The Island with Bear Grylls 2x9

1. - Two uninhabited Pacific islands

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

3. One is inhabited by 14 British men,

4. while a separate island is home to 14 British women.

5. For 6 weeks, they'll be utterly alone.

6. - Holy shit.

7. - With only the clothes they stand up in,

8. and a handful of basic tools,

9. filming everything themselves.

10. When pushed to the limit of human endurance,

11. will it be brute power or mental strength that wins the day?

12. - Yes.

13. - Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it.

14. - Who will have what it takes to stay alive?

15. Tonight, we follow the women's island.

16. - Julie!

17. - So weak.

18. - Survival will be harder than ever.

19. The search for water and the hunt for food

20. is now a matter of life or death.

21. - Caught a fish!

22. - Living on the island in the middle

23. of tropical storm season.

24. - It's really hard.

25. - When pitted against the extremes of nature,

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

27. - Your bodies aren't just starting to fail,

28. I'm right on the brink of pulling you all off the island

29. for medical reasons, over.

30. - Get the knife, get the knife.

31. Fuck.

32. - 10 women remain of the 14 I dropped off

33. on this remote Pacific island.

34. - You are not leaving this island.

35. I don't care if I have to carry you on my fucking back.

36. - As they approach the four week mark,

37. they're entering a new and potentially dangerous phase

38. of the experiment.

39. - I just don't find starvation a sexy way to get skinny.

40. - Without enough food and water,

41. their bodies could be in serious danger of shutting down.

42. - I think it's about time that we get out there

43. and get a bit brutal.

44. - Yesterday, the women finally managed

45. to trap their first big prey.

46. - It's massive.

47. - And ate their biggest meal yet.

48. - Anybody watches this and judges any of the girls

49. for what they've done today, they can fuck off.

50. - It's day 26.

51. - Oh!

52. - What's that? It's moving.

53. - If I knew that this thing was here,

54. I'd try to burrow into your skin.

55. Let me just get it out.

56. - A plague of parasites from yesterday's pig carcass

57. has hit camp.

58. - Basically the camp is infested with ticks.

59. - Oh, Christ.

60. - Let's wash down and we'll basically give

61. each other a visual check.

62. - Who says we don't have to take our clothes

63. off to have a good time?

64. - Hello.

65. - She looks a bit angry.

66. - It was angry, it bit me.

67. Turns out, I've had a tick right on my bum.

68. It's made a right mess, ooh, I didn't know of it.

69. - You've got one there Bette, fucker.

70. It's got its head in there.

71. - These bloodsucking insects burrow their heads

72. deep under the skin to feed,

73. exposing the women to a host of dangerous tropical diseases.

74. - I also went like that with me fingernail.

75. The arse end of this tick came off with its legs moving.

76. Wow.

77. Ah, oh God, I'm gonna be sick.

78. Dirty fucking bastards.

79. I think it's piggy's revenge.

80. - Despite their recent pig kill,

81. the women now have been living

82. on an extreme low calorie diet

83. with very little water for the past four weeks.

84. From here, there's barely any research

85. about the effects of extreme survival on the body.

86. And because of this, they're now entering

87. dangerous medical territory.

88. Without an adequate, constant supply of food and water,

89. you're gonna risk long-term damage to their vital organs,

90. and they don't want that.

91. - Yeah, we caught the pig,

92. we cooked it as well,

93. and now we're staying up all night to preserve it—

94. - In saltwater from the sea.

95. - So that everybody can eat meat for the next three days.

96. - Hunters, Lauren and Beth,

97. along with Ghavala and Becky

98. are working through the night to ensure

99. they make the most of yesterday's pig kill.

100. - Oh no, there's wicked—

101. - Hey, that's island life.

102. - While they're doing that, we are gonna dig a hole

103. in the ground to bury the jerry can,

104. so it's gonna be a bit like a fridge,

105. but a fridge for like cavemen.

106. - With temperatures in excess of 30 degrees,

107. the coolest place to store the meat is underground.

108. - Let's get it as deep as we can.

109. - To do this, Lauren and Beth have requisitioned

110. one of the women's two jerry cans,

111. which up to this point, has been used

112. to filter, boil, and store their drinking water.

113. - Um, I'm kind of not happy about that.

114. - Which is of course a concern

115. for lifelong vegetarian Jaime.

116. - I know it's quite a big deal,

117. but it's also quite a big deal

118. for me drinking water.

119. There's no way I'm drinking out of that.

120. - It's gotta be done.

121. People must be fed.

122. - I am a bit devastated about still being awake

123. at this time in the morning.

124. This is not the same as touring in at 5 AM

125. on a pair of heels for anybody drunk.

126. - Having worked through the night,

127. the pig preservers head back to camp

128. with the jerry can filled with pork.

