07x06 - Exit Wounds

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It's a tough business, man.
It sucks.

The fatigue is the hardest
thing.

Some guys have it. Some don't.

Trying to do this job is one
thing.

But trying to do it in weather,

that'll separate the men
from the boys.

Oh, yeah!

You need to settle
the down.

Yeah!

The last thing I want to do
is hurt somebody over here.

Holy cow!

370km north-east
of Dutch Harbor,

the 47-metre Wizard steams to port
for an offload.

After a 14-day grind,
the crew is worn out.

In the captain's chair,
26-year-old deckhand Lynn Guitard...

..has fallen asleep at the wheel
in crowded seas.

Lynn!
Yeah?

Where are you?! Talk to me.
Man, I'm sor...

Where the are you, man?!
You're in the wheelhouse!

Yes, I know. Oh, my God.

You know what the most important job
on the boat is?

Making sure where you know
where the boat is.

Do you know whose lives
are at stake right now?

Everyone's.
! Go to bed.

All right. I'm sorry.
go down there.

Oh, yeah.
We got a few boats on the radar.

One, two, three, four, five boats
on the radar.

You ram another boat
doing ten knots with this boat,

well, first of all,
the other boat's done.

The bow and the hull of the Wizard

is going right through
that other boat.

This boat's probably not too far
behind it going to the bottom.

You know, the kid that I like,

the kid I've put a lot of time into

trying to teach how to be
a crab fisherman,

is dead asleep at the wheel.

I don't know how many more watches
Lynn's gonna have on this boat.

160km west of the Wizard...

..is the 34-metre Time Bandit.

No matter what the weather does, we
just got to get through these pots,

so we just got to watch
everyone's back.

It ain't gonna be pretty tonight.

It's gonna be a long night,
cos I don't want to get nobody hurt.

It's starting to get nasty here,
Mikey.

I know. I see this wind is
starting to come up.

Our storm is just a-brewing
a little bit on the horizon.

There was a biomass of crab here.
It was like 6 miles of crab.

Gonna start pulling gear, then we'll
be on our way to town real quick.

After hauling blanks
for four weeks...

That's
a good-looking pot there, my friend!

..captain Johnathan Hillstrand

finally hit the mother lode
on these grounds...

And set back all of his gear.

Hopefully these will be real good.

If his luck holds, the biomass of
crab will still be here.

Oh, baby!

Yeah!

Yeah, yeah, yeah! Yeah! Haul in!

Oh, baby, baby, baby,
baby, baby, baby!

Oh, boy, this is looking
rather promising!

That's a pretty damn good pot.

This will stomp us back.
Help us back.

It took a marathon of pain

for Johnathan and his crew
to find the crab.

Oh, yeah!

The plan now
is simply not to lose them.

Setting back.
It's pretty good timing.

We're getting some good numbers.

Give me a count.
30.

The only thing
standing in their way...

..a head-on collision
with a 650-square-kilometre storm.

The wind's been steadily picking up
and gusting.

Oh, yeah. Big boys.
It's about time!

Yeah, baby! Oh, yeah!

There's a few crabbies in that one,
baby!

That's what we like to see, baby!

Yeah!

As the crab count grows,
so do the seas.

There're some big waves out there,
brother.

We got to get through this gear,
man.

Yeah, baby!

Oh, the wind and the waves are just
making it miserable tonight.

We're doing good
this trip.

The last thing I want to do
is hurt somebody over here.

The captain now faces
a tough decision...

I don't know what to do right now.

Keep hauling gear
and risk the lives of his crew.

Or wait out the weather to subside
and risk the crab biomass moving on.

It's getting rougher and rougher.

As long as it keeps raining crab,
I don't mind.

Old Faithful's holding up
pretty good.

Anything could happen.

Hey, that's a big wave coming there,
brother.

Watch out, guys.
Oh, yeah.

You OK, Mike?

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Watch out, guys.
Oh, yeah.

Is he all right?
You OK, Mike?

Holy cow!

Oh, yeah, baby.

I never seen Mikey
get washed like that.

I just got my kicked
by a 30-foot wave!

That took 230lb and just took it
like a rag doll!

