Alone (2015–…): Season 5, Episode 2 - The Haunting - full transcript

[dramatic music]

♪

- What have I gotten myself
into once again?

Big snake, guys.
Be real careful, Sam.

- The predators are definitely
a concern.

[animal cries]
Oh.

Hope it's not a bear.
Please stay away from my camp.

- In Mongolia, when you're
hunting anything in the woods,

just know that something else
is hunting you.

That used to be alive.
Still see a little blood on it.

- I want to win more this time
than I did last time.



Yay, biggest fish.

Ah!

That went in my skin
all the way.

I don't want to,

but I feel like I have to
tap out to get some help.

I never in a million years
thought that a fishhook

would be why
I would have to leave.

♪

[heavy breathing]

♪

male narrator: For the first
time ever on "Alone,"

ten past participants return.

♪

They've come back
with one goal:



redemption.

- I deserve to be here,
and I'm back.

- I want to win more this time
than I did last time.

narrator:
Now a fresh hell awaits...

- The cold is an incredibly
strong punch in the face.

narrator: In the punishing
wilderness of Mongolia.

- We're in the middle
of nowhere.

- Mongolia's
a very unforgiving land.

narrator: They must survive
in complete isolation,

enduring as long as they can.

- I'm just gonna push
and push and push

until there's nothing left.

narrator:
The last one standing wins.

♪

[tense music]

♪

- Booyah, baby!
Booyah!

[yells]

Hell yeah!

Damn!

Bopped him upside the head.

Hell yeah!

Meat for the barbie, baby.

Whoo!

That has got to be
the dumbest [bleep] chipmunk

I've ever seen in my life.

Thank you for your life.

I really appreciate it.

I am really hungry.

Thank you very much.

Dude.

[sighs]

You...

you mean a lot to me, bud,

and I really appreciate it.

♪

Survival is brutal,

and I'm sorry, bud.

♪

Just thinking about
the first time I did this

on Vancouver Island,

just revisiting
this whole test over again.

Crap, dude, do you remember
what you had to go through?

Bazinga!

Squished mouse.
My favorite.

Season two, I was undergoing
a life-changing experience.

Whoo!

Man, it's beautiful here.
Holy crap.

And I was really
giving it my all.

My wife's gonna be--

in her heart,
I know she's gonna be--

I know she's gonna be
disappointed in me.

[sobbing]
Please, God, help me.

Please help me.
[cries]

The reason I tapped
on season two was the hunger.

It broke me.

I did the best I could, man.

Good girl.
Back home,

I'm still an electrician.

I go to a lot more
primitive skills gatherings.

To come out here again,

it's a second chance
at testing myself.

I've been tested once.

This time,
I want to do better.

I'm a very competitive person.

I just felt very, very badly
I came in second.

I want to push further
than what I did on season two.

I want to go past 64 days,

and ultimately,
I want to win.

[laughter]
See you guys.

Love you.
- Love you too.

- Bye.
- Bye.

- Gosh, it's been so long
since I've eaten meat,

I may even forget
how to gut this bad boy.

The land doesn't
give up things easy.

It just doesn't.

Anybody
who's gone on this show

never came out heavier
than when they went in.

It just doesn't happen.

I'll leave the guts right here,

just to see if something
comes by and eats it, I guess.

I mean, then I'll know

that there's a different
animal around here

that I could potentially trap.

♪

The struggles that
I went through on season two

are in my mind.

I know the cravings
that are gonna come.

I know
they're gonna be intense,

and I know they're gonna be
absolutely brutal,

but I also know that I've been
in that place before,

and I'm ready
to push past it.

My daughter used to always
call them "chicky munks"

when she was young.

"Chicky munks."

I like my chicky munk
well done.

Mongolia's gonna be
the toughest location yet.

In Vancouver Island,
you always had,

if you could stomach it,
the seaweed.

You always had the shellfish.
You always had ready bait.

Here, if you don't have food,
there's nothing you can do.

♪

I was really excited
to come out here.

A lot of people
would like to be in my spot,

so it's only fair

I keep plugging away,
doing the best I can.

♪

But that doesn't mean
it doesn't suck.

[sniffs]

♪

Thank you, little guy.

This really means a lot to me.

♪

[ominous music]

♪

[insects buzzing]

- Can you see how many bugs
are buzzing around my head?

Gosh!

Ohh.

It's crazy.

♪

"That man's fanning himself
with underwear, honey."

[laughs]

One of the items,
the clothing items,

they give you is underwear.

Well, I haven't worn underwear
in 20 years,

so turning an old pair
of underwear--

new pair of underwear...

[laughing]

Into assistance.

♪

All right.