129. - I think people have their priorities wrong.

130. I'm not saying that we shouldn't have done that

131. to preserve the pig, because I also don't want

132. the pig to go to waste.

133. I mean, I know I'm a vegetarian, so it's easy for me to say,

134. but it's almost like that was prioritized over our water,

135. and that's what I'm pissed off about.

136. - Okay, we're just gonna cover this valve,

137. 'cause we don't want any little nasties.

138. - On the island, Jaime's helped establish

139. a successful water purification system

140. using one jerry can for filtering,

141. and the other jerry can as a kettle for boiling.

142. - It's fucked up the water system.

143. I've been sittin' there for days doin' it.

144. One jerry can, get it on the boil,

145. filter on the other jerry can, get that on the boil.

146. And even then, we're struggling with water.

147. Now, we've got one shitty jerry can without a lid.

148. So now, I'm sufferin'.

149. - Midday, with tonight's dinner stored

150. in their makeshift fridge, the women

151. who stayed up preserving the pig are resting on the beach.

152. - You smell so clean.

153. - No I don't.

154. - I'm sniffing you.

155. - 55 year old Julie is hard at work,

156. determined to supplement the women's dinner.

157. - She's spotted at that fish.

158. - What I'm gonna do is,

159. I'm gonna tie this off, and tie it to me ankle,

160. and see if anything else comes to eat it

161. that I can scoop up in me kitty next.

162. What I lack in talent, I make up for in enthusiasm.

163. Me mum used to say that.

164. Oh, Julie.

165. 8.62 altogether.

166. I'm single, divorced.

167. I've bought the house,

168. this is my second house that I've bought,

169. and I've done it all on my own.

170. I think I'm a hard worker.

171. Once it's tasked, I'll really give it, you know,

172. 'til I'm absolutely droppin'.

173. It's like I'm behind meself with a big stick,

174. all the time.

175. I don't give meself a break.

176. - Just be careful, I don't want a shark taking your leg off.

177. This is the strangest fishing I've ever seen.

178. Julie is killing me. I absolutely love her.

179. - I keep throwin' it out, like it's a stressed fish.

180. I don't know anything about fishing.

181. I could be a couple of hours. I'll give you the shout.

182. - Oh, Julie.

183. - Further down the beach,

184. - Give 'em a really good tug towards you.

185. - Jaime's made a discovery that could

186. make her water more palatable.

187. - That is lime leaves, isn't it?

188. - Yeah.

189. I've been packing heaps and heaps of these lime leaves,

190. and puttin' it in this boiled water.

191. It just takes away some of that rotten taste.

192. Totally tropical taste.

193. - I'm hoping to the heavens we're gonna get something

194. out of this ocean.

195. - On the shoreline, Julie is still hard at it.

196. - No, she didn't.

197. - Yeah! - Go Julie!

198. - No, she just lost it.

199. - The fish fell back in the water.

200. I just fuckin' despair, I do, honest to God.

201. - 2 PM, Julie is still fishing.

202. - Have you ever seen anyone fish like that

203. before in your life?

204. - I don't think any fish are gonna come near her.

205. - Whilst the rest of the women

206. are more interested in sunbathing and relaxing on the beach.

207. - Ah, this is why we came here.

208. This bay is an absolute dream, isn't it?

209. - Exhausted.

210. - Beth and Lauren wake to discover none

211. of the other women have done any work.

212. - We stayed up, we cooked breakfast for everybody,

213. we cooked supper for everybody.

214. And then we needed a kind

215. of a little bit of a break today,

216. and because we've had a break,

217. everybody else has had a fucking break,

218. and nothing's happened.

219. Do you know what?

220. Sometimes I find this island

221. sends me round the fucking bend.

222. - Everyone was agreeing, you know,

223. you guys need to have a bit more of a chill day.

224. Well, everyone seems to have taken that

225. as everybody's gonna have a relaxation.

226. So, we're back at 4 o'clock in the evening.

227. There's no wood for the fire.

228. I just feel like everyone's taking a piss, really.

229. - So infuriating, I mean in a minute,

230. Lauren and I are gonna start cooking again,

231. all the preserved meat, and I guarantee you,

232. people who have been doing fuck all all day,

233. are gonna be sitting front row and going,

234. "Oh, yum, yum," and eating all the big bits.

235. And that is just grinding my fucking bobbernup.

236. Oh my God.

237. That smells funky, doesn't it?

238. - Lauren and Beth have dug up the jerry can

239. of preserved meat.

240. - I mean that jerry can does smell of fucking vomit

241. though, didn't it?

242. - I think it's borderline.

243. It goes off very quickly doesn't it?

244. - With no other food collected during the day,

245. the women risk eating the suspect pork.

246. - Come grab a coconut bowl and fill up.

247. - What do you think girls?

