Deadliest Catch (2005–…): Season 7, Episode 3 - Old Age and Treachery - full transcript
Jake Harris gets a sink-or-swim lesson on driving the Cornelia Marie as danger strikes the Wizard when a crewmember gets caught in the line.
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MAN: Keep going, keep going!
(BLEEP), I'm in the Bering Sea.
Boom!
MAN: Hold on! Hold on!
♪ THEME MUSIC
Watch out!
Unbelievable.
Best job in the (BLEEP) world.
It's 9:30am on the Cornelia Marie
and the crew is up for the first haul
of the day.
We gotta find the numbers.
Skipper Derrick Ray is fishing off St
Matthew Island
for the elusive blue crab.
They're kind of a bit tougher than
king crab to catch.
They live in the rock piles,
they'll crawl in the pot, back out
of the pot.
This is a big gamble, but it's gonna
pay off.
JAKE: Well, (BLEEP) better happen
pretty soon.
We've been doing a lot of running.
Yeah, the fuel bill is going up.
I wake up every morning, I have my
good days, my bad days,
thinking about my dad, the stuff he
taught us
and how much this boat meant to him.
As new part-owners,
Josh and Jake Harris need to turn a
profit to stay afloat.
It's our money, our livelihood. It's
scary.
And they're counting on their new
captain to make it happen.
Here we are right here, coming
across the bottom miles.
Our other 80 pots are up here, all
shallow.
We are gonna catch crab up there.
Old man's boat, old man's spirit
will come through.
There's hope in every pot.
Come on, baby.
MAN: It's coming up.
DERRICK RAY: Dammit!
(BLEEP)
(BLEEP)dammit.
Jesus criminy.
JOSH: Can't catch (BLEEP) crab to
save our lives.
God, I can't believe how bad this
string is.
With each bad haul...
..spirits sink.
PHIL: You have to have some drive.
There's more to it, if you're gonna
be a captain,
than what you're doing.
If you want it bad enough, you'll do
it,
you'll do what it takes.
I'm looking at this as a business
aspect of things, you know.
It's just come to the point where
we've got a lot on this, you know.
I'm looking at the prices we're
catching,
the amount of crab we're catching
and I'm looking at the prices that,
yeah, but, see -
Listen to me for a little bit.
Here's the numbers, OK?
Right there, that's your money,
12.5% owner share,
Josh and Jake each own 12.5% of this
boat.
That's the whole idea.
That's why we need the commitment
to catch this crab,
to make money. That's what fishing
boats do.
Once you subtract the bait and the
fuel, the groceries...
You know what boat stands for?
No.
Bring Out Another Thousand, OK?
It's a hole in the water you pour
money into.
There's costs to operate a boat.
But if you don't go fishing, you
don't make any money.
Did you ever fish with your dad and
he came out here and said,
'The average sucks, we're going
home'?
I'm asking these questions because
you've owned boats,
I have not owned boats. I didn't
have to worry about this.
I've been dreaming about the old man
lately, the past two nights,
for the hour of sleep that I get,
hoping that I don't fail,
you know, hoping that I'm making the
right decisions
on everything I've done so far.
With me, this is my own battle
coming back to this boat.
It's not easy. That was my hero, you
know. That was my best friend.
That was my skipper, the guy, my
skipper, my boss, everything.
This is my first time back to the
boat that I'm not in shock.
You and Jake have got a lot on your
plate. I understand that.
I just, Josh, I've spent my life out
here doing this.
Trust me, I'm gonna make it happen.
I am not gonna fail at this.
We are not.
Us as a crew and a team working
together are not gonna fail.
720km to the south-east...
..the crew of the Wizard wakes from
their first full night of sleep
since leaving port.
I need to get this gear on some crab
so these guys will at least regain
some faith
in the whole crab-fishing experience
and regain some faith in me.
Two weeks of bad fishing...
I'm so tired of this stack party
we're having.
Stacking every day, man.
..has worn away at crew morale.
We don't need much. We just want to
(BLEEP) go home, man! Come on!
You drop blanks all day long for a
week or two straight,
pretty soon the crew's gonna wonder
if I've lost my noggin
or maybe I've lost my edge
and even I'm starting to question
myself
as to whether or not I'm making
good decisions or not.
After losing out in the Black Hills
and even on his old stand-by
grounds...
No boats, no gear. We're the only
ones here.
..Keith pulls up on his riskiest
gamble of the season.
There's this really narrow little
canyon here we're shooting at.
Got this canyon right here, right
through here.
The new hunting grounds, Black
Canyon,
are renowned for fat pots, but
require precision fishing.
We've got to get every pot right
exactly where we're trying to put
it.
The Captain has to hit a thin sliver
of land
70m down on the canyon's floor.
If his aim is off by just a metre,
the pots will slam into the rocky
sides
and miss the crab completely.
Paul, make sure you get your (BLEEP)
together
and that that crane never waits.
I want to make sure every single one
of these pots counts.
OK, guys, let's get them off here.
MAN: Head's up! Coming over!
Two weeks out, a whopping 36,000kg
short of filling their tanks...
Come on, (BLEEP) hurry it up up
there! (BLEEP)
..the Wizard's entire red king crab
season is at stake.
Every pot's crucial.
These are the most crucial pots
we've set of the entire season.
The superstitious skipper puts out a
distress call...
..to his nine-year-old daughter Bug.
KEITH: I love you too, Bug.
(SNIFFS)
Full pots.
(CONTINUES TO SNIFF) Good crab.
Full canyon.
Save my season.
20 pots into the set,
greenhorn Paul Edgren relieves Lynn
Guitard at the rail.
Oh, (BLEEP).
MAN: Hold on! Hold on!
(MAN YELLS)
(BLEEP)
OK, is everybody OK? Everybody all
right?
That was close.
Well, we just about lost one of our
crewmen over the side.
He hopped over enough where it just
grabbed
and we got it to slide down get it
off of him,
so just got to keep his feet down.
That's why we keep an eye on each
other out here.
Right? You keep an eye on each
other, you're still with us.
