02x08 - Darkness, Danger and Death

[bunniefuu]

[narrator]
Previously on Mystery
at Blind Frog Ranch.

[Eric] This is something
you can't give up on.

We just have to keep drilling.

-Wow.
-Yeah.

-We're in. This is it.
-We got a dry opening.

[Eric] It's time to find out
what we got down there.

Oh, boy.

[bleep]

These Geiger counter numbers
are too high.

We can't safely go down there
without personal
protective gear.

Suit itself is designed
to protect you from
biological agents.

We never know
what we're gonna hit
until we get in there.

Duane, you gotta see this.

They're slowing down
at the gate and look.

There's three cars all around.

Here they go again.

What the [bleep]
are they doing here?

Get your minds around this,
they'll tell us.

Somebody panics,
we're all dead.

What the [bleep]?

The door's open.

[Duane] There are some places
on earth
that just don't seem right,

the land feels different.

It acts different.

And this here,
is one of those places.

Some say the land is
trying to hold on something.

-Don't got in
that [bleep] cave.
-[Duane] Aztec treasure.

-Holy [bleep]
-[Duane] Caverns of gold.

Look at this.

[Duane] Mormon riches.

It'd be million dollars here.

[Duane] Some even say
that there's
a buried spaceship.

Hell, yeah.

[Duane] Me, I never cared much
about the stories.

I just care about finding
whatever the hell
is in the ground.

What's the matter?

What the [bleep]?

The door's open.

What the [bleep]?

Did someone
leave the door open?

Someone [bleep] broke in here.

What the [bleep]?

You see that [bleep]?
Someone's been in here.

Hey dad, you around?

Look at this [bleep].

[bleep]

Someone broke in.
They just threw [bleep]
all over the place.

What the hell?

-What the hell is this?
-Someone's been in here,

-and they thrashed the place.
-What?

Where are the ore samples?

-Our gallium ore samples.
-The gallium?

[bleep] right here.

These are my files.

Those are my [bleep] files.
Everything [bleep].

-What the hell
is going on here?
-I don't know.

Why would they pick up
the rocks and them files?

What the hell?
I mean nothing else.

Charlie set up
a game camera out of here.

I'm gonna see
if there is anything on it.

-Yeah.
-Well this is not good, Duane.

Well this seems
like the incident down
there at the gate

was just a big old distraction
so that they can come in here.

They took the rocks
and the box, the gallium,
and Jamie's files.

Camera's still here.

This is real.
This is a coordinated effort.
This is not claim jumpers.

All right. Here we are.
Here we are.
Here's the cameras.

Here's the cabin.

-Right there, right there.
-There they are.

Two guys, blacked out hoods,
back packs.

-Pried the door open. Jesus.
-Pried the door.

They're fast.
Look how fast
the lights are going.

Jesus.

They're already [bleep] out.

-They got it, they're out.
-Right there.

Oh, jeez.

-He's got a walkie.
-And he's got a walkie
in his hand.

Who's he talking to?

Somebody is directing this.
Somebody is directing this.

He's not talking
to the guy by him.

-No.
-Jeez.

[Duane] He is taking to
the guys down at the gate.

You know that's probably
right when they turned
the spotlight off, drove off.

It's like they knew
what they were after.

That was a planned deal.

Whoever he was talking
to was watching this,
had to have been.

Yeah.

[Chad] So, we had three cars
down at the gate
with big lights

and these two guys
could've entered on foot.
We don't know.

Right there we have at least
eight to ten people involved
in this.

I am not trying to freak
anyone out about this,
I am just saying.

There's people out there
trying to sabotage
this whole thing.

I am telling you what,
we don't need this,

before we're going down
into that hole.

We need to check over it.

-Yeah, what else
could they could've done.
-Could they have sabotaged

-our rig over there?
-Yeah.

-Yeah, I'll see...
-We got to check everything.

I'll see if I can find
something in here guys.

