The Island with Bear Grylls 2x11

1. - Two uninhabited Pacific Islands,

2. more than 5,000 miles from the UK.

3. One will be inhabited by 14 British men—

4. - Go, go, go!

5. - While a separate island

6. will be home to 14 British women.

7. For six weeks, they will be utterly alone,

8. with only the clothes they stand up in,

9. fishing equipment and a handful of basic tools,

10. filming everything themselves.

11. - That is awesome!

12. - When pushed to the limits of human endurance—

13. - Yay!

14. - Will it be brute power

15. or mental strength that wins the day?

16. - Daddy brought home the bacon!

17. Yes!

18. - Who will have what it takes to say alive?

19. Tonight, it's the final installment of the women's island.

20. - I do not want to be on camera today.

21. If anybody films me, I'll kick off.

22. - Quick, quick, quick, quick.

23. - Survival will be harder than ever.

24. The search for food is now a matter of life and death.

25. - There's a shark!

26. - Living on the island in the middle

27. of tropical storm season.

28. - I think we are on our last legs.

29. - When pitted against the extremes of nature—

30. - Hang on.

31. Oh, shit!

32. - With the finishing line in sight,

33. have these modern-day women got what it takes to survive?

34. - I'll do what I want to do.

35. - You cannot stand there and go,

36. "I'm not gonna do it."

37. - Let me finish.

38. - As usual, arguments have started.

39. - I know, I know, I know.

40. - I just fucking want to get fucking off here,

41. and it better be fucking soon.

42. - After nearly five weeks on the island,

43. the ten remaining women were on the verge of failure.

44. - Julie!

45. - I'm so weak.

46. - They were dangerously dehydrated

47. and had an urgent medical warning—

48. - We're going to have to pull the plug on this.

49. - That their lives were at risk.

50. - We are in scary territory,

51. where we just don't know what's happening to our bodies.

52. - But they've pulled themselves back from the brink.

53. - Whoo, we caught a fish!

54. - Oh, my God, it's massive!

55. - Now, entering their sixth week

56. surviving on the island,

57. food in the camp vicinity is running out.

58. The starving women face a battle to make it to the end.

59. - Is it worth hitting them with the machete?

60. - Wait, wait, wait, wait.

61. Whoa, that's it.

62. - Desperate for something to eat—

63. - Go, go, go, yes, yes, yes!

64. - Beki, Julie and Georgie

65. brave the vicious incoming tide

66. to scavenge the last remaining oysters.

67. - Oh, whoa!

68. - Oh girls, I'm in on a big fucker here!

69. Ooh, I've got it!

70. Whoo!

71. Whoo!

72. It's a monster.

73. - Yes, Jules!

74. Hang on!

75. - I lost it!

76. - Oh... Bloody hell.

77. Today, I'm feeling like absolute shit.

78. I know that I keep saying I feel like shit,

79. but today I feel like dried, white dog poo shit.

80. - Since they've arrived on the island,

81. the starving women have shed

82. more than 140 pounds between them.

83. - Nothing in that one.

84. - The weight of an average woman.

85. - Our coconut supply is running low.

86. Our yucca around here is non-existent.

87. The limes have now gone.

88. The almond fruits that grow on the trees here,

89. we've eaten all of those.

90. - Pwoah, these stink.

91. - For six weeks,

92. vegetarian Jaime has been surviving

93. on nothing but nuts and coconuts.

94. - As soon as I get off here,

95. I need to get as much protein in me as I can.

96. - Yeah.

97. I just had a dirty thought.

98. You can get a big, fat sausage in you as soon as you—

99. - Sometimes I do eat meat,

100. but only the sausage variety.

101. Sometimes I like a bit of chorizo.

102. But I don't like them chipolatas.

103. - Here, let me help you.

104. - With food so scarce around camp,

105. the rest of the women are having to rely

106. solely on the fishing net they've set in the shallows.

107. - Ooh, I think we've got something in the net.

108. - Fuck, it's a shark! - It's a shark!

109. Where is it, where is it, where is it?

110. - That is unbelievable! - Right, got him!

111. Quick, he's getting away!

112. No, he's got away, he's got away, he's got away.

113. Bugger!

114. Oh, damn!

115. Damn, damn, damn.

116. No supper for us tonight.

117. - There's ten of us and I think we are on our last legs.

118. - When Mother Nature slams

119. that larder door firmly shut,

120. things in the group can rapidly go downhill.