Washed me right across the deck!

Oh, yeah, baby.

That was Mother Nature's way
of saying 'sit down'!

Oh, that wasn't any good at all,
man.

In the face of man-k*lling seas...

Took a wave, and Mikey was swimming
on deck, so...

..the skipper makes a tough call.

We're shutting her down.
I'm just gonna bring them in, Andy.

Yeah.
Just come on in, men!

This ain't worth it.
Just come on in and be safe.

Let's batten down the hatches.
Let's go to bed.

Come on, Mikey.

Fall back and regroup,

and then we'll be back up here
in the daylight.

Now all he can do is hope the crab
stay on these grounds.

That's the way we operate
around here.

It's all about just coming home
safe, getting our quota.

220km to the north-east,
on the 31-metre Kodiak...

So, if you lean to the left,
it hurts?

Yeah.

Just, like, when you bend over
to the left?

Mm-hm.

Eight days ago...

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Oh, man!
What happened to him?

..a busted crane forced the crew
to push the pots.

My leg is on fire.

In the process,
deckhand Jake Jolibois...

Ow! Oh

..wrenched his back.

All right.

Losing anybody's
tough to deal with.

You know, and Jake's a funny guy.
He's a motivator.

He keeps people laughing, you know?
He's a good addition to the crew.

I mean, I'm...
I'm bummed out that he's hurt.

In a nutshell, the boat's ready
to go. We're all repaired.

This whole thing's gonna be
a tough gig, running a guy short.

Help him out! Help him out with
these doors that are stacked.

This four-man deck, man -
it's kind of brutal.

Everybody's at edge,
we've lost a guy.

There's just a lot going on.

Captain Bill Wichrowski
is setting 90 of his pots

on grounds that struck gold
eight days earlier.

I'm gonna just kind of lay
everything

about three miles above
where I had our other gear.

We're in a position
to do some damage.

For ten hours,
the shorthanded crew struggles

under the weight
of 40,000kg of steel.

You're wasting my time here!

These guys need to step up.

And a deck boss
who just keeps piling it on.

No, I'm just that here I am
trying to do my job,

I got these guys that aren't doing
half of their job.

Someone needs a hug.

Come over here and give me a hug.
See what happens.

Just keep talking!

That's why you'll forever be
a greenhorn.

Adam's kind of on a roll where
he thinks everybody's too slow.

And we've been grinding.

You know, these guys haven't been
getting a lot of rest,

and you get banged up.

You can't do a job like this without
having bruises and crushed knuckles,

and it's a hard job, and they've
kept their heads together.

and that's been invaluable to me.

Don't want to look lazy, Zach.

Now every time I'm over there
and you're over here,

I'm gonna start calling you lazy

for not throwing both the shots
and the buoys.

Every time, Roy.
You look lazy over there...

Adam, just stop, man!

!

It's been a hard gig for
everybody, you know?

You're look lazy, Roy!
All you have to do is...

You need to settle the down.
Do you understand me?

But six hours later...

Damn it! You guys take forever
getting that door open.

It takes me a second.

..Adam is still pounding the crew.

!

Do you guys watch
where your feet go ever?

I swear to God,
you just stepped on my line.

I didn't do...
No, not you - him!

I did it on purpose.

Adam's really been on everybody,

just continually telling everybody
how up and slow they are,

and how they're not cutting
the mustard, you know?

It's been really hard
on all of these guys.

You're making us look bad.
You guys do that yourselves.

I mean, I know I'm not as quick
as him, but when you're like,

'I'm the fastest guy on
the boat,' you, dude -

you're the biggest
on the boat.

With the last pot in the water...

..the beaten-down hands
grab a quick breakfast

before it's time to start hauling.

How about mine?
Who's paying for mine?

Never a dull moment on this boat.

Just ...

Just wish the pay reflected
what you put out.

Whatever.
Haul gear, whatever it takes.

The boat pulls up
on the first pot of the string.

Come on, haul pots!
I can't!

But when Eric struggles
with the line...

!

Shut the up.

!
Get it towards the bag more.

Get half the bags in the block.

..Adam unleashes yet again.

Yeah, they're making me
do a lot of work.

