RON SHAHAR: Eleven Israeli couples went to the biggest television game in the world, four of them remain in the race. Tonight on HaMerotz LaMillion: COMING UP NEXT... RON SHAHAR: This is the last road to the final event in the race to the million. INTRO RON SHAHAR: At the end of a 12-hour energy buildup in the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka, the teams will now be launched in the order of their arrival at the last finish point. Bar and Inna, who came in first place, set off first. Hahahahaha 12 hours my ass BAR AND INNA, DEPARTING IN FIRST PLACE BAR: Detour. Male or Female. RON SHAHAR: The teams must now reach the Detour task which they will perform in tribute to the second most common religion here, Hinduism. The Hindus usually carry out their daily activities using only one hand, the right hand. At this Detour, the couples will get to know the local beast of burden, the buffalo. The choice is between male and female. RON SHAHAR: In Male the couple will have to harness a stubborn buffalo to a cart and load it with dozens of coconuts that are next to it. After they fill the cart they will have to lead the stubborn animal along the marked track with one of them leading the buffalo while the other tries to prevent the coconuts from falling. Only after they lead the buffalo and the coconuts to their destination using only their right hand will they receive the next clue. RON SHAHAR: In Female the couple will have to milk the female buffalo, a simple task on the face of it, but the milking technique is difficult and requires skill. The couple will have to fill a bucket of milk when they, each in turn, milk the animal. Only after they have milked a litre of milk with only their right hand will they receive the next hint from the owner of the farm. BAR: I want it done. Well, we're going for Male. Come on. INNA: Come. We will take the bus. C-BAR: We jumped out in first, which gave us a leg up on all the couples, as a result of the repulsive cornflakes box tattoo we ended up on. BAR: Please, please, stop for us, please, please. Yes, yes. Come, come, yes. Skip (This address) BAR: Listen, there is a view here....it, there are no such things, how beautiful it is. C-INNA: After all the torture we went through, it’s Hungary, it’s Bosnia, it’s Croatia, it’s Poland, it’s the Czech Republic, it’s Thailand, it’s China. C-BAR: Sri Lanka. C-INNA: Sri Lanka. And all this tedious way that we actually wanted the final, and here it is in another second in our hands, C-BAR: Right on the palm of your hand, just touch and pull and it's yours. We are so close. C-INNA: It can be smelt already, yes. Skip INNA: You see something? Skip INNA: See the flags? BAR: Yes, come on. INNA: Where? BAR: Give me a hand, get off the road. INNA: Here Bar, I see an arrow. BAR: Right hand champion. Correct, isn't it? INNA: Yes. BAR: Excellent. C-BAR: People who believe in the Hindu religion go and do their daily business with their right hand. We had to, as a tribute to them, do the Detour task in the same way, the right hand only, the left hand does not work at all, in any way. BAR: We choose who leads the buffalo and who takes care of the cargo. INNA: Bar, do you know how to drive? Have you ever ridden a horse? BAR: Yes. But it's not related, I'm not on him, I'm leading him. This is my bull. INNA: We have to do this. BAR: I know. Where are the coconuts? I did not understand the task. INNA: Come on, cow, cow. BAR: Okay. Come, mami, mother, come, come. Go ahead, he, baby, go ahead. INNA: Advance a little towards him, advance with him, pull him. BAR: Come mamila, come, come in. Wait, no, no, no, he needs... wait, wait, right here, take it off, take it off him, wait. C-BAR: A buffalo is a rebellious animal at the level of not being able to determine what it does, what it does is what it is, it is an animal of freedom. INNA: Wow, he's stepping on my... well. BAR: Cutie, move your leg, move your leg. Great, thanks. INNA: Wait a second. BAR: That was the first step. INNA: I'm dying...I'm dying of fear of his horns. BAR: Come on, let's raise the coconuts. INNA: Bar, you have to arrange the coconuts wisely. BAR: