Alone (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - Of Wolf and Man - full transcript

(Alan)
Holy [bleep].
This is home.

(Dustin)
There goes civilization.

(Joe)
This is nuts.

[grunts]

(man)
Oh, man.

I definitely did not believe
that I was gonna be

the first guy gone.

I was basically surrounded
by bears.

[howling]

The hell was that?

[howling]



(Chris)
Where the hell are they?

I can't see.

They're so loud up there.

Right up there.

I'm gonna go hide
in my [bleep] tent.

(Brant)
This is gonna be a bitch.

(Chris)
We have to film it,
and we're totally alone.

(Dustin)
Nobody knows what it's like here

except for the ten guys out here
doing it.

Time to get shelter.

(Dustin)
There's nobody here but me.

(man)
This is so hard
doing this alone.

(Josh)
I'm scared to death right now.

(man)
I feel like I'm starving.



[wolf howls]

[animal growling]

(man)
Pretty sure I just saw a cougar.

(man)
Oh, [bleep].

(man)
The last man standing
wins $500,000.

I don't want to go home.
I want to win.

(man)
This is the chance
in a lifetime,

but it's not worth dying over.

There's three wolves
on the ridge behind the camp.

Right behind my camp
there's a tall ridge.

20, 30 feet tall.

And there were three wolves
up there a little while ago.

That's terrifying.

That's--I have no way to fend--
I have some pepper spray,

but I have no way
to defend myself against wolves.

They sounded like they may have
moved out a little bit.

I'm really hoping they have,

because I'm scared
[bleep]less of them,

to be perfectly honest with you.

I don't have a firearm.

I don't have anything.

And the thought of getting
attacked by some wolves

is the scariest thing
I can think of at the moment.

When I was a kid, I was attacked
by a German Shepherd.

So that's put
an uncomfortableness

between me and dogs.

And then knowing
that there's dogs here

that'll not just kill you,
but will eat you,

I mean,
that's pretty damn scary.

Going to do something
where you know you're returning

is different than when you
get there and [bleep] changes,

and maybe you might not
come back.

I told everybody I'd do
this as long as it was safe,

and the predators
were my biggest concern.

I hate that they showed up
so soon.

And to have nothing.

I'm not one
used to being defenseless.

I usually have the answer to
most of those kind of problem.

That's just not a chance
I'm willing to take.

So I've called to be extracted.

I'm not gonna be sleeping here

under a piece of canvas with
a bunch of wolves behind me.

(man)
He's alive.

That's good.

(Chris)
Scared.

You know where
that ridge is?

Yeah.

My camp is set up
just below that ridge,

and they were right
on that ridge last night.

It was just [bleep] terrifying.

That was scary.

'Cause it's not like they
were just howling or nothing.

They were, like, you know,
fighting amongst themselves.

They're fighting something.

It was pretty intense.

'Cause you got nothing,
you know?

I mean, I'm not used to
being defenseless,

and that was pretty--
pretty scary.

Yeah, I mean, this is it.

I mean, you know, you feel
like a complete failure,

but it's not worth the risk
to me to get hurt.

I've got too many people
that count on me.

I hate that it was so fast.

Two days.

But there's nothing
I can do about that.

It is what it is at this point.

But, I'm--I'm big enough to
admit I was scared [bleep]less,

and that's why I'm gonna leave.

(Mitch)
Interesting encounter
last night.

There was an animal
about 30 feet from my tent.

I believe it was a wolf.

It wasn't a big deal.

I just slept with my knife
in my hand, unsheathed.

Slept on my back,
had my headlamp on,

and rested gently.

And if something
decided to come into my tent,

I would have had no issue
turning this on,

blinding him instantaneously,

and striking
numerous times,

in the face, eyes, neck.

No issues.

I'm still in this dense forest,

still at my first camp.

All my clothes
are still totally soaked.

I was wringing
some out last night.

Haven't found fresh water yet.

That's a big deal.

Once I find fresh water,
I will set up a proper camp.

I'm so glad that I
captured the water that I did.