Oh, I'm starting to see stars,
I'm getting so off here.

Yeah, baby! Whoo!

It's pretty darn good.

The pot comes up with good numbers.

doing everything I can

to baby
this little operation.

But Adam is not celebrating.

Hey, Adam,
do you want to come up

to the house for a minute?

Might as well get this
out of the way.

What the , man? We're finally
on some crab...

I...
Hey, shut the up, Adam!

Don't walk away from me, !
No way, Bill.

You know what? Adam! Adam!
Settle the down, !

Get off their !
Yeah. Roger. Absolutely

We finally get on some crab!

I've been putting up with your
all season

belittling these guys
working their off!

Whatever happened to motivating,
not alienating...

Hey, Adam, get off deck.

!

him.

What'd I tell you?

Every day seems to be some kind of
new chaos.

We started off with five on this
trip. Now we're down to three guys.

It's gonna be slow,
but figure it out.

Whatever.

Oh, .

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700km to the north
of Dutch Harbor...

Keep looking.
They're here somewhere.

That last delivery, 16,000lb,
did we make money? No.

After a miserable offload,

the Cornelia Marie is back
on the blue crab grounds.

Yeah, we're gonna go have a lot
better trip this time.

Just gotta hope that we got, you
know, 15, 16 average through them,

but if we don't, we pick 'em up,
we re-bait 'em,

we move 'em over, start over again.

That's all you can do -
pick 'em up and put 'em down.

Down below, boat owners Jake and Josh
Harris call a crew meeting.

We can't keep on doing
what we're doing right now.

The window that we had to catch
the crab has already passed.

It's already gone by.
We didn't find them.

He wants to go try a couple more
spots. Well, cool.

I don't want to pay for him to check
out a couple more spots.

Are you comfortable sitting out here
not making any money, you know?

I'm trying to lose some weight.

And lose some money.

We're running out of money,
Derrick,

and if we spend all our of money
on this season and we strike out,

then we can't bring the boat
back up for opies,

and I'm not willing
to take that risk.

There's only one way that I've ever
worked through that problem before,

and I will guarantee if your dad was
sitting here right now,

he'd tell you the exact same
thing - it's keep driving on.

You got to keep pu... to push
through that wall.

It's the only way you can get off
your left foot.

We don't have the ability.

We don't have it to put out no more.

There's a little bit more ground
to cover.

I would love to try for at least one
or two more days before we give up.

You nail something with,
like, you know,

we start seeing some big numbers...

The bills are still stacking up,

so we are really looking forward
to coming out here

and putting some crab on the boat

to try and cover some of the bills
before we go red crab fishing.

The Harris boys
have put Derrick on notice.

If his town soak doesn't produce, the
Cornelia's blue crab season is over,

and they'll head south
to fish red crab.

It doesn't matter where the
you go,

you ain't gonna catch ,

cos he can't catch his
with both hands, how about that?

I know my dad would be able
to do it. He'd figure it out.

First pot coming up.

OK, well, this is the big D-day.

Lord, have mercy.

Not what we were looking for.

That's really bad, actually.

Another blank.

They call it the elusive blue crab
cos you can't catch the .

Well, I was hoping,
I was hoping, hoping, but...

The captain doesn't know
what he's doing.

Jake and Josh are spending
$2,000 a day on fuel and food,

and getting nothing in return.

We were supposed to spend
$150,000 tops.

We're at $167,000 right now.
We don't have any more money.

We don't have the time.
Yeah.

We can't give it...
You're losing money now.

You do gotta do
what you gotta do, Josh.

I can't believe we're quitting only
after eight days of fishing.

That's it. We tried for eight days.

290km to the north-east
of Dutch Harbor...

We got about 24 hours of driving,
then we'll hit town,

head back to the big city lights
of Dutch Harbor.

..on the Wizard...

Two-week trips are really
kind of unheard of.

Every day you stay on the grounds

is just one more day
that you have to worry about

those crab all being alive when you
get into town.

Every one of those crab
is worth 50 bucks.

They're 50 bucks a pop.
It's the best price we've ever had.

God! I really don't wanna be
a idiot.

