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07x07 - Hello Heartache, Goodbye Nome

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Bering Sea Gold". Aired: January 27, 2012 – present.*
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The show follows boats equipped with various setups to achieve gold mining in a summertime, cold northern latitude, shallow water, ocean environment.

07x07 - Hello Heartache, Goodbye Nome

Post by bunniefuu »

the future's always scary
As a gold miner.

You just try to eliminate
All the risks that you can,

But gold-mining
Is all about taking risks.

I've been getting after
Gold dredging

For almost 10 years now.

Everything I've learned

And everything
That I've been through

Has all been leading
Up to this.

Doing everything I possibly can
To make the season a success,

But if things
Don't start turning around,

It's looking pretty grim.

Got to be gold here.

What the

What happened?!

I try to be a leader
In my family,

But I don't think
They respect me enough

To want to do
What I tell them to do.

I know the winter season's
Really tough.

I know
That it's a lot more work.

We need to get on
That win mentality

Where we should all be trying
To win together,

And we need to make some money.

That was for the dog!
That wasn't for you!

I was throwing it out
To the dog,

And you just so happened
To be there!

I got a problem! Help!
help me!

What I love about gold-mining
Is the challenge.

It's a tough game.

You got to be smarter than the
Gold, but it doesn't come easy.

It'll chew you up
And spit you out.

Feeling really bad now.

Vernon's having a heart attack.

All the ice is thawing out.

Then everyone's done
For the season.

I need these miners
To produce for me on 38,

Now more than ever.

spring has come
To nome, alaska.

Only three days remain

Until the government-mandated
Shutdown of winter mining.

But soaring temperatures
Are rapidly melting the ice,

Threatening the safety
Of the operations.

And the miners must face
The decision to stay or flee.

And on claim 38...

looks like the potholes
Are getting bigger.

...Shawn pomrenke is getting
A look at how the warm weather

Is impacting
One of his prize investments.

The cracks are getting bigger.

Building a legacy
For the pomrenkes

Is what it's all about.

I want to expand the empire
As far as I can.

I want my kids to benefit,

And I want their kids to benefit
From all this.

Looks like it's time
To get off the ice.

To start the season,

Shawn opened up his virgin claim
To the fleet...

Whoever gets out there first
Can pick out the best spot.

...In exchange for 20%
Of the gold the miners find.

Feels like a good heavy pan.

but last week,

Mr. Gold sought to turn
His empire into a dynasty...

Gold! Yeah!

...By putting in a bid
To buy nome gold,

A $25 million mining ground

That could keep the gold coming
For generations.

If we can make it happen,
We need to make it happen.

Let's make it happen!
-let's do it.

Let's do it.
-yeah!

now...

I don't know if these guys
Are gonna make it

These next couple days,
It being this warm out.

...To help pay
The giant price tag...

I still got a lot
Of royalties to collect.

...He needs the fleet to make
The most of the remaining time.

the goals I have for
The pomrenke operation are big.

These miners delivering
On claim 38

Could be the difference between
Us building a legacy or not.

Every ounce counts.

Been in the 50s
The last few days.

It's melting fast.

Vern's got a heavy dredge.

I don't know
What he's still doing out here.

Beautiful day, sunshine...

This is the kind of day
We don't like.

With his every last penny
Sunk into the operation,

Vernon adkison is prepping

For the last hole
Of his make-or-break season.

You know, with this ice getting
Thinner by the minute,

It's gonna be a push.

It's a hard way to go.

This has been
A really tough season.

Right now, I'm in dire straits,
Financially.

I've got damn irs issues

And too much behind
On my rent here in nome,

My mortgage is behind.

Nobody cuts you a break
Up here at all.

Despite the rising temperatures
And disappearing ice...

Right now, it's a toss-up

As to whether the ice
Will drive us off

Or the regulations
Will drive us off first.

...The veteran captain
Is determined

To keep his operations going
Until the very last minute.

Probably gonna be --
We were the first ones here,

Probably gonna be
The last ones to leave.

But that's okay. That's okay.
That's more gold for us.

despite being first
Out of the gate...



Hey!
This is not gonna happen!

...Vernon spent the season
Battling over his claim...

Get this piece of
Out of here!

...Seeing his crew
Battle each other...

Don't you ever talk to me
Like that again

While I'm down
In the water!

...And it's led
To a disappointing gold tally.

Whoa! Whoa, whoa!

Gold-mining is what
I think about all the time,

And this is where
My passions lie,

And I think
That's a worthy challenge,

But it's a tough game.

Still needing 35 ounces

To keep his flickering
Gold-mining dream alive,

It all comes down
To one last hail-mary hole.

get bobby in the water
And carry on with the show.

We're calling this
The last-chance hole.

It's your last chance
To get it.

And if he doesn't reach
His mark,

His prospecting career
Will be over.

my wife, arlene, I mean,
She worries about the bills.

You know, bills, bills, bills.

Her main thing is, she doesn't
Want to lose our house.

I got a lot of people
That are depending on me,

And I got a lot
Riding on this one.

All right, here we go.

Definitely the roll of the dice
On this hole.

No guarantees. You never know.

So, bobby,
What do you think?

Well, haven't gotten
To the bottom yet,

But we'll see
When I get to the bottom.

I got about a foot,
Foot and a half before we're in.

Yeah, okay. So, what --
You have about a foot of sed,

And now you're working
Through the cobble?

yeah.

Yeah, okay.

It's all right here.
It's "Make it or break it" time.

all right, buddy.
that's what we want to hear.

It's just everywhere.

Yeah, you got to
Suck it hard, dude.

This is the last go-down.

I'm glad
It's the last one.

You got -- you drop --

Hey, we got a crack in the ice
Out here.

Man.

That is not looking good.

You look at it.

It runs all the way over there
To that pressure ridge.

When this starts opening up,
It opens up quickly.

And we're on the wrong side.

There's no getting
To the other side.

Not with all the dredges
And all the equipment

And all the vehicles.

It just won't happen.

it's floating ice.
It's constantly moving.

It's always dangerous.

You never know
When the piece of ice

That you're on is gonna break
Loose and get blown out to sea.

And if you're on the piece of
Ice that's broken loose...

You know,
Things get dicey in a hurry.

with the ice breaking
Around the wild ranger,

Vernon's last chance
To stay in the game

May have just floated away.

Being on this side,
Everything we've got is at risk.

This is -- this is bad news.

We're on the wrong side
Of that crack.

one mile east...

At the clark...

getting basically flooded,
Turned into a lake,

Flooding the whole area.

And that's just rotting the ice.

Not a good situation.

