Alone (2015–…): Season 3, Episode 7 - Hungry Beasts - full transcript

[dramatic music]

*

- I'm tapping out.

It's time to go home
to my family.

- Mwah.
I'm so excited for this.

- The lake's come up
about 6 feet

in the last couple of hours.

I've got hypothermia.

I can't move my hands.

Oh, I can't deal with this.

- I'm a maker.
Making is my knack.



The inner walls are done.

It is looking good.

- So I have three spider bites.

Now I can feel it moving
to my glands,

which is not a good sign.

This is probably my last night.

- 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--

- Oh!
- Who you are...

for what you will become?

- It's Patagonia,
for God's sake.



- 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]

*

- Whoa.

That's a big cat.

*

[rain falling]

- I'm freezing.

I can't stop shaking.

Everything's been soaking wet
all night.

The rain is still going,
but I got to get up,

try to keep the fire going,
see if I can get dry.

*

I can't move my hands.

It's hard to stay warm,
even by the fire.

Rain keeps putting the fire out.

*

Oh, I'm just freezing.

I just hope that sun comes out
to warm things up.

*

And dry my sleeping bag
and stuff.

So I'm just shivering.

All night I shivered.

*

I just can't seem
to warm up here.

I've got hypothermia,

so what do you do?

My clothes are wet,
and I can't stay dry

because of the rain.

*

I can't even hardly
move my hands.

It's like a cold rain.

It's just really tough.

*

Every time I stand up,

it's like I'm gonna pass out.

*

I'm getting weak.

Very weak physically.

*

My feet are frozen,

and I'm almost hallucinating.

*

That's scary.

*

Uh...

I'm done.

I can't take any more.

I'm 53.

I got no energy left
to finish this quest.

I physically
can't take it anymore.

[phone beeping]

*

I've been pretty hypothermic
all day.

I'm soaked.
All my clothes are wet.

I'm officially tapped out.

I just can't do it anymore.

I need to be rescued now.

*

Just about two months,
51 days I lasted out here,

living off the land.

And that's all I could do.

*

I'm sorry, Jeanette.

I feel awful.

All I wanted was
to build you a house.

*

This was my retirement.

Now all I've got to
look forward to is going back

and doing drywall again.

That's my future now.

*

I have a great sense of relief,
in a way,

but great disappointment.

It's making me cry right now,

but I just physically
couldn't do it.

*

There's my ride.

*

- Hypothermia's set in.

No fish for a week.

Just every time I get up,
it's like I'm gonna faint.

I just got no energy.
Just done.

*

Once you have hypothermia
to the point

where your choices
and decisions are becoming bad,

you're in danger.

I think all week I had been
making bad decisions

because of my state of mind.

Moving in the rain
was a bad choice,

and that's what did me in.

That's why I made the call,

because I knew if I didn't,

my mind would trick me
into staying.

*

And I probably
wouldn't be here today

if I had tried
to go another night

in the conditions.

*

I can't even explain
the devastation.

*

That was my retirement.

That was a house
for my daughter.

I don't even know how
to go about telling her.

*

It's a big disappointment,

but somehow a person
has to carry on.

*

That's part of being
a survivalist.

*

- I'm worried about
the spider bites on my bum-bum

that are infected.

So I went around
and said all my good-byes

and my gratitudes to everything,

because I was in...

a lot of pain.

I had an infection in my glands,

and I accepted that.

I'm struggling,

but I am so not ready
to go home,

it is crazy.

My journey is not over here

on so many levels,

and it's not time for me to go.

*

There is so much more work
for me to do.

*

I'm making more usnea
poultice...

*

To put on my wound.

*

[in British accent]
Just a flesh wound.

*

If I was here just
on a spiritual journey,

yeah, I probably would
get to a certain point

and be like, "I'm done,"

but I do care about
owning land,

and that motivation is huge.

So I'm upping my herbal game.

I'm making the strongest
frickin' pot of usnea tea

and see if it helps
my internal infection.

Sleep on it, see how
everything's doing

in the morning.

*

We're going big or going home.

*

- I got my new shelter up.

So warm, so dry.

*

My little shelf
I made last night.

All nice and neat.

Chopsticks are
poked in there nicely

so they don't fall out anymore.