But Keith's catch
isn't the only thing at risk.

After falling asleep at the wheel,

Lynn's future aboard the Wizard
is on the line.

Hey, Keith, is it all right
if I talk to you about last night?

I just wanted to apologise,

because I know it's a cardinal rule
not to fall asleep during watch.

And I'm sorry to put the boat
at danger and the crew at danger

and everyone else at danger
by falling asleep up there.

Up until last night, I trusted you
to sit here. Now I don't.

You were stone-cold asleep
at the wheel.

I mean, do you want to be
a crab fisherman?

I do. I want to be a great crabber,
you know? I wanna be...

Well, that's all I needed to hear!

Not a crabber -
'I wanna be a great crabber.'

I'll be honest, Lynn. You've
definitely advanced this season.

You've gotten better
than you were last season,

but when and if you do take
another watch...

..if you ever get caught
sleeping again,

you will be fired immediately.

There won't be any big talks
or Lombardi speeches or anything.

All right.

It's a done deal, all right?

720km to the north-west...

I'm in survival mode right now.

..on the remote
blue king crab grounds...

I mean,
our trip's pretty well screwed

with the greenhorn quitting on us.

..Seabrooke captain Scott Campbell Jr
is a man down,

and his crew is feeling it.

They're having to put in
extra effort

to pick up the greenhorn's slack,

so this extra effort is, you know,
pretty excruciating on them.

Three days ago,

sore hands pushed greenhorn
Josh Fullmer to his breaking point.

Yeah, my place isn't here to crab
fish, that's for sure.

If I couldn't hack a job, I would do
everything I could to save face,

and I think that's 90% of any man
that has a left in him.

But you know, the crew and I don't
have time to worry about him.

We got a job to do.

This is to finish off the trip,
set up the town soak,

and be ready to rock'n'roll
when they come out.

Just 18 hours until his first
blue crab offload in St Paul,

Junior needs to be on the crab.

Just give me my ten average
and I'll be happy.

.

That's a kick
in the .

Two crab in that one.

.

It's a waste of time.

.

I don't have time to make a big move
right now. I don't.

I just gotta get this gear
back in the water.

I got to try and crank as much
gear...

With no time to find a new home
for his pots,

Junior is forced to set
his town soak on low numbers.

Stretching the pain.

More work for the short-handed crew.

I like being out there.
I like to crab fish.

I've almost suited up and said
' it'

and went out there a couple times.

I don't have the mental...
the mental strength

to get over this hand thing,
you know what I mean?

It hurts to use 'em.

It hurts to pull pots
and tie ties and cut fish,

and it hurts, you know?

It would be nice to sit down,

eat some popsicles, watch a movie,
kick back, but you know what?

He's just a .

It's gotta be humiliating.

I mean, I just...
I don't see how it couldn't be.

I mean, I couldn't save face. I'd be
in my bunk hiding out.

You know, it doesn't seem
to bother him.

Yeah, he's in there
watching movies.

He's watching movies while the guys
are out there busting their a*s.

Are you a quitter?

You know, I think everybody's
a little irritated

now that they're having
to pick up his slack.

At first it was disappointment.
Now it's irritation.

After the last pot is set,
the crew takes time

to formally accept
the greenhorn's resignation.

He can deal with it downstairs.

This is his, right?

Bad juju. That's his.

He's getting booted out of
their area.

It's kind of that dead man walking.

They don't want to have anything
to do with the kid, you know?

A quitter's a quitter,
and he'll be a quitter all his life.

That's pretty obvious.

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That's what I always preach -
I'd rather be lucky than good.

210km north-east
of Dutch Harbor...

I'm hoping
there's some biomass here.

..is the Time Bandit.

Your gear will tell you what to do.

It'll tell you
to stack it all up and go,

or else it'll say,
'Hey, set this back right now.'

It's been 26 hours since a storm
forced captain Johnathan Hillstrand

to shut down on epic fishing.

Batten down the hatches.
Let's go to bed.

Now the crab might have moved on.

Hopefully we'll see something
like 'Eureka!'

And then we know what to do.

These pots will determine

if Johnathan's decision to play it
safe was the right one.