...Zeke tenhoff and emily riedel
Are also on thin ice.

I'm just praying to god

That the gold is finally
On one of these holes.

Seriously.
I'm gonna be a broken man

If we don't go down there
And find money.

Yeah, dude,
I'm at the end of my tether.

As the fleets
Hit a cold streak

Right as spring is knocking
On the dredge door...

I'm not even getting
My hopes up yet.

I'll see
When zeke gets down there.

everyone's getting
Really frustrated.

I mean, it's hard enough
Living out on the ice

When you're on gold,

But when you're not on gold
And you're living out here

And the end of the season
Is days away

And you just keep on striking
Out every single hole,

I mean, we're all about
To lose our minds.

I guarantee you will get
This thing started.

Hey, don't start the morning off
By being a okay?

At the start of the season,

Zeke and emily formed
An uneasy partnership.

I'm willing to offer you up
Some gold for it.

I'll let you have it
For 2 ounces.

All right, appreciate it,
Vernon.

And with emily's financial
Savvy...

First time running two sluices
At the same time.

We're gonna have double gold
Today.

...Coupled with zeke's
Mad-scientist skills...

how much gold did we get
In five hours?

-7.2.
-7.2?

...At times, the boxes sparkled.

-so maybe you're onto something.
-I like humble emily.

But just three days shy
Of the mining shutdown,

They're still well short
Of their goal.

This season, we need to have
At least 30 ounces.

If we get 30 ounces,
It'll pay for everything,

And that way, the partnership
Will have worked,

And zeke and I
Will have proven

That we can have
A profitable season.

We have like three days left.

So important that there's gold
In this hole.

With the deadline looming,
The team can't afford to move.

So they'll keep mining right
Where they've been based --

Beside the pressure ridge,

An area that could be
A game changer.

The pressure ridge is when ice
Is just forming and it's thin.

Sometimes it breaks off,
And when it comes back in,

All of the pressure
Of the ice

Getting pushed in
By the ocean currents

Causes the ice
To buckle into pieces.

A large part of how the gold
Is organized on the bottom

Is caused by sea ice -- sea ice
Piling up, minerals and rocks,

Into piles by kind of bulldozing
The ocean bottom.

So I think if there's gonna be
A good indicator

That there's gonna be gold
In an area,

I think it's the best clue
That you're gonna get.

but so far,
After multiple dives...

I'm getting, like,
Increasingly worn out

And just discouragement,

This friggin' treasure hunt
We've been doing around here.

...The pressure ridge
Has yet to yield results.

We've had days and days
Of dead holes out on the ice,

And everyone's about to lose it.

Zeke has a lot of things
Going for him,

But I don't know if I trust

That we will be able
To make money together.

determined to keep
The partnership's hopes alive,

Zeke will give the ridge
One more try.

With the dangers at hand, it's
No place for the double sluice.

So the co-partner
Will go it alone.

Right now,
I'm not on the gold.

But we're gonna keep
Pounding out these holes.

With less than three days
Remaining, the pressure's on.

Hope there's some good gold
Down there.

How you feeling?

Me too.

You seeing anything?

I want to go a little further
into the cobble, though.

To follow the trail,

Zeke will no longer mine
Around the pressure ridge.

He'll actually go beneath it,

Pushing his luck right under
A massive 15-foot ice shelf.

I feel very protective
Of the tenhoff boys.

They are like my brothers.
I mean, we grew up together.

And I know the tenhoffs' mom.

If something went wrong and one
Of the boys is hurt or worse,

I mean, that would be --

That's, like, my deepest fear is
Having to make that phone call.

I'm gonna need that other piece
[I] of blue hose.

to get even deeper
Under the giant ridge...

All right, roger that.
We'll pass her down to you.

...Zeke is extending his hose

To travel an extra 50 feet
Further from the dive hole.

I don't like it.
The visibility's really bad.

It's really murky down there,
It's really dark,

And 100 feet away
From the dive hole.

I don't like it one bit.

I'm going in.

on the thin ice
Blanketing claim 38...

[I] I want to go a little further
[I] into the cobble now.

...Zeke tenhoff
Is feeling the pressure.

I'm going in.

It's really dark,
And he keeps getting further

And further away
From this dive hole.

I don't like it one bit.

underneath
The 15-foot pressure ridge,

A shift in the tide could send
The 400-ton ice shelf

Crashing down at any moment.

But desperate to get
His partnership into the black,

Zeke will gamble with his life
To find the gold.

It's pretty horrifying
Down there?

Basically,

I'm not really seeing much
For gold right around here

'cause it's just, like,
Rocks on top of rocks

On top of rocks
On top of rocks, dude.

There's no hard pan.

I wouldn't even
Call it overburdened.

I'd just call it rocks
And a lot of rocks.

[I] that's about all
[I] I have to say about that.

I think we just need
To regroup and...

See if we can make a new plan
For the remaining days

And looking for some gold
Somewhere else.

All right, man. Come up.
We'll figure it out.

Despite taking the risk, there
Is no reward under the ridge.

Boy, that's an exercise
In pointlessness.

It's just depressing, dude.

And[I] the clark is still stuck
At 15 1/2 ounces

With just over 2 1/2 days left.

it sucks, man.
I don't know what's going on.

I mean, I don't know
If anyone else has any ideas.

I'd be more than happy
To hear them.

What the
Are we gonna do?

I mean, yeah,
It'd be lame to just quit.

My responsibility
In this ice-mining operation

Is not just kind of keeping
The whole operation functional,

But I'm also the only person

That really knows how to find
And follow the gold.

So it's incredibly stressful
And concerning

When I can't find the gold.

it's a pretty hard-core
Way to prospect, zeke.

If[I] the clark doesn't get
More skin in the game,

Zeke and emily's partnership
Could close up shop for good.

Hey, gabe.

Gabe, you got to save zeke
From himself.

We've spent days and hours
That we do not have

Constantly looking for gold,
And right now, the next hole,

It's going to be the difference
Between success and failure.

one mile west...

...On[I] the reaper...

So this is it --
The big dive of the season,

One of the last
To make that money.

With the ice melting all around
And only 5 ounces in the bank...

We're already on gold,

So basically all I got to do

Is move around
The nozzle today.

...Kris kelly is ready
To make one last run at it.

Why am I still gold-mining?

I think one day
I'm gonna hit it big.

I sit and I ask myself
A lot of days

Why I haven't done it already,

And I should've been there
By now.

I don't know why I'm not.

I need to see this was all
Worth it in the end.

I need to be a success or...

Four years of this crap
Is not worth failing,

And I'm not gonna fail.

hey!

