04x05 - Double or Nothing

[bunniefuu]

♪ ♪

- Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Holy [bleep], he's here.
I'm so happy to see you.

- Dad!
- Son!

- Holy cow.
- Oh, my God.

Nine days--
just can't believe you did it.

- My cove here
has absolutely no fish,

so I'm starting
to make a boat.

- Something's out there looking
at me crouched down.

Probably beat the [bleep] out of
it if it is a [bleep] cougar!

Let's go, baby!
Come on!

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- This is gonna be
an incredible challenge.

- We're gonna be dropped off
in separate locations,

and one of us
has to find the other.

- There they go!

- I got to wait on my brother.

Hopefully he'll be here soon.

- Please come tomorrow.

- I don't know
where I'm going,

how long I'm gonna be out here.

All I have
is a compass bearing.

- It's a needle in a haystack.

Can I even make it to base camp?

- Dad! No way.
- Son!

- Everything around you

is telling you
you need to go home.

[air horn blasts]
- Please leave me alone!

- If you don't work as a team,
it's game over.

- I can't hold
this whole thing up.

- Just hold it still.

- $500,000
would be life-changing.

- I know.
[exclaims]

- I feel like the life
is sucked out of me.

- [whispers]
He's coming.

He sees me.

♪ ♪

- Oh, my gosh.

Holy crap.

Out here on the beach...

there's a duck...

having a problem.

Gonna go get this thing.

♪ ♪

[bird squawks]

I don't know what's wrong with
it or what was wrong with it.

It was acting like
something was wrong

with its wing or its leg, so...

I dispatched it,
and we'll probably eat it.

♪ ♪

We're gonna be able
to have duck for dinner.

It's pretty amazing.

Back home I raise
and butcher my own chickens.

The anatomy here
isn't that far off.

♪ ♪

Duck a la beach,

that's how we do it
in the bush,

spit-roasted duck.

♪ ♪

[both laugh]

- It's kind of--kind of
well done,

but I'd rather have it well done
than, like, weirdly raw.

- It's chewy.

♪ ♪

- It ain't bad.
- No. It's really good.

♪ ♪

- So now that Dave is here,
it means everything.

It means we can get on
with the plans

that we have had and wanted
to execute based on our location

since the very beginning.

And now that he is here,

we can move it
and shake it, you know?

It's like, game on now.

We feel complete.

That's a protein-packed lunch.
- No kidding.

- And it doesn't have
to suffer.

- No. It wasn't gonna make it
through the rest of the day.

- Not if the wolf
found it first.

- Something here
was gonna eat it.

Very thankful.

- Now we have duck fuel.
[chuckles]

♪ ♪

- Well, I found my first slug
in a long time.

Yeah, baby...

slugessy sluggity slug.

They look dumb,
but they're freaking Houdinis.

They're escape artists.

I wonder how much protein
that is right there.

Probably a good amount.

That is the kind of situation
I'm in right now,

is that I'm excited
to eat one of these.

♪ ♪

Just kidding.
[chuckles]

I'm gonna cook this guy up.

That's some much-needed protein.

♪ ♪

Foraging as I go isn't quite
giving me the calories I need.

♪ ♪

I really want to meet up
with Ted today

'cause my food supply
is running very low,

and I'm really concerned I'm
just not gonna make it there,

and I'm gonna have to camp out
in the bush again tonight,

which would suck.

You know,
I kind of have a feeling

that Ted's just absolutely
crushing it out there,

like, he's just hauling
in tons of fish.

He's got a smoker going.

God, I hope I get there soon.

I don't know how much
more of this I can take.

[grunting]

♪ ♪

[water babbling]

- [spits]

- My water tastes
like fish--wonderful.

Brushing my teeth
with fish water this morning.

[wolf howls in the distance]

Hear the wolf?

Pretty cool, eh?

[wolf howls in the distance]

I've decided that I have
to change my shelter.

I want to make it a little
bigger for when Jim gets here.

Still no Jim yet today.

I hope he's doing all right

and that he can find me
when he gets here

and he doesn't go the wrong way
and all that kind of stuff.

Ideally, I'd like to have
something more

than this puny wire up here.

When Jim gets here, it's gonna
be a huge benefit for me--

just a new sense of hope.

