Alone (2015–…): Season 4, Episode 10 - Flesh and Blood - full transcript
As time presses on and temperatures drop, the final teams grapple with an unbearable desire to tap out. But the $500,000 prize is hard to give up, and the participants push themselves until one reaches the breaking point.
[ominous music]
*
- I got nothing left.
I just can't go on.
- I know it's for real.
She's had it.
- That's all I was trying
to say, [bleep]damn it.
- There's nobody more stubborn
in the world than my dad,
and he took it
to a whole nother level.
It's getting to the point where
we should really start thinking
about what the future holds.
- I have really
intense abdominal pain.
If I can't do anything,
I can't stay out here anymore.
[dramatic music]
*
- This is gonna be
an incredible challenge.
- We're gonna be dropped off
in separate locations,
and one of us
has to find the other.
- Here we go!
- I've got to wait on
my brother.
Hopefully he'll be here soon.
- Please come tomorrow.
- I don't know where I'm going,
how long I'm gonna be out here.
All I have is a compass bearing.
- It's a needle in a haystack.
Can I even make it to base camp?
- Dad!
- Son!
- No way.
- Everything around you
is telling you,
"You need to go home."
[air horn blasts]
- Please leave me alone!
- If you don't work as a team,
it's game over.
- I can't hold.
- Just hold it still.
- $500,000 would be
life changing.
- I know.
- I feel like the life
was sucked out of me.
- He's coming.
He sees me.
[suspenseful music]
*
*
- I spent a good amount of time
in the shelter today.
It's been a rough few days.
That's for sure.
Still pretty jelly-legged
and jelly-armed
and that kind of stuff,
but I'm getting better, I think.
[ax thwacks, Jim sighs]
Jim is still carrying
a lot of the weight.
How much longer he can keep up
carrying the extra weight,
I don't know,
but we're doing it.
And if I start improving a bit
and can start contributing more,
then that's gonna help a lot.
*
- Okay.
Now it's time to forage.
*
- I would do anything
to protect Jim,
and I know he would for me.
We really feed off each other
and help each other
through tough times
and give each other
the confidence
and strength when need be.
I'm incredibly proud of him
and his ability
to help me continue going.
You know, it's inspirational,
and that's just changed
our relationship
into just a brick house,
rock solid one.
- Oh, my God.
[grunting]
Oh, there's so many.
Wow.
Oh, my God.
[grunting]
Yeah!
Hey, Ted!
I just tap-danced
the [bleep] out of,
like, 24 gunnel fish
from two rocks.
I almost have a full bag.
- Wow, that's good.
- I'll tell you what.
When I just started
loading in on gunnel fish,
it's pretty freaking exciting.
That makes me think
we can do it;
we can go longer.
But I don't want
to get delusions of grandeur
'cause I am starving right now.
So hungry.
[sniffs, sighs]
[thunder rumbles distantly]
[low dramatic music]
*
- In some ways,
we're just passing the days.
Our energy levels are so low
that some of the projects
that we feel like could help us
get more food on the table,
we just can't do.
*
You keep on pushing yourself,
and you keep on going.
It's like a marathon
without a finish line.
[low dramatic music continues]
*
- I'm sure whoever else
is out there
is in just as bad shape as us.
All we can do is hope
we can outlast them.
- One thing I can be sure
of at this point
is that it's gonna end here
real soon.
It's got to.
[low brooding music]
*
Who would have ever thought we'd
be out here till Christmas Eve?
*
I can't believe I'm out here
in the first place, honestly.
*
Sure do miss my wife
and my daughter.
Can't wait to see them again.
One of these days,
we'll all be back together.
[ice crunching]
It's so cold.
Our hands are gonna go numb,
but we got to keep fishing.
[coat rustles, water splashes]
Each fish that we get extends
our stay out here a day.
- Here we go.
- Hoo-ha.
[water splashing]
I got one!
[brooding music]
*
- I cannot believe
that we have spent Halloween,
Thanksgiving,
and Christmas out here.
- I'm an old retired guy,
and I should be at home
under my comforter
drinking a cup
of hot chocolate.
- Yeah, I can't believe
we're gonna spend Christmas
without Mom.
- It's so sad.
Just miss home so much.
- I know they're all gonna be
talking about us
at dinner tomorrow.
- She'll most likely go
to Aunt Cindy's, I would say.
- Oh, yeah, I'm sure
it'll be at Aunt Cindy's.
- All the family will be there.
- Yeah.
- Oh, I just hope that
they have a great day.
- That would be nice.
- I wish there was some way
we could share it
for the briefest of moments.
- Yeah.
- Aunt Cindy's--she'll
have her cheesecake
and probably how many pies?
- Oh, and you remember
that baked brie Nicky made?
Oh, that would be
so good right now.
- I could go for anything.
Right now, after all
those kelp greenlings,
I could probably eat the ass end
out of a hobby horse right now.
[ethereal music]
*
[ethereal music continues]
*
- Yay, Merry Christmas,
everybody.
I'd like to take
this opportunity
to say Merry Christmas
to my family,
particularly Heather.
I love you so, so much.
I'm so sorry I'm not there
to spend this day with you.
- I just want to wish
everybody a--a Merry Christmas.
My family,
my mom and dad,
Aunt Peggy and Uncle Steve.
Tori, especially you.
I love you so much.
- I'm missing you guys a lot.
I know you're all invested
in this with me.
Thank you for that.
[ethereal music]
*
- You know, part of me feels
like Heather and Tori are,
you know,
part of this too, you know?
Like if we win, I'll feel
like saying to Tori that,
like, we did, not just me,
you know?
- I agree.
- They're going through
this too.
- It's not just us that
invested in this, yeah.
Missing Christmas is definitely
a pretty big blow.
- Absolutely terrible.
- I just feel
like letting everyone else
down not being there.
- [bleep] horrible, man.
- So beaten down,
and I just want to get home
and see Heather so much
and get back
to my wonderful life, you know?
Just sucks, and it's
emotionally crushing that
we have to miss Christmas.
- Tap out Christmas day, Ted?
[fire crackling]
[ethereal music]
*
- I don't know,
but I'm really hurting.
[low dramatic music]
*
[dramatic music continues]
*
- I've had my tuque on so long,
I don't know
what my hair looks like anymore.
[coat rustling]
Well, that's what it looks like.
[coat rustling]
Ready to go to the Oscars.
[ax thwacking]
*
That log seemed to really
give you a hard time.
- Oh my God.
*
25% of me is gone.
