22x03 - Stack Fire

[bunniefuu]

[ominous music playing]

[Johnathan speaking]

[hook whirring]

[waves crashing]

After we offload, we'll switch
over for goldens,

and go right back out.

We can make a million
bucks here.

[Johnathan] Just gotta protect
these guys from each other.

If you're going to stay on
my boat,

you'd better get along
well with others.

[Johnathan speaking]

-Yeah!
-Woo!

[Keith] God, I like seeing
smiles on guys' faces.

Holy moly.

I just barely got enough time to
rig every pot over for Bairdi.

At stake, it's over
a million dollars.

[Sid speaking]

...in this
northern area,

[Jake] My future on
the Cornelia Marie

comes down
to making this work.

So I'm under a lot of pressure.

[Sid] We're so far up north
right now,

this weather is just
k*lling us.

We have to survive all this.

Holy [bleep]

[waves crashing]

Hey!

-Do you see me?
-[Jake] What the [bleep]?

[Johnathan] We work together,
we're a family.

If you don't like the way
someone's doing it,

shut the [bleep] up.

-[wooshing]
-Whoa!

[bleep]

-Run!
-[bleep]

It's a fire!

[waves crashing]

[seagulls crying]

[narrator] 216 miles north
of Dutch Harbor...

[Rick] Yeah, it's not nice.

-[crew] Whoo!

-On the Aleutian Lady.

[Rick] Being this far north,
where it's shallow, these seas

are going to stack on
top of themselves,

and you get these waves that
are massive.

[waves surging]

All right, guys, let's get
ready to set.

[crane whines]

[suspenseful music playing]

[waves crashing]

These northern king crab,
it's looking like they're in

this narrow band of mud

right below.

Ten days into the fall season,
Captain Rick Shelford aims 40

pots at a quarter-mile wide
stretch of soft,

nutrient-rich seafloor on the
hunt for $2.1 million

of pure-blood red king crab.

All right, let's do this.

-Whee!
-Woo-hoo!

Yee-haw!

[crab pot splashes]

Yah!

Oh, [bleep] yeah.

[waves crashing]

Weather's picking up.

I got a b*ner.

[bleep] yeah.

[crab pot splashes]

I gotta look for buoys,
I gotta watch these guys.

Big wave,

watch the back deck.

[bleep]

[waves crashing]

[bleep] damn it.

-Roll!
-[bleep]

[bleep] damn it.

That was a big roll,

and it's just gonna keep
getting worse.

[intense music playing]

[rope whirring]

Whoa.

Everybody take cover!

[waves crashing]

Oh my god!

[bleep]

[deckhand] We're OK!

This is a [bleep] party!

We just filled the whole damn
deck, like, completely full.

If we had somebody on
the back deck,

I would have k*lled somebody.

They would have been thrown
over the side of the boat.

All right,

-Woo!
-Woo-hoo!

Yee-haw!

All right, um.

[crew cheers]

[crew shouting indistinctly]

-Woo.
-Yahoo.

-Woo-hoo!
-Yee-haw!

[Rick]
This is just the beginning.



[ducks quacking]

[seabirds calling]

[intense music playing]

...just outside
Dutch Harbor, Alaska...

[Johnathan speaking]

Does that sound good, Russ,
does it look good?

...on the Time Bandit.

[Johnathan] Oh, we just went
through the gnarliest storm

I've seen in
years.

That was a very trying trip.

My whole damn crew is beat up.

Everyone is,
even Freddy's beat up.

Russell's beat up worse
than I've ever

beat Russell up before,

but we made it.

We're just getting to town,

I just got to get these pots
off so we can offload.

After three days
of nonstop work,

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand
prepares to offload

a massive $2 million
northern red king haul.

in order to launch their golden
king crab season

in just two days' time.

[Freddy] OK, watch yourself,
Terry.

Just want to go on top
there, right?

Yeah.

-[crane whines]
-[Russell] OK, which one,
Freddy?

We got to do this fast.

Which one do you want to
do first?

-Oh, hey, OK, pal.
-All right.

OK, alright, I'm not [bleep]
talking to you anymore then!

-We gotta [bleep]
-What's going on?

Come on, guys.

-[bleep]
-Bug off!

Somebody's gonna eat
somebody's eyeballs

out of their head.

[groans]

[dramatic music playing]

Put 46 pots on the dock,
then we're taking off.

-Forty five.
-Oh, we've lost one?

-And it stinks.
-Yeah, it does.

I'm not talking to Freddy not
one [bleep] more time

this [bleep] season.

