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Wow, I'm, like, extremely dizzy right now.

I need to sit.

-Blackout. -I know. I'm blacking out.

I mean, I feel weak just sitting here.

It's ridiculous.

Jake: Our bodies are lacking on everything

that we really need to survive.

We're starving to death.

[ Lion growls ]

Darrin: It's pretty dangerous to be this weak

in an environment like this.

I mean, big cats like to pick out

the weakest animals in a herd.

Jake: All it takes is a little bit more of a significant b

and somebody's gonna go down.

-[ Groans ] -Oh, my god!

-Hey, we need a medic! -What's going on?

Stacey: Medic, like, now!

-Swing back in. -[ Sniffles ]

You haven't done anything wrong.

You know that, right?

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."

-- Captions by vitac -- www.Vitac.Com

captions paid for by discovery communications

after struggling for over three weeks in the African bush,

the nine remaining survivalists have become desperate

for food at swati valley...

Alyssa: Snare!

[ Panting ]

He's off.

Jake: We cannot just get by on a few fish

when it's a group of nine.

We need a substantial source of meat.

Narrator: ...And a dangerous two-man hunting mission...

Yielded only frustration... Go!

...and anger.

[Bleep]

[Bleep] Chasing a nyala yeah, I watched you

with a rock today.

What are we gonna do? Fish for 14 days?

It's laziness.

He says everyone over here is just lazy

and waiting to survive.

-Seriously? He said that? -Yeah.

I absolutely did not say that.

Narrator: Now, with two weeks to go,

extreme hunger and distrust threaten

to tear the group apart.

Steven: For Darrin to twist my words around

and turn me into the bad guy --

it makes you want to knock his [bleep] lights out.

He knows that a loner out here is a dead man.

[ Elephant trumpets ]

Ryan: This place is amazing.

I mean, look at these views.

This place is epic.

Everyone else just sleeps in

while I'm up here enjoying this view,

looking for animal dens.

[ Snoring ]

There's a really active trail right here.

I have not experienced drama since I got out of the service.

And the drama level is up here,

and that's not what I came to South Africa for.

I've spent the last four years traveling the country

and hiking the appalachian trail

and trying to figure out who I am

and what's my true purpose and calling

now that eight years of the marines is done with.

Wow.

Something was just in here.

It's all scoured up.

A shelter is a place for me to sleep at night,

and other than that, I'm getting [bleep] done.

I'm exploring. I'm learning.

[ Rustling ] What was that?

Oh, I saw its tail.

It's crazy.

You're not gonna learn anything new

by sitting in the shelter.

I could've built a shelter in my backyard

and sat there for 40 days naked.

I didn't come out here to South Africa to do that.

[Bleep] Reeks. Oh, wow.

It's too bad the porcupine is dead

and I'm not the one that killed it.

I'm out here to thrive.

I'm not out here to get by and survive.

God, there's so much activity in this land.

[ Elephant trumpets ]

Hello, hello. -Hey.

That was a fun hike.

-That's good. -Was it awesome?

Yeah -- so many active dens up there.

-Oh, really? -I found a dead porcupine --

a couple days old. -Wow.

Ryan: They're there.

Just maybe go early in the morning sometime.

I mean, you could -- we could spend a lot of energy

and everything, but at the same time

we don't have [chuckles] any energy to do that.

Energy to do anything like that, yeah.

Well, a porcupine shouldn't be too hard.

It's gonna curl up in a ball,

and then you got to figure out a way to kill it.

Ryan: Being in a big group, it makes things a lot tougher

for, you know, being heard and finding your place

within that group.

What's your thoughts, Jake?

I mean, I think one big hunting push --

if Steven wants to fish all day

and one or two of us work at the blind,

just go for it really strong, balls to the wall.

Yeah. No, I definitely --

I think that's, like, a really good idea.

Steven: Damn it.

Got to get the rhythm back.

The way Darrin talked to me yesterday hurts me.

And if everybody's gonna hate,

then let them hate and let them talk.

Even with the drama and all the miscellaneous bull[Bleep]

They're my team, and I'm gonna stick with them

whether they want me to or not.

