02x04 - Gold Gettin' Hound Dog

[bunniefuu]

Steve p.: Gold never comes easy.

Meisterheim: can't see [bleep]
the current's too rough.

The bering sea
is gonna fight you...

I need
some cooperation here!

Galipeau:
let's [bleep] move!

...but you got to fight back.

That's right, steve.
Look over here.

[ Horn honks ]

You're a [bleep]
dumb [bleep]

I can't do [bleep] everything
by myself.

You [bleep] up
the whole program here!

Answer the phone!

Steve p.: You're gonna
get knocked down.

"I ain't got this,
I ain't got that."

I know
what you don't got.

What are you doing?!

Shawn: get out there
and find some damn gold.

Steve p.:
What you got to do is...

Get back up.

[ "Gold in these hills" plays ]

♪ Listen up close, now ♪

♪ What I say ♪

♪ I'm a-gonna head out west
one day ♪

♪ I heard about a fortune
to be made ♪

♪ And I'm a-gonna get it,
now, just you wait ♪

♪ 'Cause I heard
that there's gold ♪

♪ In these hills ♪

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♪ Gold ♪

Narrator: three weeks into

The summer
gold-dredging season...

The weather has been
not conducive

To being out there every day,
like we want to be.

Narrator: the tail end
of a brutal storm

Whips through nome.

It did die down,

And it actually
might be dredgable.

Right now, I'm just standing by.

We'll see what happens.

It's a change --

Change of plans every hour
around here.

Narrator:
the last hours of the squall

Give the miners time
to take stock.





$30,000 For the lumberyard.

Narrator: on the christine rose,
dredging's stopped,

But the bills haven't.

Need to get out there
and find some gold.

Yeah,
we need to do anything

Just to put a dent

In this stack of bills
that we got here.

Get out there
and find some damn gold.

Tenhoff: this year, they're just
throwing the book at me.

It's like
there's a neon sign on my dredge

That says to the agencies,
"come [bleep] with me."

Narrator: permit issues have
grounded the edge indefinitely.

Tenhoff:
those agency guys,

I think that they get paid
to [bleep] with people.

The more they [bleep] with
people, the more they get paid,

And they don't have anything
better to do than just...

[Bleep] cops.

[Bleep] gold cops.

So far, it's pretty much
been a bust.

Narrator:
vernon adkison sunk everything
into a dredging fleet,

And so far, his six rigs are
burning a hole in his pocket.

Down here is the phoenix --
about $75,000 in this one.

the wild ranger --
an easy 100 grand.

I got the diamond z --
probably $125,000.

$500,000 Is what I've
got invested in equipment.

Meisterheim:
I hope the [bleep] wind

Blows that stupid [bleep]
in the water.

Narrator:
and on the anchor management,
five days ago,

Scott meisterheim was served
with a restraining order

From steve riedel.

Dopey [bleep] trying
to carry plywood down here.

So far, nome just isn't
big enough for the two men.

Meisterheim:
the funny thing about it is
we're currently working

About 202 feet
away from each other, you know?

Restraining order says 200 feet?

Well, okay. So, I made it 202.

In a confrontational situation
between two men,

You just punch each other.

You get it over with.
You get it done.

You don't
serve them with papers,

"Please stay away from me,
I'm scared of you"

Type of [bleep]
you just [bleep] fight.

I'm gonna beep my horn. Make him
jump like a little girl.

[ Horn honks ]

Steve riedel jumped
like a little [bleep]

[ Laughs ]

[ Sighs ]

Now.
[ Horn honks ]

He doesn't flinch.

I think
the reason he can't flinch

Is just
he's just too big and fat.

If he were to flinch,

He might just, like, shake
his whole body into convulsions

And fall into the river
or something.

He's just too fat.

Narrator:
finally, the skies clear
and the waves settle.

Weather right now is good.
We need to get on out there.

Steve p.: Sit back and wait
for calm weather is what you do,

And when it comes,

You dig and you dig
until you can't dig anymore.