I got my blower
and my spatula on the back

and my sponge
for wiping things down.

Smoking sticks are looking
awful sparse.

Got fresh fish heads

and half a fish.

Not a lot.

*

I really need more than just
the protein in fish soup.

*

Today I saw a little bird

on the game cam.

*

So one of my goals
is to catch him

and have him for dinner.

*

I haven't had anything
but fish.

A little bird would be
quite the boon.

I don't even know if there's
as much on one of those guys

as there is a fish,

but I intend to get him

before I leave,

even if it's the biggest
land game I ever get

the whole time I'm here.

*

[distant clattering]

*

[whispering]
Lost him.

Having quite the battle of wits,
me and this bird.

*

He's the ultimate target.

He's the Road Runner.

So got a new plan.

Gonna build a bird trap.

I need to build a pyramid.

And then I got two base sticks,

and they have strings on 'em

so when you slide in
the other ones, it stacks up,

and the two strings
hold the whole thing down

nice and tight.

See? But you got to
keep it tight.

Now that is one
beautiful bird trap.

*

This is exciting.

I wish I had made
a baited trap like this

from the beginning.

So I got a little piece of gut
hanging in there

on a string,

so the mice can't reach it.

I've never seen a bird
go into one of these

and not touch the strings
that make the thing drop.

It's so sensitive.

*

Traps are set.

Little bird will be mine.

*

I'll walk away...

*

And hopefully
I'll catch a bird.

*

I always feel hopeful
on days that I set a trap.

You know?

That little booger.

*

[whispering]
There he is, right there.

*

There he goes!

*

[dramatic music]

*

- That little booger.

*

[whispering]
There he is, right there.

There he goes!

He's in the trap.

He just ate the grub.

And out of the trap.

Can't believe this.

Bird has outsmarted me thus far.

That's a pretty clever
little bird...

but I'll figure it out.

Bird's on the menu
one of these days,

I'm telling you.

*

- * Happy birthday to me

* Happy birthday to me

* Happy birthday to me

[exhales slowly]

*

I think my birth--
birthday gift to myself is,

I'm gonna go for a wander
this morning

and try to find
something to eat.

*

My awareness of edible plants
started at a young age

and has evolved.

You know, I like to be able
to provide for my own needs.

Dandelions,
just what the doctor ordered.

*

And even in
a unfamiliar country

like down here
in South America,

I'm finding plants
that I know

from back at home.

I found nettles.

*

This is awesome.

Here's a nice one.

New growth.

Take it back home and have
a feast of nettles tonight.

*

It's a lot of greens,
but I'm gonna cook 'em all up.

Nettles, in you go.

I simply make green soup.

*

It's gonna be a feast.

*

To me, the difference
between living and survival

is an attitude.

Living is about
enjoying the moment.

Surviving is about getting
through that moment.

*

I want to just continue living
day by day.

*

To many more great days
in Patagonia.

*

- I've been waking up
in the night.

There's definitely something
going around my shelter.

I went and checked
my trail cam.

*

It was a fox.

Just don't want him
to try to bite me.

Rabies is definitely something
I do not want to get.

Soon as the symptoms
start to show, it's too late,

and the max amount of sleep
I've had out here

is maybe--
I don't know,

I'd say around four hours max,
maybe, at a time?

And it's because of the fox.

I really would like
to just sleep.

*

I am concerned about
the next couple weeks,

because all the foliage
is dying

with all the frost.

*

See if I can salvage
any of this one.

*

Yeah, the cold weather's
definitely taking a hit

on my forage materials.

*

It might be my biggest
bang for my buck right now,

killing the fox.

*

I've never killed a fox before.

I've never...

*

Really wanted to,

but it does have
a lot of meat on it.

I would prefer
not to wreck the pelt,

so I'm gonna try to do
a hanging trigger trap,

and foxes are
really sensitive to smell.

They can smell a lot of things,

and they'll also pick up
human scent,

so I'm gonna try to be
really careful

with the scent
I get on the cord.

I've brought gloves,
and at least I'll get some meat,

and I can use part of the pelt.

So I'm gonna tie this down
to a peg,

and I'm gonna try
to funnel the fox

into this area.

