Summary
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Ten contestants, five men and five women, are dropped off in the wilderness to compete for $500,000. They are split into two teams and are not allowed to cross into each other's territory. They have limited food and survival gear.
The women find strawberries near their initial location. Both teams find spots to set up their camps and begin constructing shelters. The narrator foreshadows that the challenge will become brutal. The men discuss checking supplies while the host outlines the rules of the competition: contestants can quit and still get their share as long as their teammates remain. The main objective is to have the last player left on a team.
The teams begin strategizing about food rationing and consider that it will be easier to sustain fewer people in order to win. Both camps construct shelters. The girls strategically consider self-elimination to preserve their food supply.
Hannah strategically decides to leave the women's team in order to provide more food and increase the chance of success for the remaining contestants. The women's team eliminates Hannah to preserve their resources.
The teams face their first challenge: archery. The women choose Phaedra, and the men choose Patrick. The goal is to hit a target and drop a bag full of perishable food. Phaedra hits the target, winning the challenge and additional rations for the women's team.
TJ struggles with losing the challenge. Talia strategically leaves the women's team, while Cameron leaves the men's team due to the harsh conditions and pressure.
A massive storm hits, damaging the men's camp. Josh quits due to the conditions
Both teams arrive at the bridge where they will have to decide who will take the tent for their respective teams. Both teams offer $50,000 if the opposing teams quit right now. The challenge is introduced: Julia can either choose the tent for the women's team and leave, or refuse and remain in the competition. She takes the tent, securing a better shelter for Phaedra but is now eliminated. The same choice is offered to TJ, who refuses to leave.
TJ spies on the women and discovers that only one woman remains. The woman secured a new tent. The boys began crawdad hunting. Phaedra began talking to herself out of loneliness.
The constants engage in the third challenge. They can meet their family or secure the meeting for the remaining person on the team. Phaedra and Patrick both decide to see their families, bringing them renewed motivation.
A bear gets close to the men's camp. The bear encounter prompts Patrick to leave, leaving TJ as the last of the men.
With only one contestant on each team, both must now survive on their own. They meet on day 40 for a challenge involving survival items where they must convince their opponent they need the items. The first item is a fishing pole, but neither will concede. The next items are Dude Wipes which Phaedra accepts.
The final two receive feastables. One of which contains an offer for three days worth of food. Phaedra beats TJ to the prize and secures it for herself.
It is the day 60 challenge where the contestants can receive anything they want, but only if they both approve their request. If one of the contestants vetoes the other's result, then they both get nothing. Phaedra will only approve if she receives her art kit, while TJ requests a personal chef. Phaedra does not approve and no one receives anything leaving TJ defeated. TJ forfeits, thereby making Phaedra and the women's team the winners.