Alone: Frozen (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - 50 Day Freeze - full transcript

Six of "Alone's"
strongest participants

are about to face
their biggest challenge yet.

- I didn't agree to do "Alone"
again for a suffering contest.

Oh, my God!

With just a few supplies,

they'll push
their skills and bodies

farther than ever before.

Starting later
than any previous season

and with less time to prepare,

they'll arrive just as the
fierce North Atlantic winter

is about to begin.



- Winter's not coming.
Winter's here.

They'll battle
howling winds, constant rain,

and North America's
most fierce apex predators.

- You're not gonna
fight off a polar bear.

It's gonna eat you.

Survive 50 days,

and they'll win their share
of half a million dollars.

- It just doesn't get any worse.

This is "Alone: Frozen."

- "Alone" has never done
this before.

We're getting dropped...
Boom... right in winter.

Nobody does this.

Nobody starts a survival
adventure in winter.

- We're in one of the most wild



and remote places on Earth.

We could be experiencing
horizontal snow

later this afternoon.

Winter isn't on its way.
It's basically here.

It's gonna be real serious

from the moment
we hit the ground.

Oh.

Check out
my beautiful little beach.

- 50 days in a cold,
wet environment.

It may be
a shorter amount of time,

but in no way, shape, or form

is it gonna be any easier.

The elements we're getting
thrown into are 100% worse.

We've got the Atlantic Ocean

bringing in northeast winds,
which can get extremely high,

all the way up to hurricanes.

I must love the pain,
misery, and suffering, right?

'Cause here I am again.

- The completely different
wildlife, like polar bears,

black bears makes it,
I think, a situation.

Polar bears,
they don't mess around.

They just hunt you down
and eat you.

- Here in Labrador, we're
gonna be trying to survive

in a very harsh
and unforgiving territory.

On my own!

Just gonna find a spot
and hope for the best.

I don't want to see
any polar bears.

- And starting late,

it's going to affect
the resources.

All those food sources
that would be an easy gather

are probably gonna be
slim to none.

You can plan all you want,

but Nature's gonna give you
just what she wants.

I just got to eat
like it's my job.

- We're about
as remote as it gets.

It's already cold,
and it's gonna get colder.

It's wet cold,

which is a whole different
kind of cold.

It sticks with you.

It gets down into your bones,

and it's just perfect weather
for hypothermia.

This is gonna be hard,

otherwise it wouldn't be
just a 50-day challenge.

Man, that helicopter
was powerful... blew me over.

All right,
there's the helicopter...

flying away.

There it goes.

Bye, helicopter.

And here I am in my new home.

I don't want to start it off
by complaining,

but...

I can't help but notice...

I am...

in a north-facing location.

So I'm here in the shade,
and it's cold.

But I look across the bay,
and what do you see?

Sun, sun, sun, sun, sun.

But I don't know how many days
it's gonna be sunny anyway.

So what's more important
is the direction of the wind.

Last time
one of the hardest things

was that north-facing bowl.

The wind just whipped in there,
and I hardly saw the sun.

So I was just hoping
for a south-facing spot.

And, nope...

north-facing again.

It's another day
in an Arctic paradise.

My fingers are cold.
My toes are cold.

The camera screen's frozen.

So we got some challenges here.

On season seven,
I was out there for so long.

I mean, 89 days...
That's a quarter of a year.

I learned a lot about myself
and my connection to the land.

Thank you, Great Slave Lake.

Thank you for feeding me.
Thank you for teaching me.

My mind was strong.

My heart, my spirit, all of me

was ready to stay
the entire time,

but I had reached
my physical limit.

It's really sensitive.

I had frostbite
on four of my toes,

one of which was pretty bad.

- What we're trying to avoid

is serious and potentially
irreversible damage...

- Yeah.
- To your frostbitten feet.

And so, as a result,
I'm gonna have to extract you

from the field
for medical reasons.

Right now in life, I am happy.

Move over! Move over!

But it wasn't always that way.

When I was a kid,
both of my brothers died.

I was upset and angry
about that for a long time.

What helped me through it
was realizing

that we only get
this one short life.

And I made an agreement

with myself and to my brothers

to live life
for the three of us.

That's part of "Alone,"
you know?

