16x13 - The King of Keno

[bunniefuu]

-[ominous tone plays]
-[flapping]

[dramatic chord strike]

[suspenseful music plays]

-[knocking]
-[barking]

I told you to stop waking me up
without your pants on.

Yeah, well, I don't need pants
to [bleep] wake your a*s up.

Dude, we have [bleep] to do.

Yeah, you have to put
your pants on.

[Rick] Dude, listen, I wear
pants all [bleep] day.

This is my only time I don't
have to wear them.

Why is your [bleep] unbuttoned?

Because I was sleeping.

Too early for this [bleep].

[narrator] On this "Gold Rush,"
Rick and his crew push

their equipment to the limit
in Vegas Valley...

[Chris] Ah [bleep],
did I lose my tailgate?

...hit an unexpected
pot of gold.

-Look at that.
-That's [bleep] great.

[Rick] Best paydirt
I've ever seen.

And an old timer's tale...

[Mel speaking]

...sends Rick on
a midnight mission...

Oh, you [bleep].

...to stake gold-rich ground.
-[machinery whirring
distantly]

Dude, what the [bleep]?

[Rick] Someone else is here.

I guess we just better
be ready to fight.

[theme music plays]

-[Heather] Morning.
-[Kai] Morning, Mother.

[Heather] You can grab food
and then sit.

-Morning kiss.
-Morning kiss.

-Morning.
-[Kyle] Do I get one?

-[Heather] No.
-[Kyle] I was talking
from Jason.

[Heather] Well, then maybe.
Good morning.

Man, put some pants on.

-[bleep]
-Thanks for wearing
your Sunday best, Ryan.

Yeah.
Morning, Rick.

[Rick] Morning.
What are we eating?

Sausage?
[bleep] Yeah.

[Heather] I did not make that
much sausage because this is not

usually a sausage party.
-[Bailey] That's why I got
two of them.

[laughing]

[Ryan] One is never enough.

Rick's crew are fueling up for
another big day stripping

overburden in
the Vegas Valley Extension.

-I thought you were off --
-Yeah, you said you were
off the syrup.

-[Ryan] No, look,
I'm doing a little.
-[Bailey] Oh, yeah.

[Bailey] Yeah, that's
a little, man, yeah.

[Heather] Don't judge how
he eats breakfast.

-[Heather] Good morning.
-Ooh, eating light.

[Ryan]
I think we're covering all of
our bases, but we got a lot of

dirt to remove.
-Ready for a hard day,
[indistinct]?

You guys get out there
and start slinging some dirt.

We got a lot of overburden
to move, so...

All right, let's get
out of here.

Thank you.

Ryan, you got to put some
[bleep] pants on.

[Ryan sighs]
On it.

I will be out there
all day, so a little trick

I've been doing for years --

meat in a bag, bag it up,
put it in your pocket.

Call it pocket meat.
Best lunch there is.

-Thanks, Heather.
-[Heather] You're welcome.

[Rick] There's no gold coming in
right now for us this part of

the season, and really
we're just hauling a ton of

overburden right now, and that's
costing a lot of money.

So money's flying out the door,
and there's no gold coming in.

My job today is get
ahead of things.

I'm gonna build a road.

The crew and I are gonna
go stake a claim.

Today's gonna be a big one.

[ominous chord strike]

[Bailey] This season has
been a rough one.

We haven't really got
much gold.

We're gonna be hauling
overburden for quite a while.

Been spending a lot of money.

The dump site's a little far,
but still making good progress.

Rick is gambling everything
he has on a big payday.

After spending $700,000 buying
Lightning Creek, Rick's been

granted a four-month extension

on their Duncan Creek
water license.

So Rick has pivoted back to
the gold-rich ground.

To get down to paydirt,
they have to strip overburden

around the clock at a cost
of $10,000 a day.

It's a key part of mining,
having decent roads.

The worse the roads are,
the worse beating the truck's

gonna take and our body
takes the same one.

[Chris] Road conditions,
just rough roads.

A rock truck's not that
terrible if the roads are

smooth, but some of these bigger
bumps, you kick the [bleep]

out of your body after a day
of driving on this stuff.

[bang]

Ah [bleep].
Did I lose my tailgate?

How the [bleep] did my tailgate
start to fall off?

[groans]

Rick's gonna be
so mad at me.

