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00:00sugar and spice and all things nice and what little girls are made of not this
00:18lot forget sugar and spice it's drugs drink and disrespect that drive them in
00:25the last 24 hours I got drunk got stoned stayed out all night I think having a bad
00:31attitude is just the way I am I just eat sleep spend her money and drugs they're
00:39driving their parents to distraction she's punched me a couple of times she's
00:45kicked me a couple of times she's spat in the face the solution send them to an
00:52all-girl breath camp in the middle of nowhere
00:59the level of disrespect if that comes out of your mouth is astounding and don't
01:07let them come home until they've learned how to behave if you're watching this at
01:14home you shouldn't send your kids here you really really shouldn't they'll hate you
01:17forever and ever
01:40aspen achievement Academy in Utah is one of America's leading brat camps they run
01:51single-sex wilderness courses for out-of-control kids these teenagers are
01:56used to pushing really hard to get their way shouting getting way out there and
02:02that just doesn't work for them here in the wilderness there are no doors to
02:07slam and nobody to hear you scream there's just 10,000 square miles of
02:13emptiness and a lot of hiking this is going to be the toughest challenge that
02:19these girls are faced up to now in their lives the wilderness will absolutely
02:22disorient them the weather is going to challenge them the physical tasks of
02:26actually staying alive out here will break them down the course can mean
02:33months in the wilderness and the only way out is to graduate or get their
02:38parents to pull them
02:43for the first time Aspen have agreed to take on a group of British teenagers 3,000
02:50desperate families applied and now seven wayward girls have the chance to get
02:55their lives back on track
02:58they has been reported as a missing person about 70 or 80 times in the last 12
03:04months she'll stand there with a knife what you fucking do if I stab you just
03:09fucking stab you you bitch she wants everything all the time and when she has
03:14something it's not good enough I hate myself for it but I sometimes feel I'm just
03:19letting her walk all over me she knows most the local police by their Christian
03:25names my worst fear is that Julia will end up on a street as a highly dependent drug
03:32addict she could do as much as her life
03:35she's doing nothing
03:38none of the girls knew their parents had signed them up for a single-sex course
03:42her first comment was oh my god there are no fit boys crap
03:47and that's four girls and there better be three lads
03:53Lucy's parents are far too terrified to tell her that there aren't going to be any boys
03:59that's five girls this is a big lineup for six girls
04:04no Lucy I don't really think it's about time to start arguing do you
04:08we're Jeff and Rachel Tyson and that's our daughter Lucy her violent
04:12tantrums I'll turn our family apart you fucking bitch you fucking whore you
04:24stupid fucking lesbian just going around your bedroom and showing like everyone
04:29what sort of pigsty that you live in there's new sanitary towels on the floor
04:34still stuck to knickers I stuck a sanitary towel to the window once because it was
04:39funny she's peed in a pot and left it in a bedroom on the on the shelf that's not
04:44true I've never pissed in my bedroom there's regularly moldy food in there
04:49that's not my fault is it because they should like take it out of the room before
04:52it gets moldy she's just screams constantly money money money give me some
04:58fucking money
05:00a
05:05she's a kick mate just put talker stick in my face hey shexen
05:12a couple of times
05:14just don't know what bought foot the way to deal with it is I'm absolutely lost
05:22Unpredictable as ever, Lucy gets on the plane
05:33Aspen's course is open-ended how long the girls spend there depends on how they behave
05:53They might not see their parents for months
06:02I love you darling good
06:03Be sensible
06:05From now on the only contact the girls will have with their parents will be by letter
06:11I know that we need a break from her
06:15But I'm going to really miss her
06:19I think there's a certain amount of relief that we can actually go home
06:23And not have the police banging on the door night after night
06:27It should be hell the first couple of weeks, living hell I should imagine
06:32For anyone out there
06:34It's just such a relief
06:36And this is like parents revenge
06:38The girls make one last bid for freedom
06:42And there's trouble in stall when they get to base camp
06:46If you don't need God I'll fucking need you the balls
06:48Go on
06:56Bang away baby
06:58Capri Sun
07:00After a 14 hour flight
07:02After a 14 hour flight
07:12The girls are met
07:14The girls are met by Aspen's crew of escorts
07:16Who will transport them another 200 miles to the wilderness base camp
07:20Hi ladies
07:22Hi ladies, welcome to Utah
07:24This is mighty swell guys
07:26Okay, we're ready if you're ready
07:28Oh my God
07:30If they can get them there
07:32Can I get one favor out of you guys
07:34We just need to stay together
07:36No, no, no
07:38Roy
07:39Roy
07:40Roy
07:41Don't get her
07:50It's been a long time since anyone's made Georgie do anything
07:54Ow, you're fucking breaking my fucking arm
07:58I'm an Atkinson
08:00And that's my daughter Georgie
08:02I can't control her anymore
08:04And she can't control herself
08:06Shut eyes
08:12I'm leaving
08:14Georgie's had quite a few run-ins with the law
08:16So vandalism
08:18Possession of drugs
08:20She knows most of the local police by their Christian names
08:24Haven't done anything wrong
08:26She's stolen my sister's car
08:28I like driving
08:30To get a phone call from the police in the middle of the night
08:32To say that your daughter's been arrested
08:34And is actually in one of their cells
08:36It's just draining
08:38I've been to the police software too many times
08:40Georgie seems to look upon prison cells
08:42Almost as second homes
08:44Checked out in the morning, back in the evening
08:48Back out in the morning, back in the evening
08:50Back out in the morning, back in the evening
08:52There was one occasion
08:54When my handbag was up in my bedroom
08:56She was like lying in bed
08:58And I went and pretended to cuddle her
09:00And she said, oh, hi mum
09:02You know, give me a nice cuddle
09:04I lifted the wallet while I was hugging her
09:06Yet again I'd been fooled
09:08And completely manipulated
09:12I would say Georgie's been using drugs
09:14For the last at least two or three years
09:16Pills, speed, pace, crack
09:20I can do it for about a week
09:22Doing it with no sleep
09:24Really fucks my head up there
09:26I just eat sleep
09:28Spend her money
09:30On drugs
09:32And day fuck off
09:34Just let me have a cigarette
09:36Just let me have a cigarette
09:38Just let me have a cigarette
09:40Just let me have a cigarette
09:42After 20 minutes of giving the staff the run around
09:44Georgie's brought back under control
09:46What the fuck?
