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Darrin: Hunger is taking its toll on me.

My body is shutting down.

Alyssa: Just watching the nyalas.

There's bunch of them by our snares.

Steven: That looks so good.

Kim: It's like cheeseburgers with legs -- so hungry.

[ Gasps ] We got a snare.

Holy [bleep]

He's at the beach.

Ryan! Go!

Oh, my [bleep]

Narrator: In the drought-stricken s

a group of "naked and afraid" veterans

are taking on a unthinkable survival challenge...

[ Pig squealing ] Go, go, go, go, go!

...to endure 40 days and 40 nights

in the most savage wilderness on the planet.

[ Shouts indistinctly ] Hey!

Narrator: To make it out alive,

they must push their limits,

master their environment... Oh, my god!

...and survive each other.

Woman: I think its gonna be tremendously difficult.

Narrator: This is "naked and afraid xl."

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narrator: After 17 days

of unrelenting heat and deadly predators,

South Africa has claimed three elite survivalists

as its first victims.

I need a medic.

Narrator: And now only nine remain.

Woman: Anyone could go out at any time.

Narrator: In tsonga basin, Kim desperately needs protein

to fend of the ravaging effects of tick-bite fever.

This could easily turn into a life-threatening situation.

Narrator: But Darrin has been unable to provide.

In pondo ravine, angel's exit has left Ryan and Steven

more vulnerable to wildlife and each other.

If you could stop laughing in my face,

I'd appreciate it.

Steven: If we were in a bar,

I'd have knocked his [bleep] teeth out.

Narrator: And in the lush swati valley,

a deadly predator struck close to camp.

Man: Holy [bleep]

Woman: We are right in the kill zone.

Narrator: ...Sending part of the group

on a dangerous scouting mission for more people.

-Oh, my god! -Holy [bleep]

[ Breathing heavily ]

Woman: Holy [bleep]

Man: That's crazy. That thing was so close.

God, I can't believe

we had a leopard that close to us, you guys.

You could hear it running.

Phaedra: The thing after us 'cause we took its kill.

It's good that we have three of us here.

Two of us have Spears.

Jake: Yeah, I think there's a feeling of safety in numbers.

So at this point,

I feel like scouting for other people can be beneficial.

There's a little something we can follow.

Kim: I'm starving,

and I've actually been thinking about

whether or not I'm gonna make it at this rate,

because it's just so extreme here in every way.

We should be quiet. Maybe we can hear voices.

Hello?!

[ Echoing ] Hello?!

Hello! Hi! Hello!

[ Cheering ]

Whoo!

Ayooo!

We're coming down!

I'm really excited. I think this can be really good.

I mean, they could have totally different resources.

There's more people. There's more energy.

More bodies might make hunting a little more difficult.

Darrin: The negatives of a group dynamic are

people are gonna bicker, people are gonna cry,

there's gonna be people that aren't gonna pull their weight.

You know? That sucks.

Hello?!

How's it goin'? I'm Jake.

-Kim. -Nice to meet you, Kim.

-Nice to meet you, Jake. -[ Laughs ]

Oh, nice to meet you.

-Hi. -Hi.

Kim: It just felt so good to see such new faces

and to be able to have

this whole new culture added to our group.

Jake: You just walk down this Ridge right here.

There's a leopard probably like 35 yards.

Holy [bleep] yeah.

Darrin: The bigger group you have,

the less a predator wants to mess with you.

Yeah, there's definitely a feeling of safety in numbers.

How has your place been?

Kim: I haven't really eaten since day 7, so...

We have a lot of trees surrounding the area

where the animals come to drink, so you could hide.

You guys got big -- lots of animals over there, too,

like big game?

Jake: Yeah. Yeah, a fair amount.

It's nice. I mean, it's a beautiful spot.

Oh, we have a fishing net, too.

Oh, nice.

I haven't even actually seen a fish in our lake.

Jake: Kim and Darrin seem like they have had a really tough go

the last couple weeks.

Hopefully, we can get them in an environment

where the possibilities for food are lot greater

than where they were,

and we're gonna have some great success as a team together.

You guys got more people over there,

or it's just you guys now?

