Alone (2015–…): Season 5, Episode 4 - Mongolia's Wrath - full transcript

[dramatic music]

♪

- I'm having
a really bad MS attack.

My legs aren't functioning.

So I'm gonna need
y'all to come get me.

- What took me out last
time was feeling burnt out.

This time, I'm just
gonna keep myself occupied.

Building this cabin is going
to help me to sustain myself.

- You've really got to stay on
your game with the predators.

So, it is really important
for me to finish my shelter.

- Oh, holy [bleep].



It's a pit viper.

Got myself a snake.

I'm starting to
think I'm gonna

be able to survive
this thing until day 90.

[wind rustling]

[heavy breathing]

male narrator:
For the first time ever on

"Alone,"
ten past participants return.

[intense music]

♪

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.

♪

- I bake pie at
home like a madwoman.

I won the Alaska
state blueberry pie

championship in 2010.
I can make a mean pie.

And I've been thinking about
pie a lot laying in my shelter.

So, today, I want you to go get

a slice of pie
and a cup of coffee.

Put some cream in it.
Just enjoy the moment, okay?

[reflective music]

Today, my priority is dialing
in my fireplace in my shelter.

I know I'm gonna need it soon,

because it's getting
colder here.

And my fireplace needs a draft

from the bottom
of the pit going outside.

I need to dig, basically,
a tunnel

so that I can get
my fire to draft.

You get a good fire going
in that shelter, it just has

nowhere to draw the air from.

Smoke just swirls.
It's a problem.

I have to be, like, right
on the ground to breathe.

Get close to the wall. It's
like I'm breaking out of jail.

I've breached the outer wall.

Now, I'm gonna go
get some birch bark,

roll it up to serve as a tube.

♪

I've spent 14 interior
Alaska winters of my life.

I know what real cold is.

I know how
to handle the real cold.

You've got to prepare
in advance.

Oh, man.

I put my face down in there,
I feel the air.

That's awesome.

The other thing I need
to do is build some sort

of a chimney that will
direct the smoke out the top.

You know,
I erected this as a smoker,

hoping I'd be catching lots

of fish, which didn't happen.

I might be able to put this
in my shelter and then stack

some willows against
it to get the smoke out.

Did it.

♪

There's the finished chimney,

fire pit way down there,

with the draft tube right here.

I know you're all thinking
this place is gonna burn down,

but I'm never
gonna have a big fire.

They're just like
little warming fires.

Ah, finally.

Flames will never get
high and touch these leaves.

It's getting air,
really good air.

And it's going up.

Oh, my goodness.

I think it's working.

I think it's actually working.

[distant rumbling]

You hear that?

I just heard thunder. Huh.

[thunder crackling]

There is some rather
ominous looking skies.

[somber music]

♪

Oh, I hope it doesn't rain.

♪

I don't want it to rain.

No rain.

♪

[wind roaring]

♪

- I hear thunder
off in the distance.

Doesn't seem like rain,

so it surprised the [bleep]
out of me to even hear thunder.

♪

Here in Mongolia, the weather
is fast-moving and changing.

I think it might be coming
pretty quick, actually.

Let's see.

♪

Whoa, this is intense.

The wind has picked up and it's

just like, man, you hear
thunder in the distance,

but it's getting closer.

I'm getting wood,
I'm getting a fire in here.

I hope not having a wall
right there is gonna be okay.

♪

Those clouds, that thunder,
that's scaring me.

♪

I like being prepared.

Got a lot of wood, I put extra
stuff on top of the shelter.

Whoo.

Let's see how this basic tarp
shelter does in the rain, huh?

Whew. Just hope I'm
ready for this.

[quietly suspenseful music]

♪

[thunder cracks]

I think it's getting closer.

I've been counting the time

between lightning and thunder,
and it's getting closer.

I like storms when
I'm inside my house,

but when I'm trying to survive

inside of a natural shelter
with a tarp over the top of it,

with every item that I own
to help me survive out here

for as long as possible,

then it gets a little dicey.

Here comes the stress again.

Is my tarp gonna hold?

Should next time,
I put heavy logs against

the outside of the shelter?

