Alone (2015–…): Season 3, Episode 4 - Outfoxed - full transcript
A lack of food forces the remaining participants to get creative. One survivalist devises an ingenious method for getting protein while another battles Patagonia's wiliest predator.
[dramatic music]
*
- I've never seen
thick bush like this.
It's just terrible stuff.
Should've been
a 15 minute hike,
and now I'm lost.
- Oh, there's the sun.
First time
I've been able to stand
in a ray of sunshine for days.
[sighs]
That feels good.
- Bam!
Rainbow trout up in this bitch.
Now I got food,
now I got bait,
and the fish keep coming.
- There's definitely
something outside.
Hey!
Hey!
[animal squealing]
- This is the hardest terrain.
- Patagonia is a different
environment entirely.
- Everything out here
is so hard.
- Patagonia's no joke.
- Are you willing
to give up who you are
for what you will become?
- It's Patagonia,
for God's sakes.
- Patagonia!
- It's tougher than
I ever imagined.
- Just missing home right now.
- You get a feeling
of helplessness,
like, "Why am I doing this?"
- Oh, my God!
- The last person left
wins $500,000
and is a badass.
- Bam!
- Ugh.
[animal growling]
- What is that?
- It's just how far
you can push yourself
and what you're able to do.
- Yeah!
- You don't have anyone
to lean on.
- Oh, my God, I got a fish.
- Go to bed hungry,
wake up hungry.
- Can't believe I did that.
- Ready, guy?
- It's gonna come down
to mental endurance
and food deprivation.
- [cries]
- Person'll be dead
in a week at this rate.
[animal growling]
*
- Hello?
That's a big cat.
*
*
- Right there, on the tip
of that piece of dead tree,
is a clump of
Old Man's Beard hanging there.
*
Gonna do a little
target practice,
try and knock that off.
*
Brought the slingshot 'cause
I'm thinking there's a lot
of small game,
so I'm hoping to be able
to take some birds.
Some ducks.
*
That target's about
20 feet away.
And that's about
the distance I plan
to be able to hit a bird
with these stones.
Inhale...
exhale into the draw.
*
Oh!
Nailed it.
Only took...
[chuckles]
18 shots.
That feels good.
Feels good.
*
My situation has been
a bit discouraging.
Not having sunlight
is so difficult.
And then the hill is so steep,
and I'm really not happy
with the amount of fish
I'm catching.
*
So there's a duck out here.
And he's swimming along.
And I'm gonna try
and get a headshot on him.
That would be worth
swimming out there for.
*
Got it!
[laughs]
Oh, dead-on,
that was great.
*
Oh, I love slingshots.
*
Oh, man.
I missed him.
He dove under.
All I managed to do
was scare him.
Well, that sucked.
He's gone out even further.
Slingshot's turning out
to be much harder
than I thought
it would ever be.
*
That gives me an idea.
I'm gonna make
a duck trap out there.
I'm gonna get him.
*
- Oh, I love my shelter.
It is so dang warm in here.
[laughs]
It's time for a home tour.
I've got some stew,
some extra wood,
nice fire--two chairs?
Get out of here.
Two chairs?
There's a fish
on the ready right there.
*
Got the bed all laid out.
So the next thing
I'm gonna do
is work on the door,
and that's it.
Shelter done, done.
Let's start on that right now.
All right.
So.
[sighs heavily]
*
So I'm starting off
with some of this older bamboo.
Then, I'm gonna sort of wrap
this newer bamboo in.
*
I'm gonna make two triangles
with the old stuff,
so that it fits
in my door right there.
*
I want to have it open
and close,
which would be nice.
*
They say three half hitches
ties the devil.
You know what,
might do four.
Just to make sure
that devil's done.
All right.
Next step.
This stuff.
*
All right,
we're getting there.
We're getting there.
*
There.
Oh, that's awesome.
* La-da-dee
* La-da-da
[laughs]
Look at that.
It opens and closes.
Abierto.
Cerrado.
Abierto.
Cerrado.
[laughs]
A beautiful shelter!
[laughs]
*
- I have no fish yet.
I can't believe I haven't
caught any fish.
I set more trigger traps,
um, based on land
to set the hook
when a fish bites on the hook.
But I'm not gonna give up.
The lake is not
gonna have the best of me.
I have to get at least one fish
out of that lake.
*
How badass is this, huh?
*
So I'm gonna check
the fish traps.
My family usually
goes salmon fishing,
ocean fishing
at this time of the year.
And, uh, they're probably having
a lot more luck than me.
*
There's a fish down there.
[gasps]
Is there a fish on the line?
There's something pulling,
I think.
Yes!
There's a fish.
Yes!
Okay.
It's stuck in the reeds.
Darn it.
I don't want to lose it.
*
I need to go get it.
Oh, I'm gonna have to go
in this icy water.
*
It's really important
not to get all my clothing wet.
So I'm just
taking my clothes off.
This is gonna be
so freaking cold.
I'm gonna get hypothermic.
But I need that fish.
Holy [bleep],
it's so freaking cold.
Oh, my gosh.
I just don't want to
lose this fish.
*
Whoa!
*
Oh, [bleep].
The line just broke.
I might try to go for it.
*
So freaking--whoo.
Whoo.
*
Ugh, it's so cold.
Ugh.
So cold.
Whoo.
[panting]
*
It's right there.
*
Ugh, I want that fish.
So freaking--whoo.
Whoo.
*
It's right there.
*
Ugh, I want that fish.
*
[coughs]
I lost it.
Ugh.
So upset right now.