121. You're hungry, you're despondent

122. and it's so tempting to give up,

123. but like so many things in life and in the wild,

124. it's actually about how you respond to those crisis moments.

125. - I've literally been up almost all night,

126. just trying to keep that fire alive.

127. - From day one, the women have governed themselves

128. in a leaderless community, trying to make group decisions.

129. - Is there not enough wood?

130. Have we ran out of wood now?

131. - We ran out of wood last night and everyone went to sleep.

132. - You're joking! - Yeah.

133. - People just know, they need to fucking get wood.

134. End of story, that's the bit I don't get.

135. - There's no leader.

136. Not one person rules the roost.

137. We work collectively, so we have to kind

138. of use our initiative and work off that.

139. So if, say, I want to go foraging,

140. I don't have to be told to go foraging,

141. I'm gonna go foraging.

142. - All the decisions we've made thus

143. far have been made collaboratively.

144. We've not needed to conform to a system

145. where there's a leader.

146. - The women need to survive

147. seven more days on the island.

148. Any hope of dinner depends entirely on catching fish.

149. The women are yet to establish a rota for checking the nets,

150. and Julie has made a discovery.

151. - The net is in a right mess.

152. It's just, it's curled over that tight.

153. There's no teamwork.

154. There's no organization.

155. There's nobody wants responsibility for anything.

156. - Holy shit. - It's an absolute state.

157. - I mean, have you seen that?

158. It's twisted and twisted and twisted.

159. - High, stormy seas have destroyed their last

160. hope of getting something to eat.

161. - Fishing is the only thing that we survive

162. off at the minute.

163. We need to get it sorted ASAP.

164. - It's just getting more and more tangled.

165. - Yeah, I know, but pulling it like

166. that's gonna rip it, isn't it?

167. - No, it's not. - Well, it is—

168. Well—

169. - Right, I'll just leave you to it.

170. - No, stop being a stroppy cow, Jaime.

171. What's up with you?

172. - Where's Jaime gone?

173. - Fucking want to get fucking off here!

174. It better be fucking soon!

175. I would say I've had a hard life growing up.

176. My mum's got MS, and she's in a care home.

177. She's always said to me, to basically,

178. live life to the full,

179. because she's never been able

180. to do things that I've done.

181. It's made me extremely independent,

182. so if someone was to start bossing me about,

183. it would make me really upset and probably

184. make me really angry.

185. I'll do what I want when I want.

186. I don't want anybody telling me what to do,

187. bossing me about.

188. Fed up.

189. - We have to do things that, you know,

190. we don't always want to do, but it's for the team.

191. - I've had enough of fucking everything!

192. It really is shit!

193. - If anything's gonna make me

194. leave this island, it's people.

195. It's the lack of teamwork.

196. - Well, darling, I mean,

197. I don't know what to say to you other than

198. you know, I completely agree.

199. - I thought were all gonna be a team

200. and pull together and—

201. It's not like that at all, is it?

202. - It's absolutely not like that at all.

203. - The effects of starvation

204. on the body are not just physical.

205. Extreme hunger makes people

206. desperate, depressed, irritable,

207. and all the negative emotions the women

208. are experiencing will be amplified.

209. And if there are rifts emerging now,

210. what hunger will do, it will act like a crowbar,

211. forcing those rifts further apart.

212. 6 a.m.

213. - So what's everybody doing?

214. Can we just make it clear?

215. - Nobody's taken responsibility to set a fire rota,

216. so it's left to Beth and Lauren again

217. to keep the embers going through the night.

218. - I'm sorting out the fire.

219. You're sorting out your socks.

220. - While Jaime has slept.

221. - I think you should help.

222. - Right, well, do you know what?

223. I can't be doing with this.

224. - Literally, you've got to bend over and get twigs.

225. - Just stop fucking bossing me about, right?

226. - Look, are those rosehip?

227. I want to show my daughter that I can be brave,

228. I want to show her that there are endless possibilities

229. and a woman can do anything.

230. I'm hoping we're all gonna group together and be a team.

231. Especially because it's just a group of women,

232. I think we've all got a little bit of something to prove.

233. - I will help when I'm ready.

234. - I've been up all night with the frigging fire,

235. and I'm tired, too.

236. And you're sitting there sorting out your fucking feet.

237. I've got socks on!

238. Whatever.

239. Fucking lazy.

240. It fucks me off so much. - It's absolutely outrageous.

241. We're all a bit fed up with Jaime.

242. There, I've said it.

243. - It's really making me frustrated

244. and every time I stop, I feel like people are looking at me.