It's time to get
something good to eat.

♪

I made a fly rod
out of willow,

so it's got a little bit
of a bend,

and I just put a reel
on there.

I've wanted to catch something
fly-fishing,

oh, so much
since I've been here,

so I'm gonna give this a go.

I think it--
I think it'll work.

We'll see.

♪

So when I was in Patagonia,

I caught 36 nice-sized trout.

I used, like,
a bottle rig as the reel,

and I just made a lure
out of bone,

but I haven't found any bone
out here,

and it's driving me freaking
crazy, 'cause that was

what I was catching
all of my fish off of.

In Patagonia, I was catching
fish left and right,

but I was saving
all this food

and not eating
on a steady basis.

Obviously, that didn't work,

and so they actually
took me off at 73 days,

because I was much too light.

- It's dangerous
for you to stay here.

- We're taking you
to the hospital.

- When I looked at myself
in the mirror, I was like,

"Oh, thank God
they pulled me."

First month that I was back,
I quit my job.

I was feeling
a little stagnant,

and so I moved into my truck,

and then I just sort of lived
very, very day-to-day.

I am extremely excited
and honored

to have this opportunity
again.

This is a second chance
to connect with the land.

For me,
that's really important,

and I would love to win.

[laughs]

I would love to have
$500,000

so that I can have
more experiences like this,

but Mongolia's
gonna be tougher

than anything I've ever done.

For me, the challenge
is greater physically.

I want to make sure
that I'm fed,

and I want to make sure
my body is strong,

and so this time,

I'd like to actually eat
my fish.

I'm not here to starve.

I'm not playing
the starving game.

I haven't been having a lot
of luck with the fly-fishing,

so time to go hunting.

[chuckles]

♪

Let's hope my hunting pays off

better than my fishing so far.

♪

I'll be doing still-hunting.

At this point, I'm just looking
to see what's there.

♪

If you want
to get to know the land,

hunting is the way to do it.

Mongolia,
opposed to Patagonia,

has a big, open expanse
of grassland,

so hunting is so much easier
to do.

♪

I think I'm gonna need
big game,

so I'm hunting either deer
or boar.

♪

I see a lot of boar sign.

♪

Boars can be very dangerous

as far as running down
and actually mauling people.

They will defend themselves,

so extremely dangerous animal

to be going after,
hunting-wise.

♪

[faint rustling]

♪

I heard something.

♪

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

[whispering]
Stay there.

Stay there.

♪

Get, get, get--
no, no, no, no, no.

♪

♪

[laughing]

Oh, my gosh.

I just had a wild experience.

[sighs]

I just got a grouse with a bow.

Wow.

Just drenched myself by jumping
in the water to go after it.

[laughs]

And I'm very,
very fine with that.

Just about to clean it out
right now.

♪

Wow,
look at all these feathers.

Oh, there's fat.

I do not want to lose
some of this fat.

♪

I want as much fat
as I can have.

Let's see what you were eating.

Look at this guy.
Got a grasshopper.

Huh!

♪

A huge muscle gizzard.

Clean that off real good,
put that in the stew.

Oh, I am excited.

Thank you.

Sorry I had to take your life,

but thank you
for the food you'll give me.

♪

One grouse in the pot.

Can boil it down quite a bit.

You save the majority
of the nutrients this way.

♪

Oh, my.

That's good.

[laughs]

That's good.

I'm happy.

Meat is a game-changer.

Meat is definitely
a game-changer.

I'm sure the memory
of me starving

is affecting my thoughts
and actions out here now.

I'm trying to learn
from that experience.

I am trying to make sure that
that doesn't happen again.

[whistles]

That was good.

♪

That was good.

Can I have another, please?

♪

♪

- Ready to go for a walk.

It's charcoal I put on
to try to prevent

my sunburned nose
from getting more sunburned.

And for the glare.

♪

There's really not a lot
to be pissed off about here,

that's for sure.

It's a beautiful place.

It's hotter than blazes,
but better than rain.

♪

Over here, I found two grouse.

I'm gonna set
a couple of traps for them.

First of all,
I need to find a spring pole,

unless one of these willows
will do.

♪

I think that'll work.

And then I need to find
two forked sticks,

two toggles,

and two just regular stakes

that I can
pound into the ground.

♪

Vancouver Island was

an extremely difficult
experience.

Ultimately, it broke me.

When I got home,

I just wanted
to bury my head in the sand

and go live under a bridge

and not deal
with society anymore,

but after a while,

I started to just accept
my situation.

I started to really
work on my mind.

♪

The mistake that I think
I made on season two

was that I put
too much pressure on myself.

♪

I stressed out about it
way too much.