Let's go.
Let's get to digging.

Narrator:
on the anchor management...

We're leaving.

Come on!

[ Horn honking ]

Honk that [bleep] horn.

Narrator:
with a week of engine repairs
finally behind him,

Captain scott meisterheim
heads out

For his first dredge
of the season.

Meisterheim:
the urgency this year is
it's even higher than last year

Because I called people,
called in favors,

Borrowed money,
made some deals, bartered,

Put my a*s on the line.

So the faster
I can start making some money,

The better off I'll be.

The better off
everybody will be.

Allen: right now, I'm just going
down to get my bearings about me

And get a feel for it,
right?

You're just
going down there to learn.

You're just
going down there

To yourself acclimated
to the water

And to what it feels like

To stand
on the bottom of the ocean.

Narrator: on board,
two rookies --

Diver-in-training todd allen

And tender dan fogel.

Well, it'll alleviate
a lot of my stress

If I can
get my hands on some gold.

Meisterheim:
I've known todd my whole life.

He's always been there for me

Through everything
I've ever been through,

And the same with me --
he needed something,
I was there for him.

When we do a cleanout,
you can finally make some money

And quit [bleep] begging me
for it all the time.

You're [bleep] --
an a*s, dude.

How we've remained friends,

Being that we're such
different people, I don't know.

I'll never know.
But we are.

Buy your own
damn cigarettes.

I don't beg you
for [bleep] money,

And you don't
buy my cigarettes.

Yeah, I do.
No, you don't.

Did you not come out and say,
"scott, do you have cigarettes,
'cause I only got a few left?"

Because you wouldn't let me
go to the [bleep] store

This morning.

Not my [bleep] problem.

You got [bleep] feet --
walk it.

Let me have one of them reds.
[Bleep] off.

You got cigarettes
in your pocket.

I'll trade you a light.
I want a red.

You're gonna get
a red face.

[Bleep]

If the [bleep]
wild ranger's out here,

I got to be out here,
too.

I wonder what vern thinks

Every time this big [bleep]
goes by his wild ranger.

[ Horn honks ]

That's right, steve,
look over here and admire

The anchor management --
I know you love it.

[ Horn honks ]

[Bleep] dumb [bleep]

You gonna drop
the back anchor first?

Say when, scott.

I'll let you know.

It's just a 50-pound anchor.

I'll sit here and hold it
all day.

Go ahead, todd.

Okay, hold on.
Get down on yours.

Tie yours off
and let it tighten up.

Tie it off right now
and let it tighten up.

Todd, now, listen to me.

What? What?

It keeps pulling out,
dude.

Tie something off.

[Bleep] this, man.

You're about
the biggest whiny [bleep]

There. It's tight.

There.
Now reel it in.

You need to stop
[bleep] whining

About "I ain't got this,
I ain't got that."

I know
what you don't got.

Pull it until it's tight

And tie it off
to that [bleep] upright.

Todd, right there. Wrap it
around the [bleep] upright!

Wrap it around
a few times!

Damn whiny [bleep]

Now wrap it around
if you got enough slack!

Now tie a knot in it.

It's tied off.

About [bleep] time.
It looks pretty.

Narrator:
a mile back down the shore,

On the wild ranger...

That's it.

Yeah, that's it.
Look at where it is.

Now, how do you know
that's it?

Steve r.: Huh?

How do you know
that's the right one?

Well, it's in the right place,
and it's not...

See where we were
in relation from the shore?

We were straight out
from the shore,

Right over there.

Narrator:
on their last trip out...

Vernon: actually, steve,
you got into some fine gold.

Narrator: ...diver steve riedel
found gold,

But he didn't know it.

Vernon: it's like finding
a winning lottery ticket

After it's already expired.

Narrator: now he has no idea
where the honey hole is.

Vernon:
it's extremely frustrating.

You know, it's like money
falling out of your pocket.

It hurts.

I think
I see our pile.

Uh-huh, I think I do.