*
Oh, I can't believe
I lost that fish.
My legs are freezing cold.
They're red.
Well, I learned my lesson today.
Sort of learned my lesson.
That lake just keeps...
pounding me with loses.
*
This is the first day I've
really felt alone, I think.
Just watching the biggest fish
swim away today,
just...
made me want to have a hug.
From my family.
It's just, um...
ugh, I need that protein.
*
*
- I found this plant.
And I don't know what it is.
I'm hoping it's
a good source for tea
and a good edible plant.
*
When you're experimenting
with plants,
don't eat too much at a time.
This is an old bushman trick.
We're all
in this together, so...
I'll try them out for ya.
*
I'll see what
these greens taste like.
*
Ah, the tea's kind of...
doesn't have much
of a flavor, the tea.
*
But the plant's good.
*
You know, hopefully,
it's a safe--
[retches]
Oh, no!
Yeah, no.
Hopefully, it's safe.
I think we'll be okay.
*
The food situation's
becoming the issue.
*
Just not catching fish like
I did the first couple days.
*
Can't just keep going,
like, a week at a time
or anything like that
without some fish.
I'd hate to get forced out
of here because of starvation.
*
So I got to really
think about pigs.
Seriously.
So I'm gonna go check
my snare again.
*
Oh, no.
Damn it!
Something happened
with my snare.
*
You can see the line.
It was strung out this way.
*
But nothing's in the trap.
And my bait is gone.
*
See that?
*
It took my bait.
Now, I don't know
if it was a bird or what.
But something was here.
So I'm gonna check
the trail cam.
See what happened.
*
So I don't know if it's a fox.
It's about the size of a
coyote, it looks like, though.
*
Whatever it is,
they just keep taking the bait
out of my snares.
So it's, uh,
kind of a catch-22.
I can't get pigs if something's
stealing my bait all the time.
*
He'll be back.
He has to go,
and that would be food for me.
And I've got no qualms
about eating him.
He's eaten all my bait.
Stealing the chances
of me getting a pig.
So...
it's the way it goes.
*
- I'm watching the water.
I want to make a duck trap.
I was really hoping I'd be
ahead of the game by now
with the fishing, you know?
I'd be catching enough fish
that I could be
setting some aside.
Just hasn't happened.
I need more food.
Duck would be a great
source of food.
But he's too far away
to hit with the slingshot.
*
So today's gonna be
trap-making day.
I'm gonna head down the shore
and I see a plank
down there,
which will be a little float,
and I think I'm gonna hook
a little propeller to it.
Whoa.
Found myself a surfboard.
Innovation and creativity
are very important.
Nothing has come easy.
Everything takes a lot of work.
Very tough, very tiring.
*
What I'm trying to do here is
make a little paddle wheel
that goes in here.
*
We all have our strengths
and our weaknesses.
We all have different
abilities, you know?
Mine being the ability
to make stuff.
And ever since I got my land
off the grid,
whether it's a knotted
piece of wood
or a gnarled piece of garbage
that I found at the dump,
I see the nature of the thing
and make that item
into what it wants to be.
That's my passion.
Almost a perfect fit, there,
all joined together.
Little paddles.
[mimicking motor]
To get my duck trap out there,
since I don't have a boat to
paddle out there and set it,
I was thinking about
taking some of the elastic
from my slingshot
and seeing if I can't
make it wind up.
*
Hmm.
I guess that's all that's left
is to, uh, try it out.
But first, I'm gonna try
and build, like,
a little dock
that I can walk out on
and launch my boat, that would
get me out 30 feet further.
There.
*
Patagonia's a place
of extremes.
*
Nice.
It's possible that
this lake could rise,
like, a foot and a half
every winter.
And that dock
would give me something
that I can walk out on
when the temperatures
get freezing cold.
*
Pretty sturdy.
I got to get
the duck hunter ready
and launch that.
*
So this is what
we got going on.
As you can see,
the propulsion
to take it out there.
A rock with a line tied to it.
Two of these.
And a line to a fish hook
in a fish head,
which I'm hoping
the ducks will take and--
which they're apt to do,
and then they will tug on it,
which will pull the rock
off of here
because they want to get away,
and they'll pull it
into the water
and the rock will unravel,
and it'll pull their heads under
and finish 'em off.
And that'll be
the end of the duck
and dinner for me.
*
I christen thee
"Duck Hunter 3,000."
*
On your first mission,
seek and destroy.
*
We are fishing for birds.
If all goes well,
I will be having
duck soufflé for dinner.
Duck soup.
Duck tartare.
Duck and dumplings.
Duck...whatever.
*
Eh.
I'd say that's good.
Success.
Today was a good day.
You know, things are
really shaping up.
Looking forward to catching
some bigger game,
catching that duck.
And hopefully,
we can keep this going,
and see where it takes us.
- So I woke up to splashing.
And I come down to the
waterfront,
and the duck hunter
is upside down
and almost back into shore
as far as it can go.
It looks like there's a fish
tied to the side of it somehow.
Or something going on.
She needs some ballast
underneath to keep her
from rolling over
when a fish takes a bite
and the rig catches her.
I wish I could've
had it on film, though.
That would've been cool.
*
All right.
Let's see if I can't
bring her in.
*
Look at that.
Just caught a big fish.
And he's all like,
"Ah, this sucks."
*
[laughs]
Man, he's a good size--
look at him.
That's a nice-looking fish.
Mwah.
Catching fish
with my duck hunter--
did not expect that.
Duck hunter made her first kill.
Good girl.
Should go out
on another mission.