This time, I want to just
calm down a little bit.

♪

I guess I've never done this
with snare wire before.

♪

Normally, cordage works
really good for it to release.

It's wanting to twist on me.

Wow, this [bleep] trap's
not supposed to be this hard,

[bleep] damn it.

[bleep].

[bleep] piece of [bleep].

[bleep].
It's always something.

[bleep].

What in the flying [bleep]?

♪

[bleep], I thought it was
supposed to be cold

in this [bleep] country.

[bleep].

♪

I appreciate the [bleep] sun,

but could you give me
a little [bleep] cold?

A little too much to ask for?

[bleep] baking over here.

♪

Well, it [bleep] works.

Ugh.

All right, well,
that took, like,

four times longer
than it was supposed to.

♪

The sun is just frickin'
killing me.

I just feel like going back
to my shelter and laying down.

♪

And look at that.

♪

Over here,
I see some canine scat.

Phew.

And then I see something
over there

that looks kind of maybe like
an old gut pile or something.

I'm not sure.

Some sort of deer met its fate.

♪

It makes me nervous.

♪

- [ominous music]

♪

- Just thinking about
all the work I've done.

Constantly trying
to make improvements.

Getting firewood,
building a cabin.

Staying out here long-term,

it seems like it's all about
trying to make things

as similar to the way
things are at home

as you can.

♪

I can't believe
I'm in Mongolia.

♪

This place is so different
from Vancouver Island.

I'm actually able to walk
through this terrain

without falling
every five minutes.

♪

The hills and the mountains
don't stop.

♪

My entire experience
on Vancouver Island

was spent slogging through
the jungle.

This is tough.

[grunts]

What ultimately ended my time

was an ankle injury
that my brother suffered.

- Josh has taken himself out
of the competition.

- Has he?

It was definitely a bummer
coming out so early.

♪

Since being on "Alone,"

my blacksmithing company
has picked up a lot,

and there's a lot I can do
with the money,

improving and expanding
my blacksmithing company,

but what's most appealing
having a second chance

is showing the skills
that I wasn't able to before,

making my friends and family
proud back at home.

- Be well.

- I definitely have a lot
of unfinished business.

- Love you, hon.

- I want to see
what I'm truly made of.

- Bye, hon.
- Bye.

Ooh, food cravings.

Definitely the worst part
about this.

Any food right now sounds good.

♪

I definitely notice myself
getting a lot skinnier.

♪

I can, like,
kind of see my ribs now,

which I couldn't before.

♪

Here in Mongolia,

I don't have an ocean
full of resources to rely on,

but I'm trying multiple ways
to obtain food.

Got this guy onto the new line.

I'm fishing.

I am setting lines
in the water overnight.

I've woven a gill net.

I've gone upriver,
I've gone downriver,

but so far, I'm just not
really turning up anything.

♪

I don't want to focus
on starving,

but there's just no food.

♪

I've never pushed myself
this far before,

and I'm worried about it.

Good news.

I saw a ground squirrel

on that horizontal birch log
back there,

so I'm gonna set some snares
over there.

I'm just gonna be
setting these

on all of the downed
birch logs in the area.

It's very easy to set snares,

not very...

Calorie-consuming.

I just have it set up
nice and wide,

close to the size
of the animals

that might be in this area.

Even if the animal is a little
bit smaller than the snare,

it can still catch
the side of this,

and it can still snare itself.

♪

Everyone here has spent
considerable amounts of time

in the wilderness
in past seasons.

They've reached
their breaking points.

I don't know
where my breaking point is,

and I definitely want to show
them what I have to offer.

♪

They don't really know
what I'm capable of yet.

♪

I successfully set 50 traps,

which I am very excited about.

I'm still feeling optimistic.

I know the food's gonna come.

It's just a matter of time.

♪

[wolf howling distantly]

- There's a wolf.

[howling continues]

[wolves howling distantly]

Whole pack of them

at the base of the valley
right over there.

[animals calling]

They might have made a kill.

♪

[animals shrieking distantly]

♪

[faint shrieking continues]

♪

[animals calling]

♪

This is quite a bit different
wilderness

than you'll find
in the United States.

♪

So vast.

Much more wild and fierce.

[wolves howling]

♪

The animals aren't as afraid
of man

as they are in the States.

♪

[howling continues]

That's not that far away.

♪

It must be a decent-sized
pack of wolves.

♪

I don't see nothing.

They aren't that far
over there, though.

[wolves howling]

♪

Closer this time.

Too close to my shelter.

[howling continues]

♪

[ominous music]

♪

- Oh.

[exhales]

Ahh.

Oh, it's cold.