Okay.
Deploy the anchor.

Stand by.
Let it all out.

Take a cold splash.

Narrator:
weeks of work have yielded
less than an ounce of gold.

Now the captain is giving
daryl galipeau a shot

At turning it around.

My divers are crucial
to my success.

And, you know,
steve has let me down,

And so we're going to see
how daryl does it.

Galipeau: i just...

Vernon:
okay. All right. Good.

whoo-hoo!

You don't normally hear daryl
get that excited about things.

Does that little nugget
have any brothers and sisters?

All right.

Daryl can see the gold
under the water.

He sees the gold.

A lot of people dredge
and they can't see it.

That's what separates
the gold-getting hound dogs

From everybody else.

The hound dog's on the trail.

okay. We've got
some problems here.

i've lost suction.

Let me know
what you want to do now, daryl.

Okay. Ramming it.
We will ram it.

Steve,
prepare to ram.

Do what?

Prepare to ram.

Prepare to ram.

Narrator:
to dislodge the rock jam,

Vernon and steve will have to
clear the junction

Between the dredge's
flexible suction hose

And metal flare pipe.

When a rock clogs the flare,
it chokes off suction.

It must be freed
by the topside crew.

Steve r.:
Go all the way in.

Narrator: on the wild ranger...

...captain vernon adkison is
on his best gold of the season,

But a rock jam has
brought dredging to a halt.

Vernon: hey, steve,
there's another rod

That we can screw
into that one.

Let's screw
the other rod to it,

And then maybe
we can get it from up here

And try to pull it out.

Okay, let me just work it
for a minute.

[ Glass shatters ]

What'd he say?

He thinks
we might have it.

Okay.

Narrator:
in the center of nome...

Yeah, that's, like,
the 15th time I've moved

In the last couple years.

So, all my worldly possessions

Are in the front seat
of my truck. [ Laughs ]

Me and emily are
kind of just splitting

This 2-bedroom apartment
just to save money.

I mean,
I know it's kind of sucked,

Living with emily before.

Narrator:
strapped for cash while
their operation is shutdown,

Deckhand emily riedel is
moving in

To captain zeke tenhoff's
apartment.

Emily:
we'll manage to make it work.
Who knows though?

Tenhoff: there might be trouble
down the road. I don't know.

It makes
for a hazardous situation

When we're living together,

And romantic feelings
could get involved.

It's been a problem in the past,

And I don't want it
to be a problem anymore.

But for now,
it's a financial decision.

We got shut down,
so me and emily decided

That the best way
we can save money

Is to share an apartment
together.

All right, so, I know

We've lived together in the past
and it hasn't worked out.

But I think
this will be all right,

Because this is, like,
two separate apartments.

If we're having arguments,
what's the kitchen?

Is that common ground
or is that like...

I'll go in the kitchen
when I want to make food,

And then I'll
go back into my room.

And then,
if you hear me in there,

Then you can wait
until I'm done,

And then you can go
into the kitchen and make food.

Emily: last year,
we lived together,

And our entire
dredging operation fell apart.

It seriously
strained our friendship

To the point where I thought
it would never recover.

And now
we're living together again.

You know, sometimes you just
got to do what you got to do.

Like, I'll use my entrance
and you use your entrance.

I won't ever
go in your area.

Don't ever
go in my room.

Okay.

This should work out.
I don't know. I don't know.

But if we try to respect
each other's boundaries

And keep out of each other's
space, it should work.

Yeah.
All right.

All right.
Let's go.

Narrator:
on the anchor management...

All right.
Let you get dressed.

And I don't care if you want
to watch me get naked.

[Bleep] that.

Narrator:
...captain scott meisterheim

And deckhand todd allen prepare

For their first dredge
of the season.

All righty, now we're cooking
with flames, baby.

Soon as you're down,

I'm gonna start changing
into my wet suit.

I need a bath.

[ Chuckles ]

Meisterheim:
what I want to happen

Is get my crew members
on the bottom.

