About this season
Four men, including law enforcement officers, special forces personnel and athletes, face off in a series of challenges to test intelligence, decision-making, endurance and physical strength.
Episodes (10)
1. Will to Win
Aired 13 July 2011 • 44 min
An MMA fighter, two Recon Marines and a Navy SEAL Team 6 veteran face off in a fiery shooting challenge and a breach course. The final two risk drowning and hypothermia in a test of their intelligence in ice-cold water.
2. Brothers in Arms
Aired 20 July 2011 • 42 min
Four highly trained operatives from diverse military and security fields show off expert marksmanship and stretch their mental brainpower to be the first to escape from a jail cell.
3. Fear is Not an Option
Aired 27 July 2011 • 43 min
The competitors must escape from the claustrophobic confines of a water coffin, dig their way through a mined obstacle course and break the codes on a series of safes while suspended upside down.
4. No Guts, No Glory
Aired 3 August 2011 • 44 min
Amid explosions, fireballs, mud and smoke, the four competitors must race on their backs through a complex maze to freedom and endure a brutal test of strength in a gladiator-style tug of war.
5. Faster, Stronger, Smarter
Aired 10 August 2011 • 44 min
The four competitors must dig deep under and over a series of walls carrying an 80-pound load and snake their way through a complex web of lasers. The final two operatives must keep their heads to diffuse a hurt locker of bombs.
6. Hard Work, Hard Play
Aired 17 August 2011 • 44 min
Four skilled warriors have to carry ammunition cans uphill and then hit targets at 60 feet. They have to break out of a frozen ice truck, and the two finalists must open safes and shoot themselves free while hanging upside down.
7. Time Bomb
Aired 24 August 2011 • 44 min
The operatives must tunnel under and then over a series of fences while navigating explosions. The two finalists must use their wits to deactivate a series of bombs.
8. To Hell and Back
Aired 31 August 2011 • 44 min
The operatives square off in a demanding, four-way game of tug of war. Then they must saw through metal to escape an underwater coffin, and the two finalists face a memory challenge with life and death stakes.
9. Warrior Spirit
Aired 7 September 2011 • 44 min
In the season finale, the operatives square off in an explosion-filled maze and grueling five-obstacle breach course. The two left standing must use strategy and their wits in an intelligence challenge with life and death stakes.
10. Episode 10
Aired 14 September 2011