They may have dropped
or something.

Let's split up and...

-I'll take the south border
over here.
-Okay.

I'll go up top.

[Duane] All the equipment
by our dry cabin looks good,

and we came up with
a good plan last night.

So who knows
what the next step is
for whoever is watching us.

But our next step is to
move forward

into that cavern at any cost.

-Let's go on either side,
choke it through.
-Okay.

[Eric]
We got this open hole
right here, it's uncased,

meaning it's just natural
material all the way
from total depth to surface,

and up in nature, open holes
don't want to stay open.
They want to cave in.

And that's especially true
at the top of the hole

where the soil tends to be
less compacted and loose.

Watch that hole, man.

[Eric] I'm staying away
from it, you direct it, yeah.

So our plan is to drop
in two 48 inch diameter
ten foot sections of casing

to secure
the top part of that hole.

The first casing will go in

and then second piece
of casing to push
that first piece down.

That should keep it
from caving in on top
of us

because if that happens,
we're dead.

Hey, how does that one look?

[Eric]
Looks real nice. Real nice.

Yeah.

[bleep] getting real, huh?

You good?

All right.

That's it.

It's looking good.

Oh, man. One more foot
and we are dead.

That's it.

Hell, yeah.

Nice.

[Duane] Getting all this
casing put in, took a while

but I am glad
we spent the time
to do it right.

[Eric] Try it on top.

It's good.

Hell, yeah.

Now, it's time
for the hard part.

Finally here.

[coughs]

All the gear looks good
so far.

Jamie's gonna be our man
top side.

I want to make sure
he knows this system,
inside and out

because if anything goes wrong
down the hole,
he is our only lifeline.

This is out first compressor.
It's going to be shoving air
down to three hoses.

We've got enough air
to stay down there
for 20 minutes.

The secondary is gonna
be going to this compressor.

This one goes down we
gonna use this compressor.
You turn it on

and it will start feeding back
the air into the system.

If something goes wrong
with these generators

and that hole all goes down
then you'll have ten minutes
to get the last guy out

or he's dead.

-Right.
-That's how it works.

What do you say we get
our hoses right here
and get 'em hooked up

and then we'll be able to
put suits on and...

-start going
down the hole.
-Right.

Eric, how's those suits?

Yeah they're pretty stout.

Duane, this one's yours here.

-I got it.
-That's yours, this is mine.

This is Chad's.

Okay.

So we brought in air tight
hazmat suits to protect us
from radiation in the cave.

This also means that we have
to have fresh air pumped into
the suits so we can breathe,

which brings its own
set of challenges.

But with the risks
we are facing, it's worth it.

-It looks good.
-It feels pretty stout.
I mean it is pretty solid.

I'll be carrying
a multi detector
on the outside of my suit

to be checking for H2S

which is probably
my biggest concern
besides radiation.

On inside of my suit
I'll be having a detector

that can detect
carbon monoxide
and oxygen levels.

Flashlights.

-Got two right here.
-We'll each need a flashlight.

-Okay, so we got three lights.
-Okay, perfect.

I gonna need zipping up too.

-Are you ready?
-Zip us up to about here,
you shove the air in the back.

We'll get up to about here
and we'll put the hoods on.

-I'll go in first.
You drop me down and then...
-Okay.

-...come back and get Eric
and then Chad.
-Okay.

-We're good.
-It's going to be you,
me and then Chad.

-Okay.
-Yeah. Let's do that deal.

First in is the last out.
That's how it works.

We don't want to get
in any arguments

going on down there,
who goes in, who goes out

and that what
we all have accepted
in the meeting.

That's just how it is.

Chad's got a young family
depending on him

so he will go down last
and come out first

which will give him
the best chance to get out
if [bleep] hits the fan.

We'll also be doing this
without the filming crew.

Because more the people
down there,
the more problems

we'll have getting in
and out of the hole fast.

So we'll have helmet cams
and body cams.

