19x07 - Cold Hard World

[bunniefuu]

20 years ago, my dad was out here. He
was the engineer on this boat, actually.

I'm just still wrapping my mind
around the fact that he's gone.

It's a little strange to me.

Just 'cause, you know, I just spoke
with him not even a few weeks ago.

You gotta be really careful when
you're grieving on a crab boat.

You gotta be really careful when
you're grieving on a crab boat.

Are you serious?

'Cause it's very dangerous out here
and you could end up getting k*lled.

All right, bering sea.

Hey! Hey!

No! No!

Oops.

My God!

You look like you're in pan.

What is it?

Come on, baby.

Come on, baby. Get back
over. Get back over. Frickin' turn!

This is a cold, hard world

This is a cold, hard world

because the ocean don't give a.

That's the ultimate test.

230 miles
Northeast of Dutch harbor.

You know what,

we didn't bite a head
off of a herring, did we?

- Yeah!
- On the Northwestern.

Thank you!

Lauritz!

That's when you know you
gotta get deep. Thank you.

- Yeah, lord.
- Yeah, man!

Cold, hard floor.

We're in about 64 fathoms.

I found a spot to work on here.

Way to go, Mandy!

If we got a little pilot crab,
you know you gotta attack it.

If we got a little pilot crab,
you know you gotta attack it.

Gunning for
an offload in 72 hours.

- Set 'em when you're ready.
- Roger.

Captain Sig
Hansen sets all 120 pots

on a strong sign of life.

Sleuthed out by his
daughter, Mandy.

This for Merida right-

We're getting ready
to see what's out there.

Good job, Lauritz.

Good job, Lauritz.

There is a storm coming.

It's less than 48 hours away.

And I'm hoping we have
enough time to get through these

pots, find some crab
and get this gear moving.

Not all sides need to be tied.

All right?

You all right?

Who was
that? Who wiped out?

Y'know, you should be careful.

- Lauritz went in?
- Yeah.

Lauritz has got some
pre-existing back problems and

that's starting to
rear its ugly head.

Just laying down. Take it easy

for a little bit and
then try again.

We'll give him a
day, see how he does.

But, we'll just have
to go find some crab

and make it happen.

See if we can't keep
those numbers coming.

In Dutch harbor,

But we gotta offload
our own crab this time.

On the Aleutian Lady.

It's a bit of a bummer.

We found crab, but the rest
of our gear had nothing in it.

So we gotta move all that
gear on where the crab is.

With cannery slots
booked weeks in advance,

captain Rick Shelford
honors his delivery date.

Captain Rick Shelford
honors his delivery date.

Little embarrassing. We
only came in with 11 lbs.

Just a disaster.

But saves on costs by
offloading in the self checkout line.

All right. Is that all of it?

If there's a will,
there's a way.

Trying to get this all fully
done in a quick manner.

There's a storm coming in.

There we go. Time's ticking.

We just gotta get off this dock.

We just gotta get off this dock.

So if you two could get all up in
there, I gotta grab my paperwork.

I'm not down.

It's time to turn this around.

Hey, pops. How you doing?

What the...

Are you serious?

No...

Well, at least he's
with grandma now.

All right, pops. Keep me posted
on it. Let me know what's going on.

My heart is with mom
and everybody there.

Bye.

My grandpa passed.

The hardest part about

being a fisherman,

being a captain,

is being away from loved ones.

Not being there when

stuff happens.

You know all you wanna do is
be there for your family, your mom.

You know all you wanna do is
be there for your family, your mom.

Your siblings, your
loved ones and...

it's the worst part
about this job.

180 miles northwest.

We got about ten minutes or so.

Roger.

On the Time Bandit.

On the Time Bandit.

You know, Jesse, haven't seen him... I mean,
I don't know if he's been seasick or not.

I think he's going down
inter room talking to his dad.

His old man was an engineer.

Probably where he
feels closest to him.

His dad used to work
on the Time Bandit.

