Deadliest Catch (2005–…): Season 16, Episode 22 - Blood Is Thicker Than Water - full transcript

[ indistinct shouting ]

When you're fishing out
at the end of the earth,

You miss out on a lot of stuff,
you know?

We don't get to choose

When we get to be here
all the time.

We're just about there.
Get home in time

For my kiddo's birthday.
We'll see.

Sig: We missed out on
thanksgivings,

Christmases, birthdays,

Birth. [ chuckles ]

My wife's gonna have
our third child any day now.



At the end of the day, you know,

[sighs] I got a job to do.

When you're a captain,
especially,

You're responsible
for your crew, your boat.

[ alarm blaring ]

We got diesel running out
of the starboard engine area.

Hey, munsey, come back
to the engine room.

Man: I'm gonna help you up!
Go, go, go!

You better be
working your ass off.

'cause now I'm pissed.

There it is. The ice.

Right when you think you got it
all figured out.

Whoa.

Oh, no.



That's not good.

Not even close.

We're screwed.

Sig: It's the family
that has to take a back seat.

The fishing comes first.

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♪♪

Narrator: 600 miles northwest of
dutch harbor...

Casey: We're gonna
get this done.

Narrator:
...On the cornelia marie.

Casey: Opies 2020, it looks like
we're gonna wrap this one up

The same exact way it started.

Cold and frozen.

Bottom line...
We got to capitalize,

Lace up the areas we know.

♪♪

Go home, go see my baby girl.

It's her birthday coming up.

Narrator: With a delivery date
in 72 hours

And 40,000
more pounds 'til season's end,

Captains josh harris
and casey mcmanus

Race another ticking clock.

We're just about there.

Get home in time
for my kiddo's birthday.

Narrator: For the first time
in three years,

Josh has a shot at making his
daughter kinsley's birthday

Just 11 days away.

Maybe the lord will be
looking down at us.

I'm not sure.

What do we got? What do we got?

♪♪

[ cheering ]

Yeah, baby! [ laughs ]

[bleep]! [ laughs ]

[ laughs ]

Wow.

We're starting to get on
to something.

I mean, that's a double dumper
right there.

Man: Three-seven-one, case.

Yeah!

Come on, baby. Let's see
some love after this one.

[ cheering ]

Oh, yeah!

[ cheering ]

Whoo! [ laughs ]

[ laughs ]

♪♪

Just farm this stuff.
Get as much gear and soak

On this stuff as we can.

We can make a trip out of this.

Whoa!

[bleep]

Look at that.

The hell is going on up there?

[ exhales deeply ]

Wow. Yeah.

The ice is right there.

It's a scary sign.

Right what do you think
you got it all figured out.

I mean, we're on the final push.

This is flow ice right here.

So, this is broken up
a little bit,

And then we'll get into stuff

That's several inches thick.

♪ Dun-dun-dun ♪

[bleep]

[bleep]

Narrator: The cornelia marie
hits the splintered edge

Of a 200-square-mile arctic
ice pack

Descending from the northeast.

Behind the leading edge
lurk frozen sheets

Weighing over 500 tons a piece,

Capable of smashing hulls

And sweeping away
entire loads of gear.

[ groans ]

Here it is. It's the ice.

I mean, with this wind,

It could be catching
our gear here pretty quick.

I think the ice is right
about here right now

And our gear is right here.

Yeah. How much time
do you think we got?

Not much.

We have quite a view
out here, so...

[ groans ]

We got to make a move.

The problem is we have no clue
where to put them.

If nothing else, at least
we moved it away

From the ice a little.

Stack it.

Narrator: Josh's plan... run the
opposite direction,

Down the diagonal
of the russian border

And try to catch the herd
straddling the line,

Safely away from the ice.

Now we got to get everything
out of the water

That we can before we lose it.

Clock is ticking right now.

Now it's just... it's in god's
hands at this point.

♪♪

Narrator: In dutch harbor,

On the saga...

You think that you're
gonna be able to

Give a v-birth, or

Are you gonna go
right into caesarean section?

