Deadliest Catch (2005–…): Season 7, Episode 10 - Frontier Medicine - full transcript

♪

Gah!
MAN: Here! Here!

Whoa!
You all right?

This storm has managed to completely
shut down the fishing fleet

for a day.

A lot of guys don't want to come out
here. I don't blame them.

Miserable. It's absolutely
miserable.

But the fact is we have to pull gear
today.

We have a delivery date that's
coming up...

..and I need to put crab in the
tank.

We're on the first pot here and it
is blowing.



Come on, baby!

SIG: First pot's coming up.

Pretty skinny.

That ain't gonna do it at all.

MAN: Heads up!

Can you turn that light off?

I gotta pay attention here.

SIG: Watch your head!

Hey! Oh!
(MEN YELL)

MAN: Oh, boy, oh, boy!

♪ THEME MUSIC

Watch out!

Can you turn that light off?

I gotta pay attention here.



Watch your head!

Oh! Oh! Hey! Get down!

MAN: Holy (BLEEP)!

Yeah, we're gonna wait till
daylight. This is not working.

That's probably smartest.

After an 11m wave nearly shattered

the Northwestern's front
windshield...

I don't have control.

The tide is going against the wind,

so I cannot control the way I want
to. I can't do this.

..Captain Sig Hansen gives way to the
storm

for the second time this season.

It's just too gnarly.

We don't want to get hurt.

It's IFQ and these crab aren't
going anywhere.

Of course we want to catch them and
everything,

but it's a little crazy.

You gotta, you gotta know

when to just stop.

Oh, man!

Is it as bad up there as it looks
out here?

Just 30km to the north-east...

Well, I hope we didn't lose (BLEEP)
two boards.

..the 47m Wizard battles the same
3,400km square storm...

We've got one, two, three are out. I
can see two.

..and is heading straight for the
eye.

We took a couple of real big waves

and they just tore a few deck boards
completely off the deck.

Oh, no. There's another one.

Last thing we need is another
hazard,

which is wide open holes in the
deck.

120km/h gusts continue to sweep the
deck.

OK, here's what we're gonna do.

We've got some deck boards on the
port side

that have been washed to starboard
side.

We need to clean those up.

I don't know if I should try and
haul right now or not.

Keith sends the crew out to fix the
planks.

We haven't hauled a pot in 24 hours.

We've been putting around, waiting
for the weather to come down.

A couple of deck boards got blown
up.

Luckily they didn't go over the
side.

We get those fixed up and we'll get
to hauling here.

Basically, the eye of this Arctic
hurricane

is going to pass right over the top
of us.

At that point, we'll probably see
the freezing spray

really start to stick to the boat.

You really can't win out here.

As the crew finishes prepping the
deck...

All right, get ready, guys.

We'll haul a couple and see what
happens.

..Keith pulls up to his gear.

Dammit. Heads up, guys.

It's a beautiful day. All we're
missing is a coconut tree or two.

Woo!

Come on, come on, come on. Let's see
something in here.

MAN: That's a fatty all right!
MAN: Hell yeah! MAN: Woo!

Woohoo!

It looks good.

MAN: Hell yeah! Woo!

350 - 400.

MAN: Oh, yeah!

So a really good sign.

(MAN YELLS)

MONTE: Keep coming!

The Wizard is on the crab.

MAN: Hell yeah, baby!

The challenge now...

Step back, step back, step back,
step back!

MAN: Whoa!

..getting the pots on board the boat.

KEITH: You know, it's nice when the
sun starts coming up,

but the downside to that is that you
can see

just how big the waves are.

It's not a good day to be hauling
gear.

The seas went from bad to dangerous,

but - oh, what was that, Lynn?

Come on, get it in the block.

Deckhand Lynn Guitard struggles with
the buoy lines...

(BLEEP)

..and Keith must throttle down.

If I have to dink around at all

because they're not getting the pot
in the block quickly,

then it blows me out of shape

and then it basically puts me into a
lot tougher approach

on the next pot.

With the violent seas pushing the
boat offcourse...

Right now I've got to approach this
one on the starboard side,

which is exactly what I don't want
to do.