Without a tailgate,
the rock trucks can only carry

two-thirds of their 40-ton
load, costing them valuable

stripping time.

Now, most of Rick's team has to
drop what they're doing to help

with a quick fix.

When these trucks are empty,
those tailgates are banging up

and down, and we're just
blowing the bearings out.

You do the best you can
on your maintenance.

You change everything you can,

but sometimes there's hidden
things that you can't see.

I'm just hoping the rest of
the season that these trucks

we have remaining are
gonna be able to make it.

Should be good to go.

It's a big, big problem.

We're gonna have to
come up with Plan B.

[ominous chord strike]

We've been having a lot of rock
truck breakdowns, but we gotta

get past that,
and I think I've got a way

to make things
go a little faster.

To make his operation more
efficient, Rick wants to

resurface the road to keep
his rock trucks rolling

and his crew in the game to hit

their 1,800-ounce
season goal.

This is the kind of thing
I look out for.

We're moving a bunch
of overburden.

It's looking like
really good gravel,

and I was thinking
of a purpose for it.

You know,
there's no gold in it.

We got to move it.
How do we make it pay?

And so instead of dumping that
gravel in the overburden pile,

I think I'm gonna
have these guys start,

you know, dumping it
for fixing this road.

Hey, guys, quit dumping that
over in gravel in

the waste pile, I'm gonna show
you a different spot

we can put it.
-[Bailey speaking]

[Rick] We're moving dirt
intelligently, which is kind of

the name of the game.

I was taught early on that
moving dirt once is expensive,

and moving it twice
is unforgivable.

We got Rick working on
the road, so that should speed

things right up,
and should be able to get

down to pay a lot sooner.

Definitely taking the time to
do it right so that it lasts.

You know, it actually helps us
speed it up too, because right

now we would be dumping this
overburden in our waste pile.

It's actually farther than if

we were fixing
this road with it.

There's always a point in
the season where I'm nervous

about everything.

And that's because we've spent
a lot of money and we still

have a lot of gold to get
to recoup that money.

If anything happens between now
and the end of the season

and it doesn't work out,
then I lost all my money

and likely
lost my business.

So that's definitely something
to be nervous about.

There's a lot of pressure
trying to reach 1,800.

It's a lot of work and a lot
of pressure on him.

We don't really fully know if
this area is going to be really

good gold or not.

For us to be one step ahead at
all times, making sure we have

a good, solid plan of every step
that we're doing here

and just have everything ready
to go once we hit pay.

[Rick] I do enjoy a lot of other
things other than mining.

You know, I spent a lot of
my life playing music.

I mean, I made my living
playing music.

And I got to be honest with
you, I haven't really picked up

my instrument in
probably 14 years.

When I think about it,
that's sad.

You know, that was
a big part of my life.

It's a sacrifice.

Rick toured the world as
a musician, but gave up

his rock-and-roll lifestyle
after a chance encounter with

a young gold miner.

[Parker speaking]

For 13 years...

[Rick] Fire it up!

...Rick has been chasing
his gold mining dreams in

the remote Yukon wilderness.

I'm gone up here a lot,
and I don't see people a lot.

And that's the hopes is that,
you know, when I get this done,

I get all that time back.

That's the whole reason
I'm doing it.

I'll be able to get back
to music.

I can do a little more racing.

I can spend a little more time
with my friends and my family

that I'm missing out on
right now.

[machine whirring]

Well, this road's
pretty much roughed-in.

Now we've got straight access,
and that should help us a lot.

Coming up...

Three, two, one, go!

...Rick and his crew celebrate
the resurrection of

Monster Red...
-Whoo!

Look at that.

...and find an unexpected
gold hole.

Best paydirt I've ever seen.

[ominous tone plays]

[rustling]

-[ominous chord strike]
-[ticking]

Well, now I'm heading
down to Monster Red.

We're rebuilding the prewash,
working on the top deck,

basically just making sure that
our wash plant's ready to go

when we need it.

Rick's crew are battling to
get down to gold in

Vegas Valley.

And once they hit pay,
will need his 300-yard-per-hour

wash plant, Monster Red,
firing on all cylinders.

I'm just gonna lift
the prewash off the plant here,

because it's got
some damage.

If we don't do it now,
something will end up happening

while we're trying to run at
the end of the season,

and we don't have time
for that [bleep], so.