In order to be successful,
you have to be on the bottom.

Each time out, you got to make
at least 3 ounces.

That covers your expenses,
your food, everything,

And that doesn't even
count profits.

Just follow me
and we'll be successful.

Well, if I can't do it,
I can't do it.

It is what it is, but there's
no doubts in my mind.

I've been working
all my life,

And this is just
a different kind of work.

I ain't scared.

Todd actually
kind of scares me a little bit.

I don't know
if he's gonna be able to handle

The physical part of the diving
and the working underwater.

You're gonna be
a [bleep] slim [bleep]

By the time
the season's over.

You're gonna be
skinny and buff.

I'm the kind of guy that
if you can't do what I can do

Or do it better than me,
then I don't need you around.

So, we'll see.

Allen: [ laughs ]

holy [bleep]

[ Grinding, squealing ]

Hey, scott?

The engine's sounding funny.

[ Engine shuts off ]

[ Engine sputtering ]

[ Sputtering continues ]

[bleep]

[ Engine sputtering ]

Narrator: less than an hour in,

A stalled pump engine
has derailed

The anchor management's
first dredge of the season.

[bleep]

Go ahead, scott.

Roger that.

Meisterheim:
it's [bleep] gonna break.

[Bleep] will always break.

Last year taught me that
if something can go wrong,

It will, and it did.

Every [bleep] day,
something broke.

I'm gonna try to handle it,
you know, nicely,

But I doubt that
that's gonna happen.

I don't handle [bleep] nicely.

Fogel: it's got a connection
and it's not working.

That means
the battery's probably --

All it's got to do is touch
and it has a connection.

Meisterheim: oh, so when
your battery cable's loose --

All it has to do is
[bleep] touch it!

Just shut the [bleep] up

And [bleep] damn
screw the [bleep] things down!

Don't argue with me!
Just tighten them [bleep]

What do you
think it is?

Allen: I'll bet you
that fuel filter's plugged.

I'll bet you
that thing

Sucked some of that sediment
off the bottom of here

And plugged
that fuel filter.

Pretty sure this...

Little piece-of-junk fuel pump
is fried.

So you're telling me
that it could be

A 25-cent piece of [bleep]
that can stop my operation?

$5 Fuel filter can stop

A thousand-dollar-an-hour
project.

Meisterheim: equipment-wise,
we can't catch a break.

Meisterheim: it sucks.
Fogel: this one blows.

Allen: it really does blow.
Look at it.

I just sucked this up.
I saw it come up.

And there's
bunches down there.

I want to dredge, man.

I know you do.

Narrator:
with just 1/4 ounce in the box,

The anchor management will
have to head to the dock

To replace their fuel filter.

Meisterheim:
one damn thing after another.

Narrator: 5 miles up the coast,
on the christine rose...

Steve p.:
We got oodles of damn bills

That we're still
having trouble paying here

And stressing the living hell
out of me and my boy.

Narrator: two weeks ago,

The department
of natural resources

Ordered the pomrenkes
off their claim.

Steve p.:
Dnr kicked us off our ground.

And our government
is dogging us,

Trying to shut us down.

We got days and days of digging
that we need to do.

Narrator: now they're behind
on their bills

And hunting for gold
on unfamiliar ground.

I've never not paid a bill
in my whole life,

And I don't plan
on starting now.

Big rocks, big gold.

Now we're getting
into the good stuff.

You just got to keep digging.

Man, this is
getting rough out here.

Wow, they're starting
to pick up, pa.

we're supposed to
go into, like, 5-footers.

The wind's picking up.

The wind's
starting to whip.

You can take a little chop

When they're
nice and tight together,

But when the swells
start spreading out

And they start getting
more than 80 feet apart,

That's when it starts
bringing the front end way up,

And then the a*s end
starts rocking it.

Getting worse
by the minute here.

I'm gonna quit.
I got a [bleep] stomachache.

i feel like
i want to barf.

Are you having troubles
up there or what?

He gets --
dad gets a little seasick.