I've lost 25% of my body.
We were eating two and then
sometimes three pots of food,
but now it seems like
we're kind of wasting away.
We're losing weight
and losing weight and weaker.
Whoa.
*
Man down.
*
I think about food a lot.
I think about, you know,
the comforts of just a chair,
sitting around by the fire
every night.
It's just not comfortable.
Our bed's not comfortable.
Sometimes it just feels like,
man, I just want to go home,
and, you know, order up
a freaking pizza.
I think the only thing
that's kept me going out here
is just, like,
imagining the things I'm gonna
have in my life when we win.
You know?
Oh, my God.
Imagining just my house
and my business.
[waves lapping]
Today, part of me
is just like, [bleep]
what are we doing out here,
you know?
Like, we're just starving.
It's just freezing.
Like, I'm just so bored of it,
just can't take being so hungry.
Just day after day,
eating this [bleep]
is not making me
feel any better,
so part of me is just like,
"We should just [bleep] quit,
go back, eat something."
[inhales deeply]
What about you, Ted?
How are you feeling?
*
Jim is starting to lose grip
a little bit.
It's a little scary,
because he's so strong,
big dude, you know,
and he can--he can mentally push
through almost anything.
- Mm-hmm.
[saw grinding rhythmically]
*
[ethereal music]
*
- [moaning]
[retching]
[sniffling and moaning]
[retching and moaning]
[gasping]
[retching and groaning]
Ow.
[groans]
It's terrible.
I'm just trying to--
Oh, the acid just--
[retching]
- You should try
to drink some water.
- [gasps]
My stomach hurts so much.
[sniffs]
Oh, God.
I'm getting acid reflux.
It's coming up
in my esophagus and burning.
I can only lie on my back.
I can't lie on my right side.
I know that you can
get a situation
where it happens over time.
I mean, it can cause, like,
a precancerous condition
in your esophagus.
It's scary.
- My dad's heartburn
is really getting rough.
He can't even really rest
anymore, you know?
It keeps him up all night.
So anyway, he's just
taking it easy right now.
That's really our plan
at this point,
but there's no way around it.
We still need water.
You know, that's one thing
that we do
still have some control over,
so I'm just gonna go
get a little bit and--
you know, I think that's really
the only,
you know--that's kind
of the only thing
that we have that can at least
give him a little bit of relief
just to dilute some
of the stomach acid.
[water running]
You know, we've both been
going through this slow decline,
but it seems like just--just
a couple days ago,
it just started increasing
so significantly.
It's almost exponential
at this point.
Got the water on, Dad.
It'll be ready pretty soon.
- It's been an incredible
journey out here.
And it just--it is so beautiful,
but at the same time,
I'm starting to hate it.
I'm just starting
to hate the things
that we have to do every day,
like boiling water,
which Sam is doing right now.
Just...
hanging on by our toenails.
I want so bad
to win this thing.
I want Sam to win this thing.
I want him to have
a little jump-start in life,
be able to invest
a little money,
just get himself
in a good--a good spot.
It'll help him
the rest of his life.
But...
I think neither one of us
wants to kill ourselves
to try to do that.
We got some things
to talk about, Sam.
- Yep.
- I want to go as long
as I possibly can,
but I'm gonna get to that point
where I just can't do it
anymore.
[ominous music]
*
[rain pattering]
- Oh, my stomach's
hurting.
[bleep], man, it kills.
- Man, crawl into bed.
Call it a day.
- My stomach cramp, upper
abdominal pain has come back.
And it's really hurting,
and it's getting worse.
And that just is absolutely
immobilizing out here.
- Ted is just in a really
bad place.
He's broken.
I've never seen him
that broken before in my life.
- I mean, 71 days doing this.
[rotors whirring]
- Oh, man.
[bleep] just got real.
I'll tell you that.
And now I got
to find my brother.
- Whoo!
Look at this place.
We're going into this
with the mindset
that we can figure out
what is in our area
and what to do with it.
As long as that works until
we can find something else.
- God, it's tough
walking through this stuff.
All these salal bushes.
The terrain out here
on Vancouver Island
is hands down
some of the hardest terrain
to walk through
in the entire world.
I'm feeling nervous, you know,
but I'm just not gonna be able
to make it,
that I don't have enough food.
You know the times are tough
when you're like,
"Yeah, I get to eat a slug."
[smacks lips]
It's disgusting. Ugh!
- Things are really
starting to get hard.
Still no Jim yet today.
I see a grouse up ahead.
I'm gonna try to kill it.
[grunts]
Ugh.
[grunting, lens cracks]
So close.
By the time Jim gets here,
I'd like to have
a little more done
than just a piece
of [bleep] shelter
and a gill net set up
with no food for him.
We're gonna have to get
other food sources.
So I'm starting to make a boat.
What do you think of that?
- Man, I'm getting exhausted,
just doing this with no food
and just feel
every last ounce of energy
being sucked out of me.
- I really hope when there's
two people here,
we can work at things together
and start producing
some results.
- Ted!
- Yeah!
- Ted!
- Yeah!
Jim's here!
Wow. Unbelievable.
Yeah. You [bleep] did it.
- [grunting]
Together, we both feel
like we can stay out here
as long as we want
if we can find enough food.
- While Ted works on the boat,
I'm starting to build
a crab trap.
There's the front of it,
and this here is the entrance
where the crabs
will walk in and get trapped.
- Jim's crab trap
is revealing its head.
- No!
Out here,
it's very unpredictable
and that's really
challenging to deal
with mentally and physically.
- Oh, it's devastating, Jim.
[liquid sloshes]
[grunts]
I just puked.
I can't stomach
that [bleep] seaweed.
- Best survival item you have is
the other person
you're out there with.
I'm gonna try to carry
the ball here.
Yeah!
- You got a fish?
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
We're ready for
the maiden voyage of "Hope,"
the boat we've built.
We're really hoping
this boat floats.
both: Yeah!
- I'm starting to get worried
about this boat
not providing us with more fish.
We're not getting
enough food out here.
I feel like I'm being
tortured, you know?
- It's a slow starve
is what's happening to us.
I'm going to set a trotline.
One, two, three.
Oh [bleep]!
- Oh, dude.
- The hook's embedded
in my finger.
- Dude, I tried to [bleep].
- It's okay, man. Shut up.
- Just being together with the
same person day in and day out
can really be wearing
on any relationship.
- Such a depressed case, bud.
Like, cheer up.
- Take your [inaudible]
the boat already.