With the buoy line snaked around his
leg...
MAN: Hold on!
..Paul was seconds from being yanked
over the rail
by a 360kg anchor hurtling to the
floor of the Bering Sea.
It's amazing how quick that
happened.
Once that first bag goes over and it
starts dragging,
that next bag's going whether you
want it to or not.
You get complacent one second,
the next thing you know, something
happens, so...
I don't think I'll ever do that
again.
I tell you what, I have never had a
run of bad luck like this ever.
I mean, I'm trying pretty much
everything you can try. I mean...
There's our pot of gold!
Oh, my God! That is like the
hottest sign on the planet!
MAN: Hopefully we can get it out
on...
Hey, Soper, you see what I'm seeing
off the starboard side?
If that ain't a good sign, I don't
know what is.
(ALL CHEER)
Now we're talking! (LAUGHS)
Ooh! Ooh, ooh, ooh!
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480km to the north-east of Dutch
Harbor is the Seabrooke.
It's right in here. I tore something
right in here.
Captain Scott Campbell Jr's
brutal pace...
All right, well, let's check it out
here. What have you got going?
..has taken a toll on his little
brother,
26-year-old Chris Welch, aka Whipper.
I don't think it's tore.
Not teared, but sprained.
There's a big difference. Are you
hurt or are you injured?
Cos if you're hurt, get your ass
back out on deck,
if you're injured, then you're done.
Which are you?
I'm just sore.
Sore! (BOTH LAUGH)
This is what a real man does when he
loses his finger. Oh! Here we go!
Gets cut off before he even started
a season,
do the whole season, 28 days,
(BLEEP) bone sticking out,
can't even move it, my hand was
infected, man.
That's called not-being-a-quitter
there.
There you go, man. Put your sock
back on,
go grab some chow and get back out
on deck.
All right, make it happen.
At 36, Junior is already a 16-year
battle-scarred veteran
of the Bering Sea.
When I ran my very first boat, I had
a little incident
in the engine room and took off part
of my finger there.
I fell on an air compressor belt and
it caught
and it just snapped that baby off,
ran it right through the motor.
It was my first time running a boat,
there was nothing I could do.
I had an infection in my hand.
I had to sit there and tape my hand
to the throttles
cos I didn't have enough strength to
grip the throttles any more.
I don't expect my crew to go quite
that far,
but I expect them to push through
some of the pain and adversity
and just make it happen, you know?
Throughout the start of the season,
the gung-ho skipper had led the pack.
I might be able to count all these
crab on my hands and toes.
Now the bad luck plaguing the rest of
the fleet...
MAN: Oh, boy!
..has caught up with them.
(BLEEP)
Today is going to be a pretty
pathetic day, I have a feeling.
Come on, Ghetto Superstar! Get us on
some crab.
And 47-year-old Bob Perkey
has no problem letting the skipper
know this.
Bob went up and tried brown crabbing
this spring
and it was a total disaster, so...
What was it, zero?
The count on that pot, I think, was
zero.
The grizzled vet is chafing at taking
a back seat to the captain
11 years his junior.
Yeah, Bob and I met about ten years
ago.
There was a lot of animosity the
first couple of years.
You sucked yesterday, the day
before
and the day before that and the day
before that.
Micromanaging, non-crab-catching
(BLEEP).
Makes my life hell.
He's kind of upset that I'm running
the boat and he's on deck
and there's probably a little
resentment against me.
(BLEEP) lazy (BLEEP). Get out here.
Brrrp!
He's burnt-out, he's fried, he needs
to go home
and he's too (BLEEP) stubborn to
admit it.
He cannot stay. He's going bye-bye.
Bottom line.
Hey! You need to be over here! We
need bait!
But it's not just the senior Perkey
that's causing the skipper problems.
The bait boy can't do his job,
then he just stands there when he's
got time.
Bob's son, 23-year-old Kyle Babb,
has been slowing down the deck since
day 1.
(BLEEP) got time. (BLEEP) do the
(BLEEP) bait.
If I have to wait to set these pots
cos he doesn't have bait ready...
I'm not staying for much longer.
I'll probably just do this season
and go home.
I can tell he had the look.
He had the greenhorn stare, that
just...
He's gonna try and figure out some
sort of excuse
to try and get away, I know he is.
So that'll be good, get them both
off the boat,
get somebody on here that wants to
be here.
100km to the south-west...
..on the Time Bandit,
the crew is on a search-and-destroy
mission.
(LAUGHS)
The target...
..a cursed buoy
that the captain blames for the
recent spell of bad fishing.
JJ's not on the boat any more.
We're going to retire the JJ buoy,
so Andy's going to do it
in an Andy style.
This is an AK-47,
the preferred weapon of our enemies
in Vietnam.
The buoy was named in honour of
former deckhand
John JJ Jorgensen.
(LAUGHS)
And since he's not on the boat any
more, well, he's to blame.
Sometimes old guys don't die
gracefully -
you gotta put them down with a
hammer.
Now the skipper hopes to speed up
their crab catch...
JJ's a stubborn (BLEEP).
..by obliterating every last trace of
him.
We've had pretty bad luck the last
week,
so whatever it takes to break the
bad luck, I'm OK with.
ANDY: Jesus, he's unstoppable!
(LAUGHS)
What the (BLEEP)?
Get my AR-15, cos we gotta take
care of business.
(BLEEP) didn't hit it once. (LAUGHS)
It's almost like JJ's spirit's
mocking us right now.
(YELLS)
With the bad JJ buoy slowing sinking,
the boat steers towards its next
prospect string
80km to the north-west.
So this is what it means when guys
like us get off to a bad start.
(BLEEP) things is what that means.
We'll wash that other one from our
souls.
Better come up here and give her
hell.
Just before midnight...
I think this is us right here.
..the Time Bandit arrives on its
gear.
I just hope and pray there's some
crab around here.
I don't want to stack 80 pots and
run another 100 miles north.
I see crab! I see crab! Yeah!
Got a rider on the back, we got
crabs in the pot, baby!
(ALL CHEER)
That sucks.