Rick has spent $18,000 on
parts to re-line the prewash

and replace Monster Red's
screen deck.

[Ryan] Right now, I am going to
replace all these screen decks

on this shaker.

They have taken serious abuse,
and I'm not one that likes to

just sit around.

So this is a perfect
opportunity for me to get over

here and start knocking out
all these screen decks

and try to stay ahead
of the game.

Monster Red is fed paydirt
into its prewash, where it

then filters through two screen
decks before the gold-rich

slurry travels
into the sluice box

where the precious metal
is caught.

Over time, large rocks have
smashed through the top deck.

Ryan is replacing all of
Monster Red's damaged
screen panels

in preparation for
Vegas Valley gold.

[Ryan] And this whole deck will
actually be brand new for once.

With the top deck replaced,
Ryan gets to work swapping out

the rubber impact panels
in the prewash.

[Ryan] I want to remove a couple
sections here, see how

damaged up the floor of
our prewash is

before we put
our new pads back in.

What in the [bleep]
is in there?

Oh, look right here.
Check this out.

All the gold is layered.

And you can see
the black sand in here.

That's gonna be
your heavies.

And I bet you this whole place
right here is just jam-packed

full of this gold.
It's pretty wild.

This is just years of
buildup and abuse.

Gold is always gonna find
the lowest point.

And this was the lowest point
underneath these mats.

[scraping]

Oh, you're being extra careful.
You got a tarp.

It actually looks
pretty good, man.

There's quite a bit of gold
I can see in this.

-[Rick] Really?
-[Ryan] Oh, yeah.

I mean, I don't know
how long it's been in there,

but it's pretty damn good.

That rubber's never been out
of that prewash, so it's

as old as the plant.
It's probably 10 years old.

No, that's like
a little bonus here.

I mean, it's pretty wild
to see this much.

What, like, substantial?

I honestly think it would be
cool to pan some and kind of

see what you think.

[Rick] Whenever there's dirt
trapped in a plant,

you never just dump it out.

I mean, if you think about it,
that's a low point right there,

and it's been collected
for 10 years.

Yeah, well, I'm gonna put
some water in and see what

I can get out of it right now.

[anticipatory music plays]

Look-it...

look at all through here.

All these flakes in here,
look at that.

Look at that.

-[Ryan] That's [bleep] great.
-That's wild.

That whole five-gallon
bucket's full.

And I just started filling
the second one.

[bleep] awesome.

Dude, we gotta disassemble
this plant more often.

-Best paydirt I've ever seen.
-Gonna add up.

Dude, that's gonna probably,
we'll probably get more gold

out of this prewash
than we did

out of Lightning Creek
this year.
-[bleep]

[laughing]

I think this does a good shot
at paying enough

for that top-deck.
-That'd be pretty cool.

What does it need to be,
about six ounces?

[muttering indistinctly]

-Yeah, 18 grand?
-Yeah, six ounces.

Dude, that'd be [bleep] amazing.

Dude, this looks great.

[Ryan] If you want to grab those
two pads, I'll run the bolts

through, and if you can
zip them down.

Dude, it's crazy how well
these things take abuse

compared to steel, huh?
I'm impressed.

[Ryan] Let's just go ahead and
put the next one in real quick.

[Rick] Yeah, let's do it.

[Ryan] There's a g*n.
Let me get on it.

-Yep -- yep.
-All right.

-[Ryan] Great. Another one.
-[Rick] Ready?

-[Ryan] Yep.
-[whirring]

-Looks good.
-That's the prewash done, eh?

Yeah.
That's way better, man.

This thing was looking to fall
apart at any minute, and now,

it's good to go to w*r.

[Ryan] All right, let's hook it.

[rumbling]

I've learned that the right
crew means everything,

and it's taken me eight years
to put the right crew together.

[Ryan] Try to go over some more.

Am I gonna clear
if I just turn?

[Ryan] Keep turning.

I like the distance now.

When you go to fix one thing,
there's always gonna be

other things you find
while you're up there.

Ryan will not rest until
every single thing is fixed,

so there's less of a chance of
things failing in the future

when he's proactive like that.

It keeps downtime to a minimum,
which keeps the gold

at a maximum.
-A little bit more.

-Farther over?
-[Ryan] Yep.

[Rick] Oh, there it is.

