07x09 - Sea Change

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♪

♪ Hello, baby, I'm poor again

♪ I'm so tired this must be a sin

♪ Kiss the kids, kick the dog for
me

♪ The captain's callin', I gotta
go

♪ Sorry, baby, it's time for the
show

♪ And honey, I hope I get to see
you soon... ♪

Watch out!

♪ Well, a fisherman's work is
never done

♪ From sun up to sun down, he's
on the run

♪ Working to make an honest day's
pay

♪ The main mob send him out

♪ Gonna catch crab down in the
Bering

♪ And honey, I hope I get to see
you soon... ♪

Get down! Get the down!

♪ And honey, I hope I get to see
you real soon... ♪

♪ THEME MUSIC

Watch out!

I don't think I've ever run
it without Edgar.

If he was to never come back,

that would be a difficult pill
to swallow.

For me to be able to leave,

people have got to find their
place real quick.

Loud, and
aggressive are three of my
idiosyncrasies

that I really dislike about
myself.

What I need to do is find a way
not to be a tyrant.

When we left this
dock, I never meant to let
anybody down.

I had big hopes and dreams.
Nobody likes to fail.

January, Dutch Harbor,
Alaska.

Autumn has given way to winter and
with the change in season...

I'm just repairing them, welding
them back up,

get them ready to fish opies.

..comes a new hunt for crab.

With opilio you got to be
prepared for anything,

because you never know what's
gonna happen.

Come on, man, let's go. Hubba
hubba!

Across the fleet, deckhands are
prepping for launch.

How many you got left there? One,
two, three, four, five, six,
seven.

We've got seven left.
You having fun yet, Jake?

On the horizon, weeks of pain and
uncertain fate.

Everything's changed, but
the job is still the same.

It's time to fish for crab.

On the Time Bandit...

We have a 30-something-hour soak

and you gotta go set over here on
blanks or dirty crab,

you can set on...
I ain't setting nothing on
nothing.

You don't know nothing, mister.

..the annual changing of the guard
unfolds in the wheelhouse.

It's not as bad as your king
crab. You're stuck
in king crab mode.

We're gonna catch something no
matter what.

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand
gives up the chair
to brother Andy...

We're gonna eliminate grounds or
we're gonna find crab everywhere.

What do you think about them
apples? You're just a part-time
crabber!

I'm booking my flight right now.

..somewhat reluctantly.

On deck...

Are we bringing this down?

..the crew is rolling out the
welcome mat.

Well, every year we add an extra
guy for opies.

You just never know who's gonna
be that extra guy,

so this year we just so happened
to have one of our rival guys,

Travis Lofland off the Wizard!

I'm not gonna say any names.

That's the nice thing about crab
fishing -

the application's the same.

You rig the pot for the species
you're harvesting,

you bait it, set it, haul it.

It is what it is. It's not rocket
science, just different guys.

Also joining the Time Bandit
family is Eddie Uwekoolani's son
Eddie Jr.

Just listen to what the guys say,

stay out of the pot no matter
what, like I told you.

It ain't worth dying. If a pot
gets out of control,
get out of the way.

Your old man might freak out and
try to save you.

It's different when it's your kid
out there.

Be real careful. Don't trust none
of us, not even me,

when we're running hydraulics or
doing something.

Always watch where your feet are

and watch where you put your
hands so you don't lose
no fingers.

Across the dock, on the
Northwestern...

You guys, has anybody started the
main?

Nope.
You haven't tried the main yet?

That's one of the first things we
do when we get here.

For the past 15 years, deck boss
and engineer Edgar Hansen

has prepared the boat for launch.

All the engines get started,
fired up, warmed up, checked.

All your hydraulics, all the
cranes, you work the rack.

The only way you're gonna get to
know it is to play with it,
do it.

This season, he's prepping the
crew for his departure.

If you've got a key player that's
not there now

and he has the knowledge of
everything that's been going on

in the heart of the boat, well,

now we've got to find our own way
to operate.

With Edgar gone, 29-year-old Jake
Anderson

will finally get his chance to
move up the ladder...