I'm gonna get the job done

because that's what Steven Lee hall Jr. does.

Is that a turtle I see?

Yeah, he caught a turtle in the net!

-What? Turtle! -Whoo!

Dude, there's hundreds of turtles in this pond.

Keep the turtles coming,

and we're gonna get more of those.

"We're" gonna get more of those?

I wonder how big the turtle is.

Is he a big guy?

It's pretty big.

-I'll take its head off. -Yeah, use the hatchet.

Supposed to take out his insides.

Honestly, I thought there'd be a lot more smiles than that.

I'm pretty [bleep] disappointed right now,

but, well, I'm happy.

Poor guy.

Thank you, turtle.

-There's so much meat on it. -I know.

[ Singsong voice ] It's gonna make an amazing soup.

-It's frickin' exciting. -It is so exciting.

Kept all the juices inside as I transferred it into the pot.

But there was way too much water in there.

-Yeah, did you dump some out? -No.

Well, you could've dumped some out.

Ryan: How long did you cook it in the fire first?

-It was done? -Yeah, it was done.

Did anyone taste it and see what the juice tastes like?

No, but we can. Just let it simmer like that.

-I do -- you know -- -it might just be, like,

watered-down, like, turtle juice.

Stacey: Dip your finger in there and be like [slurps]

Everybody comes in here

and tells me to do something else.

Jake: Just do what you think is best.

I've got full trust in your cooking skills.

How can we not get one of these mammals?

Look at this.

We literally have giant male nyala buck

just getting some water.

[ Birds chirping ]

Stacey: Hey, girls!

Come eat some lunch!

Kim: She's always yelling.

Turtle stew.

It's time to eat.

Or not.

It's your choice.

-You guys, hush. -Don't shoot the messenger!

Shh!

Kim: Stacey, try not to yell.

[Bleep] Doing [bleep] okay, well, I'm not

for anybody anymore.

It's just that there's a nyala down there by Jake.

[Bleep] Anymore. Okay, well, I'm not doing

[bleep] 20 minutes or so I'm on strike for the next

because I'm irritated as [bleep]

-What's up? -Nothing.

I'm not gonna waste my energy going down there,

hollering for lunch and giving advice

when they're like, "well, you need to cook it longer,"

and, "you need to do this."

It's too many chiefs and not enough Indians.

[Bleep] That.

You know, we can't agree on how to cook a stew.

How are we gonna agree on how to be

a [bleep] functioning group?

I'm about ready to just take off on my own.

[ Voice breaking ] Today [ Sighs ] sucks.

[ Sniffles ]

You want to go for a walk?

Yeah.

Let's go, sunshine.

-What's going on? -[ Sighs ]

Stacey: I'm, like, really frustrated about, like,

all these bossy [bleep]

There's a whole lot of bossy [bleep] here.

Tawny: Yeah.

You can't let the little [bleep] get to you

'cause it's just gonna have explosive reactions like this,

you know?

Tawny: Stacey came to me in tears.

Like, I felt the pain that she was experiencing.

She's a single mom like me, and she's kept me together

at several moments, so I'm really happy

to help her out and have her here.

You haven't done anything wrong.

You know that, right?

What the [bleep] am I doing here?

Nothing.

[Bleep] -Clearly, though, I mean,

we're surviving off of barely anything.

And we're [bleep] hungry. We're hot. We're tired.

We've been out here for 27 days.

I know you do.

But they're so proud of you.

They're so proud of you. -[ Sniffles ]

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you.

[Sighs] This environment and just, like,

[ sniffles ] How harsh everything's been...

Has brought tawny and I closer than --

than any friend I've ever had in my life.

She's a righteous girl. She's a good girl.

[ Sniffles ] -This is tough [bleep]

This is real. -[ Sniffles ]

Stacey: Not saying that I'm gonna [bleep] flip out

on the group or anything,

but all needs are not being addressed.

When all needs of the group are not being addressed,

people become noncompliant and angry,

and that's how revolutions are born.

Ryan: The toughest part of this whole challenge --

I say it every time -- group dynamic.

Personalities.

Nine people is a lot of personalities,

and some of them are already super homesick.