245. Actually, you know, I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings.

246. And I don't know, I think we're gonna end up killing

247. each other by the end of this, I really do.

248. - We are completely dysfunctional as a group.

249. I find that deeply upsetting and deeply frustrating,

250. that we're led by mush.

251. We need a leadership to get ourself together,

252. to get our food sorted, and we just can't live in this

253. sort of hand-to-mouth, piecemeal way.

254. More thought needs to be going into this, for sure.

255. - Lauren and Beth call an emergency meeting.

256. - We were working as a democracy,

257. and you know, things were pretty positive.

258. Something has gone wrong somewhere.

259. - What do you think has gone wrong?

260. - We're literally starved.

261. The group feels fragmented and that we're not a unit.

262. - I don't know how that fire's managed to keep going.

263. It's literally by luck and coincidence

264. that we keep rocking up, going, "Oh, fuck, the fire's

265. "literally just about to go out,"

266. and, "Oh, God, I've just got that drab of water".

267. You know, it's basically lack of structure,

268. because then we have lack of food,

269. and it's kind of a knock-on effect.

270. - I think personally we need to decide

271. on a leader to set out what is needed and a plan of action.

272. - I can hear you're really passionate,

273. Georgina, I totally get it, but I think, for me,

274. we collaboratively lead the group.

275. - Harvey, that system is not working,

276. because we've done that and I think we're stumbling

277. from one day to the next.

278. And now we're in crises.

279. - I'm with Harvey here.

280. Why is it necessary to have a leader?

281. - Because the leader knows where everything is.

282. A leader will lead you and go, "Right, okay,

283. "these are the priorities."

284. - Why should I let somebody boss me

285. about and tell me what to do?

286. I'll do what I want to do.

287. - You cannot stand there and go,

288. "I'm gonna do what I wanna do,

289. "and if someone's telling me what to do,

290. "I'm not gonna do it."

291. We all need to come together.

292. - Exactly, the arguments have started already.

293. - It's not an argument! - This is what happens

294. when you try and elect leaders.

295. - I didn't want us to all start fighting,

296. like the last few days.

297. This is what I didn't want.

298. - Trying to improve their destructive

299. group dynamic is important for the women.

300. Now they've turned on each other,

301. they've pushed their very survival back into jeopardy.

302. And without decisive leadership,

303. they won't make it to the end.

304. - I'm so torn. - I'm torn!

305. - The fact we're so torn means there

306. isn't ever gonna be a leader.

307. - I want a double cheeseburger with extra cheese,

308. extra gherkins, onions, a little bit of lettuce, tomato,

309. just for good measure.

310. - It's the final week on the island.

311. Food is scarce and the women are starving.

312. - Hey!

313. Don't talk about food.

314. - What's the new rule we say when we think?

315. - Penis. - Penis, penis, penis.

316. Just say that instead.

317. It'll stop you thinking about it.

318. - That's why I'm dying to say I'm craving food.

319. - Penis.

320. We're in a really shit situation and there has to be someone

321. that's ballsy enough to grab the bull by the horns

322. and go, "Do you know what, guys?

323. "This is what we need to do."

324. - A violent storm is pummeling the island.

325. - Is Jaime still out there?

326. - Yeah, she's having some time there.

327. - Most of the women are sheltering

328. under the fire canopy.

329. But one of them has removed herself from the group.

330. - Jaime's still toughing it out on the beach.

331. - Sopping wet knickers.

332. Isn't that a definition of sexy?

333. - It's been a broken night's sleep,

334. lying on the wet ground.

335. - I look like the fucking Elephant Man.

336. - It's really not that bad.

337. - The rain has brought

338. an onslaught of insect attacks.

339. - I do not want to be on camera today.

340. If anybody films me, I'll kick off.

341. - The insect bites are driving me

342. round the fucking bend.

343. I'd like to punch each fly in the nose.

344. We had something fuck-off biting us last night.

345. And I had bites all over my arse.

346. Bloody ridiculous.

347. - Basically, get rid of all the shit on the roof.

348. - Painful, itchy bites aren't their only problem.

349. - I mean, there literally is a twig

350. holding that fucking lot up.

351. - The storm has wreaked havoc in camp.

352. - That don't look good, honey.

353. - The desperate hunt for food

354. has to be put on hold as the canopy protecting the fire

355. is on the verge of collapse.

356. - It's that big crack there, running along the middle of it.

357. - Yeah.

358. - How are you getting on?

359. - Slow.