- I'm gonna forage.
I don't want to [bleep]
kill myself doing that, man.
- I'm doing the heavy lifting
right now
and Jim isn't contributing.
The limpets are out like crazy.
- We have, like, at least
four pots of food here.
- We're basically starving
to death,
and one of the risks
is that we get in an argument
that we can't come back from.
- I forage way more than you,
and you always are complaining
and don't want to do it.
- You're the big hero.
- I'm not the hero.
I'm just saying--
- The big guy that's talked me
into everything.
- You want to win $500,000,
you can't sit on your ass
and not get food.
- Thank God for Ted.
Let me bow to you.
- [bleep] this [bleep], man.
That's it for me.
I had some really
intense abdominal pain.
I've kind of been
out of commission.
Jim's definitely been carrying
a little extra weight
the last couple days.
- Ted and I get in a lot
of fights out here,
but we understand
you have to just forget about it
and focus on the job at hand,
which is being
the last guy to stay out there.
*
- I'm really hoping
this subsides.
It's the kind of thing that just
will push you over the edge,
to be quite honest with you.
- We're telling ourselves
we want to keep pushing.
We want to make 80
and then 90 days,
but, you know,
Ted's also saying that,
"Listen, man,
I might have to tap out soon."
I told him today,
"If you really need to tap out,
we can do it."
[fire crackling]
[low dramatic music]
*
[dramatic music continues]
*
- Oh, boy, oh, boy.
[sighs]
*
One of these days--
one of these days,
this'll be over.
- It could happen any day.
- Could happen any day,
and every day is one day closer.
- Every day is one day closer.
*
- Ten weeks out here
on the island.
- That's insane.
- My stomach hurts so much.
We're hungry.
We're worn out.
We're physically weak.
And I've been noticing I'm
getting these weird black spots
on my toes, like, all purple.
- That's disgusting.
- And I'm just wondering
if this is frostbite.
- It could be.
But, you know, we just can't
give up at this point.
- Yeah. Over two months
of our life have gone into this.
[rotors whirring]
Here we go.
This is it.
Yeah.
Awesome.
I'm so happy to be here,
but very nervous too.
- This rainbow is incredible.
I think that's good luck.
My dad's off in that direction.
I got to go find him.
It's just me and the island now.
- Coming out here,
I had a twofold goal.
To spend time with my son
and put my skills and knowledge
to the ultimate test.
Holy [bleep].
I caught a fish.
- I knew the terrain was
gonna be rough, but honestly,
cameras just--
they can't capture it.
You're climbing over
trees constantly.
You're going over.
You're going under.
This forest just tears you up.
It is unforgiving.
Oh, my God.
Oh [bleep].
- There are bears
all over the place here.
There's some poop.
Look at that,
just full of berries.
I saw something
moving down there.
- I don't know how
far I have to go.
I don't know how many days
it's expected to take,
and I'm just out here
getting beat to death every day,
day in, day out,
just trying to cover ground,
just trying to meet up
with my dad.
- I've had virtually
nothing to eat today.
I'm getting so weak,
I can barely do anything.
Man cannot live
on limpets alone.
Man, I wish I knew
when Sam was gonna get here.
- Oh, I can't wait to drop this
pack and be done with it.
- Hello, Sam!
- Dad!
No way.
[laughs]
- Oh, my God, Sam.
- Holy cow.
- Oh, my God. Oh, Sam.
Oh, my God.
[rain pattering]
Holy cow.
Sam made it.
Now that Sam and I are together,
I think we're gonna be
out there a long time.
- Being successful fishing
out here
is going to be the difference
between staying and going home.
- Whoa, Sam.
- No way. Yes!
- This is how we're gonna win.
- Hey-hey.
- What we're doing right here,
this is how we're gonna win.
This is gonna carry us
right through to the end.
- Oh, yeah. Whoa!
- Yes.
- This is an incredibly
unique opportunity,
spending a lot of time
with my son.
- Here you can see the tide,
and that's the back wall
of our shelter right there.
- There'll come a day when he'll
get married, have children,
maybe settle down in
a different part of the country,
and then who knows how often
we'd be able to see him?
- So we're headed off
on our hike to the new,
potentially good fishing spot,
all the way around the cove.
- I think both of us
are just really getting tired,
really worn out.
We didn't have
any fish yesterday.
We had none the day before,
and it's really
catching up with us.
- Oh, way! Oh, oh! Oh, no!
- I've not caught a single fish.
It's so frustrating.
- There is nothing easy
about this.
There's nothing staged about it.
It's amazing how low
our energy levels
are right now, at least mine.
You--you're doing a lot
better than I am.
- Well, you're a lot older
than I am.
- Yeah.
What the heck?
Maybe we caught 'em all.
- I can just see it
in my dad's face.
He's really starting to feel it.
He's a lot older than I am,
and I'm really,
really worried about him.
Take five minutes.
You haven't even sat down
five minutes, right?
You were talking about
the 20-gauge wire.
- I'm talking about the wire
for the rock and 20-pound
on the end of that
so it'll break away.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's all I was trying
to say, [bleep] damn it.
That's all I was
trying to say.
When you're starving,
when you haven't eaten,
who knows what sort of demons
come out in your personality?
At this point in the game,
you got to--I mean,
you got to do the bare minimum
just to get by.
- It's--you know, we're pooped.
We're running out of energy.
You know, we lose
weight every day.
- I'm frozen. I'm tired.
I'm wobbly. My legs are weak.
Being 61 1/2 years old really
makes being out here
a tougher challenge.
I don't know how much longer
I can stay here.
[gasps]
[sniffs]
[fire crackling]
- How much can our bodies
actually take?
- I'm just skin and bones.
I don't real--I don't have
any more fat to lose,
and the way
we're feeling right now,
and the way we're struggling,
I just--I just can't believe
there's someone else
that's still out here.
*
- We're both just so exhausted,
and I hope the sacrifice
has been worth it.
I'm really starting to think
that it wasn't.
- It's miserable with the
constant, daily hunger pangs,
and I'm just really
wanting to get home.
That draw of food
is just so powerful and strong.
*
- No victory
is worth permanent damage.
- No.
It would be nice to win this,
but, you know, there are
other things more important.
You know, I'm--we still have
the rest of our lives--
rest of our lives to go.
- I don't want to--I don't want
to win this
but regret it
for the rest of my life.
- Right.
Right.
- That's really what
it comes down to.