-There's two girls. -Sweet.

It's not -- it's not a bad trek at all.

We're just on the other side of that Ridge.

The water's beautiful, really lush around it.

So, I mean, yeah, turtles, snakes, lizards...

Sounds like we're all going that way.

Darrin: My concerns and worries

for the second half of this challenge

is just finding enough food for everyone,

especially, you know, the whole group wants to move,

and I just don't know what the food resources are.

You know, it's gonna suck

if we get to a place where we don't have a lot of food.

You guys ready to check it out?

-Yeah, let's go. -Cool.

Narrator: At swati valley,

Stacey has stayed behind with tawny,

who is still ailing from tick-bite fever.

The blondtourage.

[ Chuckling ] Blondtourage.

Okay.

Tawny: At least I'm feeling slightly hunan today.

I'm gonna try not go too hard

because I don't want to backtrack

in my progress of feeling better.

But it's good to be upright and not wanting to die.

Stacey?

What the heck is that?

Oh, my gosh.

Let me smell.

-It smells amazing. -I know.

Sure it's safe?

It looks like it's from another planet.

Stacey: Anytime you're eating something out here,

you're taking that chance that it's gonna be poisonous.

But, you know, we're malnourished and...

It don't know. We'll see what happens.

Pretty good?

Mm-hmm.

We lost angel today, and that upset me.

With just me and Ryan,

you know, there's not gonna be a middle man anymore.

I think angel definitely had in purpose being in our group.

Absolutely.

I mean... We all do.

You know, Ryan -- I don't know if it's just,

you know, kind of the military in him and stuff,

but I feel like he needs to tell people what to do all the time.

It's just gonna build up and build up,

and then before you know it, it's gonna be a disaster.

I don't know.

He was just, like, a nice balancer.

It's very important.

Yeah.

Ryan: What's going on here with just me and Steven,

I have feeling it's it gonna suck.

[ Flies buzzing ]

Jake: Holy [bleep] there's the sun.

Instaburn.

Narrator: The steep, four-mile hike b

offers little shade from the midday sun,

which can raise the temperature of the rocky ground

to over 120 degrees.

Alyssa: It's almost like it was a rescue mission

of going there to bring them back here

and make sure that everyone is okay,

and we're creating a bigger group

to take care of each other.

Darrin: You guys rock doing this twice today.

Jake: As the groups expand,

the thing is, yes, there's more helping hands,

but there's also a need for more resources.

I mean, it's a bit of a gamble,

but to me, it's the only option.

Stacey: I think it's coming.

[ Vomiting ]

[ Vomiting continues ]

Well, that lovely wild cucumber

was either, like, too strong or too acidic or...

Just one roll of the dice

with that wild cucumber that I ate because I was famished...

Tawny: The bitterness of the fruit

to somebody who has a completely empty stomach,

you just can't eat that kind of stuff.

So it's absolutely taught us a lesson.

We just threw up in the perimeter.

We probably shouldn't tell the rest of the gang

that we did.

Darrin: Oh, my god, like, that's amazing.

-Right? -Nice, huh?

-Like it? -Nice.

Darrin: Yeah, this lake's so much more alive than our lake.

My first feeling was wow, like, this place is way greener,

so much more vegetation.

So there's gonna be a lot more life, you know?

Where's there's water, there's life.

I threw up so much bile

that it burned the inside of my throat.

Jake: Tawny and Stacey?

Oh, we brought you some presents.

Oh, my god.

-Hello. -How's it going?

-How are you? -Good.

-I'm tawny. -I'm Kim.

-Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you, tawny.

Hello. I'm Darrin. Nice to meet you.

Hi, Darrin.

Kim: It's just a relief.

Like, I've been having a hard time the past two days,

just like, how the hell are the two of us

going to pull this off?

And to just come here and know

that I don't have to pull 50% of the workload anymore,

it's just nice to be able to breathe.

Night watch is gonna be an adventure.

Yeah.

So, you know, now that angel's gone,

we were doing one on, two off,

might as well just make it an even two and two.

Yep.

We're gonna have a pretty tough night watch

with just the two of us -- two hours on, two hours off.