Hey, that's your problem.

This is my claim, brad!

the kelly season
Has been a series of battles...

My leg just got cold
All of a sudden.

...And misfires.

In an effort
To right the ship...

-welcome to gold town, mom.
-thank you, honey.

...Kris brought in his mom.

Bring me my nugget, baby.

And though she delivered
Some much needed good luck...

I think we're on the gold!

[I] that's awesome!

...The kellys prospects for
Making a fortune this winter...

I think my flashlight
Is not working.

...Still remain dim.

Now...

Come on, baby.
Bring me up my nugget.

You still owe me my nugget
For my birthday.

I'm trying, mom.
It's a lot of fine gold here.

...It's kris' last chance to
Make kelly greatness a reality.

What keeps me going is I know
I'm going to be rich here.

I know this is the best chance
That I have

Anywhere else in america
To get rich.

I know that.

I know that sooner or later,
If I keep doing what I'm doing,

I'm bound to hit the spot where
There's gonna be $50,000

In one little area
Underneath my boat.

Love you, baby.

weird, dude.

Wendy's here to put poison
Into the kid's mind.

You know, wendy's here
To turn them against me.

That's her only objective here.

You know, it's gonna turn into
A family fight in the end.

It really is.

Ground floor.

Everything okay, babe?

[I] everything's great.

Hot water came out.

I can feel it already.

[I] okay, let me walk around
[I] for a second.

Man rocks.
Lots of clay.

Looks like it's never been
Touched before.

Everything okay?

[I] yeah, everything is good.
[I] I'm gonna go grab the hose.

I'm on the nozzle.

I'll be happy
With a grass hut, babe.

Looks like I found
A clay layer.

[I] okay, mom.
[I] I'm on the gold.

That means I'm gonna make
Some money down here.

[I] good boy, baby.

[I] your dad's up here
[I] doing nothing, as usual.

You know, staying out of the way
So nothing breaks.

What is[I] she doing?

Getting in the way?

Really,
What is this

Can you just leave me alone?

No. You know what?
You don't want to be nice to me,

I'm gonna treat you
Like you treat me.

I threw your breakfast
On the ground.

That -- that bun
Was for the dog.

That wasn't for you.

I was throwing it out
To the dog,

And you just so happened
To be there!

There's water coming up

Jay?

Jay?

Andy, your brother's not
Answering me!

Help!



On[I] the reaper...

Jay!

...Kris' last-chance hole...

Andy, your brother's
Not answering me!

...Is going down the drain.

[I] help me!

Something's happening
With my mask!

That's how we do it.
We save our divers.

Look at that -- another man
Down, another man saved.

God.

What started so promisingly...

I'm running the box.
Get out of here.

You're running the box?

You have to be certified
To run this.

- I'm certified.
- -you're a certified

Get out of here.

...Has taken a wrong turn.

And the kelly family is,
Once again, at odds.

The whole mom situation
Went sour very fast.

I don't know
What the happened.

I mean, I do love her.
She loves me.

But now that she's here,
I really seen that, you know,

She's making a bad situation


Maybe if you focused, kris,
Instead of just on what --

I've got to take care
Of what andy does,

I got to take care
Of what dad does,

I got to take care
Of what you do.

I got to handle
All of this around me.

Andy's gonna take me home.

I'm not putting up with
This kristopher.

as mom fades
Into the distance...

...So, too,
Do the kellys' chances

Of finally getting some gold.

I'm really not ready
To give up on this.

My suffering will pay off
For me, and I guarantee that.

one mile west,
At the[I] wild ranger...

Okay, guys,
Need a little crew meeting here.

We got a situation.
You guys saw that ice crack.

It's getting bigger, okay?

...With the dredge
Sitting perilously

On the wrong side
Of a massive ice break...

it goes
All the way through.

This ice here is essentially
Just free-floating.

...Captain vernon adkison
And his crew

Are stuck between a crack
And a hard place.

So, if this ice breaks loose

And the wind comes out of
The north, we're going to sea.

Next stop, dutch harbor.

The mining season could come
To an early end at any point,

And the remaining options
For the team are not pretty.

We got two choices here.

We can get on the safe side
And the season's over,

Or we can stay over here
And risk this entire operation

For the sake of trying
To get another two days

Before this ice separates,

But I can't ask you guys to put
Your lives on the line for this.

So what I want to know is,
What do you guys want to do?

I don't believe in democracy

When it comes
To much of anything,

But right now,
We're gonna put this to a vote.

So, what do you think, bobby?
You up for it, or...?

Um...

I say let's do it.

-let's do it.
-yeah.

risk it.

All right, buddy.
That's what I wanted to hear.

Ain't no wussies allowed
On this boat.

my crew has been --

They've been very loyal,
Hard workers.

I couldn't ask for better.

I mean, I've never met
Tougher people in my life.

You take the risk,
And you reap the rewards.

still short 35 ounces
To keep his operation running...

let's get moving here.
Let's get on with it.

...Vernon's gold-mining dreams,

Just like the icy layer
On the bering sea,

Are barely holding on.

Bobby's first up.
He'll go down and...

Do what he can do
Down there.

I got a good crew.
I can't let them down.

We got to get gold,

And I'll make sure
That they're taken care of,

And they leave out of here, they
Got some gold in their pocket.

Down there and get the easy
Stuff and get out of town.

I'm heading back
To that sector.

[I] all right, bobby.

It's a little murky
Over here.

Going back to the nozzle.

I want to get down there,
Hit it a quick lick.

Cream only with a few cherries.

Right now,
The conditions are perfect,

But they're not gonna
Stay that way for long.

We got to take the easy stuff
And keep on truckin'.

Okay, bobby,
Give me a rundown.

It's beautiful down here.

I got some new gold coming up
As we speak.

All right.
All right, bobby.

It's all over, so we're
Just gonna pick the nozzle up,

Take it all,
As much as we can.

So we got to make
Every second count down here.

Looks like I got a lot
Of material ahead of me,

So we're gonna be here
A while.

You done good, bobby.

[I] you done good, buddy.

You know, we'll put in every
Damn hour we can possibly put in

And get that last lick
And get it good.

Lick it clean.

Lick the plate clean.

What happened?

Pull me up! Pull me up!

Pull him up!

Of claim 38,
On the[I] wild ranger...

What happened?

Pull me up! Pull me up!

Pull him up!

...There are just over
Two days left to mine,

And for vernon adkison's
Operation, things...

...Are falling apart.

just help him
With the weight.

Here, sit down on the --
Sit down right there.

Sit down right there.

What happened, bobby?

I heard a loud pop,
And that was it.