248. - Mmm. It doesn't taste right, does it?

249. It makes you feel a bit ill.

250. - That is absolutely disgusting.

251. - Like, tastes gross?

252. - It's disgusting.

253. But you know, when it's the only thing you've got to eat...

254. - The pork may have been foul,

255. but at least Jaime's flavored lime water has hit the spot.

256. - Oh. Oh my God, Jaime, it's so good.

257. - Oh my God, this is amazing.

258. - That was really exciting.

259. - It's the best thing ever.

260. - Ah! That's almost better than cunnilingus.

261. - I don't like them being down there.

262. - What?

263. - Yeah, I get scared.

264. Don't like, what the fuck are they doing?

265. And their little beady eyes.

266. Don't like it, don't like it at all.

267. I'm like, let's get up, get up.

268. - Excuse the farting.

269. - That fucking smells.

270. - [Fi] I know, it's awful.

271. - Last night, the women

272. ate the rancid preserved pork,

273. but it's backfired on them this morning.

274. - God, that was awful.

275. I'm gonna have to go.

276. - Oh no, you're not gonna be sick are you?

277. - I don't know, I don't feel very well. Sorry.

278. - I'm basically shitting myself,

279. and I have no idea when it's gonna happen,

280. and I have 30 seconds to go.

281. - Stink.

282. - Basically, then what happens is

283. that you have explosive water,

284. diarrhea coming out of you.

285. - Twice now, I haven't been able to make it,

286. and I've had to bring back like my soiled pants,

287. and uh, yeah wash them.

288. - Ghavala, can you take this while I take the head?

289. Can you take the white thing for me?

290. - With the preserved pork no longer edible,

291. the women remove the pigs remains

292. and jerry can of putrid meat from the camp.

293. - Fuck, it's rancid.

294. - Is it in here? - Rotting, rotting head.

295. - Fucking tick.

296. I think we just ditch all of this shit.

297. - Yeah, no way it's coming back.

298. - We don't need that canister, we don't need any of this.

299. I don't need this in my life right now.

300. - Unconvinced they could salvage a rancid jerry can

301. and use it to purify the water again,

302. the women throw it away.

303. - Oh, sorry. It's eyes are sort of popping out.

304. - I've learned from experience that big disasters

305. are often made of quite small mistakes,

306. but they have consequences and it sets off

307. like a chain reaction, and that chain

308. can be very hard to break.

309. Now with only one jerry can to produce all their water,

310. the women are unknowingly heading

311. towards a dehydration crisis.

312. - We've lost half our buckets and half our containers now.

313. Yes, but we'll find more buckets.

314. We couldn't possibly have brought those back.

315. I mean they were just rank.

316. - In one stroke, the women have halved

317. the amount of drinking water they can produce

318. and have permanently disrupted their purification system.

319. Vegetarian Jaime is unimpressed.

320. - I'm not happy. That's how much water I've got left.

321. I had that in this morning, so that's all I've drank today.

322. I'm pissed off about the situation,

323. and I think I've got PMT.

324. - [Fi] Uh oh.

325. - Yeah.

326. - Four weeks in, and the women are entering

327. uncharted survival territory.

328. - It's fucking hard, like it's not a joke. It's really hard.

329. I miss everybody.

330. I miss my family so much and I miss my boyfriend so much,

331. and my best friend so much,

332. and all I wanna do is, you know,

333. have something substantial to eat

334. or have some water that doesn't taste

335. like the bottom of a swamp,

336. but I just keep telling myself I have to keep pushing on.

337. - The women have unwittingly put themselves

338. at risk of dehydration after discarding

339. a contaminated jerry can.

340. It means they can now only boil and purify

341. half the amount of drinking water.

342. - When that happened yesterday, I was like

343. - She lost it.

344. Don't ask for much, do ya?

345. Coconuts and water.

346. - Exactly.

347. - Jaime is furious with the other women

348. and decides to take drastic action.

349. - I'm really annoyed actually.

350. I'm goin' on straight now.

351. I'm gonna do what I want, when I want,

352. and I'm not doin' anything else apart from the water,

353. 'cause I cannot live without water.

354. - Rollin'.

355. - Thank you.

356. - Jaime has withdrawn her labor from the group,

357. and will now only do the one job that benefits her,

358. collecting and purifying the water.

359. - Gonna be water bitch.

360. 'Cause nobody else gives a shit. I don't understand.

361. Where do you think it fucking comes from? A tap?

362. I work on my own now,

363. so it's quite fun not having anybody to tell me what to do.

364. I don't really like anybody bossin' me about.

365. On the island, ideally, I would really like

366. a fun bunch of girls.

367. Anyone that took themself too seriously,

368. I would find that a bit difficult.

369. - It's just a never ending circle

370. of chores to be done.