♪ ♪

Jim is a larger-than-life
kind of guy.

♪ ♪

He's not afraid
to get his hands dirty.

You know, it's inspirational.

♪ ♪

Jim is a lot of the reason
why we're on this adventure.

Just really been
a driving force

getting me into some
of the outdoor activities

that fueled my confidence
in so many ways.

♪ ♪

All right, well, it's gonna have
to do for the time being.

It's a work in progress.

[branches crackling]

Jim?

Jim?

Jim?

Thought I heard a crash.

Guess it wasn't Jim.

Unbelievable.

It's starting to look like
Jim isn't gonna make it again.

He better get here soon

because I'm starting
to lose my mind.

♪ ♪

- Just when I thought things...

[sighs]
Were really, really bad,

they all of a sudden
got way worse.

My bearing hit these cliffs
over here.

You can't see them,
but they're sheer cliffs.

So, to get around the cliffs,

I have to walk up
what's behind me here.

Look at this.

♪ ♪

It's basically
a freakin' mountain climb.

♪ ♪

And it's borderline
too dangerous to even try.

[sighs]

But I mean, I got to do it.

What the hell else
am I supposed to do here?

So...

Oh, [bleep], this is gonna use
a lot of my energy.

♪ ♪

At least there's
a lot of things to...

[grunts] Grab hold of
along the way.

♪ ♪

The 50-pound pack on makes it
all the more fun.

[grunts]

♪ ♪

At this point, if I fall,
it wouldn't be good.

Probably wouldn't die,
but I could get real hurt,

I'll tell you that right now.

You got this, Jim.

You got this.

♪ ♪

[grunting]

♪ ♪

[bleep], I'm stuck...

[breathing heavily]

Okay, Jim, come on, buddy.

[grunts loudly]

There we go.
Here we go, baby.

One, two...
[grunts] Three.

Aah!

[groans, breathing heavily]

[grunts, breathing heavily]

[grunting]

Okay.
[exhales deeply]

Hopefully that was
the hardest part.

Oh, [bleep],
doesn't look like it.

♪ ♪

[sighs] Right now I'm feeling
like this is taking way too long

and way too much energy,

and because of this,
there's no way

I'm gonna be able to get to Ted,

which is freakin' upsetting.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- There it is.
Ow, hot, hot, hot.

Hot, hot, hot.

[Pete chuckles]

Once it goes, it goes, right?
- There it is.

- Look at that.

- So, getting into camp,

I realized my dad actually
found a great spot,

and he's got a great shelter.

So we're kind of covered
in that regard.

We just got to start
getting some food.

We are going to put
some set lines down,

you know,
just some passive fishing.

Having two people,
you can split the workload.

That'll be incredibly beneficial
as far as energy conservation,

and just in a mental aspect,
you'll have somebody else there.

The negatives of it, however,
is that all those resources

are now split
between two people,

and as time progresses,
those resources--

I mean, they're literally
dwindling twice as fast.

I'm gonna be using
something about this size.

♪ ♪

I got my degree
in fisheries management.

I love fish. I like thinking
the way fish think.

I like catching fish.

I just like
everything about fish.

When I get to a water body,

I'm able to make
an educated guess

what kind of fish live there,

as well as how to
appropriately catch them.

Fishing line and hooks, I think,
will be our best resource.

So here we go.

This is my actual
little fishing rig here.

The rest, I'm gonna have
a sinker tied off

on this end down here

and some wire tied off
on this end.

♪ ♪

There she is. That's the sinker.

♪ ♪

And there you have it.

That is how you go fishing with
as little effort as possible.

All right,
time to get baited up.

I got to find some limpets.

I haven't really seen myself

in clear weather
in a couple of days.

I'm looking pretty darn greasy.

Oh, my hair's
all over the place.

Boy, oh, boy, I kind of look
like an octopus head.

But, yeah.

One fish--at the end of the day,
it'll fill our bellies up.

It'll make us feel good,
but half a fish a person a day

is not a sustainable amount
of fish, by any means.

We need to figure out
a way to really tap

into it a little bit better,

and I think the key
may be these set lines.

I think they're gonna really,

really benefit us
in the long term.

All right, let's get some fish.

