Alone (2015–…): Season 6, Episode 3 - Up in Flames - full transcript

[dramatic music]

♪

- You see that?

I'm gonna have fish
for dinner tonight.

That's food for a week.

- This has to be explained.

Fire, fire, fire,
far as you can see.

How am I supposed
to live here?

- What if I build a boat
out of this barrel

to get hooks in the water?

Swamp Barrel Susie,
go catch me some fish.



- Every muscle and joint
is just throbbing.

You can have all
the survival skills,

but one small, little thing
on the inside

and it's game over.

♪

male narrator: In "Alone's"
coldest location ever,

ten participants
fight to survive the Arctic.

- The Arctic is one of
the most physically demanding

places on Earth.

- So freakin' cold right now.

narrator: Battling
sub-zero temperatures...

- This climate's harsh.
It's extreme.

It's mean.
It's got teeth.

- Get caught out here in
a whiteout, you're in trouble.



narrator:
Vicious predators...

- Just heard something big
moving back there.

- It's me against
the wolverine right now.

narrator: And isolation...

- There's nothing
to fill that void.

It's just you left alone
with your thoughts.

narrator:
How long will they endure?

- [grunts]

- House is on fire.

- I'm scared,
but I don't wanna tap.

- This is the most
unforgiving landscape

I have ever seen.

narrator: The last one
standing wins.

- This environment
will strip away

everything and anything
you thought you had.

♪

[suspenseful music]

♪

- Whoo!
[laughs]

♪

[sighs]

[groans]

Check it out.
[grunts]

It was a big four-rabbit day.

♪

Today's the best day
for pounds of meat.

Yummy!

That's pretty good for a day.

♪

I just went and checked
the three snares

I had set over here.

Plenty o' rabbits.

♪

Let's keep this up.

♪

Well, I have
the not-bad problem

of skinning all these guys
and gutting them.

Look at that milk.

♪

Rabbit milk.

♪

Can you see how much milk
is in there?

You're sort of obligated
to try it, aren't you?

♪

It's sweet.

I'm sorry, little lady.

That is a lot of breasts.

It's Dolly Parton
the rabbit here.

♪

Well, I gotta admit,
I was wrong about the forest.

I had no idea there was
such potential for life

even in a burned-up area.

If only the weather
was a little nicer.

[laughs]

Bring the wife
and kids up here...

[chuckles]
It would be the place to be.

♪

I've often thought
that if I had my family

in a nomadic setting
in the forest

that I would choose
the forest life.

You're very connected to
the real needs of your life.

You don't have a schedule
dictating you

from the outside.

You have only
what you need to do,

and you can do it
on your own time

according to your own wisdom.

Here's tonight's soup:

four rabbit heads

and the internal organs
added too.

♪

And you'd think, uh...

♪

Since it's good for us,
we'd, like...

♪

Think it looked good,
but it doesn't.

I'm right there with you.

But you gotta eat it.

♪

Bad food is better
than no food.

♪

- Oh, my God.

The sap is running out
this cut,

and it's so sweet...

and delicious.

Wow.

That hasn't happened yet.

I have yet
to cut into a tree...

where the sap actually runs.

There's Woniya out in the woods
by herself...

making out with birch trees.

♪

I'm pretty content
with my A-frame shelter,

and now it is time

to make this shelter

a little bit more weatherized
and winter-proof.

Arctic winter is no joke.

It is not fooling around.

It comes in fast,
and it will kick your butt.

So I just want
to have this thing

be uber insulated,

'cause I feel like that's
the best thing I can do

to conserve calories.

Oh, man, this is so brushy.

It's awesome.

I know that without the land
working with me,

survival isn't really
an option here,

and I intend
to not just survive

but to thrive
and to live here,

make this place my home,

become a part of it.

I've spent my life
studying ancestral skills...

You can actually eat
stinging nettles raw,

and they're just
amazing nutrition.

I already live a lifestyle

of harvesting
a lot of wild foods,

and one of the things
that I do in the world

is tan deer hides
and make clothing.

This is actually
just the tail.

[bow snaps]

I have never felt afraid
of wild animals.

My only fear
is failing myself in some way.

Canning some elk bone broth.

This is a real lifestyle
for me, not just a hobby.

I'm doing my part,

'cause every calorie
I put in right now

gives me hopefully
another day or two out there.

The main reason I'm doing this
is to inspire people.

Also not to be, like,
a big, buff military person

but a smallish woman
coming at it

from a place of relationship

rather than brute strength
and dominance.