That one pot has carried me.

But there's only a little left.

And I can't rely on just rain
to survive for water.

Pretty soon,
I'm gonna be in dire straits.

Yep.
Fresh water.

That's the name of the game.

Got to find it.

So I'm on a really,
really steep incline,

and I'm fighting
through this stuff.

Weaving and crawling
and whatever I can do.

Hope there's something
good at the top.

Well, no water.

So I was hoping there
might have been a ridge

or something like that.

So I've climbed up to the peak.

I can see salt water
on both sides.

So now I'm gonna start working--

I'm gonna try to stay
on this spine if I can.

I'm gonna start working towards
the other end of the island.

Maybe there's water
somewhere over there.

If not, I'm gonna
have to do some drastic changes.

I'll have to pick up
all my camp,

and find a new location
that has water.

Sometimes I think of,

what would the situation be

if I was out here
with my family?

If my daughter was
walking around out here with me,

and she was hungry.

I mean, I go without eating,

but if I had to provide
for my family right now,

I wouldn't be getting it done.

It's important,
when you're looking for water,

to not get too animated.

To not raise
your blood pressure up,

get your heart beating fast,

break into a sweat.

All these things--

rushing around,
hiking really hard,

will hinder your body's ability

to maintain
what it has for water currently.

The only water
I have is back at camp,

and it's not a lot.

It's only a couple sips.

It's only a couple sips.

(Joe)
Today, I know what I
need to do is find firewood.

And if I can't find firewood
around here,

then I have to move,

because I can't keep
going without drinking water.

It's just not possible.

I wish I had a beach.

There's no beach.

I can't go out to a beach
to try and get food

or try and even set up near it.

It's thick marsh,

the thickest in the world.

And it's peak rainy season
in a rainforest.

It's just ridiculous.

I don't know why I'm here.

This is a bad site.

I'm hoping the other guys
actually got a better site

than I did, because if everybody
got a site like this,

this isn't lasting long.

Today needs to be
a productive day.

Oh, it's nice to be out
in the open here.

It felt so dense
in the forest there.

It's so much darker in here.

Oh, there's a bear.

There's a bear right across.

Let's see
if I can zoom in on it.

There he is.

He's actually coming my way.

Hello, bear.

Hello, bear.

Hello.

Go on, bear.

I'm bigger than you.

I'm bigger than I really am.

He does not mind me at all.

You stay on your side.

This is my side.

Go on.

Uh-oh.

[dramatic music]

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Oh, it's nice to be out
in the open here.

It felt so dense
in the forest there.

It's so much darker in here.

Oh, there's a bear.

There's a bear right across.

Let's see if I can
zoom in on him.

There he is.

He's actually coming my way.

Hello, bear.

Hello, bear.

Oh, man.

He's kind of intimidating me,
to be honest with you.

I've never had this much time
near a bear.

Please turn around and go back.

I don't want trouble.

Good boy, go on.

Oh, man.

I need a fire.

I need a fire tonight.

Man.

This is real.

Now I'm soaking wet,
can't find firewood,

and a bear who doesn't care
what I tell him.

Look at that.
Look that.

Oh, my goodness.

This is crazy.

He's coming this way.

He's got his nose up,
smelling me.

I got to go.

I got to get out of here;
he's coming my way.

I got to go.

I don't want none of--

no problems with him.

So I sewed on
some eyes onto my hat.

I've heard
it helps with cougars,

and that cougars
are a problem up here.

Might be worth it.

Because oftentimes
they attack from behind.

And so, during the day
I'm wearing this behind me,

so if I'm turning my head
and moving, like this...

a cougar might think twice.

Does it work?

I don't know.

We'll find out.

You know, there's just nothing
that prepares you for this.

It's like the first couple days
in a new town.

It's just, you know,
you don't know your way around.

You don't know traffic patterns.

You don't know where you
favorite grocery store is yet.

I'm just learning
the neighborhood, now,

trying to get comfortable.

Jeez, I think a see a ball
in the water.

We'll see if I can scoop it up.