This is not good. They're females.
See, they've got eggs, big bellies.
Bunch of (BLEEP).
In order to preserve the species,
the juveniles and females are thrown
back.
It's not looking good for us right
at the moment.
Brrp.
Come on, give us a couple of crab!
On the very next pot...
That's not a good sign right there,
bro.
Look at that.
..the culprit is revealed.
That's bad.
Starfish and crab are both bottom
feeders...
Starfish are where king crab aren't.
..and compete for the same nutrients.
It's the worst trip I've ever been
on.
For the third time in two weeks...
We're out of here.
..Johnathan is on the hunt.
I just want to go home. I want to go
home.
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690km to the north of Dutch Harbor,
the Cornelia Marie nudges up on its
second string of the day.
The crew is egging on 24-year-old
Jake Harris
to take a shot at the wheel.
Don't be afraid to use the throttle.
I'll be like Steven - (BLEEP) brrr!
Like his older brother Josh...
..Jake is looking for a greater role
in the boat.
No.
I just want to try a couple.
No, that's fine. This'd be a good
string to do it on.
It's ten pots - I'll run a couple,
you step back and watch.
So the line's leading really good.
See how the line's leading out away
from the boat?
Yeah.
That's perfect.
Right now you can put the rudder at
zero,
kick the boat out of gear and drift
with it.
That's all you gotta do.
OK, you can get the crab count.
It'll be the next one.
It's all yours.
I'm going to get a cup of coffee.
And with that... the lesson is over.
Looks like we got a new captain.
Sweet!
Straight away...
..Jake runs over the line and has to
reverse to set it free.
It's a big rig to be driving. It
takes a lot of practice.
Oh!
DERRICK RAY: Got it, huh?
I got it.
Oh, (BLEEP).
Only three pots in...
..Jake zigs when he should have
zagged.
Sorry, guys!
That's a lot of power right there
between the boat and the buoy and
Freddy.
How's the rookie captain doing?
Just use the port engine and back
down on it a bit.
You're good. There you go.
Don't turn the rudder so much.
That's why you've got the bow
swinging back and forth.
(ALL CHEER)
That's a good job.
Pulled up on it just right, slowed
down, line's leading just right.
Perfect.
The crab count remains low.
Craving a cigarette right now, Jake?
I am, actually. You read my mind,
brother.
But with each pot Jake's confidence
grows.
Keep up the good work, buddy.
That's right.
'That's my boy!'
Good work! Awesome! Nice job, man.
Thank you.
He may have his dad's touch. We'll
have to see.
JAKE: It's a good feeling.
450km north-east of Dutch Harbor...
What I need to know, from a business
point,
is what are you going to do after
reds?
..the skipper gives the Seabrooke's
struggling 23-year-old greenhorn an
ultimatum.
I think you need to think about it
while on our run down
and I need to know. I don't care
either way,
but, basically, if you leave me
hanging, I'm done with you.
OK.
So, all righty.
The kid hasn't made any money up
here
and so it's miserable conditions and
now I'm up here
and really making him even more
miserable
cos I'm grinding him harder than
he's ever worked before.
Kyle's having a rough time.
But after surviving a 15-month tour
in Iraq,
this won't be the first tough job
he's taken on.
This is the greenhorn turning point.
He makes it through this, makes it
through a season with me
and goes out for another one, he's
passed that greenhorn point.
He'll be hooked for life.
He's making sure he's ahead on the
bait.
He's driving on the gear pretty
fast.
We're not having to yell at him to
do it, which is cool.
Then again, he is a full-grown man.
He's gonna do what he's gonna do.
Kyle will have to make his decision
soon.
Kyle!
Yeah!
With the tanks near capacity...
Now!
OK.
..even a slight improvement in
numbers
will send them in for an off-load.
We're up against the gun here.
We're gonna go until we're full and
get in.
Finish what you start.
Ahh!
Big boy!
Oh, baby, baby, the soak is where
it's at! Oh, oh!
Looking really good.
Hoo hoo! 35. Roger, we're back.
Yeah!
(ALL CHEER)
Big, big, big, big, big, big, big
crab.
Yeah!
Wow! Wow!
MAN: Whoa!
This is what we needed. This is the
strong finish,
the one that I've been looking for.
(LAUGHS) Boys are happy.
770km to the north-west...
..is the Ramblin' Rose.
Captain Elliott Neese is pulling up
on a 30-pot
blue crab prospect string.
I have high hopes for it. Let's
keep our fingers crossed.
It's Elliott's third attempt to find
the crab.
If he blows it, he may not get
another.
Here it comes.
MAN: (BLEEP), yeah, baby!
MAN: (BLEEP) yeah, man! Woo! Yeah!
Woo! (BLEEP) yeah, boys! Boom!
I'm gonna go out there and take a
look at this (BLEEP).
The crab count is 18...
MAN: I've got a keeper!
(MEN CHEER)
..only fair to mediocre by blue crab
standards.
MAN: Hey, there's not even one
female!
But it's the best numbers they've had
so far.
Woo! Yeah!
MAN: Yeah!
MAN: Yeah! Woo!
Yeah!
I might just know what I'm doing
after all.
(ALL CHEER)
Ow!
Yeah, boys!
I think we're gonna make it into
town on time
with exactly what we need.
(PHONE RINGS)
Eight pots into the string...
..Elliott gets a call from the
processor.
(BLEEP)
Yeah, roger.
The news presents a dilemma for the
skipper.
It's either go to town and lose
money on fuel
and possibly losing the crab,
or having the hard work we've put
in, have it die on us.
I mean, there's a lot of money
involved.
Blue crab are more fragile than their
red crab cousins
and can't survive in the tanks for
long.
Sometimes it's a pretty tough seat
to sit in.
Elliott has to decide whether to
off-load
and abandon his new-found honey
hole...
Woo, Johnny!
..or keep fishing and risk mounting
dead loss.
He throws a lifeline.
Got you fine, Elliott. What's up?
Yeah, roger. I'm trying to make a
decision.
I can either go in Monday or go in
Friday.
Friday would put them at ten days.