I'm not talking to [bleep]
anymore, OK.

[bleep] he [bleep] just did to
me just [bleep] pisses me off.

[bleep] telling me,
"We got it, we got it,

shut up, we got it,
just do your job."

[Johnathan speaking]

Come here.
Come here.

Come over here.

I can't have anybody yelling
at anybody.

-Freddy.
-He's the one that's first
yelling at me,

calling me a [bleep]

Yeah, I did, after you said,
"Shut up and do your job."

Hey, you guys, listen to me.

Listen to every word that come
out of my mouth right now.

No one's going to yell at
nobody on this boat.

We work together.

We're a [bleep] family,
so don't.

If you don't like the way
someone's doing it,

shut the [bleep] up.

Come here,
Come over here.

We got to stop this [bleep]
it's childish right now.

Another little [bleep] huh?

-[bleep]
-Everyone leave it alone.

Should we just
settle it on deck?

Let's just, should we just
go settle it on deck?

[Freddy scoffs]

Look at him there.

Man, if someone calls
you a name, so what?

So what,
they called you a name?

You know you're not
a [bleep] vag*na.

Do you look like a vag*na?

-No.
-Bye bye.

There's no way I can work with
that guy ever again.

If you got a problem with
this, fly the [bleep] home.

We're done.

Yeah, we don't need this [bleep]
on this boat.

We don't,
this boat doesn't do that.

If Freddy don't like it here,

he can go get another job
somewhere else.

Russell came out barking order,

like we've never done
this before, you know?

After 33 years been doing
this [bleep]

[Johnathan speaking]

I want everyone to be
respectful to everyone else.

I love everybody,
I hug everybody.

I don't backstab people.

Went up there and suck
on the captain's [bleep]

and complain,

I don't play that game.

Freddy is very emotional.

I mean, he takes his job like
a little bit too much.

His sense of pride a little
too high.

It's time to go home, baby.

Let's go home and see my wife
and my babies.

Freddy was a huge, huge force
on this boat,

but you can better get along
well with others.



The weather did kick up
a little here.

We got to watch it here.

[satellite phone ringing]

Yeah, got me?

[Jake speaking on phone]

So I see you up ahead there.

You can probably see where that
canyon goes, right?

I see the depth changing
on the fathometer.

[Sig speaking on phone]

Yeah, right?

Hit me up on the radio.

-I'm ready to rock.
-[Sid] Okay, coming your way.

[waves crashing]

[bleep]

Sorry, getting
a little nervous.

[intense music playing]

This might have been a bad idea.

Forging a Northwestern/
Cornelia Marie alliance

on the tempestuous 55,000
square mile northern grounds.

Sig's gonna be on the north
side, I'm going to be on

the south side, and we're going
to run the canyon.

Captains Sig Hansen and
Jake Anderson ready to launch

a combined 40 pots into
a narrow ravine, each targeting

northern red king crab along
the snaking ridgeline.

And what Sig and I want to do
is we want to sit right here

and right here in
the 49 to 51 fathom range.

Okay,
I see you over there.

Roger.

This is 50 fathoms,
so we're settin' right here.

[console beeping]

Ready to set?

Go ahead and dump it.

[console buzzes]

[crew] Going over!

[crab pot splashes]

[suspenseful music playing]

We gotta come around to port,
and get a little deeper here.

All right, coming towards
you, Jake,

I'm coming towards you, OK?

Hey, we're getting really
close, man!

-You're a wild man.
-It's going to be OK.

Don't get your panties
in a wad.

OK, 49.

[radio beeps]

OK, set 'em,
let 'em go.

Going over!

[crab pot splashes]

All right, go ahead
and dump it.

The canyon's snaking,
I got to make this turn.



I got to come around again.

Coming towards you.

Come on, tell me I made
my mark.

Eh, 49,
there's 50.

That turn put us right
in the ditch.

[deckhand speaking]

[Sig speaking]

Does he see me or not?

Hey!
Do you see me?

What the [bleep]

[Sid] What are you doing?

Are you out of your mind?

What are you doing?

-Oh, [bleep] I'm close to him.
-[Sid] Hey!

[bleep] man!

-Are you out of your mind?
-[bleep]

[propeller whirring]

[bleep] man!

[bleep]

[bleep] dude, that was
[bleep] close.

[Sid] I said,
"Follow the canyon,"

not, "Crash in front of me."

[deckhand speaking]

[waves crashing]

He's probably
pissed right now.

You know, he's paying too much
attention to that, not this.

[Jake speaking]

This time I'll give you
a little bit more room.