♪

Because days are gonna be
getting very, very short

and I'm gonna be spending
a lot of time

inside my shelter,
a peeled-pole interior

is gonna bounce
both the heat

and the light from my fire.

Also, it means taking off
the outer layer

so that they're gonna
be able to dry,

which is gonna make them
much better insulative value

than a wet pole that's gonna
just hold its moisture.

So everything I'm doing
in my shelter

is thinking very long-term.

I'll need to put a door in.

Okay.

♪

Exactly--

exactly me-height.

And then how big a door...

do I want?

♪

Being the last person out here

is gonna require
a lot of resiliency,

both physically
and mentally-emotionally.

I think being comfortable
with discomfort

is gonna be a really important
part of that--

being all right
with being cold and hungry

and being all right

with lots of down
and quiet time,

which is something
I'm pretty comfortable with.

♪

Oh, my gosh, okay.

Self-high-five.

[sighs]

♪

[seagulls calling]

♪

- Had a lot of dreams
last night.

But there was one dream
where this big, black,

powerful, huge bull...

got its horns all hung up
in my gill net.

It seemed pretty symbolic
of something.

Hopefully there's a huge fish
out there in my net right now.

♪

[grunts]

Okay, just arriving
in my fishing area.

♪

Holy smokes, I think I see
something in the gill net.

I think that's
another lake trout,

and it looks to be
about as big as my last one.

Oh, that's so awesome.

I'm getting down to my last
maybe pound and a half,

two pounds
of the last guy I caught, so...

so excited.

♪

He's a big fish.

Might even be a female.

She's really broad
on the bottom,

which, uh, often means
that they're carrying eggs.

Yeah, it is a female.

[water lapping]

Definitely some eggs in there.

Now I just gotta
massage them out.

One of the benefits of having
the background in fisheries

is, I know how
to get the eggs out of a fish.

I'm gonna try
and slurp some of these up

right now, actually.

♪

Fish eggs,

what a freaking
phenomenal resource.

They've got three or four cups

of cholesterol in it--

of fat, of food,

of golden, delicious,
vibrant, pure life.

♪

That actually has a faint
egg yolk flavor to it

mixed in with
the fishy flavor, of course.

[slurping]

[sighs]

A lot of other species
of fish

and even younger ones
of these

like to eat fish eggs,

and because the lake trout
are spawning,

all the other species of fish

are gonna be looking
for this food source.

This is good fish bait.

This could be really huge.

♪

Man, I hope the salt
from those eggs kicks in soon,

'cause I am super lightheaded.

I don't know if I've ever been
this lightheaded before,

where, like, every time
I stand up,

I just want to keel over.

♪

And I am tired
and exhausted.

I still have to clean the fish
and process it.

♪

I've gotta do that.

I've--I've just gotta
get rested and...

take it easy for a minute.

♪

I don't know
if those fish eggs

aren't sitting well
with me or what.

I just kind of feel
a little bit...

woozy.

I just need to lay down.

[tense music]

♪

Definitely have something
going on in my belly.

♪

Definitely nauseous.

♪

[groans]

[sighs]

♪

[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

♪

[groans]

♪

[retches]

♪

[spits]

[retches, groans]

[gurgling, spitting]

This sucks.

[retches]

[sighs]

I'm empty.

Oh, that had
something pink in it.

[sighs]
Definitely vomiting

a little bit of blood.

♪

Gotta get inside the shelter

while I still can.

Gotta get through this.

[breathing shakily]

♪

I'm sure I have,

but I don't ever remember
feeling this bad for...

♪

Very long.

♪

I don't vomit very often.

♪

It was like...

pink slime with...

little blood spots in it.

♪

I've had food poisoning
two or three times in my life,

and this is way worse
than any of them.

♪

If this sickness
goes into the evening...

♪

I'll be done.

♪

This might be a tap-out event.

♪

[eagle calling]

♪

- Let's talk about
some Krav Maga.

Maybe I can
teach you something.

Now, if he's choking me
straight on with his arms,

I'm going to, with my hooks,
grab with the thumbs

and rip apart his hand.

[exhales sharply]
That's step one.

Now, the best part
is the simultaneous...

front kick
into his [bleep].

[laughs]
Okay, okay.

His groin.

Right, so a pluck
and a kick.

That's your Krav Maga level one

choke from the front
demonstration.

Hopefully you'll never have
to use it.