We're really hoping that
all the gold we found in

this prewash gonna pay
for this top deck.

So it actually might turn out
to be a pretty sweet day.

Come check out
your screen deck.

Holy [bleep].
It's a brand-new plant.

Yeah, this looks amazing.

Yeah, this deck, as beautiful
as it is, costs $18,000.

But this thing looks great.
You guys did a great job.

Should be ready for the rest
of the season and beyond.

OK, let's go.

This prewash was pretty much
ready to fall apart.

And by fixing it while it's
not running, right?

If we would have waited till
it broke, you know,

that would cost us downtime.

So, doing it this way is just
a part of looking ahead

and being a good mine boss.

[dramatic chord strike]

-[ominous chord strike]
-[ticking]

With what we did this morning,
if I had to pull enough gold

out of here to pay for that top
deck in the plant, I mean,

that's gonna make for
a hell of a day.

Rick heads to the gold room

with the surprise stash of
concentrate from the prewash.

He's hoping the two five-gallon
buckets hold enough gold to pay

for Monster Red's
$18,000 repair.

Two buckets worth of
concentrate to run, so...

Buckets are really heavy, too.
Lots of gold, I can tell.

Gotta get water --
get water going here.

All right, let's go.

-[rumbling]
-One pull.

[motor purring]

I just hit it with water.

It'll wash all the dirt through
the screen and just leave

the rocks on top.

To be a successful mine-boss out
here, you got to be able to,

you got to know how to do
all the jobs for sure.

And the only way you can do
that really is just by doing it.

It's really better off starting
at the bottom, not knowing

anything and learning your way
through the ranks.

Pretty much what I did
over at Parker's, so.

What'd you do?

[Rick]
A new appreciation for you
standing out here doing this.

I hate guessing just as much as
you do on cleanups, but I think

there's gonna be a lot of gold
in it, so kind of hoping that

it pays for the top deck
screens on the wash plant,

so maybe like 20 grand.

All right, well, I will get
cleaning, and I feel like Ryan

could probably use
some help, so...

Yeah, he definitely could.

Probably be more useful
elsewhere, and you could

probably do a lot
better job at this.

OK, you can go do
the heavy lifting.

All right.
Thanks, Heather.

Rick is a helpful boss.

At least he screened
some of it for me.

Being a good mine boss is
knowing how to do every job

and knowing how to tell

the right person
to do that job.

I'm out of here.

-[ominous chord strike]
-[ticking]

I have no clue when I'm gonna
finally be able to haul pay.

I'm just trying to get most of
this overburden off,

but who knows when
we're gonna have payout.

To maximize stripping time,
Rick's crew are working



[Bailey]
These boys, they're moving
along pretty good right now,

especially with
these long days.

Pushing for these very long
days right now, it's hard on

everyone, but we all want to
pull through and get down to

pay as quickly as we can

and have as much sluicing time
as we can get.

Just trying to come up with
an easy, handheld meal so

the guys can keep working
through supper.

I'll try and make it easier on
all of us with some

easy-to-eat-while-driving
little chicken wraps.

Those ones got a little,
a little darker than --

the rookie's gonna have
the burnt ones.

Usually try and go a little
fancier, but I don't want them

making messes
in the rock trucks.

Oh, it's sunny.

I have yours and Bailey's,
so you have to feed Bailey.

Throw that over.

They're the ones that have to
drive in circles all day,

so I feel sorry for them.

I got, like, 20 seconds to eat
in between loading.

Yeah, half their meal is gonna
be on the floor while

I'm enjoying mine nice
and peacefully here.

[rumbling]

[bleep].

Got a beautiful view.
It's actually a good day.

[tense music plays]

-[ominous chord strike]
-[ticking]

Well, this is my last load.

I can't wait to get out
of this rock truck.

Finally, last load of the day.

[bleep], [bleep].
What a day.

I can't wait to get my shower,
yee-haw.

Hey, guys.
When you finish,

meet me by the plant.
-[Kyle talking]

The crew's 14-hour shift is
over, but they still have

one last job to do.

We just put a brand new top
deck and a screen deck.

Thought after we do that,
we might as well test it.

With no paydirt to run,
Rick has a one-of-a-kind way to

test his rebuilt wash plant.

And we're actually gonna
have a race to see whose rock

gets from the feeder all
the way through the plant

and out the other end first.