Ryan: After eight years in the marine corps,

I'm very familiar with fire watch.

It's not just watching the fire.

It's also making sure

that those dangers that are lurking out around our camp,

don't come in and snatch us in the middle of the night.

[ Groans ] [Bleep]

And I just don't know how much I trust Steven's ability

to, um, stay up for two hours at a time.

Something could easily come in and grab one of us by the foot.

A hyena or a big cat or something like that,

and drag us out like that, and we'd be gone.

[ Animal howls ]

[ Insects chirping ]

[ Animal chattering ]

[ Animals howling ]

Woman: I heard something growl.

We are right in the kill zone.

Darrin: Just got to be super careful down here.

[ Animals bellowing ]

[ Insects chirping ]

[ Animals growling ]

Just kind of sit here at the door

with a spear pointed outward.

[ Animal growling ]

[ Exhales deeply ]

[ Animal growls ]

[ Insects chirping ]

I didn't sleep last night.

Yeah.

That was brutal last night.

Kim: Did you guys hear the hyenas?

Is that what that weird noise was?

That weird laugh?

Yeah. Yeah.

I'd say the hyena was maybe 30, 40 yards last night.

Just feel really nauseous right now.

All my lymph glands are really swollen across my neck,

and I just have the shivers.

Throughout the night, I started feeling way sicker,

and this morning I've been feeling really sick.

Just the feeling nauseous part

makes it difficult to be able to get up and help.

Darrin: Half the people in this camp have tick fever, it seems l

you know, it's like Russian roulette out here.

Like, eventually, you're gonna catch the bullet.

Narrator: The South African bont tick

numbers in the tens of thousands

and Burrows under the skin

of any warm-blooded animal that brushes past it.

As it sucks blood from below the skin,

it passes infectious enzymes into the bloodstream.

Phaedra: Well, the body aches and stuff,

and tightness in my neck.

You'll -- you'll feel better really soon.

Don't worry.

Jake: A little scary, to say the least.

It seems like it's working its way through our group.

This morning alone, I found more embedded in me.

Three on my penis... One on my eye.

This feeling like it's a matter of time.

I haven't gotten tick fever yet. Ah, I hope I don't.

Narrator: Without food to strengthen

the unpredictable infection

can linger for days or even weeks.

Ryan: I'm feeling the effects

of the lack of sleep from last night.

Woke up a few times

contemplating whether or not, you know,

can I trust this person beside me?

And out here, with the amount of dangers out here,

that's just not good.

So, that mountaintop right over there

is where I'm headed.

Trying to get a good view of the north,

see if I can see campfire,

and I'm looking for a sign of other people camping out here.

I'm wanting more people for him to connect with

and for me to connect with so it's not just the two us...

And what do I see?

Something I've been looking for since day 2.

That's aloe.

The heat out here and the sun is absolutely excruciating.

So that's gonna feel so good on my skin.

Narrator: In addition to soothing burns and cuts,

the clear, gel-like insides of the aloe Vera leaf are edible

and deliver hundreds of vitamins and helpful enzymes to the body.

[ Grunts ]

Should pop up from the root.

Whew!

Look at that.

So I finally crest the top,

and I'm coming over to see uncharted territory.

Wow.

Damn, it's so lush and green on this side of the mountain.

We've been living in poverty over there.

And I see camp smoke from another group right there.

This is one happy guy right here.

We are making our trek out of here.

-This is the mountain we're on. -Okay, I got ya.

So I went up to here and looked down.

From the top of here looking down, right by --

looks like a water source here --

I could see camp smoke.

Smoke? Okay, cool.

So there's a group.

This is a serious journey.

This is like kind of a valley area

all the way down this side of the mountain, right?

Yeah.

So, we're moving.

[ Screeching ]

Are you feeling it?

No. I just don't feel good.

I get really frustrated when I feel sick.

Do you need help?

No, it's okay, but thank you.

Seriously, thank you.

Oh, please.

Well, feel better. I'm gonna go fish.

Thank you.

Phaedra: As a mother with a 6-year-old son,

I'm nurturing individual.

So, I don't enjoy getting help from others.

My last challenge in India,

being sick was probably the hardest thing to overcome.