It's a slow-moving
storm system, too.

This is gonna be here a while.
Lord, almighty.

♪

[wind rushing]

- Blowing a lot
of wind through here.

Oh, [bleep].

Wow. It's trying to lift me up.

♪

Crazy,
sounds like a tidal wave.

Huff and puff, man.
Huff and puff.

♪

[rainfall]

- Crazy wind...

coming.

Heart's actually beating.

♪

This storm is so intense.

It just makes me so nervous.

♪

Oh, boy.
Hang on.

♪

- It's actually
blowing rain sideways.

♪

Rain, hail, what's next?

♪

Ooh, that's a big one.

Will we make it through it?

We all have ideas of lasting

longer than the longest
winner ever, but everybody's

got a plan until they
get punched in the mouth.

People could start
dropping like flies.

♪

[bleep]

♪

[thunder slams]

- Holy cow!

This is crazy! Damn.

This rain's not stopping.

♪

- Whoa.

Hang on.
Come on, shelter.

♪

Don't go anywhere.

Oh boy, oh boy.

Hang on.

[tree cracking]

Oh.

♪

A tree just fell.

All right,
this is actually kind of scary.

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- Good morning.

[groans]

Ahhh.

Had a good storm last night.

Rained in a little
from this wall.

so I would like
to build this wall in.

I'm ready to go
chop down another tree.

♪

Oh, so found a widowmaker.

Usually I look around my
shelter, and I'm like,

I don't see any branches.

I remember doing this.

For some reason, I missed this

guy right here that is in
direct deadline to my shelter.

And being in a storm,
that could have easily

smashed me and make me
a widow...

Er. I don't know.

Kill me dead.

When I chop this, it
could land right in my shelter.

Smart thing to do would be
to take off my tarp and then

try to fell it after that,
just to make sure that

it's not gonna take my shelter.

I'm not gonna do that.

Wish me luck.

Idiot.

I'm an idiot.

[calm music]

♪

The most intimidating thing

about this
location is the weather.

That crazy storm
concerned me a lot.

♪

It's just gonna get worse.

♪

Right between the two trees.
Good, good, good.

I want something that
I feel comfortable in.

I want something I don't have
to worry about crazy storm

comes in, you know, if
a bear starts pounding on it.

I want something
that's gonna keep me safe.

♪

There it goes.

No problem.

♪

Ha!

And I was concerned. Ha!

Another tree's gonna
fall right on my head.

[contemplative music]

♪

- Good morning.

I got the cabin
looking pretty good.

There's work to be done on it,
absolutely.

But I'm thinking if today
is gonna be the best day

for me to move, because
it is such a nice day.

Last night,
a storm blew through

this area very intensely.

The wind had been blowing 30,
40 miles per hour at least.

It was completely miserable.

So, just having a shelter
that's stout, secure,

that I don't have to worry

about weather that's
coming in would be huge.

♪

When snow and rain and
extremely cold temperatures

come, I know that I'm gonna be
set up and safe, comfortable

and warm inside of my cabin.

♪

Feels like I'm coming home.

[burps]

All right,
plan for the day.

Um...

Probably go ahead and get
the tarp on the roof...

and get that
all tied down.

♪

And then finish chinking.

I'm just gonna fill in all
the cracks of the wood with

pretty much what I have
around, dirt and grass.

And that'll help to seal it,

so that way I'm
not losing heat,

and there's not a lot of air
that comes into the shelter.

I don't really mind the work.

It's a bit
of a tedious project,

but it requires little energy.

The cold is coming.

Winter will be
right around the corner.

I want to last
for a very long time.

I've always been
very competitive.

I really do want to win this,

not only to win the money, but
I want to push myself and I

want to see how far
I can really go.

[ominous music]

♪

Man, I hate when something
runs, but I can't-- ooh.

♪

It's a big toad.
Where is he?

♪

Trying to hide,
but you can't hide.

♪

You're trapped.

I wouldn't mind
having toad legs tonight.

But I'm not sure
if I can eat him.

What I do notice is all
these orange little vessels

popping up on his stomach.

