Overview
- The final lineup featured Brianna LaPaglia, Shawn Johnson East, Andrew East, Gia Giudice and Kody Brown as they faced professional interrogators after an overnight capture scenario.
- Tasks included being doused with dirty water, repeated submersion and a coffin-style burial exercise designed to force confessions.
- Directing Staff leveraged interpersonal tensions in questioning, citing LaPaglia’s on-camera remark that Brown was “creepy” as grounds for a punitive dunking.
- Course decisions in the episode were driven by performance under interrogation, with armbands pulled for rule failures and one recruit choosing to stop during the burial simulation.
- After the broadcast, cast interviews described the ordeal as humbling and deeply bonding, while LaPaglia also alleged on her podcast that Brown said his wife Robyn wanted to harm her, a claim reported without independent corroboration.