-What are you feeling? -I'm so nauseous.

I just feel sick. It's okay.

I have just so much more to offer than what I've shown.

I am so much stronger.

And it's not fair

for Jake to have to do everything all the time.

Jake: Super low energy day.

I'm starting to black out every time I stand up.

'Cause he's like the hardest worker out here.

He's the one that gets up

and if fire needs to be put on the fire,

gets all the water.

He's the one that does everything, and it's not fair.

Jake: There's definitely

maybe a little bit of extra pressure today.

Kim and Darrin, they need some nourishment,

something to fuel their bodies to be able to hunt and fish.

So it'd be really nice to be able to give them a meal or two.

Phaedra: It's awesome having more numbers,

but more numbers mean, you know, you have to bring in more food,

you have to pull your weight.

Got one.

[Bleep] Yeah.

At least Kim and Darrin will get to eat tonight,

which makes me so freakin' happy.

If I don't get anything else for the rest of the day,

there's that.

But I'm definitely gonna keep trying.

I got Kim and Darrin a little welcome present.

Holy [bleep] buddy.

Do you have fish?

Yeah. You two guys have it.

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

Welcome to the lion pride.

Thanks, brother.

Darrin: Jake just brought us a fish.

You know, like, haven't eaten in days,

and now I got a fish to eat.

It was awesome. I was so excited.

I can't wait to watch you guys eat.

Today, it was day 11 since we ate.

Jake: The joy that I just got from giving those two a fish

was more joy than I'd ever experienced

actually eating a fish.

So that was a great feeling.

Kim: So freaking awesome.

Tastes amazing.

Ryan: We're going on a epic trek --

naked, with all our gear, barefoot.

Barefoot.

Freakin' conquistadors.

This is Africa, and we are alone.

This is really the toughest climb right here.

You got to carry a 20-pound iron-cast skillet

basically on top of a mountain where there might be lions.

Every plant has a Thorn on it. Every rock is sharp.

So it's scary.

[ Twig snaps ]

[ Groans ]

Freakin' thorns.

That was good one.

[ Groaning ]

I got it all.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

I'm freakin' dying in the sun.

I can feel it on my back and my shoulders.

Where's the aloe?

I'm not gonna lie. I don't I dropped it.

Ryan: How's it fall out of the pot?

Yeah, I have no idea how it feel out.

No way.

Yeah.

Happened way back there.

You didn't notice it?

I have no idea, but it's not in there anymore.

Yeah, yeah.

That happened.

[Bleep]

Steven's lost the only aloe I had found.

There is no respect on Steven's part.

Right now, I'm looking forward to a new group.

Holy [bleep] did you see that?

No [bleep] way.

We got a [bleep] damn puddle.

-Oh, my god. -There's a [bleep] lake.

[ Whistles ]

Holy [bleep] did you see that?

No [bleep] way.

We got a [bleep] damn puddle.

-Oh, my god. -There's a [bleep] lake.

[ Whistles ]

-Did you hear that? -Yes, I heard that.

That sounded like a human whistle.

[ Whistle in distance ]

-Hello! -Hey!

-Whoo! -Aaah!

-Oh, my god. -Yay!

-Sounded... -I'm hearing like...

-I'm hearing like everybody. -...Four, five people.

[ Cheering ]

I hear a bunch of chicks.

We're all here waiting!

Coming down to the water!

Oh, my god.

You got your dream.

Alyssa: I think when you're smaller group,

it's a lot harder to be in this environment.

And with more people,

not even, like, the physical items they bring,

but the experience that they bring,

that's just gonna help us.

[ Cheering ]

How do my teeth look? Are mine scary?

-No. Yours are perfect. -Cool.

-How's my hair look? -You're so funny.

[ Laughter ]

Oh, I see them. I see them.

[ Cheering ]

-Oh, my god. -Hi.

-Oh, yeah! -Oh, my god!

Ryan: We met up with seven other people.

The energy is really high right now,

but I don't see anything

that's gonna hold this tribe back.

-Hey! -Hi.

Tick fever, man.

Yeah. Have you guys gotten it?

No. I got bit by a tick, but no fever from it.