Life comes knocking at my door,

and I opened it,

and I'm gonna live
my life to the fullest.

Getting to go out again,

I know I'm gonna go even deeper,

so I want to be out
as long as I can.

I'm gonna explore the area
and see if there's any places

that will get more sun exposure.

Do you see this?

This is a well,
well-defined game trail.

Look at my finger.

Oh, and...

big old bear scat.

They say 10,000 black bears
in Labrador.

That basically means
there's a black bear

around every corner.

So, if anyone gets a bear,
they're good to go,

because the thing

that's hardest to find
in the wild is fat,

and bears are loaded with fat.

I do not want to sleep

right next
to this bear trail, but...

I don't really have a choice,

because the tide's gonna rise
up to this point

and inland is extremely brushy.

And I'm gonna have to search

for a clearing
to be able to sleep.

So, no matter
where I sleep tonight,

it's gonna be
right on this bear trail.

So that's exciting.

But what are you gonna do?

- Man...

everywhere around me is bog.

But, you know, you got to look

at the positive side
of things, right?

I'm on a beach.

It's not a tropical beach,
but I'm on a beach.

I've got a lot of stuff to do.

Right now I'm kind of looking

for somewhere to set up shelter,

something that sits up
higher than these bogs

that I'm in right now.

There's gonna be a lot
of patience involved out here,

because this terrain is thick,

and every single thing here
is soaking wet.

The location makes it harder,

but it doesn't matter if it's
50 days, 75 days, 100 days.

You're gonna have challenges
thrown your way

that you
didn't deal with before.

Just like season seven,

this will be one of
the hardest things in my life.

All it takes is all you got.

But...

I'm not sure I'm willing to
give it everything that I have

to be able to stay out here.

Previously, I was on season 7,

and I lasted 44 days.

I got a fish!

Whoo! Man!

I've been waiting to catch
another fish for so long.

I was having a good time.

I got to day 10,
and I was smiling.

I was having fun.
I got to day 20.

Yeah!

Got to day 30, same thing.

And every few days,

I'd find out
that I was having a blast.

And then I hit a point on day 35

where I just
was not having fun anymore.

I'm going insane out here.

What ultimately ended
my time last time

is I ended up contracting
the parasite trichinosis,

and it ended up
getting into my heart

and the rest of my organs,

and it put me
into congestive heart failure.

That's the closest
I've ever come to dying.

In the past,
I was in the military.

I was a recon marine.
I was a scout sniper.

In the present, I'm a dad.

You think you're funny?

Last time
Max was only a year old now.

Now he's three.
He's got a personality.

Yummy?
- No.

- I'm doing this to show Max

what it's like to do something
extremely tough

and what it's like to go back
and do it again

and to never give up.

And if you do get afforded
another opportunity

to do something
to give it another shot.

This is 1,000%
a redemption for me.

I'm trying not to talk loud,

just because I don't want
to make too much

of an imprint out here...

as far as animals

listening to what I'm saying.

I just need to come in here

and live life for 50 days

like it was normal,
like I'm a part of it.

If you're not working
with the land,

you're only working against it.

So I'm working with it.

The elements we're getting
thrown into are miserable.

Every day is gonna be
a struggle.

And any number of things
can take people

out of this ball game.

We're in polar-bear country.

That does put a different twist

on the whole thing.

The polar bear...
That is the meanest bear.

This is legitimately dangerous.

But I don't want to die

doing the bare minimum
throughout my life.

I want to die knowing
that I did great things,

knowing that I did hard things.

And so taking on this challenge

is something
that 100% completes that.

So right now what am I thinking?

I'm thinking, take it slow.

I'm in no rush.

I do not want to make mistakes.

So much to lose, so little time.

We got to the post so late.

I'm trying to adjust
my strategy...

a little bit different
than last time.

The weather...

is warm and tropical here...

just like in Cancun.

Ah, no.

My name is Amós Rodríguez.

I was in season seven,
Great Slave Lake.

Holy, man.

- And I lasted for 58 days.

I found a decent fishing hole,
and it paid off right away...

Just started getting
a lot of fish.

But I was not able
to hunt big-game animals.

And the fishing
had been drying out.

I hadn't had that much success.

The fat reserves
in my body started to dwindle

really fast.

This is Amós.