[Sid speaking]

Oh, my God, I can't do
this anymore.

What is it?

He thinks it's a fighter
jet or something.

-OK, just a couple of more.
-Roger!

-Going over!
-[crab pot splashes]

There better be crab here,
that's all I can say.


in Dutch Harbor...

That's pretty sweet,
they're all massive.

...on the Wizard.

How many pounds we up to?

Four or five bags out of
that, you think?

Hell yeah.

After delivering $1.2 million
of Northern Red Kings,

Captain Keith Colburn races
to kick off

his bairdi crab fishery

in 48 hours before
the grounds are picked over by

the 37-boat fleet.
-Hello, John.

[satellite phone ringing]

Hello, John?

[Johnathan and Keith
speaking on phone]

Oh, really?

Yeah, he's not going.

Cool, yeah, that'd be --

OK, and I'll be --

It's going to be at least 20
or 30 minutes.

Ah, [bleep]

Both John and I have been
blessed to have Freddy work

on our boats.

When you got Freddy on board,
you didn't just get a deckhand,

you got, like, three deckhands.

The work ethic is
beyond compare.

For Bairdi, we're going to

haul 1,000 or 1,500 pots in
the next 10 days.

I've got to have a solid crew.

I need Freddy on my boat.


Dutch Harbor...

[waves crashing]

[bleep]

[Rick] Come on, girl.

I mean, this current is
just ripping.

...on the Aleutian Lady.

-Yee-haw!
-Whoo!

Ooh.

Going up this far north,
you've got these

towering monsters.

But these heavy,
heavy currents,

these tides, have been
wreaking havoc.

Damn it.

I want to go this way,
but the boat's going that way.

So I'm giving it more gas.

But I am having a hard time
holding my course.

Battling 20-foot seas
and tidal currents,

pushing diagonal
to his bearing...

-Let's get ready to go.
-Roger.

Rick prods his engines to
their 1,500 RPM red-line

and the brink of overheating as
he approaches 40 pots set in

nutrient-rich mud.

[suspenseful music playing]

Started north, followed them
around the reef

down to the bottom of it.

-[bleep] damn it.
-Watch the rail.

Watch the rail,
watch the rail!

-[clanking]
-[bleep]

[crew shouting indistinctly]

-Let's go, baby.
-Come on, crab!

-Oh yeah.
-There we go, baby.

[crew clamoring indistinctly]

[bleep]

[crew cheering]

Oh, yeah!

[crew] Big ole pot, baby!

[crew cheering]

-Whoo.
-Yeah, baby, let's go.

[Rick] 63.

We're rolling, hell yeah.

We get this in extreme weather,

and I got snow flurries
happening.

-[flames wooshing]
-Oh [bleep]

-Fire!
-Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Let's go, let's go, let's go,
put it out!

Fire?

-Whoa!
-Watch out, watch out!

[Rick] Damn it!

-[flames wooshing]
-[crew shouting indistinctly]

On the Aleutian Lady...

I gotta kick this thing out
of gear.

[propellers whirring]

My stack temps here are
through the roof.

...after a strong cross current
forces Captain Rick to redline

his main engine, a fire breaks
out on his exhaust stack.

Oh, my God.

I pushed that engine way
too hard.

That must have caught
the carbon buildup on the side

of the stack on fire.

[bleep]

-Here, here, here, here, here.
-Nice.

[grunts]

It's [bleep] hot.

Ugh.

Be careful, Rick.

I'm gonna cut a hole in this
exhaust pipe and try to get

more oxygen to the fire.

Noah, get on the wheel.

When I tell you to give it gas,
give it gas.

Roger.

Rather than
extinguishing the flames,

only to have them
ignite again...

-Pull it out.
-Yep, slide it out.

-[bleep]
-Don't hit it on any of us.

Rick increases the airflow,
betting an influx of oxygen

and fuel will burn off
the accumulated carbon buildup,

fighting fire with fire.

-Alright, Noah, give it gas!

[dramatic music playing]

[propeller whirring]

[waves crashing]

Go hard!

[flames rushing]

[fire crackling]

[fire wooshes]

Holy [bleep]
that's blowin' hard.

[propellers whirring]

[waves crashing]

[fire cessates]

[Rick speaking]

[engine powers down]

[wind blowing]

-Guys, get this cleaned up.
-Roger.

[hopeful music playing]

-How's it looking?
-It looks like it's out.

[waves crashing]

Because I was pushing
the engine so hard, I

I was getting too much unburnt
fuel going up the stack,

which caught the carbon buildup

on the side of the stack
on fire.