We just want some crab
in here!

Yeah! Riders!

We're on the mother lode!

Yeah, brother!

Oh, yeah, baby. That's a pot!

Aha!

Beautiful!

Looking real good here.

We found the crab. I know right
where they live right now.

Nice big crab.

That is a dandy.

We're baiting the heck
out of our gear,

and I'm gonna b*mb the hell out of
it with this.

We're looking real good.

If they can keep this average up for
about 50 pots, we'll be headed home.

For now, life is good.

440km to the north-west,
heading to St Paul Island...

Seabrooke inbound, St Paul Harbor.

Any opposing traffic,
stand by on 16.

Seabrooke captain Scott Campbell Jr

prepares for his first blue crab
offload.

Well, we're coming in to deliver

our 50,000lb of blue crab
to St Paul here.

A little concerned with dead loss,
you know.

It's always kind of on my mind.

Historically,
you never held blue crab

for more than three or four days.

The cannery says, 'No problem,'
the fishermen say, 'No problem,'

but when I get these crab off,
then I'll say, 'No problem.'

Yeah, we're taking off
our first hatch

for our first offload of blue crab.

So, hopefully we look good
at the end.

They're alive!

I like what I see in the tank.

As the crab is offloaded,

25-year-old new greenhorn Josh
'Stroker' Graves boards the vessel.

We seem to be going through
greenhorns like they're butter,

and it's not
because we're hard on them.

It's because
of the work-intensity load,

we haul three times
the amount of gear.

Yeah.
Just don't quit on me, man.

I'm not gonna quit, dude.
That's what this last one told me.

You guys will have to carry me off
this boat, cos I ain't getting off.

OK! That's what I wanna hear.
All right.

All right, you're set, brother.
That one's yours.

OK.
No, I'm not quitting on you.

All right. That's what I wanna hear.

That's good. He's got ambition.

We'll see. Hopefully he makes it.

The Seabrooke's first
blue crab tally - 23,000kg.

Phenomenal trip.

Worth $250,000.

So, it's time to go out and do it
again, you know?

No rest for the weary.

But before heading off...

It was amazing. Thank you.
I appreciate it.

Yeah, good luck.
Good luck in life's adventures.

'Adventures'!
I'm done adventuring.

OK, man.
All right, man.

Well, down with two. One to go.

Yeah, he seemed like a good kid,
but this ain't his gig.

Get the worthlessness off the boat -
that's how I feel.

I came out.
I tried... I tried my hardest.

I've seen so many guys fail,
and I'm like,

'Oh, put me in that position.
I'll show that dude up.'

Mental breaking in two hours of
fishing? Are you kidding me?

If you can't do your job,

I've got to stop the whole operation
and go four-man deck.

It's not something
I ever want to deal with again.

Oh, well. C'est la vie.

Crab's off.
Time to go fishing.

Yeah, go ahead and throw the lines.

Blue crab, round two.

Hell, yeah! I'm ready to go, man.

We're outta here. Blowing this town.
Gotta go, gotta go.

The Seabrooke heads out

with its third new greenhorn
in just two weeks.

There was nothing wrong with Kyle,
you know?

Kyle had it. He just didn't want it.

Josh, he wanted to be a crabber,

but he just didn't have it,
you know?

Stroker - he's our man!

I don't know. I just got a feeling
that he's gonna be OK.

Stroker's gonna be the saviour!

Are you all right?

I don't think the young buck's
gonna be eating my cooking tonight.

I think he's seasick.

Man, we got some water for you.
You need to hydrate yourself.

Cool.
OK.

Thank you.
All right.

He didn't look too hot.
So, it's like a broken record.

We're gonna see if the horn
can prove himself... again.

After a painful 15-day marathon
at sea...

..the Wizard
steams into Dutch Harbor.

These crab have been
on the boat a long time.

Two weeks time on the crab
is an awful long time

to ask those crab to stay alive.

Skipper Keith is in a race
against the clock

to get his crab out of the tanks.

Yeah, I'm nervous. These guys worked
way too hard for this crab.

With only 40,000kg of crab on board,

any dead loss could mean disaster
for skipper and crew.