I don't know. I think ten days is
pushing it, man.
I get where you're at, you know,
rock and a hard spot, but...
MEN: Yeah!
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435km north-east of Dutch Harbor is
the 47m Wizard.
I don't want our expectations to get
too high, but...
I had a good feeling when we saw the
rainbow.
I had a good feeling when I saw the
rainbow too.
If you guys have any lucky dance or
lucky hat
or lucky anything, now's the time to
pull out
every last morsel of arsenal you
have.
Keith is about to haul his gear
set 20 hours ago in the narrow
gullies of Black Canyon.
KEITH: I need this haul to pay off.
We've had enough failure. It's time
for a success.
Something's got to give out here
and it's not going to be my nerves.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
(TAPS TUNE)
(RETAPS TUNE)
MAN: All right, let's get something
going here.
Oh. Not good. Not good.
Looking a little sparse there,
Gary. Looking a little sparse.
Well...
We just have not found any crab.
I don't see how it can get any
worse.
Eight crab. Woohoo!
Man, that stunk.
Do you want to spin her?
MAN: Pull it up.
Come on, Lynn. Untangle the bag.
MAN: Not even pulling on it.
MAN: Watch out!
MAN: Out of the block! Out of the
block!
Lynn, I need a bit better action out
of you at the rail, OK?
Lynn, you are not going to be
working at that block much longer.
Desperate to begin filling his
tanks...
I could start to go beyond being
concerned
to being really worried.
The Captain lets his brother Monte in
on a secret.
What, his season?
For the season.
We're 500 pots into this thing and
we're just now finding this out?
I just don't, you know what,
I just, I don't want to stand on
somebody else's crab.
I know you've always found your own
crab,
but bottom line is this group of
guys is getting worn down, man.
Remember where he started?
It goes up against Keith's grain to
scoop up another boat's leftovers.
But when the beaten-down crew grabs a
snack between strings...
I am going down. I'm going to fish
with my partner down there at Amak.
There's good fishing there.
..Keith charts a new course.
This is what a partner's for, tough
times.
Well, looks like our old nemesis is
heading down the hill too.
John Hillstrand just came back into
that area.
And with that course he's on right
there,
I guarantee you you know where he's
going.
That's right where our partner
boat's crab is
is probably right where he's
heading.
You know that guy's territorial.
Just last year...
JOHN: Just trying to be a human
being, you know?
Why don't you just - (BLEEP) kill
your brother and (BLEEP).
Hey! Don't (BLEEP) go down on me for
that!
(BLEEP)
Don't even (BLEEP) call my boat up
unless you're (BLEEP) sinking.
He thinks any spot in the Bering Sea
is his.
(MIMICS) 'I inherited the boat, I
inherited the Bering Sea too.'
Right?
Yeah.
I've got to go.
All right.
I have no choice, you know?
I got Soper's family, I got Lenny's
family,
I got my brother, I've got my wife
and my kids.
You know, at the end of the day,
I've got a $2 million boat payment
to make.
He probably has a $50,000 Corvette
payment to make.
I think I got more on the line.
It's 8am in Dutch Harbor.
We got some big crab in this tank.
The Seabrooke is off-loading the
final delivery
of its small red crab quota.
'Morning, Bob.
(BLEEP) you, Junior.
Bob's in a great mood.
This is what I've got to deal with
every morning with him.
I think, generally, it's all bark
and no bite.
He's lost his touch.
(BLEEP) You're lucky you don't work
for me, (BLEEP).
You're so lucky. (BLEEP)
(BLEEP) I can take the heat.
You can't take it. Shut up.
Oh, I can't take it? I think it's
the other way around.
That's not true. Get that (BLEEP)
out of my face.
JUNIOR: The true Bob is coming out.
After 16 weeks at sea...
I wanted to stay for blues. I need
the money.
Families aren't cheap.
..the skipper has given Bob a
mandatory eight-week break.
Actually, I was the captain until
Captain (BLEEP) showed up
and rained on my parade.
And he swears to God he knows what
he's doing.
He don't know what he's doing.
Don't get me wrong, I like him.
We're buddies.
But when he's in the chair and I'm
on deck,
he's Captain (BLEEP). I (BLEEP) hate
that son of a (BLEEP).
Look at my hands.
They're all swelled up and (BLEEP)
just because of that jackass.
It's time for him to go home and get
a break.
I know he doesn't like it, but
that's the way it's gonna be.
My boat, my operation.
In contrast to his father's
situation...
I am looking forward to going home.
..23-year-old Kyle's decision to
leave is voluntary.
Just seeing the family and start
looking at
what I want to do with my GI bill.
Can't be a deckhand forever.
You know, most of these guys,
they've been doing it
for 20-something years and starting
to see the effects of it.
I was in Iraq for 15 months and the
things I've seen,
you know, just from war and stuff
like that,
that makes me realise that life is
kind of short.
You gotta have fun with your loved
ones and be close to them.
You know, I didn't grow up with my
dad cos he was up here
most of my life.
See ya, suckers!
Why not have a nice desk job instead
of being out
in the middle of the Bering Sea?
690km north of Dutch Harbor on the
Cornelia Marie...
Third string of the day.
We're getting through them, getting
a few crab.
Not a great average, but...
Not very good.
It sucks.
With the prospect of another slow day
of fishing...
..Jake hopes to get another shot at
the captain's chair.
Sorry, Jake. I got it this time,
buddy.
All right. I'll just check up with
you later, then.
FREDDY: Yeah, baby!
And just like that...
..the tide has turned.
Yeah, baby!
30 crab! Wow!
Right on, brother!
Yeah.
Yeah!
But up in the wheelhouse, the skipper
is not celebrating.
I could smell (BLEEP) weed on Jake
when I came up next to him.
(MEN CHEER)
I give the kid an opportunity
to come up here and learn how to
drive
and he's still smoking dope on the
boat.
Yo! Hey!
(LAUGHS) That's just unbelievable.
You don't respect yourself, you
don't respect the (BLEEP) fact
that I came out here to do this for
you.