♪

I wanted to, uh,
check the northwest region

of my area out,

so that'll be, uh,
the direction

that I'm heading today.

I don't know what to expect.

I'll get me
walking out of here.

Hopefully I'll take
some small game

and be able to use
their intestines for bait.

♪

It's good.

♪

I'm, like, super hyper--

♪

Check this [bleep] out.

♪

Cans.

Shazam!

One, two, three...
[sniffles]

Four, five, six cans.

That's bananas.

That's so freaking cool.

Look, uh, what I--

what I might be able to do
is make lures.

Dynamite, dude.

That's freaking awesome.

♪

No way I could
continue the hunt

with six cans in my pockets.
[laughs]

They'd hear me coming
from a mile away.

[cans clanking]

Everything works out
for me, right?

[metal scraping]

My plan for the cans

are to shape them into spoons
like fish...

Gonna hammer this out
a little bit.

And then, you know,
tie hooks to their end.

That way, I can use them
like lures.

Actually, I could probably
just twist the tail,

and that would
probably cause it

to corkscrew through the water.

♪

I wonder how folks
who don't win deal with it.

I don't even want
to think about that.

That sounds like a horrible

emotional process.

Because don't get me wrong,

I'm not out here
for my health.

I need this wealth.

Growing up a poor kid,
money matters.

♪

I've never made a lure
out of a tin can.

But I'm pretty happy
with that, though.

I'm--I'm impressed.

Well, let's see if we can have
some fish for dinner.

♪

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen,

to the 2018 Canadian
Catch-All Classic.

♪

I wanted to fish this channel

kind of hoping it was kind of
like a highway, you know?

♪

I feel weak today.

This is the longest I have
ever gone without food.

♪

I'm a big boy.

I need food to function.

♪

[dramatic music]Really due for som

♪

- Holy [bleep].

♪

Yeah, baby!

No!

[groans]

That was a nice-sized
[bleep] fish.

♪

And I lost the hook.
That's the big thing.

♪

[groans]

Took my lure too.

Oh, I got a lot of work to do.

♪

Oh, that was [bleep]--
that was food.

♪

If you believe
you're gonna come out here

and hit a home run
every pitch...

♪

I got news for you.

♪

That's just not reality.

♪

This is the most
important thing

I've ever done for my family.

I know it's gonna
get tough out here.

It's gonna get boring
and cold.

I'm gonna be [bleep] hungry.

But my kids deserve

a good start.

If that means I have
to suffer for it,

I'm just gonna have
to suffer for it.

For the right amount of money,
I would die for my family.

♪

♪

- Out here, I have
the craziest dreams.

Like, last night...

[laughs]

My wife and I
and the kids were camping

in somebody's backyard
in India,

and this tiger came.

And I had to make a whip
and fend it off,

and then
this mountain lion came.

And the mountain lion
wanted to eat my dog's head.

Uh, but then it turned out

we really liked
the mountain lion,

so we ended up keeping it
'cause it was cool.

And then we went in
and we told the family there.

We're like,
"God, it sucks, you know,

"sleeping in your backyard.

No offense, but there's, like,
lions and tigers."

And they go,
"Oh, that's nothing.

You wait
ll the monkeys come."

[laughs]

Being out here,
just having a shelter up,

just getting my projects
up and running feels good.

♪

But I gotta figure
the food out.

♪

I gotta collect
as many berries as I can

before they die.

So I'm gonna go
on a nature walk.

♪

This whole area
is just full of blueberries.

♪

Nice and slow.

Don't burn a lot of energy.

When we're in training
for the military,

everything's for time.

You know, you're always
in a hurry to get stuff done,

and so I'm having to remind
myself to just slow down.

Be efficient.

I am a SERE specialist,
which stands

for survival, evasion,
resistance, and escape.

Our job is training students
to give them a skill set

to make sure
that should something happen,

they can make it back
to safety.

And we're training
for any biome.

This thread right here...

more and more and more
of that will make cordage.

But what's really cool
is these needles right here.

You've got a needle
and thread in a pinch.

I am not coming out
of this show.

We've all shortcutted things
in our lives.

I will not shortcut this.

I got tenacity.
I got grit.

I'm not quitting.

All right,
what are we looking for?

children: Snakes.
- Snakes.

♪

- We have four kids.
Hair.

- Daddy, can you
open this, please?

- Yep.

I love being a dad.

Like, that's my joy in life.

My wife, Chelsea, is tough.