I had no air.

The damn air line separated
Right here.

Yep, that --
That could do it.

With remaining dive hours
Quickly disappearing...

We've got an air leak.

Looks like an o-ring.

...A busted piece of gear
Could mean an early end

To the[I] wild ranger's season.

Something as simple as an o-ring
Can shut you down.

So unless they can get back up
And running, fast,

The veteran captain's mining
Career will be over.

We have a selection
Of o-rings here.

And I'm hoping
That we've got the right one.

We will soon find out.

If we don't,
This thing will blow.

I think we might be back
In business, bobby.

that's good.

Fortunately, we had the parts
On hand to fix the problem.

If we had not had
That simple-a*s o-ring,

We'd have to go to --
We'd be shut down.

with a fix in place
And the clock still ticking...

get down there
And get us some gold.

...Bobby gears up
To get back on the gold.

What the going on?

It's beyond frustrating.

I mean, only a fool
Comes up here

And spends
All that money

And doesn't get anything
In return.

And that's what's happening
Right now.

only two days remain
On the winter mining calendar.

And 9 miles west of nome,
On[I] the clark...

We're five holes out.

No gold for days,

And we're just
looking for it.

...Still 11 1/2 ounces short
Of their 30-ounce goal.

And with time running out...

I've found a lot of gold
Using dowsing rods.

So I'm trying to use
The dowsing rods

To try to kind of get an idea
For where sand meets the cobble.

to find the gold,

Zeke tenhoff's last resort
Is the ancient art of dowsing.

There's not any science
Behind dowsing rods.

It's just magic.

But I believe in it, and
It's worked for me in the past.

When you get a signal,
Your rods will cross.

Zeke is at the end
Of his tether.

I mean, he's on the precipice
Of losing it.

With the remaining dive hours
Disappearing as fast as the ice,

[I] the clark's next hole
Will be their last.

guys, I think this
Looks like the spot!

Zeke has pinpointed the location
For[I] the clark's last stand,

But will the dowsing rods
Prove to be the golden rods?

we got one day left
After tonight.

Basically, I'm holding out
My last hope for this spot.

I know we have a laughably small
Amount of time left on the ice,

But what I keep
Telling myself is,

Just right over there
By that shack, right there,

That's an ounce-an-hour gold
Or better.

I mean, we got 36 hours
Left on the ice.

Yeah, that would be
Great, dude.

That would be great, but we've
Struck out with five holes, man,

And we're
Completely blind.

All I can say is,
Like, it better be that.

We better land
On something, dude.

Otherwise,
This is gonna be

A complete financial devastation
For both of us.

It's like hole
After hole after hole...

We're out of time.

We have to find the gold.

This spot better work.

I mean,
I'm gonna get down here tonight,

And I'm gonna dredge
Until I can't dredge anymore.

You know, I don't care
How tired I am at this point.

I don't care.

I mean,
There's got to be gold here.

What the

For the season's final push...

Chef vernon adkison...

-...Is cooking up...
-wow. Very good.

...A sensible breakfast.

Some chow, keep everybody fueled
And happy and productive.

Splash them
With a little bacon grease.

They ought to fry up
Nice and tasty.

Thing about it is,
You put enough grease on them,

They got to taste good, right?

Vern, I tell you, man,
You need to lay off the bacon,

Come over and get some oatmeal
Over at my shack -- healthy.

Geez.

Every time I turn around,
There they are again.

In the heart of claim 38...

At[I] the clark...

I'm gonna get down here tonight,

And I'm gonna dredge
Until I can't dredge anymore.

With the close
Of mining season coming fast,

Zeke tenhoff and emily riedel
Are down to their last move,

And they can't afford
To blow it.

You know, I don't care.
I don't care how tired
I am at this point.

I don't -- I don't care.

I mean,
There's got to be gold here.

What the

What happened?!

What the dude?!

Why is the breaking like
This, man?

I don't know! Look!

How long is this gonna take
To fix, man?

What happened?

Dude, look, I've been doing
Everything that I can

To keep all this stuff going!

I don't know what the
Going on!

The pump stopped working,
And it steamed up.

You got to check that
Before you put it down there.

A malfunction in the heater

Has turned the pump shack
Into a sauna.

Look, I just --
I have to take --

I have to rewire this pump.

-yeah, for sure, man.
-but I think that means --

you think
It's gonna take before --

I don't think we're
Gonna be diving tonight.

and until
The water heater's fixed,

There'll be no diving
At[I] the clark.

I got to fix it.

I can't tell you
Exactly what's wrong with it,

But I know I'm gonna have to sit
Down with it at the table here

And just disassemble
Everything.

- take it apart, dude.
- let's just get it done.

Look, I just --
Like, I --

I have as much stress
As you guys have!

I
I don't even...

Just fix it,
Please.

Like, whatever
You have to do, man.

If I had more help with,
Like, these kinds of --

These systems, maybe this
Wouldn't happen, but I'm tired!

How many times

Are we gonna dig
These holes

And have this
Hot-water heater--

off!

You need to fix that

The last thing
We need to do right now

Is just start losing our
On each other, okay?

Dude, I'm just like --
Dude, I'm so --

Do you have any idea
How deep I am in the red?

No.
All we can do is fix it.

The only reason we're
Freaking out on each other

Is because it's right
At the end of the season.

The only thing we can do
Is fix it, so it.

Let's fix it and not lose
Our on each other.

It's pointless.

Sorry I lost my

Like, honestly,
What's going on right now,

Not being on the gold,

It's not just, like,
Financially irritating to me.

It's, like,
Personally devastating.

I've never had
So much hope invested

In a mining operation
Working out beautifully,

And it's not working out
Beautifully right now.

Sorry I got mad,

'cause, like, you don't deserve
To be screamed at.

Like, I know you're under
A lot of stress,

But I'm under
A lot of stress, too.

Talking about
Being in the red, dude,

I don't even know what
The red looks like.

I'm, like, beyond
red right now.

So, yeah, dude,
I'm a little bit, too.

And I just feel like,
I mean, all this equipment,

It's like, yeah,
That's on my shoulders

'cause it's
That I built.

But I wanted to dive
On this hole tonight,

Because the only thing
That's gonna make me sleep okay

Is if I know
We're on good gold,

And I can't sleep
When we're not on good gold,

So I'm not gonna sleep tonight
'cause that blew up.

And now I got to spend
The whole night fixing it.

-dude, I know.
-so I'm sorry I yelled.

I'm at the end of my rope.

I'm so incredibly frustrated
And exhausted,

But at the end of the day,
We all have to work together,

So you can't let things
Get out of hand.