360. But it's better than we've got, right?

361. Which is zero right now.

362. - To shield them from insects and rain,

363. Fi and Georgie have decided to build

364. a raised bed with a roof.

365. - It's a very busy camp today,

366. to make sure we have a good shelter for us

367. and our fire is as dry as a bone.

368. All hands on deck.

369. - Down, down, down, down, there, that's it, you got it.

370. Shall I go that end and push? - Yeah.

371. - Where's everybody gone?

372. - B and Jaime are having a lie-down.

373. - It's just got too serious.

374. I know we've jobs to do,

375. but why is there so much pressure all of a sudden?

376. - Guys, we haven't finished!

377. - I know we're not finished.

378. I was actually just having a little bit of a rest.

379. So give me a break, please?

380. - I'm not saying that.

381. I'm just saying you haven't finished, that's all.

382. - Right.

383. Just whack them all on now.

384. 'Cause I've had enough.

385. 'Cause I've had enough.

386. I think I might go on strike tomorrow.

387. - Let's get this roof on, guys,

388. and then we can have a proper tidy.

389. I'm going to kill myself with these fucking bottles.

390. - While the rest of the group

391. toil away on the bed shelter,

392. Jaime and Belinda decide to take the afternoon off.

393. - I kind of feel a little bit like,

394. you know when someone comes into your house

395. and takes a massive shit in your toilet,

396. eats all your food, messes your house and then leaves

397. and goes, "Bye now!"

398. - We have been upset and tired and angry,

399. and so there's only so long that those things can go on for

400. until you have to do something.

401. So we have to change it.

402. If we're not happy, then do something about it.

403. - Beth and Lauren take decisive action.

404. They call an election.

405. - Jaime! - Hi.

406. - Hi, love.

407. We're having a meeting.

408. Clothes are optional.

409. - I find Jaime so unpredictable.

410. I don't know if she's gonna shrug it off

411. and just say, "Oh, do you know what, whatever."

412. Or if she's gonna kick off about it.

413. - All the great expeditions have always had a leader,

414. whether it was Amundsen, Scott or Shackleton,

415. but resistance to leadership is not uncommon.

416. - We've called this meeting today

417. because not much has changed

418. and most people still want a leader.

419. If anybody would like to go for leadership,

420. please make yourself be known.

421. - Me and Beth.

422. - I'm confused, to be honest.

423. What is so bad?

424. - We need a leader so that everyone

425. knows exactly what they're doing.

426. - You know my feelings on the leadership.

427. I'm not happy with it.

428. - Our whole experience has been amazing

429. and so I just want it to end on success.

430. And it means a lot to show that we never gave up.

431. Yeah.

432. - I so get you.

433. I so want Bear to come and look at our camp and think,

434. "Crikey, those girls were good."

435. - Do we need to take a vote?

436. Or go forwards with it,

437. 'cause you're the only people who want to do it.

438. - You're happy to go with Beth and Lauren?

439. - Are people happy with that?

440. - Jaime? - Yeah.

441. - Lauren and Beth are going to run

442. the leadership jointly.

443. - After all of that.

444. Well done. - Thank you!

445. - Be proud of yourselves! - Yeah.

446. - I was so nervous leading up to it.

447. I was thinking, "Oh, my God, how is this gonna be taken?"

448. Especially after the other day.

449. But actually, it seemed pretty positive.

450. - We need just straighten out this end.

451. - The new leaders' first priority

452. is to feed everyone.

453. - We are now going to move the net basically

454. at a different angle in the sea.

455. So hopefully we can get fish.

456. - Together, the women have untangled

457. the vital fishing net.

458. - Okay, keep it up.

459. - They're now determined

460. to finally land a big catch.

461. - The net's great.

462. I think, at least we're trying.

463. I think God loves a trier.

464. - I think that Jaime is just feeling undervalued,

465. that sort of thing.

466. - With all ten women needed

467. to tackle the food crisis,

468. Lauren has to bring Jaime back into the fold.

469. We need every single one

470. of those girls in the group to get through this.

471. I know what it feels like to fail at something

472. that you give your all to and I am not prepared

473. to go through that again.

474. I probably picture myself

475. as a bit of a young leader.

476. In 2013, I decided to row across

477. the Atlantic but the boat capsized,

478. I split my head open.

479. The failure of the row just left a huge void in my life.

480. And then I thought, "Yeah, The Island is definitely

481. "something I want to do, it is definitely

482. "how I'm gonna get it back."

483. I always give my everything

484. to whatever challenge I set myself.