We should be able to just
keep hauling.

We just can't have any
more issues,

[rope whirring]

because we got too much quota
to catch.


northeast...

[dramatic music playing]

[grunts] OK.

[rope whirring]

...aboard the Northwestern.

[Sid] So right now, plan is with
Jake and I,

we're out in a canyon.

We set our gear in there,
and we want that payoff.

First pot's coming up.

[crane whining]

No, no.

No.

No, unh-uh.

Just one mile to the north...

[hydraulics whining]

[Jake speaking over radio]

Waste of time.

You know, we're here to
catch crab.

[satellite phone ringing]

Hey, Sig.

[Sid speaking on phone]

[deckhand speaking]

Ah, fishing's not
going that well.

I'm not seeing jack,
nothing in my pots.

I'm not seeing much down here.

I don't really have any
information up north.

Did you load any of
your past years

onto that computer when
you got on that boat?

Well, there's older years than
just mine on here.


passed.

[Josh] Love you, buddy.

There's so many people that
love you.

We love you, man.

I fished on deck on this boat

under Phil Harris.

He used to call me Runt,
and I'd get pissed.

And he said he was going to

make sure everybody in Seattle
called me Runt. [chuckles]

[waves crashing]

He was one of my mentors,
he was one of my heroes.

So it's on me to do the best
job that I can.

[Sid] So what else do we got?

What are you seeing?

Phil's old spots, I'm thinking.

If I zoom into the west of you,
I run into a bunch of tracks.

They're all kind of back
and forth squiggling.

So that's sitting around right
in there.

Well, that's farther
to the west.

Let's do it.
Let's go for it.

I think that's the right
direction, tell you the truth.

[rope whirring]

[deckhand speaking]

[bleep]

Going under.

I'll just let it drift
out the back.

[deckhand speaking on radio]

Oh, [bleep] I'm still in gear.

-It's under the boat.

-It's in the wheel.
-Hang on for a sec.

I got it in the [bleep] wheel,
man.

[suspenseful music playing]

[bleep]

[bleep]

I got it in the wheel, I think.

I still, I left it in gear
when I went by it.

Aye.

[Jake speaking]

[dramatic music playing]

[bleep]

I'll be dead in the water here
pretty quickly.

[sighs]

[bleep]

I'm going to have to turn off
my engines right now.

[engines power down]

[Jake speaking on radio]

...and k*lled
both the engines.

Cost 10, 15 grand.

OK,
I'll be over there.

Thank you,
I appreciate that.

The only thing I can think of
is to hook one of the working

ends of the line on to
Sig's boat

and have him pull it out.

[Sid speaking]

...ends you can get
a hold of?

There's a shot floating right
next to the starboard quarter.

I think I got an idea.
I'm going to sh**t you a line.

Hey, guys, we're coming back
on the stern.

Grab that line launcher.

If you guys can do it, go
for it.

Here we go.

All right, firing.

[line launcher wooshes]

[laughing]

Wow.

[rope whirring]

Did he miss?

[deckhand speaking]

[Sid speaking]

There's 1,000 feet of line.

-Oh, he got it.
-Yeah, he's good.

Alright, it's tied off.

We got it hooked up to
the Northwestern,

and now they're trying to,
they're pulling it out.

[Sid on radio] OK, I'm gonna
circle it ahead a little bit,

so we get a little distance.

[intense music playing]

-[rope stretching]
-It's tight!

I've got it tight on my stern,
hang on, Jake.

[rope stretching]

-Hold on, man.
-Is it coming out?

You're gaining on it.

Looks like something's
coming out.

Maybe keep going
a little more.

Looks like it's almost
all out.

[deckhand speaking]

Yeah, it's just, we got a wad,
we're trailing a wad.

OK, that's everything, right,
I can put it in gear?

Roger.

[Jake] I don't know if these
mains are going to start again.

I'm going to have to see.

-[switch clicks]
-[engine powers up]

Come on, baby.
Come on, baby.

OK, there's one.

Time for two.

[engine powers up]

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

-[Jake speaking]
-[Sid laughing]

-It's working.

Awesome, guys,
he's free.

[crew] Hell, yeah.

[Sid speaking on radio]

I'll meet you there,
all right?

[Sid] Roger.

All right,
I'm over.

[waves crashing]


in Dutch Harbor.

[Keith] Well, if we're going to
fish bairdi,

we need a full squad.

The word on the street says

Freddy's about ready to fly
home. I'm

going to see if I can
intercept him

and offer him a job on the
Wizard.

Yo!

Hello!

Is anybody up there?

