[tense music]
♪
- Gotta get this stuff done
before the snow comes in.
Would've loved to build a cabin.
But this is what I've started.
This is what I'm doing.
Not going backwards.
- I've decided to build a woodshed.
Having dry tinder is gonna help me
move forward through the winter.
That makes me happy.
- What's going on with the fishing today?
It's so good.
[chuckles] I can't believe it.
Thank you.
- Lost half of a trout.
[bleep].
This is probably a marten.
I need to build a food cache.
♪
Whoo! Done.
- Oh, no, oh, no.
The gold fury is gone.
That is just heartbreaking.
- I'm having these weird flashes of warm and then cold.
♪
Passed out.
♪
[bleep].
Sometimes your best is not good enough.
I'm tapping out.
♪
[wind whistling]
[tense music]
- I'm gonna do this, man.
I'm gonna do this.
I'm gonna fight this thing out to the last breath.
[dramatic music]
♪
- Okay, game on.
[bear growls]
- [grunts] - I got him.
narrator: In "Alone's" most remote location yet...
- [screaming]
narrator: Ten participants set out
to survive at all costs...
- [groans] - My goal is to stay alive.
♪
- [inhales sharply] Oh...
narrator: Battling extreme isolation...
- There is no camera crews.
You are really alone.
- It'll eat at you, tear you up.
- God, why?
- It's a battle.
Nobody ever comes out the same.
- Oh, man.
- It'd be impossible to.
narrator: And fierce predators.
- That's a big bear.
- It was right outside my shelter.
- Predators like that damn sure gonna kill you.
- Please don't rip my face off.
[animal growling]
He bit the hell out of me.
narrator: They'll endure merciless wind...
- Been over 60 hours,
and it has not let up.
- I can hear the trees falling down around me.
narrator: And bitter cold.
- This whole place just turned into a frozen hell.
narrator: Last one standing...
- It's a moose.
- Wow.
- Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
- No, no.
narrator: Wins.
♪
[tense music]
♪
You can make the most gigantic moose caller.
[bellowing]
A hot lady moose is just howling for you.
And you guys are not gonna come?
[tense music]
Get it together.
♪
Before I put my gill net in the water,
I need to check the food in my food cache
to make sure everything is safe and good.
We have...
Few little maggots here.
♪
Just take them off, just tiny ones.
♪
Good, let's go down now.
Let's take the ladder out of my food cache.
That would be an easy access.
A bear would just, like, go up there
and eat all my food.
♪
All right, food cache is working.
♪
Gotta set up my gill net.
I lost my gill net that I made.
It was providing me with food.
The monofilament line gill net,
that was my go-to thing that was giving me fish.
The wind, you know, was the biggest factor
because the water just trashed my setup.
The cost is really huge
because now instead of eating well,
I have to start rationing.
Gill net's in the water.
Oh, boy, I'm hungry.
I hope this net works.
[tense music]
♪
- Well, let's see if we got a fish or not.
Not looking promising.
It looks like I got a really tangled-up net again.
Oh, I do got a fish.
Got a nice lake trout.
And I'm also snagged.
♪
[grunts]
♪
The fish created a hole there.
Bottom is ripped off.
♪
And there we go, another nice trout.
My net is in pretty bad shape.
♪
Lake trout there.
Maybe about 5 or 6 pounds,
and it will be very good to eat.
[sighs]
All right.
I gotta tie on a new gill net.
♪
I came to this place with a whole pile of plans.
I knew what this part of Saskatchewan was like.
I knew what to expect.
And none of it has been right.
But it's all good, you know.
It's adaptability and, like, go with the flow.
I want to start preserving food a little bit.
And until I've got my quota of fish that I need,
I'm gonna ration a little.
♪
One of my dad's favorite sayings was,
"I didn't invent the wheel, but I can make it better."
Just because something's always been done one way
doesn't mean it has to always be done that way.
Last net, I was going four or five rows at a time.
I find this is giving me a lot more uniform net.
♪
My brother and I always tried to do something
in different ways to make Dad proud.
Hopefully it catches me a couple big pike, eh,
the dirty bastards.
♪
I want revenge on them.
♪
All these little strands will work for any repairs
that I have... to do to this one.
I think I am much happier with this net
than I am my first one.
I do. I do.
Not that my first one was not a nice net
and not that it didn't do its job.
I just think this a far nicer net.
[dramatic music]
♪
- I'm going to check my gill net,
and really hoping for two things.
One, my gill net's still there,
and two, there's some fish there.
♪
Nothing here.
No fish today.
Fishing with a gill net was one of my main strategies.
But it seems like the fish are in deeper water now.
And going to fish in the canoe
is not as productive as I thought.
So I think it's time to push harder to get to the big game.
I'm gonna go hunting.
Let's go.
♪
The output of energy to get big game
is very taxing.
But it's the path to a winning ticket.
So it's a big gamble.
♪
[wings flapping]
Just heard a bird fly.
♪
[bleep].
[suspenseful music]
♪
Oh...damn it.
Lost two arrows.
♪
Unbelievable.
♪
Got to find my arrows.
♪
When you lose that arrow,
you did not just lose the arrow.
You lose some of your hope to win.
And the sad part is there's no one here to comfort me.