Some of them don't know why they're here.

I'd say there's three or four out of nine

that are already just so ready to be done.

Do they want to go home and just be like,

"oh, I made it 40 days,

and I helped get firewood and I boiled water

and I helped build that shelter"?

That's not how I want to remember this.

That's not the experience that I want.

I don't know. I know it's a team effort.

It's a group effort, but on a much deeper level

it's completely personal.

[ Lion growls ]

Well, this seems like a perfect time,

since everybody's here,

that I would like to talk to you all.

At this point in my challenge, in my personal challenge,

I feel like my wheels are just spinning.

Every tribe, sort of, in history,

everyone at a certain age goes on a walkabout

or goes on their vision quest,

and I feel like if I don't just go, like,

have that solo part of the journey

that I'm gonna regret it.

Obviously, I would head towards where everyone is gonna go to.

I would leave tomorrow morning, and I would take

the smallest pot, angel's fire starter, and that's it.

Steven: I couldn't believe it.

It's very hypocritical.

It's upsetting because we need all hands on deck,

and the fact of the matter is

is Ryan basically just gave up on our team.

So, you're going to the river?

Yeah, I mean, I might as well head that way.

Phaedra: I just feel like it's selfish.

We depend on each other out here,

and to just up and leave after we've been taking care of you?

No.

Ryan: This sort of goes against everything

I had sort of hoped for for the group,

but we are nine complete strangers.

I know I say nothing's impossible, but it's damn hard.

Tawny: I don't want to be out here alone.

That's crazy.

Jake: Just be mindful of your surroundings constantly.

You know, just keep yourself as safe as possible.

I promise.

Steven: It's insane. This is Africa.

Nothing here is safe.

The lions, the leopards can kill you.

You get complacent about it, you're dead.

Ryan: I am extremely excited for this decision

and to get going on this sort of solo journey

for a few days.

This is not selfish. This is not me throwing a fit.

This is me needing to listen to my inner self,

and that's what I'm gonna do.

[ Animal growling ]

I hear something growling.

Darrin: That's a leopard.

-Mm-hmm. -You hear it?

-Yeah. -They ain't no joke.

[Bleep] Aggressive. And they're

Whoa. Scorpion.

Watch out.

-Where? -Right here.

Steven: We keep hearing a leopard.

And I woke up, and there was a scorpion next to my face,

so welcome to South Africa.

It's day 28, and it's a huge day for me.

I'm about to embark on my solo journey

of this challenge.

Well, it looks like there's a stream bed

right down over this little hill here.

I'm gonna follow that.

So, I'm really looking forward to this experience

by myself for a while.

I'm gonna be out there in the bush alone,

sleeping amongst the predators.

I'm actually scared [Bleep]less.

But it's gonna be awesome.

I think you have a tick on your neck right here.

Jake: Oh, yeah, that's definitely a tick.

I didn't have a single tick on my genitals this morning,

so I feel like it's a sign that it's gonna be a really good day.

-[ Laughs ] -That is a good day.

That's what I worry for Ryan is hopefully, you know,

he doesn't get tick fever.

-Oh, really. -Ooh, yeah.

Jake: I just hope he doesn't do anything stupid.

He can do whatever he wants to.

I want to believe that he's doing

everything that he can be doing to be safe.

You know, it's a full moon, and the predators are out.

Wow, I'm, like, extremely dizzy right now.

I need to sit.

-Blackout. -I know. I'm blacking out.

Ohh.

Every time I look around, it's spinning.

The fish and turtle are great, but it's not really enough

to get ahead of the game, though, in this stage.

I mean, I feel weak just sitting here.

It's ridiculous.

The thing that concerns me is we're all having

really bad dizzy spells and kind of blackouts.

We really need food.

When I'm standing and blacking out now,

I'm almost falling over.

Well, that's what I'm concerned about.

Yeah, everybody start being careful around the fire

when you get up.

Every time somebody stands up, they're catching themselves

to keep themselves from completely blacking out.

It's getting to the point where I consider this severe.

You know, people standing up around the fire

and around these thorny bushes and things like that --

all it takes is a little bit more

of a significant blackout, and somebody's gonna go down.