Dad, [babbles].

I missed you so much.

I love you, too.

Alright, bye-bye.

[bleep]

My wife's gonna have
our third child any day now.

Narrator: Days out from his wife
jenna's due date...

I just want to get back
out there, get home,

And I don't want to miss
the birth of my son.

Narrator: ...The only way home
for captain jake anderson

Is through 120,000
more pounds of opilio.

It's so important for me
to be there for her

And our child
if something goes wrong.

And right now,
I'm 3,000 miles away.

Oh.

[ sniffles ]

Jake: Matt had to
go to the clinic.

He already almost lost a leg
due to a staph infection,

So, hopefully there's nothing
wrong with matt's eye.

You know, get out of here
as fast as I can,

And I've done
all I can do. I know that.

♪♪

What did they say?

Well, I've got
that same thing I had

Going on on my knee
on my face now.

[bleep]

Narrator: Back from a medical
evaluation for a recurring staph infection

Spawned at the season's start,

Matt bradley faces what could be
a life or death decision.

As of right now,
they medically won't clear me.

I don't want to lose an eyeball
or what's left of my brain.

The highly contagious
staphylococcal bacteria

Is spreading through
matt's bloodstream,

And if untreated, could cause
permanent or fatal injury.

I mean, you've helped me out
exponentially.

I just...

I don't think it's worth it.

[ exhales deeply ]

Sorry to put all this
on your plate.

Love you, brother.

Jake: I can't really afford
to lose matt right now.

We've got three
greenhorns in training,

And he helps manage the crew,

And now I feel that it's gonna
quickly run into chaos.

Go ahead and toss them.
Let's get the hell out of here.

Man: Do you want
to move my line up?

Jake: I made it to the births
of my first two children.

I'm gonna make it for the third.

Maybe.

I'll tell you what...
I'm not gonna stop

Trying to get there, though.

♪♪

Narrator: Across the docks...

Man: Line up! That's good.

Narrator:
...On the northwestern...

Man: Let's go, let's go.

Sig: We got our crab off.
It's not what we needed.

That'll work.

We were a little shy
on that front tank,

So with that being said,
time is of the essence,

And that's something
I don't have right now

Narrator: With 50,000 pounds of
opilio crab still to catch...

Sig: I'd like to see
our granddaughter born.

Narrator: ...Captain sig aims to
wrap the winter season

Before his eldest daughter,
nina, expands the hansen clan.

Sig: She's not due
for a few weeks here,

But I would like to be there.

Mandy: Dad's missed a lot
over the years,

Having to be out at sea
during the fishing season,

So his priorities have changed.
He wants to get home,

And that's really important
to him right now.

- Alright.
- Yep.

Toss them.

Man: Toss them!

I like that.

Okay!

[ cellphone chimes ]
okay, let's see here.

What the [bleep]?

She had to go to the hospital?

The baby's heartbeat
is too fast?

♪♪

[ line ringing ]

♪♪

What does that mean?

What can they do
if the heartbeat is too fast?

Narrator: On the northwestern...

What does that mean?
What can they do

If the heartbeat is too fast?

...Captain sig hansen
gets word his daughter nina

Is being rushed to the hospital

For complications
with her late-term pregnancy.

Alright, well...

I got to throw lines here.

June: Okay. Bye. Bye.

I'm freaking out.

That is not how I wanted
to leave town.

Not at all.

- Ready?
- Yep.

Toss them.

Son of a gun.

♪♪

We got to get the crab
in the boat.

No mistakes.

Hope that there's enough of it.

Get back down to town

So then maybe
I can hop on a plane.

That'd be nice.

Narrator: 450 miles northwest,

On the saga...

Jake: This string right here
was set back

Six days ago.

I've done so well.

It's landed on them.

If these things hit, I can go in

And I can maybe make it
to the birth of my third son.

Narrator: After tracking
the biomass to the northwest,

Captain jay counts
on the extra soak time

To give him the jolt
he needs to wrap his season

And see his new son
enter the world.

Man: Alright, baby,
let's get it.

