DEBUT: "The Hero"

The cast.

Team Challenge: In this first one starting on top of the TOWERBANK, two pairs of contestants must swing across its face, connect hands & retrieve half of a six-digit code. Three people must then take it to the tower's pinnacle & enter that code. 
Time Limit: Half-hr.

Every time a six-person TC's completed, the allotted time in the Hero's Challenge will be doubled & $10K will be donated to the American Red Cross. In the HC, only one player will compete to try to make usually $50K. When successful, they can either bank that amount for him/herself (Lydia has already said she'll do that if she has the chance), or put it in the winner-takes-all jackpot that starts at $250K (which can be worth up to $1M).

Competing in TC Phase #1: Shaun & Marty (7:59 left) and Charles & Rachel (3:31 left)
Code: 425370

Patty had been offered $25K before the timer even started, but she declined. Had she taken that $$$, Lydia & Dr. Dave would've had to compete in that phase as well.

Competing in TC Phase #2: Dave, Lydia & Charles (only they are eligible for the HC)
RESULT- SUCCESS (six sec. to spare)

FIRST HC: Dave's been voted to be driven in a Chevrolet Suburban to Noriega's Bunker. He has to remember the code 2637830489 & is then given 20 min. to retrieve the 50 grand attached to a generator that's padlocked w/ the code 6392 (he must correctly enter the first code to get that padlock code).
R- SUCCESS

DECISION- PLACE IN JACKPOT ($300K)