♪ ♪

- It's a good shot of us
sitting having deep thoughts.

"Deep Thoughts"
by Chris Wilkes,

with my brother
on Vancouver Island.

♪ ♪

Are you getting gray hair?

I haven't noticed that.

You know, I've never
noticed that.

You got it
in your beard, too?

It happens to you.

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- Me and my brother--

we could easily go a year
without seeing each other.

I am extremely excited

to getting to spend
some time together,

but also get
to test our skills.

Today we plan on trying to do
some fishing

and start enjoying ourselves.

The water's so rough.

I mean, the waves are just
pounding that point.

The only thing I think
you can really do over there

is fish with a pole.

♪ ♪

You have to have
a consistent food source,

and so far, all we
really have is, like,

seaweed to graze on out here.

♪ ♪

Whoa, that's a pretty
heavy-action rod.

[imitates fishing line whirring]

[sniffs] Let's see what we can
get with that.

♪ ♪

- I try to practice
a self-reliant lifestyle.

♪ ♪

That means, you know,
doing renovations to our house.

I try to do them myself.

And that means growing gardens.

And I hunt
during the wintertime,

and that's the meat
that we consume all year long.

♪ ♪

We're such a consumable economy
in the United States,

and we just buy, buy, buy.

♪ ♪

People in the U.S.
just have so much stuff,

and at the end of the day,

that stuff
doesn't mean anything.

That's like the old saying,

"The most important thing
on a tombstone

is the dash," you know?

Say I was born on this date,
dash, and I died on this date.

What did you do in your life?

And that's kind of what this
experience is about, you know?

It's part of that dash.

♪ ♪

- This place just isn't
as inviting as it looks.

You can count on that.

♪ ♪

- I want to work on my boat.

♪ ♪

The boat
is a work in progress.

My main concern
at the moment is,

is that I've made it too high,

so it could be a little tippy,

but more so that my tarp,
a 12x12 tarp,

won't wrap around the front.

I mean, it's pretty close.

[tarp crinkling]

- Ted!
- Yeah!

- What's up?

- Yeah!

Jim's here!

Un-[bleep]-believable.

♪ ♪

- I just called out to Ted,
and he answered back.

Oh, my God. Ted!

- Yeah?

- Whoa! Hold on, dude.

I'm coming.

Oh, my God.

I've actually
finally completed this.

- If anybody could do it, it's
him, though, I'll tell you that.

One thing I'm very glad about is
that I didn't have to do it.

[chuckles]

I hope he has
something for me to eat...

[chuckles]

'cause I don't have [bleep]
for him to eat.

- [grunting]

♪ ♪

- Yeah!

- I can't believe this.

Dude, I was beginning to think
that the show was just gonna be,

like, whoever doesn't die
on the hike,

and then that's it.

- Unbelievable.

Yeah!
You [bleep] did it!

[both grunting]

- Dude, it was...
- You did it.

- So hard.
- Wow.

- I climbed
a [bleep] mountain today.

Like, I'm talking about,
like, this, dude,

like--like, looking down,
I'm like, "Oh, [bleep]."

Like, like, more than you
could ever imagine.

- It is a new era
because Jim made it to camp.

The Baird brothers
are together.

We can split up
some of these tasks

and start just
getting out there

and figuring this place out,

'cause if we can figure it out
and get food on our plates,

we're gonna start having
a lot of fun.

♪ ♪

- Holy cow.

I can't believe
how weak I am from that hike.

- Are you dehydrated,
do you think?

- I'm horribly thirsty, yeah.

- I'm pretty exhausted, too.

- We need to get a fish.

- Yeah.
We both need some decent food.

♪ ♪

- All right,
I'll do the set lines.

You go ahead
and get fishing.

♪ ♪

Nope.

- Damn.
- All the bait's gone.

- Well, that stinks.

Well, we're just gonna have
to catch them, right?

- Yeah.

All right, I'm gonna
rig up my rod just like yours.

Being successful
fishing out here

is going to be the difference
between staying and going home.

We have some huckleberry bushes.
We have some fungus.

There are things
that you can eat,

but they don't provide
the energy like a fish does.

♪ ♪

- Oh, man, I thought
that was a bite.

Damn if he didn't get my bait.