Alright!

♪♪

♪♪

I got no ross and I got no mike.

Joe, is mike even awake?

No.

You should probably get him.

Narrator:
Without veteran matt bradley,

Jake needs his three greenhorns
to step up,

But two of them
are still laying down.

I don't accept this.
I won't accept this.

This is old saga [bleep].

Saga don't run
like that no more.

♪♪

Damn it.

There's a couple in there,
but a lot of bairdi, still

The crab that are in there
are the wrong species...

Bairdi.

[bleep]

Narrator:
On top of his mia crew,

Jake has mia crab,

As he finds
his former honey hole of opilio

Overrun by the out-of-season
bairdi.

Let's see what the count is.

[bleep] frustrating.

Really?

What the [bleep]?

Man: Come on! Hustle up!
Go, go, go!

You better keep up.

Jake: Damn it, mike.

You obviously don't give a
[bleep] about what I have to do.

Ross: I woke up late.

I'm not gonna be late
out on deck again.

I [bleep] up.

I was... I...

I don't know.

I'll deal with them later, okay?

Man: Throw it out!

Clay: Lots and lots of them.

Bairdi.

[bleep]

So...

I got to do something quick.

There's reports there's crab
by the russian line.

So, I have a decision
I got to make.

Clay: Bairdi!

Narrator: Out of options,
jake considers a move he's never made

In five years of captaincy...

Steam the 107-foot saga

The farthest she's been
from dock

To join the war
on the russian line

For his remaining opilio bounty.

Jake: It takes a whole lot
for this boat

To go all the way up to russia,

Which can really screw yourself
doing that,

But you can get lucky.

♪♪

♪♪

I'm starting to really
run out of time, though.

My wife could have the baby
at any moment.

We got to fish.

♪♪

Narrator: 130 miles northwest...

Harley: We got to start
getting the boat ready to set.

Narrator:
...On the southern wind...

We're on the edge.

We are going right towards
the russian border.

God, this definitely
feels like the spot.

Throw it over.

Narrator: ...Lone wolf captain
steve "harley" davidson

Tracks his prey
just south of russian territory.

I'm gonna go in a circle here,

50, 60 mile circle
in all these areas

That kind of appeal to me,

And go from there.

Narrator: Instead of setting
in a straight line,

Harley dumps his gear
in a giant ring

Surrounding flat terrain
near the edge,

Planning to tighten the noose
around signs of life.

Harley: We're right here, man.
This is where it lives.

[ alarm blaring ]

What's that?

What?
You got diesel running out of

The starboard engine there.
You might want to call...

Yeah.

Hey, munsey,
come back to the engine room.

♪♪

♪♪

I have two main engines and one
of them right now is shut down.

It literally explodes.

Narrator:
On the southern wind...

It literally explodes.

Like, parts come out
of the inside.

Hope and pray that
it's not an issue.

Hope and pray.

Narrator: Normally,
combustion engines burn diesel

In a series
of small controlled explosions,

But leaked outside
the fuel line,

It turns into a liquid
liability...

The engine basically
turns into a grenade.

Narrator: Forcing captain harley

To shut down,
so as not to blow up his engine

And his season.

[bleep] criminy.

What next?

[ cellphone chimes, buzzes ]

And it's killing people.

It doesn't know any borders.
It can keep just traveling.

So, it starts racing
through asia there,

And that's where
a lot of our crab goes.

Narrator: Across the headlines,

Word of a virus known
as covid-19 emerges,

Threatening
to prompt containment measures

And the shutdown of ports
all over the world.

You know, you can only control
the world that I live in.

That's this grab on this boat.
We've got to get this to town

And hope they can get a hold
of this virus, man.

Munsey: So I made a hose.

You made a hydraulic hose?
Yeah, quarter inch.

Alright, perfect.

That'll work just fine.
Appreciate it.

Narrator: Focused on fixing
what's in his power to fix...

Perfect. Indy 500, man.

Lift I tup and
get it working again,

Get us back on the track.

...Harley sidesteps catastrophe
in his engine room

And entrusts the fate of
his season to the russian line.