Team unity is the most important
Thing out there.

And if we can't work together
And live together,

Everything's gonna fall apart.

The hot-water heater's broken,

And it's gonna take all night
To fix it.

I'm just one guy,
And, you know,

With all this equipment
And all the prospecting

And all of the maintenance

Of the heart and soul
And motivation, the operation,

It's just -- it's drained me,
And I'm just one guy.

So right now,
Like, this happening,

This is the last thing we need.

I just want to get
On really good gold

Even if it was just for an hour,
If it was just for a day.

That would be fine.

We were on great gold
A week ago.

Now I can't find it, and I'm at
The end of my rope, and...

You know, like,
I'm just one guy.

Like, I don't know what
To tell everybody, you know?

I just don't.

No gold, and then our
starts breaking.

- This is perfect.
- Just perfect.

Can't talk about it
Anymore.

zeke's magic rods
Suggest a gold hot spot below,

But with just over a day
Left to mine,

Fixing the hot-water pump
Has become a race against time.

One mile east...

...At[I] the reaper...

Let's just concentrate
On the little gold that we have.

...With the winter-mining clock
Steadily ticking away,

Kris kelly is refusing
To go quietly.

hopefully, everything
Will turn around for us.

Well, everything
[I] will turn around for us.

and now, after the
Sudden departure of his mother,

It's up to the kelly men to try
And save the family season.

when my mom tells me
She wants to go back home,

I kind of feel
A little bit relieved

And a little bit sad
At the same time.

I miss and love my mom a lot,
But I'm kind of glad she left

Because all she did was argue
When she got here,

And it was ridiculous.

Here we go. Big dive today.

despite the hot sun
Assaulting the frozen sea...

The ice is getting dirty.
It's going rotten.

We have limited time here.

...Kris is ready
To attain golden greatness.

Today is gonna be a big day
For our team.

I just want to make
Some money.

I want us all
To make some money.

I am the one
That can lead my family to gold.

I'm gonna make this work
In the end.

-you ready, jay?
-yep.

Weird.

Yeah, that's the sound
Of the end of the season.

That's what that is.

Our motor
Just took a

I can't believe it.

We're on great gold,
And now we're

Well,
That's great.

That's the end of our season
Right there.

Everything took a

And today was supposed to be
A great day!

That engine is brand-new.

We just bought
That thing.

We don't have another engine.

That's the end of a winter
Of ice mining.

With a seized pump motor

And barely a day left
Before the deadline,

The kellys' season
Has come to a sudden end.

None of plans worked out
At all this year, dude.

Four years of my life spent
On this journey to get here.

Kris,
There's your reward

In the end of this bull

The pursuit of riches...

-out the door again.
-out the door again.

All we've done is left
A path of destruction.

This year, we just sucked.

Okay, let's get the
Out of here.

Let's start pulling
Our

one mile west...

At the[I] wild ranger...

I think we're back
To normal now.

I'm glad we got
That problem fixed.

after a broken
Air-hose connection

Shut down production...

That's the way it is out here.

The smallest little thing
Can blow you out of the water

And cost you big money.

...The diving gear
Is back in working order,

And vernon adkison's crew
Is back on the gold.

That got us back in business.

But it was a costly setback,
As the captain was forced

To travel all the way to nome
To retrieve the spare part.

Round trip to town
Takes an entire day,

And that equates to a lot
Of gold that we didn't get.

From where we are, it's very
Difficult to get back into town.

It takes away
From production time.

That ends up costing me money
And gold.

How much gold we could've gotten
During that time,

I mean, it's a pretty hefty
Chunk of change.

That costs. That hurts.
That hurts a lot.

Still far sort of his goal,

With equipment starting to break
Down and a splintering ice shelf

Threatening to send
The[I] ranger out to sea,

The captain's pressures
Are mounting.

Last summer, I wasn't sure
That we were gonna come back.

I mean, everybody
Was hanging on by a thread.

When I left out of here,
I was so far beyond the curve.

My mortgage was past due,
My rent was past due --

Everything was past due,
Including my payment to the irs.

I need to make this season
A success.

We just got to dredge
The hell out of this hole.

We're gonna hit it
With everything we got.

We got fuel up the wazoo.

We got backup parts.

We got to run nonstop
Right up to the bell.

But the writing's on the wall.

This is not gonna last
Much longer.

Bobby's down there.

He's taking care
Of serious business,

Putting a lot of material
Through the box.

How's that looking
Down there?

Are you seeing any gold?

Not yet.

Well, that's not good.

That's not good news.

Go and check the test pan.

A lot of times you can't see
The gold with the naked eye here

Because it's so fast.

But you can see it
In the test pan.

Test pan didn't look
All that great.

[I] it's not looking real good,
[I] buddy.

I am definitely unhappy.

Here I am up here
Hemorrhaging money,

Getting thwarted
At every friggin' turn,

And I got bills to pay.

I got a family to feed
And support.

There is such a thing as biting
Off more than you can chew.

I mean, I laughed at stress.

I've always been
In stressful job situations.

But there are times
When it can get to be too much.

That's the thing
That I worry about the most.

I got to --

I'm gonna go sit down
For a minute -- for a while.

I might have to go to town, man.

Feeling really bad now.

vernon!

Off the coast of nome...

...At the[I] wild ranger...

I might have to go to town, man.

Feeling really bad now.

vernon!

...Captain vernon adkison
Is facing a medical emergency.

blacked out.

Come here.
Give me a hand.

All right, all right.

All right.

This ain't good.

This ain't good.

Stop. Hold it.

We need to get vernon
To the hospital.

You all right, vernon?

Well,
The, track's off.

Yeah, I know, I know.
Don't worry about it.

-yeah, yeah.
-you just lay there.

All right, so now
We need to find a way

To get him into town quick.

And the only person I see

That has anything that could
Work would be derek,

So I guess my next step
Is going to ask him.

Hey!

What's happening?

Vern's not feeling good,

And he needs to go in, and
All we have is a snow machine.

The truck blew that track, and
He's, like -- he needs to go in.

Copy.
Let me tell derek.

Hey, jenny just stopped by.

I guess vern's not feeling good,
And he needs a ride into town.

It's kind of an emergency.

- yes, please.
- Start up.

Vern --

I just hope vern's okay.

I got to go now.

I've known vernon
Since his first season up here,

Since 2011.

Any time I've ever needed a job
Or needed help or anything,

Vernon's always had my back.

He's a good guy.

He's had my back,
And I've got his.

I think vernon might be having
A heart attack.

Come here, big guy.

Come on.
I got a ride.