..the men are faced to haul
face-to-face with the rising swell.

We may not be able to haul it.

Whoa! (BLEEP)!

MONTE: Watch out!

KEITH: You've got to get it down,
quick, quick! Lie her down.

MAN: Man down!

KEITH: Are you OK, Lenny?

Dog it!

KEITH: Dog it real quick.

MAN: Are you OK?

(MEN YELL)

If it's a head injury I want him off
deck.

Attacked by a wave, the Wizard
rolls violently...

KEITH: Watch out!

..sending the 360kg block into
Lenny's head

and Lenny to the deck.

KEITH: Are you OK, Lenny?

MAN: Dog it! Dog it!

Lenny's saying he's OK, but I gotta
go take a look at his eyes.

Hey, Lenny, just come in the gear
room for one second, OK?

Just give me one second with you.

Is he actually coming in now?

He still just doesn't know what
(BLEEP) is going on.

What happened?

Oh, I got slapped right on the...

Pull your hood down, let me take a
look.

..on my ear.
Right on the ear?

Yeah, just...

That's where it hit, but it's...

OK.
I'm OK, I think. I just...

How many fingers am I holding up?
Five.

Two.
Give me a second.

Let me, just follow my finger, all
right?

No, hey, Lenny -

I'm trying, I know.
I'm serious, OK?

What I'm thinking right now, a
little...

OK.
All right?

Do me a favour. Catch your breath,
clear your head,

come upstairs, all right?

Under captain's orders, Lenny sheds
his gear...

Small cut or something.

It's bleeding.

Maybe it's gonna fall off. I don't
know.

..and finds an impact wound on his
elbow.

Yeah, it's just skinned it.

Let's, let's go ahead and come on
up.

Make sure all the hatches are
secured, then come on in.

The boat shuts down while Keith takes
a closer look.

It's not gonna feel good. You gotta
get in there and really scrub it.

All right, let's see what we got
there.

Ooh. Lenny, you need a stitch here.

That thing is totally moving, I can
completely see the bone.

♪

♪

515km north-west of Dutch Harbor...

..the Cornelia Marie approaches its
first string of crab pots

after being shut down by the storm.

We had 30-footers last night,

30-footers, 35-footers, so big
difference.

It's come down a little bit.

A little bit's better than nothing.

TONY: We had to shut down yesterday.

You drop the boat off the equivalent
of a three-storey building,

things tend to go haywire.

Captain Tony Lara came out of
retirement

to help the Harris boys honour their
dad.

We'll probably pick up two strings.

Still a bit sloppy, but workable.

Now the pressure is on for both the
skipper and the boat.

After last year, last season

and not catching enough blue crab to
even have dinner,

we definitely need to get some crab
this season,

so it'd be nice to land on them.

Three months ago...

..the Cornelia Marie was in a
financial freefall.

We were supposed to spend $150,000
tops. We're at $167,000 right now.

Now all eyes are on Tony to turn the
situation around.

A guy's only as good as his last
delivery,

so here's where we see if I'm a hero
or a zero, I guess.

With the Harris family legacy on the
line...

..the crew begins to haul.

Let's see what we get out of this
one.

JAKE: Oh, yeah!

MAN: I love it!

That's not a bad first pot. (LAUGHS)

One pot doesn't make a season, but
it's off to a good start.

MAN: Jackpot!

I like it. The happy face looks
good.

TONY: Days like today,

Phil had his paper plate in the
front window,

so that's where mine's gonna be
today.

Lets you know what kind of mood
Tony's in right now.

Turns out he's happy.

(LAUGHS)

All last season, we saw the middle
finger.

It was an angry spot up there.

Tony's up there rockin' it!

The old man's smiling down on us.

Just 20km to the south-east...

Looks like it's a puncture wound all
the way down to the bone.

..fishing aboard the Wizard has been
shut down

since engineer Lenny Lekanoff was
injured.

I've got the stuff to sew. I'll
take a better look at it.

He thinks he's gonna stitch me up.

He's gonna have to get Freddy to sit
on me.

I'm just jogging on the end of the
string here,

trying to keep the boat as flat as I
can.