All that stuff's freezer.

Why are you running the crane?

Wasn't the cook the one that's
supposed to be storing this?

..if he can handle the climb.

Am I cooking or is he cooking?

I thought you were cooking last
trip.

Yeah, I was.
You just assumed you're not
cooking?

These guys are doomed.

Just down the harbor...

..veteran deckhand Freddy Maugatai
joins the crew of the Wizard.

Hello, brother.
Hey!

Good to have you here, man.

Love to have you.

Thanks. I'm not gonna let you
down.

As far as I know, I won't let you
let me down. Don't worry.

Get your stuff unpacked if you
need to

or if you think you need
something, go ahead and get it.

The guys are outside loading bait
or doing something. Sounds good.

Awesome.
It's a pretty nice home here.

Pretty good-sized boat and lots
of room.

For me to move on and go on
different boats,

you know, it was a really hard
decision to make, you know?

I've been making less money,

been staying with Phil the last
four or five years

because, you know, he always
treated me with love and respect.

At the same time, I can't afford
it,

so I have to step up take the
better job, you know?

On the Cornelia Marie...

Your dad did you a huge
disservice, huge,

by not teaching you these things

the last five years when he had
you on this boat.

This last season, things just
didn't work out.

Derrick didn't mesh with this
boat.

He had a different way of things.

I'm tired of playing, in a sense,
that victim role

and just wondering why
this all happened,

how this could have happened.

It did happen, here we are, it's
time to settle the score

and do what my dad always knew I
could do

and, you know, in a sense, wanted
us to do.

Listen to me for one minute.

You think I want to share my 30
years of knowledge

and my 25 years of running a boat

to a kid that's got a huge drug
problem?

He is not prepared to run a boat
ever in his life at this stage

and neither are you.

If Jake can't step up to the
plate, then I will,

because this boat needs to stay
in our family,

but we're gonna turn a negative
into a positive.

We've got a really, really good
group of guys right now

We've got Chief downstairs.

He's the engineer and he's a
really, really good guy.

Dale, also an engineer

and he'll be helping us out on
deck, you know.

Ryan's still here

and Jake's supposed to be flying
in this afternoon.

We've got Tony to come take the
reigns

and he has the same mentality
that my father had.

To help carry on the family
legacy,

Josh has hired family friend Tony
Lara.

He was the first guy to hire me
on the Cornelia Marie when I was
15,

so it's kind of a crazy deal.
Josh!

His ears mst have been burning.

How's it going, buddy?

But the new skipper...

It's really not an option.

I mean, you gotta -
Well, this is -

Do you want to work next to a guy
that's hopped up on drugs?
No, no.

..has an old problem.

If there's an issue with your
brother,

I mean, I can't take a guy
fishing who, I mean,
I just can't do that.

You know, you could k*ll people
out here.

You know, that's the bottom line

and that's why it's just not
tolerated.

A very scrutinising drug test is
coming for the kid,

so if we know what to expect
ahead of time, that would be
good.

Buddy. How's it going, brother?
Good to see you, man.

Today we got the drug test guy
coming by.

We have to do it for the
insurance.

Do you foresee any problems here
coming up?

From what I've seen lately, it
looks like he's trying.

I think he's finally realising

there's not a lot of options he
has right in front of him right
now

and just, you know, just one
little drug test

can change a lot of things for
him.

We have a yes or no. There's no
grey area.

He's not pregnant.
You passed?

Give me a hug.

Don't you feel better?
I do.

We're serious about this stuff,
so... Yeah. I was too.

Well, good job.
I know.

So...
Now we're fishing.

Gets to go fishing.

Good?
Oh, yeah!

We got a full crew. Yeah.

♪

♪

Dawn breaks on the fleet's last
day in port.

Whoa!

And on the Time Bandit...

Come on.
What? Hey, you guys!

Someone got us! Come out here and
check this thing out.

What are you talking about?
Look on our crane guard.

Big ol' red letters.

Hey, Andy. I think the Seabrooke
tagged us.

Oh, did they now?
Yeah.

Here, you can take a peek at it.