My friend Mike,

he would do anything for me. He
was my best friend in high school.

And then he died in his sleep.

Jesse. Good-looking dude.
Strong dude, just like his dad.

Jesse. Good-looking dude.
Strong dude, just like his dad.

They happened to have
an in-town funeral for him

Yeah.

He brought some of his dad's
ashes out with him so we could

give him a proper burial at sea.

And hopefully, his
dad's soul can rest.

Filling out captains Jonathan
and Andy Hillstrand's operation on deck

are crewmen Jesse McCullen,

son of recently deceased,
former Time Bandit engineer,

Mike McCullen.

Mike McCullen.

Trying to keep the
legs in the life force.

As excited as I was 20 years
ago, I still can't believe I'm

out here doing the
same thing he did.

And yeah, this is a
remarkable feeling. It really is.

All right, brother.

We can't miss our delivery date

or we're really screwed.

I hope I don't F it up.

With just over half of their
50,000 lbs goals still evading them,

and an offload approaching
in four days' time.

And an offload approaching
in four days' time.

Right now we're pulling the very first
pot of string that I set on that edge.

This is my string.

The brothers Hillstrand
have no choice but to haul their 20 pots

set on a 130 fathom ridgeline.

Okay, here we go.

Let's see what
the first one has.

Let's see what
the first one has.

Jackpot!

We got colors.

- Holy.
- Yeah, no way.

That's a good table.
Look at that table.

What'd you get in that one?

What'd you get in that one?

Yeah!

Got some good
crab on board, dude.

Come on, baby. Come on.

Yeah!

This is awesome.

- Wanna take a little break?
- Yep.

Well, I know not what I do.

I know what to do, to do.

Don't put this by the
keyboard you'll scramble.

Yeah, don't want to
put that by the keyboard.

All right, bering sea.

Watch it.

Goddamnit!

On the Time Bandit.

All right, beer season.

Watch out!

Get out of the way!

Ooh!

That was crazy.

I've never seen that happen.

I ain't never seen
nothing like that.

We got lucky that it broke off and went
into the water instead of on the deck.

We got lucky that it broke off and went
into the water instead of on the deck.

All right. Let's get it aboard!

You're gonna k*ll
two of 'em, you know?

Nah, they're in the back, so...

It'd have been very bad.

Now we gotta go back to work.

Shake the
out of it. Send it back.

Zeroing on something
good up here.

Back in Dutch harbor.

I had a terrible offload.

On the Saga.

So we're gonna go out
west. Way out west to ADAC.

Because there's
bigger fish out there.

I've never been that far before.

Honestly, I'm a little
bit nervous about it.

It's a three-day travel.

I've been pretty far west,

but never that far at once.

I need an extra hand.

I need help.

So I told Sean that he's
gotta come with me.

I know Sean has history
with black cod with his dad.

And it's... He's
gotta go.

Over the past ten years,

I've been working on
boats since I was 12 years old.

I wanted to be where my dad was.

Captain Sean has
carried on the Dwyer family business

Captain Sean has
carried on the Dwyer family business

for his father Pat,

who passed from
Lou Gehrig's disease.

I watched him
die for eight years.

The way I deal with it,

is doing it right the first
time and not cutting corners.

I'll carry on his standard.

Now the young skipper
joins forces with Jake Anderson.

- Speak of the devil.
- Sup, buddy.

To catch their combined
million pounds of black cod quota.

To catch their combined
million pounds of black cod quota.

- What you got there?
- Top secret information from back in the day.

Chart from the old man.

As you can see
it's pretty... beat up.

Wow, this goes all
the way to Siberia.

He's all the way out here.
All the way out to the border.

Look at that.

- Your dad was fishing deep. Lot deeper than I've been.
- Yeah.

Probe in the deep.

Probe in the deep.

WHat I do know about black
cod is they run in patterns.

And they run in the same patterns
that they usually, typically always have.

