Brianna LaPaglia

In the final week of selection, the recruits are subjected to a multi-stage process of interrogation and are placed under gradually increasing duress. The recruits must create a believable lie as to why they are with the special forces and are then placed into confinement where they confront distressing sounds and restrictive body positions.

In one of the most intense physical challenges yet, the remaining recruits carry tires, ropes, and chains up a mountain. Then, the recruits are split into two teams to attempt an extraction operation and are uplifted by heartwarming messages from home.

Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, returns for a fourth season, enlisting a new troop of household names to endure some of the harshest, most grueling challenges from the playbook of the actual Special Forces selection process. This time around, the recruits will be training in Morocco and will endure the extreme circumstances of urban warfare. New this season, some recruits arrive in pairs consisting of spouses and family members but will compete individually. As the recruits make their way to base, they are faced with initiation and their first brutal challenge: repelling out of a military-grade helicopter. Later, the recruits get a taste of what it’s like operating behind enemy lines as they carry supplies weighing 800 pounds in sweltering 100-degree heat.

The remaining recruits are paired up to find a vital intelligence package and retrieve a hostage before the compound is filled with deadly gas and explodes. Then, the recruits compete against each other in an excruciating obstacle course and get emotional as they write their “Death Letters” to their loved ones.

In the “Postman’s Walk” challenge the remaining recruits are split into teams and have 10 minutes to sidestep along a 165-foot stretch of rope suspended 200-foot above a canyon floor. Then in one of the most brutal tasks of selection, the “Murderball” challenge, the recruits are split into two teams and must fight to get a ball over the opposition’s goal line.

The recruits are split into teams and compete to be the first group to complete an intensive race in the blistering heat. Later, in pairs, the recruits backwards dive off a platform in sync, facing their fears through teamwork.