- Really?
- b*stard.

- Hey, look at this.
There's a sea lion.

- Oh, yeah.

Come here, buddy.

[both imitate sea lion barking]

♪ ♪

- Look at him.
He's showing off.

- [continues barking]

Wondering where the hell
that's coming from.

He's a sneaky one.
- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- Whoa. Sam?

- No way. Yes!

♪ ♪

- Oh, my gosh.
- You got the touch.

- This is just--
[grunts]

That is just amazing.

- Wow, Dad.
- Holy crap.

- That's awesome.

♪ ♪

- Isn't that beautiful?

I don't know if you can see
the colors on this fish,

but it's just--

Oh, the colors
are vibrant.

♪ ♪

- Hey.
- Little fella.

- Nice little rockfish.

♪ ♪

- Oh, baby!

- Oh, yeah.
- Whoa!

Yes.

- Holy cow, you almost got me
with that one.

[both laughing]

- Oh, man, how about that?

- Holy cow, Dad.

- That's a cool-looking fish.

- Tearing it up.
- Fishing machine, eh?

- Wow.

Good stuff.
- All right.

- There's a lot of meat
on that fish.

- That's actually a nice,
meaty fish.

- Yeah. Wow, look at that--

Holy cow.
Behemoth.

Good stuff.
- All right.

This is how we're gonna win,
what we're doing right here.

This is how we're gonna win.

This is gonna carry us
right through to the end.

♪ ♪

- I'm just absolutely
freaking wiped,

exhausted after that hike.

I think a death march would have
been a better name for it.

Anyways, here we go.

Beautiful site we have here,
and I'm excited to start working

on all these
cool-a*s bushcraft-y things

we got on the go,

and I'm just hoping we have
the calories to make it happen.

Food is our priority here.

Ted tells me he's caught
five fish in one day,

and then that's it.

- For whatever reason, there
just really doesn't seem to be

any fish off the points here

to get the calories we need to
continue on like this long term.

We think maybe no fish?

Well, let's try crabs next.

- So, while Ted works
on the boat,

I'm starting to build
a crab trap.

And basically, I'm just making
a square...

out of sticks like that.

Then I'm wiring them
together in the corners.

So I'm gonna basically
make a cube like this,

is my first step.

- I think in some ways
being alone in comparison

with being two people is better

because there's only one mouth
to feed instead of two,

but you don't have anyone
to enjoy it with.

It's not human nature
to be alone.

♪ ♪

- I have the entrance,

a good chunk of it done,

and pretty much the whole frame
done of the crab trap.

♪ ♪

But this is where...

The crabs
will crawl in this way,

and they'll walk along
this little ramp

after the bait we put in.

Then they'll fall into the trap,
and they'll be [bleep]

'cause they won't be able
to get out.

I need to make two
more of those Xs,

and then I can get on
with covering this thing.

♪ ♪

So hopefully between this
and the boat,

more fishing,

we'll be able to put
some food on the table.

♪ ♪

This multi-tool sure
makes life a lot easier.

♪ ♪

Wow, dude.

This is starting
to look good.

- This too, man.

Ouch! [bleep]!

♪ ♪

- Ouch! [bleep]!

Oh, I cut my hand pretty bad.

That's why you don't carve
towards yourself, kiddies.

♪ ♪

Ooh, there's a lot of blood
coming out of that.

That's pretty bad.

[groans]
It's pretty deep, dude.

- Unfortunately, Jim has cut
himself while carving something.

It needs tending to.

These things,

especially something
on your index finger like that,

is just magnified so much
while you're out here.

- Yeah.

You know, it's gonna be sore
and has a potential to open up,

and, you know, even any cut
can become infected,

so, you know, not ideal,
to say the least.

[bleep].

♪ ♪

[rain falling]

- Here comes the rain again.

- Yep.

- Things are starting
to look up,

even though the weather
is miserable.

That's just one
of those challenges

that we have to put up with.

This fish
just helps immensely.

- Really looking forward to it.

Again, this is, like,
the first big meal,

the first actual meal
that I've had

since I've been out here.

- So, wow.

We both actually are feeling
so much better right now.

We got some food in our bellies.
- Yeah, I know it.

- That'll give us
a little bit of energy back.