♪♪

At this time,
I don't really have a plan b.

♪♪

Narrator: 120 miles northeast...

Josh: Now. Set it.

Woman: Load.

Narrator:
...On the cornelia marie...

Ice is moving, which means
that all of a sudden,

It just comes in like a blanket
covering everything,

And we have no pots
to fish with.

I think we cut this one
really close,

And the way
that ice edge comes down,

We should have enough time
to take it up.

Man: Let's go! Let's go!

Narrator: On the run
from the arctic ice pack,

Chasing them off
their north-northeast hotspot...

That's not how I had to play it
out in my head,

But it is what it is.

Narrator: Captains josh and
casey prowl the russian line

On the hunt for their final
20,000 pounds.

We have a delivery date.
0330 in the morning.

We got to be in st. Paul.

We need to take as much to town

As we possibly can.

Yeah.

We really need to perform.

Trying to get back
for my kid's birthday.

So, with any luck,
I think we'll pull this off.

We got to push.

Narrator: 60 miles southwest,
joining the remote russian line

For the first time,
on the saga...

Hey, help your [bleep]
boy out! Let's go!

Get going!

- Higher now.
- Down and ready.

You got
three greenhorns on deck.

It sounds like
a war zone down there.

Holy [bleep]

Come on! Help him out!
Go, go, go!

Well, here we are.
We went up north.

Go over!

I'm all the way out to russia.

For me to do that is a huge step

Because the ice is coming down.

And I can get stuck in the ice.

I could lose up
to $100,000 in pots.

But I'm about to
have another baby.

I do not want to miss

Janet giving birth
to our third kid.

Go over!

Narrator: Armed with
a greenhorn-heavy crew,

Captain jake pushes
the 107-foot saga

The farthest she's ever
ventured from dock,

All for the promise of crab,

Crab that will hopefully
send jake home in time

To witness the birth
of his third child.

Go over!

Hopefully, we get something
out of it.

Pull it from the bottom, nathan.

Right there. There you go,
there you go, there you go.

Man: You got it.

- [bleep]
- go.

Hey, get those crabs out!

Jake: Take them out.
Clean them out.

Let's go! Let's go!

Dead crab does not
attract crab. It repels crab.

Narrator: Deceased opilio
release enzymes from their gut

That repel their live
crustacean brethren,

Turning his
greenhorns' oversight

Into a potential kiss of death

For this string's prospects.

Would you eat in a cemetery?

Huh?

Damn it, mike.

Get in there and
get that crab out.

I better see [bleep] a blur.

Hurry up!

You better be working your
[bleep] ass off now,

'cause now I'm pissed.

Let's go! Let's go!

♪♪

Humans don't like eating
next to dead people,

Just like crab don't like
eating next to dead crab.

Let's hope it's not a bust.

♪♪

Narrator: 420 miles northwest
of dutch harbor...

[ cellphone ringing ]

Oh, hi.

So, what did the doctor say?

Is everything stable?

...On the northwestern...

Just keep her calm.

And then, like I said,
we'll do our best here,

And then hopefully we can get in
and get this thing over with.

So... Alright, love you.
Say hi to everybody.

That started to scare me here.

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

Narrator: 37 weeks
into nina's pregnancy...

I'm just so stressed out
right now,

I can't even think.

I'd like to see
my granddaughter born.

Think it's starting
to get to me.

...Captain sig must find another
50,000 pounds of crab

To make it back
to his daughter's side.

Oh.

Come on, 300.

♪♪

Sig: There's a lot of crab
in the gear,

Takes me less time

To get back in
and see my grandkid.

If there's not a lot of crab
in the gear,

Then I got a problem.

Okay, here we go.

That's not good.

Yeah, that one wasn't very good.

Five!

That's not the numbers I want.
Not even close.

Hopefully, this day goes
a little better

Than that pot.

We may have to get
some more pots in the water

And start over here.

If we don't come up with
like a 230 average,

We're screwed.
We're gonna have to set back,

And two days can turn into 10.

- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah!

[ cheering ]

Oh, that's good. We got it?

- Go.
- We need that.

♪♪

- How much?
- 400.

- 400?
- Yep.

Good.

Alright, 400. So, that works.

Good. That's great.

Oh, yeah!

Mm! Bam!

God, they look clean, too.

Hopefully, we have what we need

And we can call it
a season here.

I want to be done.

♪♪

Narrator: 175 miles northwest...

♪♪

...On the cornelia marie...

Well,
bags right off or bow here.

So, let the olympic games begin.

♪♪

Casey:
That ice has been a tease to us

'cause it causes you
to shuffle away from crab.

To prevent losing any gear.

We end up finding a home for it.

Narrator: With the ice pack
descending faster than they thought

And an off-load in 24 hours...

It's fourth quarter.
Two-minute warning's happened.

And so, we're playing ball.

Narrator: ...Time is running out
for captains josh and casey

To find their final
20,000 pounds...

Go down, go home,
and do my kid's birthday.

That'll be copasetic.

Narrator: ...And for josh
to get back in time

To celebrate with his daughter
2,300 miles away.

Time is getting a little low.

Sink or swim.

♪♪

♪♪

Up! Yep! It's a big one.
It's a big one.

Holy [bleep].
There's a little bit of crab.

That's a good one.

♪♪

God, look at that.
That is a lot of crab, too.

Man: Alright!

[ cheering ]

- There we go.
- [ laughs ]

Alright.

I'm [bleep] pumped. [ laughs ]

Oh.

Wrap this trip up,
call it a season.

♪♪

Man: Two-four-five.

This is amazing.

The lord has
answered our prayers.

Hopefully this sticks out.

[ computer chimes ]

[bleep] what's up?

You trying to fly
out of st. Paul?

Yeah.

I won't have time
to play around that much.

So I got an e-mail,
and co-op manager e-mailed me.

We're the last boat
fishing for our co-op.

And the last guy to deliver,
left our co-op short

11,000 more pounds.

Narrator: Casey gets word
their season isn't over.

The cornelia boys now have
an extra

$35,000
worth of quota on the table.

It's no longer a gear trip.
We have to fish again.

♪♪

...In ever bait bag
from now on, okay?

Excited that, you know, get home
to see my kid.

I haven't seen her in
[bleep] six months now.

I know it's kind of
a weird situation,

But what do you think?

Narrator: Where casey
sees a boon for the business,

Josh sees a broken promise
to his daughter.

It'll suck not having you here.

When we get back out here,

I do believe that ice is
gonna be a factor

In what we're dealing with.

Managed to get our gear out
of the way in the ice,

But is that going to happen
a second time?

Be nice to have a second
set of eyes up here

Digging on the ice.

Narrator:
This week on "salty takes"...

Jake: We don't even know what
we're naming our kid

That could be born any day now.

Okay. What if we named him
after uncle ricky?

[ laughs ]

I don't know about levi.

Okay.

Hayden, help me think of a name
to name your brother.

How about buckley?

[ laughs ]

But how about
boba fett? Stormtrooper.

Fred. Ted. Dan.

"steve, get over here."

Steve dave anderson.

[ laughs ]

Narrator: Coming to
"deadliest catch", season 34,

Captain ricky levi buckley

Boba fett fred ted steve
stormtrooper anderson.

[ laughs ]

After a final at bat,
sig rounds the corner,

As the cornelia marie
heads into extra innings.

Narrator: 575 miles northwest
of dutch harbor,

On the saga...

Jake: So I had to run all these
pots all the way up to russia.

I don't know.
I could be done. I mean...

I can try and wait as long
as 41 weeks,

But dr. Whitman doesn't want me
to go longer than that.

But obviously, of course
I want you to be there,

But if you're not home,
I still have to birth him.

I'm so close. I'm almost done.

Well, no guarantees, but I'll
keep him in as long as I can.

Alright, I love you.

Bye.

Alright, guys,
first one coming up.