Yeah, well, if we're
gonna catch this quota,

might as well take all
the help we can get.

Ready to throw the
lines and get out of here?

Let's rock n roll.

All right, everybody.
Ready to go?

Let's start then.

We're pulling
off the dock right now.

We got another captain
up in the wheelhouse.

Uncle Jake does not
like to play with others.

All right. Three
days steam, chum.

Wake me up when we get there.

260 miles northeast.

Taking a lot of painkillers
but doesn't take it down.

I've tried to get warm thinking
it's gonna get better but it isn't.

Is it so painful that
you wanna cry?

Yeah.

We're not even through
the first string, everybody.

Have you taken Advil?

Not yet. I'm gonna
take some now.

I don't know if the stuff those norwegian
doctors gave you is strong enough.

I don't know if the stuff those norwegian
doctors gave you is strong enough.

Maybe not.

- Let's try one more time.
- Yeah.

- Okay?
- Yes, yes.

On the Northwestern.

Okay, hit it.

With every pot committed to
his daughter Mandy's chosen grounds,

captain Sig idles up to
his northernmost string

captain Sig idles up to
his northernmost string

amid building 20-foot seas.

It's supposed to
get quite a bit worse here.

These winds are coming out of the
southeast but they're moving from the west.

It's coming across the
peninsula and moving towards us.

Lauritz, he's got
some back issues.

Lauritz, he's got
some back issues.

We're just gonna see how long he'll last
today and then what kinda pain it brings.

There's life in it.

Really? That's a crab an hour.

Hey, Lauritz. You hurt?

You all right?

Lauritz went in?

Just letting you know,
once it starts getting worse,

it just... Gonna have
to tap out right now.

I don't know about Lauritz.

I'm starting to
fear the worst here.

I'm starting to
fear the worst here.

On the Northwestern.

It doesn't look
good or sound good.

So I think he may be
done for this season.

We're gonna need another
person to fill that gap.

Short-handed, it's
just going too hard.

Hello?

Hey, how are you?

Good. How's
it going up there?

We ran into a snag.
Lauritz got an accident.

We ran into a snag.
Lauritz got an accident.

I need a plan B.

And you're it.

Maybe you can think about
coming up for a little while?

I know it's last
minute. It's not fair.

But, you know...

Okay, fair enough.

Talk soon.

Aight, bye-bye.

I get it.

Who wouldn't wanna be home?

Just gotta get him up
quickly to get into offload

and hopefully, you know,

Lauritz gets better.

Poor guy.

250 miles southwest.

On the Time Bandit.

Last one!

We gotta little run
now. We gotta run.

Hopefully we won't
run out of crab.

Crab got legs. They move
around... See what happens.

Hey, Jesse. What's up?

You haven't slept
in three days? Why?

You've had a lot going on, I'd say,
in the last couple weeks, haven't you?

Yeah.

I got a Unisom you
could try to take.

Later on. After
we're done working.

Okay, man. Sounds good, Jesse.

Well,

that's the weirdest
I've ever heard.

That's the weirdest
I've ever heard.

Heard people come up and
say haven't in three days.

But I never heard anybody say
they can't sleep for three days.

He's got a lot on
his mind, though.

You know, he's got the sad ashes.
His dad's ashes are in his bunk.

Next to him. While he's
sleeping, he's with his dad.

We just need to take care of his dad
and then he might be able to sleep.

I've just been putting it off because
it's so emotional for me, the...

My best friend in high school...

I wouldn't be able to sleep
with my dad's ashes in my bed.

I wouldn't be able to sleep
with my dad's ashes in my bed.

He should bury Mike.

Let him bury Mike
right now, so...

Let us... Let him...
He's restless.

Let him go.

Want Jesse to be able to sleep

when his dad
will be laid to rest.

We're gonna bury Mike.

We'll quit meals.

You guys can all come out here

You guys can all come out here

and I'm just gonna
say a few words and...

we're gonna spread
his ashes 'cause...

he was a submarine guy

and this is a canyon.