Time Bandit,
anybody in there?

Time Bandit !

[OJ speaking]

Hey, OJ, come up here
real quick.

I got to talk to you.

What's going on with Freddy?

So...

[intriguing music playing]

Um, I, you know, I don't know
what's going on over there.

I know Freddy's wife
really well.

I'm going to give her a shout
and see if there's anything

I can do to help.

[phone line ringing]

[Amanda] Hello?

Hello, is this Amanda?

[Amanda] Yeah, it is, hey,
hi Keith.

How are you doing?

[Amanda] Good,
how are you?

I'm doing great.

Hey, I'm not sure all
the details of what's going on,

but I know Freddy is getting
off the Time Bandit right now

and coming home, I think.

OK, so you gotta -

I'm not entirely sure,
but just tell Freddy $40,000

guaranteed if he'll work until
-[bleep]

November 17th or 18th
on the Wizard, OK?

-[Amanda] OK.
-Alright?

-OK, I'll let him know.

Thank you, Keith.

OK, alright,
thank you.

All right, bye.

Freddy's playing everybody
right now.

I'm not sure what's going on,

but I'm gonna go find Freddy
and find out.

[suspenseful music playing]

In Dutch Harbor...

You know, something happened
on the Time Bandit with Freddy,

but right now I'm
trying to keep Freddy

on the island to come
fish with me again.

Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
flight's canceled.

What are you doing here, man?

[ticket agent speaking]

-One way?
-One way.

Whoa.

Talk to me,
give me a second.

Come over here.

[Freddy speaking]

Hey, I understand.

One of the, like,
the laziest deckhand --

Hey, I'm not asking you to
leave, Freddy, but... Okay.

Look at that.

Thank you.

If you want to fly home,
I've got your flight

right there,
I already booked it.

-OK, oh, man.
-It's on today's flight.

-Thank you., appreciate it.
-I don't want you to go.

And I understand it hurts,

because you don't do that to
Freddy Maugatai.

There's work for you on
the Wizard, if you want it.

You can really help me out in
a big way.

I just worry about your heart.

You make the best decision for
you, but if you come work on

the Wizard , I love you, OK?

I do love you, man,
bye.

...bit of crab for us.

[Sid] You never know.

Alright, I'm pulling up to
the first spot here.

Alright, awesome.

[crew] First pot!

Phil looked like he was
fishing going that way

out to the west.

We'll find out.

[crew on radio] Moment of truth.

[crane whirring]

[suspenseful music playing]

[crew cheering]

-Big boy!
-Whoa, dude!

[triumphant music playing]

[grunting]

That's what I'm
talking about.

-Whoa! [laughs]
-Oh, nice.

[laughing]

Big boys.

Six-nine.

No way, dude.

Nice pot,
seven-zero.

-70.
-Seven-zero.

Woo!

It's huge, Sid.

Ha!

-Woo-hoo!
-Yee-haw!

Woo, baby!

-Oh, yeah!
-Oh, hell yeah!

Woo!

Ha ha!

[deckhand speaking]

[crab splashing]

We struggled,
we fought back.

We're going in to offload

a huge amount of king crab,

but then we got
to come back out.

And I got even more king crab
to catch.

-It's good to see you.
-You, too.

Oh, hey brother,
nice to meet you, man.

Freddy.

A gift from angels,
Freddy drops off on our deck.

Now I've got the strongest hook
thrower

and probably the best
deckhand in the fleet.

Right on.

Home sweet home, baby.

Set up for success.

Now we've got to get to
the Bairdi grounds.

We don't have our old faithful
petty Hurricane Maugatai

with us, so I'm down to,
you know, a four-man crew.

But I'm going anyways.
I've got to go fishing.

Okay, guys, let's
cut her loose.

Nothing's going to stop us.

Nothing's going to stop us,
it's the Time Bandit .

Here we go.

[seabirds calling]

[Jake on radio]
Hey, you got me?

-[Sid] Yeah.
-That was a fantastic string.

Thank you, Phil.

He's probably looking down on
you now, thinking,

you damn thief.
-[laughs]

Can we light up some fireworks
for Phil?

Here he goes.

[fuse hissing]

For Phil, baby!

[firework squeals]

[fireworks exploding]

-Hey.
-Whoa, ha ha!

[laughs]

[firework squeals]

firework explodes]

He's with us.

[explosions continue]

-God, I'm going to start
crying.

[crew cheering]

I don't think his memory's
ever gonna go anywhere,

it'll always be here.

Okay, bleh!

I was getting choked up.

[firework explodes]