Oh, shoot!

I felt like the fire
gave me the okay

that I had taken
the right decision.

My season on Great Slave Lake,

it was such
a transformative experience.

It has given me the opportunity

to grow as a person,
as an individual,

as a community member,
as a father.

And I'm trying to make a
better future for my daughter.

A bunch of gear.

Now it's like a two-part thing.

Yeah, I want to go
and see again how I do,

but I also want to continue
being a positive influence

on society.

The way I see it, I went
through my master's out there.

Now I'm going through my PhD.

Beautiful moon, man.

That's what I come here for...

To have this moment
of freakin' beauty.

Okay, get a fire going.

You have to fulfill
all the basic survival needs...

Shelter, fire, water, and food.

Being a native,

being on this platform

comes with a lot
of responsibilities,

and I feel
like I carry also the weight

on my shoulder...

Then I can be a good role model,

a good example for other people.

- Day one...

I only got 49 more days
to enjoy this.

So I got to start
getting comfortable, yeah?

Here's what we've got going on.

Nothing impressive,

but it'll do the job
for tonight.

You know what I'm saying?

But the goal is to see

how fast I can get
my shelter up,

'cause, hey, the sooner
I get my shelter up,

the safer I feel,

the more I'm protected
from the elements,

the more at home I feel,
the happier I am, right?

Heard some wolves howling.

So it's...

We're out here, you know?
We're out in the wilderness.

And it's beautiful,
and it's amazing,

and it's everything.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

- Hear that?

It's my squirrel alarm.

Frost...

All on the sleeping bag.

All right, well,
today the plan is

to scout the land,

find all the freshwater sources,

find a shelter spot.

Okay, little squirrel.

Okay. Okay.

I'm gonna get out of bed.

I love scavenging.

I call myself
a scavenger-gatherer

because I scavenge
more than I hunt.

Oh, my gosh!

What do we have here?

That's worth carrying back.

Always good
to have a cutting board.

Back home I can survive

off of what other people
throw away.

I fed myself meat
for the whole year

off of cuts that were gonna go
into the dumpster.

Look at this big old tree...
Cut with a saw.

Ooh, and even more
interesting... a rope.

I'd pick up roadkill.

Roadkill is my favorite thing

because I get to eat fresh,
wild meat,

but I didn't have to take
the life.

To be pulling out of the
waste stream and repurposing

is a scavenger's paradise.

Look in here, my friends.

I just found
a pretty good shelter spot.

Hopefully this is gonna be
really protected from the wind

'cause of all these trees here.

You know, last time I spent

a lot of time searching
for this perfect spot,

and there wasn't a perfect spot.

So I think this time,
going in kind of just looking

for what's good enough,

and if it's good enough,

just roll with it
and try to get it done

because we're starting

in the wet
and the cold and the wind.

We don't have a lot of time
in the nice fall weather

to get set up.

It's gonna be hard.

Checking to make sure
everything's smooth

'cause I don't want to push
a hole in the tarp, you see?

Shelter is gonna be crucial

because we're gonna have
serious winds, serious rain.

With the wind chill
and the wetness,

it's probably gonna feel
colder than the Arctic.

So I got to keep moving.

- Oh, don't drop him.

Got a pot full of clams.

Cut a couple more for this post,

and then I'll start making
the structure up there.

Maybe sleep out there tonight
and see how it feels.

The last time,
I was able to prove

that I have the skills
to be here.

I grew up in the context
of El Salvador's civil war.

So some of my experiences,
they created a lot of trauma,

but they also created
some specific needs

that survivalist needs to have.

And one of those things
are awareness.

Your bubble of awareness

need to be bigger than
your bubble of disturbance.

What was that?

Ptarmigan.

There is one.

Ptarmigan.

How can it fly so far
with one arrow on him?

I remember that happened
to Woniya last time.

He went up,

and she looked for it forever.

I saw the feathers.

Look at the feathers.

It clearly was hit, man.

It was dropping feathers.

It's a really
important food source

because they've got some fat.

Getting chicken soup
for dinner would be awesome.

Dang.

I feel sorry for the bird

'cause it's flying with an
arrow stuck in its body, man.

Okay.

Let's go explore a little more
about my shelter...

a big priority.

So much to do.