And I know sometimes that means

it's poisonous
to the animals that eat it.

But the animals that
eat it don't cook it.

So, I don't know.

♪

Man, since I can't confirm
whether or not the toads

are safe to eat, uh,
little guy is free.

Better safe than sorry, always.

I'm thinking about hunting
anything and everything I can.

If you have an opportunity

to get some valuable meat,
you have to seize it.

So, every morning I hear these

ducks landing
here on this bend.

They float down
the river a little bit,

flapping their wings,
making all this commotion.

And so I'm trying to figure
out a way to get one of those.

But I can't just be shooting
my arrows into the water.

What I'm going to try and do
is I'm going to attach some

paracord to my arrow....

And see if I can
shoot and retrieve it.

Instead of using the whole
heavy paracord, I pull out all

these inner filaments
and tie them end to end.

It'll be much lighter.

I think I might have the least

practical knowledge
of anybody here.

These aren't things that I've
been practicing all my life,

or even things
I've gone to school for.

I'm kind of like
an ad hoc survivalist.

I have an idea,

I see something
that needs to be done,

and then I try and fabricate
a means to do it.

All right, so there it is.

I've laid all my line out
and then brought it all the way

back and secured it to my leg,

you know,
to anchor it, obviously.

Let me take this
down to the water.

I'll give it a try.

[tense music]

I haven't eaten
anything yet today.

I'm hungry, but I'm worried
that I missed my window.

They usually land up there,
float all the way down here.

♪

And they've done that two

or three times today,
and nothing now.

So, I've got all
my line laid out.

Just going to sit here...

and wait.

I know there are supposed
to be a lot of grouse and other

ground birds around here,
some ptarmigan.

So I'm hoping
to spot some of them.

My plan is to set some traps.

I know that there are all types

of weasels and badgers
that run around here.

So, my game is to extend out as

many as I can, and hopefully
get something to bite.

Oh, [bleep]!

Look at this.

Frickin' deer floating
down the river.

♪

Oh my God.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Oh, [bleep].

Look at this.

Frickin' deer
floating down the river.

♪

Got to get it, I've got to
get it, I've got to get it.

♪

Oh, I see you.

You're still sitting there.
You're stuck. You can't hide.

♪

[bleep]
Skimmed its back.

You're sitting like
a freakin' deer target.

I can do this.

[bow snaps]

Right over his neck.

♪

[bleep]

He's taking off.

Damn.

♪

It's heartbreaking that I

wasn't able
to bring down that deer.

Could've smoked it all.

I could've made
that deer last a month.

You know, so it just leaves me

now to have to, you know,
I've decided that I need to tap

deeper into my
resolve and determination.

I've emerged with a new idea.

♪

Just a new, uh--a new method
of going about things.

Every time I catch a fish, I'm
using the entrails for traps.

Every time I go for walks,
I'm setting snares.

I go for too many walks,
and I don't do these things

when I'm passing all the areas

that I should be doing them.

And me getting that free meal

that just left me so easily
leads me to believe that

I need to be out here
doing a whole lot more.

I need to conquer the land
a little bit more than I have.

I've been slowly traversing it.

I need to be stomping
it and taking it over.

♪

So, that's what
I'm going to do.

[bird tweeting]

He agrees.

[contemplative music]

♪

Mongolia, can
you please give me some fish?

Mongolia,
please give me some fish.

Pretty uncomfortable
hunger pangs.

I don't remember
these on Vancouver Island.

I don't remember the pain.

I think I had more food
on Vancouver Island, though.

♪

I don't know.
It is a little disappointing

that I haven't been able

to catch anything
more than a damn chipmunk.

So, I got my
fishing pole all set up.

I think I'm gonna try
that deep eddy over there.

I just really
want that first fish.

I mean,
I've been eating dandelions.

[gurgling]

I don't know if you just heard
that, but that was my stomach.

It's wondering if my...

brains have been lost...

[sighs]

For coming out here
and doing this again.

So, for me, this is
like a continuation of my

experience on
Vancouver Island,

and I think I am re-learning
some lessons that escaped me,

and thinking of all the things

that I'm missing, all
the things that are back home.