*
Now!
Away you go.
*
Hopefully, next time
I get a duck.
*
- Every night I wake up,
I have to use the bathroom.
I have to get up,
put my shoes on,
come outside in the cold.
So I decided to try
and install my urinal.
Basically, it's just
half of a hollowed log
running out the back
of my shelter,
braced by a Y stick.
Show you easily how it works.
*
There you go.
No more going out
in the cold at night.
It's so convenient.
I may install one
next to my bed when I get home.
*
I'm naturally extremely
optimistic.
But it's hard to be
when nothing goes your way.
*
And not too many things are
going my way right now.
*
Nothing on my fish lines
for a long time.
It's got to change.
*
Crazy.
I've been a vegetarian
against my will.
*
I'm curious,
by just eating wild edibles,
how much weight I'll actually
lose and when I will plateau.
*
Oh, man.
Pretty slim.
*
Like...
11th-grade slim.
*
My energy level is lower.
And I get tired faster.
*
Pushing through
the brush over here,
and I came across some--
I think it's called
lengua de vaca.
"Tongue of the cow."
It's an edible mushroom.
It's a big one, too.
See how it looks like a tongue?
So I'm gonna take this back.
That's a good score.
Pretty pleased with that.
Also down here,
there are some plantains
that I can eat right out
of the ground.
And when food
is not in abundance,
anything you find...
*
Doesn't taste that bad.
*
It's like a bitter salad.
But no dressing.
No croutons.
No cheese, no tomatoes.
No grilled chicken or salmon.
That's basically what it is.
*
I don't know how
vegetarians do it.
I don't like
the vegetarian lifestyle.
I need some meat.
The fishing's not working out.
I've got to try
and get some larger prey.
I found some places
where I think
rabbits might be residing.
A low, shrubby area.
Put some rabbit traps down.
My paracord's running low.
I'll use fishing line
for my snares.
*
That should work.
*
I did manage to get up
one rabbit snare.
And hopefully
tomorrow's the night
I put some rabbit in my pot.
*
And just got to keep
placing more bets.
Something's got to hit.
*
- I just saw a fish
feeding here.
So I'm just gonna
cast off here for a bit
and see if there's any bites.
*
Right now, my main concern
is just not being able
to catch some fish.
*
I'm definitely losing weight,
and I just need to
get some protein.
*
Why are the fish not biting?
*
So I'm just gonna
check my trigger traps.
*
Oh.
Trigger was
actually triggered.
So we're gonna
bring in the line,
see if there's anything there.
*
[gasps] Oh, my God,
I got a fish!
I got a fish!
But it got wrapped around
the reeds.
I just got to bring it in.
Oh, my gosh,
there's a fish!
I'm so excited!
Yes!
I think I'm willing
to get wet for this,
just to get this fish.
*
I got a fish.
Whoo-hoo!
*
Look at the colors
on this beauty.
It's all
wrapped around the reeds
and my feet are soaking wet,
but I don't care.
[laughs] It's got
a mouthful of reeds.
Mwah!
I'm so excited for this.
Oh, my gosh.
[laughs]
I finally did it.
Oh.
This fish will definitely
keep me going for a bit.
And I'm gonna eat
every piece of it.
And, uh, the entrails,
I'll use for, um--
hopefully, for bait.
*
Oh, wow, it's so good.
*
[dramatic music]
*
- It's work to be out here.
It's survival.
Battling the hunger,
I can't go a week at a time
without any meat.
I mean, I really
got to get some meat.
*
It might be feasible
with some kind of trap
to get a pig,
but not when you got foxes
taking all your bait.
So unless I get the fox...
I won't get the pigs.
*
I'm gonna try a deadfall.
The fox, he's used to coming
to this particular spot.
*
So I figure, set it up here.
*
Really hungry,
and I'm feeling it too.
Starting to feel weak.
I'm desperate for some meat.
It's protein,
and it's calories.
Carbohydrates, whatever.
Energy that I desperately need.
The idea of the stakes,
he has to come in
to get at the bait.
So I run a V this way,
a V that way,
and just make my row of stakes.
*
And I have to find that...
fine line.
And see, I should be able
to get a hair trigger there.
See?
That didn't take any pressure.
Yeah, all this work
for a little fox.
*
*
*
He keeps coming back.
And the bamboo that I had
for a trigger is gone
and the bait.
The fox figures out a way.
Uh, we got to try something
to get this character.
So I'm gonna try
something different.
I'm gonna do a lot touchier
trigger system
on this one.
I want to use a branch.
Kind of like a slide hammer.
But he's not afraid of my traps,
'cause they don't work.
*
It's in this area somewhere.
Oh, you.
*
I'm not sure if that's
hair trigger.
But I got movement on that.
*
And, I mean, if this trigger
doesn't work, then...
well, that worked pretty good.
It didn't take much pressure.
That's got the ticket.
I hope that fox appreciates
the work that I've put
into this.
[laughs]
I just hope he appreciates it.
*
*
Trap is still set.
But the fox took my bait again.
It almost looks to me like he
pulled the bait out the side.
That fox...
has outfoxed me
way too many times.
See, he doesn't want to go
underneath it.
See how smart he is?
He'll paw the bait to himself
through the bamboo.
Yup.
He's just reaching in
to get the bait.
*
Unbelievable.
*
He seems to know
it's a trap, and--
but he knows
how to get around it.
He can figure out
ways to trick me.
*
That tricky old fox, eh?
I give up, and I'm not
spending any more time
trying to catch that thing.
And as a survivalist,
what you look for
is practical solutions
to getting by.