That's the last time he's driving
the boat.
That's it.
I gave him his opportunity, he
(BLEEP) blew it.
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MAN: Keep going, keep going!
(BLEEP), I'm in the Bering Sea.
Boom!
MAN: Hold on! Hold on!
♪ THEME MUSIC
Watch out!
Unbelievable.
Best job in the (BLEEP) world.
It's 9:30am on the Cornelia Marie
and the crew is up for the first haul
of the day.
We gotta find the numbers.
Skipper Derrick Ray is fishing off St
Matthew Island
for the elusive blue crab.
They're kind of a bit tougher than
king crab to catch.
They live in the rock piles,
they'll crawl in the pot, back out
of the pot.
This is a big gamble, but it's gonna
pay off.
JAKE: Well, (BLEEP) better happen
pretty soon.
We've been doing a lot of running.
Yeah, the fuel bill is going up.
I wake up every morning, I have my
good days, my bad days,
thinking about my dad, the stuff he
taught us
and how much this boat meant to him.
As new part-owners,
Josh and Jake Harris need to turn a
profit to stay afloat.
It's our money, our livelihood. It's
scary.
And they're counting on their new
captain to make it happen.
Here we are right here, coming
across the bottom miles.
Our other 80 pots are up here, all
shallow.
We are gonna catch crab up there.
Old man's boat, old man's spirit
will come through.
There's hope in every pot.
Come on, baby.
MAN: It's coming up.
DERRICK RAY: Dammit!
(BLEEP)
(BLEEP)dammit.
Jesus criminy.
JOSH: Can't catch (BLEEP) crab to
save our lives.
God, I can't believe how bad this
string is.
With each bad haul...
..spirits sink.
PHIL: You have to have some drive.
There's more to it, if you're gonna
be a captain,
than what you're doing.
If you want it bad enough, you'll do
it,
you'll do what it takes.
I'm looking at this as a business
aspect of things, you know.
It's just come to the point where
we've got a lot on this, you know.
I'm looking at the prices we're
catching,
the amount of crab we're catching
and I'm looking at the prices that,
yeah, but, see -
Listen to me for a little bit.
Here's the numbers, OK?
Right there, that's your money,
12.5% owner share,
Josh and Jake each own 12.5% of this
boat.
That's the whole idea.
That's why we need the commitment
to catch this crab,
to make money. That's what fishing
boats do.
Once you subtract the bait and the
fuel, the groceries...
You know what boat stands for?
No.
Bring Out Another Thousand, OK?
It's a hole in the water you pour
money into.
There's costs to operate a boat.
But if you don't go fishing, you
don't make any money.
Did you ever fish with your dad and
he came out here and said,
'The average sucks, we're going
home'?
I'm asking these questions because
you've owned boats,
I have not owned boats. I didn't
have to worry about this.
I've been dreaming about the old man
lately, the past two nights,
for the hour of sleep that I get,
hoping that I don't fail,
you know, hoping that I'm making the
right decisions
on everything I've done so far.
With me, this is my own battle
coming back to this boat.
It's not easy. That was my hero, you
know. That was my best friend.
That was my skipper, the guy, my
skipper, my boss, everything.
This is my first time back to the
boat that I'm not in shock.
You and Jake have got a lot on your
plate. I understand that.
I just, Josh, I've spent my life out
here doing this.
Trust me, I'm gonna make it happen.
I am not gonna fail at this.
We are not.
Us as a crew and a team working
together are not gonna fail.
720km to the south-east...
..the crew of the Wizard wakes from
their first full night of sleep
since leaving port.
I need to get this gear on some crab
so these guys will at least regain
some faith
in the whole crab-fishing experience
and regain some faith in me.
Two weeks of bad fishing...
I'm so tired of this stack party
we're having.
Stacking every day, man.
..has worn away at crew morale.
We don't need much. We just want to
(BLEEP) go home, man! Come on!
You drop blanks all day long for a
week or two straight,
pretty soon the crew's gonna wonder
if I've lost my noggin
or maybe I've lost my edge
and even I'm starting to question
myself
as to whether or not I'm making
good decisions or not.
After losing out in the Black Hills
and even on his old stand-by
grounds...
No boats, no gear. We're the only
ones here.
..Keith pulls up on his riskiest
gamble of the season.
There's this really narrow little
canyon here we're shooting at.
Got this canyon right here, right
through here.
The new hunting grounds, Black
Canyon,
are renowned for fat pots, but
require precision fishing.
We've got to get every pot right
exactly where we're trying to put
it.
The Captain has to hit a thin sliver
of land
70m down on the canyon's floor.
If his aim is off by just a metre,
the pots will slam into the rocky
sides
and miss the crab completely.
Paul, make sure you get your (BLEEP)
together
and that that crane never waits.
I want to make sure every single one
of these pots counts.
OK, guys, let's get them off here.
MAN: Head's up! Coming over!
Two weeks out, a whopping 36,000kg
short of filling their tanks...
Come on, (BLEEP) hurry it up up
there! (BLEEP)
..the Wizard's entire red king crab
season is at stake.
Every pot's crucial.
These are the most crucial pots
we've set of the entire season.
The superstitious skipper puts out a
distress call...
..to his nine-year-old daughter Bug.
KEITH: I love you too, Bug.
(SNIFFS)
Full pots.
(CONTINUES TO SNIFF) Good crab.
Full canyon.
Save my season.
20 pots into the set,
greenhorn Paul Edgren relieves Lynn
Guitard at the rail.
Oh, (BLEEP).
MAN: Hold on! Hold on!
(MAN YELLS)
(BLEEP)
OK, is everybody OK? Everybody all
right?
That was close.
Well, we just about lost one of our
crewmen over the side.
He hopped over enough where it just
grabbed
and we got it to slide down get it
off of him,
so just got to keep his feet down.
That's why we keep an eye on each
other out here.
Right? You keep an eye on each
other, you're still with us.
With the buoy line snaked around his
leg...
MAN: Hold on!
..Paul was seconds from being yanked
over the rail
by a 360kg anchor hurtling to the
floor of the Bering Sea.