All right, we'll get in the
Razor, take you to the hospital.

Stay, remy.

Jenny,
Can you watch her, please?

The sun rises on the final day
Of the winter season.

The pain and sweat,
The triumph and anguish,

All come down
To the final hours,

As the fleet has one last day
To strike it rich.

And on claim 38...

At the[I] high noon...

It's the final day.
This is it.

...Captain derek mclarty
Is prepping

For his last chance for gold.

And we've got...
Less than 12 hours,

And that scares the
Out of me.

This is it.
This is the last hurrah.

This is make or break,
Do or die right here right now.

We've got to get some gold.

this winter...

Everything in one piece, man.

We're here,
We got the gear here.

...The[I] high noon arrived late
Onto claim 38...

Man, what the hell?!

...And ever since,

It's been a struggle
To make up for lost time.

This is the bitter end
Of ice mining.

Everything goes as planned,
Then we can make a smooth exit.

Now, as the end looms near,
At only 27 ounces,

The captain's in danger
Of finishing in the red.

I -- I borrowed everything
To go ice mining.

Realistically, I've got to do


To basically pay off
The whole operation.

I'm hoping it all weighs up.

Time to fire up this diesel,
Get to work.

but for derek,
It's profits he's really after.

And anything he banks will be
Going where it's needed most.

I'm not gold-mining
Just for myself.

Hell, it's quite the opposite.
I am gold-mining for my mom.

A year into her retirement,
She finds out she has cancer.

Bottom line is, she busted her
a*s trying to take care of us,

And I would love to give back
And be able to take care of her.

You got the last dive
On the last hole.

after getting vernon
To the hospital,

Spenser mccleskey's now up to
Bat on the final day of mining.

I'm ready to go down if you want
To get that hot water fired up.

At this point, what I put
In the box is already there,

And my season's a wrap.

It's up to spenser
To get down there

And make or break our season.

She's trying to talk to you.

Remy's freaking out, man.

There must be a boatload
Of gold down there.

Full.

We need that full.

With spenser under the ice,

It could be the[I] high noon's
Last chance this season.

Looks like we got...

Nothing but a lot of boulders

And a really small patch of sand
Right under the hole.

Tons and tons of quartz.

Like,[I] all quartz.

gold-mining,
It's always an all-in hand.

Put it all in there,

And hopefully you end up
Walking away with a hand,

Because that is
The glorious part --

You can win big.

[I] got down, just made it
[I] to the nozzle.

Right where the nozzle
Is sitting, pretty nice gold.

I can see 5, 6, 7 pieces
Of gold.

[I] bad-a*s, man.

[I] roger that, on.

You hear that?

That's the sound of gold.

What do you need
That tuuq for?

[I] to roll a boulder over
[I] that's the size of your razor.

Nice.
Good gold or what?

gold around the base
Of a boulder

Could be signs of a giant
Treasure lying underneath.

So spenser will use a tuuq,
A large crowbar,

To move the rock and hopefully
Uncover a trove of riches.

Tuuq.

This boulder
Could be game-changing.

If the gold around it's
Real good,

The gold that's under it could
Be "Out of this world" good.

Are you getting it?

[I] don't give up on it.

Hey, how you doing
Down there?

Copy, copy.

Copy, copy.



At the[I] high noon...

Copy, copy,
Copy, copy.

...Captain derek mclarty's
Lost contact

With his diver,
Spenser mccleskey.

Copy, copy.

Hey!

You okay?

I don't know what happened.

My greatest fear in ice mining
Actually isn't my own safety.

It's the safety of my crew.

I've been around lots of tragic
Situations, to say the least.

I've held people's hands
Until they died,

And it's circumstances that
I don't ever want to revisit

And certainly not in my crew
While mining.

Hell no.

- Tell me. Run through it.
- What the happened?

I was just dredging along,
And...

Next thing I know, I woke up


You got any taste
In your mouth?

When you're in the shop
For too long

And you're running your truck
Or something?

the likely culprit
For spenser's blackout...

It is dead calm today.

You might be getting gassed.

...Exhaust from the pump motor
Contaminating his air supply.

We've been running it this way
Since we got here.

That's kind of close,

But normally, I mean,
There's wind, and it's ripping,

But I think maybe it's just
Going up and kind of settling,

And that's the intake for
The air compressor right there.

That's the setup.
That's just how it works.

Don't know what
I could even change about it.

You know there's
No amount of gold in that box

That's worth making me
Do that again.

That would absolutely
ruin me.

That would be the end
Of gold mining for me.

If I pulled you up
And you weren't still there...

I don't want you
To go back down, man.

Despite hours of dive time
Still left on the clock...

Last day.
We wanted to get out here

And try to dive
As long as possible.

It was a mistake.

...The captain calls an end
To the[I] high noon's season,

And it will all come down to
Their last cleanup

To learn their fate.

This has to be a big cleanup,

Or we're just not gonna make
Our goal.

We don't make our goal,
Then this was all in vain.

back in nome,
At the kelly house...

Kris has already gone to the
Store, got a bunch of groceries.

I mean, this guy's set.

Please leave
My groceries alone.

Don't open my cupboards.
-I'm not.

Are these
Chocolate-chip cookies?

Their winter campaign is over.

right now,
We've got the last cleanup.

It's not a load of gold,

But it's more gold than
We've seen most of the season.

And now it's time to weigh
The mountain of riches...

I personally am thankful we even
Got this little bit of gold.

...Or maybe the molehill.

How's it looking, jay?



I consider myself
To be a good person.

I deserved to get rich by now
Doing this.

I've worked too hard
To get screwed over

And to keep being in, like,
This stasis period

Where we're not going up
And not going down.

I've worked too hard, and
I deserve to succeed at this.

I saw more gold
Underneath the ground,

And there's no
Chunky gold in here.

There's no chunky gold in here.

And I was bringing up
Chunky pieces to my mom.

I was showing you chunky pieces
In the box

With big flakes,
And then, all of a sudden,

We do the gold cleanup,
And there's no chunky pieces.

What the going on?

I don't know.
Your mom left early.

She probably left with the gold.
-be quiet.

With equipment in shambles
And only 5 ounces in the bank...

okay, let's cook this
And see what we got.

...It'll take
Every last little flake

To keep[I] the reaper
In the game for summer.

We need to roll into
All brand-new equipment.

We need at least 5 to 10 ounces

To really make this work
Right now.

Here we go.

You need a drumroll
Or something?

No drumroll.

I mean, if we were doing


I'd expect a drumroll,
But...

Okay. Here we go.
First pour.

It could look
A little cleaner.






It's only 1 ounce.
Calm down. 1.2.