And Chad have a little
hand held so he can document
what we see.

-We good, guys?
-Yeah.

All right. Let's go for it.
Let's put them up.

Okay?

-Check communications.
-[Duane] Test, test, one two.

Good.

[Duane] Nice and easy now,
it's about 80 foot drop.

Okay. Going down.

[Duane] Well...

Huh.

-[Duane] All right, let's go
fellows. Get down in here.
-Okay.

Duane's down.

[crunching]

[hoist clanking]

[Jamie] I'm gonna give you
some tension, okay?

-[Eric] Wait till
I step up on it.
-Yeah.

[creaking]

[breathing heavily]

-Okay. We're going down.
-Okay.

[machine humming]

[squeaking]

[beeping]

[machine whirring resumes]

Eighty foot seems
a lot deeper
than it is on top.

Look at this!

Look at that. Holy [bleep].

It's just so damn dark.
It's crazy.

[Duane] Let's get Chad
rolled down here.

We'll walk up in there
after Chad gets here.

[Duane] All right.
Let's get Chad go down here.

Good. We're good.

[whirring]

Okay. Clear.

-[Jamie] Alright, you ready?
-Okay.

[machine whirring]

[Duane] A lot of stuff, now.

All right, Chad.

[Eric] Look, it goes back
in this direction too.

-[Eric] I don't see
the end of it.
-[Chad sighs] Oh, man!

[Chad] This thing
can go on for miles.

[Duane] Wow!

[breathing heavily]

[Eric] Let's go.
We only have
a limited time down here.

[Duane] All right.
Here we go, gents.

[breathing heavily]

Let's go.
We only have
a limited time down here.

All right. Here we go, gents.

[Eric] Definitely a carbonate
structure.

[Chad] Looks solid.

[Eric] This is not natural.

It looks like
it was carved out.

[Duane] Somebody was here.
Weren't they?

[Eric] Yeah.
It's definitely man-made.

[Duane speaking]

-You guys all right?
-Doing good.

-Chad?
-Yeah, I'm good. Yeah.

[Eric] Looks like
it pinches off this direction.
Maybe we'd head that way?

[Duane] Let's go this way.

[Chad] Hold on.
Hey, the cords are holed up.
Hold on.

We don't wanna
lose our oxygen.
Hold on.

[Eric] All right.

[breathing heavily]

[Chad] All right,
we got slack.

-Good?
-Yeah. Let's go.

[oxygen tank hissing]

How we got.

-What is it?
-Look at this big somebody.

[bleep] did we
get well into here?

[Jamie]
How does it look down there?

What do you guys see?

[Duane] Holy [bleep].
This is crazy.

Gonna be a wild ride,
looks to me like.

Sounds good.

[Eric] This is quite
the system, guys.

[Duane] What
the hell is going on

that they have
a tunnel system down here,
80 feet below?

-[Duane] There's a lot of rock
overhead, Eric.
-[Eric] Yeah. There is.

Looks solid.

Don't see any obvious
cave ins.

The whole son of a b*tch
is arched to make sure
it held the load.

We're not the only
son of a b*tches
that have been in here.

[Duane] Did they dig
all this out
to store the gold?

[Eric] Look at this.
This keeps going back here.

Hang on. I've got...
I don't have no air.

Huh?

-No air, fellas.
-Sure?

No [bleep].
No air going, zero.

[crackled hissing]

I don't hear the hose anymore.

Check... Check my hose.
[bleep]

It's pinched off or something.

Oh, hell.

[clears throat]

[bleep] I'm fogging up.

You guys all right?

Yeah.

Uh, my hose is kinked off.

You're crimping up?

The hose
whenever you pull on it,
it kinks off.

-[digital beeps]
-[Duane] There is goes.
It's working, Chad.

-You hear it?
-I can hear it again.

-Let's keep going, huh?
-Let's keep going.

[breathing heavily]

What the hell is this
going on here?