09:48Help!
09:50Hello!
09:52You're off my fucking arm
09:54The girls' parents have signed over
09:56Full parental control to Aspen
09:58Which includes the right to use physical force when necessary
10:02We would rather do it a nice way
10:14You guys
10:16This is base
10:18They don't know it yet
10:20But this is only a holding camp
10:22Here the group will be processed
10:24And then sent out into the wilderness
10:26Hey girls, we're gonna go in this building here
10:28And we're gonna take all your luggage
10:30Aspen believed that the first step in changing behaviour is a change of identity
10:38Fuck off!
10:40I'm going home
10:42But first they've got to get rid of the old one
10:44Hold on, it's my fucking stuff
10:46We need to take your piercings
10:48All of your piercings
10:50Everything has to come out
10:52This is their identity
10:54This is all that they know
10:55Their piercings
10:56Their earrings
10:57And this kind of stuff
10:58This is what they think their identity is
11:00They don't even know what's inside of them
11:02Until they are stripped of all of that
11:05How do you think I'm feeling right now?
11:07It's the only things I have to comfort me
11:09In my world right now
11:11So don't you dare tell me I can't have them
11:15Because I will call my mum
11:17She will fly over from a restaurant and take me home
11:19Okay, you can ride her all over
11:21No, I will call my mother
11:23No, you will not call my mother
11:24Yes, I will
11:25Poppy's parents may well be relieved that the call is not on the cards
11:29We're Jane and Bjorn Olsen
11:32And that is my daughter Poppy
11:35She's selfish, she's spoilt
11:37And she doesn't give a damn about anybody
11:39Except herself
11:40Look at that money, Poppy
11:42But you don't need your little brain to realise
11:45Mummy, please
11:47Shut up
11:48The person in control of this house is Poppy
11:51Because everybody else revolves around Poppy and her behaviour
11:55I think having a bad attitude is just the way I am
11:58No, what the hell did you fuck off?
12:01When Poppy was born I came back to the hospital very proud
12:05With this teddy bear in my arms
12:07I gave it to her
12:08And she looked at me as much to say
12:11I want a bigger one
12:13And that's really how Poppy is to this day
12:17She wants everything all the time
12:20And when she has something it's not good enough
12:22My parents have got my own way since I was born
12:26Things go missing
12:28Money stolen
12:29I can't believe that she loses every mobile phone that I've given her
12:33For fuck's sake
12:35Do my head in, go away
12:37Nick Christian
12:38I'm sure that she's probably sold them
12:41To buy drink and drugs
12:43Next question, please
12:45There have been many things that Poppy has said to me that's been hurtful
12:51She's a twat
12:52But I think the real worst one because I find it so offensive is
12:57Because you could be a twat
12:58So I just elaborated on that word
13:00I love her to bits, absolutely adore her
13:03Dad's a prick, I wish she was dead
13:05But I don't like her as a person
13:07If she was dead I wouldn't care
13:08At all
13:09She just wanted to write to her mother
13:183,000 miles away from home
13:21Poppy is suddenly showing a certain fondness for her parents
13:25Will you please fax out if you read it
13:27What's your name?
13:28Poppy
13:29Poppy and Danny
13:30If I'm going to deliver your mail
13:34I'd like to do that with a little respect
13:37It's hard for me to fax something
13:39If you're behaving like that
13:41But I am going home right now
13:45You're not going home right now
13:49I am not standing in for a few days, you kid
13:53The girls aren't going anywhere
13:55Until they've been strip searched for drugs, alcohol and cigarettes
13:59I need to have you change your underwear
14:03You're sick
14:04I'm not sick
14:05Yes you are, you're a tyke
14:06You can call us all the names you want to
14:09I want to stand in front of my mum naked
14:11I want to stand in front of my boyfriend naked
14:12I want to stand in front of you naked
14:14I want to stand in front of you naked
14:15I guess we'll be here a while then Danny
14:16I don't need to be here though
14:18I haven't done anything wrong
14:19I'm not crouching down and coughing
14:21Yes
14:22I just really, really, really don't know how my life has gone to this
14:27See the cigarette that's sticking out right there
14:30That's why we can't trust you
14:32Can I go out and smoke this?