Who knows what I
can use that for.

Sweet find.

Solid.
That's a buoy.

Very nice find.

No holes in it, not waterlogged.

It's perfectly good.

Jeez, maybe
I'll call him Wilbur.

Draw a face on him.

[laughs]

Girlfriend actually told me,

"Don't do that.

Start naming balls and stuff
if you find them."

I'm getting pretty dried out,

to the point I stopped filming
with the other camera.

And that's what's frustrating,
these cameras.

That's a whole facet
of this that I just--

I didn't realize how hard
it would be to do all this

and try to film it.

It's really--
really a challenge.

I'm not a tech kind of person.

(Mitch)
Sun's going down.

It's gonna be dark soon.

Kind of don't even care.

I'm not even gonna
build a fire right now,

'cause I'm not even interested.

I just--I've been looking
for water all day,

probably for at least
eight hours today.

This is the far side
of my island.

Now, I doubt that you guys
can hear it,

but all the way across,

I can hear
what sounds like water,

like, rapids.

All the way over there.

I think that'd be my last hurrah
to look for water.

I mean,
I'm getting tired as it is.

I got to find water.

I mean,
I'll have to cross all that.

I'm not even sure
how I'm gonna do that yet.

I definitely don't want
to swim or anything like that.

I might have to make a boat.

But if I don't find water there,
I'm in big trouble.

[ominous music]

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(Mitch)
The quest for water continues.

It's stressful,

gives me a lot of anxiety.

I start thinking of, like,

when I can have a drink
of water next, constantly.

Like, it can
dominate your thoughts.

It's hard to think of other
things sometimes, you know?

I have to cross right here,
at low tide,

and then walk across.

I believe that's mainland.

Walk across right here.

That's an island,
behind the other side.

I have to walk all the way down,
over there, into that corner.

My only water source is a tarp

that's gathering
what little water I can.

And my pot
is basically empty right now.

So I can take a gamble,

and use that tarp to make a boat
so I don't waste the day.

So if I have a problem
and I fall in,

on this makeshift tarp boat
that's my only water collector,

I'm in big trouble.

Because then I'm gonna
be totally soaked.

I'm gonna be freezing cold.

I mean, my hands
are almost numb right now.

But, I mean, if all my clothes
are that, and that's me?

I mean, we're talking
serious hypothermic situation,

and this place is so hard
to make a fire,

that's, like, a huge risk.

Survival psychology
is interesting.

I'm starting
to see it more and more.

Just, little choices
escalate to bigger choices.

And you can be hard on yourself.

I feel myself being
a little hard on myself.

I want to do
what's right all the time.

I strive for it.

Probably too much.

Probably to a fault.

Yeah.

I grew up a farm boy
in the Midwest,

so I was always outside working,
using my hands.

Moved away when I was 19.

Became an outdoor educator.

The most aggressive time
for bears is like...

I grew up in a family
of seven people.

My mother and my father
are still living.

I have three sisters,
and a brother.

I have intimate friends
that I really appreciate.

You know, I have a core group
of people

that are really excited
about what I'm doing right here.

(man)
You're only allowed one knife?

We could take
a smaller knife too,

but that counts as two items.

Okay.

(Lucas)
We're taking out ten items
out of a list of 40.

And it really just comes
down to making good decisions.

That's gonna be the difference
between life and death.

I wouldn't want to be a bear,
if I was walking up on that.

Ultimately,
it's gonna be a crapshoot.

You know,
I don't know, man.

Get there and think, "Damn,
wish I'd have brought that.

Don't need this."

[laughter]

Any sort of--

- Throws a hell of a spark.
- Yeah, totally.

So night's starting to set in,

and I'm hustling
to get a bed done.

I'm cutting off
all these branches--

I believe this is a Fir tree--
I'm sorry, a Yew tree--

before the night sets,
so I have a cozy place to sleep,

instead of sleeping
right on the ground.

I've been sleeping on my tarp.

And it's fine;
it insulates me,

but I'd rather have something
with some cushion.