[ Laughs ]

Everyone's stoked that we're all here together,

and we're building a community.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

It is nice having some additional males in camp,

I mean, just for some of the heavy lifting

and stuff like that.

It's just a nice kind of healthy balance now.

We got the four guys, five girls.

I think it's gonna make for a great group.

Guys, we're finally a tribe.

[ Cheering ]

It's basically the end of day 18, and...

Look where I'm at --

an oasis in the middle of South Africa.

I can't wait to sleep tonight.

This'll be the first night

we don't have to do two hours on, two hours off.

I can get just some adequate sleep,

and I'm super stoked about that.

[ Insects chirping ]

Jake: We're all safely in our home for the night.

Um, with nine of us living of off this camp,

it's [bleep] ridiculous.

-It's so cozy. -Is everyone comfortable?

-No. -Not really.

Jake: There isn't much space.

It's super uncomfortable sleeping.

-Watch out. -Excuse me.

Is my butt too much in your face?

A little bit.

I'm trying to keep my distance.

-Ow! -Sorry.

Stacey: Okay, diary cam.

We're all sitting by the fire,

and there are so many testicles flying around in our shelter.

I mean, everywhere you look, there's some pinched-off,

stretched-out, goofy-looking testicles.

That is all. Good night. [ Smooches ]

It is our first night together as a tribe,

so I'm pretty excited.

[ Farts ]

Stacey, what did you do?

[ Laughter ]

Just kidding.

That was Alyssa.

All right, talk tomorrow.

Jake: We've got to adjust the shelter today.

That was brutal last night.

I was up in the thorns, too, you know?

I was in the pile of firewood.

Actually, once I moved to this corner,

that's just the worse.

Oh, for sure.

We are getting ready to do some renovations to our shelter.

We're gonna blow out this back wall.

It's a nice-sized space,

but we're really getting cramped.

It would be nice for everybody to have an equal-sized spot,

sleep equally well.

So we're busting out the wall.

Alyssa: I think in a bigger group,

one leader is really gonna help.

Jake is our lion pride leader,

and he's got so much experience.

He takes care of everyone.

If you have a y-stick, you can go for it.

As far as leadership roles go,

I know to me, it's not that important.

To me, it's more about success and how we get there.

But there's a lot of lions in the den now.

I'm about to get a bunch of real leafy foliage branches

just to kind of put on top.

That's the middle? Pretty much where your pot is?

Yeah. That's what I'm thinking.

Then build a diameter around it.

-Let's do it. -To the left of that.

Most important thing right now,

perimeter fence with a fire in the middle.

I can already tell the man vibe.

Stacey: I think everybody's trying to figure out

what they should be doing,

because there's so many more people here

and so many more people, like, working.

And so, there's way many too many chiefs

and not enough Indians.

Oh, my god!

I'm sorry.

-Is that boiled? -It's boiled.

Yeah, I'm gonna move this into the shelter

so it's out of the way.

Ryan: In such a large group -- we've got nine people out here.

But out here, when you're sharing these water sources

with dozens of animals, elephants and warthogs,

and, you know, their feces are in there,

and they're bathing in there,

and there's ticks and mosquitoes,

we're gonna have to a have a constant cycle of water --

literally have a pot of boiling water on all the time.

If it's not boiling,

it's off the fire and it's cooling.

[ Belches ]

[Bleep]

That's not funny.

You drank from that one?

Jake: Oh, my god. Are you serious?

Phaedra: There is bacteria in that water

that just could make you super sick.

The animals, they're peeing and pooping in there.

[Bleep]

I just drank like a ton of it.

Tawny: Phaedra accidently drank some water that was uncured,

and it's, you know, obviously really dangerous.

A medical tap-out would be devastating.

-I'd go throw up. -I would throw it up, yeah.

Ryan: Oh, I feel so bad.

I was talking, and didn't even realize what she was doing.

She's already had tick-bite fever.

She's already... Steven: Yeah. Poor girl.

[ Vomiting ]

[ Phaedra vomiting ]

So, phaedra just drank,

um, a bunch of water that had not been boiled yet.