I do want to build a solid wall
on the back end of the shelter.

I've noticed that...

it's very windy out here,

and the end that will be exposed
to the wind,

I want to be very strong.

And by building
a stockade-style wall,

it'll add strength
to the entire structure.

♪ ♪

Okay.
- Nice.

- There we go.

- There it is.
- Number one.

- Holy cow.
- Number one.

- There it is.

♪ ♪

Nice.

♪ ♪

All right.

- [sighs]

Hang on.
I'm a little dizzy.

♪ ♪

- Don't be
overexerting yourself, Dad.

I'm perfectly capable
of sawing, too.

You got to remember that.
- Yep.

- You know?
- Yep.

- If you k*ll yourself
and we have to go home

because of that,
where if I had--

Seriously,
this is a team thing.

- I know.
I will not k*ll myself.

You said you're gonna
get the next one, right?

- All right. All right.

♪ ♪

- In a survival situation,

you want to be able
to build something

that is substantial yet simple,

especially for the long term.

You don't want to spend
a whole lot of energy

building something fancy.

♪ ♪

- I am so glad
this is happening.

One of the things
that you really gain

from an outdoor experience

is an appreciation
for how easy our lives are

just because spending time
in the wilderness

makes you realize how difficult
things could be every day.

♪ ♪

Yeah, that works for me.

♪ ♪

- We still want to plug up
all the little holes,

and then we're gonna insulate it
with some hemlock boughs

and get ready
for the cold weather.

And there it is.

Not too bad, huh?

♪ ♪

- I'm wearing this one glove
because I cut my hand.

Maybe I should take this off.
I look like a weirdo.

So, anyways,
I think I did a good job

at taking care of it
as quickly as possible

and getting back on the horse.

Okay, there we go.

Let's take a look at this
crab trap that I finished off.

So there's the front of it,

and this here is the entrance
where the crabs

will walk in and get trapped.

I covered it with mesh
from a fishing net Ted found.

And on that net,
there was also some rope,

and so...

tied some rope off
at each corner...

so it can hang like this.

♪ ♪

There's a bait bag right there,

and that's where I can put bait.

Maybe we can use a smashed-up
bivalve for crab bait.

The crabs can smell it
and kind of see it,

but they won't be able
to eat all of it, so...

If you make it harder
for them to get at,

well, then more crabs
will come in

and try to get at the bait, too,
and you'll catch more.

So you don't want them
to eat all your bait.

♪ ♪

Nice.

This should be
excellent crab bait.

♪ ♪

[breathing heavily]

I just put a few rocks
under it to support it.

Once the tide comes in,
it'll be completely underwater,

and then once we get
the boat done,

we'll be able to go and set
it further out from shore.

♪ ♪

Imagine getting a bunch of big,
juicy crabs in that trap, Ted.

- I think we'll have
something in it.

- Yeah?

It's exciting.

Some stuff's coming through,

and we're hoping
that we break into a new mode

that includes getting food.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[birds chirping]

- Ted and I--we fought like cats
and dogs when we were kids.

Usually I was the dog,
and he was the cat.

♪ ♪

He's really made an art form of
annoying the [bleep] out of me.

It's funny for a bit,

and then you want to,
you know, punch him in the face.

♪ ♪

But, you know,
at the same time,

we definitely are
really good friends.

♪ ♪

It's a big moment.

It's time to go down
and check the crab trap.

I'm starving.
I used all my energy again.

Let's hope for good news there.

♪ ♪

- Jim's crab trap
is revealing its head.

- No!

♪ ♪

- Nothing.

That's devastating, Jim.

[both groan]

I say just leave it there.

- Yeah, but crabs eat--like,
their mouths are under.

They don't eat upside down.

- Yeah, but they pull
[bleep] down to their mouths.

- Yeah,
it's not happening, dude.

They want to come and see it.
They feed off the ground.

They just go over top of it
and go...

[trilling lips]
- If they can.

If not, they grab it
and pull it to themselves.

- Dude, I'm not
[bleep] hanging it.

For the last [bleep] time,
all right?

- That's just how they all are,
you know?

- No, none of them are
like that, dude.

- That's exactly what crabs do.

They reach, pick,
and put into their mouths.

