The Great Escapists

- Sorry, did I disturb you? - What are you doing?

- I'm trying to get us off this island. - Shh!

This is my first shipwreck.

Let me live in the moment.

Just experience it.

All right,

when you're done having your moment,

I could use your help.

- Really? - Yeah.

Just been in a shipwreck!

- I get why you hate boats. - I told you.

Never trust anything that isn't where you last parked it.

There. It's done.

What's done?

What's it look like?

It's a big sign.

That way a plane flies over us, looks down, sees "Help".

And we get rescued.

Why are you so worried about being rescued?

This is a holiday beach, right? Look at it.

Could be.

Maybe we landed on some billionaire's island.

There's nothing. It's just you and me.

Just us.

Starting to grasp the situation?

It's a nice day.

Yeah.

We should find a way to get off this island.

- Okay but how? - Maybe we'll build a raft.

I'm not going out there in a raft.

A full-sized boat just broke, that's why we're here.

Anyway, that is the Pacific Ocean.

Every kind of deadly shark lives out there.

It's suicide.

And if we don't get eaten,

we won't last four days without water and we don't have any.

I say we get off this island.

Why are you panicking?

People like us don't just disappear or drop off the radar.

A transponder will go: "Oh no, Richard and that other bloke's missing."

We won't get left behind.

People like us don't get abandoned. Well, I won't be.

I'm Richard Hammond.

They'll find me.

Mayday! Mayday!

We're stranded here!

We're not going anywhere.

No one's coming for us.

- - What's that?

Come on!

Richard!

Look! Tools. Woohoo!

We might be able to build something to get us rescued.

When do we start drinking our own pee?

Let's wait until we run out of water.

Tory, I'm sinking!

He has to learn to love it here...

I'm gonna get rescued! Oh no no no no!

Like I do.

We're never gonna get off this island.

The man's gone mad.

I'm gonna kill you!

We shouldn't be fighting!

This is war!

Fire!

I'm just a man, but I'm holding a cannon!

Oh no!

Oh! Right in the lavatory!

Richard! Oh my God!

Together, we can do anything.

3-2-1...

This could get us out of here!

We have a steam engine!

Come on, screw tank! Work with me!

Ow! Ow! God!

Are we nearly there yet?

Yeah!

Yoo-hoo!

Look at it!

- Yeah! - It's working!

It's amazing what you can do when you have time.

State your name please.

My name is Tory Belleci, Ma'am.

Well, you know who I am.

Richard Hammond.

TV's Richard Hammond.

The Grand Tour?

"El Tour-o-so Grandioso?"

Tough crowd.

We rented a boat out of San Diego to go on a fishing trip.

Richard loves boats

and he said he'd done this tons of times.

I'd never been in a boat like that.

How was I to know there was a storm coming in?

The worst storm. I didn't think we'd survive.

We were lost. We were blown off course for hundreds of miles.

So then it got a bit choppy, there were some rocks,

a really huge bang,

then a lot more loud bangs,

then everything went a bit fuzzy.

And then, we woke up in paradise.

But you know, we're not your normal castaways.

We're TV hosts.

I was on a show for years, Mythbusters.

You have seen it?

The point is, we know stuff.

So, I set up a shelter...

... covered my basics: I made a water trap,

got some yucca plants,

and some coconuts.

I mean, it was actually really easy.

I don't know why Bear Grylls makes a big deal of it.

Then we set up an SOS signal.

Three fires: the international sign of SOS.

I remembered that from cub scouts.

They'll definitely gonna see it.

How far away from the mainland could we be?

Exactly.

So after a couple of days,

we realised

no one was coming for us anytime soon.

We weren't going back out into those shark-infested waters,

so we realised...

Well...

... I realised, we were going to have to make the best of it.

That's when we started exploring the shoreline.

You're not going to believe it!

Hurry up!

They are very excitable, Americans, aren't they?

But fair enough,

Tory had found something exciting.

Two washed-up shipping containers.

Richard! Look!

We could only imagine what might be inside.

- There could be like a jet ski in here. - Or sun cream.

- Food. - Sunglasses!

Maybe water. Fresh water.

- Gin! - Yeah. Gin.

Nice designer shirts because I smell. Alright then.

- Condoms. - Huh.

- They're not gonna be useful. - They might be.

I'm gonna keep 'em.

All right.

This is like Christmas as a child.

It's the red bicycle, it's the red bicycle! Oh, it's a puzzle!

Or a pair of socks! Yeah, this is a bit upsetting.

It was so anti-climactic!

But on the bright side, the containers were a good place to sleep,

which we needed, because another storm rolled in.

Yep, slept in a box.

But next morning, the storm had gone and left us something pretty life changing.

Wait.

What's all that?

Fishing nets.

Hey look,

the barrels from the boat? - Yeah, could be.

- Look! - Life jacket.

There's a dinghy. The tyres.

Yep.

- Oh, wait a minute? - Richard.

- That is... - It's the boat!

- It's Betty! - It's Betty!

We're saved! We're saved!

- That is it! - Oh my God!

Oh! She's come back.

All we gotta do is wait for the tide. It's that simple.

- Oh, my God. This is the best! - Wait!

Oh no.

It's snapped.

I thought this was our chance.

We can't fix that, can we?

That is not going anywhere.

Mayday, mayday.

Is anybody out there?

- I got terrible news. - What?

The radio doesn't work.

- Oh, God, this is awful. - I know it is awful.

These were polarized.

You worry about looking cool?

Richard, the boat is in pieces.

I'm stuck on a tropical island with no sunglasses.

UV rays.

Sight is a precious thing.

Ah, gee!

My stuff's ruined.

Granted, this is sub-ideal,

but look at all this stuff we got now.

You're right. And between the two of us,

we might be able to build something to get us rescued.

Better yet, to get us off this island.

Or to make our lives better whilst we're on the island.

Sure.

The boat was full of really useful stuff