So I don't got much time
to talk before it gets dark.

I need to get moving.

(Joe)
It's too wet here.

This is a freaking bog.

I can't stay here.

There's no surviving here.

There's no thriving here.

It's gonna--
I can't stay here.

This is all low-lying, marshy.

But there's no wood to use.

I try to chop down trees,
they break in half.

They're just sponge.

So while low tide
is at the river,

I'm gonna pack up all my crap.

Camera gear, backpack,
just tons of stuff.

And just haul it
across the river.

And I've only got about an hour,
an hour and a half,

of light left,

so I got to get going.

My feet are soaked,
my legs are soaked,

and now I'm on the same side
of the river as the bear.

I got dropped off,

and the tide was high,

and it wasn't even a possibility
to cross that.

And now it's nighttime.

That's when the tide's down low.

And now I'm wet,
with no fire and wet gear.

That looks like a game trail
in there.

Looks like a clearing
right there.

That'll be fantastic.

Just got to get up
this nonsense.

This could work.

This could work.

(Mitch)
I'm still searching.

I really need to find water.

Well, here it is.

Is it a boat, or is it
a tarp filled with leaves?

Okay, I have a dry bag.

I have my clothes in there,

anything but my underwear
and my boots.

I have my ferro rod
and knife on me.

I also have a glass bottle
I found in there as well.

So we'll see what happens.

If I end up going over,
it would be absolutely tragic.

[dramatic music]

¶ ¶

Today's journey
for water continues.

I have to find fresh water,
or I'm done.

All the way across,

I can hear
what sounds like water rapids.

So, I just built a boat out
of a tarp and sticks and leaves.

If I have a problem
and I fall in

on this makeshift tarp boat,

I mean, we're talking
serious hypothermic situation.

If I don't find water there,
I'm in big trouble.

I'm in the current.

It's just pulling me along.

I hear some water
running over here.

I'm gonna go check that out.

Made it.

Probably about an hour
of sunlight left.

And I hear water
running over here.

And I think I see water
running over here.

And that would be
a huge blessing,

that I've finally
found fresh water

after three days of looking.

That's what I heard.

That is the beautiful sound
of a freshwater mountain stream.

Oh, yes.

(Wayne)
It's all good
in the neighborhood.

I'll go over and check the water
in that tarp.

Oh, yeah.

Water there, water there,
little bit there.

Sweet.

Good stuff.

I kind of wonder
how the other boys are doing.

I'm sure there's probably been
some frustrated boys out there.

(Sam)
I haven't had water
in a little while.

There's this big old rotten log
right by my camp,

and I decided to make it
into a water catch.

So we're gonna hollow out a
big old hole in the middle here,

then we'll put up
my plastic sheet over it,

and we'll arrange it
so the water just runs down

into the water catch.

And that's probably big enough
to hold five or six gallons.

So that's good stuff,
good stuff.

(Alan)
I've sweated so much
running around,

trying to get the lay
of the land here.

Starting to feel kind of dry.

My stomach's gnawing, you know?

It's not from hunger.

So I'm gonna find the place
where the water runs in.

Try to fill my water bottle up.

And then maybe, just maybe,

I can get a fire going
to sterilize the water.

And if I can just get
that one drink

and a decent night's sleep,
I'll be okay for today.

This stuff looks like iced tea.

That'll be a start.

This thing's showing
at low battery,

and I'm not even sure
how to charge this.

Not tech savvy.

(Brant)
With no other
human interaction,

and no other
human being talking,

nobody talking to you,
nobody breathing next to you,

it just really--
it really messes with your head.

Part of that
could be dehydration

or the beginning stages
of dehydration.

So what I'm gonna do is go
down here and grab some water,

and I think I found a way
to filtrate it without fire.

So it looks like--

the water looks decent;
it's clean,

it's just a little tinged

from the tannins
from all the trees in it,

but it's fresh.

What I'm gonna attempt to do

is run this water through this
moss to filtrate it,

and catch it in this cap.

It definitely filters
the color out.