On our honeymoon
is when she got diagnosed

with rheumatoid arthritis,

and she's dealt with pain
for the last eight years,

to the point where
that's her new norm.

The reason I want to do this?

For me, it's the money

because of what it provides
for us the rest of our life.

children: Bye, Daddy!

♪

[branches scraping]

My mission's to come out here
and to represent my family,

to represent
the United States Air Force,

and--and to win this sucker.

Snow's starting to fall again.

It's been on and off all day.

Look at this.

♪

You got all this...

♪

Right here.

♪

You know, you wonder
if there's wolves in the area.

♪

Look at that.

♪

Just the way they're spread.

There's ribs over there.

♪

Just picked clean.

[branches snapping]

[grunts softly]

♪

Absolutely picked clean.

♪

[spine thuds]

♪

I need some fish lure,

so this couldn't have come
at a better time.

These bones will be awesome.

Let's see what else.

I think the thing
that makes me suited

for this sort
of outdoor experience

is the fact that I love it.

Hello.

I like being cold.
I like being hungry.

I like struggling.

I like building stuff.

I like being challenged,
and I like beating it.

[grunts]

Holy cow.

[grunts]

My goodness gracious.

[panting]

[laughs]
Holy cow.

♪

That's going on the front
of my shelter.

♪

I mean, I got a lot
of chores to do,

firewood to cut.

I got a chimney to make.

What am I doing?

Something way cooler.

♪

♪

- Good morning,
little fat squirrel.

How are you doing today,
my friend?

♪

♪

♪

All righty.

So the premise...

of the Mojave scissor snare

is that the animal is...

snared in a...

V...

like a scissor.

♪

My strength
coming into this...

is my creativity...

and resourcefulness.

So in preparing,
I tried to fill my brain

with lots of images
and ideas,

figuring that some of them

would prove to be relevant.

♪

When it's set off...

It loops up,

catches whatever game
you have in there,

and pinches it tight.

♪

I'm gonna go ahead
and get up there and set it up.

♪

Almost starting to feel bad

about hunting
my little squirrel friend.

♪

Do I really want
to eat that squirrel?

♪

And the answer
to that question is...

♪

I will eat that squirrel.

♪

Got it all set up there.

♪

Basically, squirrel steps
on that little stick there,

pushes it down,
and releases the spring pull,

which brings up the scissors
and closes them.

[wood snaps]

Gonna go try to give him hell.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Got very sick.

Think I had food poisoning,
and, uh...

it really took a lot
out of me.

I did quite a bit of puking.

But I feel a lot better
right now.

♪

It just didn't click
in my head that, like,

yes, this is
a fresh-caught lake trout,

but she is dead,

and you don't know
for how long.

So the eggs
could have been colonized

by some bacteria,

and I just was not thinking
that one step ahead.

I feel good,

but I have a lot to do today.

♪

I'm still here,
so I guess that's

the number one thing
that counts.

[water trickling]

♪

[waves crashing]

♪

[birds calling]

- [imitating birdcall]

[metal scraping]

See that?
That was my nature moment.

All right.

♪

Arts and crafts time.

Let's make some fishing lures.

I wanna make a little bit
of a smaller one,

and then I wanna make one
out of this

orange cloth that I've got.

I'm gonna be using
part of the rib bone

from that beautiful baby,

and also, I brought...

couple different kinds of wire.

So hopefully that'll attract
the eyes of the fish.

♪

And if not, they're stupid
and I hate them.

♪

I want it to be this shape
right here,

and then I'll cut off
kind of the top.

And this will be
for smaller fish.

♪

I did not bring a bow

because I'm a student
of the show

and statistically
it's never paid off,

so I'm leaning more
towards fishing and snaring.

I'm not relying on getting
an elk or a moose.

Fish is gonna be
my long-term goal.

And we got a fish lure.

♪

Let's get fishing.

♪

That camera is so far away.

This whole filming thing sucks.

[camera squeaking]

♪

This is gonna sound stupid
and cocky.

I feel like one
of my strongest skill sets

is figuring things out--

looking at a problem

and figuring out
how to solve that problem.

I'm here to win.
That's what I'm here to do.

I'm not here to find myself.
I'm not here to play a game.

I'm not here
for an experience.

I'm here to beat
those other contestants,

because that's
what I want to do.

That's the mission.

♪

We've got food.

[camera squeaks]

♪

Yeah.

Absolutely beautiful.

♪

We're eating fish tonight.