A round rock is gonna go
through the screen deck

real fast, but it's not gonna
get up the conveyor belt.

It's gonna sit
there and spin.

So a flat rock is better
for the belt, but slower

on the screen.
You get the idea.

You got to kind of come up
with something in between.

-Rocks.
-[Rick] We're gonna have a race.

-Now, Bailey, if you
want to load them in.
-Yep.

Ryan, you see whose comes out
the hopper first.

Commentate us
all the way up the belt.

-Oh, I got a microphone.
-[Rick] There you go, bingo.

[Rick] We're gonna find out
what scoots through

the plant the fastest.
I think we got a good mix here.

-Should we get some rocks
in this plant, see who wins?
-Let's do it.

-[grunts]
-Maybe a little science
in there,

maybe we'll learn something.

[suspenseful music plays]

This is the moment everybody's
been waiting for.

The first annual
Rick's Rock Race.

-Let's get this action started.
-Three, two, one, go.

-[two whooshes]
-Whoo!

[Ryan] Here we go,
and that's the signal.

Yeah, our lead operator getting

ready to drop in
our special cargo.

Here we go.

And the race begins!

[dramatic chord strike]

-And what do we got in the lead?
-Come on, Heather Rock.

To test his $18,000
refurbishment,

Rick and his crew are sending
rocks through

Monster Red to see whose
will come out first.
-Here we go.

Oh, Kyle out to an early lead,
but he's rolling.

And he's just
rolling backwards.

It's not gonna work.

There goes Jason.

Oh, Jason's out to
a clear lead.

Here goes Rick.
Rick's rolling.

[Rick] Oh, Jason.

Kyle's catching up.
So is Rick.

-Why is mine way in the back?
-[Rick] Look at that.

That's hilarious.
Uh oh, Heather's coming up.

High stakes, high stakes.

Oh, there goes Kyle.

Bailey, Kyle, Kai,
Rick, everybody's winning

except for Ryan.
This is terrible.

[Rick] Kyle might stop moving.
Kyle's going backwards.

Everybody's are going backwards.

Who's that in the front?
Or is that Heather?

I think it might be Heather.

sh**t.

-[Rick] Heather won.
-Yes.

It's me.

-[Ryan] What the [bleep].
-[Rick] I'm in second place.

[Rick] Oh.

[Ryan] What is going on here?

[Rick] Ha, ha, Ryan's
didn't move.

-Congratulations, Heather.
-Congratulations.

-Yes.
-Well, Heather's won.

What was it about your rock
that made it stand out?

It was, like, the right amount
of square and round.

-[laughing]
-[clapping]

-Thank you.
-Yeah.

[dramatic chord strike]

[splash]

[cheerful music plays]

-[chord strike]
-[ticking]

-[knocking]
-[barking]

Yo, come on in.
You're here to see why I'm up.

It's work-related.

After a day of building roads

and repairing Monster Red,
Rick turns his attention to

expanding his
gold mining empire.

[Rick] I've been watching
this claim basically all season.

It's actually a little wedge

that's between some ground
that I have.

Well, this spot that
we're going for, that's what

that looks like.
I know about this area

because of an OG,
real old-timer.

Mel Zeiler was a cool guy.

It's a pretty important
piece of ground to me.

It has gold on it,
and we're gonna go get it.

I know this little creek here,
it's just shocking how much

gold lay in there.

Over 40 years with limited
equipment, Mel Zeiler mined

thousands of ounces of gold
from Duncan Creek.

Before he passed away,
Mel told Rick about a secret,

gold-rich hotspot.

[cawing]

[Mel] You just want to have it.

-It pays to pay attention to it.
-[Rick] That's a good point.

What I know about the lower
part, there was something

going on with that.

[Rick] This little spot
just got me excited.

I did go up there one time
when there were some guys

mining on the lower part,

and they set up
a little hand machine.

They're impressed by the little
amount of gold they get with

a hand shovel.

I don't think that's
understood, the creek.

They don't realize
how much gold was in there.

They couldn't get it out.

I don't think they had big
enough equipment to really do

justice on it, you know.

[Rick] I should try and see if
I can find where the gold is.

[Mel] That's right, yeah.

I'm just trying to
give you helpful hints.

Well, I really appreciate
all the information.

Hope to see you again.
Thanks again, Mel.