I mean, the tannins
are all filtered out.

As far as killing all the bugs
that make you sick--

It tastes kind of nutty.

(Joe)
After so much hiking,
I end up going up a hill

and down a hill
with all my gear,

and set up here.

But the plus side is,

and it's a huge one,
this is what I found.

Now, this is exactly
what I had hoped for,

exactly what I had planned for.

Actual beach,
not swampy, marshy crap.

There's a ton of trees
not in the cedar swamp forest

that I can actually use
for fire.

The tide comes in, it actually

leads me to bull kelp
and other kinds of seaweed.

There's actual resources here.

There might even be some clams
and crabs here,

which would make
all the difference.

Awesome.

I found a limpet.

Have to get my knife
to get it out, I think.

There we go.

So it's small,

and there's only
a little bit of meat in it,

but I've already found two.

So I can gather a couple
of these and cook them up.

I feel a lot more better today.

I feel rejuvenated.

Crossing that river
was the best thing

I could have possibly done.

And there looks to be
a little river running.

It's more of a stream, I guess.

It should be fresh water,
though.

It is.

Fresh water.

Oh, thank God.

This is ideal.

(Alan)
I am starving.

I found a slug.

(Mitch)
It's cold; it's raining.

My toes are completely numb
right now.

I don't have a camp yet.

I don't have a fire yet.

It's not good.

(Joe)
I'm screwed.

Oh, man, I really hoped
this didn't happen.

[dramatic music]

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(Joe)
I'm super happy.

It's a total different feeling
than yesterday.

Crossing that river
was the best thing

I could have possibly done.

I'm gonna make a fire
on the beach.

Come on.

Boil some water
before I start construction,

because I'm dying here.

Man, it's so hard getting
a fire going here.

And then go build my shelter
and whatnot.

It's a total different feeling
than yesterday.

I'm actually happy.

Everything's looking up.

It might take a few tries,
but,

best place right now I found
to make a fire is the beach.

I've often
wondered since a child

if I could actually go out and
survive with the skills I have.

It's basically
a personal challenge to me.

I'm representing my family,
my country.

I have to do my best.

Come on.

I have tapped into
all aspects of survival.

I can make fire.

I can make shelter, primitively.

I've made primitive knives

and cut down trees with
hatchets, just out of stone.

I've taken
on the primitive ways.

Okay, this is my man cave here.

I keep it locked, of course.

Girlfriend, she don't like guns
and knives and such.

These here are stone hatchets.

That one's made out slate.

That's made out of flint.

All kinds of primitive knives
and such that I've made.

I've actually cut up meat
and so on with these here.

This one's made out of dacite.

I've gutted a trout with this.

This is a sweet little knife.

It's one of my favorite.

Here's an ash bow
that I made a few years ago.

Here's another knife here.

This is obsidian.

And that thing is gorgeous.

You can see it's, you know,
it's see-through.

Okay, I've got it.

Now I just got to keep it going.

Well, here's my water source.

Okay, let's do this.

Out of the other nine,
I have no clue.

But, I know myself,
I'm a problem solver.

I can stay out there
a long time.

here we go,
we got a rolling boil.

That water's good now.

Sweet.

Sweet, sweet, sweet.

You know, pretty well anything
that I can think of,

I have it covered.

Besides a cougar jumping
on my back.

[laughs]

(Mitch)
I just moved my camp.

It's cold, it's raining.

I just crossed that maybe
six or eight times,

trying to move all the stuff
with my boat.

I'm actually wet, like,
to my waist.

Everything that I have is wet,
pretty much.

I'm totally soaked.

Took my boots off
so they wouldn't be wet.

My toes are completely numb
right now.

I'm getting hypothermic.

I don't have a camp yet.

I don't have a fire yet.

I don't know
where I'm gonna set up.

It's not good.

So I got to get moving.

I want to set up my tarp
into a shelter.

As long as I have a place
to sleep that's dry and safe,

and I have a fire so I can start
drying myself out,

not worry about hypothermia,
things like that?

That's all I really want.