*
- Ted really wants to get home,
and I don't blame him,
considering the stomach cramps
and whatnot that he's had
and the torture
of being out here
that really just wants
to make you tap out.
- It's so incredibly
hard out here right now,
just the burning pain.
I just--I don't know
if it's worth it.
I don't know if winning
is worth it anymore.
I just don't really--
I don't really know.
[brooding music]
*
[suspenseful music]
*
[motor whirring distantly]
[motor whirring]
[suspenseful music]
*
*
[suspenseful music]
*
*
[footsteps squishing]
*
- Been a hell of an adventure.
Once-in-a-lifetime thing,
but, you know,
like all good things,
it's got to come to an end,
right?
- Basically we just don't have
any buffer left on our bodies,
you know?
You know, we drink water.
It goes right through us.
It's just a constant battle
with dehydration.
- Yeah, we're
at our physical limit.
Can't--can't go on.
Yeah.
*
- To not win is definitely
a disappointment.
You know, I would've--
I would've loved to have won.
But you learn a lot
from an experience like this.
It teaches you about yourself.
It teaches you about
what you're capable of.
We're leaving here better people
than what we came here.
I've certainly bonded much more
with my dad than I ever have,
and I can tell you that we're
closer than we've ever been.
He's honestly the strongest man
anybody could ever be
fortunate enough to meet.
We gave it everything.
That's not something that
many people can actually say.
Before we even came out here,
you know,
we made an agreement
with each other
that no victory ever
would be worth causing harm
to ourselves that,
that could last the rest
of our life.
- [moaning]
I'm feeling a little sick.
[groaning and retching]
- Still feeling it?
Straight stomach acid.
[groaning and retching]
[gasping and moaning]
- Oh, I thought
I was gonna throw up.
- Dad, I'm pretty darn proud
of you, 61 years old, 74 days.
- Kicking butt.
- Yeah.
I'm telling you, I would've
made it this long without you.
- At this point,
I can honestly say
I don't think
I could go another day.
- We're leaving here
with no regrets.
- Yeah.
- Did the best we could, right?
- Yep.
[rotors whirring]
We've pushed ourselves
to our physical limit.
We could not go any farther.
I don't feel defeated.
I'm so proud of what we've done.
I never dreamed I would be
out here for 74 days.
*
I'd like to address those people
who are getting up
there in years
and have worked all their lives
and now feel like it's just
the next step in life
to just sit around
and take it easy.
You know, if I could say,
"Just get out there
"and challenge yourself.
Try something new.
"Go to a national park
and experience nature
and see what is so beautiful
in the world around you."
From this whole experience,
there are many things
to be grateful for.
It's been a wonderful adventure.
I mean, it's been a test
of my abilities and skills,
but the most important thing
I've gained out of this
was being able to spend
that time with Sam.
I mean, that was--was
the biggest prize of all.
[rotors whirring]
[ethereal music]
*
[ethereal music continues]
*
- [grunts]
Oh, my god.
This is the morning of day 75.
[tree branch crunches]
Wow, that was a bad idea.
*
The crew is coming
to do med checks
and some, you know, gear swaps.
And other than that,
we're gonna do the usual stuff.
We're gonna forage
and fish and eat,
and that's probably
all we're gonna do today.
That's all you can do
anymore out here.
[hammer tapping]
[motor whirring distantly]
[motor whirring]
[ferro rod scraping]
[brooding music]
*
[fire crackling]
[ethereal music]
*
[ethereal music continues]
*
- Being out here
is just kind of like
an horrific feeling of torture,
and just getting
through the day,
you know, walking around,
you feel like you
just finished a marathon.
And then you're so starving,
even after you eat
you still feel weak,
but at least
that makes you feel better.
But you've got to chop wood.
You've got to light a fire.
Like, just taking off
your sweater is like,
oh, like, exhausting.
To just put your boots
on is exhausting.
I'm actually amazed
with how far I could--
- Hi!
[low dramatic music]
*
- Being out here is just
kind of like
an horrific feeling of torture.
Like, just taking off
your sweater is like,
oh, like, exhausting.
To just put your boots
on is exhausting.
I'm actually amazed
with how far I could...
- Hi!
- Really push--
What the [bleep]?
[all screaming indistinctly]
- You've got to be kidding me.
Oh, my God.
- You did it, babe.
You won.
- Wow.
- [sobbing]
- We did it. We did it.
- [sobbing]
- I don't believe
we actually did it.
- Oh, my God.
- You did it.
- We did it.
Yeah!
- Is this really
[bleep] happening?
- Oh, my god.
- I'm gonna hug you too, Ted.
- [laughs, speaks indistinctly]
- Ted, get over here.
I love you.
You're my [bleep] hero, Ted.
- Yes!
[bleep] hero, man!
- [indistinct speech] Yes!
Yeah!
[all laughing]
- Yes!
You want to see what
won us this show?
- Oh, Ted.
- These.
- Oh, my.
- Those are disgusting,
but if it wasn't for these,
there's just no way.
- This here is all the days
that we've been out here.
There's only 74,
so maybe you guys
want to put a 75
saw cut in the tree for us.
- Together.
- Yes.
- 75, guys.
It was close.
Whoever the last group was,
you're a couple
of tough bastards.
- [laughs]
[ethereal music]
*
- To win the money feels
freaking amazing.
I can't believe
it actually happened.
It's given me peace of mind,
a clear future,
way less stress.
It is such an awesome feeling.
I'm incredibly grateful
for my brother Ted.
Here's a guy that goes out
in the hammering rain
every single day,
exerts himself so intensely,
to bring food back home.
It's just unbelievable.
What we went through,
how we helped each other,
how when one was down,
the other picked up,
how we got through
the rough times,
that's what makes this
experience so amazing.
- I can thank Jim for us
being here and for me
getting to this point.
If it wasn't for Jim,
we wouldn't have won.
[engine whirring distantly]
all: Yeah!
- Whoo!
- Yeah!
- I guess what I've learned
most about myself out here
is that I just have more
than I thought I had to give.
It's the things
that are the hardest,
that are the most challenging
to achieve
that are the most
satisfying and rewarding.
It's not the things
that are easy to do
'cause anybody can do
those things.
If I can push myself
to this extreme,
what else is gonna be this hard?
What is impossible?
It just gives me
the level of confidence
that whatever I put
my mind to, I can do.
*
- If we can, as people,
learn to respect nature as much
or more
than we respect ourselves,
then we can finally come
to some sort of a balance
that is gonna keep us
alive long-term.