14:34No, I need you to just throw those in the garbage for me
14:36We're not doing it to be me
14:38Can you not just give them to my mummy?
14:40After three hours and 32 confiscated cigarettes
14:44Most of the girls are in their uniforms
14:46We are prepared to take as long as it takes
14:49There are some that are very compliant and do things in a normal manner
14:53And then there's those other students who like to maybe fight with every step of the way
15:00Can I have my stuff?
15:01No, no
15:02You're still staying in this box
15:03No, I'm having my stuff actually
15:04No
15:05I'm having my stuff
15:06No
15:07No
15:08I've got no jumper
15:09I've got no socks
15:10I've got no shoes
15:11Just let me out
15:12We're going to change you later
15:13No
15:14No
15:15No
15:16Hey, Poppy
15:17Don't
15:18Within seconds, Poppy's kicking off as well
15:20If you don't let go, I'll fucking knee you in the balls
15:23Georgie has the group's last pack of cigarettes hidden in her trainers
15:28And she's not giving them up without a fight
15:30Get the fuck off me
15:32Go on then
15:33Go on then, hurt me
15:34Go on, punch me
15:35Go on, punch me
15:36I'm not going to punch you
15:37Go on, hit me
15:38Go on, hurt me
15:39Go on, break my arm
15:40Go on
15:41Go on
15:42Go on, do it
15:43Go on, you know you want to
15:44Go on
15:45Go on, go on
15:46Go on, Poppy
15:47Mainly we're trying to teach them that they're not in control
15:52That we're not playing by their rules
15:55I think that some of the problems that some of these girls have from home is that they
16:03have been able to get their own way
16:05Get off
16:06No
16:07You know what?
16:08It's not working
16:09Poppy is finally coming around to realising we're not going to give in to her like she thought
16:15we would at the beginning
16:16Fuck off
16:17Fuck off
16:18Fuck off
16:19Go on
16:20Go on
16:21Go on
16:22Go on
16:23Go on
16:24Go on
16:25Go on
16:26Go on
16:27Go on
16:28Go on
16:29Go on
16:30Five hours after their arrival at base, the group are driven off into the wilderness
16:39Hello
16:40Welcome to Aspen
16:42Go on
16:43Go on
16:44Go on
16:45Go on
16:46Go on
16:47Go on
16:48Go on
16:49Go on
16:50Go on
16:51Go on
16:52Hello
16:53Hello. Welcome to Aspen.
16:55For the rest of their stay,
16:58the girls will hike hundreds of miles of mountainous terrain
17:01and live entirely outside at altitudes as high as 11,000 feet.
17:07Are you taking the fucking pee?
17:10Yeah, I think they are, actually, but it's not funny.
17:14It's not a fucking proper tent.
17:15The next time they see a bed, a shower or a flush toilet
17:20will be on their return to the UK.
17:23If you do need to go to the bathroom,
17:24you need to walk 50 feet outside of the camp
17:27and just find somewhere where we can't see you
17:29and drop your drawers and do your thing.
17:35Tonight, bed is a sleeping bag in a group shelter alongside staff.
17:41Tomorrow, the real work begins.
17:46This is your mouse bag.
17:48The girls give a thumbs down to all things wilderness.
17:53My fucking goldfish get a bit of food.
17:56This is pretty serious.
17:57And it's super, super serious.
17:59Right now, I would really like to be in my own bed
18:02listening to some music and having a spliff.
18:06The first phase of Aspen's programme is known as mouse.
18:22For the next 24 hours, or longer if they misbehave,
18:27the girls must stay in their separate shelters 20 feet apart
18:30and observe the most important rule of mouse, silence.
18:35Well, we're in the middle of fucking nowhere
18:39and we're not allowed to talk to each other.
18:43Just don't like it here.
18:44I mean, have you slept in a tent in the forest?
18:47It's quite spacious, really.
18:48I could do with a nice little mattress in there as well,
18:51and a duvet.
18:52And I want, like, a nice shower and, like, a warm bed and TV and that.
18:58I want to go home, and I want to go to sleep.
19:01I want a bath, and I want a fag.
19:03Fags are strictly off the agenda.
19:06In fact, the plan for the next few days
19:08is to detox the girls' systems,
19:10a bare usual cocktail of drugs, alcohol and nicotine,
19:14with a simple but wholesome diet.
19:16This is your mouse bag.
19:21I feed mouse food.
19:23Well, I mean, it's not what we feed to actual animal mice.
19:28Granola, I think you call this muesli?
19:31Yeah.
19:31Yeah, it looks like it was actually what I used to feed my gamey pigs, so...
19:35And, um, there's peanuts and raisins.
19:37My fucking goldfish get better food.
19:40Wait, here's the good part.
19:41Wow.
19:42It's like some mouse food.
19:44It looks so appealing.
19:48I want some fucking decent food.