371. - In camp, the women are working

372. through their long list of daily jobs.

373. - We have got basic chores that have to be done

374. on a daily basis or else we won't survive.

375. Getting wood for the fire, getting water, and finding food.

376. And if we don't succeed in those,

377. everything goes to hell in a hand guard.

378. - After this, I'm gonna filter water, and then,

379. I'm gonna have a bath, brush my teeth, wash my clothes,

380. chill out.

381. - Surviving takes hard graft,

382. and everyone working together as a community.

383. You've gotta do all you can

384. to keep a group cohesive and together,

385. because when it's together, it's strong.

386. It's not strong when it's fragmented and broken.

387. - Definitely have more water than you.

388. - You've chalked it up.

389. - You should have seen mine.

390. - The water wonderers return.

391. - Jaime starts purifying the water.

392. It's a process that takes up to three hours,

393. but will now only produce one can's worth of water to drink.

394. - I feel like I'm gonna faint.

395. - Julie and Ghavala have moved

396. onto their next job of the day, collecting firewood.

397. - The hard work girls.

398. - Oh, so hard work.

399. - I have to sit down. Feelin' all the drains.

400. Me mum had an expression. It's very true.

401. The only willing course is that work to death.

402. Me mum used to say that. Dead now.

403. She was worked to death. She was.

404. - You've got some color Jaime.

405. - Good. I wanna redden this Scottish skin.

406. - 2 PM, while the other women remain hard at work,

407. Jaime is relaxing on the beach,

408. and it hasn't gone unnoticed.

409. - I feel like I haven't stopped today,

410. like it's one job after the other after the other.

411. It's how it is, but you need,

412. you've just got to be so busy,

413. you've got to work as a team as well.

414. - I know. - I know.

415. I know.

416. - I struggle to understand how some people function

417. on just doing one thing a day.

418. Hey, Tits MgGee!

419. - Who the fuck thought, Jaime again sunbathing on the beach.

420. There is a large handful of us

421. that work solidly the whole time,

422. not for ourselves though, for the whole team,

423. so the whole team can benefit from it.

424. - I'm naked here. Stop filmin' me.

425. - And not everyone has that same level of responsibility,

426. and it's a joke.

427. It is so annoying.

428. If she hadn't have gone and got water,

429. then she'd have done absolutely nothing for the whole day.

430. - Especially 'cause there's so much to do right now.

431. - It just makes me really frustrated and angry,

432. kind of a little bit like,

433. where's the fucking team spirit gone man?

434. Hut meeting!

435. - Something had to be said,

436. because I was getting fucked off.

437. We are a small group now, there's only ten of us,

438. and so we need everybody to be hands on deck,

439. and that isn't happening.

440. It's becoming really obviously like that certain people

441. are doing lots of things, and sometimes I do feel like

442. some people aren't doing as much.

443. Everybody is an asset, everybody is depleted of energy.

444. In a way, get over that, and accept

445. that everyone has to pull their weight.

446. - Does everyone feel

447. like they are contributing the same?

448. - Well I do.

449. - I do, yeah. Actually.

450. - I don't like sittin' here and people are makin'

451. out as if some people are being lazy in the camp

452. and not pulling their weight.

453. - It's not just a one job day, that's my thing.

454. - Yeah, of course not.

455. - So the jobs continue.

456. - There's certain jobs that I don't feel

457. that I actually need to partake in.

458. - What do you mean by that?

459. - Help with things that will benefit me.

460. That means anything to do with water.

461. But things that wouldn't benefit me, no I don't care.

462. - It's just crazy, crazy talk.

463. It's just a lack of acknowledgement

464. that in fact, they weren't pulling their weight.

465. How can you be so selfish?

466. How can you not give a shit about anybody else?

467. I mean, it's just complete bullshit.

468. - I don't like getting told what to do and when to do it.

469. So if I wanna lie down, some place for an hour,

470. everybody else can fuck off.

471. - Lauren's upset, Jaime's upset,

472. and trusting they've both been saying

473. they're being bullied by the other one.

474. I just think they should hug it out.

475. Hug it out over a nice glass of warm swamp water.

476. - With all the infighting, they've not noticed

477. that the water supply is dwindling to a standstill.

478. Realistically, the women need to drink

479. about three liters of water a day.

480. At the moment, with only one jerry can,

481. they're averaging just one and you can't sustain that.

482. - Maybe a little drop more, darling.

483. - Today, Jaime has managed to boil and filter

484. the one remaining jerry can.

485. The water is already running low.

486. - It doesn't look very much to me.

487. - No, it's not much at all.

488. - With not enough water to go around,

489. Julie and Georgina take the last cup

490. before leaving camp to go fishing.