If you look up
at the stars at night,
you realize that we're just
floating out here on a big rock,
and everything that's here
is actually in this together,
as one.
*
[ominous music]
*
- I got nothing left.
I just can't go on.
- I know it's for real.
She's had it.
- That's all I was trying
to say, [bleep]damn it.
- There's nobody more stubborn
in the world than my dad,
and he took it
to a whole nother level.
It's getting to the point where
we should really start thinking
about what the future holds.
- I have really
intense abdominal pain.
If I can't do anything,
I can't stay out here anymore.
[dramatic music]
*
- This is gonna be
an incredible challenge.
- We're gonna be dropped off
in separate locations,
and one of us
has to find the other.
- Here we go!
- I've got to wait on
my brother.
Hopefully he'll be here soon.
- Please come tomorrow.
- I don't know where I'm going,
how long I'm gonna be out here.
All I have is a compass bearing.
- It's a needle in a haystack.
Can I even make it to base camp?
- Dad!
- Son!
- No way.
- Everything around you
is telling you,
"You need to go home."
[air horn blasts]
- Please leave me alone!
- If you don't work as a team,
it's game over.
- I can't hold.
- Just hold it still.
- $500,000 would be
life changing.
- I know.
- I feel like the life
was sucked out of me.
- He's coming.
He sees me.
[suspenseful music]
*
*
- I spent a good amount of time
in the shelter today.
It's been a rough few days.
That's for sure.
Still pretty jelly-legged
and jelly-armed
and that kind of stuff,
but I'm getting better, I think.
[ax thwacks, Jim sighs]
Jim is still carrying
a lot of the weight.
How much longer he can keep up
carrying the extra weight,
I don't know,
but we're doing it.
And if I start improving a bit
and can start contributing more,
then that's gonna help a lot.
*
- Okay.
Now it's time to forage.
*
- I would do anything
to protect Jim,
and I know he would for me.
We really feed off each other
and help each other
through tough times
and give each other
the confidence
and strength when need be.
I'm incredibly proud of him
and his ability
to help me continue going.
You know, it's inspirational,
and that's just changed
our relationship
into just a brick house,
rock solid one.
- Oh, my God.
[grunting]
Oh, there's so many.
Wow.
Oh, my God.
[grunting]
Yeah!
Hey, Ted!
I just tap-danced
the [bleep] out of,
like, 24 gunnel fish
from two rocks.
I almost have a full bag.
- Wow, that's good.
- I'll tell you what.
When I just started
loading in on gunnel fish,
it's pretty freaking exciting.
That makes me think
we can do it;
we can go longer.
But I don't want
to get delusions of grandeur
'cause I am starving right now.
So hungry.
[sniffs, sighs]
[thunder rumbles distantly]
[low dramatic music]
*
- In some ways,
we're just passing the days.
Our energy levels are so low
that some of the projects
that we feel like could help us
get more food on the table,
we just can't do.
*
You keep on pushing yourself,
and you keep on going.
It's like a marathon
without a finish line.
[low dramatic music continues]
*
- I'm sure whoever else
is out there
is in just as bad shape as us.
All we can do is hope
we can outlast them.
- One thing I can be sure
of at this point
is that it's gonna end here
real soon.
It's got to.
[low brooding music]
*
Who would have ever thought we'd
be out here till Christmas Eve?
*
I can't believe I'm out here
in the first place, honestly.
*
Sure do miss my wife
and my daughter.
Can't wait to see them again.
One of these days,
we'll all be back together.
[ice crunching]
It's so cold.
Our hands are gonna go numb,
but we got to keep fishing.
[coat rustles, water splashes]
Each fish that we get extends
our stay out here a day.
- Here we go.
- Hoo-ha.
[water splashing]
I got one!
[brooding music]
*
- I cannot believe
that we have spent Halloween,
Thanksgiving,
and Christmas out here.
- I'm an old retired guy,
and I should be at home
under my comforter
drinking a cup
of hot chocolate.
- Yeah, I can't believe
we're gonna spend Christmas
without Mom.
- It's so sad.
Just miss home so much.
- I know they're all gonna be
talking about us
at dinner tomorrow.
- She'll most likely go
to Aunt Cindy's, I would say.
- Oh, yeah, I'm sure
it'll be at Aunt Cindy's.
- All the family will be there.
- Yeah.
- Oh, I just hope that
they have a great day.
- That would be nice.
- I wish there was some way
we could share it
for the briefest of moments.
- Yeah.
- Aunt Cindy's--she'll
have her cheesecake
and probably how many pies?
- Oh, and you remember
that baked brie Nicky made?
Oh, that would be
so good right now.
- I could go for anything.
Right now, after all
those kelp greenlings,
I could probably eat the ass end
out of a hobby horse right now.
[ethereal music]
*
[ethereal music continues]
*
- Yay, Merry Christmas,
everybody.
I'd like to take
this opportunity
to say Merry Christmas
to my family,
particularly Heather.
I love you so, so much.
I'm so sorry I'm not there
to spend this day with you.
- I just want to wish
everybody a--a Merry Christmas.
My family,
my mom and dad,
Aunt Peggy and Uncle Steve.
Tori, especially you.
I love you so much.
- I'm missing you guys a lot.
I know you're all invested
in this with me.
Thank you for that.
[ethereal music]
*
- You know, part of me feels
like Heather and Tori are,
you know,
part of this too, you know?
Like if we win, I'll feel
like saying to Tori that,
like, we did, not just me,
you know?
- I agree.
- They're going through
this too.
- It's not just us that
invested in this, yeah.
Missing Christmas is definitely
a pretty big blow.
- Absolutely terrible.
- I just feel
like letting everyone else
down not being there.
- [bleep] horrible, man.
- So beaten down,
and I just want to get home
and see Heather so much
and get back
to my wonderful life, you know?
Just sucks, and it's
emotionally crushing that
we have to miss Christmas.
- Tap out Christmas day, Ted?
[fire crackling]
[ethereal music]
*
- I don't know,
but I'm really hurting.
[low dramatic music]
*
[dramatic music continues]
*
- I've had my tuque on so long,
I don't know
what my hair looks like anymore.
[coat rustling]
Well, that's what it looks like.
[coat rustling]
Ready to go to the Oscars.
[ax thwacking]
*
That log seemed to really
give you a hard time.
- Oh my God.
*
25% of me is gone.
I've lost 25% of my body.
We were eating two and then
sometimes three pots of food,
but now it seems like
we're kind of wasting away.