My wife, my family,

and as silly as
it seems, my pets.

I'm missing going out to eat.

I'm missing quality
time with my family.

My wife and I, we met
senior year of high school.

And we started dating.

Then the day came
and we ran away.

We were both 17.
We got married.

We've been through some stuff.

Hasn't always been easy, but
together, we've pulled it off.

I was pretty lucky
to end up with her.

This is easy for me to
understand why I'm out here.

But will I take those
lessons back home with me

and remember those for
years and years to come?

That's the question.

Oh, [bleep], I got one.

[tense music]

Oh, yeah, I got one!

Come here, you little bastard.

Whoo!
Thank God.

You've been wanting a dance,
people? Whoo!

There's my dance!

There's my fishy dance!

Whoo!
Whoo!

Look at this!

Oh, I love you.

Mwah!

Play 'em, baby!

Whoo!

[exhales]

Thank you, Mongolia.

Now it's time to go eat.

To think I was in a pretty
low spot emotionally today,

but I'm going to have
such a good fish stew.

So blessed.
Hell yeah, baby.

- I [dramatic music]fish.
Really nee

♪

- Well, you might be
asking yourself,

Randy, why are you all
dirty and in your underwear?

And it's not because,
or just because I don't

like wearing clothes, and...

I like to be dirty.

But it's because I'm
finishing up my fireplace.

I've already gathered a metric

[bleep] ton of rocks.

♪

In order for me to seal
the fireplace as well as hold

the rocks in place,
I've been using clay.

♪

So it seems like the stuff that

feels the best has been buried
underneath the banks here.

♪

And the deeper I go,
either underneath the bank

or underneath the...

dirt layer of the river,

the better the clay has been.

Having a fireplace is huge.

It's not only the heat of
the fire that's creating heat,

but the rocks are
being heated up as well.

Those rocks will be
pushing heat into the cabin.

♪

I'm using clay as I'm stacking

each of the rocks,
just like you would cement.

Laying a row of rocks,
putting clay on top of that

row of rocks, then putting
a row of rocks on top of that,

putting clay on top of that.

It's not coming down.

I mean, it's hard as cement.

Good luck.

I think the shelter can handle
anything that the environment

can throw at it at this point,
aside from, like,

a hurricane, a tornado,
some sort of natural disaster,

then I don't think
it's gonna handle that.

Home is a huge thing for me.

It was a huge thing for me
on season two,

one of the reasons why
I decided to leave.

So, I want to be in a place
that feels like home.

I want to be in a place that
feels safe, and comfortable,

and warm, all those things.

It's just been a lot of work.

It's been a slow process.

But I got [bleep]
else to do out here.

Fireplace is
doing magnificently.

[serene music]

♪

I've got some stew in the pot.

And some puffballs, sedges...

some fireweed,

and a little bit of plantain.

All right. It's going good.

♪

That's right,
it's a flower in my smog.

Say something about it.
Clearly I don't care.

It makes me feel good,
and it's brightening my mood.

[tense music]

♪

♪

Missed it by... like, that.

That thing, I swear,
it has, like, eight senses.

[tense music]

♪

- I was looking
at this beautiful

woodpecker, the red head,
Woody Woodpecker all the way.

Thinking, well, do I shoot it?

It's got a decent
amount of meat for a bird.

What distinguishes what
goes and what stays, right?

What goes in my belly,
and what stays outdoors?

I don't know.
I haven't figured that out yet.

But, uh, yeah, I decided
against killing the woodpecker.

♪

I don't hunt to kill.

I hunt to eat.

I want to take care of myself,

and I don't want
myself to starve to death.

But if I'm not responsible,
and an arrow goes into a bird,

and the bird flies off
with my arrow,

I'm wounding this bird
and I'm losing an arrow.

I have to make a clean shot,
killing them as quickly as

possible, and not
hurting them.

♪

Bugs are nailing me.

♪

Gonna go put on some pants,
maybe a sweater.

♪

Let's see, this way.

♪

♪

[dramatic music]

♪

- Sorry, buddy.

You're gonna be a meal for me.