485. So when I fail, I feel, I feel that in a big way.

486. J?

487. Jaime!

488. So, I just want to clear the air.

489. I was feeling like you weren't helping out,

490. but what I should have done,

491. absolutely what I should have done,

492. was come and talk to you about it.

493. - Remember I woke up with them bites

494. all over my face and that put me in a sort of vicious

495. cycle where I was, like, just not enjoying being here.

496. Not motivated to do anything.

497. - Get more involved.

498. If you want to do stuff like—

499. - I do sometimes feel like I can't be arsed.

500. No hard feelings. - Thanks.

501. - I'm sorry.

502. I probably come across selfish.

503. But I hope that they can understand that I didn't mean

504. to hurt anyone's feelings.

505. I don't want to leave, you know,

506. this island, feeling sour and bitter.

507. - I think we're here. - Yeah.

508. - This is our beach.

509. - Lauren's plan now is to search for food

510. beyond the confines of their beach.

511. - We go up that track until we hit that middle path.

512. - Correct. - Then we go down,

513. with the sea always on our left-hand side.

514. - She leads a hunting party deep into the jungle—

515. - See you later.

516. - Along the coast—

517. - My nail got stuck in this gooey bit!

518. - Vegetarian Jaime has volunteered

519. to scavenge for limpets to feed the rest of the group.

520. - Oh, my God, honestly, what is that?

521. Ohh!

522. Ahh!

523. - Anything?

524. Does that look rotten to you?

525. - Yeah, yeah. - An animal's been at it.

526. - Snails the size of your head.

527. - Shut the front door!

528. - Wow!

529. - The women on the other side of the island

530. are still on the hunt for yucca.

531. - It would really suck to have come

532. all of this way and not find yucca.

533. - Guys?

534. I've just found a tin of something.

535. - Whoa!

536. Might be a tin of peaches.

537. - Oh, my God. - It's baked beans!

538. - Oh, my God!

539. - That's gonna make everyone super-happy.

540. Guys! - Cooee!

541. - We found two tins of baked beans!

542. - You found beans?

543. - Ahh!

544. - The rusty tins are packed

545. with protein and sugar, and may have been left

546. by a hunting party from another island.

547. It's a lucky find.

548. - Tonight, my dear, we have got baked beans.

549. Can't wait, can't wait to eat it.

550. - What is in the tins? - Baked beans.

551. - Oh, wow!

552. - It couldn't be better news for Jaime,

553. who's survived on nothing but coconuts for weeks.

554. - Fucking hell.

555. - Oh, my word!

556. - Is that not the nicest baked bean

557. you've ever had in your life?

558. Beans!

559. - You've actually turned the day around completely.

560. - Thank you very much, Jaime.

561. - Yeah, that is really sweet.

562. - I've never been so excited

563. about baked beans in all my life.

564. - Oh, my God, this is amazing!

565. This is amazing, this is amazing!

566. - Oh, my God, what are we doing?

567. Passing it around?

568. - I can't even begin to tell you how good they are.

569. - Oh, my God.

570. Sweet, yummy, tasty, protein.

571. Thank you so much, girls.

572. - From today onwards, we're gonna try and think

573. about what needs to be done to get the whole group

574. to kind of work as one machine

575. to a point where we do have enough food.

576. - It's Jaime's first belly-filling

577. meal on the island.

578. - It's been six weeks!

579. No, it's been longer than that.

580. Oh, do you want to hear a funny story?

581. Oh, my God, this is hilarious.

582. As a dental technician, you know like,

583. the molds that you take of the teeth?

584. Well, you can use that stuff for also

585. taking an impression of your cock.

586. My ex-boyfriend came round for dinner,

587. he was going on and on and on,

588. "I want you to do my willy, I want you to do my—"

589. I've still got it to this day,

590. this big stone plaster cast of a willy.

591. - Wow!

592. - And it's like a lethal weapon,

593. it weighs a ton.

594. I, personally, have struggled.

595. Jesus, I have struggled.

596. But you know what?

597. To everyone that thought I wasn't gonna survive,

598. I'm here still.

599. - 6 a.m.

600. - We are on our way to catch some fishes.

601. - Leaders Lauren and Beth

602. decide the time has come for an all-out assault

603. to conquer the island.

604. For the survivor, determination is a critical one.

605. And I love that Winston Churchill

606. quote that sums it up, it just says,

607. "Never, ever, ever quit."

608. - Oh, that is beautiful!

609. - So far, a big fish haul has eluded them.