[Mel] You're welcome.

Since his last encounter with
Mel Zeiler, Rick has waited

six years for his chance
to secure the claim.

Rick mined the ground beside
it, and he's convinced it holds

millions of dollars
worth of gold.

[Rick] This stuff is definitely
something to keep an eye on.

I knew that this was
gonna expire,

and that's why
I've been watching it.

When it is becoming available,
it changes status, and I notice

that status change.

When it happens,
it's like, it's a score.

And now that ground is
no longer mineral rights owned,

it's basically open to anybody.

We've got a substantial amount
of ground here.

A couple of jackasses have said,

"Oh, you're trying to be
the King of Keno."

I'm not doing it to rule
the people or impress anybody.

I am trying to get every piece
of ground that I can.

I am trying to build this
as big as I can.

We're doing this the way that

the old-timers did
in the beginning.

We're gonna go pound stakes
and then claim this ground.

Worst-case scenario, some other
crazy [bleep] are out there

trying to beat us to it.
It's happened.

It happens all the time.

I mean, it especially happened
back in the day.

In the 1800s, gold prospecting
exploded across North America.

To minimize violent
frontier disputes,

the Canadian government devised
a system for claiming ground

by placing wooden boundary
markers to register ownership.

This process of staking claims
was used during

the Yukon Gold Rush
of 1896.

And Rick learned how it worked
over a century later

with Parker.

-[thump]
-Oh, beautiful.

If anyone else is looking
for it, we've got to beat them.

This place at the height of
summer, it doesn't get dark,



We won't be pounding around
in the dark in the woods like

a bunch of idiots.
I kind of know the area.

There's a lot of wildlife.
There's bears and wolves,

tons of that [bleep] up there.

I think we'll be safe,
but you never know.

I guess we just better
be ready to fight.

Time's wasting.

It's time to grab the boys
and go stake this claim.

Who knows?

Might be a royal rumble
in the Klondike tonight.

[dramatic tones play]

[tense music plays]

It's midnight,
and a gold-rich claim

has just become available.

Rick takes his crew to the edge
of his operation to access

the unclaimed ground.

We actually did really pretty
well in the center here

five years ago.

Right over there is where
we found the biggest nugget

to date, an ounce and a half,

and then stopped here
because that was the end.

The guy that I know,
his name was Mel Zeiler.

He was a crazy b*stard, man.

Spent a lot of time with him
in his cabin

talking about this ground.

I guess, how do we figure out
where to put the stakes

and where to put the posts
and what to do?

The first corner is easy.

I mean, I know the end of
our property is right there.

So we'll grab a post
and hammer that one,

and we'll know about
the rest of them.

The rest of them we're
gonna have to figure out.

I pull up the maps, and I know
the latitude and longitude of

where that is, so we'll just
use the GPS to find that.

And then as far as the ground,
we just have to go to

the four corners.
-OK.

We got to make sure the posts
face each other,

they're numbered,
and that's about it.

This new claim is at
the north end

of his lower
Duncan Creek claim.

To secure the 60 acres,
Rick's crew need to place

four stakes using GPS to mark
and record the corners of

the claim's boundary.

Load up.

Let's just go this way.

Yeah, we're really close.
The first one's gonna be easy.

[Kyle] Bushwhacking.

I think it's right
over here, guys.

-Yeah, this is it right here.
-[Ryan] Is that it?

This will do.

Post one, it's got to be facing
north, and I'll put

the latitude
and longitude on it.

We'll just wire it to this tree
facing the right direction.

-That's pretty much it.
-Well, I guess we'll stab her.

Wire that up.
And we got to orange-tape it?

The orange tape's just for us
so that we can find it

again, right?
Easy-peasy.

After we do this,
the mining recorder actually

gets the plates made with
all this information on it,

and then we come in
and nail them in, so...

That's it for this one.

In 1898, the Gustafsson family
were the first to discover gold

on what's now called
Duncan Creek.

Instead of staking a claim,
they tried to keep the find

quiet, hoping no one
would catch on.

But in 1901, prospector
Duncan Patterson

uncovered their secret,
staking the Gustafssons' ground

and dozens of other claims
along the creek.

Years later,
the creek was named

in Duncan Patterson's honor.