I think, if we don't have any success today or tomorrow,

we seriously consider making the trek to the river.

Alyssa: Mm-hmm.

'Cause, then, we're there. We're close to extraction.

That's true.

Narrator: Five miles north of their current camp

at tsonga basin, the mkuze river snakes

through miles of drought-stricken bush.

Though ravaged by the heat, its sparse waters offer

the promise of fish and big game

and would put the group within striking distance

of their extraction point

four final, grueling miles to the north.

Ryan: Lots of bones in here.

I don't have any second thoughts.

I'm excited.

There's some things I've been really wanting

to accomplish out here and do it on my own time

and my own mind.

And look at that.

Literally just found this fruit here.

I look up, and there's a tree.

Hello.

Narrator: The wooly caper bush is a parasitic vine

that grows wild in south Africa.

Indigenous medicine men have treated ailments

with the plant for centuries,

and its fleshy fruit is a favorite of monkeys and bats.

Ryan: I mean, some of this...

Is still good, wow.

That almost tastes like ice cream.

That's amazing. Mmm-mm-mmm.

I got a little taste. I want more.

I'm gonna climb it and get as many as I possibly can

before the birds do.

Luckily, my feet are like sandpaper right now.

And luckily, I still have a lot of upper-body strength.

Oh, ho, ho, some big ones.

Yeah! This is like the giving tree.

Ah!

Some of these are so soft, they just break open.

Look at all these.

They fell everywhere. I'm gonna collect them.

Oh, what a dinner I'm gonna have.

Damn, literally my biggest one all over the ground.

You just want to pick this stuff up and eat it.

[ Slurps ]

Mmm, not a total waste.

I'm just gonna eat the whole thing.

[ Slurps ]

This is the most amazing fruit...

I think I've ever had...

Out here or back home in my whole life.

I just can't believe this fruit. What a blessing.

I personally don't think that, like, going

down to the river on day 30 is a good --

I could leave tomorrow morning and be happy with it.

At least we would have cattails down there.

Steven: This camp just has no plant base to sustain.

No. If we just keep doing this [bleep]

Like, sitting around here,

we're just gonna get weaker and weaker.

Tawny: Oh, god. Too fast. Too fast.

Holy crap. -Blackout.

That was close.

Stacey: How you doing?

Tawny: I'm gonna go to the bathroom.

I'm not feeling good.

Darrin: It's pretty dangerous to be this weak

in an environment like this.

I mean, we got leopards that are known to hunt humans out here.

Big cats like to pick out the weakest animals in a herd.

We're wandering around kind of dazed and lethargic,

and that is every sense to a predator

that, "this animal is weak it's an easy target."

Phaedra: I know, like, Ryan is saying that he wants a day

to have his thing down there, but that's not our problem.

Darrin: We can set up our camp away from where he is.

He can go wherever he wants to go.

Like, we weren't supposed to stay here.

-Yeah. Yeah. -Oh, my god!

[ Branch snaps ] Tawny: [ Groans ]

Stacey.

Stacey: Are you calling me? Yeah.

Where are you?

I'm down here.

-You okay? -No.

I just went black, and I fell.

And I got a stabbing pain right here.

-Hey, we need a medic! -Something's wrong.

It shouldn't hurt that bad.

Stacey: Like, now. Medic, like, now!

Tawny: Oh, my god!

[ Branch snaps ] [ Groans ]

Stacey: Hey, we need a medic!

Is it bad?

Tawny: I don't know what happened.

I just went black.

Apparently tawny got really hurt and passed out.

They're bringing the stretcher down and everything.

I really don't know what's going on,

but it's definitely not good.

I blacked out.

I've got a sharp, stabbing pain here,

and my head, it hurts really bad.

I don't know where I hit it.

What's going on?

[ Winces ] Ow.

-Is she okay? -Something's wrong.

It shouldn't hurt that bad.

It's just getting worse.

Just to make sure there's no other head injuries

or any neck injuries, I think, at this point,

it might be unsafe for her to be here.

Man: Okay. Thank you.

[ Sniffles ]

[ Sighs ]

Don't move your head, please. Don't move your head, okay?