First mate Gary Soper navigates
through the storm...

It's gonna sting each time I go
through.

..while Captain Keith prepares for
surgery.

I'm gonna have to go through twice,
maybe three times -

in one side, out, so one, two,
three, four,

it might be six total, all right?

If you want, I can pour some right
in it there like that,

you just kind of move it a bit and
it'll numb that whole elbow.

Are you sure?
Yeah.

OK. Don't say I didn't try and give
you some kind of painkiller first.

It's gonna get infected.

I don't know how I can keep it from
getting infected without closing it.

It's gonna hurt a little bit.

I fish for you. I know what pain
is.

This isn't the first time Keith's had
to patch Lenny up.

OK. I'm gonna try and make this easy
on you.

I'm gonna try and grab two at once.

Lenny, this is gonna sting, all
right?

(GASPS)

(LENNY GASPS)

This is about the size of a halibut
hook.

Did that hurt at all?

Little bit?
Little.

OK, good.

I'm gonna take it through again, all
right?

As the Wizard pitches,

Keith does his best to steady the
needle.

OK, I'm going through again.

KEITH: Dammit.

Come on. Come through there. Oh,
there we go.

OK, Lynn, grab that needle for me.
Hang onto it for a second.

OK?

And just hold it there.

Pull it snug.

One more time, Lenny, and then we'll
be done here, all right?

Ow. (GASPS)

Come on. Oh, there you go. That's a
good one.

OK, go ahead and bend your elbow
just a little bit.

FREDDY: No, it will open that stitch
right back up, Lenny.

He's right, Lenny.

Trust me, that may not be the best
suturing job,

it may be the worst of all time,

but it's holding that thing
together.

I don't want you to throw any shots
at least for a little while, OK?

MAN: Hardcore.

Maybe it'll start to heal itself up
here in the next 24 hours.

All right, guys. We can go ahead and
gear up.

With thanks to fill, Keith sends his
crew back on deck.

Throw crab, I guess.

But Lenny is on restricted duty.

You know, the good fishermen,
there's not a whole lot

that's gonna keep them off deck.

So we basically gave him an at-sea
fisherman's frontier-medicine

slap-it-back-together suture job.

That's the medical term for it.
(LAUGHS)

♪

♪

540km north-west of Dutch Harbor...

We're just starting to put a glaze
of ice on the boat.

..the Seabrooke hits the Arctic
hurricane with a full stack.

We've got to go into survival mode
here.

I dropped the hammers, we're running
wide open,

we're trying to get into something
shallower

where I can set this gear up.

Running far north of the rest of the
fleet,

Captain Scott Campbell Junior has yet
to reach his chosen grounds.

It's not a matter of whether I can
make it up there.

I'm not gonna make it.

195 miles in sub-zero weather with
65 knot winds,

we'd just roll right over.

Ice and a fully loaded crab boat are
a deadly combination.

Stacks of wet crab pots are magnets
for freezing spray.

In just a few hours,

a loaded boat can accumulate
14,000kg of ice.

The top-heavy vessel becomes
vulnerable to capsizing

and the added weight will pin the
boat down,

eventually sinking it.

If I don't get to where it's shallow
enough

before I get too much ice on the
boat,

I've just got to suitcase the pots.

Suitcasing the pot means you just set
the pot over the side

with all the stuff in it because
you're in too deep water.

Just get the weight off the boat.

To save his gear, the skipper has to
find shallow water close by.

There's no way I could make it
another 195 miles

where I'm planning on fishing, so
I've got to get

the second load of gear off, then
come back and pick this up.

I'm gonna go get the boys up.

Hey, Russell. Whipper.

Junior gives the call to action...
It's that time.

..and the crew rises to storm-tore
seas.

It's getting pretty (BLEEP) out.

As you can see, we've got a huge
mess.

Yah! Right in the bowl here.

The weather was supposed to be
coming down.

The new forecast was it's getting
worse with freezing spray,

so I changed our course

trying to get to shallow water so we
can get half the gear off here.

We're gonna come up, drop 60 pots
off right here

where we can get to them (BLEEP).