It's amazing how quick that
happened.
Once that first bag goes over and it
starts dragging,
that next bag's going whether you
want it to or not.
You get complacent one second,
the next thing you know, something
happens, so...
I don't think I'll ever do that
again.
I tell you what, I have never had a
run of bad luck like this ever.
I mean, I'm trying pretty much
everything you can try. I mean...
There's our pot of gold!
Oh, my God! That is like the
hottest sign on the planet!
MAN: Hopefully we can get it out
on...
Hey, Soper, you see what I'm seeing
off the starboard side?
If that ain't a good sign, I don't
know what is.
(ALL CHEER)
Now we're talking! (LAUGHS)
Ooh! Ooh, ooh, ooh!
♪
♪
480km to the north-east of Dutch
Harbor is the Seabrooke.
It's right in here. I tore something
right in here.
Captain Scott Campbell Jr's
brutal pace...
All right, well, let's check it out
here. What have you got going?
..has taken a toll on his little
brother,
26-year-old Chris Welch, aka Whipper.
I don't think it's tore.
Not teared, but sprained.
There's a big difference. Are you
hurt or are you injured?
Cos if you're hurt, get your ass
back out on deck,
if you're injured, then you're done.
Which are you?
I'm just sore.
Sore! (BOTH LAUGH)
This is what a real man does when he
loses his finger. Oh! Here we go!
Gets cut off before he even started
a season,
do the whole season, 28 days,
(BLEEP) bone sticking out,
can't even move it, my hand was
infected, man.
That's called not-being-a-quitter
there.
There you go, man. Put your sock
back on,
go grab some chow and get back out
on deck.
All right, make it happen.
At 36, Junior is already a 16-year
battle-scarred veteran
of the Bering Sea.
When I ran my very first boat, I had
a little incident
in the engine room and took off part
of my finger there.
I fell on an air compressor belt and
it caught
and it just snapped that baby off,
ran it right through the motor.
It was my first time running a boat,
there was nothing I could do.
I had an infection in my hand.
I had to sit there and tape my hand
to the throttles
cos I didn't have enough strength to
grip the throttles any more.
I don't expect my crew to go quite
that far,
but I expect them to push through
some of the pain and adversity
and just make it happen, you know?
Throughout the start of the season,
the gung-ho skipper had led the pack.
I might be able to count all these
crab on my hands and toes.
Now the bad luck plaguing the rest of
the fleet...
MAN: Oh, boy!
..has caught up with them.
(BLEEP)
Today is going to be a pretty
pathetic day, I have a feeling.
Come on, Ghetto Superstar! Get us on
some crab.
And 47-year-old Bob Perkey
has no problem letting the skipper
know this.
Bob went up and tried brown crabbing
this spring
and it was a total disaster, so...
What was it, zero?
The count on that pot, I think, was
zero.
The grizzled vet is chafing at taking
a back seat to the captain
11 years his junior.
Yeah, Bob and I met about ten years
ago.
There was a lot of animosity the
first couple of years.
You sucked yesterday, the day
before
and the day before that and the day
before that.
Micromanaging, non-crab-catching
(BLEEP).
Makes my life hell.
He's kind of upset that I'm running
the boat and he's on deck
and there's probably a little
resentment against me.
(BLEEP) lazy (BLEEP). Get out here.
Brrrp!
He's burnt-out, he's fried, he needs
to go home
and he's too (BLEEP) stubborn to
admit it.
He cannot stay. He's going bye-bye.
Bottom line.
Hey! You need to be over here! We
need bait!
But it's not just the senior Perkey
that's causing the skipper problems.
The bait boy can't do his job,
then he just stands there when he's
got time.
Bob's son, 23-year-old Kyle Babb,
has been slowing down the deck since
day 1.
(BLEEP) got time. (BLEEP) do the
(BLEEP) bait.
If I have to wait to set these pots
cos he doesn't have bait ready...
I'm not staying for much longer.
I'll probably just do this season
and go home.
I can tell he had the look.
He had the greenhorn stare, that
just...
He's gonna try and figure out some
sort of excuse
to try and get away, I know he is.
So that'll be good, get them both
off the boat,
get somebody on here that wants to
be here.
100km to the south-west...
..on the Time Bandit,
the crew is on a search-and-destroy
mission.
(LAUGHS)
The target...
..a cursed buoy
that the captain blames for the
recent spell of bad fishing.
JJ's not on the boat any more.
We're going to retire the JJ buoy,
so Andy's going to do it
in an Andy style.
This is an AK-47,
the preferred weapon of our enemies
in Vietnam.
The buoy was named in honour of
former deckhand
John JJ Jorgensen.
(LAUGHS)
And since he's not on the boat any
more, well, he's to blame.
Sometimes old guys don't die
gracefully -
you gotta put them down with a
hammer.
Now the skipper hopes to speed up
their crab catch...
JJ's a stubborn (BLEEP).
..by obliterating every last trace of
him.
We've had pretty bad luck the last
week,
so whatever it takes to break the
bad luck, I'm OK with.
ANDY: Jesus, he's unstoppable!
(LAUGHS)
What the (BLEEP)?
Get my AR-15, cos we gotta take
care of business.
(BLEEP) didn't hit it once. (LAUGHS)
It's almost like JJ's spirit's
mocking us right now.
(YELLS)
With the bad JJ buoy slowing sinking,
the boat steers towards its next
prospect string
80km to the north-west.
So this is what it means when guys
like us get off to a bad start.
(BLEEP) things is what that means.
We'll wash that other one from our
souls.
Better come up here and give her
hell.
Just before midnight...
I think this is us right here.
..the Time Bandit arrives on its
gear.
I just hope and pray there's some
crab around here.
I don't want to stack 80 pots and
run another 100 miles north.
I see crab! I see crab! Yeah!
Got a rider on the back, we got
crabs in the pot, baby!
(ALL CHEER)
That sucks.
This is not good. They're females.
See, they've got eggs, big bellies.
Bunch of (BLEEP).
In order to preserve the species,
the juveniles and females are thrown
back.