It's okay. Like, you've already made it.

Phaedra: Yeah, no worries, girl.

Man: All right, guys. One, two, three.

Let's go -- slowly, slowly, slowly.

Stacey: It makes me feel really sad for her,

and it makes me feel like I'm alone now.

Things have been really, really tough,

and she was able to be there for me.

[ Voice breaking ] And she was who I wanted to sit with

[ chuckles ] On the plane on the way home.

-Tawny, you'll be okay. -We love you, tawny.

-We love you. -We love you, girl.

Man: One, two, three.

Jake: At this stage in the game,

this kind of event could happen to any of us.

We love you.

I would like to think I'm super tough

and not vulnerable to anything like that,

but our bodies are lacking on everything

that we really need to survive.

We're starving to death.

Dude, that's so [bleep]

Steven: Just like that, man.

Alyssa: I was not expecting that.

[Bleep] Africa, dude. This is no joke.

I'm gonna miss her.

Ryan: I'm gonna need more than two days by myself.

Got a lizard!

He's right there up in the tree.

He's literally... Right there.

There's no way the spear is gonna work on this.

I could just grab him with my hands.

[ Chuckling ] Look at him. He's got nowhere to go.

Look at that.

Oh, he's at the top of the tree.

[ Exhales sharply ]

Is this guy gonna jump on me?

I am literally two feet away

from this lizard up in a [bleep] tree.

This guy ain't happy.

Narrator: The largest lizard by weight in Africa,

the rock monitor, produces toxic proteins in its saliva

that can poison its prey.

Ryan: Got to get him right behind the head.

Oh, my god. Hey, buddy.

He's hissing at me.

[ Laughs ] Wow!

[ Grunts ]

He's reaching around, trying to bite me.

Wow! Look at that.

[ Laughing ] My god!

[ Sighs ]

That was unreal.

Day 28 -- still thriving.

Maybe that fruit gave me some energy.

I'm on an extreme high this morning anyway

for taking off on this solo journey.

And, you know, I'll be able to get to camp,

be able to set up, have some fruit, sugars,

and now I get to have some meat.

Sorry, big guy.

He's got ticks all over him.

Thank you, lizard.

Thank you.

It's already everything I had hoped it would be.

It's everything I knew that it would be.

I just got to be put out here and sort of let go

of everything, and things start to align.

It's pure magic, and it's -- you know, it's everything

the last four years of my life has been

since I got out of the marine corps.

And I just needed this release and this solo journey.

Steven: Just this really sucks, you know?

And how just out of nowhere, that can happen, you know --

Jake: It was a [bleep] day.

Darrin: We lost two people today basically.

We need to make a more formal game plan

about what's gonna go on, I think,

'cause we're all getting to that blackout point.

What do you guys think about one last push for protein?

Yeah, I'm game for one more push.

Me, too.

Let's try to get something in us.

I was even thinking, like, we could just, like,

block off some of the trails or something.

Yeah.

Alyssa, I feel like, is definitely taking charge

with the snares.

She's great at that.

All right. Let's do this.

I think a big thing with setting up the snares is

we really want to get big game

before they start to get too spooked.

So, today we're gonna try

and funnel the animals in to the snares.

So, this is that game trail that they come down.

And then all along here, I have the snares.

So, what we want to do is we want to make sure

that they don't avoid the snares,

they don't go back this way,

so we have to have people over here

and then three people around here

so that when they come down and drink we can scare them

and then they flock to the snares. Sound good?

-Sounds good. Let's do it. -Perfect.

Alyssa: So, our plan is to set up every single snare

in one central location...

Steven: There we go, Alyssa. Perfect.

...and close off any path that they could take.

I'm just trying to block off these routes

that are not snared, and hopefully that's gonna

just kind of push them all right into the few paths available,

and we'll get something to eat.

Alyssa: We'll all stake out and get different spots

and then have two people spook them into the middle.

I'm just really hopeful that we can all work together

and get a kill.

Darrin: For primitive hunting, it requires the utmost Patience.

The slightest twitch in a blind will scare the animals.