I think
this is going to be harder

because
of the different weather.

People don't realize how brutal

a cold, wet place can be.

It can kill you,
hypothermia, fairly quick.

Here it's way colder,
way more water,

way more wind.

So the place will make it
really challenging.

That's a good shot.

Like my daughter sings...
"Rain, rain, go away.

Come back a different day."

Tomorrow is her birthday party.

I wish I could be there
with you celebrating, baby,

but I'm here,

trying to become
the best version of myself

so I can try to teach you

how to become the best version
of yourself...

not that you have
to do it this way.

This is just a process that
I go through to do it for me.

Everybody does it differently.

I love you so much, Mitzi.

- Okay.

Don't want to freak
you guys out.

Don't freak out,

but there's a bunch
of splashing in the ocean.

I think it's a whale
'cause I saw the fin.

So cool.

But it's time to go...

go, go, go get some food.

This is the game plan today.
Step one... get hydrated.

Step two...
It's low tide right now,

so I'm gonna go on a walk

'cause the ocean grocery store
is open now.

But soon, gonna be closed,

so I'm hoping to harvest seaweed

and hopefully some mussels
or clams.

Man, this seaweed is slippery.

I'm seeing a lot of seaweed,

so I know I'm gonna have greens.

I'm excited about that.

It'd be nice to harvest some,

but just got to be careful,

careful walking out here...

Lots of slippery stuff.

Oh!

There's a bunch
of ravens congregating.

What is that?

All the ravens just flew away.

What?

This is so cool!

Check it out

It's a big piece of seal skin.

It's so pretty,
and look at the inside...

a bunch of fat.

This is all fat...

delicious seal fat.

What?

Oh, my gosh.

I wonder... I heard
that whale this morning.

I wonder if that whale
had a seal for breakfast

and this is a piece
of it that washed up.

Oh. So cool!

I mean...

It smells fresh.

It smells so fresh.

Dang!

Wow!

What a score!

So here we go... seal skinning.

I'm gonna just cut it
into little pieces.

My philosophy in survival is...

I try to think
in terms of abundance.

And how you think
about something

really shifts
how you start to see it.

And so,
instead of seeing the land

as this harsh, barren,

lean place,

I want to see it
as this abundant, giving land

that I'm gonna be able
to find everything I need in.

All right.
There we have it.

Seal fat soup... that's
what's for dinner tonight.

Whoa.
That is pure fat.

It doesn't taste rancid.

Wow.

Pretty good.

How ironic, really...

I mean, fat is the hardest
food to find in the wild,

and I found a whole bunch
of fat...

Only fat, no meat, just fat.

I'm stoked on it...

so stoked.

I have to mix it up
with some vegetables,

some sea vegetables.

And here rain is every day, man.

Even when we have sunshine.

Let's see what's out here.

I'm going out with my bow,
walking the land.

Oh.

No freaking way!

Holy, man.

Check this out

I got my first meal.

One of the snares worked.

I got a little hare
for a snack today.

Yay, yay, yay.

Well...

I got lunch and dinner
out of one of my snares.

So let's do lunch.

I want to have a connection
to my food.

And what a better way
to have a connection

to your food than actually
going and hunting?

Then you can really see
where your food comes from.

That's one of the things
that we're missing as society.

We buy a clean package of beef
from the store.

We have no clue
where it comes from.

Has the cow
been treated properly?

Put the head in there.

I think it's more ethical
for us to connect to our food

in the way
that I'm trying to do it.

We all used to experience it
that way.

If we look at it
in the big perspective,

in the big timeline of humanity,

the time that we've been just
wrapping in plastic our food

is just
a tiny, tiny, tiny amount.

It's cooking.

Most of the time as humans,

we have been connected
to our food.

And what a better way
to teach it and experience it.

There is no other teacher
like experience.

Oh, pretty good.

Pretty good rabbit, man.

Tastes like chicken.

- Gosh, it's wet out here.

It's wet. It's wet.

It's all wet.

Wet, wet, wet, everything.

You don't go anywhere...

anywhere
without your rain pants on.

I got to go find a good spot
to build a shelter.

You can just tell

this place is not the same
as "Alone" season seven,

as the Great Slave Lake.

This environment's unforgiving.