19:50Mm-hmm.
19:51And I'm bored.
19:53I've done everything you told me to,
19:54so just fucking...
19:56I want me something.
19:58I'm not going to make anything.
19:59No, I'll fucking make it.
20:01What do you mean to stuff?
20:02Swearing and talking to Danny is not being compliant and respectful.
20:07Respect is not a word in any of these girls' vocabularies.
20:12But to enforce it, Aspen's secret weapon
20:15is a softly-spoken Buddhist called Norman.
20:19For Norman, not raising his voice is not just a rule,
20:23it's a religion.
20:23For most of these girls' lives,
20:26they've been creating drama and looking for conflict,
20:30you know, and having outrageous behavior,
20:33looking for people to immediately react.
20:36And what we do here is,
20:38provided there's no physical danger,
20:40we give them nothing to resist against.
20:42And it's sort of a Taoist approach in that
20:44eventually they'll tire themselves out if we don't...
20:47push back.
20:51But the girls are already pushing the staff more than most.
20:55Julia.
20:56Julia.
20:57I know it's really difficult, Danny,
20:59but please, if you can just give it a go.
21:02What?
21:02I'm not talking.
21:04That would be nice.
21:05This place, that would be even better.
21:07OK.
21:08A bottle of vodka, well.
21:11The silence is meant to last 24 hours,
21:14but the girls can't even last 25 minutes.
21:18Georgie, what's up?
21:19No, no, what's up?
21:20I'm just having a party in mine.
21:22Can you go over to your shelter, please?
21:23Oh, I'm just trying.
21:25I'm quite happy being a mouse forever.
21:28Does this make you happy?
21:30No, it doesn't make you happy,
21:31because I'm fucking sat in a desert
21:33millions of miles away from home.
21:35Danny, would you please go to the shelter?
21:37Georgie, would you please go to your shelter?
21:38The girls don't do much better
21:40at the second rule of mouse,
21:42staying by their own shelter.
21:44Hold on.
21:44You have two kids on the go.
21:48Norman?
21:49There's two kids trying to be quiet.
21:57Like, this is pretty serious.
21:59You guys moving away.
22:00Like, I know you're feeling kind of joking.
22:01No, I just thought it would be funny.
22:03It's super, super serious.
22:04You'd lock us up in a little fucking...
22:06not even fucking tent.
22:08Under sheets, yeah.
22:10Hey, Danny.
22:11We're warm in the fucking Atlantic.
22:12Danny.
22:13Yeah, wait, I want to finish it.
22:14It's a thunderstorm.
22:15Hold on, just a little less.
22:15I want you to continue,
22:16and it's really hard for me to listen to you
22:19every time, like, every other word
22:20coming out of your mouth is the F-bomb.
22:22The F-bomb?
22:23Yeah.
22:24Oh.
22:24Okay, so, like, every time you say that,
22:27I know, it's like, I just go,
22:29oh, oh, and it's hard for me to listen to you.
22:31No.
22:32I just thought it would be fun to go for a run,
22:34because, like, we've been...
22:35We're not allowed.
22:36No fags.
22:37Nothing to drink but water.
22:39It's stupid.
22:40So, what it sounds like is this whole thing
22:43is an absolute, total drag.
22:48Yes.
22:48And it's completely, completely...
22:51Completely.
22:52...maddening to you.
22:53Yes.
22:54And, uh, this is just...
22:56She is.
22:56You know, yeah, and it seemed like a better idea
22:58to get out here and do something like this.
23:00Yes.
23:01It's not the first time Danny's done a runner.
23:04We're joining Chris Knight,
23:05and that's our daughter, Daniella.
23:07She spends more time running away than she does at home.
23:09In the last 24 hours, I've got drunk, got stoned,
23:13smashed the window, and stayed out all night.
23:18Daniella's been reported as a missing person
23:20about 70 or 80 times in the last 12 months.
23:23I've got no idea how many times I've run away from home.
23:25I don't get on my family.
23:27Really, as well.
23:28Daniella used the police for about six months
23:30as a taxi service.
23:33The police used to take me home...
23:35..at least every two days.
23:38She would wait till 2, 3 o'clock in the morning
23:40because she knew the police would pick her up
23:42and drive her straight to the door.
23:45I've been arrested for theft.
23:46Indecent imprisonment and robbery and fraud.
23:52If Leila carries on the way that she is,
23:54then she will just move out when she's 16,
23:57which, obviously, we don't want to happen.
23:59She's clever, she's bright, she's loving,
24:01and she's very much wanted here.
24:02And I'd hate for her to throw all that away.
24:08So you're saying that your mom
24:10didn't really have any real reasons to send you here?
24:13No.
24:15So what do you want to do with your time here?
24:23I just want to go home.
24:24Okay.
24:25We don't expect them to be happy
24:27about being here during mouse phase.
24:30What happens is that they come to that realization
24:33that this is really where I need to be
24:35at different times.
24:37To help the girls come to that realization,
24:41Aspen have hit on a rather unusual ceremony
24:43as a rite of passage.
24:45They're going to be changing
24:46from their lives before here
24:49into the mouse phase of Aspen.