We're losing weight
and losing weight and weaker.
Whoa.
*
Man down.
*
I think about food a lot.
I think about, you know,
the comforts of just a chair,
sitting around by the fire
every night.
It's just not comfortable.
Our bed's not comfortable.
Sometimes it just feels like,
man, I just want to go home,
and, you know, order up
a freaking pizza.
I think the only thing
that's kept me going out here
is just, like,
imagining the things I'm gonna
have in my life when we win.
You know?
Oh, my God.
Imagining just my house
and my business.
[waves lapping]
Today, part of me
is just like, [bleep]
what are we doing out here,
you know?
Like, we're just starving.
It's just freezing.
Like, I'm just so bored of it,
just can't take being so hungry.
Just day after day,
eating this [bleep]
is not making me
feel any better,
so part of me is just like,
"We should just [bleep] quit,
go back, eat something."
[inhales deeply]
What about you, Ted?
How are you feeling?
*
Jim is starting to lose grip
a little bit.
It's a little scary,
because he's so strong,
big dude, you know,
and he can--he can mentally push
through almost anything.
- Mm-hmm.
[saw grinding rhythmically]
*
[ethereal music]
*
- [moaning]
[retching]
[sniffling and moaning]
[retching and moaning]
[gasping]
[retching and groaning]
Ow.
[groans]
It's terrible.
I'm just trying to--
Oh, the acid just--
[retching]
- You should try
to drink some water.
- [gasps]
My stomach hurts so much.
[sniffs]
Oh, God.
I'm getting acid reflux.
It's coming up
in my esophagus and burning.
I can only lie on my back.
I can't lie on my right side.
I know that you can
get a situation
where it happens over time.
I mean, it can cause, like,
a precancerous condition
in your esophagus.
It's scary.
- My dad's heartburn
is really getting rough.
He can't even really rest
anymore, you know?
It keeps him up all night.
So anyway, he's just
taking it easy right now.
That's really our plan
at this point,
but there's no way around it.
We still need water.
You know, that's one thing
that we do
still have some control over,
so I'm just gonna go
get a little bit and--
you know, I think that's really
the only,
you know--that's kind
of the only thing
that we have that can at least
give him a little bit of relief
just to dilute some
of the stomach acid.
[water running]
You know, we've both been
going through this slow decline,
but it seems like just--just
a couple days ago,
it just started increasing
so significantly.
It's almost exponential
at this point.
Got the water on, Dad.
It'll be ready pretty soon.
- It's been an incredible
journey out here.
And it just--it is so beautiful,
but at the same time,
I'm starting to hate it.
I'm just starting
to hate the things
that we have to do every day,
like boiling water,
which Sam is doing right now.
Just...
hanging on by our toenails.
I want so bad
to win this thing.
I want Sam to win this thing.
I want him to have
a little jump-start in life,
be able to invest
a little money,
just get himself
in a good--a good spot.
It'll help him
the rest of his life.
But...
I think neither one of us
wants to kill ourselves
to try to do that.
We got some things
to talk about, Sam.
- Yep.
- I want to go as long
as I possibly can,
but I'm gonna get to that point
where I just can't do it
anymore.
[ominous music]
*
[rain pattering]
- Oh, my stomach's
hurting.
[bleep], man, it kills.
- Man, crawl into bed.
Call it a day.
- My stomach cramp, upper
abdominal pain has come back.
And it's really hurting,
and it's getting worse.
And that just is absolutely
immobilizing out here.
- Ted is just in a really
bad place.
He's broken.
I've never seen him
that broken before in my life.
- I mean, 71 days doing this.
[rotors whirring]
- Oh, man.
[bleep] just got real.
I'll tell you that.
And now I got
to find my brother.
- Whoo!
Look at this place.
We're going into this
with the mindset
that we can figure out
what is in our area
and what to do with it.
As long as that works until
we can find something else.
- God, it's tough
walking through this stuff.
All these salal bushes.
The terrain out here
on Vancouver Island
is hands down
some of the hardest terrain
to walk through
in the entire world.
I'm feeling nervous, you know,
but I'm just not gonna be able
to make it,
that I don't have enough food.
You know the times are tough
when you're like,
"Yeah, I get to eat a slug."
[smacks lips]
It's disgusting. Ugh!
- Things are really
starting to get hard.
Still no Jim yet today.
I see a grouse up ahead.
I'm gonna try to kill it.
[grunts]
Ugh.
[grunting, lens cracks]
So close.
By the time Jim gets here,
I'd like to have
a little more done
than just a piece
of [bleep] shelter
and a gill net set up
with no food for him.
We're gonna have to get
other food sources.
So I'm starting to make a boat.
What do you think of that?
- Man, I'm getting exhausted,
just doing this with no food
and just feel
every last ounce of energy
being sucked out of me.
- I really hope when there's
two people here,
we can work at things together
and start producing
some results.
- Ted!
- Yeah!
- Ted!
- Yeah!
Jim's here!
Wow. Unbelievable.
Yeah. You [bleep] did it.
- [grunting]
Together, we both feel
like we can stay out here
as long as we want
if we can find enough food.
- While Ted works on the boat,
I'm starting to build
a crab trap.
There's the front of it,
and this here is the entrance
where the crabs
will walk in and get trapped.
- Jim's crab trap
is revealing its head.
- No!
Out here,
it's very unpredictable
and that's really
challenging to deal
with mentally and physically.
- Oh, it's devastating, Jim.
[liquid sloshes]
[grunts]
I just puked.
I can't stomach
that [bleep] seaweed.
- Best survival item you have is
the other person
you're out there with.
I'm gonna try to carry
the ball here.
Yeah!
- You got a fish?
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
We're ready for
the maiden voyage of "Hope,"
the boat we've built.
We're really hoping
this boat floats.
both: Yeah!
- I'm starting to get worried
about this boat
not providing us with more fish.
We're not getting
enough food out here.
I feel like I'm being
tortured, you know?
- It's a slow starve
is what's happening to us.
I'm going to set a trotline.
One, two, three.
Oh [bleep]!
- Oh, dude.
- The hook's embedded
in my finger.
- Dude, I tried to [bleep].
- It's okay, man. Shut up.
- Just being together with the
same person day in and day out
can really be wearing
on any relationship.
- Such a depressed case, bud.
Like, cheer up.
- Take your [inaudible]
the boat already.
- I'm gonna forage.
I don't want to [bleep]
kill myself doing that, man.
- I'm doing the heavy lifting
right now
and Jim isn't contributing.