I can't chase
a fox around through
the wilderness of Patagonia.
*
I don't want to sound like
a perpetual complainer,
but nothing is going right.
I feel absolutely depressed.
*
It's easy to get negative
in this situation.
The weather,
the lack of food.
I just wish that I could just
get on a plane and go home.
I don't really know how much
longer I can keep going.
*
Now I keep thinking about
the words of my daughter.
*
"Even when you think
you can't do it, Dad,
"just hang in there.
You need this."
*
And I just want to give her
something in life.
Something of her own,
a house,
is all I want to do,
is be able to
build her a house this year.
*
Maybe a little
guest house for myself
on the same acreage somewhere.
*
This chance is never
gonna come again.
But I'm really struggling
to want to be here.
I knew--I knew that
this day would come.
*
And it's just a terrible
feeling in your heart
that you just...
you just want to be at home.
*
[dramatic music]
*
- It's amazing how many
breaks I need to take.
I'm like a little
remote control car.
You put in the fresh batteries,
and that was around--
that was, like, the first week.
And I could drive around,
do all this stuff,
no problem.
Run around, carry this,
push this, chop this.
And then the batteries
start running low
and, you know, the--
you could take out the batteries
and put 'em back in,
and it'll go--
[grumbles]
*
And you get like--
[grumbles]
*
It's been 23 days
since I caught a fish.
*
It's killing me
to be a vegetarian.
*
I'm going to go check
my rabbit traps.
Hopefully,
something's in them.
I'm hoping against hope
that today is the day
my trap gets hit.
Could use it.
I need a big, fat,
overweight rabbit.
*
I miss my family immensely.
But everything I'm doing here,
I'm doing for them.
*
I'm missing important moments
in my son's life.
I told them to take photos
and keep a diary
of the things that they do.
*
I can't imagine what being
the last person to go home
with all the prize money
would do to your life.
I'd take my wife on a vacation.
Pay off the house.
I'd take care of my parents.
I'd like to buy a little piece
of neighboring property.
And that's why I'm out here,
dropping weight
like it's nobody's business.
*
Ugh.
*
That is very upsetting.
*
I had something
run through here,
get trapped,
and chew his way out.
That is a big blow.
I have no more snare wire.
So I was hoping I could catch
them with my fishing line.
I knew that the line would be
enough to hold him.
I didn't take into consideration
that he would
chew right through it.
Chewed right through it,
chewed it up in little bits.
That's bad news.
Why didn't I think that they
would just chew through it?
Because I wasn't thinking,
that's why.
*
Damn.
*
Rabbits can chew through
fishing line.
I set them all up,
not even considering.
*
I have a lot of snares
set out there
for apparently no purpose.
*
What was I thinking?
*
Man, I had one.
*
I'm gonna go down to the stream
and get some water to boil.
That's one thing
I can't do wrong.
Get water and boil it.
At this point, there's nothing
I want to do here except eat.
Like, I don't have projects.
I'm not hiking anywhere.
I don't have the energy for it.
So I'm in a cycle
of the same thing
day in and day out.
*
35 days of failing.
And that kind of stinks.
*
I don't know, I don't care.
Kind of irritated.
It's amazing how disappointment
can sap your energy.
*
It makes it so hard to think
that all I'd have to do
is be like, "I'm done."
And then I can
be with my family.
It's that simple.
Really missing them right now.
*
I want to be doing
what they're doing,
where they're doing it.
*
I like to be around
and be the protector
and the strong one and the one
that takes care of
anything and everything
that's going wrong.
I like that.
*
It's something
I'm mulling over.
I don't expect it to subside.
*
- Kind of tired of being here.
*
I talk about getting out
of here like I'm in jail.
I have the freedom to go
whenever I want.
But I'm here for a reason:
my family.
I'm doing this for them.
*
I've already done it for me.
I can survive out here.
It was occurring to me as I was
getting ready for bed,
getting ready to climb into
my filthy sleeping bag
and put on my filthy hat
and sleep for two hours,
and I was like,
"Man, I'd really like to be
"just sitting next to my wife
on the couch,
eating popcorn,
watching a show."
*
Right now, every time
I turn the camera on,
I'm talking about
the same thing,
'cause it's all
I can think about.
My family.
The need for them
has far surpassed
my desire to eat anything.
*
It's time to come see you guys.
*
[device beeping]
*
This is Britt.
*
- Okay, mate.
- I think I'm ready for you guys
to come pick me up.
- Are you officially
tapping out, mate?
- Yeah, I'm 100%.
- Okay, copy that, Britt.
*
- Just like that.
*
Going to sleep
in a dirty sleeping bag,
and I'm freezing,
and I'm hungry,
and my traps have been failing
for 35 days,
and I've got no fish,
and if I didn't have
a family at home,
I could do this.
But that's what's driving me
to get back there.
I'm missing stuff that's really
important to me, so...
*
Patagonia, I love it.
But it's like
a beautiful prison.
*
I'm not really tapping out.
I'm tapping back in
to my life at home.
*
I can deal with the cold,
the elements,
the terrain, the hunger,
the isolation.
*
Surviving's not the problem.
It's the longing for
what I've left at home.
*
I have such an overwhelming
love and adoration
for my family and the bond
that we are, that...
it's killing me to be away
from it this long.
*
I need to be tapped in.
*
- What the [bleep]?
I'm hungry.
[screams]
- Here we go.
Making is my knack.
It's in my nature
to always be building
and creating.
- A nice sharp spike.
*
- It would sure be nice
to make a raft
so that I can get to
this other river over here.