I feel like I need to puke.

[ Coughs ]

[ Vomits ]

Hey, are you okay
back there?

Steve p.: [ Coughs ]

[ Burps ]

Shawn: I can see
why he's seasick.

We're getting tossed around here
pretty damn good.

I hate to leave
the good pay dirt, though.

It was just
getting too rough.

hey, it's not supposed to
get any better.

it's just supposed to get worse
from here on out.

i don't want to quit.

if we leave,
we're not making gold.

My gut's telling me,

"hey,
finish off this hole

"And get this cut
all cleaned out,

and then boogie,"
is what my gut's telling me.

yeah, but the checkbook says,
"stay."

yeah, but if
we sink this [bleep] thing,

We ain't gonna be able
to pay any bills.

ain't gonna make no gold
if you turn into a wimp.

Narrator:
back on the wild ranger...

the wind is picking up.

it is still building.

our time is limited.

Narrator: ...after sucking up


Daryl galipeau gives in
to the rising swells

And cuts his dive short.

Now the crew needs
to mark their hole

Before the current
pulls them off it.

Okay, we're ready
with the buoy.

I'll drop it over right now,
if you want.

okay.
drop it to me.

give me the buoy.

come on.
don't freeze up now.

Steve r.:
What are we doing now?

give me the buoy.

a buoy?
the buoy's in the water.

The buoy is --

well,
i'm up here on the hose.

come on.

don't lock up, guys.

We threw the buoy
in the water. It is --

the buoy doesn't
do us any good there.

let's get the [bleep]
going here.

Yeah, well,
sorry for the mistake here.

all right,
[bleep] move!

[bleep] damn it!

Vernon: what'd he say?

Daryl's quite upset.
Why?

Well, because you threw the buoy
in the wrong place.

He wanted you
to hand it to him.

Well, I don't know
what else to do.

Guys, you have to put the buoy
in the hole.

I got to be able
to find that hole.

I got zero visibility.

I didn't know
you were gonna come here

And take it
back over there.

I threw it over
to where your bubbles were.

Well, I guess
we'll hope we can find it.

The diver puts it
in the hole, is what...

All right.

You know, I'd be fine
if we had 10 foot of visibility.

All right.

But in zero visibility,

You got to put it
right in the hole.

Daryl,
I apologize for that.

I'll understand next time.
We'll do it right.

What happened
to the window?

Oh, we needed
a little ventilation.

It was getting stuffy.

Narrator:
on the anchor management...

We had a good day

Other than the [bleep]
mechanical bull [bleep]

...with a small first taste
of gold, the crew heads in

To swap out the broken filter
on their dredge engine.

Meisterheim:
it's just been one thing
after another this season.

I'm surprised I haven't cracked,
you know?

Don't know if I can handle

Another moment
of something breaking.

Narrator: scott meisterheim
returns to the dock defeated.

Just off the east beach...

Gonna do
just a quick upper-box cleanout,

Just for the first
couple of feet of the box.

Narrator:
...his rival vernon smells gold

In the wild ranger's sluice box.

Oh, yeah.

There's a little nugget.

There's bigger ones
in here, though.

I saw.

I got a good feeling
about this one.

Galipeau: there's at least a
couple ounces just in this pan.

Probably, maybe, even as much
as three or four.

This pan is heavy.

Narrator:
in his second season --

And half a million dollars
in the red --

Captain vernon adkison
is finally seeing

His first signs of hope.

And I can see the light
at the end of the tunnel

Or the gold
at the end of the rainbow

Or the gold on the --

That was on the bottom
of the sea is now in my bucket.

Nobody comes up here

And figures this out
instantaneously.

It's like sitting down
to play poker.

You're gonna lose a few hands
before you start winning.

I'll guarantee there's more
in that pan right there

Than I got off the ranger
for the entire season last year.

No doubt about it.

That's what happens
when you deal with the pros...

Versus dealing with the [bleep]

Narrator:
on the christine rose...

