Sixteen household names arrive in the desert to endure some of the hardest and most grueling challenges from the book of actual special forces soldiers.
The recruits find themselves back in the water in physically challenging tests. The group forms a deep emotional bond with one another and one recruit has a shocking exit.
The recruits face the final phase enduring mental duress of enemy interrogation. They buckle under pressure and must survive the last day and pass toughest test.
A troop of fourteen faces some of the harshest challenges. They must face the reality of winter warfare training in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island where the terrain and freezing temperature are brutal.
The celebrity recruits must safely protect a convoy under a surprise attack; the ambush challenges their ability to make decisions in extreme conditions and tests who is strong enough to remain composed in the face of danger.
The recruits are taken to the top of a mountain range to face the most demanding exercise of selection using a single rope to commando cliff crawl across a deadly ravine.
The recruits are captured and taken into 12 hours of military-grade interrogation. Only the strongest recruits will pass the course who has Resistance and the will to survive.