-[Duane] Like they made
a shelf there or something.
-[Eric] Huh.

These are rounded cobble.
Stream-worn cobble.

There's four of 'em.

And it's not the same rock.
This is limestone.

It didn't come from this cave.

-It was placed here.
-[Chad] What?

The rocks were placed there.

That's man-made.

Eric, you've got air?
You're fogging up.

Yeah. I'm feeling a little
low on oxygen but...
but I'm all right.

Let's just go for it, guys.
See if we can get
a little further back in.

-[Duane] Go back farther?
-Yeah. I can work with this.

All right.

That's all, you bringing them
down a little.

How's your air
down there, guys?

[Chad] All good.

Copy that.

[Jamie] You've got
13 minutes.

[Duane] Look at this deal,
fellas.

[Eric] Got quite a room here.

-[Eric] This is enormous.
-[Chad] Man!

-Chad.
-Hold on.

[Eric] Duane, look at this.

[Chad] We don't have
a whole lot of slack left.

[Eric] Guys, look at this.
Look at these markings.

-What the [bleep] is that?
-[bleep]

[Eric] That's man-made.

This is man-made
markings, guys.

[Duane] That's amazing.

[Eric] Somebody's been
down here.

[Duane] Holy [bleep].
This is crazy.

Guys, look at this.
Look at these markings.

Somebody's been down here.

Holy [bleep].
This is crazy.

One, two, three,

four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve, thirteen...

Seventeen top row.

[softly] Two, three, four,
five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten.

-Twelve middle row.
-Twelve?

Yeah. 17, 12,
and then there's like a dot.

-One two, three,
four, five, six.
-Six.

So, 17, 12, six.

[Duane] That's crazy.

Could it be something
that tells the quantity of
what they carried out?

[Eric] Maybe, maybe
a measure of time.

[Chad] Days?
Could be total days?

[Eric] Could be days,
could be, I dunno.

We'll try to figure out
what that means

-and how the hell
did they get in here?
-[Chad] Yeah.

[Duane] Damn sure
wasn't the way
we came in.

Gotta be a dry entrance
here somewhere.

[Duane] What a deal.
What a deal!

[Chad] Hey, you're going off.
You're blinking red.

[Eric] That's H2S!

H2S! Let's get out.

-[Chad] What is it?
-[Duane] Poison gas.

Getting out of here,
Chad.

Go. Let's go!

You got the box, Chad.

[Eric] I'm following you,
Chad.

-Duane, you there?
-[Duane] Yeah. Keep going.

[Duane on radio] Yeah.
Get out. Get out.
I'm behind you. Go!

-I got you.
-[Chad shouting indistinctly]

-[Charlie] What the [bleep]'s
going on?
-[Eric] I can't see!

Hook it on. Hook it on.
Let's go. Let's go.
Hook it on.

-[Duane] Wait, wait for me.
-[Chad groans] All right.

[Chad breathing heavily]
Oh, [bleep]!

[bleep]! Oh, [bleep]!

-[Duane] There you go.
You're on!
-[Chad] [bleep]!

-[Eric] Up! Extract!
-[Chad] Can you go up?
Go up!

[breathing heavily]

Charlie, [bleep] go!
Faster!

[Charlie] Get ready
to go up, Eric.

[Chad] Go. Get me
the [bleep] out of here!
Go, go, go!

Get it off, get it off!
Go, go, go. My God!
Get it the [bleep] off!

Go! Put it down there!

[shouting] Hold on.

It's on low oxygen.

[Duane grunts]

It's like we're breathing
in a damn...
[grunts]

Come on.
There's so much
down here, Jamie.

Oh, [bleep]!
Here's your line.

-There we go.
Get on it.
-[Jamie] All right.

[Duane] Get on it.

Here, hook it on here.
Let's go. Come on!

-[Jamie] Okay, I'm on.
Up. Up!
-[Duane shouting] Go. Go!

Come on.