It's... It is a perfect place
for a submarine guy to go.

Maybe you can say something.

I might not say the right thing.

- Yeah.
- And, we'll... bury Mike,

and let him... let him be free.

He's trapped in a box.

Let him... let him...

Jesse.

Love your dad.
He's my best friend.

This is hard to do.

And...

And...

I'm sorry it took me this long.

I haven't
had the courage to do it.

It's gonna be hard to do.

Now let's go do it right now.

Come on out. We
will water your dad.

I wanna say a word about Mike.

He was a great dad,
he raised a great kid.

And we just wanna
honor him today

and spread his ashes in the
Saint... Saint George Canyon.

Lord, please take
Mike in your arms.

Take his soul. Let
his soul be in heaven.

Let him find peace.

Let Jesse find peace.

In love, in mercy.

That's what we ask in Your name.

Amen.

When you're ready, you
just... you just let your dad go

and then dump his ashes and...

Okay.

He went bye-bye.

Well, that's your dad there.

Your spirit's free, Mike.

Love you, Mike.

Miss you, Mike.

- Love you.
- Love you, Jim.

Let him go.

Tough. It's tough to do.

He'll be in heaven.

We should hug it out.

We should hug it out.

- There you go.
- Okay.

That wasn't easy.

He was a good dude.

I got Mike in my nose.

You know what he'd say?

"Get back to work!"

In Dutch Harbor...

I'm sorry, Mom.

I'm sorry I'm not there.

I love you guys.

They're having the...

memorial this Saturday.

I got a lot going on.

Lot of... planning.

Right now my back's
against the wall.

We're losing money.

From crew to weather,

to this off load,

to my grandpa dying.

I'm just done.

Completely done.

Completely done.

I don't know. I gotta go
figure some things out.

It's not good.

We could... we could go home.

It hurts.

It hurts frickin'
hardcore inside.

But, you know...

he was a fisherman.

He would want me fishing.

He would encourage it.

And I gotta make
up for lost time.

I wanna be out there hauling

as the actual weather
starts to come down.

As the actual weather
starts to come down.

So we're gonna be heading

though Unimak Pass,

and it's gonna be really,
really, really nautical.

To make up
for an extra day dockside...

Go ahead, drop everything.

On the return trip to his gear,

Rick charts a course
through Unimak Pass,

where the North Pacific
and the Bering Sea collide,

breeding towering waves.

It's gonna get downright.

Waves have
picked up quite a bit.

We're looking at probably
20-footers coming at us.

The current's ripping.

We're just gonna take
this slow and steady,

try not to blow a window out.

If that window blows out

and it hits me,

I had a buddy who
almost died from that.

Big wave, big wave.

Ooh.

Another frickin' big wave.

And another one. Come on!

And another one. Come on!

Big wave. Aargh! Come on.

Whoo!

Let's do it.

Aargh, come on, baby.

Come on. Dang!

We keep taking green
water over the bow.

Wow. That is a
double frickin' wave.

Let's go, let's go, let's go.

Up, up, up, up, up.

What the hell.

We just took a lot of
water over the bow.

Hey, we got an alarm.

Can somebody
check the forepeak in the engine room?

Dang it. Come on!

In Unimak Pass...

Hey, we got an alarm.

Can somebody
check the forepeak in the engine room?

Aboard the Aleutian Lady...

Hey, guys. I
can see the hatch covering the side,

Hey, guys. I
can see the hatch covering the side,

and it ain't sitting right.

Come on, guys.
Get that thing down quick.

I can't keep the scores.

- Yeah.
- See, that's in it. Right.

I don't know if that hatch
got jarred loose from the waves.

Now that thing
would've came off,

Now that thing
would've came off,

you would've been downflooding.

A lot of green water
pouring inside the house.

If that ends up happening,

we'll be shut down,
going sideways,

and we'll end up
slamming into the rocks.