I should stand in front of it
so it looks bigger.

See how big that is?

♪

Dinner.

Maybe some breakfast.

♪

We have food!

♪

[water lapping]

♪

- Here I am.

[sighs]

Wilderness chic.

[coat rustling]

♪

So I am gonna
take my bow out...

♪

And I'm gonna go check
my Mojave scissor snare.

♪

Ha.

Trap de-armed.

Oh, no.

♪

Trap was set off...

♪

Damn it.

♪

Damn it, damn it, damn it.

♪

So close.

Oh.

♪

I got something.

Hi, buddy.

♪

[bow thwacks]

[coat rustling]

There he is.

[scuffing, scraping]

[squirrel squeaking]

I'm sorry, brother.

[squeaking stops]

♪

I found him...

♪

And I put him out
of his misery.

♪

It's what's for dinner.

♪

I have to say,
it's a little bittersweet.

♪

It's gonna be nice
to eat something.

[chuckles]

Mmm.

♪

Mmm.

♪

Thank you again,
my little squirrel friend.

♪

Live on, little buddy,

inside of me.

♪

Oh, crap.

Excuse my manners.

Would you like some?

Hmm.

♪

- Brought to you live
from No Fish Bay,

Michelle...

struggling to survive.

[water lapping softly]

Nothing.

[bleep].

All right,
get the [bleep] out of here.

♪

On day 12 of no food.

♪

At home, I'm kind of
the master fisherman.

My husband and I never thought

that this would be
the problem for me--

not getting fish.

We were worried about, like,

will I be able
to handle mentally being away

from my family?

Am I gonna be okay
with the isolation?

Those were our concerns.

This never crossed our mind.

♪

♪

So switching gears here.

We gotta do something else.

I need some foods
in my belly.

So I'm off
to the hunting grounds

to go check my snares.

[coat rustling]

I'm hurting--

hurting for some food.

♪

[whispering]
Oh, [bleep], you guys.

Look.

[bleep] yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Lookit.

[wind rustling]

Mama's got a grouse.

♪

Oh, thank goodness.

I was getting worried there.

All these days with no food

was starting to wear
a little thin on me,

so I am super thankful

to have found food on my own.

♪

Do you guys know
what this means for me?

It means I'm now
in the game for real.

I have producing snares.

♪

He's beautiful.

♪

Now I have something
to eat, finally.

Now I'm in the game.

♪

- I was born a hunter.

Let's face it.

Even though my family
didn't hunt.

At a young age,
I was making bows

and crossbows
and trying to hunt everything.

[sighs]

[water babbling]

[sighs shakily]

[sighs shakily]

I have eaten...

a ton...
[sighs shakily]

Of animals I've processed--

I've harvested from the forest.

[sighs shakily]

I don't know why...

I feel heartbroken
over this squirrel.

[weeping softly]

♪

I don't know.

♪

[sighs]
Probably too into my head.

[sniffles]
But...

♪

He treated me with a...

♪

Uncommon familiarity.

♪

And I betrayed his trust.

♪

[fire crackling]

♪

- [slurps]
Mmm.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

♪

I still have chicken.

I didn't eat
the breast meat yet.

We call them prairie chickens
where I'm from.

♪

I grew up in an area
fairly similar to this.

I've always had
to figure it out.

Never had a lot of tools,
never had a lot of fun things.

We ran barefoot,
to be quite honest.

Like, literally barefoot.

We didn't have money
for shoes.

I left home when I was,
like, 14 years old,

and, uh, I just wanted
to be something more.

So I pulled myself up.

I worked hard, made my fingers
bleed every single day.

I tried, but I couldn't get
on government assistance

because I was too young.

So I've been homeless.

Couch surfing.

There were some dark times
in there,

real dark times.

So you can see how living
in something like this...

[laughs]

Ain't so bad after all for me.

[fire crackling]

Oh, [bleep].

Uh-oh, I've got a fire.

♪

[bleep].

♪

[bleep].

[water splashing]
[fire hissing]

Can't afford
to lose my shelter.

[rustling]

[fire crackling]

[bleep], [bleep], [bleep].

Oh...

♪

[panting]

♪

Holy [bleep].

[fire crackling]

[bleep].

♪

I got a shot now.
I just gotta take it.

♪

- She flew off...

and now is dying
in the woods somewhere.

Oh, [bleep]!

I stabbed myself
with my arrow.

Oh, yeah,
it's totally bleeding.

♪