24:51It's a huge change.
24:54So we want to give them
24:55something that helps anchor that experience.
24:59What are we doing?
25:00What the fuck's happening?
25:01You are leaving behind all that you know.
25:06Friends, family, school, a way of life.
25:11I am mouse.
25:12Low to the ground, I see and touch
25:14and smell the world close out.
25:16Go ahead and just squish that in your hands.
25:17Go ahead and just feel that in your hands.
25:19See what it feels like.
25:20You can just feel it.
25:20This is what the mountains feel like.
25:23You have been named mouse, all of you.
25:27And part of mouse's gift
25:28is to learn things from the ground up.
25:32This time that you're heading into right now,
25:35we're asking you to learn
25:38the way a mouse would learn.
25:40A mouse learns in a very humble,
25:43very small way.
25:44So we're asking you to start small.
25:48Nothing huge.
25:50Just be like a mouse.
25:51I don't have words to explain the absurdity of that ceremony just there.
25:57And I just thought,
25:58oh dear,
26:01some people are deluded.
26:02Used to smoking 20 spliffs a day,
26:05Julia does a good line in delusion herself.
26:08She's been telling the same story since she arrived.
26:11I have no reason to be here
26:13and I have no reason to be treated like this.
26:14I haven't done anything.
26:15I don't have a reason to be here.
26:17I'm not like a retard or anything.
26:19I don't need to change my life.
26:22I don't have a problem with anything.
26:24I know who I am.
26:26I don't need to find myself.
26:28Julia's mum might beg to differ.
26:31I'm Anna Bodden
26:32and that's my daughter, Julia.
26:35She's wasting her life away
26:36and she's ruining mine.
26:39Just piss off.
26:41What happened?
26:41Go away!
26:43That's what's happening.
26:45What were you doing?
26:45Yeah, I was in turn.
26:46I'll piss off, okay?
26:49Basically, I'm addicted to cannabis.
26:52Everything in her life
26:53was destroyed because of drugs.
26:57I've been smoking every day for three years.
27:00I'm not just going to stop.
27:02Julia was expelled from two boarding schools.
27:04The first one, after eight days.
27:07I got expelled for having a giant lump of pot
27:10and some bass on me.
27:11And the second school, after 36 hours,
27:14Dear Mrs. Bodden,
27:16I was alarmed to hear that Julia
27:19had asked our pupils
27:20where they went shoplifting
27:22and where she could buy drugs.
27:25I find it extremely embarrassing.
27:28This is what people don't understand about
27:29the Polish Catholic point of view.
27:31It is all about fucking image.
27:33If I jumped off a bridge,
27:35she wouldn't care about me jumping off a bridge.
27:37She'd care about the fact that
27:38someone may have seen me jumping off a bridge
27:40and thought badly of her as a mother.
27:42That is what most Polish parents would be like.
27:45It's heartbreaking
27:46when you think that your only child
27:50is living this sort of life.
27:52Now I'm a good person.
27:59I wouldn't doubt that.
28:03So for me, this is completely,
28:05completely and utterly meaningless.
28:07Ten hours into Maus,
28:09there's a clear divide forming in the group.
28:12While Danny, Julia and Georgie are messing around,
28:15Lucy, Rosie, Lydia and Poppy
28:17are on the way to the programme's next level.
28:19This is what I can say with much confidence
28:22is that you girls are on the road to Coyote.
28:25Like, just keep doing what you're doing
28:26and you're moving as fast as you can right now.
28:32Right now we have four girls
28:34who are sort of willing to participate in the programme
28:37and we have these three who are like,
28:39eh, not interested.
28:41Well, there's other three girls.
28:42They're just being like so stubborn about it
28:44and trying to act all cool and stuff.
28:47And I just think it's pathetic
28:48and it's quite funny
28:49because they're just going to stay longer
28:50so I don't, I couldn't really care less.
28:52I kind of realised that I do actually want to go home
28:54one point in my life,
28:56which is why I'm here
28:56and not over there.
28:59So what I'm going to do here
29:01is make what we call a nest.
29:03If they're ever going to graduate,
29:05the girls will need to master
29:07the hard skills of wilderness survival,
29:10like the art of making fire with sticks and stones.
29:13And that's, ladies, how we make fire here.
29:17But rather than get with the programme,
29:20the other three girls want to get the hell out.
29:23We're all going to do a runner tonight.
29:24It's going to be great.
29:26We go to the town,
29:28we basically run that way as far as we can,
29:30try and ask someone where the town is.
29:32We get to the town and hitchhike to Vegas.
29:34We hitchhike to Vegas.
29:37Yeah.
29:38Because Georgie's got family there
29:40who own a shipping company
29:41that will bring us straight back to the UK,
29:44no questions asked.
29:46That's the plan.
29:48Suspecting an attempted escape may be on the cards,
29:51base has sent in their troubleshooter,
29:53former army ranger Guy.
29:55I've just been brought in as kind of an extra set of ears
29:58and an extra set of eyes too,
30:00just so that we can keep track of them,
30:03keep them safe.
30:04Lady, it's there.
30:05Poppy's in her shelter.