And to think I pondered
dipping my entire body in this.

Hell no.

What's it called,
like the Polar Bear Club,

or some crap like that?

You guys are crazy.

What's the point?

Those people who just
go jumping into frigid water.

Y'all can keep that [bleep].
That's ridiculous.

♪

This feels a lot more
like it's going to be home

that Patagonia did.

In Patagonia, I felt like
I was invading an area,

where here I feel like
I'm, you know, coming home.

♪

My time in the wilderness
was ended around day 33.

We're sliding into winter.

Food's scarce for everybody.

I've been a vegetarian
against my will.

♪

I lost all of my muscle mass,

and I just looked so weak
and broken.

That's when I felt
it was time for me to go.

I kept hearing my wife's voice
ringing in my head, saying,

"When you need to come home,
come home."

♪

[laughter]

In terms of work, I'm still
working in accounting.

I think I'm the only
white-collar worker

on any season I can remember.

To be brought back again
for a second time,

it's amazing.

I didn't feel like I left
Patagonia and I'd failed,

but I didn't attain the prize
that I had come for.

I've got people
to provide for,

things I want to do
for my family,

and that's my goal this time.

I'm here to win the money
for my family.

This time around,

I feel like I can handle
all the hunger,

so I'm not leaving unless
they pull me out this time.

♪

Oh, I see a grasshopper.

The key to catching
the grasshoppers

is to let them jump one time,

and then grab them
on the ground

when they're disoriented,

trying to prepare
for another jump.

I have never caught
grasshoppers in the wild,

toasted them, and eaten them,

and that's what's about
to happen right now,

'cause these guys
are just too hefty,

and they're everywhere,

and they're just asking
to be eaten.

If I get over the hump
with this one,

then this might be
a regular delicacy.

Look how big that thing is.

♪

I've increased
my set of skills.

I've put on a lot of weight.

I went into Patagonia
much thinner,

thinking that I needed to be
a little bit more streamlined

so I could function
on a lower caloric input.

I realized that
was part of my downfall,

so I've spent
the last couple of months

just eating
like a ridiculous fat man.

So here we go.

Now it looks like this--
just charred.

So, uh...

Here we go.

No time like the present,
right?

And here we go.
And here we go.

You're dead, right?

Oh, yeah, you're dried.

All right.

One, two, three.

Well, there--

that actually wasn't--
[chuckles]

That actually wasn't bad.

What did it taste like?

Like an unseasoned,
very, very charred hamburger,

and it was the size
of a cockroach.

I mean, I got some protein
out of that,

and you can put right
on the bottom of the screen

how much protein
each grasshopper has

right...now.

Oh, that's more than I thought.

Cool.

♪

I'm over the hump.

I'm a grasshopper-eater.

Watch out,
you hopping sons of bitches.

'Cause they're everywhere.

♪

I got two more in my pocket.

Damn.

That made me feel good.

I like that I can just
walk around,

find these grasshoppers,
char them, and eat them.

I'm gonna make a whole pot
of grasshoppers,

sit back and eat them like
popcorn and watch the sun set,

'cause I'm in Mongolia,

and I know I'm gonna be

the last one standing
this time.

♪

[wolf howling]

♪

[howling continues]

♪

- I think that's a wolf.

♪

I don't know if it was
in a fight or what.

Whatever it is,
I'm glad it's not over here.

♪

All right.

Pretty eager to get some food.

It's been six days.

My stomach is making noises.

♪

I've got a little bit of hope
this morning.

I still have 50 traps
working for me.

Fingers crossed.
Maybe we'll have something.

Just doing the best I can
to get food out here.

So far,
I've been unsuccessful, but...

keeping high spirits.

♪

Ah, no fish.

[clears throat]

♪

Let's go check those traps.

Maybe we got something.

♪

So far, nothing.

♪

Still no luck.

♪

Nah.

♪

[bleep].

♪

Unfortunately,
didn't catch any animals

in any of the 50 traps,

no fish in the line
that I had set.

♪

Just feel like my stomach is,
like, eating itself.

It's not a good feeling.

♪

This season, I really wanted
to come out and prove myself

and show
that I have the skills

to survive out here.

I want to be here
until the end.

I want to be
the last person here...

♪

But, uh...

I don't know how much gas
I have in the tank.

♪

Knowing that I can leave
anytime that I want--

I can just push that button,
go home, and see my family--

it's definitely something

that's weighing heavily
in my mind.

♪

I'll check in the morning
tomorrow.

♪

Fingers crossed
that I've got some food.

Otherwise...

I think I'm gonna turn away
from this challenge.

♪

[ominous music]

♪

- Good morning.

It's day seven.