Okay. INNA: What does that mean? Do not know. BAR: Wow, wow, what a crazy task. In my opinion, this is how you arrange the coconuts. INNA: Can you understand how I arrange? BAR: No. INNA: Okay, then leave it at that, let's move them first. Give me another one. BAR: Ripped off. (the bunch) INNA: Not terrible. C-INNA: We are running around trying to fill the cart with all these coconuts when only one hand is functioning, and it is terribly difficult, we tried all kinds of techniques. INNA:Catching, bar? BAR: Be careful not to scare him, you throw it at him for another second, and then he will go completely wild on us. We will never leave here. Wow. Wow wow. INNA: Come on, mami, we're halfway there. It should be on top of each other, that they won't sway. BAR: Yes, yes, exactly. Inna, it seems to me in hindsight we made it too wide. Wow. INNA: Wow, wow. BAR: What is this? How did it happen? INNA: What is this? What is this, Bar? BAR: No, not good, not good, not good, not good. C-INNA: The buffalo, it's enough that he moves and moves this cart a little right to left, it starts to leak and...it was clear that it was going to be difficult and tiring. BAR: We even haven't gotten ready to go yet and it's falling. INNA: Wow, this is not going to be a joke. BAR: Definitely not. ALON AND OREN, DEPARTING IN SECOND PLACE ALON: Detour. Male or Female? We decided to do the male task. Skip ALON: Come on, go. Skip C-ALON: Very intense days, accompanied by a lot of stress. You want that, you want to put it behind you and say, that's it, I'm in the finals, I've achieved this goal. OREN: In the Detour task we will only work with the right hand. As we are both left-handed, it is very difficult for us. Just kidding, we're both right-handed. ALON: I hope Akiva and Anaelle are left-handed. ANAELLE AND AKIVA, DEPARTING IN THIRD PLACE ANAELLE: Detour. Male or Female? AKIVA: Both look fine to me. Take your pick, come on. ANAELLE: We choose Male. AKIVA: Shosha, are you with me? ANAELLE: Yes. AKIVA: Excellent. Skip C-ANAELLE: It's worrying somewhere now because you're really starting from scratch. All the first places you collected on the way won't help now this first place is the most important. I have to give the best I can, Akiva has to give the best he can, together we have to work as a team, as we have worked until now, and give the best we can. Skip AKIVA: The brothers must have gone to the milking, this is an opportunity to bypass here. ANAELLE: Shoshi, I'm afraid, I'm left-handed. C-ANAELLE: I saw black in my eyes, it was for me to start with the wrong foot (same words as left foot) because I am left-handed. Now, doing a task in HaMerotz LaMillion with a hand you are not strong in makes you lose a lot of confidence. AKIVA: Shosha, here is a cart. ANAELLE: Okay. Skip ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN SECOND PLACE ANAELLE: Lord have mercy. Wait, I'll help you. AKIVA: Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Excellent. Take it down, take it down, take it down, take it down, great. ANAELLE: Okay. AKIVA: We have it. ANAELLE: Now let's start bringing the coconuts. Come on. AKIVA: Come on, load me, load me, load me. ANAELLE: Okay. AKIVA: Come on, make a good foundation first. No, no, you're not doing it right. Broad base. No, you're not doing well. ANAELLE: Tell me where, don't tell me, you're not doing well. C-ANAELLE: To do this task like this, even with two hands, is not easy in the sun and that, but with one hand to carry four, five at a time, still, it goes very very slowly and it is very Sisyphean and very tiring because the sun is on you. ANAELLE: It's hard to pick them up, Akiva, like that. AKIVA: Put it here, put it in my hand. ANAELLE: Because I'm left-handed. AKIVA: In my hand, in my hand, Shusha, in my hand. ANAELLE: Okay, go, go with it. AKIVA: That's a lot of coconuts. ANAELLE: It will fall, do you think? AKIVA: Shosha, arrange them like this. ANAELLE: What? AKIVA: That they will not roll. On the non-rolling side. C-ANAELLE: It doesn't seem to me that the Sri Lankans thought of any strategy to make the coconuts not fall, I think they have some simple method, which they