But I don't want to fall
in the lake.
- I was up all night
last night.
I got some shocking news.
*
- I've never seen
thick bush like this.
It's just terrible stuff.
Should've been
a 15 minute hike,
and now I'm lost.
- Oh, there's the sun.
First time
I've been able to stand
in a ray of sunshine for days.
[sighs]
That feels good.
- Bam!
Rainbow trout up in this bitch.
Now I got food,
now I got bait,
and the fish keep coming.
- There's definitely
something outside.
Hey!
Hey!
[animal squealing]
- This is the hardest terrain.
- Patagonia is a different
environment entirely.
- Everything out here
is so hard.
- Patagonia's no joke.
- Are you willing
to give up who you are
for what you will become?
- It's Patagonia,
for God's sakes.
- Patagonia!
- It's tougher than
I ever imagined.
- Just missing home right now.
- You get a feeling
of helplessness,
like, "Why am I doing this?"
- Oh, my God!
- The last person left
wins $500,000
and is a badass.
- Bam!
- Ugh.
[animal growling]
- What is that?
- It's just how far
you can push yourself
and what you're able to do.
- Yeah!
- You don't have anyone
to lean on.
- Oh, my God, I got a fish.
- Go to bed hungry,
wake up hungry.
- Can't believe I did that.
- Ready, guy?
- It's gonna come down
to mental endurance
and food deprivation.
- [cries]
- Person'll be dead
in a week at this rate.
[animal growling]
*
- Hello?
That's a big cat.
*
*
- Right there, on the tip
of that piece of dead tree,
is a clump of
Old Man's Beard hanging there.
*
Gonna do a little
target practice,
try and knock that off.
*
Brought the slingshot 'cause
I'm thinking there's a lot
of small game,
so I'm hoping to be able
to take some birds.
Some ducks.
*
That target's about
20 feet away.
And that's about
the distance I plan
to be able to hit a bird
with these stones.
Inhale...
exhale into the draw.
*
Oh!
Nailed it.
Only took...
[chuckles]
18 shots.
That feels good.
Feels good.
*
My situation has been
a bit discouraging.
Not having sunlight
is so difficult.
And then the hill is so steep,
and I'm really not happy
with the amount of fish
I'm catching.
*
So there's a duck out here.
And he's swimming along.
And I'm gonna try
and get a headshot on him.
That would be worth
swimming out there for.
*
Got it!
[laughs]
Oh, dead-on,
that was great.
*
Oh, I love slingshots.
*
Oh, man.
I missed him.
He dove under.
All I managed to do
was scare him.
Well, that sucked.
He's gone out even further.
Slingshot's turning out
to be much harder
than I thought
it would ever be.
*
That gives me an idea.
I'm gonna make
a duck trap out there.
I'm gonna get him.
*
- Oh, I love my shelter.
It is so dang warm in here.
[laughs]
It's time for a home tour.
I've got some stew,
some extra wood,
nice fire--two chairs?
Get out of here.
Two chairs?
There's a fish
on the ready right there.
*
Got the bed all laid out.
So the next thing
I'm gonna do
is work on the door,
and that's it.
Shelter done, done.
Let's start on that right now.
All right.
So.
[sighs heavily]
*
So I'm starting off
with some of this older bamboo.
Then, I'm gonna sort of wrap
this newer bamboo in.
*
I'm gonna make two triangles
with the old stuff,
so that it fits
in my door right there.
*
I want to have it open
and close,
which would be nice.
*
They say three half hitches
ties the devil.
You know what,
might do four.
Just to make sure
that devil's done.
All right.
Next step.
This stuff.
*
All right,
we're getting there.
We're getting there.
*
There.
Oh, that's awesome.
* La-da-dee
* La-da-da
[laughs]
Look at that.
It opens and closes.
Abierto.
Cerrado.
Abierto.
Cerrado.
[laughs]
A beautiful shelter!
[laughs]
*
- I have no fish yet.
I can't believe I haven't
caught any fish.
I set more trigger traps,
um, based on land
to set the hook
when a fish bites on the hook.
But I'm not gonna give up.
The lake is not
gonna have the best of me.
I have to get at least one fish
out of that lake.
*
How badass is this, huh?
*
So I'm gonna check
the fish traps.
My family usually
goes salmon fishing,
ocean fishing
at this time of the year.
And, uh, they're probably having
a lot more luck than me.
*
There's a fish down there.
[gasps]
Is there a fish on the line?
There's something pulling,
I think.
Yes!
There's a fish.
Yes!
Okay.
It's stuck in the reeds.
Darn it.
I don't want to lose it.
*
I need to go get it.
Oh, I'm gonna have to go
in this icy water.
*
It's really important
not to get all my clothing wet.
So I'm just
taking my clothes off.
This is gonna be
so freaking cold.
I'm gonna get hypothermic.
But I need that fish.
Holy [bleep],
it's so freaking cold.
Oh, my gosh.
I just don't want to
lose this fish.
*
Whoa!
*
Oh, [bleep].
The line just broke.
I might try to go for it.
*
So freaking--whoo.
Whoo.
*
Ugh, it's so cold.
Ugh.
So cold.
Whoo.
[panting]
*
It's right there.
*
Ugh, I want that fish.
So freaking--whoo.
Whoo.
*
It's right there.
*
Ugh, I want that fish.
*
[coughs]
I lost it.
Ugh.
So upset right now.
*
Oh, I can't believe
I lost that fish.
My legs are freezing cold.
They're red.
Well, I learned my lesson today.