Seabrooke. Oh.

Oh, nice.

So the youngsters want to play
games, do they?

While the crew celebrated their
final hours on solid ground...

..the men of the Seabrooke...

OK, I want you to put a lightning
bolt right there.

..marked their territory.

There you go.
There we go.

Let them know the new boys are in
town,

we can play games too.

This sort of thing,

you want the expert with you,
which is me.

We need to buy every egg in town.

We like scrambled eggs for
breakfast.

Omelettes for everybody.
That's the way.

Seabrooke, this is for you, baby.

Sig! You guys want to help throw
some eggs?

We've got 1,400 eggs to throw.

No, you won't, it'll be us.

It'll be our boat. He won't even
see you.

Get the out here.
He'll see my face.

We'll put a bag over your head
with eyes cut out.

You'll be the unknown
egg-thrower. Come on!

'Don't bring us into
this!'

Oh, well. 700 eggs for you, then.

You guys are going anyway.
Wait, wait. Whoa.

Well, we called in the
Northwestern,

a few other buddies in town,

to help us pay these guys back.

I've never seen this many eggs.

I really haven't.

They'll their pants.

They think that they can outsmart
the older guys.

I don't think so.

I'll say it again - don't mess
with the Hillstrands.

This is gonna be
terrible. This is gonna
be terrible.

I'm glad I'm on this boat.

Oh.

They're all giving me the look.

What's going on, boys?

Fire!

Run for cover, boys!

Ow!
Incoming!

Cover every window he has.

They're coming from this
side.

This is gonna be a good year.

Yeah!

Yeah!

Man! I got nailed right in the
eye.

Boy, that got me good.

I thought it was snowballs at
first,

then all of a sudden...
I figured it out.

I think they found our prank.

Arctic storm
north-west at 55 knots,

waves and freezing spray west of
the Bering Island.

We just got the 24- and the
48-hour weather picture.

The 24 looks OK,

the 48- to 96-hour report is
absolutely horrible.

There is about as big a storm as
I've ever seen in my life

bearing down on the Bering Sea
right now.

Across the fleet...

Wednesday, south
winds 35 knots, seas 15.

Thursday, south-west, 35 knots,
seas 28.

..the men get a reality check.

Looks like we're in head for
misery.

Might leave an extra ten pots in
town

just to be a little on the safe
side.

Sounds like the weather's gonna
be really bad and icy

and it's not worth pushing it for
an extra ten pots.

In 36 hours, an arctic hurricane
will engulf the Bering Sea.

We've got a nice window of
weather.

Our goal now is to try to get up
there as fast as we can

before the weather comes in.

Can't wait to get out there and
see what it looks like, you know?

Every year is different.

It's time to go, brother! Cut her
loose!

Now the seasoned vets...

We're about as ready as anybody
could be.

All right, here we go now.

..and the new arrivals put on
their game faces.

It's been time to go fishing.

I'm sick of telling him - it's
time go out and make some money.

Where we going? We're going opie
fishing, Mr Fourtner.

The only thing between the
fishermen

and their share of the
$114 million opilio bounty...

..is the fury of the Bering Sea.

This body of water will teach you
how to be humble,

it'll teach you how to be afraid.

Time to get out of here and go
make some money, man.

On the Cornelia Marie...

Right in, right in here.

We'll just set it one more
pot-length over.

..final pots are loaded...

Freddy!

Hey!

..and deckhand Freddy Maugatai
bids his former mates goodbye.

Hell, yeah. How's it going over
there?

Yeah, I just stopped by to say hi
to you guys,

give you some love, make sure you
guys still know

I love you guys with all my
heart.

That's for life, brother.

You guys can make it, you know?
Make your old man proud.

You know what I'm gonna do. I'm
not gonna stop.

Old man's with me too, you know?

The old man loved you like a son,
Freddy.

I know that.
He's right here, brother.

I think about you guys too.

You be safe out there, Freddy.

Yeah, happy birthday,
Edgar, by the way.

Oh, yeah!
Ha ha ha ha! Yeah.

This is the first one you're
gonna be home! You should be
happy.