Should I stay? Should I go?
Should I stay? Should I go?

Checkbook says, "stay."

My nerves tell me, "go."

Narrator:
a steady 24-knot wind

Is pounding waves
into the barge.

It's when we turn
and get hit by a 6-, 7-footer.

We're only 20 feet wide,

So you're picking up the boat


No.

it ain't that bad.

i don't want to quit.

we just got
to keep digging, man.

I like pushing it,

But I want to live
to push it another day, too.

Shawn: now the big ones
are starting to roll in,

And we got an hour
to get home, so...

Is there water
over the deck again?

We're bouncing 5, 6 feet
at a time, up and down.

Spuds are
getting knocked around.

Time to...pull the damn pin.

Steve p.: Yeah, I'm gonna
start the outdrives.

Let's get
the hell out of here, shawn.

Shawn: that's
what I was thinking.

Steve p.: I just got
this bad feeling that,

This year, the weather's
not gonna straighten out.

Lord almighty,
if it does not straighten out,

I don't know
what the hell we're gonna do.

Narrator: as the christine rose
heads in to dock...

In the harbor,
on the anchor management...

Yeah, [bleep] [bleep]

They're mad.

Narrator:
scott's creditors have arrived

To check up on their investment.

Is this your boat
or their boat?

No, this is mine.
Title's in your name?

It's all mine, registered
and everything -- my name.

Well,
they can cry all they want

As long as you make your payment
then, right?

Oh [bleep]

So, I borrowed some money
from some people,

And it's just --
I haven't made any this year.

So I got them
breathing down my neck.

It's kind of urgent
that I get out there.

I got a lot riding on this.

I could lose the dredge.
They could take it away.

So if I gots to get out there
and hit it, I'll hit it.

And I'll hit it,
and I'll do good.

I know where it's at.

I just got to get out there
and get it.

Narrator: with the new
fuel filter installed...

[ Engine sputters ]

[ Engine turns over ]

Untie that [bleep]
and let's go.

...the captain decides
to ignore the 3-foot waves.

Meisterheim: whoa! We're going
out to sea, boys.

[ Horn honks ]

Narrator: with his investors
watching every move,

Scott arrives at his honey hole.

Whoa!

But conditions have
taken a turn for the worse.

Drop it.

[ Laughs ]

That's what all the other
dredges I've worked on do.

[ Groans ]

Ride 'em, cowboy!

[ Vomiting ]

Meisterheim:
there she blows.

[ Laughs ]

[ Retches ]

Sorry, buddy.
I'll shut up.

[ Engine turns over ]

Meisterheim:
staring at us.

Yeah, I know.

Meisterheim: if I get
as much gold as I think I can,

Then I can
pay these [bleep] off.

And if it don't happen,
it don't happen.

The consequences could be severe
if I don't pay it.

Bad things will happen.

Narrator:
off the coast of nome...

Fogel: are you on sand
or are you on cobble

Or what's it look like
down there?

Narrator: under pressure
from investors,

Captain scott meisterheim tries
to re-locate his honey hole

In 3-foot seas.

Larsen: what's
your visibility there?

Meisterheim:
about 6 inches.

Larsen:
we're such a narrow boat.

We're just constantly rocking
with every roller that comes by.

And we're sideways
to the rollers.

That right there is
a perfect demonstration

Of improper anchor management.

Fogel: come and get
the [bleep] ladder.

Can't see nothing?

This season's been...
Really crappy.

I don't know what it is.

I don't know
what the [bleep] problem is.

I mean, I can hold it,
but it goes with me.

It's just been one thing
after another this season,

And it's just been
a [bleep] show.

Larsen: what do you
want to do?

We're leaving.

Maybe this year will be
my breaking point. I don't know.

Allen:
we're not rich yet, guys.

Narrator:
a new day dawns in nome.

[ Dog barks ]

But rough seas
keep the fleet landlocked.

On the wild ranger...

Yeah.

We got some
pretty good material there.

That's gold, my friend.