load as much as they can and travel and pray, inshallah, that it doesn't fall. AKIVA: No, you throw it and it falls. ANAELLE: Enough, Shoshi, enough being pessimistic, I don't like it. Be optimistic. COMING UP NEXT... ALON: Let's see, the blondes must now surely...here, they finished loading. OREN: Okay. INNA: There is someone here. Come on already, mami, we can start designing the shape of it for hours. ALON: Here’s what’s his name, Akiva. Come on. ANAELLE: It’s the brothers. Go ahead, come on. ALON AND OREN, CURRENTLY IN THIRD PLACE OREN: Start pushing with your legs. ALON: Exactly. OREN: Tick, come on. ALON: Tick. C-OREN: We reach the coconuts task and start loading our coconuts as fast as possible. ALON: Take. OREN: Brother... ALON: Ack, sorry. C-ALON: You have to remember, it's not 20, 30, it's heavy, it's one hand. C-OREN: It's only one hand. C-ALON: It's far, it's not like, it's a few meters, you need like two legs to lead the coconuts, both close to the cart and once again to lift the... with your legs, with your hands. OREN: Alon, sort the big ones for me. C-ALON: And by the way, again without any element of thinking, even though Oren comes all the time and says the big and heavy coconuts- C-OREN: Put them down. C-ALON: Put them below. INNA: Can you sit on it? BAR: Are you mad? Well, I'm starting to take it, are you behind? INNA: I protect my body. BAR: Let's move forward, come, come on, Heida. Come, come, come...come, please come. Slowly. INNA: Slowly. Slowly. C-BAR: After we picked up the whole pile of coconuts and were done, I pulled him and made noises for him and he started to move. INNA: Mami, beautiful, in the same way. BAR: Slowly. INNA: Not too fast and not too slow. OREN: Not a single coconut falls to them. Successful. ALON: Yoo, but how much more is there here? BAR: A calm, pleasant trip. A walk. INNA: Wait, Bar. BAR: I stopped, wait, I stopped. INNA: Alright. BAR: I stopped, stopped, stopped. INNA: Bar, where is he going? Where does he go? BAR: I don't know, I don't know. INNA: Alright. BAR: Idiot. You don't understand how angry he is. INNA: Is he mad at you? BAR: Very. C-BAR: The buffalo is a different animal, he is stubborn and rebellious on a tremendous level. ANAELLE: Go. Go. C-ANAELLE: We finished loading, and then something terribly strange happened with the buffalo. ANAELLE: Move. Shoshi, how am I supposed to make her move? AKIVA: Try, pull him forward. ANAELLE: Okay. How am I supposed to make her move? AKIVA: Shosha, no pressure, try to use logic, like a horse you said, right? ANAELLE: Mother. AKIVA: Do like a horse. Skip C-ANAELLE: I try to talk to him and move him violently and gently and forcefully, and... what I didn't do to make him move. ANAELLE: Move already, come on. AKIVA: He does not understand French better than Hebrew. ANAELLE: Okay. AKIVA: Maybe pull him by the horns? Keep going forward. ANAELLE: Mother, Akiva, are you crazy? This is not the way. ALON: Come on, Oren, come on. Tick. ANAELLE: Come on, mother, Lord have mercy. AKIVA: In the butt, baby, give her a blow in the butt. ANAELLE: Shoshi, I beat her as hard as I can, my life. C-ALON: Mrs. Creator of the world, Anaelle. ANAELLE: Move, come on. AKIVA: Talk even for a year, he won’t understand Hebrew. C-ALON: All languages, French, English, sings to him, talks to him, as if he were her father, her cousin. ANAELLE: Go ahead, come on. (French) I think he's going crazy. C-ALON: Akiva from behind is stuck like Jesus on the coconuts. Try, try, he doesn't move, he doesn't move. 25 minutes in my opinion they stood there and did not succeed, he did not even piss on them. Like he hadn't moved a centimetre. ANAELLE: Move already. AKIVA: Shosha, this is certainly not the way. BAR: Come on, another ten meters and we're done. INNA: Yes. BAR: Slow down, honey, slow down. And come, good animal. BAR: Wait, he continues... INNA: Bar, Bar, keep going. C-BAR: Every time three or four coconuts fell from the cart, Inna informed me, I stopped him, I told him...and I am stopping him. Inna is insanely quick, picking up the coconuts, I see us already making progress, one more second to the flags, the end. ALON: Come on, Oren, come on. Come on, war. AKIVA: Shosha, we are wasting a lot of time. ANAELLE: Come on. AKIVA: It won't help, these knocks you do on him. ANAELLE: Move. Please, I have to go now. ALON: Go. C-OREN: They finish loading, some whisper in the buffalo's ear, he starts moving. Turns out I have a talent, I'm the buffalo whisperer. I was able to run the buffalo amazingly. C-ALON: Both are opaque, have lack of empathy. ANAELLE: I did like this. AKIVA: You see? You probably didn't push hard enough. C-OREN: It's just unbelievable, she stands there for half an hour, I release a little bit, tell him the "ya ya", he started moving. ANAELLE: She doesn't move for us. ALON: Talk to the Creator of the world. C-ANAELLE: Alon suddenly said to me, ask God to help you, with such cynicism. C-AKIVA: He said disdainfully. C-ANAELLE: As if mocking. C-AKIVA: Ask God to help you. C-ANAELLE: And I was very happy because he reminded me, in my heart at that moment I was really asking, wait, like I was asking for a second, really God, please help me, I've been trying here for twenty minutes, I'm losing all my advantage, please God, please be here for me , do something, don't know what you'll do, move. Skip AKIVA: Excellent. Don't stop, don't stop, no stops. C-AKIVA: Then the buffalo started moving and didn't stop. AKIVA: Well done, well done, what a queen, what a queen. C-ANAELLE: So I'm very grateful to Alon for reminding me to pray because apparently it helps a lot after you try so hard, I must have divine intervention here. Literally, like it was a miracle. Akiva is doing to me, what did you do? I don't know what I did, I have no idea what it is, I pulled the exact same thing, it just started moving, crazy. OREN: Oh, a nut fell. ALON: Stop, stop. Oren, it's starting to fall. OREN: I know, I know. ALON: So stop, so stop. Stop. Everything is falling, stop. OREN: They also started to move, come on. AKIVA: Well done, well done, what a queen, what a queen. Shosha, there are no women like you, there are no such things. ANAELLE: I am the same as before, I am the women of the old days. AKIVA: There are no such things. ALON: Yoo. Well, hold him! Why can't you hold? OREN: I hold him as he taught me. ALON: "As he taught me" and see how much is below on the ground now. OREN: Come on, come on Alon, it's a waste of time. ALON: Come on, then come help. OREN: I'm coming. TOM AND ADELE, DEPARTING IN LAST PLACE ADELE: Detour. TOM: Each of you performs your role with only one hand. We take Female. ADELE: We take Female, it seems easier to us, it seems simpler to us, that's what we're going to do, come on, come on. TOM: Mami, we are at the end my life, come on, let's do well. Skip TOM: What are you doing to him like that? What, he's doing to you, what are you doing to him like that? They get angry that you do this to them, so do this to them. TOM: Why the right hand? C-TOM: You have to use only your right hand at the Detour, both of my hands are very strong but this is the less strong hand, I'm left-handed. TOM: They always say that lefties are special people, there aren't many lefties in the world. Well, soul, love you, I won't need you much. Right hand, we've known each other for twenty and three years. ADELE: Twenty three TOM: Twenty three. One year, twenty-three years. I didn't use you much, this is your time to prove your worth and show that I don't need to constantly deprive you. BAR: Go, mamilah. Slow down, honey, slow down, ya, come on, good animal. Ya, ya, ya. Why did he stop? Well, why are you stopping now? Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya. Come on, come on, baby, come on. C-BAR: Five, six meters before the end, suddenly the buffalo stops. The cutie decided to stop. INNA: Two meters and we finish it. BAR: I know, he's not moving! INNA: Alright, be patient with him. BAR: Well? INNA: Don't yell at him. Talk to him, look him in the eyes. Ya Allah. Breathe air, like you love him, sing him this lullaby that he follows. Loud, wild, loud. BAR: Well? He doesn’t come, this can’t be real. C-BAR: The buffalo decided he was now done with his job. BAR: Well? Come, come. C-BAR: I mean, he reached a point where he says, walla, I don't feel like continuing, like that. It was in such a way, as if it didn't suit me. He stopped and refused to continue. BAR: Please, no, no, no...come here to me. C-BAR: He got mad at me, he really didn't like me. INNA: Yes, mami, tell him, don't despair. BAR: Come on! ANAELLE: Allez. AKIVA: What a queen, what a queen, wow. ANAELLE: Allez. AKIVA: Wow, what a queen. ANAELLE: Yes. Allez, she understands French, not Hebrew. Wait. C-ANAELLE: That was so awesome. C-AKIVA: Anaelle was excellent. Skip (Shoshita) AKIVA: You’ve got it with kids, something else, maybe I'll want some from you. AKIVA: You really are a queen. ANAELLE: It would be very nice if she wore perfume. C-ANAELLE: No, really really really fun and it was also fun to see that we are making progress and we see that the brothers seem to be still behind. AKIVA: You are a champion, a real champion. ALON: Wow, how many fell. Why doesn't he go straight? OREN: I don't know, I don't know his technique. ALON: The milking would have been better. OREN: They flow here like water. ALON: Well, then there must be something we are doing wrong. C-ALON: By the time we started moving, every movement of the buffalo brought them down. C-OREN: Yes. C-ALON: As if it didn't go smoothly, you load, he moves for a moment, raises his head, falls. C-ALON: Now it doesn't fall one, two, it falls twenty, thirty, it's not... as if everything is collapsing, that's the feeling. C-OREN: At the same time just to give the continuation of the atmosphere. 200 percent humidity, hot sun. C-ALON: Really. The feeling is that you don't move more than 20 centimeters with each leg and something falls. INNA: What is this, Anaelle and Akiva. AKIVA: Excellent. ANAELLE: Shoshi, we'll be done soon. Allez. Allez. BAR: Come on! ANAELLE: Allez. C-INNA: Akiva and Anaelle passed by and ticked us off and continued on their way. C-BAR: Something, amazing. C-INNA: It was terrible, it was just a terrible feeling. Come, tick off Inna and Bar and go. INNA: Come on, Bar. BAR: Ya, ya. INNA: Come on, you have to. C-BAR: She got the beautiful, brown buffalo, the buffalo doesn't stop walking, walked everything gently, nonchalantly, just me with this idiot, who decided to stop me in the middle, also intelligence level, decided to stop and that's it, didn't move. ANAELLE: Hello, that’s it. It’s over. AKIVA: What a champion you are, unbelievable. ANAELLE: That’s it. Skip AKIVA: You deserve a hug and a kiss. Skip ANAELLE AND AKIVA, CURRENTLY IN FIRST PLACE ANAELLE: You have to go to Gangula Devalaya. RON SHAHAR: The couples must reach the Gangula temple. Here awaits them a Hindu ascetic activity taken from the world of the fakir. Hindus believe that asceticism leads to the purification of the soul. During a powerful ritual they reach, with the help of pain, the perfect purification. The couple will now have to perform two actions that the fakirs perform after years of asceticism, walking on coals and lying on a bed of nails. RON SHAHAR: After the ceremony has been prepared, one of the couple will walk on burning coals with bare feet, as is the custom of the fakir. When he finishes the hot walk he will have to break into an excited dance together with the group of fakirs. Only when the dance is over can his partner get on the bed of nails and lie on it for three minutes. There is a medical team on site that will provide first aid in case one of the team members gets hurt. The pair that performs both exercises will receive the next hint from the fakir and will take another step towards the final. Bye. ANAELLE: Come, come. OREN: Well come on, Alon, onwards. C-AKIVA: Before we left I wanted to tell Alon, ask God to help you, what I saw all their coconuts fall on the floor and they spent so much to arrange them nicely on the cart. OREN: Ya Allah, let's finish this task already. C-AKIVA: Everything collapsed for them and they stood there in despair and did not know how to continue. Skip ANAELLE: You go to *tries to say place name* But why did the guys surrender? It's very strange. AKIVA: They didn't surrender, they just didn't go. They work too much with their heads, sometimes