491. - We're almost out of water in the jerry can,

492. and it just so happens that you are the back of the queue,

493. because you're doing other things,

494. and you don't get to fill up your bottle,

495. then there's barely any water left for you.

496. I've got a nice bit of tangled net here,

497. which I'm gonna try and get some crabs with.

498. - Good, good.

499. - Did you get your water?

500. - Yeah, it's in here, have you got yours?

501. D'you want to put it in there?

502. - It's all right, I can manage it.

503. - Okay.

504. Come on fellas.

505. Just even a little one.

506. - Back in camp, Lauren and Beki

507. are getting ready to hunt.

508. - We've prepared, just in case.

509. - We have no water to drink.

510. We're gonna have to go, aren't we?

511. - Yes boss.

512. - Lauren, Beth, and Beki have to leave camp to hunt

513. with nothing to drink.

514. - Tryin' to look for food in around here

515. is like trying to look for a needle in a haystack.

516. - I definitely feel like Beyonce

517. in the Survivor video now.

518. Just not as glamorous.

519. - Bit humid in here, isn't it?

520. - Hot, no water either.

521. Not the best idea.

522. - Without water, the heat is beating them,

523. and the hunting party have no choice

524. but to return to camp empty handed.

525. - Oh my God, that sun is hot.

526. - Come on, fishies.

527. - On the rocks, Julie and Georgina

528. have now been fishing for four hours in 30 degree heat.

529. - Oh, here's a box fish. Bugger off!

530. Look at that.

531. - Don't you go any further forward on that roll.

532. Shit.

533. - Oh, dear.

534. - It just went then.

535. - Just sit down.

536. - Oh dear me, I nearly hit the death then Julie.

537. Everything went white. - Oh, fucking hell.

538. - Do you mind if we make our way back?

539. I just feel a bit rough.

540. - I think the two of us have got sunstroke.

541. - With a watering tank now down to just one liter a day,

542. the women don't know it,

543. but they are chronically dehydrated.

544. If they don't start upping their fluid intake immediately,

545. their kidneys will struggle to cope,

546. toxins build up in your body,

547. and I reckon, within days, their internal organs

548. will shut down, and I'm not being dramatic about this.

549. They're in a lot of trouble right now.

550. - Oh my God.

551. - We've been out in the sun too long.

552. - How you doing, Jules?

553. - Just exhausted, love.

554. Every time you move, it's like dizzy top,

555. stand up or sit down, and you go all, ooh.

556. You know what I mean?

557. - I feel like we've been stupid to sit out in the sun

558. in that heat, without enough water in the middle of the day.

559. It's so frustratin', it's so frustratin'.

560. We can see all the fish there,

561. and we're desperately waitin'.

562. - I'm comin' with you next time.

563. - I'm too tired to even speak.

564. I hate bein' like this.

565. It's horrible, not to have me energy to do anythin'.

566. - Yesterday, Julie and Georgina went fishing

567. without enough water and collapsed from dehydration.

568. - I can't stand this lack of strength in meself,

569. and lack of energy, inability to keep going all day,

570. 'cause me body just won't let me.

571. - Since discarding a contaminated jerry can,

572. and halving their water production,

573. it's slowly dawning on the women,

574. that they're facing chronic dehydration.

575. - There's just not enough water for everyone at the moment.

576. We've all got pretty much empty bottles at the moment,

577. so now we need to wait for this to get boiled,

578. which is gonna take a long time.

579. - Water's just tipped over.

580. - Fuck, fuck, fuck.

581. - Oh, for fuck's sake.

582. Now we've got one shitty jerry can,

583. and it falls, predictably.

584. I knew this one would fucking fall.

585. By the time she's picked up, all the water's fallin' out.

586. I'm not drinkin' enough. Nobody is.

587. - I am feeling weak right now.

588. - Are you?

589. - I can't get up the sand, it's like an effort to walk.

590. It is so tiring.

591. I don't know 'bout you, Georgie,

592. but I keep getting lightheaded, do you?

593. - Yeah, every time I bend over.

594. - It's terrible.

595. - That sounds really strange,

596. but every time I sort of bend

597. down to do something and then get right up,

598. I get really dizzy.

599. I think everyone's feeling the same, aren't they?

600. - I am really, really concerned about each of us

601. 'cause we're not drinking enough.

602. I mean, some people are drinking less than a liter a day.

603. I think it's just got worse and worse and worse.

604. Each of us is feeling like we're gonna faint

605. at several points during the day.

606. - Having spotted the telltale signs

607. of serious dehydration, Dr. Belinda

608. calls an emergency meeting.

609. - The biggest killer out here, our biggest, highest risk

610. is dehydration.

611. - [Fi] We should be getting two liters to four liters a day.

612. - If everyone has one small bottle when you wake up,

613. then at least you're a quarter of the way there already.