[ Coughs ]

Alyssa: There's just a ton of bacteria in it,

so it's potentially very dangerous.

We got to come up with a new system.

Woman: "Do not drink," like some kind of signal.

Put a stick on it

or tie a piece of grass around the top maybe.

You know? Something simple like that.

Darrin: Those lids played musical lids.

Phaedra: It's not my fault.

Like, that's not how we've been doing water here.

Every time we get done boiling water,

we put it on the side, and that's just how you know.

It's never dirty water mixed with good water.

And it's being done differently

because, you know, we have new people in the group.

Yeah, I told, like, every person when I left here --

I think everybody but her -- don't touch that.

If I'm sick tonight, if I've got diarrhea,

then, like, that's -- like, that's my fate in this.

I hope that she got it all up, at least.

Ryan: Apparently, this is one of the spots

where mostly big game comes down.

I think snaring opportunity's gonna be much bigger down here

than they were at my last location.

Being in a big group, there's so many people.

We need to be able to harvest that big game and that red meat

or it's not gonna work out, and people will tap out.

All these, you know, hoof prints

coming down to drink in this one location.

They're coming down right through here.

In such a large group, people can get complacent.

I don't think everyone,

you know, has the internal drive that I have

and the will of my spirit.

But, I don't know, sometimes all it takes

is one person to sort of step up and start moving,

and then other people will follow the lead.

Jake: Yeah, no. That placement's perfect.

Alyssa had mentioned

that she had already had some plans for snaring,

so the two of us are gonna work together

to set some snares up.

Narrator: To set the foot snares,

Jake and Alyssa use paracord and 50-Gauge wire,

two of the group's collective personal survival items.

It doesn't have to be super tight.

So, right now, we're twisting the wire

so that it makes it a lot stronger.

Instead of just having one wire here,

when it catches, it will have two wires.

That just doubles the strength.

And so, I'll just braid it.

They'll walk through it and be like,

"oh, you know, this is just so strong

I'm gonna walk through it."

"Just put my little antlers right through here...

And then panic."

[ Laughter ]

Hey, Jake.

Setting that snare and blind up there now?

Yeah, we're gonna do a couple.

You should really -- just a piece of advice --

you really should be covering your feet and your hands

in mud and stuff.

I mean, the snares and the blind

are just gonna have your scent all over it.

Jake: I'm definitely a little bit unsure about Ryan.

Right now, with the way our group works,

I don't feel like it necessarily needs somebody screaming,

"I'm a leader."

You don't always need one person telling everybody what to do,

and, yes, he's probably threatened a little bit by me.

I mean... Ryan: Everything you touch

is just gonna have your scent on it.

At least, like, dunk it all in the water or --

the rope's in mud -- kind of muddy.

I mean, just saying. That's what I would do.

Jake: Bitch, please. That looks pretty [bleep] good.

Yeah.

Nice.

Darrin: I don't really have a personal connection to anyone.

But at the same time,

everyone knows I have the most hunting experience

and the most primitive survival experience.

So, I definitely feel pressure

to get some food for these people.

And the animals here are wary.

I mean, there's lions and leopards

hunting them nonstop, day and night,

and they know that they're on the menu here,

and they don't take chances.

There's so many people here, the game's moving away.

He smelled me.

Ah.

All right.

[ Chuckles ]

I don't know what they were gonna do with this.

Set up a whole nother snare with that

for a nyala or impala.

The group that has been here the longest

are not the best hunters,

so I took it upon myself and I set snares

where I felt something big was gonna come down.

That's like the perfect spot, the perfect step-down spot.

You got to get your scent off of it.

Need a couple bigger y's.

It's not gonna get through this one.

He wants to be the leader.

I know, and that worries me.

Alyssa: I think that in this group situation,

you can already tell that surviving with nine other people

is a challenge in itself.

Ryan: I set four ankle snares down two main paths.

Now I'm gonna go sit on the other side of the lake

and watch dinner walk down the hill.

[ Insects chirping ]

[ Fire crackling ]

[ Thunder crashing ]

It's [bleep] raining.

[ Thunder continues ]

Holy [bleep]

Narrator: On this 40-day survival quest,

all groups earn a "naked and afraid xl" rating,

or xlr,

which gauges their progress, skill, and teamwork.