The limpets are out like crazy.
- We have, like, at least
four pots of food here.
- We're basically starving
to death,
and one of the risks
is that we get in an argument
that we can't come back from.
- I forage way more than you,
and you always are complaining
and don't want to do it.
- You're the big hero.
- I'm not the hero.
I'm just saying--
- The big guy that's talked me
into everything.
- You want to win $500,000,
you can't sit on your ass
and not get food.
- Thank God for Ted.
Let me bow to you.
- [bleep] this [bleep], man.
That's it for me.
I had some really
intense abdominal pain.
I've kind of been
out of commission.
Jim's definitely been carrying
a little extra weight
the last couple days.
- Ted and I get in a lot
of fights out here,
but we understand
you have to just forget about it
and focus on the job at hand,
which is being
the last guy to stay out there.
*
- I'm really hoping
this subsides.
It's the kind of thing that just
will push you over the edge,
to be quite honest with you.
- We're telling ourselves
we want to keep pushing.
We want to make 80
and then 90 days,
but, you know,
Ted's also saying that,
"Listen, man,
I might have to tap out soon."
I told him today,
"If you really need to tap out,
we can do it."
[fire crackling]
[low dramatic music]
*
[dramatic music continues]
*
- Oh, boy, oh, boy.
[sighs]
*
One of these days--
one of these days,
this'll be over.
- It could happen any day.
- Could happen any day,
and every day is one day closer.
- Every day is one day closer.
*
- Ten weeks out here
on the island.
- That's insane.
- My stomach hurts so much.
We're hungry.
We're worn out.
We're physically weak.
And I've been noticing I'm
getting these weird black spots
on my toes, like, all purple.
- That's disgusting.
- And I'm just wondering
if this is frostbite.
- It could be.
But, you know, we just can't
give up at this point.
- Yeah. Over two months
of our life have gone into this.
[rotors whirring]
Here we go.
This is it.
Yeah.
Awesome.
I'm so happy to be here,
but very nervous too.
- This rainbow is incredible.
I think that's good luck.
My dad's off in that direction.
I got to go find him.
It's just me and the island now.
- Coming out here,
I had a twofold goal.
To spend time with my son
and put my skills and knowledge
to the ultimate test.
Holy [bleep].
I caught a fish.
- I knew the terrain was
gonna be rough, but honestly,
cameras just--
they can't capture it.
You're climbing over
trees constantly.
You're going over.
You're going under.
This forest just tears you up.
It is unforgiving.
Oh, my God.
Oh [bleep].
- There are bears
all over the place here.
There's some poop.
Look at that,
just full of berries.
I saw something
moving down there.
- I don't know how
far I have to go.
I don't know how many days
it's expected to take,
and I'm just out here
getting beat to death every day,
day in, day out,
just trying to cover ground,
just trying to meet up
with my dad.
- I've had virtually
nothing to eat today.
I'm getting so weak,
I can barely do anything.
Man cannot live
on limpets alone.
Man, I wish I knew
when Sam was gonna get here.
- Oh, I can't wait to drop this
pack and be done with it.
- Hello, Sam!
- Dad!
No way.
[laughs]
- Oh, my God, Sam.
- Holy cow.
- Oh, my God. Oh, Sam.
Oh, my God.
[rain pattering]
Holy cow.
Sam made it.
Now that Sam and I are together,
I think we're gonna be
out there a long time.
- Being successful fishing
out here
is going to be the difference
between staying and going home.
- Whoa, Sam.
- No way. Yes!
- This is how we're gonna win.
- Hey-hey.
- What we're doing right here,
this is how we're gonna win.
This is gonna carry us
right through to the end.
- Oh, yeah. Whoa!
- Yes.
- This is an incredibly
unique opportunity,
spending a lot of time
with my son.
- Here you can see the tide,
and that's the back wall
of our shelter right there.
- There'll come a day when he'll
get married, have children,
maybe settle down in
a different part of the country,
and then who knows how often
we'd be able to see him?
- So we're headed off
on our hike to the new,
potentially good fishing spot,
all the way around the cove.
- I think both of us
are just really getting tired,
really worn out.
We didn't have
any fish yesterday.
We had none the day before,
and it's really
catching up with us.
- Oh, way! Oh, oh! Oh, no!
- I've not caught a single fish.
It's so frustrating.
- There is nothing easy
about this.
There's nothing staged about it.
It's amazing how low
our energy levels
are right now, at least mine.
You--you're doing a lot
better than I am.
- Well, you're a lot older
than I am.
- Yeah.
What the heck?
Maybe we caught 'em all.
- I can just see it
in my dad's face.
He's really starting to feel it.
He's a lot older than I am,
and I'm really,
really worried about him.
Take five minutes.
You haven't even sat down
five minutes, right?
You were talking about
the 20-gauge wire.
- I'm talking about the wire
for the rock and 20-pound
on the end of that
so it'll break away.
- Mm-hmm.
- That's all I was trying
to say, [bleep] damn it.
That's all I was
trying to say.
When you're starving,
when you haven't eaten,
who knows what sort of demons
come out in your personality?
At this point in the game,
you got to--I mean,
you got to do the bare minimum
just to get by.
- It's--you know, we're pooped.
We're running out of energy.
You know, we lose
weight every day.
- I'm frozen. I'm tired.
I'm wobbly. My legs are weak.
Being 61 1/2 years old really
makes being out here
a tougher challenge.
I don't know how much longer
I can stay here.
[gasps]
[sniffs]
[fire crackling]
- How much can our bodies
actually take?
- I'm just skin and bones.
I don't real--I don't have
any more fat to lose,
and the way
we're feeling right now,
and the way we're struggling,
I just--I just can't believe
there's someone else
that's still out here.
*
- We're both just so exhausted,
and I hope the sacrifice
has been worth it.
I'm really starting to think
that it wasn't.
- It's miserable with the
constant, daily hunger pangs,
and I'm just really
wanting to get home.
That draw of food
is just so powerful and strong.
*
- No victory
is worth permanent damage.
- No.
It would be nice to win this,
but, you know, there are
other things more important.
You know, I'm--we still have
the rest of our lives--
rest of our lives to go.
- I don't want to--I don't want
to win this
but regret it
for the rest of my life.
- Right.
Right.
- That's really what
it comes down to.
*
- Ted really wants to get home,
and I don't blame him,
considering the stomach cramps
and whatnot that he's had
and the torture
of being out here
that really just wants
to make you tap out.