Lynn, you better pull that sucker in
fast for me, OK?

Get everything on the bow
when I hit the dock.

That's it. Make 'em fast, guys.
Get everything you can there.

OK, that's it, that's it.

As the sun sets...

..day 16 is fast approaching
the Wizard's precious catch.

They all seem to be alive
on top.

It could be a different story
once they get to the bottom.

As the offload progresses...

..the body count grows.

It's not looking too great at all.
Dead loss is looking terrible.

Taking hard-earned money
from the Wizard's crew.

This thing is this.

If you can get these guys
to punch it

and get the ones off the top quick,

the ones on the bottom that are
still barely on life support

will actually be alive.

That is 2 minutes and 20 seconds!
I want to see that time beat!

Pull it out!
Let's get another one in there!

And as the last brailer
leaves the tanks...

..the verdict is in.

That right there is a crying shame.

It's about $20,000 worth of crab

that we're not gonna get paid for
this year.

A lot of those crab
had probably died

right when they pumped
the tank down.

It's definitely a trip that
I'll never forget,

but one of those
that you wanna forget, so...

Yeah, well, I guarantee you,

you won't see me staying out 15 days
again in the future.

300km north of Dutch Harbor
is the Cornelia Marie.

We're running to Dutch.
We've been running for 24 hours.

We're about halfway there.
Time to go red crab fishing.

We need to regroup
and try to work something out.

One guy goes,
they all go, you know?

That's how a team works, you know?
Yeah.

That's exactly what's happening
right now.

If we don't have a crew,
we don't have nothing, you know?

I just want to fish.

I want to fish,
I want to learn how to fish.

No coffee? Oh, there is coffee.

Derrick, have you talked
to the kid at all this morning?

No. What's up?

I've talked to a couple of the guys,

and I'm just waking up
to all this too, like, so...

What the is going on?

You know, they're tired,
and that's...

Tired after nine days
of crab fishing?

Does that mean we're not going
red crab fishing?

Is that what that means?

I'm not a happy camper.
I'm not...

I busted my
to get crab for this boat.

I got blue crab for the boat.

You turned around
and me on that deal.

, you know what?

Had there been more crab in the
pots,

then maybe we wouldn't be in this
situation.

Right there, you shut me down.
!

So, what's the story, Jake?

You don't want to go fishing
anymore.

You made a commitment to me,
and you're backing out on it.

You backed out on blue crab.
Now you're backing out on the crab.

You're saying we're the ones
that quit for blue...

One minute you're... You did!

We didn't see crab the whole time
we were out there!

Don't you turn
this around on me.

I'm not trying to turn nothing...
You think you can defer to me?!

You're trying to tell us that...
, Jake.

It's getting worse as it goes on.
We're fighting, you know?

We're sticking daggers in each
other. I'm not trying to fight.

You do, cos you turn around and...

You like to turn around
and bring up the past

and throw at people.

You sit there, 'I smell weed!'
You did.

That's all I keep on hearing.

You did.
'You smell like weed.'

smell me, Derrick.
You want to smell my undies, too?

I don't smell like weed,

and you keep bringing up
like that.

If you want to make me look bad...

I don't make you look bad.
You make yourself look bad.

I don't make myself look bad, but
you're bringing up ...

You're starting in on it again.
You're starting in on it again.

Step back and listen to yourself.

You keep bringing it up, it's gonna
get me in trouble.

and it's the last thing
that...

You know, like, what the ,
Derrick?

I mean, what the ?
Drop it! drop it.

You can sit there and say what you
want,

but you are the only one
that knows the truth.

I didn't want this.
I... I didn't want

I mean, !

Walking off.
See, big boys don't walk off.

Your little brother's gotta get
a grip on himself, Josh.

'We want it the way it used to be.'

The absence of my old man is
at the back of everybody's head,

and we just got to find a better way
to make things work without him
here,

cos he was the dude holding
everything together.

And we don't want that kind of
energy just to be lost, you know?

We want that feeling
on the boat still,

and it takes certain
kind of personalities

to bring that kind of team feeling
together,

and Derrick's not the guy
for this job,

and it's apparent to everybody
on the boat.


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