Junior's plan, head full-speed to a
small area of shallow water,

then fire off his top layer of pots
before they ice up.

It, historically, does not hold
opilio,

but I'm not concerned about catching
crab,

I'm concerned about the safety of
the crew.

He's getting spooked, the skipper's
getting spooked.

That's what's going on.

It's lousy. That much ice in one
hour.

With more ice building by the minute,

the skipper has gone from strategy to
survival.

JUNIOR: You got an inch, the next
hour you'll put on three inches.

Then you'll put on six and six goes
to a foot, so on and so forth.

We started at 33 degrees,

now we're down to 25 in a matter of
three hours...

..and it's dropping,

so we gotta put the weather on the
stern

and starting ripping these pots off
as fast as I can.

OK, guys, I'm going to spin around
here

and let's get ready to get these
chains off

and try and get this gear off as
fast as possible here.

It's slick out and you got to be
careful where you step

or you slide down off the boat.
(LAUGHS)

That wouldn't be good.

JUNIOR: Make sure you be careful up
there, Whip. It's slick.

MAN: It is cold.

Right now, it is so cold, as you
can see,

we got ice everywhere.

Whipper!
Yeah!

Hustle down here and get these full
shots out of the roof.

Gotta go.

There's a little sense of urgency.

I've only got X amount of room and
I'm back off the edge

and I'll be suitcasing pots.

Junior is dropping his pots on a
narrow ridge.

If he misses, the buoy lines won't be
long enough

and he'll lose his pots into the
abyss.

Once I get to the edge, they're gone
forever.

These pots are kind of getting
spread out a little bit.

We're getting close to the edge
here.

We really need to hustle and get
this stuff off here.

The skipper drops his last pot just
90m from the ledge.

MAN: Woohoo!

Oh, OK.

I've got enough pots off now and
the boat feels a lot better.

With the first layer of pots safely
off the boat,

Junior heads for the grounds.

Turn around, still got 180 miles to
go.

500km to the north-west of Dutch
Harbor...

SIG: Time is always an issue with a
crab boat.

..the Northwestern moves into
position for a third time.

When you've been fishing for as long
as I have now,

you start to feel like, you know,
time's up

and I don't want anything to happen
to anybody.

We've been very fortunate not to
have any fatalities.

My stress level is... to the roof.

Deepening Sig's anxiety is the
absence of his brother.

On days like this it's nice to have
Edgar around,

the guy that's so used to the system
and he's in charge out there.

We can't make any mistakes.

With two days lost waiting out the
storm,

Sig prepares to fish.

OK.
You all right?

Yeah, yeah.
Are you scared?

Well, I'm just, I'm just kinda, you
know.

It's nothing. We've done it before.

I'm just on my toes, you know?
Well, we'll do it.

Without Edgar, the duty of running
the crane

falls to 29-year-old Jake Anderson.

I think most guys would wait till
daylight,

but we've got to try some.

(BLEEP)

There's got to be more crab out
there than that.

I'm thinking.

(SIGHS)

MAN: Whoa!

It's gonna be a long string.

Ugh! Watch out.

(MEN YELL)

MAN: Yep!

Watch out!
Watch out.

When you do bad on the hydros,

you know, you're gonna hurt
somebody.

And with 6m seas, this is a trial by
fire for Jake.

You don't read the roll right, the
pot goes flying out of control.

MAN: Down, Jake!

SIG: Don't (BLEEP) it up!

(BLEEP)

MAN: Whoa! (BLEEP)

That's the third time you've done
that.

Oh, you're counting?

Should we leave Norman on the hydro
so nobody (BLEEP) dies?

I'm (BLEEP).

After only five pots, Jake is
relieved of the hydros.

Jake, shake it off, buddy. It's
ridiculous.

I don't know why he can't read that
roll.

It's not that (BLEEP) hard.

What, he thinks he's gonna come down
here and do a better job?

You did just fine. Edgar does it all
the time.

I know, that's why (BLEEP).

He waited to see who was running it.

If it was Norman it would have been
all right,

if it's me it gives him a reason to
(BLEEP).

If he thinks he's all that, he's
sorely mistaken.