That's what it's all about
right here.

Narrator: ...captain
vernon adkison collects

The biggest gold haul
of his dredging career.

Vernon: we're getting gold.

There are
a lot of people out here

That haven't gotten
even a smidgen yet,

Like meisterheim.

I don't think
meisterheim could find gold

If his nose
was buried in it.

You're
not gonna do it.

What's it gonna take

To feel like I've achieved
what I set out to achieve?

How about
my body weight in gold?

[ Laughs ]

Holy [bleep]

Look at this.

You see that?

All right, there could be


Oh!

Narrator:
in the middle of nome,

At zeke and emily's apartment...

Tenhoff:
I racked up a pretty nice bill

At the hardware store,
at builders.

I've probably spent
damn near $10,000 at builders

So far this season.

Narrator: with his dredging
operation shut down,

Zeke's bills
continue to pile up.

Tenhoff: sawzall blades,
flat washers, hose clamps.

God, we buy so many hose clamps.

All these little things add up.

Zeke, have you gotten a bill
for this previously?

What? Oh [bleep]

Electricity.

I need cash --
I need to pay off the boat,

And I need to fix my truck
and pay rent for this place.

[ Groans ]

Narrator: in town...

[ Laughter ]

Scott meisterheim waits out
the bad weather

With christine rose crewman
doug graham.

What's up?

Not much, man.
What do you know?

[ Sighs ]

Another miserable day
out there?

Another miserable day.

Nome's just been
really rough this year.

Not just on me, but everybody.

When it's raining or it's windy
and you're not dredging,

Go to the bar.

This place will
drive you to drink.

How's it going?

Faulty equipment,
faulty crew,

Me maybe being an a*s.

I'll admit when I'm --
I don't want to say "wrong,"

Because I'm never wrong,
you know, but...

You're never wrong?

You haven't even had
one drink yet,

And you're
full of [bleep]

All right, well, hey.

Hook me up.

I'm not gonna slam
no [bleep] thing.

I'm a sipper
on whiskey.

I got investors breathing
down my neck for their money,

And I don't know
what else to do.

It just seems nice
to just go drink it away.

I'm just trying
to get a [bleep] face.

Well, you know what?
[Bleep] it. Let's do this.

To be honest with you,
I don't care.

They'll get their money
one way or another.

It's just not gonna be
right now.

Oh, yeah.

I don't give a [bleep]

Narrator: just outside
the city of nome...

Here we go.

Deep in the country,

At the pomrenkes'
secret cleanup shack.

Narrator:
...gold refiner kenny hughes

Makes a house call
to the pomrenkes.

I hope they got more this time
than they did last time.

Holy cow.

Barely worth getting out of bed
for it at 7:00.

Shawn: kenny's here?
Steve p.: Kenny's here.

You got the money,
we got the stuff.

Kenny: hey.
[ Chuckles ]

So, you guys got more gold
than the last time or what?

We got a little bit more.
Still pretty dang scroungy.

Narrator: it's time to see

If the christine rose's risky
day of dredging paid off.

Ah, well, 23.11.

Well, that's
better than seven.

Maybe a check for $30,000 here
will help sweeten the pot.

You guys
are heading out?

Thanks for your sell
out there again, kenny.

You bet you.

Narrator: $30,000 won't cut it

For the biggest dredge
in the fleet.

We got...

Bills, bills.


Stacked on the desk right now.

We need to get someplace digging
where there's plenty of gold.

Narrator: scott meisterheim
finally put gold in the box,

But his rival vernon adkison
blew him out of the water.

If I don't get my [bleep]
out there and find some gold,

I could lose it all.

Meisterheim: holy [bleep]
there's a bunch of gold.

i'm looking at tons of gold.

It could get really bad
in a real hurry.

If you had listened to me
the first time

Instead of running
your [bleep] mouth!

Stop it!
That freaks me the [bleep] out.

Allen: find somebody else
to push around.

I ain't dealing
with this [bleep] no more.