Got my tripod structure set up,

and the lashing
was the perfect tension.

So I'm gonna throw my tarp
on here and see how it fits

and do some tweaking

and get my shelter up.

When you get the folding
just right,

it's almost like origami.

You got to just work
with the material

and figure out the shape
that it wants to be in.

I have canvas all around me,
everywhere, and a door.

This is far superior
to a lean-to.

'Cause now air
can only come in from the front.

This is gonna trap any heat

that I generate
when I close it all up.

[thunder rumbling]

Not a moment too soon.

We're getting smashed
by a storm right now.

The wind's picked up.

It's been building all day.

It's raining hard right now.

I need to set up a tarp
over my shelter,

because it's just
raining constantly hear.

I need some living space
that's dry

so I can set up a fire,
make myself warm,

and kind of make this camp
a little more permanent.

When I first got out here
I was feeling pretty good.

I was really feeling good.

I was really thinking long-term.

But now I've kind of come
to the terms of, you know,

this is a pretty cold,
unwelcome place to live.

I mean, I kind of have a clock
over my head right now.

It all depends on getting
set up,

being able to get stabilized.

Right now I'm not as stable
as I want to be.

Well, it's not perfect,
but at least it's up.

It's something, anyways.

Well, here it is.

Fresh, boiled water.

Drenched beyond belief.

Down pouring.

If it doesn't get better,

then I might go home
and continue on with my life.

I don't like being
in these situations at all.

[dramatic music]

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(Alan)
There's definitely things
to eat here.

You can forage.

But if you know what's around,

that's a sure bet.

I found a slug.

This is a pretty good
size there.

I normally wouldn't prepare food
at camp,

but I figure it's not gonna
put up a whole lot of scent.

I'm gonna boil him first
to get all the slime out,

and then I'll probably
chop him up and, uh...

sizzle him on there
for a minute.

I don't know how it'll taste,

but we'll find out.

So what I'm gonna do know, just,

if I can, take him out of there.

Move him over to my improvised
cutting board.

De-slime the little fella.

Oh, he's hot.

Oh, wow.
That's kind of gross.

[falsetto] First we sauté
the slug in a brown gravy.

And all manner of excrement
and foul whatevers

will come emanating
from the snail.

Don't let this bother you,
'cause

we would simply add more wine.

yeah, good rolling boil.

Kill any of the little
strange happening in there.

Mm.

Yeah.

No doubt about it.

It's exactly
as you would expect.

It kind of tastes
a little bit of shrimp

and something else.

It has the texture of calamari.

Mm.

Yeah, I think I'm gonna start
grabbing those when I see them.

They're good.

So I got a big problem.

I lost my ferro rod.

That's not good at all.

If that's the case,

I have to keep
this fire going indefinitely.

I think I sat it here
on top of my coat,

and it was the same color
as my coat,

so when I picked it up
it might have flown of.

And as you can see, the tide's
coming right into that log.

And when there's a big wave,
it rolls right up to the log.

See what I mean?
It's coming right up to it.

If that happened and my
fire steel went into the water,

I'm screwed.

Oh, man, I really
hope this didn't happen.

Oh, man.

What a dumb, dumb mistake.

[groans]

Damn it.

I really didn't need this today.

[groans]

Come on.

That sucks.

That's not good, man.

Without that, I'm screwed.

I can't get--
I can't get water to drink.

I can't believe it.

I cannot believe it.

Wow, this sucks.

Sucks.

I can't believe it.

Man.

I'm so [bleep].

(Lucas)
I think the real challenge
is the psychology,

when you're alone.

How much is the time
away from your family worth?

(Alan)
When you get alone,
all of it comes up.

Every mistake you've ever made.

(man)
[bleep]

(Mitch)
Just the way the mind works
while you're out here.

- It's freaky.
- Nights here are long.

It's just too dark
to do anything.

(Brant)
It's ridiculous.

Should have brought a blowtorch.

(man)
This place belongs to the bears.

- Oh, [bleep].
- Hey, bear.

It just kept coming.