614. Look, we are in scary territory,

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

616. and that could be affecting our vital organs as well.

617. Your kidneys, and also your central nervous system,

618. so if you experience any worse symptoms at all, do tell me.

619. On that note, I just need a sample of your urine.

620. It's gonna give me a general idea

621. of any alarming kidney problems.

622. - Thank you.

623. - Belinda will send the samples

624. to my support medical team on a nearby island.

625. - [Fi] So, if any of us are, in extreme danger,

626. then what happens?

627. - You'd be evacuated off.

628. If there's any indication of serious damage to our kidneys,

629. then, we would need to look into that immediately.

630. - [Fi] And is it possible for some of us to be in this state

631. without knowing about it?

632. - Yeah, because a lot of our symptoms mimic

633. problems that we actually have.

634. The tiredness is a big thing with kidney failure.

635. Nausea as well.

636. We could well be in a serious situation

637. and be unaware of it.

638. - It is quite alarming what she had to say really,

639. about the way that our bodies can start to fail.

640. - I suppose I should have paid more attention

641. to what was going to happen to my body,

642. but I was surprised that I was potentially at such risk.

643. - The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

644. Oh my God. Whose is that short one?

645. - Georgina.

646. - Looks like Guinness.

647. - All right.

648. - To investigate their health further,

649. Dr. Belinda also weighs the women.

650. - 115.

651. - Jesus Christ.

652. - Don't know what you were before.

653. - I was 120.

654. We're quite fragile in a sense,

655. and the fact is that, the things

656. that are kind of deteriorating in my body

657. are my guns and my tits.

658. If that continues, then I will probably end

659. up being skeletal within about two or three weeks,

660. and just kind of give up,

661. and just be like, do you know what,

662. let the fucking vultures peck at me.

663. - I was 125 last week.

664. - Oh, so you've lost a lot, haven't you?

665. You are 116.

666. - I can't have lost nine pounds.

667. - You do look really, really thin.

668. - I expected to lose a few pounds each week.

669. Not fucking nine pounds.

670. Bit of a fucking hike, isn't it?

671. And, at that rate, I'm not,

672. they're gonna be fucking carrying me up on the stretcher,

673. do you know what I mean?

674. I don't know why I'm so fucking tired.

675. - You're tired 'cause you never bloody stop.

676. You're like the bloody Duracell bunny, Julie.

677. You are. - Leave me alone.

678. - The women may feel at rock bottom,

679. but an instinct to stay alive really is

680. deep within us all, you know?

681. Our subconscious wants us to survive and to thrive.

682. - Well let's have a little scavenge

683. and see what we can find in this shit heap.

684. - The group make a last ditch attempt

685. to produce more drinking water.

686. Having discarded one of their jerry cans,

687. Fi, Julia, and the others forage

688. for a second suitable container to boil water.

689. - Hey, what's that there?

690. - Basically, just a load of shit.

691. There's nothing very useful I don't think.

692. - Metal is something that really is important.

693. I haven't seen any, it's all plastic,

694. and you can't obviously boil it.

695. - I'm so thirsty.

696. If we don't get things we need, we won't survive.

697. It's as simple as that.

698. Plastic bottles, plastic cans.

699. Basically, plastic and that's it.

700. Oh, we don't want that.

701. - They've failed to find any metal containers,

702. but Julie is not giving up.

703. - We have to find something.

704. - Desperately dehydrated, she hunts further afield

705. to find a second container.

706. - The bloody tide will be high again in a minute.

707. - Julie!

708. Julie!

709. Fuck, Julie!

710. Jesus.

711. Julie! Julie!

712. Oh, fucking hell, Jules.

713. What's wrong?

714. - Just so weak.

715. - Get B and get on the blower.

716. - No.

717. - Julie!

718. Julie!

719. - It's day 35, and 55 year old Julie

720. has collapsed from dehydration.

721. - Just so weak.

722. I'm so weak.

723. - Get B and get on the blower.

724. - No. Georgie no, don't ring anyone.

725. I'll get up now.

726. - No you won't, no you won't, just lay.

727. - B! Julie's passed out.

728. - Stay there, Jules, stay there.

729. - Go ahead, Foxtrot.

730. - We've got a situation here,

731. in that Jules has passed out.

732. - With Dr. Belinda away from camp

733. collecting water and out of reach,

734. my emergency medical team on a nearby island

735. is immediately scrambled.

736. - How ya feelin'?

737. - I think it was just the heat.

738. - It's all right, just precautionary, okay?

739. What we're going to do Julie,

740. how do you feel about trying to sit up for me?

741. How's that feel?

742. Just keep holdin' your pulse while you've sat up.

743. - Yeah.

744. - What about drinking today?

745. - I've probably haven't had a lot today.

746. - No.

747. - You need to be constantly hydrated

748. to do the smallest tasks here.