you have to work fast. C-ANAELLE: They are too smart for the race. C-AKIVA: Yes. C-ANAELLE: Like being smart is actually a disadvantage. C-AKIVA: Think simply. C-ANAELLE: You have to think simply. We later thought about what we did, we didn't do anything too much. C-AKIVA: Not tasks for which you need a bachelor's degree. C-ANAELLE: No. Neither a master's degree nor a PhD. C-AKIVA: Not even a master's degree. ALON: I really suggest to move on. OREN: A couple succeeded in front of you, didn’t you see it? ALON: They succeeded, but they probably put it in some other form. OREN: They did not put it in any other form. ALON: Because none fell for them. Think for a moment. OREN: I thought what I could, I have no other solution beyond what I said. I sorted them from the heavy ones... ALON: Do you want me to keep putting? I will continue to put. OREN: Come on, onward. ALON: Ten minutes pass another five minutes. OREN: So do these ten minutes. ALON: So what, then it's not a waste? OREN: But not in a casual way, like they do it, like you put this coconut, that the way we move it falls. ALON: So far we haven't seen your method, Oren, that works and doesn't drop anything. C-ALON: Pick up, the slave goes, pick up, pick up and I understand with pessimism that this task will not progress for us. OREN: Starts to move. ALON: You need right, yes? OREN: Yes. Ya, ya. ALON: Ya Allah. OREN: He stops every second. ALON: Well what? OREN: He stops, what do I do? ALON: Communication. C-ALON: We fought, we didn't give up, there was no idea at all to stand up and tell Oren, Oren, leave. But at some point I had already loaded, there was a revelation of loading some 40 like that in the teeth with only one hand and after I had already loaded he moved the buffalo. C-OREN: I didn't move, you moved him. C-ALON: He moved alone. Like for a moment he moved, another 30 fell, I told him, I'm not picking it up. ALON: Come on, go. Let's switch to dairy, let's see who's what. C-ALON: Something in my feeling says, we didn't invest enough energy and thinking in arranging the coconuts. Skip OREN: We were unable to produce any product, we moved three meters and when we started to move once more for another centimeter it all fell so we saw no point in continuing it. ALON: And the power is running out. C-OREN: We never changed a Detour task, we always managed to exhaust it to the end even if it was longer, but we don't switch Detour tasks. ALON: Well, let's hope it didn't cost us much. C-ALON: But as soon as there are both couples behind you and a couple in front of you, it's indescribable, it's a feeling of stress, no matter how hard you try to get out of this feeling, it's hard for you. OREN: It's discouraging. ALON: What discouraging, not succeeding, it is discouraging, obviously. Skip TOM AND ADELE, CURRENTLY IN LAST PLACE ADELE: What is this, God forbid? TOM: You will have to milk a buffalo from a female, which, like the male, is known for its disobedience. ADELE: Hello. Ick, mother, she's looking at me, she's going to attack me, by God she's going to attack me. TOM: She won't attack you. ADELE: Mother, mother, you see? He's going to kick, he's going to kick, TOM: Do you want me to start? ADELE: Yes. TOM: Bring. ADELE: Tom, only one hand is allowed, you have to put the milk on the floor. C-ADELE: We had to milk a buffalo that at first Tom and I didn't quite understand what a buffalo was. TOM: Such a bull. C-ADELE: A bull, we didn't understand, a cow, a bull, we didn't understand exactly what it is and how it even produces milk. I was sure it was like, you know, like really, really easy, ticking it off, you know, milking a cow like I usually see on TV, milking a cow, it's like in seconds. ADELE: Press hard, you have to press hard all the way. No, you only need towards the end, Tom. TOM: What? ADELE: Just for the... you see there's a marble down there? TOM: Well? ADELE: Just press hard on her. She's going to kick you. TOM: Nothing what, it’s not coming out. ADELE: Tom, don't pull it on her like that, it's her organs. Skip ALON: Now we will see Atele (not typo) and celebration and joy. Skip ALON: Let me, I'll start. OREN: Alright.