Just let it go off your shoulder.
You're doing good, OK?

If you've got 1,000lbs plus 500lbs
of crab,

that's 1,500lbs of swinging steel in
the palm of your hand,

then you'd better be serious.

It's not a game.

My job is to set a precedent. When
somebody's doing something wrong,

I gotta point it out and let them
know

the extent of how serious it
actually is.

(BLEEP) happened and I didn't break
the bridle,

I didn't hurt anybody, I didn't
smash the table.

Jake!
What?

Are you still being a (BLEEP)?

I don't even want to talk to him the
rest of the season right now.

80km to the east...

..the Time Bandit is still shut down.

I think the weather's come down to
35, 20ft seas.

The Captains Hillstrand see a break
in the weather.

We've got a lot of work to do.

We've got a 48-hour run coming on if
we want to get our crab,

so we can't screw around.

The skipper must choose between the
safety of his crew

and the job at hand.

Cos you lose that delivery date,
you're done.

With the processor delivery date
looming,

the Hillstrands can't put off fishing
any longer.

We've got 105 pots to pull.

Do the guys know to go out there?

MAN: Rock'n'roll!

Yay!

MAN: Whoa!

This is the first trip for the Time
Bandit's newest greenhorn...

..Eddie Jr.

Eddie's got bait done, it's all
ready to go.

Everybody, keep on your toes. Be
careful.

It's pretty nasty out here today.

OK.

(MAN YELLS)
Oh, yeah!

Some crab there and it's not bad.

MAN: Whoa!

With good crab flooding the deck...

..Eddie Jr gets his first
crab-sorting lesson from his dad.

Oh, yeah!

MAN: Heads up! Whoa!

Oh, (BLEEP). Whoa.

MAN: (BLEEP)!
Here comes a big one, brother!

JOHNATHAN: I know, I know!
ANDY: Hang on!

(MEN YELL)

(BLEEP)

♪

♪

440km north-west of Dutch Harbor...

JOHNATHAN: Oh, (BLEEP)!
ANDY: Here comes a big one, brother!

Hang on.
(MEN YELL)

Oh, God, I lost everybody.

..the wrath of the storm...

ANDY: Holy (BLEEP)!

..unleashed its fury on the Time
Bandit with a 9m wave.

MAN: (BLEEP)

Is Mike OK?

MAN: You all right, Mike?

JOHNATHAN: You OK, Mike? Mike?
(BLEEP)

Mike's hurt!
Come on in, Mike.

Get out the first aid kit, Neal!

Mike's hurt. Mike's coming in.

Hey, John, go get my (BLEEP) kit
right out of there, dude.

OK, Mike? Mike?

Where'd you get hit, Mike?

Something hit my face. I got blood
on my eye.

450kg of water drove Mike's face

straight into the metal sorting
table.

It hurts right there.

(BLEEP), dude.

OK. You got hit with a (BLEEP).

Have we got suture tape?

Take your (BLEEP) off, Mike. (BLEEP)

Sorry about that, dude.
It happens, man.

(BLEEP)

It looks like I murdered somebody.
Take care of this.

You're the doctor.

Your nose is crushed right here,
too, on this side.

Keep pressure on it, Mike.

JOHNATHAN: We've got ourselves a
bleeder!

That feel all right, dude?
Mm-hmm.

We'll see if that holds.

There we are. Sorry about that,
dude. There we go.

OK, now, just let that (BLEEP) dry
up.

You want to go take a couple of
aspirin?

You should probably do that cos it
probably is gonna hurt.

Did you pull the pot?
MAN: I got one.

OK, cool.
I marked where it was.

All right.
That was scary, man.

Three butterfly stitches later, Mike
is back on deck.

So I think the eye is probably
sealed up. I'm hoping.

We're going to send him back out on
deck.

If they don't hold,

I'll probably have to shave his
eyebrow.

Anyways, we got our crew back in
order.

Come on, baby!

MAN: Yeah!

All right.

How many did you have, Big Mike?

Six. Zero.

We've had some numbers up here.

MAN: Oh, yeah.

MAN: Nice.

As one crew man recovers...