749. And it really does go to show

750. that just in one little moment here, it can all change.

751. - Yeah.

752. - I'm happy you're brightening up, everything's fine.

753. - Honestly, honestly, go please.

754. - Right, just dehydrated. They're all dehydrated.

755. If you can just keep an eye on her.

756. If you put a whole load of fit soldiers

757. on an island like this and give it some weeks,

758. and they'd struggle with it as well.

759. No, definitely not good.

760. - Oh, you're awful good to me.

761. I don't think I'm a drama queen.

762. But I think, I could have just closed me eyes

763. and drifted off,

764. and not come back.

765. - Even the strongest women

766. are slowly dying of thirst.

767. - I need to lie down again.

768. - For nearly five weeks,

769. the group has been subsisting on barely any food,

770. and they remain down one jerry can,

771. producing half the water they need to survive.

772. - Basically, I think I almost fainted and very briefly,

773. very briefly lost consciousness.

774. - The signs of chronic dehydration really are now

775. starting to show amongst the women.

776. And to give you an idea, just losing just five percent

777. of your body weight in water leads to irritability,

778. headaches, lightheadedness.

779. When you get to eight percent,

780. the lack of water causes fainting fits.

781. After that, delirium and hallucinations set in.

782. And when you get to 15 to 20 percent

783. of your body weight lost, you're dead.

784. - It's literally just our minds now,

785. getting us through it.

786. It's literally just people being like,

787. "I am going to finish this, I am going to finish this,"

788. that is keeping us going, like you yesterday.

789. - No I didn't want, I'm not going home.

790. Fuck goin' home.

791. - Exactly.

792. - The group's on their arses.

793. The group is completely on their arse.

794. - The results of everyone's emergency

795. urine tests are back.

796. - Foxtrot, Foxtrot, this is 111.

797. - All ten, all together, can hear you loud and clear, over.

798. - Paramedic, Mike, and survival expert, Ross,

799. my rapid response unit on a nearby island,

800. have urgently asked to speak to the whole camp.

801. - I'm looking at your urine results and things,

802. and I'm looking at your weight charts here and things,

803. and I'm looking at people whose kidney function

804. is on a decline, and I cannot stand by

805. and let that decline continue.

806. Based on the fact that, where I'm looking,

807. where I'm sorting all the data, and your dietary input,

808. it's not enough to keep you going

809. without causing you all or a certain number of you

810. some long-term problems.

811. Your bodies are just starting to fail at this point.

812. Now, there's no easy way to say this.

813. I'm teetering right on the brink

814. of pulling you all off the island for medical reasons, over.

815. - Bloody hell.

816. - Yeah, I think everyone really understands, over.

817. - The solution is use the other jerry can,

818. I can't say it any other way.

819. - You need to be drinking, at a minimum,

820. three liters of water per day.

821. Worst case scenario, when you're all sitting

822. in a hospital, the thought of drinking out

823. of a slightly disgusting jerry can

824. that's had pigs in it will not seem as bad

825. as potentially a lifetime on dialysis.

826. - Copy that.

827. - If you do not get control in 36 hours time

828. you're coming off the island, over.

829. - [Fi] There you go.

830. - The women have just 36 hours

831. to pull back from the brink.

832. - They're not fucking about.

833. We are going to be pulled off this island,

834. I mean very fucking seriously.

835. - I know that we all need water, first up,

836. and that's the only thing that's gonna stop

837. our kidneys failing.

838. Secondarily, let's get some regular food into us.

839. That's gonna help with our general energy levels.

840. - For us to get to the end of this,

841. it's about keeping our energy levels up,

842. and hydration levels up, so that we actually survive

843. for the next couple of days,

844. and we don't go into renal failure.

845. And if we don't, then we're gonna be taken off,

846. and we're all gonna look like massive dickheads.

847. - I know some people are struggling more than others,

848. but what we need to do is, you know,

849. try and work together without causing arguments,

850. disagreements, unnecessary stress.

851. - I think everyone's knackered, everyone is tired,

852. everyone has no energy, hasn't eaten food,

853. we're all in the same boat, but we all need

854. to come together. - Exactly.

855. - We have to get through it.

856. We have to pull together,

857. and in a way, it's gonna force us to do that.

858. At times we've worked as individuals

859. and not really work as a team,

860. but we're gonna have to, we have to work together now.

861. - When a group faces a life-threatening crisis,

862. do you lie down and die, or do you pick yourself up

863. and determine that you're gonna control your destiny?

864. You're gonna go out there, you're gonna be resourceful,

865. you're gonna work hard, and you're gonna turn

866. the situation around.

867. If these women have any hope of surviving,

868. it means teamwork and that takes courage and hard graft.

869. - Across that swamp.

