plan.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Birds chirping ]

♪♪

Fernando: All right, last check.

- Fire starter? - Got it.

- Bow and arrows? - Got it.

- Machete. - Got it.

And we got chance. We're good.

[ Chuckles ]

Amber: We woke up this morning

and the guys decided to go on a pig hunt.

I was like, "what? You're leaving?"

It was very clear-cut defined...

The boys against the girls... Out of nowhere.

All right, gents.

- Bye. - All right.

Epic adventure!

[ Chuckles ]

I'm so pumped about this. This is cool.

We're going on an epic adventure.

Russell got the boys on board to believe whatever he says.

They kind of just told us they were doing it,

and they didn't really tell us anything else.

I think it would have been fair for everybody to sit down

and talk, too, about, like...

"you know, does anybody want to go on a hunt?"

Would you have wanted to go?

Yeah.

Honestly, that conversation was never on the plate at all.

Amber: I know Shannon wanted to go.

I know I wanted to go.

The guys put this divide between us for some reason.

Saying, "I'm the man, I'm gonna go out and hunt.

We're gonna go get us a pig."

Well, good for you.

It's like a machismo kind of thing.

It's like a penis holders club.

- [ Laughs ] - They hold each other's penises.

It's nice.

We're providers, too.

We all bring something to the table.

What about floating farther to the south into the lagoon

where it really narrows out

and just kind of exploring in there?

Probably we could bring back some fish.

It's perfect.

The water's probably gonna be pretty clear.

Nice. I like it.

♪♪

[ Hissing ]

Man: I'm just glad to be away from the girls for a bit.

Yeah, man. This is gonna be a nice two days, you know?

Russell: Today's an awesome day.

Gave chance and Fernando and myself

a chance to get away from the girls.

Not saying that they're, you know,

there's something wrong with them or anything,

but, you know, they're girls... We're guys.

It is what it is.

This is all black palm through here,

so try to step where I step, okay?

Oscar tango Mike.

I wanted that grit, male companionship.

It's similar to the camaraderie I have

amongst my ranger buddies.

Well, this begins our steep climb.

Be there in about 35, 40 minutes.

♪♪

I definitely think that us having this time apart,

the guys and the girls, it's insane.

The whole point of us coming out here

is coming together and surviving with each other,

but whatever.

The girls can bring just as much to the table as the guys,

so I say bring it.

Oh!

♪♪

Shannon: The girls went out there casting.

I'm pole fishing.

Hopefully, get some bigger fish.

I think that, you know, the guys...

They're kind of like one team,

and then the girls are kind of another team.

It's like back in frickin' high school, or something.

It's crazy.

♪♪

Russell: All right, gentlemen. We ready?

- Yeah. - All right.

Oh, what the [bleep]?

Well, I would love to say,

"here's our humble abode for two days,"

but it appears a storm came through

and knocked it all down.

That's [bleep] awesome.

Fernando: That's not bad. We can fix this.

Got that, bubba?

[ Grunts ]

All right.

All right, she ain't going nowhere, dude.

Shoot.

Look at that... the muscles on you, brother. Damn!

Well, you know, it's a lifelong...

It's a lifestyle, really.

Yeah, you know, that's why I keep you around.

[Bleep]

Hey, chance, you have anywhere in particular

you want to sleep, 'cause...

Uh, probably on the ground, like usual.

All right, brother.

- Ranger. - Ranger bed?

Eat for survival, sleep for survival,

taste when I get home, comfortable when I get home.

♪♪

Amber: The sun is horrendous out on the open water.

It's very brutal, but we have to keep pushing through.

♪♪

Oh, my god!

Get in there!

Giovanna: I am so stoked.

Obviously, we can do it alone and do it well.

♪♪

Whoo!

Shannon: In my life, I've never had

that kind of separation of sexes.

That's a nice fishy right there.

Being left out just because I have a vagina...

[ Chuckles ]

I'm just as strong as any of those guys.

I could take any of those guys on.

This fish definitely deserves to be eaten.

♪♪

Hey, girl.

How'd you do?

[ Gasps ] He's beautiful!