Sort of learned my lesson.
That lake just keeps...
pounding me with loses.
*
This is the first day I've
really felt alone, I think.
Just watching the biggest fish
swim away today,
just...
made me want to have a hug.
From my family.
It's just, um...
ugh, I need that protein.
*
*
- I found this plant.
And I don't know what it is.
I'm hoping it's
a good source for tea
and a good edible plant.
*
When you're experimenting
with plants,
don't eat too much at a time.
This is an old bushman trick.
We're all
in this together, so...
I'll try them out for ya.
*
I'll see what
these greens taste like.
*
Ah, the tea's kind of...
doesn't have much
of a flavor, the tea.
*
But the plant's good.
*
You know, hopefully,
it's a safe--
[retches]
Oh, no!
Yeah, no.
Hopefully, it's safe.
I think we'll be okay.
*
The food situation's
becoming the issue.
*
Just not catching fish like
I did the first couple days.
*
Can't just keep going,
like, a week at a time
or anything like that
without some fish.
I'd hate to get forced out
of here because of starvation.
*
So I got to really
think about pigs.
Seriously.
So I'm gonna go check
my snare again.
*
Oh, no.
Damn it!
Something happened
with my snare.
*
You can see the line.
It was strung out this way.
*
But nothing's in the trap.
And my bait is gone.
*
See that?
*
It took my bait.
Now, I don't know
if it was a bird or what.
But something was here.
So I'm gonna check
the trail cam.
See what happened.
*
So I don't know if it's a fox.
It's about the size of a
coyote, it looks like, though.
*
Whatever it is,
they just keep taking the bait
out of my snares.
So it's, uh,
kind of a catch-22.
I can't get pigs if something's
stealing my bait all the time.
*
He'll be back.
He has to go,
and that would be food for me.
And I've got no qualms
about eating him.
He's eaten all my bait.
Stealing the chances
of me getting a pig.
So...
it's the way it goes.
*
- I'm watching the water.
I want to make a duck trap.
I was really hoping I'd be
ahead of the game by now
with the fishing, you know?
I'd be catching enough fish
that I could be
setting some aside.
Just hasn't happened.
I need more food.
Duck would be a great
source of food.
But he's too far away
to hit with the slingshot.
*
So today's gonna be
trap-making day.
I'm gonna head down the shore
and I see a plank
down there,
which will be a little float,
and I think I'm gonna hook
a little propeller to it.
Whoa.
Found myself a surfboard.
Innovation and creativity
are very important.
Nothing has come easy.
Everything takes a lot of work.
Very tough, very tiring.
*
What I'm trying to do here is
make a little paddle wheel
that goes in here.
*
We all have our strengths
and our weaknesses.
We all have different
abilities, you know?
Mine being the ability
to make stuff.
And ever since I got my land
off the grid,
whether it's a knotted
piece of wood
or a gnarled piece of garbage
that I found at the dump,
I see the nature of the thing
and make that item
into what it wants to be.
That's my passion.
Almost a perfect fit, there,
all joined together.
Little paddles.
[mimicking motor]
To get my duck trap out there,
since I don't have a boat to
paddle out there and set it,
I was thinking about
taking some of the elastic
from my slingshot
and seeing if I can't
make it wind up.
*
Hmm.
I guess that's all that's left
is to, uh, try it out.
But first, I'm gonna try
and build, like,
a little dock
that I can walk out on
and launch my boat, that would
get me out 30 feet further.
There.
*
Patagonia's a place
of extremes.
*
Nice.
It's possible that
this lake could rise,
like, a foot and a half
every winter.
And that dock
would give me something
that I can walk out on
when the temperatures
get freezing cold.
*
Pretty sturdy.
I got to get
the duck hunter ready
and launch that.
*
So this is what
we got going on.
As you can see,
the propulsion
to take it out there.
A rock with a line tied to it.
Two of these.
And a line to a fish hook
in a fish head,
which I'm hoping
the ducks will take and--
which they're apt to do,
and then they will tug on it,
which will pull the rock
off of here
because they want to get away,
and they'll pull it
into the water
and the rock will unravel,
and it'll pull their heads under
and finish 'em off.
And that'll be
the end of the duck
and dinner for me.
*
I christen thee
"Duck Hunter 3,000."
*
On your first mission,
seek and destroy.
*
We are fishing for birds.
If all goes well,
I will be having
duck soufflé for dinner.
Duck soup.
Duck tartare.
Duck and dumplings.
Duck...whatever.
*
Eh.
I'd say that's good.
Success.
Today was a good day.
You know, things are
really shaping up.
Looking forward to catching
some bigger game,
catching that duck.
And hopefully,
we can keep this going,
and see where it takes us.
- So I woke up to splashing.
And I come down to the
waterfront,
and the duck hunter
is upside down
and almost back into shore
as far as it can go.
It looks like there's a fish
tied to the side of it somehow.
Or something going on.
She needs some ballast
underneath to keep her
from rolling over
when a fish takes a bite
and the rig catches her.
I wish I could've
had it on film, though.
That would've been cool.
*
All right.
Let's see if I can't
bring her in.
*
Look at that.
Just caught a big fish.
And he's all like,
"Ah, this sucks."
*
[laughs]
Man, he's a good size--
look at him.
That's a nice-looking fish.
Mwah.
Catching fish
with my duck hunter--
did not expect that.
Duck hunter made her first kill.
Good girl.
Should go out
on another mission.
*
Now!
Away you go.
*
Hopefully, next time
I get a duck.
*
- Every night I wake up,
I have to use the bathroom.