I got up early
this morning, and...

I checked all the traps.

Unfortunately,
didn't turn up with anything.

Haven't had any food yet,
so definitely feeling it.

Fingers crossed
that I pull in some fish.

♪

You know, everything's
not always gonna go your way.

You're not always gonna
have food when you need it.

You need to really
push yourself

to make things happen,

but after spending
even a week out here,

I realized it doesn't
matter how hard you practice.

In the end, it just comes down

to how you're gonna
handle things mentally.

♪

And unfortunately,
just haven't gotten any luck.

♪

I think this place may have
got the best of me.

♪

Right now,
having dinner with my family

just sounds so much better
to me than $500,000.

♪

[device beeping]

Ah, man.

This is Brad.

[static crackling]

- Hey, Brad.

- I think it's time
for me to go home now.

♪

[sighs]

♪

Yep, there they are.

How's it going?

♪

It's tough to leave this place.

I have a lot more
that I wanted to do here,

and I mean, I knew
I was gonna be put through

a hell of a challenge,

but the lack of food

on top of the isolation
has just been so difficult.

♪

I'm not surprised that hunger
is what drove me out.

I'm just surprised
that it was so soon.

♪

I feel like I let myself down.

♪

I don't feel I've quite
hit my breaking point yet--

I have a little bit left
in me--

but part of me is afraid
to reach that point.

♪

This was an incredible
experience,

and I just want to make sure

I'm leaving this place
on good terms.

♪

- Sun's going down.

Prime fishing time.

Try and grab this cricket

without it jumping
away from me.

Hopefully this guy
will get me a nice fish.

Look at that.

Look at that.

Look at that.

How about
that presentation, boy?

♪

One cast.

Boom.

I feel much more prepared
than I was last time

when I was coming into it
with a whole lot of hesitation

and uncertainty.

This time,
I'm coming into it

with a totally different
mind frame.

Patagonia, I was doing that
mostly for myself.

Two fish. Not too shabby.

My wife and I weren't
on the same page,

whereas this time,
it's a total team effort.

Got one.

Damn, you're strong.

She's helped me
from beginning to end.

She's been the one who's
really, really propelling me

to go the distance this time,
and she keeps telling me,

"If you ever feel you need
to tap, then remember

that you're out there for us,"

so instead of feeling
like I need to be home,

I'm gonna be drawing
from that strength

knowing that she's pushing me
to be out here.

Wow.

Man, that's pretty.

I caught four fish.

I don't brag, but today,

if you were to look up
"kicking ass,"

pretty sure it would have
my picture there.

♪

Patagonia,
I had a fish fridge.

And I'm gonna seal it off
kind of like a grate

just to keep anything
from getting down into it,

keep them from washing away.

Here,

I have the fish holding tank.

I'll probably eat one tonight,

and then I'll save the rest
for tomorrow.

But I have them in this little
tiny isolated wading pool.

Look at that one.

Nice, huh?

So--and they're just here
whenever I want them.

♪

I hope the fish
in my holding tank are alive.

They should be.

They should be fine.

I'll take one out
this morning, probably,

cook up a fish for breakfast,

get a little protein
to start my day.

I can't wait.

[tense music]

♪

Oh, [bleep].

Are you [bleep] kidding me?

♪

So I just got some really,
really disappointing news.

I came back to my wading pool,

and every fish is gone.

♪

That was foolish of me.

Of course there's predators
in the area.

Of course they're gonna
find these fish

in this little shallow pond.

I probably had five pounds
of fish in here,

and I can see...

Blood.

♪

Pieces of fish.

I mean, they were just
easy pickings.

That was dumb.

I just fed a whole family
of something.

♪

Damn.

♪

And it's too rocky here
to see any tracks.

My guess is that it's wolves.

Could have been anything.

♪

Oh, [bleep].

It's beyond disappointing.

♪

Oh, well.
I guess that's a step down

from the fish fridge,

because I just got
totally taken.

♪

In a survival situation,

every bit of protein
that I can get is vital.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

♪

Oh, well.

It's in the past now.

What am I gonna do about it?
Cry?

Right now, this is redemption,

so whether it be
I am starving to death

or I'm injured,

I'm not taking myself out
of this competition.

I'll get over it.

I'm over it right...

[inhales deeply]

Now.

- Oh, holy [bleep].

It's a pit viper.

It's coiled up
and ready to strike.

- I'm in the midst
of a really bad MS attack.

My legs aren't functioning.

[yells]

- Whoa.

How long can I push myself

on zero calories today?

I need protein.

[wolf howling]

- There's wolves.

I just heard something
pretty large cross the river.

[wolf howling]

♪