- Girl, you are so good. - [ Laughing ] Not really.

I'm proud of you.

All right.

These fish are actually clean and gutted.

Giovanna: Good stuff!

Amber: We are not normal women out here.

We do not sit here and just boil water and get firewood

and wait for the guys to bring home the meat.

It doesn't work that way.

As a woman, I want to represent.

I'm a strong, independent woman.

So, this is the giant fish that Shannon caught today.

- [ Laughs ] - Almost consumed.

- It's delicious, like chicken. - It totally tastes like chicken.

♪♪

- Man, it's a clear sky tonight. - Mm-hmm.

We got stars. Lucky, lucky stars.

We're back at Matt and Russ' old campsite,

preparing for a pig hunt in the morning.

What's the best part of the pig?

When you ate that pig with Matt?

It was all good, dude.

You know, Matt ate the tongue.

I wouldn't go that far.

You want to eat the heart, don't you?

I'll eat the [bleep] out of the heart.

For me, it's still kind of a mental shock, you know,

coming in, thinking you're gonna do 21 days and go home.

If I don't have food, I want to ranger smash,

and that doesn't work well with other people.

I have to remind myself that I'm still here

and I'm still in the challenge

and to focus and take one day at a time.

And that can be difficult.

♪♪

So, the best thing about tonight is we are short three people.

The guys decided to go on a hog hunt,

so we said, "peace out!" We said. "Peace!"

It is so nice just to enjoy

the peace and quiet and tranquility of the jungle.

No aggression, just love.

We have two nights of this bliss.

Yep. It's gonna be awesome.

Yes. Awesome.

- Peace out. - Girl who rocks it.

- Bye. - Ow!

- Ow! - Bye.

♪♪

It's just weird to think about being out here

for 40 days and 40 nights.

The things you think about...

I have the worst dreams I've ever had in my life

every single night.

♪♪

Narrator: On this 40-day survival quest,

the survivalists earn a "naked and afraid XL" rating,

or XLR,

which tracks their progress, skill, and teamwork.

After a failed attempt to secure food as a group...

Don't know.

They move through this [bleep] a lot easier than I do.

Narrator: Tensions among the remaining six escalated...

Amber: We should come up with a plan next time.

All right, well, what good would a plan have done on that one?

Resulting in Russell's abrupt decision

to lead the men on a two-day hunt.

I was like, "what? You're leaving?"

Narrator: The risky move deepened the divide,

but the women soon found success without the men.

As a result, the group XLR

currently remains unchanged at 5.6.

For more information on "naked and afraid XL,"

go to discovery.Com.

♪♪

Big pig hunt this morning. [ Exhales sharply ]

It's gonna be a doozy. [ Sniffles ]

Pretty stoked.

All right, gentlemen. What's the plan?

I think, uh, Russ sitting at the primary location

by the tree, and we're best to serve you,

serving the perimeter over watch.

Chance: I know Russ has really been looking forward

to accomplishing the hunter role,

and as a new member to this team,

I'm happy to help him in that endeavor.

If they do come to you, you take the shot.

If they get spooked in either direction,

we can funnel them back to you.

And if they begin to flee, chance... you and I, man...

We got our machetes and our Spears.

We're gonna do some damage.

Right on, brother. That sounds good to me.

It's gonna be a good hunt, boys.

What do you guys say we start getting ready?

Sounds good, man. Let's do it.

Good.

♪♪

Narrator: Wild pigs trample through the jungle

in aggressive droves that can number over 100

and reach speeds of over 25 miles per hour.

We're gonna put the bow with Russell.

Chance and I will be out in flanks.

All right.

Russell: To provide for my tribe,

to provide for my group.

Getting a pig...

That would solidify me being a provider.

♪♪

[ Pigs snorting ]

[ Snorting continues ]

Holy [bleep]

[ Thunder crashing ]

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

We're in the middle of the worst storm we've experienced

since we've been out here.

[ Crashing continues ]

Man: Torrential downpour.

The rain's not letting up at all.

Chance: I don't really feel all that great.

Just emotionally broken down.

Feeling empty.

Like, breaking.

In the jungle, you just kind of lose your mind.