You can get hypothermia faster
in an environment like this

than you can
in negative-20 degrees

in a dry cold.

Overcoming that battle
of dealing with the weather

will be challenging.

So I can't compare how fast
I got my shelter up last time,

because last time it was
a totally different scenario.

And I've got to get that
out of my head.

I've got to find somewhere
that's gonna keep me dry,

so I'm looking for high ground.

The ability to stay dry
and the ability to stay warm,

that's the biggest part of this.

All right, this is gonna be
shelter location.

It'll be pretty big.

I will be happy with this.

Now to get to work.

All right, first step...
Got to clear everything out.

I'm gonna build
a triangular cabin.

So this is where
my door's going.

It's gonna be a lot more work,

but I want something

where I can be safe
from polar bears,

and something
that I can have a fire in

and hopefully smoke
a lot of game in.

Some of these things
need to be sawed.

I want to enjoy my time while
I'm out here,

because I'm giving up time
with my son.

So I'm giving up a lot.

So I don't want to come out
here and have it be miserable.

Success to me is being happy.

Okeydokey.

Exactly where
I did not want it to go.

It's fine.

I've got to find
the positive in this,

because, honestly, I would
much rather be with Max.

Damn it.

That ain't happening.
All right.

Somebody said to me recently...

That my moral character

was pretty much all jacked up
for coming out here

instead of spending time
with my son.

And at first, I was like, "Nah!

Horse!"

Because this is, you know, a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

that I'm getting to do twice.

How awesome is that?

But Max doesn't know
why I'm gone.

He's not old enough
to understand

what this means to me.

And, honestly,
I don't even know myself.

It's not easy
leaving your family

and coming out here
to do something

that just takes you
away from them.

This time is just different.

This sucks.

- Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

I'll tell you...

this time is just different.

Great Slave Lakes...

My shelter was built
with an amazing view.

Open land,
I could see a long ways.

I was happy.

I had freshwater right there,

mountains,
sunny, sunny days, and snow.

Those were good days.

This place...
I am surrounded by willows.

Like, 30 yards
is the longest I can see.

Is it nice, peace and quiet,
being in nature?

Absolutely.

But the more I sit out here,

the more I do the same thing
that I already did before.

You start to question that.

Was I expecting
something different?

I don't know.

I do not know.

But...

I'd be lying if I said
I wanted to be here right now.

I just wanted to try
and give it another go.

But you get to a point
in life where you're like,

"Man, I just want to be home.

"I just need to stay home.

"I need to be home with my kid.

And, man, I'm just not willing
to give it another 45 days.

Hey, this is Mark,

and I am officially tapping out.

I didn't see myself leaving
after only five days,

but if I come out here

and I'm not enjoying myself,

what am I doing it for?

I just feel like I'm being
extremely selfish right now

by trying to stick it out
for 50 days.

I'm really not doing
any justice to Max.

You know, I could be
spending time with him.

Today is the day that I retire
from all this ridiculousness.

This is the day that I retire
from leaving home for...

long, extended hunting trips

or to do
any contracting positions

that take me away from home.

Today is the end of that.

I'm leaving this experience
with a different mindset.

I don't think anybody
ever sees themselves

not making it to the end.

But I don't look at this
as me quitting.

I look at this as me starting
a new chapter in my life.

I started this journey

thinking that I've got
to prove myself again

and again and again.

You've constantly got
to prove yourself in life.

And I'm ending this journey

realizing that I'm done
proving myself in life,

and I'm gonna start living.

When Max watches this

and he sees me leave
after five days,

I hope that he realizes that
there's no amount of money

that makes up for lost time

and that family means
absolutely everything.

Without family,
you have nothing.

This season
on "Alone: Frozen."

- In a survival situation,
you do everything you can do,

or you're gonna die.

- I do not want to see
a polar bear.

No freaking way.

I want to stay the 50,

but if I don't start
bringing in more food,

I'm not gonna be able
to do that.

There's nothing like starving

to give you gratitude for food.

The wind's starting up,

and I can definitely feel
the cold.

- Can you see
the horizontal snow?

'Cause it is something else.

- It hasn't been much fun.
I can tell you that.

- I've got about half
visual acuity in my left eye.

- I feel like my time here
is limited,

and I'm really sad about that.

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