Come on, damn it!

[Eric] Here we go.
Pushing you topside,
Duane.

[Duane] Oh, [bleep].
Ah, [bleep].

Ah, [bleep].

[Duane sighs]

[Charlie] Move up, move up.
Pull him up!

-Hurry! We gotta
move fast.
-[Eric grunts]

-[Chad] Get him over here.
-[Eric] We gotta get Duane!

-[Chad] Get it off,
get it off!
-[Eric] Get Duane!

[Charlie] Put it down.
Put it down.

[Chad] Down, down, down.
Go, go, go!

Go, go, go!

[groans]

[Duane] Oh, [bleep].
Out of air.

[Duane softly]
This is not good.

[Duane sighs] [bleep]

Getting dizzy. [sighs]

Getting dizzy. This is chemo.

This chemo.

Oh, [bleep]!

Ah!

[bleep] I'm hooked.
I'm hooked.

[shouts] Up!

[all shouting indistinctly]

[Chad shouting indistinctly]

[Duane] Oh! [sighs]

Oh, [bleep]!

Take it up.

Ah, [bleep].

[Duane speaking]

[sighs]

[Duane speaking]

[softly] "Our Father,
who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name,

thy kingdom come,

thy will be done
on earth as it is
in heaven."

"Our Father..."

"Our Father..."

"Our Father..."

[Chad] He's got it on.
He's got it clipped.
Go up, up. Raise it up!

Come on, come on!

[Charlie] Come on,
Duane! Up!

-[Duane sighs]
-[Charlie] Come on out, buddy.
He doesn't look good.

[Chad] Oh, [bleep]!

[Chad] Loosen, loosen!

-[Duane sighs]
-[Chad groans]

[Charlie] Unhook!

[Chad stuttering]
Undo him, undo him.

[Chad] Come on,
Duane, breathe.
Come on, buddy.

-Here he is. You okay?
-[Chad] Breathe. Breathe!

-[Duane] Yeah. Oh, [bleep].
-[Chad] Breathe!

[Chad shouts] Breathe!

[Charlie] He's breathing.
Good. Thank God.

-[Chad] Say something.
You okay?
-[Duane] Oh, [bleep].

-[Chad] You all right?
-[Duane] Yeah, get me up.
[bleep].

-[Chad] All right, buddy,
let's get you up.
-[Duane groans]

-[Charlie] We're good!
-[Chad] Sit up for a bit.

[bleep]. Sit for a minute.
Sit. Take that

[bleep] off. [grunts]

[Chad shouting] Water!
Can we get some water?

-Oh, man.
-Ooh!

That was bad.

That was near disaster.

[Charlie] You were out.
Are you okay?

[Duane] Yeah, yeah.
I'm good, good.

-[Chad] We're fine.
-[Eric] Oh, man!

Whoo!

[bleep], damn it.

[Chad] It did get real
right then.

We ended up using
the hazmat suits for
radiation protection

because we scanned
the whole area and there's
radiation all over that.

And thank God we did
because if we wouldn't
have had those suits on,

that H2S would have
k*lled us all.

[Eric] Stay close.

H2S is hydrogen sulfide.
It's a deadly gas
at very low concentrations.

We get to the end of our
air hose and Chad sees
my H2S meter going off.

[Chad] You're blinking red.

[Eric] That's H2S. Out!

Go. Let's go.

It's an H2S meter, I mean,
if it's going off,
it's bad news.

[Chad] Go. Get me
the [bleep] out of here!
Go, go, go!

I was just trying to go
as fast as we could,
not to hold anyone up.

Because the longer I take,
the longer they're down there
in the [bleep] cave with H2S.

[Chad shouting] Hold on!
Pull him up, pull him up!

[Chad] We bring Eric up...

[Eric] We gotta get Duane!

-[Chad] Get it off,
get it off! Go, go, go!
-[Eric] Get Duane!

"Our Father,
who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,

thy kingdom come,

thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven."