30:06In a situation like this,
30:08they'll normally plan together,
30:09okay, like this is what we'll do
30:11and this is how we'll do it
30:12and then we'll take off during the night sometime.
30:16That's what they'll plan to do.
30:17So we'll make sure
30:18that we're just really keeping track of them.
30:33As night falls,
30:42staff decide to put an end to the antics.
30:45Okay, so this is what's going on.
30:47We're going to collect everything of theirs.
30:49The only thing that they're going to have on them
30:50is their t-shirt and whatever else they sleep in
30:54but pants, shoes, everything.
30:56Does that make sense?
30:57Yeah, boy.
30:58Because we feel like we just need to end this right now.
31:01Can you just get your pants and shoes together for me?
31:02Oh, you suck.
31:04Yeah.
31:04You really do suck.
31:05Yeah, Dina, remember how to roll them all up?
31:07I ain't staying here for another day, mate.
31:09Fuck that.
31:10God, I've got to go change plans.
31:27Morning, evening.
31:29Hello.
31:29You all right?
31:32I was just saying goodnight.
31:34Goodnight.
31:34Goodnight.
31:36See you later.
31:36See you later, Mum.
31:37See you later, Mum.
31:38They're taking everything.
31:41We don't have anything left.
31:43I have to run to Vegas and a pair of boxer shorts.
31:48Vegas is a long way away, but then so is home.
31:53Right now, I would really like to be in my own bed,
31:57listening to some music and having a spliff.
32:00I don't like going to the toilet outside.
32:02It's not very nice at all.
32:03When I get back, I'm going to appreciate my toilet more
32:06and, like, don't actually take care of it.
32:08And we get, like, four pairs of underwear.
32:12It's really weird.
32:14It's like, there's seven days in the week.
32:16We get four pairs.
32:17Like, can't we?
32:18It's like, oh, dear.
32:19If you're watching this at home,
32:20you shouldn't send your kids here.
32:22You really, really shouldn't.
32:23They'll hate you forever and ever.
32:26Please.
32:27I go back to my tent.
32:29The girl's behaviour goes from bad to worse.
32:32I have sticks!
32:34If you keep doing what you're doing,
32:37it's not going to get better.
32:39Ooh!
32:39Ooh!
32:40Ooh!
32:40Ooh!
32:40Ooh!
32:41Ooh!
32:41Ooh!
32:42Ooh!
32:42Ooh!
32:43Ooh!
32:43Ooh!
32:44Ooh!
32:44Ooh!
32:45Ooh!
32:45Ooh!
32:46Ooh!
32:47Ooh!
32:48Ooh!
32:49Ooh!
32:50Ooh!
32:51Overnight, reinforcements have arrived.
32:53The girl's escape plan came to nothing,
32:56but staff are taking no chances.
32:58Cowboy man's come to help out.
33:01Look!
33:02Look, he's smiling.
33:05Yeah.
33:05Look, you made him smile.
33:07Oh, great!
33:08I made the scary cowboy smile.
33:10They're so going to help me get out of this place.
33:12Shh!
33:14They're going to kill me!
33:15So what's your plan today?
33:17We are going to burn the forest.
33:18Yeah.
33:19Burn it down, huh?
33:19Which means they have to evacuate us.
33:22Where do you want to go?
33:22Uh, back to me.
33:23Anywhere with cigarettes.
33:2436 hours of no nicotine, alcohol, or drugs
33:28means that the girls are going cold turkey,
33:31months before Thanksgiving.
33:33Don't threaten anyone with that stick, all right?
33:35They're all just bouncing off the walls right now.
33:38No, no.
33:39And, uh, they're all suffering pretty hardcore withdrawal symptoms.
33:42They're still flying high on the drugs.
33:44I know what I need to do.
33:45I need to have a split.
33:47Please.
33:48Okay, back to my turn.
33:50Let's keep them separate, please.
33:52Hey, Georgie, do not push me.
33:54I have a fucking question.
33:55If you push me, that is the line that will not be crossed.
33:59I have a stick!
34:01I have a stick!
34:03I have sticks!
34:05Get down.
34:06Ow!
34:07Let go of that.
34:07If you keep doing what you're doing, it's not going to get better.
34:23The camp's psychologist, Lauren, has been called in.
34:27She wants to get to the bottom of Georgie's rebel behavior.
34:31Can we sit down?
34:33I mean, I know I can.
34:34Do you want to sit down?
34:34It's not really.
34:36It's all right.
34:37Well, I'm gonna.
34:43What?
34:45I haven't asked anything yet.
34:47I know.
34:47Why are we sat here then?
34:50I guess when you're ready to talk, I'll talk.
34:51If you're not ready yet, I can hang out.
34:53Well, I'm not going to talk to you, so I'm not going to stand here.
34:57Well, yes, you are.
34:57I'm not.
34:58Georgie.
34:59No.
35:01Mommy!
35:04Unable to get Georgie to so much as look her in the eye, Lauren calls Georgie's mother to try and shed some light on things.
35:15She didn't have, um, she's, she's very, uh, intimidated might be the wrong word, but she's not really into therapy.
35:22And so, I guess I'm going to just ask you a few things and hope that we can put some of the pieces of the puzzle together.