I have to get up,
put my shoes on,
come outside in the cold.
So I decided to try
and install my urinal.
Basically, it's just
half of a hollowed log
running out the back
of my shelter,
braced by a Y stick.
Show you easily how it works.
*
There you go.
No more going out
in the cold at night.
It's so convenient.
I may install one
next to my bed when I get home.
*
I'm naturally extremely
optimistic.
But it's hard to be
when nothing goes your way.
*
And not too many things are
going my way right now.
*
Nothing on my fish lines
for a long time.
It's got to change.
*
Crazy.
I've been a vegetarian
against my will.
*
I'm curious,
by just eating wild edibles,
how much weight I'll actually
lose and when I will plateau.
*
Oh, man.
Pretty slim.
*
Like...
11th-grade slim.
*
My energy level is lower.
And I get tired faster.
*
Pushing through
the brush over here,
and I came across some--
I think it's called
lengua de vaca.
"Tongue of the cow."
It's an edible mushroom.
It's a big one, too.
See how it looks like a tongue?
So I'm gonna take this back.
That's a good score.
Pretty pleased with that.
Also down here,
there are some plantains
that I can eat right out
of the ground.
And when food
is not in abundance,
anything you find...
*
Doesn't taste that bad.
*
It's like a bitter salad.
But no dressing.
No croutons.
No cheese, no tomatoes.
No grilled chicken or salmon.
That's basically what it is.
*
I don't know how
vegetarians do it.
I don't like
the vegetarian lifestyle.
I need some meat.
The fishing's not working out.
I've got to try
and get some larger prey.
I found some places
where I think
rabbits might be residing.
A low, shrubby area.
Put some rabbit traps down.
My paracord's running low.
I'll use fishing line
for my snares.
*
That should work.
*
I did manage to get up
one rabbit snare.
And hopefully
tomorrow's the night
I put some rabbit in my pot.
*
And just got to keep
placing more bets.
Something's got to hit.
*
- I just saw a fish
feeding here.
So I'm just gonna
cast off here for a bit
and see if there's any bites.
*
Right now, my main concern
is just not being able
to catch some fish.
*
I'm definitely losing weight,
and I just need to
get some protein.
*
Why are the fish not biting?
*
So I'm just gonna
check my trigger traps.
*
Oh.
Trigger was
actually triggered.
So we're gonna
bring in the line,
see if there's anything there.
*
[gasps] Oh, my God,
I got a fish!
I got a fish!
But it got wrapped around
the reeds.
I just got to bring it in.
Oh, my gosh,
there's a fish!
I'm so excited!
Yes!
I think I'm willing
to get wet for this,
just to get this fish.
*
I got a fish.
Whoo-hoo!
*
Look at the colors
on this beauty.
It's all
wrapped around the reeds
and my feet are soaking wet,
but I don't care.
[laughs] It's got
a mouthful of reeds.
Mwah!
I'm so excited for this.
Oh, my gosh.
[laughs]
I finally did it.
Oh.
This fish will definitely
keep me going for a bit.
And I'm gonna eat
every piece of it.
And, uh, the entrails,
I'll use for, um--
hopefully, for bait.
*
Oh, wow, it's so good.
*
[dramatic music]
*
- It's work to be out here.
It's survival.
Battling the hunger,
I can't go a week at a time
without any meat.
I mean, I really
got to get some meat.
*
It might be feasible
with some kind of trap
to get a pig,
but not when you got foxes
taking all your bait.
So unless I get the fox...
I won't get the pigs.
*
I'm gonna try a deadfall.
The fox, he's used to coming
to this particular spot.
*
So I figure, set it up here.
*
Really hungry,
and I'm feeling it too.
Starting to feel weak.
I'm desperate for some meat.
It's protein,
and it's calories.
Carbohydrates, whatever.
Energy that I desperately need.
The idea of the stakes,
he has to come in
to get at the bait.
So I run a V this way,
a V that way,
and just make my row of stakes.
*
And I have to find that...
fine line.
And see, I should be able
to get a hair trigger there.
See?
That didn't take any pressure.
Yeah, all this work
for a little fox.
*
*
*
He keeps coming back.
And the bamboo that I had
for a trigger is gone
and the bait.
The fox figures out a way.
Uh, we got to try something
to get this character.
So I'm gonna try
something different.
I'm gonna do a lot touchier
trigger system
on this one.
I want to use a branch.
Kind of like a slide hammer.
But he's not afraid of my traps,
'cause they don't work.
*
It's in this area somewhere.
Oh, you.
*
I'm not sure if that's
hair trigger.
But I got movement on that.
*
And, I mean, if this trigger
doesn't work, then...
well, that worked pretty good.
It didn't take much pressure.
That's got the ticket.
I hope that fox appreciates
the work that I've put
into this.
[laughs]
I just hope he appreciates it.
*
*
Trap is still set.
But the fox took my bait again.
It almost looks to me like he
pulled the bait out the side.
That fox...
has outfoxed me
way too many times.
See, he doesn't want to go
underneath it.
See how smart he is?
He'll paw the bait to himself
through the bamboo.
Yup.
He's just reaching in
to get the bait.
*
Unbelievable.
*
He seems to know
it's a trap, and--
but he knows
how to get around it.
He can figure out
ways to trick me.
*
That tricky old fox, eh?
I give up, and I'm not
spending any more time
trying to catch that thing.
And as a survivalist,
what you look for
is practical solutions
to getting by.
I can't chase
a fox around through
the wilderness of Patagonia.