It's not looking good for us right
at the moment.
Brrp.
Come on, give us a couple of crab!
On the very next pot...
That's not a good sign right there,
bro.
Look at that.
..the culprit is revealed.
That's bad.
Starfish and crab are both bottom
feeders...
Starfish are where king crab aren't.
..and compete for the same nutrients.
It's the worst trip I've ever been
on.
For the third time in two weeks...
We're out of here.
..Johnathan is on the hunt.
I just want to go home. I want to go
home.
♪
♪
690km to the north of Dutch Harbor,
the Cornelia Marie nudges up on its
second string of the day.
The crew is egging on 24-year-old
Jake Harris
to take a shot at the wheel.
Don't be afraid to use the throttle.
I'll be like Steven - (BLEEP) brrr!
Like his older brother Josh...
..Jake is looking for a greater role
in the boat.
No.
I just want to try a couple.
No, that's fine. This'd be a good
string to do it on.
It's ten pots - I'll run a couple,
you step back and watch.
So the line's leading really good.
See how the line's leading out away
from the boat?
Yeah.
That's perfect.
Right now you can put the rudder at
zero,
kick the boat out of gear and drift
with it.
That's all you gotta do.
OK, you can get the crab count.
It'll be the next one.
It's all yours.
I'm going to get a cup of coffee.
And with that... the lesson is over.
Looks like we got a new captain.
Sweet!
Straight away...
..Jake runs over the line and has to
reverse to set it free.
It's a big rig to be driving. It
takes a lot of practice.
Oh!
DERRICK RAY: Got it, huh?
I got it.
Oh, (BLEEP).
Only three pots in...
..Jake zigs when he should have
zagged.
Sorry, guys!
That's a lot of power right there
between the boat and the buoy and
Freddy.
How's the rookie captain doing?
Just use the port engine and back
down on it a bit.
You're good. There you go.
Don't turn the rudder so much.
That's why you've got the bow
swinging back and forth.
(ALL CHEER)
That's a good job.
Pulled up on it just right, slowed
down, line's leading just right.
Perfect.
The crab count remains low.
Craving a cigarette right now, Jake?
I am, actually. You read my mind,
brother.
But with each pot Jake's confidence
grows.
Keep up the good work, buddy.
That's right.
'That's my boy!'
Good work! Awesome! Nice job, man.
Thank you.
He may have his dad's touch. We'll
have to see.
JAKE: It's a good feeling.
450km north-east of Dutch Harbor...
What I need to know, from a business
point,
is what are you going to do after
reds?
..the skipper gives the Seabrooke's
struggling 23-year-old greenhorn an
ultimatum.
I think you need to think about it
while on our run down
and I need to know. I don't care
either way,
but, basically, if you leave me
hanging, I'm done with you.
OK.
So, all righty.
The kid hasn't made any money up
here
and so it's miserable conditions and
now I'm up here
and really making him even more
miserable
cos I'm grinding him harder than
he's ever worked before.
Kyle's having a rough time.
But after surviving a 15-month tour
in Iraq,
this won't be the first tough job
he's taken on.
This is the greenhorn turning point.
He makes it through this, makes it
through a season with me
and goes out for another one, he's
passed that greenhorn point.
He'll be hooked for life.
He's making sure he's ahead on the
bait.
He's driving on the gear pretty
fast.
We're not having to yell at him to
do it, which is cool.
Then again, he is a full-grown man.
He's gonna do what he's gonna do.
Kyle will have to make his decision
soon.
Kyle!
Yeah!
With the tanks near capacity...
Now!
OK.
..even a slight improvement in
numbers
will send them in for an off-load.
We're up against the gun here.
We're gonna go until we're full and
get in.
Finish what you start.
Ahh!
Big boy!
Oh, baby, baby, the soak is where
it's at! Oh, oh!
Looking really good.
Hoo hoo! 35. Roger, we're back.
Yeah!
(ALL CHEER)
Big, big, big, big, big, big, big
crab.
Yeah!
Wow! Wow!
MAN: Whoa!
This is what we needed. This is the
strong finish,
the one that I've been looking for.
(LAUGHS) Boys are happy.
770km to the north-west...
..is the Ramblin' Rose.
Captain Elliott Neese is pulling up
on a 30-pot
blue crab prospect string.
I have high hopes for it. Let's
keep our fingers crossed.
It's Elliott's third attempt to find
the crab.
If he blows it, he may not get
another.
Here it comes.
MAN: (BLEEP), yeah, baby!
MAN: (BLEEP) yeah, man! Woo! Yeah!
Woo! (BLEEP) yeah, boys! Boom!
I'm gonna go out there and take a
look at this (BLEEP).
The crab count is 18...
MAN: I've got a keeper!
(MEN CHEER)
..only fair to mediocre by blue crab
standards.
MAN: Hey, there's not even one
female!
But it's the best numbers they've had
so far.
Woo! Yeah!
MAN: Yeah!
MAN: Yeah! Woo!
Yeah!
I might just know what I'm doing
after all.
(ALL CHEER)
Ow!
Yeah, boys!
I think we're gonna make it into
town on time
with exactly what we need.
(PHONE RINGS)
Eight pots into the string...
..Elliott gets a call from the
processor.
(BLEEP)
Yeah, roger.
The news presents a dilemma for the
skipper.
It's either go to town and lose
money on fuel
and possibly losing the crab,
or having the hard work we've put
in, have it die on us.
I mean, there's a lot of money
involved.
Blue crab are more fragile than their
red crab cousins
and can't survive in the tanks for
long.
Sometimes it's a pretty tough seat
to sit in.
Elliott has to decide whether to
off-load
and abandon his new-found honey
hole...
Woo, Johnny!
..or keep fishing and risk mounting
dead loss.
He throws a lifeline.
Got you fine, Elliott. What's up?
Yeah, roger. I'm trying to make a
decision.
I can either go in Monday or go in
Friday.
Friday would put them at ten days.
I don't know. I think ten days is
pushing it, man.
I get where you're at, you know,
rock and a hard spot, but...