Yeah. 40 years young.

I've spent over half my life on
this boat.

Enjoy it!

I know my family will.

All right, see you in a couple of
months.

I'll give you a hug.

Ah!
All right.

It'll be fine.

Yeah, it'll be good.

Just keep your phone handy.

I will.

Yeah.
Full pots, fair seas.

OK, buddy.
All right.

See ya, man. You guys be
safe.

♪

♪

512km north-west of Dutch
Harbor...

The seas are gonna be huge.

..the Wizard arrives at the
grounds while the tempest
closes in.

A storm this size is going to
push

a phenomenal amount of force in
front of it.

We're gonna have an abnormally
high sea state
associated with it.

Get this show going...

..real quick.

I don't know if I can get my gear
in the water

before this storm shows up.

Let's get 'em off of here.

Stay safe out there, guys.

Captain Keith has a small window
to get his pots off deck

before the seas pick up.

I'm gonna be doing whatever I'm
told to do.

If somebody hasn't told me, I'm
just gonna prep bait.

Obviously we're gonna have
slow-downs

because Danny and Kevin never
baited a pot before.

This is a brutal test for Keith's
new greenhorns...

Grab some more bait from behind
here.

..and a change of pace for Freddy
Maugatai...

Right there, ready to grab.
OK.

..but everyone's falling into
rhythm.

The new little boys seem to be
doing pretty good.

I think Freddy likes a brisk pace
on deck.

That's the kind of guy I love.

Are we ready, Soper?
OK, Freddy, here we go!

OK, buddy! Roger, ready!

All right.

I'm doing my best to try
and remain as calm as possible

in a very chaotic situation.

My goal is to catch as much crab
as quick as I can

and make sure everybody's safe.

Only 56km to the south...

..Captain Andy on the Time Bandit

prepares to drop pots on
time-tested grounds.

Right there's Mr Magoo's nose and
his chin's right there.

I've pulled millions of pounds
out of this place.

Don't know if he's gonna pay off,

but he's been very good to us
most of our lives.

With the storm showing its teeth,

the crew's keeping watch on their
newest deckhand.

It's nerve-racking for Eddie to
have his kid out there,

but it's really nerve-racking for
me.

If anything happens to him, he's
gonna k*ll me.

All right, boys, let her go.

Yeah, baby!

First pot of the season!
Yeah!

Let's get this party
started!

Just four pots in...

One over!
Yeah!

Whoa!

..the seas quickly grow to 9m.

Hang on, boys.

That's gonna be a bad one.

We're gonna be right in the eye
of it.

Holy mackerel.

That was close.

Wow!

That was this close, man.

The hook came out, Justin was in
the bite.

He almost got pinched by
a pot.

Justin Tennison barely dodges the
600kg pot...

..and Eddie Jr gets a Bering Sea
warning.

Blink of an eye, I just about
lost my legs.

Going to the wrong spot at the
wrong time.

Justin almost tried
making a sandwich.

Every time we're moving the
around,
somebody tries to get hurt.

Phew! Wow. That's scary.

That was gnarly.

520km north-west of Dutch Harbor,
the 39m Cornelia Marie

is skirting the southern edge of
the storm.

The bottom at the bottom
of the ocean

and here in about 24 hours, we'll
be pulling full pots.

Kind of tough to set your gear
right before a storm.

At least get it off the boat,

but we're starting at the
rockpile.

To pick his grounds, skipper Tony
Lara

is taking a page from his old
friend's playbook.

Yeah, this was Phil's
bread-and-butter spot.

He, uh, he fished here for years.

The rocks start from right here
this way

and then there's just individual
rocks out here.

I got it marked down on a
plotter.

Everybody says this is where you
made your name.

This is where I made my name.

I fished in that spot more than
any other spot

in this whole ocean.

You know, we got the boys here,

I'm trying to teach them a little
of their father's legacy.

First pot in the launcher, 2011.

Are you guys all ready?
Yeah, roger!

OK, first pot of the 2011 opie
season.

All right, let her fly. Go ahead
and let her go.

Yeah!
Let her go!