♪

[chuckles]

I am so happy.

I was getting concerned.

I was wanting something for my

stew pot, and some more meat,

some more food.

Oh, thank you.

So, this is a red squirrel,
by the way.

I know it looks black.

Beautiful, about eight inches

in length and about
the same for the tail.

Wasn't a clean kill,
which I'm sorry.

I like hitting the eye.

I don't like this.

I don't want that
to happen again.

[serene music]

I'm so thankful.

This little guy will
give me two good meals.

God, it's tough killing
something and appreciating its

beauty at the same time,
you know?

I don't want to kill.
I don't want to be a killer.

But at the same time,
I love hunting.

What a--what a dilemma, huh?

But we kill,
we've got to eat, right?

I'm gonna try to just
cut right down the crotch,

right up the crotch,
and just fold it off.

Once you get past the wounds,
this actually gets fairly easy.

. Because you're just pulling
it off like a shirt, right?

♪

And voila, that could
make a nice bag of some sort.

♪

There's the liver.
There's the kidneys.

Now, the gallbladder
is that guy right there.

If I puncture that,
it can taint the meant.

It can make it taste awful,
actually.

So, I'm going to
pull out those,

then pull out
the heart and the lungs.

Use those in the stew.

♪

Okay, it's dinner time.

Oh, does that look beautiful?

♪

Perfectly cooked.

♪

Hmm.
Oh, and so good.

♪

Hmm. Thank you, squirrel.

[eerie music]

♪

[distant cries]

- You hear that?

That woke me up out
of a beautiful dream,

me eating pizza with
my girlfriend at this

place near our apartment.

[distant cries]

I think it's a moose.

A moose's mating call.

Dude, just go to her.

You sound like
a match made in heaven.

Holy crap, bro.

[groans]

Stupid moose.

[cries intensify]

[bellows]

Ain't nature beautiful?

[reflective music]

♪

The moose was at it...

from like midnight...

all the way to an hour
ago, an hour or two ago.

I didn't get a lick of sleep
since then.

He's an ass[bleep].
He's an ass[bleep] neighbor.

It's like living next
to a fraternity,

except I couldn't
call the cops.

♪

I'm getting really hungry.

Stone crop and grasshoppers

are just not
cutting it anymore.

I'm gonna focus
more on trapping,

and trout line, and hunting.

I really need to start
catching fish,

or kill an animal.

If I don't, they'll be
pulling me out of here.

♪

I wish we could kill moose.

I would've [bleep] murdered
that moose last night.

Oh, hell yeah!

Oh, [bleep] yeah.

Holy [bleep]!

Oh, no, I'm getting you
to the bank before you go away.

[bleep] yeah.

[bleep] fish!

♪

- Oh, hell yeah!

Oh, [bleep] yeah.

Holy [bleep]!

Oh, no, I'm getting you
to the bank before you go away.

[bleep] yeah.

[bleep] fish!

[bleep]!

[dark music]

♪

[sighs]

♪

Damn it.

♪

I need food.

You don't have any food
or calories in your body,

it just takes so much
energy to do anything.

I've tried to fight up the
motivation to go out and hunt,

but I'm just exhausted.

I'm serious.
I really need some fish.

I really need some food.

I'm not thriving or surviving,
I'm just lasting.

I'm lasting out here until my

last bit of energy's done,
and I don't want that.

You don't fight through it,
then you're just gonna succumb

to any challenges
that come in front of you.

You have to fight through it.

I know I will,
because I know who I am.

You just got to kind of push
on, you've got to keep going.

And I got water,
I have a shelter.

I mean,
I have something over my head.

I have something underneath me,
keeping me warm.

I have water. I still
have the ability to do well.

I have the ability
to win this game,

if I get food, you know?

If I get food.

♪

Pfff.

When I get food.

♪

[deep snarl]

- That sounded like a bear.

Ah, okay, my abdomen is
very violently tensing up.

It's like someone pulling
barbed wire out of my stomach.

- I hunt to eat, but I'm also
hurting these animals,

and it hurts my heart.

Do I push the button?

- I'm getting these
head rushes.

Whoa.

[thump]