35:28Well, she's not at all used to actually, you know, going deeper, discussing anything.
35:34I think there's a lot in Georgie that she, that she doesn't talk about at all.
35:41I mean, that's what I'm hoping that she's going to achieve over there with you.
35:46Okay.
35:47There are problems and issues with Georgie because of the family breakup that happened.
35:53You know, it really did affect her, so...
35:55What is her relationship with her father?
35:57Um, extremely distant.
36:00Mm-hmm.
36:00And I think that the way things have gone, the fact that he's not been there for her,
36:05I think she then now tests everybody that she meets.
36:09Okay.
36:10And so she'll push them to the nth degree because she firmly believes at some stage they're going to say, right, that's it.
36:18I think if you can crack that, you know, the fear of rejection...
36:22Okay.
36:22Then you've sort of cracked Georgie.
36:24Thanks so much, Ian.
36:25You have a great week.
36:26Okay, then.
36:27Thanks.
36:27Bye.
36:28Take care.
36:35At camp, a plan is afoot.
36:37We've decided to split the group into two.
36:40We have four girls who are complying and following all the rules.
36:43And then we have Julie, Danny and Georgie who are doing their own thing and basically treating this like a game.
36:49And so we're going to take the other four girls away to a different site and carry on with the program.
36:55And these three will see that indeed that, you know, they're being left behind.
37:00Every single other person in this camp has got their shoes on.
37:03And I'm just not allowed to wear them.
37:05Look, she's, like, playing over there with, like, sticks and the animals and, like, we're just stuck here with fucking peanuts and granola.
37:17Oh, well, as long as I'm allowed my fake spliff, I'm all right.
37:19I just think they're being stubborn, really.
37:22If I don't do it as I'm told, I'm never going to get out of here and I actually want to get something out of this.
37:26So I might as well do what they say.
37:29Of course, Lydia has always been the model of obedience.
37:34We're Brian and Tina Rowlands and that's our daughter Lydia.
37:37She's making our life a living hell.
37:40As soon as Lydia hit 13, she straightaway started wearing black clothes, heavy makeup.
37:46She had her lip pierced, her tongue pierced.
37:50She pierced her ears herself all the way around.
37:53They weren't mad about it. They just said I looked like a twat.
37:56The worst thing that Lydia does is she hangs out in the park and down there there's just a bunch of losers.
38:01It's not as if we all just go down there to do drugs and drink or whatever.
38:06I mean, that does go on down there.
38:07Lydia's been hospitalised twice for overdosing on ecstasy.
38:11And we know that in the past that she's, you know, stolen her stuff and bought drugs with her.
38:15My last school, I stole these two girls' phones and sold them.
38:20She'd steal from anyone.
38:21And there was nothing else I could have done because I actually owed a dealer a lot of money.
38:28I felt it all so devastating.
38:31You know, she's so lovely and lively and pretty.
38:39And she could do so much with her life.
38:42But she's doing nothing.
38:43Lydia's on her best behaviour, for now.
38:50So it's going to be so nice.
38:51So are we ready?
38:52Ready.
38:53Let's go.
38:53Let's go.
38:54Right on.
38:55Well, you just go, like, right up the stairs.
38:58With the group on their way, the staff enforce a strict mouse regime with the remaining girls,
39:05allocating each of them a 15-foot square area in which they must stay.
39:09I'm going to give you a boundary.
39:10This log, right here.
39:13Stick right here.
39:15Just 24 hours ago, a couple of logs and a tree wouldn't have kept runaway Danny anywhere.
39:21Right with this tree.
39:22In that circle.
39:27OK.
39:32They're fucking making me sit in a circle.
39:35Stupid.
39:39The staff's strategy is starting to work.
39:48The calmness that's going on is, uh, it's expected.
39:52That's what we were planning for.
39:53And it's a pretty big signal that we're sending that everybody else just moved on without you.
39:57When Group 8 finally left that space, it was almost immediate when we climbed that first hill.
40:17It just felt like we were, you know, climbing out of a fog and a haze.
40:22And, uh, things have definitely, you know, dropped down to a calmer level.
40:32For Lucy, Rosie, Poppy and Lydia, mouse is over.
40:36I'm going to smudge your head for clear and pure thoughts.
40:41Thoughts?
40:42Although they could be demoted at any time, for now the girls have made it to the second stage of Aspen's programme.
40:49Coyote.
40:50All that howling has left Lucy unimpressed.
41:07I thought it was a lot of bollocks.
41:08So, Lucy, remember what you asked me before?
41:13What?
41:14You said, once I'm coyote, does that mean I stay coyote?
41:17Like, can I, can I lose it?
41:19And, you know, if you don't move along and do group things as well,
41:24so whenever you can get yourself pulled together?
41:27Can you save me a life a bit?
41:28Sure.
41:29Um.
41:31No words, fuck off.
41:33No offense, but you're doing the head in.
41:35Oh, okay.
41:36Do you think they're not ever making it?
41:39Uh-huh.
41:40Pardon?
41:41Do you think they're not ever making it?
41:43No.
41:44No.
41:47There's no way they're going to, like, stay silent and stuff like that.