Craig!

- Now?
- It did.

Yeah.

We gotta just keep going.

We gotta keep getting through.

Dang it. Hold on.

Watch out, guys. Watch out.

Here comes a big one.

Dang it.

Dang it.

Come on.

Okay. Let her up.

We're almost through.

We're almost through this thing.

Okay.

Okay, we're good.

This is a sort of

shortcut you gotta
try to take to be on top.

I just shaved eight
hours off this steam

and now we're gonna be able

and now we're gonna be able

to haul some gear
and kick some a*s.

Actually I could...

put it on autopilot now.

I wonder why captains
drink so much all the time.

525 miles southwest...

on the Saga...

My God, it's the orcas.

I love 'em.

A long night out here.

This is about where
we're at right now.

What do you think?

I... I don't wanna set
over your dad's light.

I... I don't wanna set
over your dad's light.

Yeah.

Just north of
the Western Aleutian Chain

- Three-twenty.
- Three-twenty.

Okay.

Captains, Jake and Sean

deploy their long line string

on intel from Sean's father,

marked down on charts
three decades ago.

All right, first
pot out of A deck.

Let's call it P Dwyer.

All right, let her up.

All right, let her up.

Actually, you know what?

I'm gonna call it Copycat.

All right, Mac, to let it go.

No. No.

Pinched. It's up.

Hey, the pot.

This is bad.

This is bad right here.

Hey, hey.

Hey, I don't wanna be over here.

Just lost the whole string.

I don't know what's going on.

I don't know what's going on.

We had a big snarl,
so we got it figured out.

I think that as
the pot went over,

it took the whole bunch.

No room for error
for longlining.

Now we just burnt
the whole string.

Oops.

My God.

Crazy.

That whole string
has to be repicked up.

Stick it in the block,

pull it all onboard again.

Well, it. I'm
going to bed. See you.

- h*-h*.
- Yeah.

- Holy.
- Yeah!

Holy.

Holy.

We just set this thing.

Five!

In five minutes.

Five fish?

Five fish already.

We... we just
put it in the water

and picked it up again,

there's five fish again.

Dude, look at that.

Well, that's when you
know that this is a start, Mac.

Whoo!

I'm gonna go right away.

We're fishing,
we got pots in the water.

We're setting deep.

We're gonna pull
up some big fish,

big numbers,

make lots of money.

Do you have faith?

I have faith.

460 miles northeast...

in Dutch Harbor...

It's, um, here in your hip?

Yeah, yeah.

Shoots down all the way?

That's the sciatic nerve.

'Cause I know I
got a pinched nerve.

- Yeah.
- But it...

Now... it hasn't been
this bad before now.

I know what it is.
It's very painful.

Just keep taking the pills.

It's all you can do.

Stay off it, okay?

- Yeah.
- All right.

Thank you.

On the Northwestern...

You know, I can't have
him laying in the bunk...

while we finish our season.

It's just... it's so painful.

And we gotta send him home.

Now we'll be, a
man short on deck

but, I don't have time to...

look for another person.

- Is that all your stuff?
- Yeah. All of it.

Good. Now you're looking safe.

- All right. Yeah.
- I'm gonna go make dinner at home.

Well, you got a job when
you come back, okay?

No matter how long.

- Thank you.
- I promise.

Thank you.

Thank you.

- All right, Lauritz, be safe.
- Yeah.

You call us
when you know something.

That guy is in a lot of pain.

We're gonna get this crab off,

shouldn't take very long.

We're just gonna
have to go a man short.

We're just gonna have
to work a little harder.

180 miles northwest...

Okay, that's
what's coming up close.

On the Time Bandit...

We're back here on
my brother's old hotspot

on the ridgeline.

Hopefully, we'll have
the rest of it to offload.

I got a good feeling
about this spot, Johnny.

Yeah.

We got crab!

Yeah, baby!

Look at that pot, John.

That is a badass pot.