..another...
(VOMITS)

..starts to go down.

A recent development.

Eddie boy. Did you just puke?

Phew! Hey, Eddie Jr, come up here.

A couple of months.

Eddie, you better call the doctor.

Yeah, let's call your dentist. Get
the phone number for your dentist.

Unbeknown to the captains,

Eddie Jr has been working with an
abscessed tooth.

ANDY: Help him up.

Now, relax your arm.
Let it rest.

ANDY: 113/75.

JOHNATHAN: Keep drinking. We want
you to make it.

We don't mind if you sit a string
out. We'll roll for you, dude.

JOHNATHAN: Is your vision coming
back?

Tell us. Is it going in and out like
that,

like you're gonna pass out?

We could put him in his rack.

We got to (BLEEP) down.

The captains aren't taking any
chances.

Neal, watch him and keep feeding
him, make him drink.

He's got to take fluids.

Full or not, they set a course for St
Paul.

He didn't want to let you down.

64km north of the fleet...

We're not in (BLEEP) Kansas any
more. It's cold.

..the Seabrooke has reached the
fishing grounds of Zhemchug Canyon.

I'd say I've probably got...

..easy 100,000lbs of ice on the
boat, easy.

Junior dumped the top stack of his
gear

in order to save the boat.

I've got to worry about ice falling
on one of these guys' heads,

a pot breaking, a bar busting while
it's swinging overhead.

But the danger remains until the rest
of the ice is gone.

I just don't like this at all.

Just trying to get everything
rolling

so we can get this gear in the water
and start our opie season,

but Mother Nature has her own idea
of our opie season.

I don't think it's going to get
started as quickly as Junior likes.

The Seabrooke's gear is trapped under
20cm of solid ice.

Ugh! Negative 25.

All right.

That's minus 54 degrees Celsius with
wind chill.

Freezing!

At this temperature, exposed skin can
freeze in just seven minutes.

JUNIOR: I haven't seen pots iced up
like this in awhile.

Once they free this first pot,

we're gonna swing it over to the
side of the boat

and slam it into our stack to bust
up some of the ice

so we can get the pots untied.

The first pot is frozen solid...

..and metal gives way before ice.

Let's try it from over here on the
side.

Yeah, make sure you get that pot
de-iced there

so when we start swinging it we
don't bust the bar

and lose the pot.

But breaking the pots free is just
the beginning.

It's already been five minutes

and they haven't even got the door
open.

Once they get the door open, it's a
solid cube of ice

and they gotta take their
sledgehammers

and beat the shots and the buoys out
of the pot.

Then they gotta take a sledgehammer
and beat the top of the webbing

so they can get the bait in

and then they've got a solid cube on
the shot

that they've got to beat those
apart.

These guys are gonna earn your money
today.

It's gonna be a struggle all night
long. You can see it.

MAN: Woo! Yeah, baby!

First pot's over.

Now we've got 80 more to go.

It's gonna be a long night.

After 15 hours...

..the last pot goes over the rail.

Good job there, fellers.

Yeah! Happy thoughts, man. Happy
thoughts.

Across the fleet...

Last one, thank God.

It's starting to get a little
rowdy out, it's cold.

..the men breathe a collective sigh
of relief.

(BLEEP) So glad it's over.

Every deck is empty.

I'm showing some mercy.

These guys have been out there, it's
cold, come in, get warm,

then we'll regroup.

..and every man is safe.

But there will be no rest...

..as every crew confronts a cathedral
of ice.

KEITH: Let's see if we can knock
this out, get this ice off.

MAN: Heads up down there!

I'd rather be laying on a beach
somewhere nice and warm.

This is no fun, believe me.

Your wrists... Woohoohoo!

That's all you got? Bring us some
more!

The merciless chill...

MAN: Heads up!

..spares no-one.

Dammit! Oh, (BLEEP)!

(BLEEP), Freddy, I didn't see it
coming, man. Are you OK?

Not the injured...

..the beaten...

..or the exhausted.

Fishing's easy.

Beating ice is difficult.

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(MEN CHEER)

Let's... let's call that good.

MAN: Woohoo!

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