I'm gonna be making the noose
out of paracord,

'cause on my trail cam,

it looked like the animal,
that fox,

was about 40 pounds.

*

I guess if it's gonna
get really aggressive

and come into my shelter,

then it's gonna be me or it,

'cause I definitely
don't want to get bit,

and this thing
sounds like it's hungry.

It's definitely digging

and scavenging around.

*

I fenced in this whole area,

so the animal is encouraged

to funnel over to the side.

Then there is a noose
tied to the sapling...

*

Which comes on down.
It's propped up.

It's about the right size
for a fox head

at about the right height,

and there's a trigger line

running back from the sapling

over to the taut peg

with some bait.

So that is my trigger noose
system for the fox,

and if this one doesn't work,
I can do one with spears.

I just don't want
to wreck the pelt.

If I can get it this way,

then I can have
a full, intact pelt to use.

I'm just gonna set
some more traps,

and we'll see
if this actually works.

*

I think that fox was
behind my shelter last night.

That'd be my luck.

He'd come over
and sit beside me

and then frickin' bite me
in the face.

Full-on rabies in three days,

right to the brain.

Insane in the membrane.

*

I just have dead hooks
in the water.

I have no bait,

but at least I get the sunrise.

*

I'm gonna do some foraging,

see if I can find any bait,

food to eat.

*

That's a fox poo right there.

This is his territory, I know.

And he's wondering
what I'm doing here.

He gives zero effs.

*

Surprised the fox
hasn't come up here.

Wonder where that little--
his burrow is.

*

Oh, no.

*

It's chewed on a bit.

So at least I know this height

is a good distance
to have them.

That was completely chewed off.

It was wrapped around
some animal.

*

[animal barks]

That is the fox.

Oh, my gosh.

*

[dramatic music]

*

- That is the fox.

Oh, my gosh.

*

I don't see him.

*

Well, that's what's been
waking me up.

Man.

He's active during the day, too,
it looks like.

*

You would think
after it saw me

that it would be a--
a bit more hesitant,

knowing that
there's a human here.

I don't think
it gives a [bleep].

It wants food.

*

And if it's having as hard
of a time as me getting food,

and it has no fishing line
and hooks...

he's probably hungrier than me.

*

It'd be a battle
of the hungry beasts,

me and the fox,
if it got into the shelter.

*

That's for sure.

*

[leaves rustling]

The fox is running around
outside.

[leaves rustling]

He's scratching behind
all my tinder.

Definitely trying to get in.

Uh, I guess that thing's
not afraid of me.

I guess it's still just hungry.

I don't want to open the door
and get bit.

I'm not a big fan of rabies.

*

[banging]

*

I don't know.
I might have to stay up

all night tonight.
I'm really concerned

it's gonna try to come in here
when I'm sleeping

and bite me.

*

[leaves rustling]

*

[sighs]

Frickin' fox is back,

running around my shelter,

sniffing and digging.

*

[animal snuffling]

I don't know.
It's got to be

a couple hours
before dawn.

[whacks tarp]
Get.

*

*

Right now I'm questioning
the trade-offs

of staying out here
really long and, uh...

*

What are the benefits,

and what are the downfalls
either way?

*

I'm just really starting
to think, you know,

I'm the only mother.

[chuckles]

*

And doing this out here...

[sniffles]

*

[crying]

*

- Gonna start the day off
with a clean start

and a clean front yard.

Do a little bit of raking.

I'm gonna go get
some new firewood

and start it all over again.

That's just an excuse
to use my rake.

It's just so much fun.

Ha!

[grunting]

Hiyah!

[bird chirping]

That little bird.

As soon as you
pay attention to him,

like, he senses it,
and he's like...

whoosh.
He's out of there.

*

All right.

All packed up.

Head down,

check on the "fish-uation."

*

And, uh...

[distant rustle]

What was that?

*

[rustling continues]

[sighs]

My bird trap go off?

*

I'll check on that.

*

Oh, look who finally
got himself caught.

[wings flapping]

Trying to get out.

*

The jacket goes around here.

Cover the trap,

just in case
another piece of this

wiggles and opens up,

'cause, man, this is the--

you finally catch
something to eat,

and then it goes
and slips out on you.

Not the way to win, you know?

*

Get your hand in there.

Grab your catch.