I don't even know
If we got over 3 ounces.


Yeah, we just hit 3.

Big deal.



Almost 4 ounces.








Just over 4,400 bucks.

I know it's pretty pathetic.

We barely made enough gold

To buy another engine
For next season.

So, actually, it's a complete
Failure at the end.

You know what?
I don't even want a chunk of it.

Just put it all
Into the new setup.

Vote for liquidating
A few assets

And upgrading our equipment,
I.E. Sluice box...

Sell the sluice box.
Sell whatever we need of it.

All in favor,
Let's hear a vote.

Aye.

Yeah.

Despite the winter cold streak,

The kellys are determined
To carry on into summer

And look to turn
Their fortunes around.

I'm not going anywhere.
I'm not done yet.

I'm always hopeful, you know?

That's the sick part about me.

Solid gold, baby.

Just half a mile to the east...

After a medical scare,

Vernon adkison's leaving
The local hospital.

I just spent about 14 hours
In the hospital,



It's carbon monoxide.

Geez, that stuff,

It just knocked my feet out
From under me.

Fortunately, the diagnosis
Is not a heart attack

But instead a bout
With carbon monoxide.

The first thing I noticed
Was my vision was going off.

And then, next thing you know,
I was getting queasy,

Upset stomach, dizzy.

I've worked around hydrocarbons
A lot in my life,

And I've gotten to where
I'm allergic to them.

All it takes is a whiff,
And it knocks me out.

With his gold-mining career
On the line

And mere hours left
In the season...

hey, vernon.

The veteran captain is defying
His doctor's orders

For bed rest...

-feeling better?
-I'm back up to speed now.

I was up and down
Yesterday,

But,
I'm feeling pretty good today.

...And charging
Straight back into battle.

You get sick, you can't stop.
You got to keep going.

I need to make this season
A success.

We'll run it right to the bell.

Stroke of midnight.

with one last shot,

Vernon is refusing
To go down without a fight.

But short 35 ounces, he needs
Nothing short of a miracle.

[I] okay.

[I] bobby, this is the last go-down
[I] on the last-chance hole.

Yeah, you are --

You are our last chance
To make some gold here, bobby.

You got to suck it up, dude.

Yeah, copy that.

[I] just get the cream.

[I] just high-grade it.

[I] don't waste any time.

That's all looking like gold,
Those little white specks.

A lot of that
Looks like gold to me.

[I] it's looking great
[I] down there.

Yeah, this is the area
We wanted to be in,

And I'm glad
It's the last one.

he's got to suck up
Every damn speck of gold

He can find down there.

We're taking it right to the
Bell, jack.

And who knows what happens
After that bell rings.

On the outskirts of nome...

We're about
To clean some gold,

Find out what we got
Out of winter.

...The[I] high noon
Is on their final cleanup.

First scoop. Here we go.

Needing 40 ounces
To break even,

Captain derek mclarty
Will need a season high

To reach the black.

as the last cleanup,

This one's got to be 13 ounces
To get to 40 ounces,

And this has to be
A big cleanup,

Or we're just not gonna make
Our goal.

I'm hoping it all weighs up.

Whether the[I] high noon turns
A profit will hit close to home.

Every ounce of gold the[I] high
[I] noon makes that comes my way,

That's going towards my mom.

She's a twice now
Survivor of cancer.

It's in remission or whatnot,

And I know that that's not
An infinite amount of time.

That's just until it decides
To strike again,

And I want the time
That she's got left here

To be the best
It possibly could.

All right, well, let's see how
Much I don't spill on the floor.

Do it.

There's 1.

There's 2.



That's 10,
And that ain't even half.

Come on, baby.

-well, there's my number.
-this is awesome.

-I got 10. That's all I'll --
-11.



There we -- I'm happy.
I'm happy.

Geez, there's still
A couple ounces left.

I'm happy.

Derek's hit his mark...

...And the gravy is going home.



Yeah!

-bam!
-dude!

That's not better
Than any other hole.

That's better than
Any other holes combined.

That's better than
The entire season combined.


-yeah, bam.

That's awesome.

The[I] high noon pulls in just shy
Of 50 ounces this season,

Worth nearly $65,000.

It's enough to pay his crew,
His bills,

And send a big paycheck to mom.

I can send her some gold now.

I want her to just have
The golden years right now.

I've never seen
A single person pissed off

With gold in their hand.

When you see gold,
It just makes you happy.

Yeah! Yeah!



At[I] the clark...

quitting for me
Is not an option right now.

...Zeke tenhoff has been working
Through the night,

Trying desperately
To fix the team's water heater

And get back to mining.

All or nothing, dude.

I feel a lot of pressure
Because it's my prospecting

And my engineering skills
That is gonna be

The difference between
Everyone making money

Or not making money.

I have to pull through for them.

finally...

Hot water system's back up
And running.

That's good man.

...All systems are go,

And up against the clock with
Only six hours left to dive...

Ready to do this final push.

...It's[I] the clark's
Last chance on the season...

All right, dude.

...And possibly
For their partnership.

All of our hopes are riding
On this last hole here.

We need to get on gold, stat.

It's definitely important
For zeke to be right

About this ground.

We're completely guessing here.

I'm up here.
You guys double dredge.

Double the gold.

After working overnight
To fix the heater...

You guys go down there
And just prospect it up.

How does that sound?
-yep.

Right on.

...An exhausted zeke will
Send down brothers gabe and sam

To mine the final hole.

And they'll use zeke's
Double sluice

To maximize production in
What little time they have left.

All right, see you
On the bottom, sam.

Yeah, man.

Whoa. It's murky as
Down here.

Hey, guys, april 15th,

So just do whatever you can
On our last dive here.

[I] sounds good, dude.

[I] we got to make this last pan
[I] as good as we possibly can.

I'm in the rocks now.

I'm in the cobble
You were talking about,

So I'm gonna look --
I'm gonna punch around.

You guys seeing some gold?

I just saw a couple of,
Like, okay-sized pieces.

I found some gold.

- yeah.

--yeah.

That's where the money is,
b*tches!

Yeah!

Let's go! Hustle!

after days of nothing
But empty holes...

You just dropped down
On the

Quintessentially perfect ground
For mining.

...Zeke has finally
Hit the spot,

And[I] the clark is on the gold.

Pretty good gold.

Now it's a race to get
As much mined as they can

In the final hours
Of the season.

There's a lot of light left.

We can definitely work the last
Few hours of the season.

Across the ice...

He knows there's gold down
There, and he hates to leave it.

...The crew of the[I] wild ranger

Is diving past
The late alaskan sunset,

Pushing to the bitter end.

better head up.