It's not like back home, where the deer just come out

onto the field and graze, and they're all like,

"la-de-dah-de-dah."

Here, no matter where they are,

there is something trying to kill them.

[ Rustling ]

Jake: Hey!

-Whoa! -Whoa!

-Hup! -Oh!

-Go! -Go!

Hah! Hah!

Alyssa: Yeah, he's at the beach!

-Hah! -Hey! Hey!

Hey!

-Whoa! -Whoa!

-Hup! -Oh!

-Go! -Go!

Alyssa: Yeah, he's at the beach!

-Hah! -Hey! Hey!

Hup!

Alyssa: [ Groans ]

Well [bleep]

Phaedra: How close was he to a snare?

He broke it. Holy [bleep]

-Wow. -You see that?

-Holy [bleep] -And this is strong cord.

-It's 1,100-pounds. -1,100-pound test?

Holy [bleep] that [bleep] was not fearful.

-Not at all. -I was like a few feet away

from it, and it wanted to charge.

That bull was right next to me, and he was not scared at all.

And I was.

Jake: I really want to kill one of those bastards.

You know, we're going days and days without any protein,

but I feel like with the group of us here constantly fishing,

hiking around, hunting, animals are just too wary

to really be able to do the spook technique.

Jake: That was just frustrating to not even really get a chance.

I mean, the big game are disappearing.

There was 50 to 100 this time yesterday.

Today, there have been five.

-Yeah. -I'd rather secure myself down by the river.

Yeah, this just shows that, like, we've got to get closer.

We might head to the river a day early now.

Everyone's blacking out.

Everybody's really starving,

so, uh, a little change of plans.

And hopefully, the river will be a little kinder to us.

Ryan: Wow! No way!

Look at this river.

Whoa!

Zebra, giraffe, and water buffalo --

it's like a frickin' zoo here.

What a welcoming sight.

This is why I like moving location,

so I get to see more and explore more.

Those giraffe are enormous.

[ Chuckles ] This is so stupid good.

This is incredible.

Look at them run.

Look at that [bleep] thing run

across the rocks like it's nothing.

Wow! Look at that!

I am so stoked. I'm so excited to be here.

This is the experience I've been looking for.

This is exactly what I was looking for.

Got this natural rock formation, this natural rock wall --

fricking 10, 12 feet tall.

I don't have to worry about buffalo, elephant, rhino,

anything coming over this wall.

More than half of my shelter is already built.

I just got to build sort of a half boma and a roof.

Start from the back, work my way to the front.

Fire, water -- I'm getting thirsty.

I'm real dehydrated now.

Space to have my own ideas, my own plan of action.

Just a different way of doing things.

I really do hope the group finds some of this stuff.

Charred a little bit --

oh, yeah, that's cooking great.

Get around the spine there.

There it is.

Mmm.

Look at that.

I've only been solo for half a day.

Oh, man.

I got my fruit, got my protein, got my new home.

I honestly feel, like, not one negative thing,

not one con from leaving the group

and making that decision I made this morning.

[ Laughs ]

Now, this is what I call thriving!

[ Howling ]

I'm on top of the world!

This location is probably the most dangerous location

I've ever been in my life.

This is South Africa in the bush, and it's not a zoo.

Mm, look at the size of these lion paws.

I mean, and the weight of the animal

to make the impression, you know,

of each of those fingers -- and there its giant paw.

I mean, that cat paw is bigger than my hand.

It can be a little unsettling.

But it's what I wanted.

I'll be alone with the big cats.

I'll be alone with the hyenas and everything else out there

that lurks around at night,

but, you know, I'm gonna be confident in my boma.

[ Animal roars in distance ]

[Bleep]

It's gonna have to be a prison fortress of a shelter

now that I'm by myself and I'm the only eyes and ears

out here with all the dangers lurking around at night.

This is one nasty-looking tree.

I hate working with thorns,

but I'm glad there's an abundance of it right now.

The sun has literally set, which means it's around 7:00,

I think, and I literally just finished.

Not happiest about the door right now,

but I don't have a choice.

I don't have any more time.

But it's got some pretty large thorns on it.

This is the craziest thing

I probably will ever do in my life.