- It's so incredibly
hard out here right now,
just the burning pain.
I just--I don't know
if it's worth it.
I don't know if winning
is worth it anymore.
I just don't really--
I don't really know.
[brooding music]
*
[suspenseful music]
*
[motor whirring distantly]
[motor whirring]
[suspenseful music]
*
*
[suspenseful music]
*
*
[footsteps squishing]
*
- Been a hell of an adventure.
Once-in-a-lifetime thing,
but, you know,
like all good things,
it's got to come to an end,
right?
- Basically we just don't have
any buffer left on our bodies,
you know?
You know, we drink water.
It goes right through us.
It's just a constant battle
with dehydration.
- Yeah, we're
at our physical limit.
Can't--can't go on.
Yeah.
*
- To not win is definitely
a disappointment.
You know, I would've--
I would've loved to have won.
But you learn a lot
from an experience like this.
It teaches you about yourself.
It teaches you about
what you're capable of.
We're leaving here better people
than what we came here.
I've certainly bonded much more
with my dad than I ever have,
and I can tell you that we're
closer than we've ever been.
He's honestly the strongest man
anybody could ever be
fortunate enough to meet.
We gave it everything.
That's not something that
many people can actually say.
Before we even came out here,
you know,
we made an agreement
with each other
that no victory ever
would be worth causing harm
to ourselves that,
that could last the rest
of our life.
- [moaning]
I'm feeling a little sick.
[groaning and retching]
- Still feeling it?
Straight stomach acid.
[groaning and retching]
[gasping and moaning]
- Oh, I thought
I was gonna throw up.
- Dad, I'm pretty darn proud
of you, 61 years old, 74 days.
- Kicking butt.
- Yeah.
I'm telling you, I would've
made it this long without you.
- At this point,
I can honestly say
I don't think
I could go another day.
- We're leaving here
with no regrets.
- Yeah.
- Did the best we could, right?
- Yep.
[rotors whirring]
We've pushed ourselves
to our physical limit.
We could not go any farther.
I don't feel defeated.
I'm so proud of what we've done.
I never dreamed I would be
out here for 74 days.
*
I'd like to address those people
who are getting up
there in years
and have worked all their lives
and now feel like it's just
the next step in life
to just sit around
and take it easy.
You know, if I could say,
"Just get out there
"and challenge yourself.
Try something new.
"Go to a national park
and experience nature
and see what is so beautiful
in the world around you."
From this whole experience,
there are many things
to be grateful for.
It's been a wonderful adventure.
I mean, it's been a test
of my abilities and skills,
but the most important thing
I've gained out of this
was being able to spend
that time with Sam.
I mean, that was--was
the biggest prize of all.
[rotors whirring]
[ethereal music]
*
[ethereal music continues]
*
- [grunts]
Oh, my god.
This is the morning of day 75.
[tree branch crunches]
Wow, that was a bad idea.
*
The crew is coming
to do med checks
and some, you know, gear swaps.
And other than that,
we're gonna do the usual stuff.
We're gonna forage
and fish and eat,
and that's probably
all we're gonna do today.
That's all you can do
anymore out here.
[hammer tapping]
[motor whirring distantly]
[motor whirring]
[ferro rod scraping]
[brooding music]
*
[fire crackling]
[ethereal music]
*
[ethereal music continues]
*
- Being out here
is just kind of like
an horrific feeling of torture,
and just getting
through the day,
you know, walking around,
you feel like you
just finished a marathon.
And then you're so starving,
even after you eat
you still feel weak,
but at least
that makes you feel better.
But you've got to chop wood.
You've got to light a fire.
Like, just taking off
your sweater is like,
oh, like, exhausting.
To just put your boots
on is exhausting.
I'm actually amazed
with how far I could--
- Hi!
[low dramatic music]
*
- Being out here is just
kind of like
an horrific feeling of torture.
Like, just taking off
your sweater is like,
oh, like, exhausting.
To just put your boots
on is exhausting.
I'm actually amazed
with how far I could...
- Hi!
- Really push--
What the [bleep]?
[all screaming indistinctly]
- You've got to be kidding me.
Oh, my God.
- You did it, babe.
You won.
- Wow.
- [sobbing]
- We did it. We did it.
- [sobbing]
- I don't believe
we actually did it.
- Oh, my God.
- You did it.
- We did it.
Yeah!
- Is this really
[bleep] happening?
- Oh, my god.
- I'm gonna hug you too, Ted.
- [laughs, speaks indistinctly]
- Ted, get over here.
I love you.
You're my [bleep] hero, Ted.
- Yes!
[bleep] hero, man!
- [indistinct speech] Yes!
Yeah!
[all laughing]
- Yes!
You want to see what
won us this show?
- Oh, Ted.
- These.
- Oh, my.
- Those are disgusting,
but if it wasn't for these,
there's just no way.
- This here is all the days
that we've been out here.
There's only 74,
so maybe you guys
want to put a 75
saw cut in the tree for us.
- Together.
- Yes.
- 75, guys.
It was close.
Whoever the last group was,
you're a couple
of tough bastards.
- [laughs]
[ethereal music]
*
- To win the money feels
freaking amazing.
I can't believe
it actually happened.
It's given me peace of mind,
a clear future,
way less stress.
It is such an awesome feeling.
I'm incredibly grateful
for my brother Ted.
Here's a guy that goes out
in the hammering rain
every single day,
exerts himself so intensely,
to bring food back home.
It's just unbelievable.
What we went through,
how we helped each other,
how when one was down,
the other picked up,
how we got through
the rough times,
that's what makes this
experience so amazing.
- I can thank Jim for us
being here and for me
getting to this point.
If it wasn't for Jim,
we wouldn't have won.
[engine whirring distantly]
all: Yeah!
- Whoo!
- Yeah!
- I guess what I've learned
most about myself out here
is that I just have more
than I thought I had to give.
It's the things
that are the hardest,
that are the most challenging
to achieve
that are the most
satisfying and rewarding.
It's not the things
that are easy to do
'cause anybody can do
those things.
If I can push myself
to this extreme,
what else is gonna be this hard?
What is impossible?
It just gives me
the level of confidence
that whatever I put
my mind to, I can do.
*
- If we can, as people,
learn to respect nature as much
or more
than we respect ourselves,
then we can finally come
to some sort of a balance
that is gonna keep us
alive long-term.
If you look up
at the stars at night,
you realize that we're just
floating out here on a big rock,
and everything that's here
is actually in this together,
as one.
*
[ominous music]