Hammered by the historic South African drought

afflicting the region,

the groups have wandered far, searching for resources,

and have now merged into one mega-group

at the oasis of swati valley.

[ Cheering ]

Oh, my god.

Narrator: Though they've initially struggled

with cooperation and leadership,

the mega-group hopes to find strength and safety in numbers.

Their first team xlr results in a score of 7.6.

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[ Rain falling ]

Narrator: An intense thunderstorm

has swept in from the east,

exposing the survivalists of swati valley

to a 20-degree drop in temperature

and deadly lightning strikes.

[ Thunder crashes ]

We're sitting in...Dirt.

And we're all wet and we stink.

And this is...Miserable.

Storm. Massive storm.

So now, I'm laying in wet, damp hay,

and I was such good sleep.

Every one's wide awake, trying to stay warm by the fire.

It's hard to sleep when it's constantly pouring on you.

Um... It's not fun.

Try to keep the fire going,

and that's about all you can do.

This rain storm's really bringing this challenge

to a whole nother level of misery.

[ Thunder crashes ]

I just don't know what to do.

Besides sit here and just shiver.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

And think about tapping out.

Jake: It is day 21.

It's a big day.

I mean, 21 days out here.

To know how far we've come and how far we have to go still,

it's a lot to think about.

Ohh.

Phaedra: I had a pretty awful headache.

Um, but, honestly,

I feel like all my aches and stuff are still there,

but my head is starting to feel better.

So, I'm just barely getting over it.

Kim: This place is hard. It's all hard.

Africa's no joke.

[ Sniffles ]

It's definitely beating me down.

[ Voice breaking ] And...

I'm getting pretty tired of suffering.

Tawny: Definitely at our lowest.

On the typical "naked and afraid" challenge,

day 21 you get to go home and shower and eat.

And on this challenge, I still have 19 days to go.

So, it's a hard pill to swallow, for sure.

I was just kind of worried about how intense it feels right now.

-The hunger? -Yeah.

Darrin: I've been here for like three days,

and I'm feeling worse now.

The hunger is taking its toll on me.

The lack of energy coming in,

like, you know, there's no plant life.

We're in a severe drought.

All the trees that should've been fruiting right now --

their berries are withering up, they're not ripening.

You know, like, my body is shutting down

and telling me no, you know?

And that's kind of scary.

Steven: There's nine people here,

and the human dynamic is a lot harder

when there's a lot of voices and a lot of ideas.

And it's stressful.

Like, I mean, I'm Steven Lee hall, Jr.,

and we all know I'm kind of a big deal, but...

...party can go out in the woods

and get food for nine people.

And daily.

So, we need to step it up.

Oh.

Is that a water buffalo or a wildebeest?

That's a nyala buck.

Do you know how much jerky that is?

I can't even fathom.

That is a copious amount of jerky.

Delicious, awesome tenderloin.

It's like cheeseburgers with legs.

And there's a snare right there.

There's two if he goes straight that way,

and there's two if he goes the other way.

He's huge.

There's a nyala female right there.

That looks so good. They just keep coming.

It's like a buffet over there.

Alyssa: I'm just watching the nyalas.

There's a bunch of them by our snares.

They're within 5 feet of our snares right now,

walking on the paths directly next to it.

And I really hope that we get one.

Dude, if that catches... They're right there.

[ Gasps ] We got a snare!

-Snare! -He's in the snare?

-Ryan! -Yep.

He's in the snare! Do you have your knife?

Damn.

Jake: It's go time for me --

complete starvation-fueled, Michael Phelps explosion.

Holy [bleep]

He's at the beach.

Ryan! Go!

Oh, my [bleep]

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

Jake: We cannot just get by on a few fish

when it's a group of nine.

Go!

Oh, my god! You're being a smartass right now.

No, I'm being -- you're negating my abilities.

Darrin: And then he says everyone over here

is just lazy and waiting to survive.

-Seriously? He said that? -Yeah.

I absolutely did not say that.

Steven: For Darrin to twist my words around

makes me want to knock his [bleep] lights out.