First one!

You know, you run one to a mile,
cover a lot of depths.

There's crab around. We're gonna
catch something.

95km to the south-east...

Are you guys ready to go?
Yeah! MAN: We're ready.

We gotta make it happen quick.

..on the Northwestern...

We've got weather coming in
tomorrow,

so it's not good, man.

Let's make it happen.
OK, let's go.

Here we go, boys. Be safe.

In ten hours, a 3,400km square
Arctic hurricane

will rip into Captain Sig Hansen's
grounds.

My gut's telling me to hurry it
up

because we're trying to get the
pots out before it starts
blowing.

So as soon as we can get that
stack set and down,

it makes life a lot easier.

Be nice to get ahead of the game
and get these in before it blows.

That's a lot of gear behind me.

To keep the boat stable,

the crew needs to bait and set 150
pots...

Ah!

..and do it minus one key player.

Basically everybody's positions
have changed.

Edgar's not here and because of
that there's a new dynamic.

This could actually, could be
enjoyable.

We don't have our good, good
buddy, brother Edgar here

yelling at us.

Ha! Look at it - nobody yelling
at you.

It's got to be great.

Jake's gonna have to step up a
notch,

which I know he wants to and
that's a good thing,

but it's also a dangerous thing

because trying to do more with
less experience

doesn't always make it right.

And then you've got Matt who's
back.

He's already on thin ice and his
safety net is not there.

Edgar was his buddy, so they'd
back each other up all the time.

Well, that's not there now.

It feels good to be home.

Glad you're back, bro. Glad
you're back.

And then, of course, Kevin.

To help pick up the slack, Sig
hired a former skipper,

50-year-old Kevin Blakely.

You know, he's just got to try to
find a way to fit in

and it's not an easy thing to do
on a boat.

Kevin! Guess what time it
is.

Kevin, there's a tradition on
Northwestern.

We bite the head off a herring.

That won't be me.
It's your turn.

OK, give me one.

Oh!

Yeah!

Well, it looks like the guys are
ready down there,

so we're gonna dump the first
pot.

Let her go.

First pot, opie season.

It's always nice to hit a few
crab right off the bat if you
can,

but the fact is we're
prospecting, we're looking
around.

The first string, it's always
nerve-racking for me

because you just don't know.

What's going on here, dude?

Only two pots into the set...

It better fit through the
block.

It'll be a nightmare season if
that line doesn't work out.

Oh, these guys are just .

Tangled shots are slowing the crew
down.

What the ?

You had it right there.

this.

For sake.

Ahh!

If there was a snarl,

because we undid the line,
so then sometimes you get them
tangled up.

Then when they start looking at
it, then it just messes up.

That is such a snarl.

It's gonna be real close with us
beating this weather.

You can already see it's starting
to pick up.

With the storm moving in,

Sig's plan to fish in clear skies
is a long shot.

It's stressful because I can't
make up the time

and now that the weather's here
I've got to go haul in this.

So the 40, 50 just showed up and
you just can't win.

♪

♪

528km north-west of Dutch
Harbor...

Weather's flat today.

..the Cornelia Marie is on the
front-line of an Arctic hurricane.

We're in, like, 15-footers,
20-footers,

which is not very nice.

Mother Nature's been slapping us
in the face all morning,

but we're here and I'm pretty
excited about it.

With his crab pot soaking,

Captain Tony Lara is fishing cod
to use as hanging bait.

We're gonna pick up these cod
pots and we'll see how this haul
goes.

We've got eight pots here.

It's a little nautical today.

We got, I don't know, 45. It's
got gusts of 50.

Welcome to the big leagues.

Good way to start the opie
season.

Hauling cod pots is usually one of
the easiest routines on deck...

She's, uh, she's not very
friendly today,

so you gotta stay on your toes.

..but with 9m seas...

Are you guys all ready?

I think the tide might be
switching

and if that's the case, we might
have to wait a little bit.

They're starting to sharpen up a
little bit.

Yeah.

OK, hold on. Big one coming. Big
one coming. Hold on, hold on.

Watch it! Watch it!