Pull him out.

*

[bones cracking]

Boom.
There we go, broke his neck.

*

[exhales]

I got him.

There he is.

It's not much,

just a little handful.

*

Thank you, little fella.

*

Now I will eat something
besides fish.

I got to strip the feathers off.

I want to utilize
every last bit of him,

and I will have a nice delicious
soup tonight.

Oh, my goodness,
is this gonna be delicious.

*

That's all of him.

There's the bird.

Not very big,
a couple mouthfuls,

but it'll make a great soup.

His head in the soup
and the feet in the soup

and the liver
and heart are right there.

Not wasting a thing.

*

There we go,

one little peeled bird head

for the soup pot.

*

I hate to say it, but man,
it tastes like chicken.

I can't wait
to eat something again

that doesn't have bones

at home with my family.

I can't wait to be
back with them.

*

I knew I would miss them,
but it--

I never imagined that it would
pull at me so strongly.

*

- Good morning.

Checking on
our spider bite here.

And we're gonna see
how it's looking.

*

I've been working
with my spider bites

with the plant medicine

and also taking usnea
internally.

*

Working with plant medicine
is about patience, you know?

It isn't the quick fix, but...

*

Oh, yeah.
It's totally healing up.

You know, we still got
that scabby scab,

but it's way better.

The poultice is working.

There's no pain,

and the infection
is just being drawn out.

I'm feeling
totally good about it.

It's awesome.

*

I am just blown away.

I was, like, this close
to tapping out.

This close.

But I just felt
like it just was not time,

and I was right.
It wasn't.

*

So I feel like

I've been gifted
a second chance.

Pretty amazing.

*

High five.

*

[dramatic music]

*

- I am a mountain man.

I am tough.

*

Bam.

Food energy's a need out here.

*

I like this bow, and I like
being connected with it,

you know?

*

So I want to be able to know

that my shots
are gonna be clean

when I go hunting.

Got to get my body
some needed energy.

*

Got to figure
these animals out.

*

There's boar around.

There is boar.

*

Ah!

I love that.

*

I'm gonna start setting snares.

I'm gonna see if I can snare
some of these wild boar.

*

I'm gonna use
the doubled-up one.

*

Killing a boar would give me
a lot of large food

very, very quickly.

*

I want to make sure
there's no other area

that this thing
wants to go through.

*

All right.

Two traps set for bear.

I mean, wild boar.

[chuckles]

[exhales sharply]

*

- Whoa.

That deer just came up my path.

*

Unfortunately, I think it's
the deer that is not hunt-able.

*

[exhales]

*

That would be a lot
of good eating right there.

*

Bummer.

*

I have this hole in my glove.

I want to try to find some burrs
to stick it together

and then use some pitch glue

to try to glue it.

Here's a spruce tree.

*

And there's these little bump
blisters all over the trunk

that have sap in 'em.

*

Made some pitch glue with
the sap from the spruce tree

and then mixed it with ashes.

*

Got these burrs,

so I'm hoping they'll work
like a Velcro,

hold 'em together.

I don't know how it's gonna
hold up to daily tasks, but...

*

You can see the patch
right there.

We'll see.
Fingers crossed.

*

- Bad news.

We have been living
with a mouse in the house,

and the mice down here

have hantavirus,

which is not good.

*

I'm living in a "hanted" house

with a "hanted" mouse.

*

And we were seriously warned,

if you do have a mouse
in your house,

you need to get rid of it

or move,

and, um...

I am so sure I'm gonna move.

[scoffs]

I'd--I'd rather go home.

I mean, yeah, I'm gonna build
a new shelter.

Uh, no mother-effin' way.

I actually felt it run across
the top of my sleeping bag

when I was lying awake.

So I'm gonna try
and muster the energy

to make a mousetrap,

because I don't think
no usnea and plantain

is gonna cure hantavirus.

I'm working on making
my little figure four trap

to catch the god[bleep] mouse.

*

You can't let something
like this stop you,

because I'm motivated
by something really deep,

and that is my land.

This prize money
that I saw, you know,

as being a means to buy--
buy my property.

Owning land is a really
important thing to me.

I want to create
a long-term home, you know?

And in order to do that,
in order to really homestead,

you really have to--

to have a piece of land
to work with.