♪♪

Narrator: With his son's birth
drawing ever closer,

Captain jake needs his first
foray to the russian line

To be nothing less than
a crowning achievement.

♪♪

Man: Hey, help him
with the line! Let's go!

Come on! You go forward!
You to backside!

- What?
- You go backside.

Come on, help him out!
Go, go, go!

Jake: Well, I asked the guys
to get all the dead crab out.

My greenhorns are not interested
in getting it done.

They're just wandering around
and smoking cigarettes.

Narrator: Besides the 120,000
pounds he needs to get home,

There's the matter
of jake's other hurdle,

His green crew's lack
of attention to detail...

Dead crab, in this case.

Man: Let's see what we got.

Ah, this is nerve-wracking.

Load up!

Oh, [bleep]!

Ugh!

Oh, I don't see anything in it.

There's a couple big ones
in here, but

Looking pretty small right now
for 36 hours.

What's the number?

Dead crab don't catch crab.

Man: What?

Not looking too good.

Oh, man.

Nothing in it.

Crab don't like dead crab.

Gonna see a lot of these today.

Ugh!

I want to make it home
to my wife

And see her have our baby.

Hold up, guys!

This is where it gets stressful.
I have no more time.

I'm out of time.

Narrator:
As jake's season flounders...

Man: Alright, here we go!
First one!

See what we got! Here it comes.

No. What is this?

Narrator: ...So, too, does
the southern wind.

Man: That's no good, man.

Got to be something close by.

There's people searching.

Okay, last pot
of the season coming up.

Man: Yeah! Do a pot! Yeah!

[ cheering ]

Narrator: But the northwestern
streaks across the finish line,

Homeward bound,

With a total of 1.5
million opilio bucks...

It's time to get back to town
and then go see if we have

A granddaughter that's gonna
be born here pretty quick.

We actually caught...
We're done.

Except for crab in our co-op
that needs to be caught.

...While the cornelia marie
enters a bonus round

To claim an extra 11,000 pounds
before the ice gets their gear.

It's my kid's birthday
and stuff.

I think I'm gonna abandon ship

And [bleep] head home.

But what do you think?

You gonna grant me that pass?
If you want to go...

I mean, I don't...

Let me make my kid's birthday?
It's okay. I mean...

If I had the option,

I could go make
my kids' birthday.

They've already passed.
So, I'd want it, but...

If you want to go, that's fine.

Dude, [bleep] thanks, man,

Go home. Wish her
a happy birthday from me.

Dude, I will, man.

Casey: It's nice for josh to get
a little break here,

But I am gonna be
digging pots out of the ice.

The writing's on the wall
for that.

Narrator: But as the fleet
struggles to get home...

Junior: I mean,
I've heard that processors

Are not sending containers over

Because they're afraid
they're gonna get quarantined.

Narrator:
...A new hurdle rears its head.

Bill: That's kind of
what I'm getting, you know?

Out of all restaurants

And consumables,
especially crab.

Narrator: The coronavirus...

Threatening to shut down ports
and tank global demand.

Well, hopefully we can get
this stuff in,

Get it delivered
before they do a price drop.

Bill: Well, I don't know.
We'll see what happens.

Coronavirus has been
rocking the global markets.

Hopefully, we can get this stuff
to the docks

Before the prices drop.
It's scary times.

I think some guys
are not sending

Their big cargo ships
over to china

'cause they're afraid they'll
get quarantined or something.

It's an uncertain future here.

Jake: Now, I'm not just
racing the fleet,

I'm also now racing a virus.

Why don't you just add
a bear to the tiger fight?

Sig: What the [bleep]?

"breaking: Travelers believed
to be exposed to coronavirus

Will be in quarantined
at shoreline site".

I live in shoreline.
That's not good.

[ cellphone rings ]

What?
So, her baby shower's canceled?

June: Yeah, I don't even
want to go.

No. No. I agree.

I agree 100%. Just [bleep]...
You know what?

Until they figure
this [bleep] out,

Stay inside. Just cancel it.

Yeah. No, I honestly think

We need to really
[bleep] watch it here.

[bleep] scary, man.