870. Yeah.

871. - With everyone agreed they need

872. the crucial second jerry can,

873. Fi has volunteered to retrieve and sanitize it,

874. so the women can immediately double their water intake.

875. - That can is going to be filled with all sorts

876. of shit and bugs.

877. I'm not really breathing very deeply.

878. Bear] Rank with putrid pork,

879. it's been sweltering in the swamp for 10 days.

880. - Real nice, it splashed on my foot.

881. - But sometimes, the island can

882. be unexpectedly generous.

883. - Not that smelly, is it?

884. - Absolutely amazing.

885. It doesn't smell rank on any level.

886. - Maybe the maggots have done their job.

887. - [Fi] There's a lot to be said for maggots.

888. I'm so glad we got that jerry can back actually.

889. - Yay!

890. - Now the two jerry can system

891. is back up and running, the women at last should

892. be able to hit the daily target of three liters

893. of water each.

894. - So, we've got one can on the boil—

895. - And I just wanna get this one filtered.

896. I'm less stressed now, about water.

897. Just drink that, and shut up.

898. Get it down ya.

899. - I managed to squeeze a wee out,

900. but I don't wanna, I'm not leaving.

901. - We won't be walking too long before we find some yucca.

902. - With the water production line

903. back on the row, Jaime is happy to return to work,

904. joining forces with Lauren and Beth

905. to find carbohydrates the group urgently needs.

906. - God, I can barely walk.

907. - It's pretty hot.

908. - It's hard, you know, being in a group,

909. and put under so much stress, and nobody's perfect.

910. Everybody has their moments,

911. but we have to stick together as a team.

912. - Oh, I can see some yucca.

913. - What you got there?

914. - Yeah, we're cookin' on gas now, girls.

915. Look, once you see one, you see 'em all.

916. - Hello. Small, but has to be formed.

917. - Lauren, as always.

918. - The girls got yucca.

919. - Yeah, we got yucca. Whoo!

920. - That's amazing, Lauren.

921. - Yeah, Lauren.

922. - High five.

923. - Whoo!

924. - Hey!

925. - Check out my yucca.

926. Would you like a piece of my yucca,

927. in and around your mouth?

928. - Please, you're right on the edge.

929. It's freaking me out.

930. - It's all right, love.

931. - Rehydrated Julie is with Georgie and Beth,

932. determined to finally land that elusive fish for supper.

933. And they've come up with a new way to attract fish,

934. a sparkling lure.

935. - That is state of the art,

936. for the fishing kit there.

937. - Fishing tackle.

938. - Right. Coca Cola.

939. Give us some luck.

940. - If I get pulled in, I'm gonna swim round that way.

941. - You won't.

942. - Soda can can do everything.

943. Oh.

944. I can see like, ooh, ooh!

945. - As hard as you can.

946. - Oh my God, I can't believe it.

947. - You've got a fish.

948. - I know!

949. - Well done, Julie.

950. - Oh my God, I thought you—

951. - Sucker. Dinner.

952. - Basically, whatever it takes to stay. Whatever it takes.

953. Come on Jules, let's get that fisherman

954. to give us some fish.

955. - Hola.

956. Hola!

957. - He's coming.

958. - Not content with just one small fish,

959. Julie spots another opportunity.

960. The first passing boat the women have seen in these waters.

961. - Jules, it's your turn to get the baps out.

962. - Oh, he's not gonna want to see a 55 year old's baps.

963. - I don't know, mate,

964. your baps are way better than mine.

965. - You have fish?

966. - You need fish?

967. - One fish. - Si.

968. - We have none, no fish.

969. - He's gonna throw it.

970. - Oh, you're very, very kind.

971. Whoa.

972. Thank you very much. - Thank you.

973. - Bless you!

974. Bless you.

975. Good luck.

976. - Gracias, amigo.

977. Now, that is a...

978. - Barracuda?

979. I could just go "Ah!"

980. I'd bite it and eat it raw, I'm so hungry.

981. I don't know whether that was actually

982. the play by queens or sport

983. innovation, innovation, innovation.

984. - Whoo! We caught a fish. - Yeah.

985. - Oh my God, it's massive.

986. - A barracuda, a barra, barra, barra, barra.

987. Yeah!

988. - Smells amazing.

989. We should have got this place licked,

990. you know, ten women, hey, this place

991. should have been ship-shape.

992. Tragically, that's not the case.

993. - There's the hero of the moment.

994. - I don't even wanna talk, so tasty.

995. - But, at least we've started now.

996. Not too late... ish.

997. - Next time, on the men's island.

998. - It's little old me.

999. - Unfortunately, I don't trust ya.

1000. - Whoa.

1001. - It's a death trap round here.

1002. - Snake!

1003. - We have no food.

1004. - Stop it!

1005. Holy shit.