MEN: Yeah!
♪
♪
435km north-east of Dutch Harbor is
the 47m Wizard.
I don't want our expectations to get
too high, but...
I had a good feeling when we saw the
rainbow.
I had a good feeling when I saw the
rainbow too.
If you guys have any lucky dance or
lucky hat
or lucky anything, now's the time to
pull out
every last morsel of arsenal you
have.
Keith is about to haul his gear
set 20 hours ago in the narrow
gullies of Black Canyon.
KEITH: I need this haul to pay off.
We've had enough failure. It's time
for a success.
Something's got to give out here
and it's not going to be my nerves.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
(TAPS TUNE)
(RETAPS TUNE)
MAN: All right, let's get something
going here.
Oh. Not good. Not good.
Looking a little sparse there,
Gary. Looking a little sparse.
Well...
We just have not found any crab.
I don't see how it can get any
worse.
Eight crab. Woohoo!
Man, that stunk.
Do you want to spin her?
MAN: Pull it up.
Come on, Lynn. Untangle the bag.
MAN: Not even pulling on it.
MAN: Watch out!
MAN: Out of the block! Out of the
block!
Lynn, I need a bit better action out
of you at the rail, OK?
Lynn, you are not going to be
working at that block much longer.
Desperate to begin filling his
tanks...
I could start to go beyond being
concerned
to being really worried.
The Captain lets his brother Monte in
on a secret.
What, his season?
For the season.
We're 500 pots into this thing and
we're just now finding this out?
I just don't, you know what,
I just, I don't want to stand on
somebody else's crab.
I know you've always found your own
crab,
but bottom line is this group of
guys is getting worn down, man.
Remember where he started?
It goes up against Keith's grain to
scoop up another boat's leftovers.
But when the beaten-down crew grabs a
snack between strings...
I am going down. I'm going to fish
with my partner down there at Amak.
There's good fishing there.
..Keith charts a new course.
This is what a partner's for, tough
times.
Well, looks like our old nemesis is
heading down the hill too.
John Hillstrand just came back into
that area.
And with that course he's on right
there,
I guarantee you you know where he's
going.
That's right where our partner
boat's crab is
is probably right where he's
heading.
You know that guy's territorial.
Just last year...
JOHN: Just trying to be a human
being, you know?
Why don't you just - (BLEEP) kill
your brother and (BLEEP).
Hey! Don't (BLEEP) go down on me for
that!
(BLEEP)
Don't even (BLEEP) call my boat up
unless you're (BLEEP) sinking.
He thinks any spot in the Bering Sea
is his.
(MIMICS) 'I inherited the boat, I
inherited the Bering Sea too.'
Right?
Yeah.
I've got to go.
All right.
I have no choice, you know?
I got Soper's family, I got Lenny's
family,
I got my brother, I've got my wife
and my kids.
You know, at the end of the day,
I've got a $2 million boat payment
to make.
He probably has a $50,000 Corvette
payment to make.
I think I got more on the line.
It's 8am in Dutch Harbor.
We got some big crab in this tank.
The Seabrooke is off-loading the
final delivery
of its small red crab quota.
'Morning, Bob.
(BLEEP) you, Junior.
Bob's in a great mood.
This is what I've got to deal with
every morning with him.
I think, generally, it's all bark
and no bite.
He's lost his touch.
(BLEEP) You're lucky you don't work
for me, (BLEEP).
You're so lucky. (BLEEP)
(BLEEP) I can take the heat.
You can't take it. Shut up.
Oh, I can't take it? I think it's
the other way around.
That's not true. Get that (BLEEP)
out of my face.
JUNIOR: The true Bob is coming out.
After 16 weeks at sea...
I wanted to stay for blues. I need
the money.
Families aren't cheap.
..the skipper has given Bob a
mandatory eight-week break.
Actually, I was the captain until
Captain (BLEEP) showed up
and rained on my parade.
And he swears to God he knows what
he's doing.
He don't know what he's doing.
Don't get me wrong, I like him.
We're buddies.
But when he's in the chair and I'm
on deck,
he's Captain (BLEEP). I (BLEEP) hate
that son of a (BLEEP).
Look at my hands.
They're all swelled up and (BLEEP)
just because of that jackass.
It's time for him to go home and get
a break.
I know he doesn't like it, but
that's the way it's gonna be.
My boat, my operation.
In contrast to his father's
situation...
I am looking forward to going home.
..23-year-old Kyle's decision to
leave is voluntary.
Just seeing the family and start
looking at
what I want to do with my GI bill.
Can't be a deckhand forever.
You know, most of these guys,
they've been doing it
for 20-something years and starting
to see the effects of it.
I was in Iraq for 15 months and the
things I've seen,
you know, just from war and stuff
like that,
that makes me realise that life is
kind of short.
You gotta have fun with your loved
ones and be close to them.
You know, I didn't grow up with my
dad cos he was up here
most of my life.
See ya, suckers!
Why not have a nice desk job instead
of being out
in the middle of the Bering Sea?
690km north of Dutch Harbor on the
Cornelia Marie...
Third string of the day.
We're getting through them, getting
a few crab.
Not a great average, but...
Not very good.
It sucks.
With the prospect of another slow day
of fishing...
..Jake hopes to get another shot at
the captain's chair.
Sorry, Jake. I got it this time,
buddy.
All right. I'll just check up with
you later, then.
FREDDY: Yeah, baby!
And just like that...
..the tide has turned.
Yeah, baby!
30 crab! Wow!
Right on, brother!
Yeah.
Yeah!
But up in the wheelhouse, the skipper
is not celebrating.
I could smell (BLEEP) weed on Jake
when I came up next to him.
(MEN CHEER)
I give the kid an opportunity
to come up here and learn how to
drive
and he's still smoking dope on the
boat.
Yo! Hey!
(LAUGHS) That's just unbelievable.
You don't respect yourself, you
don't respect the (BLEEP) fact
that I came out here to do this for
you.
That's the last time he's driving
the boat.
That's it.
I gave him his opportunity, he
(BLEEP) blew it.
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