I am solo in the South African bush

surrounded by some of the most dangerous prehistoric animals

on earth,

and I'm sleeping on the ground with no real security

besides my own construction of a boma and Thorn bushes.

[ Animals roar in distance ]

I hope I live to tell the story.

[ Lion growls ]

Narrator: On this 40-day survival quest,

the survivalists earn a group "naked and afraid xl" rating,

or xlr, which gauges their progress, skill, and teamwork.

Ryan's departure and tawny's emergency evacuation...

We love you.

Narrator: ...Have dealt a serious blow to the group.

Alyssa: Yeah, he's at the beach!

Narrator: And their failed team hunt has left them starving and d

dropping their group xl rating to 5.9.

Despite his risky decision to venture out on his own,

Ryan has had significant success finding food... Wow!

Narrator: ...Raising his xlr to 7.5.

But his first night alone in the African bush

may bring new perils. -[Bleep]

For more information on "naked and afraid xl,"

go to discovery.Com.

[ Lion growls ]

Ryan: [ Groans ]

I am solo in the South African bush,

surrounded by some of the most dangerous prehistoric animals

on earth with no real security

besides my own construction of a boma and Thorn bushes.

I saw lion prints today just 100 feet away at the river.

You know how I know I'm gonna be okay?

The one constellation that's directly above me is Orion.

And that is my constellation.

And even in Afghanistan, Iraq, I'd look up at the sky at night,

and it'd be the first thing looking right back at me.

And I always knew that I'd be okay,

and it's literally the only constellation

I can see right now right there.

That's a sign.

I'm gonna be just fine.

Jake: All the stars are out.

It's a completely clear sky for the first time in a long time.

-A very long time. -It's been like a week.

-It's been like 10 days I think. -Yeah, 'cause, like,

when me and Ryan showed up, that was just --

'cause, like, rain and [bleep] since then, really.

Yeah.

Darrin: A person going solo in Africa is like a huge deal.

Phaedra: Yeah, I think he really wanted that solo feel.

-Well, he said that, too. -I don't think he works well

in groups, at all.

Alyssa: But that was supposed to be

not his adventure to the river, and that pisses me off.

Yeah, that is the one thing that I think is kind of [Bleep]

He's gonna get first dibs.

It's gonna be three days of animals being frightened off.

-Yep. -Mm-hmm.

Three days of fruit being eaten.

Stacey: Being alone in the middle of

it seems like a bad idea.

[ Animal growling in distance ]

It's night, uh, 28.

There's lions out there.

My [bleep] stomach -- my diaphragm is killing me.

[ Burps ]

[ Groans ]

I don't know if it's from the clabber berries or the...

Or the, uh, monitor lizard.

[ Groans ]

[ Sighs ]

It's right here.

[ Sighs ] Ohh.

Nothing is -- nothing is making it feel better.

[ Roaring in distance ] Ohh.

I'm gonna puke.

[ Coughs, spits ]

[ Coughs, spits ]

[ Wretches ]

[ Groaning ] Oh, my god.

[ Wretches ]

I'm throwing up everywhere.

[Bleep]

[ Groans ]

I have a high pain tolerance, but this hurts.

[ Breathing heavily ]

This hurts so bad.

I'm sweating my ass off.

[ Spits ] I got puke all over me.

Aah!

I don't know what to do.

Breathe.

[ Groans ]

[Bleep] Me.

Aaah!

Something's in my diaphragm.

Oh!

Breathe.

[ Groans ] 9 out of 10 pain.

10 out of 10, I'm passing out.

Oh, god.

This is not the best time to be sick.

I can hear them coming.

[ Growling in distance ]

[ Rustling ]

Lions -- I can hear lions.

[ Growling continues ]

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

Steven: I wonder where Ryan is.

[ Whistles ]

Ryan!

The eight remaining survivalists have endured a grueling 28 days,

but nothing can possibly prepare them for day 29.

Phaedra: Aaah!

[ Animal growling ]

[ Groans ]

I'm in so much pain.

[ Wretches ]

-Ryan! -Oh, my god!

[ Screams ]

[ Siren wails ]