41:50No, they will never do that.
41:51Well, I mean, they must have to give in at some point.
41:56They're going to be here for a long time.
41:58I know, yeah.
41:59Back at mouse camp, the girls have now spent five hours sitting in isolation.
42:08Can I move you?
42:10And it's starting to show.
42:12No, I'm not here.
42:13I mean, I'm actually not here.
42:15I am in my house.
42:16It still feels really surreal.
42:23I still think I'm going to wake up in my bed at home and be like, shit, that was a fucked up dream.
42:28I have actually been counting flies.
42:33No, because if you lie down here, you can see all the bugs on there, like, on the outside.
42:38You just count them.
42:41How sad is that?
42:42They say that no one's been a mouse for longer than 64 hours, but I think I'm going to be a mouse as long as I'm here.
42:58I'm not arrogant or anything, but the first thing it says is, follow the rules and expectations of mouse.
43:05But these people are ridiculous, and there's no way that any normal person can follow the rules and expectations of fucking mouse.
43:12The coyotes are now enjoying the privileges of following the rules.
43:17Oh, that good cheese-loving.
43:19Cheese-loving?
43:20Cheese-loving.
43:21They've earned the right to hot food.
43:23Wow.
43:24The first they've had in 48 hours.
43:27Lucy, you need a spoon, right?
43:28It's not a moment too soon for Lucy.
43:30What we want to happen is that the students choose to follow the rules rather than us forcing them to do something.
43:40We want them to see that the rules are actually beneficial to them, and they buy in and follow them.
43:47Look what you get if you're nice to people and do what you're told.
43:53So I'm learning something already.
43:55It's the first lesson Rosie's learned for a while.
43:59I'm Jenny Deeks, and that is my daughter Rosie.
44:04She's 15, but she doesn't go to school anymore, and most days she doesn't even get out of bed.
44:10Rosie?
44:11Yes?
44:11What the fuck are you doing?
44:12I just want you to get up.
44:14Some days I just wake up and I just feel so low.
44:18I want you to get up now.
44:19Hey, just get out of my room.
44:20You've got five minutes, all right?
44:22I wake her up repeatedly, and she goes back to sleep.
44:25I go to school if it's a good week, about twice.
44:29Don't fucking film me!
44:31I'm not fucking filming me again!
44:33Get you out of my face!
44:36I mean, one of the things that really pisses me off is she started having sex when she was really young.
44:42Just turned 13 when I started having sex.
44:45I went in and opened her bedroom door, and they were having sex.
44:50He was so stoned, he didn't even notice I was in the room.
44:54That was probably the most embarrassing moment of my whole life.
44:57I was walking around the shop with her the other day, and a whole group of boys turned around and shouted,
45:03Sket.
45:03I've been called a sket, slag, lusher.
45:06Those are, like, different names for slag.
45:09I feel disappointed.
45:10I do feel like Rosie's throwing her life away.
45:12I hate myself for it, but I sometimes feel I'm just letting her walk all over me.
45:27At Mouse Camp, there's no hot food, but there is food for thought.
45:33Georgie's starting to face facts.
45:36I know why I'm here, and I know what the problem is.
45:38I just have to really sort my head out.
45:43I don't have a choice other than to change what my mum sent me here for.
45:49She sent me here because of drugs, and I don't have any drugs, so I have to stop doing drugs.
45:53Georgie is the girl that we've seen the biggest improvement in the last seven or eight hours.
46:00She's accepted the idea that she's here.
46:03Unlike Georgie, Julia is still a long way from accepting anything.
46:07It's actually four months is the longest we have to stay here.
46:10Actually, I mean, the way it's set up is that you guys are here for as long as it seems necessary.
46:15Right.
46:16And the longer we've ever had a kid here, 16 weeks, doesn't mean it couldn't be longer than that.
46:20I encourage you to be able to sit with the idea of, you know what, there may be a thing or two that you can get out of this.
46:29No, I don't think there's any value in it.
46:31Not for me.
46:32Possibly for many people.
46:33Not for me.
46:34Out here, one of the things that people say is that, is that hardship doesn't create character, it uncovers it.
46:44So the question is, what sort of character is being uncovered now?
46:48Do you understand what I'm saying?
46:49This is crazy.
46:51Why the hell am I sat here having this conversation with you?
46:53This is totally crazy.
46:54Do you not understand that?
46:55It's completely crazy.
46:57Why is it crazy?
46:58Well, it just doesn't belong in my life.
47:00This whole thing does not belong in my life.
47:01It's stupid.
47:02But it is in your life, so...
47:03No, it isn't.
47:04No, it isn't.
47:04I'm not here.
47:06How's that working for you?
47:08You've been doing that for the last at least 24 hours.
47:12You're still here.
47:15You're still here.
47:16And if the girls don't knuckle down, they're going to be here for a very long time.
47:23It's uphill all the way, as the hiking starts in earnest.
47:27I want to get home.
47:28No.
47:29There's news from home.
47:31I miss them so much.
47:35And the girls turn on each other.
47:38Oh, my God.
47:38If I spend any more time with six other girls in my life, I think I will end up going mad.
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