The second one, I don't know if
it's gonna be as easy

as this one --
I think we're gonna

drive around to it.
-[Ryan] Good, because this body

ain't made for walking.
-[laughing]

[groaning]

-[dramatic chord strike]
-[ticking]

Do you still know
where we're going?

Yeah, it's just right up here.

I just haven't been this way,
I don't think, all year.

To get access to the three
remaining corners of the claim,

Rick and his crew drive
over two miles

searching for an abandoned road
once used by fur trappers.

Is that the trail?

-Hey, Kyle, you got a copy?
-Copy.

[Rick, on radio] See right
to the right of me.

Why don't you go first and see
how far you can punch in?

OK, sounds good.

-Yeah, that way.
-Let's take the chance.

Who said this was a road?

[Bailey] That is definitely not
a road right there.

Holy [bleep].

-Oh, there -- oh, there's a...
-Bones over here.

-What?
-Some dead animal.

-[dramatic chord strike]
-[Ryan] Well, copy that.

[rustling]

[Rick] Well, it's got legs.
It ain't a snake.

That's wild.
Maybe a lynx, eh?

It's either a lynx
or a coyote.

It's too small for a wolf.
Probably a wolf that ate it.

Animal attacks on people
are rare in the Yukon.

But in 2017,
a man participating in

an Arctic ultra race was
stalked by a pack of wolves.

And in 2018, a family of fur
trappers were attacked by

a grizzly bear,
k*lling two of them.

-I think I'm gonna put it back.
-[Ryan] Yeah, let's
throw it back.

[Rick] Rest in peace.

All right.

Let's go find these guys.

Let's see how far we make it.

[whack]

There you go.
You got her.

-[Ryan] Keep going.
-[Rick] No.

Wait.
Is it bad?

-We can keep going.
-[Rick] Yeah.

[Rick] But should we?

[Ryan] Go left.

You're good.

Yeah, you're clear.

[Rick] It's getting
really tight.

That looks pretty thick.

I think it's probably time
to stop pressing our luck.

GPS says we're almost there.
Ready?

Let's do this.

[ominous tone plays]

Watch yourselves.

-[Kyle] [bleep]
that moss is soft.
-Oh, boy.

Oh, this is tight.

Right up here, guys,
I think it is.

Can we just pay somebody
to do this?

Actually, you can't.
Trust me, I looked into it.

You have to stake it yourself.
It's one of the laws.

Plus, you kind of want to know
where it's at, anyways.

This is stake number two,
so it's gonna be facing

stake number one.

Right here.
Bingo.

You ever had to fight
any bears?

Yeah, the first thing I did
when I got to the Yukon is

I found the biggest bear
there was.

I smoked him right in the jaw.

And he told all the other bears
to just lay off.

[Ryan] I wonder why
we haven't seen any.

Yeah, it's the prison rules
out here.

Nice, man.

[Rick] Got it done.

That's two down.
Let's go.

[ominous tone plays]

-Oh, man, I was born for this.
-[Ryan] Yeah.

[Rick] Let's go for
number three.

GPS says that
we're going that way.

-[rustling]
-[tense music plays]

What the [bleep]?

Holy [bleep], man.

[Ryan] Well, where does it
say we got to go?

-It's right there.
-Straight across?

[Rick] Yeah, that's
some swamp there.

[Bailey] ba*ls.

[revving]

You hear a [bleep] chainsaw
over there?

-[revving]
-There's something.

[Bailey] Someone's over there,
man, for sure.

Dude, what the [bleep]?

Someone else is here.

[revving continues]

[Bailey] Someone might be
trying to claim it.

Holy [bleep].

Coming up, Rick finds out
if his claim is successful

and if his surprise gold haul
is enough to pay for

the $18,000
Monster Red rebuild.

[revving]

-[Ryan] Someone else is here.
-[Rick] We gotta move.

-[dramatic chord strike]
-[ticking]

Halfway through their midnight
staking mission,

Rick and his crew
are not alone.
-[revving]

If the competition submits
their claim first,

Rick will lose out
on the gold-rich ground.

There's no use all of us
going through the swamp.

-Yeah.
-I'll go across.

All right, Kyle.
That's where it needs to go.

Make sure it's pointing
in that direction.

Wire her up.
You know the drill.

Godspeed.

Kyle, you're gonna have to
[bleep] hurry, man.

[Kyle] All right, I'm on it.