[I] start pulling in
[I] my umbilical.

The last dive is over.

All right, bobby.

The[I] wild ranger's 2016 campaign
Is in the books.

-did it. It's done.
-all right.

Done did it.

now, the question --

Will vernon adkison be around
To write another chapter?

went out with a bang.

Went out with a bang.
Bang, bang.

it's over.

You know it's over when it's
Time to burn the outhouse.

And I couldn't be more thrilled
About it.

I've never been so happy about
Burning something in my life.

Month and a half
Of using this thing,

It's time
For some flush toilets.

I like pooping on the ice, dude.

Something real satisfying,
Primal about it.

I was born to poop on the ice.

Dude, let's burn this thing.

I'm ready to get off the ice.

off the frozen coast
Of nome, alaska...

...The government-mandated
Ice-mining shutdown has begun.

And throughout claim 38,

Any gold still left
On the ocean floor...

Will quietly rest untouched...
At least for now.

In the heart of the claim...

At the[I] wild ranger...

-hey, guys.
-hi.

Any gold in that pan?

yeah,
There's still some left to do.

...Vernon adkison's crew
Is out of the water.

All right.
Look at this.

And as they prep
Their last haul,

The captain's mining career
Lies in the balance.

This was our last cleanout.
We can't -- we're done.

We can't get any more gold.
I mean, we've got to pull out.

It's over.
I got a lot riding on this one.

I'm looking for at least


the veteran miner's
Looking to end the season

With at least 35 more ounces
To keep his operation going.

And with only 65 ounces
In the bank so far,

He'll need his biggest cleanup
Of the season...

All right.
-...To pull it off.

That's some heavy cheddar
Right there, jack.

I'm saying 35.

What?

All right, there's...













The[I] wild ranger captain
Comes up short.

And his gold-mining dream...

...May have just melted away.

I was hoping
For more than that, guys.

I was thinking,
The way it lit up,

That gold cube, I was thinking
It was 35 ounces.

I was hoping for at least 100.

You know, our goal
For the season was 200.

But I put all my assets
Into the season,

So now I'm stone-cold broke.

Well, I really appreciate
All the hard work.

People will do
Hellacious things for gold.

But a lot of them won't get up
Under that ice

And freeze their asses off

And put up with all
The brutal conditions, and...

Even for gold.

I put my heart and soul
Into the gold-mining business,

And I've had a couple
Of pretty good years,

And then I had a few
Really terrible years,

And this is one
Of the terrible years.

And I might have to cash in
My chips.

Well, let's get on out of here
And take care of business.

All right, I got my gold.

I'm out of here.

one mile east...

At[I] the clark...

I'm burnt out, guys.

I look like

...For zeke tenhoff and
Emily riedel, it's judgment day.

I financially ruined myself
To get out here,

And, like, you know, now
If I don't at least break even

And put a little change
In my pocket,

It's just gonna be a loss,

And I can't handle
Another loss right now.

Honestly, I can't.
I don't know what I'd do.

Fighting to get the gold
Up to the final minutes,

It's been a rocky first season
For the new partnership.

It's been a big push.
It started out horribly,

And now we're in some amazing
Gold, but I'm exhausted.

We're all exhausted.

This season, we need to have
At least 30 ounces.

If we get 30 ounces,
It'll pay for everything.

That way, the partnership
Will have worked,

And zeke and I will have proven

That we can have
A profitable season.

Still needing at least 10 ounces
To reach their goal,

The verdict will soon be
Rendered on[I] the clark

And on the partnership.

Okay, I'm gonna
Dry this out, guys.

It's gonna be the difference

Between some sort of financial
Destitution and desolation

And, like, being able
To keep going.

I got this gold all dried out,
Guys. Let's weight up.













-11.5.
-11 1/2, dude.

Dude, high five.
Sweet. High five.

High five.


That's bangin', dude.

That's almost an ounce an hour,
Guys.

That is more
Than I expected.



And the new partnership's
First season

Is officially
A profitable one.

I am climbing out of the red,
Though.

You're getting some money.
Everyone's getting some money.

After paying out shares
To the crew,

There's just one thing
Left to do.

well,
We got to find shawn, dude.

We got to pay him up.

For me, this last mining season
Was a huge success.

I innovated equipment.

We got an ounce an hour gold.

I mean, that's what I come out
Here to do this stuff for.

I think that we were successful
As miners,

And I think that we were
Successful as business partners.

You know, we made it work.

We made the season work.

I feel like we've come
To a better place

In our relationship.

I feel like we've moved past
The chaos.

I couldn't be happier.

Lookit.

Looks like some of my gold
Just showed up.

All right.

-well, hello.
-hello.

-how did it go out there?
-got about 30 ounces.

So, there's a little pile
Of gold.

Every ounce counts.

I'll take every ounce
I can get.

Right on.
Well, thanks a lot, shawn.

-yep, yep.
-see you again soon.

-have a good night.
-all right.

It's always nice getting gold

That you didn't have to
Work your a*s off for.

Easiest gold I've ever gotten.

I got big plans
For the pomrenkes.

Claim 38's the key to that.

In the end, for the most part,
The miners came through.

And every little bit I got's

Gonna go right back
Into building this empire.

Now, for the pomrenke name,
The sky is the limit.

The final numbers are in,

And mr. Gold takes his cut.

-hello.
-hello, mother dear.

How are you?
-I'm good.

How are you doing?

I just figured I'd give you
A heads-up

Because I want you to keep
Your eyeballs out for it.

I'm gonna send you
A little bit of gold.

Hey, guys.
Ready to go?

very stressful.

Probably the most stressful time
Of my life.

You know, it's taking a toll.

I don't know
If I'm gonna come back.

yeah, forget about it.
Move on.

Don't dwell on
All the stupid

Remember the few lessons
That you learned

And apply them to next year,
And that's all I can do.

as much as zeke
Is infuriating to deal with,

I mean, I'll always love him.

I'll always care deeply for him.

In spite of the odds against us,

I think we did
Spectacularly well,

And I couldn't be more proud.

I think this is gonna bode well
For the future.

with emily riedel, there
Are some things about emily

That I find very distasteful.

There are.

But I'm not gonna let those

Override the things
That I appreciate about emily.

She can stick it out
And she doesn't quit

And I can get along with her
Just fine

And we can remain friends
And business partners.

if this nome gold deal
Goes through,

It means mining
For the pomrenkes

For the rest of dad's, mine, and
Even a little bit into my son's.

When they think of pomrenkes,
I want everybody to think

That those are the best
Gold miners around.