*
I don't want to sound like
a perpetual complainer,
but nothing is going right.
I feel absolutely depressed.
*
It's easy to get negative
in this situation.
The weather,
the lack of food.
I just wish that I could just
get on a plane and go home.
I don't really know how much
longer I can keep going.
*
Now I keep thinking about
the words of my daughter.
*
"Even when you think
you can't do it, Dad,
"just hang in there.
You need this."
*
And I just want to give her
something in life.
Something of her own,
a house,
is all I want to do,
is be able to
build her a house this year.
*
Maybe a little
guest house for myself
on the same acreage somewhere.
*
This chance is never
gonna come again.
But I'm really struggling
to want to be here.
I knew--I knew that
this day would come.
*
And it's just a terrible
feeling in your heart
that you just...
you just want to be at home.
*
[dramatic music]
*
- It's amazing how many
breaks I need to take.
I'm like a little
remote control car.
You put in the fresh batteries,
and that was around--
that was, like, the first week.
And I could drive around,
do all this stuff,
no problem.
Run around, carry this,
push this, chop this.
And then the batteries
start running low
and, you know, the--
you could take out the batteries
and put 'em back in,
and it'll go--
[grumbles]
*
And you get like--
[grumbles]
*
It's been 23 days
since I caught a fish.
*
It's killing me
to be a vegetarian.
*
I'm going to go check
my rabbit traps.
Hopefully,
something's in them.
I'm hoping against hope
that today is the day
my trap gets hit.
Could use it.
I need a big, fat,
overweight rabbit.
*
I miss my family immensely.
But everything I'm doing here,
I'm doing for them.
*
I'm missing important moments
in my son's life.
I told them to take photos
and keep a diary
of the things that they do.
*
I can't imagine what being
the last person to go home
with all the prize money
would do to your life.
I'd take my wife on a vacation.
Pay off the house.
I'd take care of my parents.
I'd like to buy a little piece
of neighboring property.
And that's why I'm out here,
dropping weight
like it's nobody's business.
*
Ugh.
*
That is very upsetting.
*
I had something
run through here,
get trapped,
and chew his way out.
That is a big blow.
I have no more snare wire.
So I was hoping I could catch
them with my fishing line.
I knew that the line would be
enough to hold him.
I didn't take into consideration
that he would
chew right through it.
Chewed right through it,
chewed it up in little bits.
That's bad news.
Why didn't I think that they
would just chew through it?
Because I wasn't thinking,
that's why.
*
Damn.
*
Rabbits can chew through
fishing line.
I set them all up,
not even considering.
*
I have a lot of snares
set out there
for apparently no purpose.
*
What was I thinking?
*
Man, I had one.
*
I'm gonna go down to the stream
and get some water to boil.
That's one thing
I can't do wrong.
Get water and boil it.
At this point, there's nothing
I want to do here except eat.
Like, I don't have projects.
I'm not hiking anywhere.
I don't have the energy for it.
So I'm in a cycle
of the same thing
day in and day out.
*
35 days of failing.
And that kind of stinks.
*
I don't know, I don't care.
Kind of irritated.
It's amazing how disappointment
can sap your energy.
*
It makes it so hard to think
that all I'd have to do
is be like, "I'm done."
And then I can
be with my family.
It's that simple.
Really missing them right now.
*
I want to be doing
what they're doing,
where they're doing it.
*
I like to be around
and be the protector
and the strong one and the one
that takes care of
anything and everything
that's going wrong.
I like that.
*
It's something
I'm mulling over.
I don't expect it to subside.
*
- Kind of tired of being here.
*
I talk about getting out
of here like I'm in jail.
I have the freedom to go
whenever I want.
But I'm here for a reason:
my family.
I'm doing this for them.
*
I've already done it for me.
I can survive out here.
It was occurring to me as I was
getting ready for bed,
getting ready to climb into
my filthy sleeping bag
and put on my filthy hat
and sleep for two hours,
and I was like,
"Man, I'd really like to be
"just sitting next to my wife
on the couch,
eating popcorn,
watching a show."
*
Right now, every time
I turn the camera on,
I'm talking about
the same thing,
'cause it's all
I can think about.
My family.
The need for them
has far surpassed
my desire to eat anything.
*
It's time to come see you guys.
*
[device beeping]
*
This is Britt.
*
- Okay, mate.
- I think I'm ready for you guys
to come pick me up.
- Are you officially
tapping out, mate?
- Yeah, I'm 100%.
- Okay, copy that, Britt.
*
- Just like that.
*
Going to sleep
in a dirty sleeping bag,
and I'm freezing,
and I'm hungry,
and my traps have been failing
for 35 days,
and I've got no fish,
and if I didn't have
a family at home,
I could do this.
But that's what's driving me
to get back there.
I'm missing stuff that's really
important to me, so...
*
Patagonia, I love it.
But it's like
a beautiful prison.
*
I'm not really tapping out.
I'm tapping back in
to my life at home.
*
I can deal with the cold,
the elements,
the terrain, the hunger,
the isolation.
*
Surviving's not the problem.
It's the longing for
what I've left at home.
*
I have such an overwhelming
love and adoration
for my family and the bond
that we are, that...
it's killing me to be away
from it this long.
*
I need to be tapped in.
*
- What the [bleep]?
I'm hungry.
[screams]
- Here we go.
Making is my knack.
It's in my nature
to always be building
and creating.
- A nice sharp spike.
*
- It would sure be nice
to make a raft
so that I can get to
this other river over here.
But I don't want to fall
in the lake.
- I was up all night
last night.
I got some shocking news.