[suspenseful music plays]

[revving]

-[bleep]
-[suspenseful music continues]

I think that's the worst spot
that he got to.

He knows what to do.

Hopefully, it'll just be a few
minutes and he'll be done.

[suspenseful chord strike]

He made it.

[squelching]

Hey.

Thank God I didn't have to
walk through there.

You're my hero for that, dude.

It's a good thing we only got
one more post to go.

I don't think Kyle can take
much more of this.

-[Rick] You ready, Kyle?
-Yeah.

Hopefully it don't get
any worse.

-[dramatic chord strike]
-[ticking]

We're in a hurry.

Still a ways to go.

Oh, watch out.
That tree's coming down.

Oh, boy.

This started off real easy.
What happened?

Ow.

This is gonna be it, guys.

We're just about there.

This is the end of our staking
career for the day.

This is post number four.

What a [bleep]
adventure tonight.

This is the last post
going in.

Post four.

I think this is gonna be
our ground, boys.

As long as we did it right.
All right.

What do you say?

-I think we got it, guys.
-[Ryan] That's good.

-[Rick] That's it.
-[Ryan] Nice.

-Boom.
-Great.

-Yeah.
-All right, let's go.

Let's do it.

-[Rick] We made it.
-[Ryan] Yeah.

[Ryan] I think I'm done walking.

[Rick] I'm done walking enough
for the next year.

[Kyle] Let's roll.

Staking complete, Rick still
needs to submit the information

and wait to find out
if his claim is successful.

-Thanks for that, man.
-Yep, that was good.

That was a lot of walking.

[Rick] I'm just gonna input
this information for the claims.

-[Ryan] Yeah, I'm going to bed.
-All right.

-See you in the morning.
-[Ryan] You got it.

[dramatic tones play]

[anticipatory music plays]

-[dramatic music plays]
-[ticking]

-[Ryan] Morning, Rick.
-[Rick] Morning.

The next day, Rick is in
the cook shack to find out if

the gold from the prewash is
enough to pay for the $18,000

Monster Red rebuild.
-[Rick] Is that Heather?

Oh, that's it.

It's the gold from
your prewash.

Is it heavy?

[Heather] Pretty good for
two buckets of dirt.

-Did you weigh it?
-[Heather] I did.

It's just under
five ounces there.

Oh [bleep].
It started off as a repair,

it was gonna be
something that cost us money.

It turned into 15 grand.

[Ryan] It don't pay for
the screen decks, but...

Dude, it's close.

Dude, I wish every repair was
like that.

-Wow.
-So you spent how much
time scraping?

Like two, three hours?

Yeah, I'd say
two or three hours.

So five grand an hour
you made me.

Yeah.

-[Ryan] Here's a juice box.
-Yeah.

[Rick] That's great, if
everything paid off like that.

Let's see if, uh...

-Oh, dude, look at that -- ha!
-[Ryan] Did you get it?

[Rick] It's a done deal.
We got it.

-Nice.
-Oh, perfect.

Well, that was worth
staking then.

-Good little midnight pegging.
-[Rick] Absolutely.

An email confirming Rick's
claim on the ground has been

successful, means he now has
over 3,600 acres of ground,

making him the biggest
landowner in Keno.

We'd staked a claim,
found 15 grand worth of gold,

built a road...

Yeah, a lot of
surprises there.

Yeah, well, I got
one more surprise.

My daughter B made
something for you.

Now, we can
officially name you...

the King of Keno.

Whoo.
Yeah, King of Keno.

No kidding.
That's amazing.

I'm not gonna get away from
this damn King of Keno thing.

I feel like a princess.

That's awesome.
Look at that.

She got everyone.

Make sure you thank her for me
and tell her

I'll keep it forever.
This is gonna go in my office.

This is everything
I could ask for.

Well, you make it very easy.

[Ryan]
I honestly don't think you get
the credit you deserve around

here from anybody, not just --
I mean, I think us as a crew,

we are all on the same page.
-[Rick] I don't need
a pat on the a*s.

I just need this to continue
to work out for everybody,

and I just want the right
people around me to do

the right thing
and make something out of it.

[Ryan] I'm with you on that.

Gonna be pushing us
to hit our season total

of 1,800 ounces.
-[Rick] We'll get to the bottom
of this, and we'll get

all that gold.
Let's do this.

I'm in.