610. The women are now praying their plan

611. to re-position the net has been successful.

612. - I would give anything for there

613. to be fish in this net now.

614. - I'm scared, I don't want to look

615. for fear of disappointment.

616. - Oh, what was that?

617. - What have we got?

618. What have we got?

619. - So far, we have got two catfish,

620. one other fish, two stingrays.

621. I'm so happy!

622. I'm so happy!

623. Yes!

624. - Got another stingray, two!

625. - Awesome work, awesome work.

626. So happy, it makes you so happy, like,

627. to know that you're gonna eat.

628. That worry's not there now.

629. - It sort of proves that our survival

630. skills aren't that bad.

631. We can make it work.

632. Yes!

633. - I do miss toilet seats.

634. - Yeah, I can't wait to have a poo on the toilet.

635. - Three days left on the island.

636. - Guys, what's the plan for today?

637. - We need two people to do water collection ASAP.

638. I don't mind doing it again.

639. You'll just need to get shitloads of wood.

640. Then we're gonna get on to cleaning

641. this area cos it's gross.

642. - Top plan, I love a plan.

643. - Lauren's new daily rota is galvanizing the women.

644. - Lauren, what are we doing?

645. - Sweeping away the leaves

646. 'cause we're girls and we like a clean floor.

647. - I'm gonna put this over your head.

648. - Oh, my God. - Get the camera down!

649. - Oh, my God!

650. - We've started to line the entrance with coconuts.

651. Now, all we need are some candles.

652. - Oh, wouldn't that be dreamy?

653. - Seashell bunting.

654. - It's absolutely beautiful.

655. - I love making stuff.

656. - That'd cost a fortune back home.

657. - These guys can come together,

658. they can look after each other,

659. they can build community,

660. they can find that kind of something inside that drives

661. them on, that positive stuff.

662. But also, ultimately, they're not just surviving,

663. they're now learning to thrive

664. and that's when you kind of see the magic.

665. - We've got enough food now,

666. we've got enough water,

667. we've kept the fire going

668. so our priority now is shelter.

669. - Oh, here's a big bastard!

670. A big jobbie.

671. - Until that boat rocks up on this shore,

672. we're gonna be tidying up,

673. organizing, so it's perhaps about pride

674. and it's wanting to show to the world that what the majority

675. of females are made of,

676. and what we're capable of doing with nothing.

677. - Oh, my God!

678. It's like a tent, isn't it?

679. Ooh!

680. Oh, God, it's nice, you know.

681. Oh, God, but it's comfortable.

682. Oh, it's lovely.

683. - That is mega wow!

684. - I could rest my bones here for a while, methinks.

685. - And teamwork, it's nice that

686. we've all built something together, you know?

687. And I think it's amazing and awesome.

688. - Carnival!

689. I'm gonna take it to Rio.

690. - Beth and Lauren's vision

691. for how the island should run began.

692. Jesus, how much better is it?

693. I cannot begin to tell you.

694. - Babes, come outside, I've got a present for you.

695. Okay, close your eyes.

696. - What is it? - Ready?

697. - You fucking bitch!

698. I knew it was something like that!

699. 'Cause I know you, you little bitch.

700. - Relationships are renewed,

701. the camp is now secure and comfortable

702. and finally there's food on the table.

703. - This is our first lunch.

704. - Now we've worked it out,

705. I really think we have worked out how to do it.

706. - Yay!

707. - We've survived and most of all,

708. now, we are thriving.

709. Is the tide coming in or going out?

710. - Coming in. - Ah!

711. - Beki, Lauren and Beth

712. brave the morning tide to fetch water for the camp.

713. - We made it!

714. - As they head back,

715. Lauren makes a discovery.

716. - Beki!

717. Look what we've found here!

718. Ahoy there!

719. - Come and join me, ladies.

720. - Yay!

721. - Lauren plans to use the washed-up

722. polystyrene block as a raft

723. to make the exhausting daily

724. water run easier and quicker.

725. - Are you kidding me?

726. - What?

727. They've made a raft?

728. That is amazing.

729. - Whoo!

730. - I never, ever thought it was going

731. to be as hard as it has been.

732. If I can complete this,

733. then I know within myself that I didn't

734. fail at rowing across the Atlantic,

735. and I need that, I need that closure,

736. I need that feeling that

737. I am strong enough within myself to finish something.

738. - We come with water.

739. - It's this hand, isn't it, for the Navy?

740. - Bear Grylls can bugger off.

741. We've got Lauren, we're fine.

742. - I'm coming!