Run away, run away!

OK, everybody OK?

Everybody good!

OK, that was a big one.

That was a big wave.

It, you know, it was probably
three football fields of white

it left behind, so...

The force of the 9m wave launched
the pot onto the deck...

..nearly toppling Josh Harris.

With more deadly weather on the
way...

Hey, guys, I think we're gonna
hold off until the tide switches.

No sense in whacking a guy for
cod fish.

..the skipper shuts down fishing.

Aye-aye, skipper.
Aye-aye, skipper.

But...

520km south-east, in Dutch
Harbor...

We're getting our generator
rebuilt.

It overheated, pretty much
cracked the head.

..Ramblin' Rose skipper Elliott
Neese's first opilio season

has stalled at the dock.

I'd rather get it done now than
later,

when we're missing out on opies.

It opened three days ago and
we're sitting at the dock.

Yeah, I had to do a block repair

up on top of one of the water
funnels.

It had been repaired before,

but it's all broke now, so...
We'll see what we can do.

Things are moving along pretty
good, so we'll get this repair
done

and everything and go from there.

All right. Sounds good, man.

The rookie captain's mission to
prove his worth...

I'm pretty , you know?

I'm mad, pretty mad right now,
but...

..will have to wait.

There's a point when I've got to
say, 'Hey,' you know?

'Enough's enough. Let's go
fishing.'

426km to the north-west of Dutch
Harbor...

The storm is here, it's on us.

We're in good 40 knot, 50 knot
winds...

..on the Northwestern...

Holy .

This is nautical.

It's only gonna get worse.

Captain Sig Hansen approaches his
first pots of the season

in the heart of an Arctic
hurricane.

Seas have built to 20-plus foot.

It's not the way we'd have liked
to have start the season,

but those were the cards we were
dealt.

This is Captain Sig's first haul
without his brother...

We're here to fish and that's
what we're gonna do.

..but it's not his first storm.

We're ready to go.

All right.

First pot coming up.

Please don't miss.

Oh, yeah!

Why did I know you'd miss that?

Ah, leave it to Matt to miss the
first pot.

Come on.

There's a handful.

There's not even a hundred here.

That ain't gonna do it.

100 keepers is a dismal start.

Wait for it.

And as the storm makes landing
pots nearly impossible...

..it's barely worth risking the
crew.

Sig's gotta watch it cos of the
weather.

I don't know what he sees up
there,

but as I look, more and more big
ones.

Watch out!

OK?
Everybody's here!

That was a huge one!

This is ridiculous.

64km to the north-east, the Time
Bandit is starting

the season in the same violent
conditions.

We're about ready to see one of
the most epic storms ever

and you're gonna be here to
witness with us.

How do you feel about that?

I don't know.
Is your puckered yet?

Not yet, but it probably will be.
It should be.

We have a storm here, right now,

and we have four days to load the
boat.

So not much time.

We gotta get through the gear, so
that's why we have to go

even though there's a storm. We
can't just anchor up.

It's unreal down here.

Looking at waves that are way
bigger than the boat.

First pot of the season, right
here.

Come on, baby!

What we need, brother!

OK, Mikey. No sand fleas?

We got 325, 325.

Fishing looks good...

That's a good sign.

..but in 12m seas and 97km/h
winds...

Good.

..there is no time for
celebrating.

Woo!

It just takes time and it's,
like, the very first day

of pulling gear, they get out in
40ft seas.

56km to the north, Captain Keith
joins the battle.

All righty, first pot coming up.

I tell you, this is one hell of a
way to open a season.

Oh, hang on, hang on.

Hang on.

Oh.

Well, this is not good.

Across the fleet, every deck
haul's under heavy fire...

Oh, my God.

..and every skipper must make a
choice.

It's dark, it's snowing, I can't
see 20ft in front of the boat.

I'm trying to do my part and not
k*ll anybody.

Welcome to the Bering Sea,
opie season.

Hey, guys, I think I want to
stop fishing here.

This is ridiculous.

And so it begins.

Come on in.

Hey, you guys, let's come on in.

We're gonna stand down here.

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