- We're good. We're rollin'.
- Whoo!

All right.

We're down to a four-man deck.

Jesse is still not
so well, you know?

It's all we got.

Aye, aye, aye.

Jesse, we need
you up here, buddy.

How you feelin' today?

Your heart hurts or...

It's just... it's just doing
funky chicken, man, like...

Kind of like, you know...

Like, it... you know...

When normally walking,

it feels like I'm running.

Like, I'm so drained.

That sounds bad.

Do you think we need
to get him on a plane?

I think Mac feels very happy

about the whale snot,

getting blown into your
face by the orca whales.

I think that just
brings good luck.

I find that a little hard
to bay-lieve, Jake.

You might find
that hard to believe.

- Here you got a good dad joke, bro.
- Yeah! Yeah!

That's not a bad joke, Sean.

Yeah, dude.

Do you think we're gonna
do whale this season

or we're gonna
blow the whole thing?

Jake and Sean
breached the far west

to orchestrate a
k*ller comeback.

On the Time Bandit...

Well, that sounds bad.

Your heart... your
heart's not feeling right.

You're gonna have to fly home,

and go get it checked.

You can't work and come on
the boat with a heart problem,

so we'll get you home.

- Love the experience.
- Yeah.

I'm just
not pulling my weight, so...

We all care about
you. We want the best for you.

- Okay.
- Go home.

Okay. Thanks, Jesse.

I
Just... I just want...

I just don't wanna hurt nobody.

And it's just such a shame.

But it sounds like the best
thing is to get him off the boat.

Even if he says he
wants to stay on the boat.

- He can't work on the boat with a heart problem.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No. I don't really
wanna go home right now.

Yeah.

Yeah, fully
intended on actually,

you know, fulfilling
my side of things.

You know, fulfilling
my side of things.

I don't know, I just lost Mike

and I don't wanna lose Jesse.

That's all.

You know, a
long shot. I understand.

All right, guys.

Clear the
deck. We gotta go to town.

That's it.

It's a shame

because, I think, the kid's
just got a broken heart.

440 miles southwest...

First one's in the hook.

On the Saga...

First longline
string I'm hauling.

This is a trip.

You basically just
get it in the block

and treat it like one long pot.

We picked a mark
on my dad's old chart.

He like to say that he forgot

more than I'll ever know
and it's probably true, so...

I don't think I'm done
learning from him.

When we set and turned
around and had to pick it up,

When we set and turned
around and had to pick it up,

we were seeing
fish in these pots, so.

I'm happy to be out here.

I'm excited to
pull the first pot.

We want bigger fish

even if that means
smaller numbers,

because if you have bigger fish,

you get paid more.

Damn!

That is a big pot.

Now we need to
see if we got the size.

Now we need to
see if we got the size.

Woo-hoo!

Are they big?

She said, yeah.

Look at that. That's big.

I'm going down.

What do you think
of those things, Jake?

Whoo!

Nice, dude.

Whoo!

Now we're making money.

Now we're making money.

Just because the old man's gone,

it doesn't mean that there's
not still lessons he's teaching me.

Come on!

Let's go!

This is the first silver dollar

my grandpa made in Alaska.

He gave it to me a
couple of years back.

If anything I'll turn all
luck around, it'll be this.

Come on now!

Come on, baby. Big pot.

There we go.

We're
on 'em. Yeah, baby!

- Yes!
- Whoa.

Yeah!

Ha-ha! Whoo!

Yeah,
boys. Yeah, boys.

I know you're watching, grandpa.

I love you.

Sig.

I'm back.

Look who's back.

Hey.

- Okay?
- Yeah.

- Hey. Good to see you.
- Good to see you.

Surprise, surprise!

How's it going?

It's going fine.

Better now.

Good.

Heard you needed some help.

What does Mom
say about all this?

She's got it under control.

She's watching Sailor.

All right, good.

- Now let's get the heck out of here, man.
- All right.

Let's go.