743. - With the fight for survival mastered,

744. they can now embrace the island's delights.

745. - Group swim!

746. - I think in both survival and life,

747. you know good things and worthwhile things

748. don't always come easy and for those that can

749. endure on the island,

750. there will come a sense of pride

751. that money really can't buy,

752. you know, and it's a pride that will

753. have been hard-earned through heart,

754. through grit and through endeavor.

755. - What are we up to?

756. - We're going to check the nets and—

757. - Crab hunting!

758. - Whoo-whoo!

759. - So exciting.

760. - As their days on the island draw to a close,

761. the women are seizing every opportunity to get food.

762. - Quick, quick, quick, quick, quick!

763. Ow!

764. - Julie's got a big 'un. - I've got him.

765. - Give us that bucket.

766. - Yeah, go on, get him in, yes!

767. - In, in.

768. - Has she got another one? - Yep.

769. - Excellent, quick, quick.

770. - He's in, he's in, he's in.

771. He's a fucking monster, that one.

772. - Oh, yeah.

773. - Julie, you've turned into an absolute animal.

774. - Fuck 'em, get in there.

775. Oh, my God.

776. What's happened to me?

777. I was a lady in Liverpool.

778. - To follow the crab starter,

779. they're hoping to catch the main course

780. in their fishing net.

781. - This looks very runkled. - Tangled.

782. - Have a quick look in ze water.

783. There's a fish, there's a fish.

784. - No! - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

785. We've got a big one. - Wow!

786. Fuck me, what is it?

787. What is it?

788. It's huge.

789. - It's a shark! - A shark?

790. - It's still alive!

791. I need something to hit him with.

792. I need a big piece of wood.

793. - Okay, okay, I'll get it.

794. There's a bit of wood.

795. Got it? - I've got it.

796. - Ready?

797. - Right, good job, guys.

798. - I hope everyone's hungry!

799. - Right, come on, ladies.

800. - Go, please.

801. Fish for breakfast, fish for supper.

802. Nailing it.

803. - Here, take this one.

804. - That's delicious.

805. Food porn.

806. - Foxtrot, Foxtrot, this is Bravo, Over.

807. - This is Foxtrot.

808. - I have some news for you, ladies.

809. Tomorrow, a man called Bear will be coming to your island.

810. You are coming home.

811. - Yay!

812. - Wow.

813. We got on the island and we've actually done it.

814. - Well done, well done. - It's mad.

815. - I feel numb and I feel fear.

816. You know when you've had,

817. like, a near-miss in the car or something

818. and you go, like (gasps), like that and then it hits

819. and you go a bit numb and you have to pull over

820. 'cause you're a bit shaky,

821. I feel like I've just been nearly hit.

822. - It's the women's final night on the island.

823. - Okay, we need to find some sort of cup.

824. Do we have a sort of cup?

825. - And there's much to celebrate.

826. - Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

827. - As fast as we can!

828. - We're a group of completely ordinary,

829. down-to-earth women.

830. - What? - A huge fucking snake

831. came towards me!

832. It came right at me!

833. - With no survival experience.

834. - Fuck.

835. - Oh, my God, there's a caiman.

836. - That is a big fucker.

837. - We've faced adversity every step of the way.

838. - We cannot walk anywhere on this island

839. without getting lost.

840. - But we kept fighting. - Get the knife,

841. get the knife.

842. - You are not leaving this island

843. till the fucking endgame, right?

844. - We were wet, cold and starving.

845. - I just need to get some food, just something.

846. - Yet we found the strength to keep pushing on.

847. - Not even a little fire.

848. A fucking giant one! - Look at this.

849. - If we hadn't have kept going,

850. it would have been the end.

851. In time, those memories will fade,

852. but what we will remember are the women

853. we experienced it with, the friendships

854. and how they made us feel.

855. - We're women.

856. - Tomorrow, the women finally go home.

857. - It's really weird,

858. we're all so comfortable, in a way,

859. with each other.

860. It's sort of like a family.

861. - I want to go home but I don't want to leave.

862. - I know.

863. I know what you mean.

864. - Is that a boat?

865. That's his boat. - Oh, my God.

866. - We've never done this before.

867. 14 women left on their own with nothing

868. in some of the harshest environments on the planet.

869. They really are just ordinary

870. people from all walks of life

871. and it hasn't just pushed them to the limits,

872. to be honest, it will have pushed them beyond that.

873. What speaks volumes is that they're still there.

874. Ten very grateful women.

875. - Oh, God.