- No, they don't.
- Yes, they do.

- No, they don't.
- Yeah, they do.

- You're an idiot.

- That's exactly
what they do.

♪ ♪

- Got recharged a little
from that duck,

but we see the ocean

as the primary source
of our food gathering,

and we see fishing
as the number-one resource,

and fishing will keep us here.

- I think this might work.

Fishing is first
on the agenda today.

I'm gonna make Brooke
something to use

for a handline
to fish with out here.

Our strategy on fishing
is pretty simple.

We're just gonna fish off the
bottom for whatever's out there.

It's rockfish in this area.

As long as the rock-fishing
is good fishing,

there is really no need
to look anywhere else.

Looks like a handline to me.

The other thing I want to do...

I want to make
a batch of weights.

The whole idea
is to keep our hooks.

Went with a 50-pound-test line,
the hook above the weight,

and then we tie up
a rock on 20-pound-test,

and we loop the weight
on the very bottom.

So the 50-pound

is strong enough
to straighten the hook,

and the 20-pound-test
breaks away

if the rock gets snagged,

so we got our line
with our single hook,

and that's it.

- I love my new fishing pole.
Thank you.

- You're welcome.

[water splashes]

♪ ♪

[saw grinding]

I'm gonna cut some firewood.

Brooke's gonna go fishing--
division of labor.

She's been waiting for help,
and I've been waiting for help,

and it's nice to have
two people being able

to kind of break off
and do two different things.

I think everybody gets the idea

that Brooke is--she's
one special person,

and I missed her so, so much,
but I tried so hard

not to go there...

'cause it didn't help hiking.

[sighs]

I worried so much about her.

♪ ♪

I love her completely.

♪ ♪

[exhales sharply]

♪ ♪

- Whoo!
[shouts]

- Honey!

- [exhales sharply]

- Whoo!
[shouts]

- Honey!

Brooke's yelling.

[breathing heavily]

♪ ♪

Oh.

Oh.

You all right, honey?

All I heard was screaming.

- I caught a fish.
- Oh.

- You ran, didn't you?
- I did.

- All right, babe.
- Make the asthmatic guy run.

- I'm sorry.
- That's all right.

- Look at this fatty.

- Oh, beauty.

- [laughs] Dinner, honey.
We got dinner.

- That is nice.

- We got food.

- All right, new plan.

- You're fishing, aren't you?
- I'm gonna fish.

♪ ♪

Fish on?
- Yeah.

- Good one?
- Yeah.

- Feels like a good one.

♪ ♪

Come to mama.

Oh, yeah. Got one.

Oh, my gosh, I wish
every day was like this.

- If every day was like this,
no one would ever quit.

We'd be here forever.

- Whoo-hoo!
- [laughs]

So far, this breakaway
rock system is kicking butt,

and I'm loving it.

Wow, hit the jackpot.

- Blow me away.

♪ ♪

- We had fantastic
success fishing.

I'm so thankful for that.

♪ ♪

Isn't that a sight?
Fantastic.

We got two beautiful fish

on the cooker right now,
cooking.

How's it going?

- I am Dr. Fishlove,

here to check your fish.

How is it?

- [chuckles] It's salty.
- Yay.

[laughs]
- Whoo.

♪ ♪

Oh, look at that.
- Yeah.

Okay, let's do
this together.

- Okay, you ready?

Cheers, baby.

♪ ♪

Oh, man, that's good.

- Mmm.

I know all of you people
out there are like,

"You just cooked a smoked fish
in your shelter?"

Yeah, we did.

There's really
no way around it.

- Yep.

♪ ♪

- And when you're hungry...

maybe you take
a little more risk.

♪ ♪

And we really need to eat.

- I feel so strong
about where we're at.

- We have what it takes
to win this.

[rain pattering]

- Holy cow!

There's a huge storm rolling in.
The wind's whipping.

- It really only has to rise
a few more inches

before it gets
into our shelter.

- I've got a fish, baby.

Oh, a little herring
or something.

Oh, no! [bleep]!

- Just puking my guts out here.

I don't know how long my body
can keep doing this.

- And I got up, and I look,

and there's
a damn river of water.

- Wow.

- We are officially
on the verge of being flooded.

♪ ♪