And that motivation
is huge.

*

So I'll show you
what I have set up.

It's a little figure four trap.

So mousey comes along.

[squeaking]

"Yummy."

Bam.
Hopefully smashes it.

Hopefully we can
catch ourselves

a little mouse tonight.

Not for eating

but for disposing of,

because we don't want to get
no hantavirus.

*

So I'm lying in my sleeping bag,

and I think I hear the mouse.

Hey, mouse.

*

[rock thuds, mouse squealing]

[dramatic music]

*

- All right, well,
I just heard my trap go off.

It's very, very early
in the morning, and...

we got the mouse!

* Da da-da da-da

* Dee dee-dee dee-dee

*

See the tail?

Right there.

Oh, my goodness,
I cannot believe it worked.

I have to say,
I'm very happy

that we killed
the "hanted" mouse.

*

"Hanted" house
no longer "hanted."

*

Let's progress
with mouse removal.

*

[singing Chopin's
"Funeral March"]

*

Whoa, big guy.

Jeez-o.

Wow, that's like...

*

That's a mongo.

So without touching
the mouse at all...

*

You see him?

That is a really fatty
[bleep] mouse.

Excuse my language.

*

You know, if this was
season one or two,

that mouse would have offered
Callie a good 30 calories.

I love the little bubbles
that pop up

that are like,
"This mouse will provide Sam

"with 1 gram of protein

and 30 calories."

And you're like, uh, yeah,

you could get more calories

from eating your fingernails.

*

Um...

*

Just kidding,
but food is food.

Mousey went-y.

Sorry for killing you, mouse.

*

Beard's coming in
a little bit more.

It feels soft.
It feels really nice.

*

I like how there's
strips of, like...

gray in there.

Shows my wisdom.
Mm-hmm.

'Cause I am wise.

It's true.

I said it on-camera.

It's true.
It's got to be true.

*

Once the tea is done,

then I'm gonna go
check those traps,

those two snares that I set
for wild boar.

*

All right,
so checking my traps.

Not disturbed yet,

but I've got this spot
right here.

It's a great natural blind.

These are boar trails.

One follows through there,

and then one that sort of
cuts around here...

*

And follows through,

follows right through there.

So this gives me a shot

from this direction,

from that direction,
and from that direction.

Three different directions.

*

And I'm just gonna sit

and sort of chill out
for a little while.

*

I really enjoy spending time
on my own.

I'm thinking about my dad
this morning,

my biological father.

How does that hurt his son

when your father leaves
at four years old, you know,

and moves as far as he can get,

from New York to California?

Yes, I think I have
some bitterness still.

*

And for the longest time,
I thought, well, that's why

I'm not in a relationship,
you know?

*

And I started realizing,

that's not why
I'm not in a relationship.

I- I haven't found somebody
I want to spend time with

more than I want to spend time
with myself, you know?

[animal squealing]

What's that?

*

What is that?

[leaves rustling]

[animal squealing]

*

*

[animal squealing]

- What is that?

I wonder if my trap got set.

*

I'm gonna go take off up there,

check my traps.

*

My--my heart is beating so fast

just with the possibility,
you know,

of having an animal.

*

Wild boar can definitely
be dangerous

if I corner it
or push it into a situation

or injure it.

*

If I catch it in my trap,

I'll shoot it with the bow.

*

Oh, my gosh,
I'm freaking out.

*

[groans]

So this is interesting.

*

There's sign all over here

right around my trap.

In fact, fresh sign
all through there.

*

[groans]

I hope they continue here.

I want boar steak so bad.

*

My trail camera's
been knocked over.

*

Just from all the foraging.

*

So I guarantee I got boar

on this trail cam.

*

They're freakin' mocking me.

They're like,
"Ha, this guy's an idiot."

*

- Hard snow has fallen.

I have on every single layer
so I can stay warm.

- Snow!
[screams]

The colder it gets,
the less fish

stay toward shore.

I've lost a lot of muscle
since I've been here.

Yup, I'm skinny.

- It'd be really awesome
if I could catch a goose.

I'm gonna sneak down there
and try to catch one.

I have two throws.

- When you're out here
by yourself,

you think about family.

It's cold.
Be with them.

It's so hard.