876. - Oh, my God, it's actually happening,

877. it's actually happening, this is amazing.

878. - Wow. - Hi, welcome.

879. - Wow, look at you.

880. Look at you guys.

881. Genuinely, what you've been through, respect.

882. - Thank you.

883. - You now understand this stuff is tough, you know?

884. - Thank you.

885. - Well done, you.

886. Well done, you.

887. - Well welcome, welcome to our island.

888. - Wow, look at this.

889. This is cool.

890. - It's very cool.

891. Here's our art installation.

892. - It's so clean.

893. I love this.

894. - That's Harvey. - Thank you!

895. - It's the little touches.

896. - We've got bed made of bottles

897. and a separate area for sitting

898. and lounging around in and just generally hanging out.

899. - This is so smart, it's getting you

900. off the ground but it's communal.

901. - Let's face it, girls, we like to spoon, don't we?

902. - We love a spoon.

903. - We love a spoon.

904. - We've met the stereotype with our decorations

905. and our little feminine touches,

906. but totally blown it away by the strength and the stamina

907. and the guts and the determination.

908. These women have got balls, and big balls at that.

909. - I would agree with that.

910. You ready to get the hell off this island?

911. - Food, food!

912. - If I hadn't turned up today and I turned up in six months,

913. I bet these guys would be in pretty good shape.

914. - I'm just getting emotional now.

915. - I know, darling.

916. - I knew it.

917. I knew the stereotype was wrong.

918. You know, I knew they could nail this and, for me,

919. I am so genuinely proud of what they have achieved.

920. And they should be and they are.

921. - Whoo! - Thank you.

922. - I'm so proud of all of us that we've achieved this.

923. We have shown the world that women can achieve anything.

924. - What I've learned is I need to appreciate what I've got

925. right now and not strive to look for other better things.

926. I think it's made me more content.

927. - I've decided that I'm okay.

928. I'm not such a bad person.

929. I'm a good skin.

930. - Being here I felt so alive.

931. I thought, "God, this is me."

932. I feel happy.

933. So yeah for me I felt like this is it,

934. this is where I get something out

935. of life and I want to run with it.

936. - I've survived for nearly two months and we've done it.

937. I can do any shit that I want and so can anybody else.

938. It's brilliant, we're amazing.

939. - We're nearly there!

940. - Okay, ladies, welcome back to civilization.

941. - I'm so glad I made it.

942. I can't believe I made it.

943. I'm getting emotional.

944. I've just been dead brave, I've been really brave.

945. For me.

946. - The women have had no contact with

947. the outside world and loved ones for six weeks.

948. - Hi, Mom.

949. Are you okay?

950. Are you okay?

951. Yeah, it was amazing.

952. It was really fucking hard as well.

953. - Hello?

954. - Hello!

955. - Mommy!

956. - Oh, my God, baby!

957. - We can't wait to see you.

958. - Yeah.

959. I miss you all as well, more than I ever imagined.

960. - Hello, Daddy, I've missed you so much.

961. - I've missed you as well.

962. - Oh, God, it's emotional!

963. - Oh, my God.

964. - Having been stripped of any luxuries,

965. they are finally reintroduced to the modern world.

966. - Oh, my God.

967. - How nice does that feel?

968. - Oh!

969. - What's it like? - Amazing,

970. the way it cups your bottom.

971. - What the hell, my eyebrows!

972. - God, it's so clean.

973. I love clean, you know.

974. - This is amazing.

975. - The women's bodies are in a fragile state

976. and for the first three days

977. they must stick to a simple diet.

978. - Is it chicken?

979. Oh!

980. - Even the smell of the rice is good.

981. - To our first meal off the island, girls.

982. - Cheers!

983. - This experiment ultimately shows

984. that really it isn't about gender, it's about attitude.

985. Some people have the heart and mind of a survivor,

986. determined, team players, hard-working, resourceful.

987. What these ordinary women have been

988. through genuinely is remarkable.

989. They've endured unbelievable hardships

990. and they've come out of it empowered and positive.

991. For that, they've won my respect big-time.

992. - It's like the best camping ever, isn't it?

993. - Hello!

994. - You can't just come off a boat and stay in the same place.

995. - Let's walk! - Let's walk.

996. - Next time, it's the final installment

997. of the men's island.

998. - I'm gonna go to hell for this.

999. - It's a scorpion.

1000. - People are just starting not to give a shit any more.

1001. - Come on, boys!

1002. - Mother Nature and this island will

1003. bite you whenever she feels fit.