I made the decision to be
the first in and the last out,

you know, so it's not hard
to think that you've lived
a pretty good gig

and your son needs
to carry on,

so, you know,
I want him to be out.

If we go into harm's way
it's a blessing that
he goes in with me,

but I want him out.

[Charlie] Come on out, buddy.

[Chad] My Dad comes up,
I mean... [sighs]

He was, like, limp.
[chuckles]

Anyway. Oh, man,
it was [bleep].

-[Charlie] Come on, Duane.
-[Chad shouts] Breathe!

The timing was crucial.
If he would have stayed
another, who knows, seconds,

that could have
been it, man.

[Charlie] Oh, he's breathing.
Good. Thank God.
Say something.

[Duane] Oh, [bleep].

It was close.
Duane, I mean,
it was, it was close.

But it's a good day
to be alive.

This cave system, I mean,
there are many
different passages.

We chose to take one passage
and at one point we get into
this huge room

and on one corner
of that room are
these weird scratchings.

It's like tick marks that
somebody has carved
into the wall.

It's not a Roman numeral,
it's some kind of accounting.

It could be an accounting of
what was down there

and they're marking
as it leaves.

We just don't know.

Somebody put those
scratch marks on there.

Someone had to
have been there.

[Eric] We never made it
to the end of that
cave system.

So we've got a lot more
work to do in there.

-[Eric] That was a wild
son of a b*tch.
-Yeah.

[Chad] Scary.

You know, this ain't
no funeral.

[all laughing]

[bleep] cheers,
to this year.

-[all] Cheers.
-[Duane] Yep.

[Duane] This whole deal is
just so daggum intriguing
it's unreal.

I mean, it has so many
different angles to it

and this is just
a big-a*s puzzle,
is what it is.

But it's a good puzzle.

This son of a b*tch
is getting good.

[Duane] We'll be back
next spring

and we'll have a plan
to fully explore this cavern

and, hopefully,
find a whole bunch
of treasure.

Who knows how close
we were to that treasure?

Millions of dollars of gold
or who knows what else

could have been
right around
that next corner.

I'll tell you this much,
waiting to get back out here
and down in that cave...

[Chad laughing]

This might be
the longest winter
of my life!

[Duane] And, Jamie,
I want you to keep digging
and working your contacts.

I wanna know who's
watching us.

And if you can find out
who's behind all this
weird [bleep],

we wanna know about it.

Oh, I'm not done. I still have
unfinished business
I'm not happy about so...

The weather may be shutting
the operation of the ranch,

but it's not gonna
shut me down.

[Chad] That's those guys,
right there.

[Jamie] There's genuinely some
strange things going on
here at the ranch.

[Chad] What the [bleep]?

You know, I'm pleased about
what we accomplished
and I think we can go back in

as long as we can put
the engineering controls
in place to neutralize

the hydrogen sulfide gas
in there.

It's been an
incredible journey
this season.

I mean, finding that
gallium down there,

that might just be
the craziest thing
I've dealt with

in my whole career.

Could the Aztecs really have
put it down there?

It's hard to say for sure.

[Jamie] And what else
could be down there?

I got a feeling that
the treasures
in those caves

won't come out
without a fight.

[Chad laughing]

[Duane] I've never
walked away from
a fight in my life.

Come on,
pull your g*n.
Pull it!

I can promise you this,
I'm not gonna walk away
from this one.

How you feeling,
Charlie boy?

A lot better.

[sighs] Oh, man!
[grunts]

-We got some weird
[bleep] going on out here.
-Yeah.

We can't just leave
this ranch

without keeping a little
security out here.

-[Charlie] Only two people
we can trust is us.
-[Duane] Yeah.

So I think me and you is
gonna have to stay here
and keep an eye on the ranch.

[Charlie chuckling]

-[Charlie] Long winter.
-[Duane laughs] Yeah,
it's gonna be a long winter.