♪
Oh, found it, right there.
Oh, my God.
♪
Okay, there we go. Got it.
♪
[thud] - Okay. There we go.
[suspenseful music]
♪
Got it.
Yes. Yes.
[thud]
Yeah, it's dead now.
This was a beautiful, beautiful one.
Oh, man.
I got this, guys.
Got this.
That's a beautiful spruce grouse.
I have to provide to myself.
We're gonna have a good dinner today.
[sighs]
Okay, that was a good shot.
Let's head back home now.
My survival philosophy is just to adapt and adjust
and to be aware of what's around,
taking the opportunities that is given.
So I realized that I need to see the world
through positive lenses
because I increase my chance of getting more food.
[grouse vocalizing]
Holy cow, another grouse.
But here it is.
This is a ruffed grouse.
It's a very good shot.
One arrow, two birds.
So gotta eat well,
stop losing weight.
♪
Day like today, I feel content
with food for later.
And I feel I can win this.
[chuckles]
♪
- Gill net's all set again.
Let's get at some firewood.
Slow and steady wins the race.
♪
That's all we gotta remember.
♪
My shelter is adequate,
not elaborate by any stretch.
But I don't need elaborate.
It's not like I have to survive the whole winter.
I just have to survive long enough
and try and tell some stories along the way.
♪
I was a very passionate...
[chuckles]
Hockey parent.
♪
And I'm very loud.
So everybody'd know when I'm in the rink.
And I remember one day,
my oldest boy,
he just wasn't playing hard.
And the whistle blew.
And he skated to the circle over.
And I stood up above the glass, and I went,
"Hey, do you want to split firewood
all day when you get home?"
He looked at me and says, "No."
I said, "Then get to work out there."
[chuckles]
Well, he changed his whole attitude
about working right there on the ice rest of that game.
♪
One thing everybody always used to say about my boys,
they couldn't believe they were my kids.
[chuckles]
♪
I guess if nothing else,
I've taught them not to be like me.
♪
When I was nine years old,
my parents bought a marina.
And my father couldn't afford to own that marina
and not maintain his job.
So from that point on,
I basically had to become an adult.
I cooked dinner for my mom and brother and two sisters.
And we looked after shoveling the snow
and cutting the firewood
and every other thing that had to be done.
I never had a choice in that responsibility.
I just had to do it.
But the way I felt in my father's eyes,
I was never good enough.
And figured, gonna be treated as an adult,
I may as well act like one.
I probably started with the alcohol as a young adult.
And before I knew it, it just seemed to be
an everyday habit.
And most of the problems with my dad
only got worse because of the alcohol.
♪
We should always all be better than our parents.
I wish kind of everybody could see me
as the father I am
rather than the person I've been at times.
[groans]
The lazy logger.
I think I've heard of a beer called the Lazy Lager.
But that's L-A-G-E-R instead of L-O-G-G-E-R.
Eh.
[tense music]
♪
[knife scraping]
- It's really early.
I can't sleep.
♪
I found these two neat little rocks earlier.
♪
I got. this one.
It's got some heavy grit on it,
heavy grit.
And then this one, which is just super smooth.
I've been looking for just the perfect sharpening stone
for my knives.
For some reason, I have insomnia.
♪
I go to sleep for a little while, and then I get back up.
And I go to sleep for a little while, and I get back up.
And I go to sleep for a little while,
and I get back up.
I've never had insomnia.
I sleep like the dead.
♪
Damn thing'll shave you.
[tense music]
♪
So I slept really late
'cause I didn't sleep worth a [bleep] last night.
Today, I want to focus on trying to find some food.
I might beef up the shelter a little bit.
I don't know.
So tired, not even thinking straight.
Just playing it by ear right now.
♪
I've really become a hunter of opportunity out here.
I'm looking for anything I can use on my walk, anything.
I'm looking for berries.
I'm looking for game sign.
I'm looking for trails.
Looks like there may be a few berries
right here worth picking.
If I have an opportunity at a squirrel, I try to take it.
If I have an opportunity at a grouse, I try to take it.
If I have an opportunity to gather
3 pounds of berries, I try to take it.
That is a lot of berries.
Nature provides for us.
But you have to go out there and find it.
You have to have the ability to adapt to it.
You have to be willing to learn from it.
If you can do that, then you can survive anywhere.
You ain't gonna believe this [bleep].
Some wood with some nails in it.
I'm gonna use these nails to work on my shelter,
finally put a door on that thing.
♪
Bushcraft is something that's just ingrained in me.
Since my childhood, not having anything
and having to make it work.
♪
Anybody that's ever paid attention to anything
that's ever happened in history,
everybody's heard of the Depression.
I was born in 1990.
I grew up in 1932.
This should work.
Found some plywood at the shoreline.
Didn't have any power.
You know, we hand dug a well
because we had no running water.
I've done schoolwork by candle.
I can remember, a good heavy rain would come,
and I would go out in my underwear
and take a shower in the rain
just because I didn't have to work for it.
No kid should have to go through that.
My kids would never live like that, I promise you.
I work 28 hours a day, 14 days a week.
And that's to keep everybody comfortable and happy.
I've put every callus on my hands.
I bruise my body and break my back.
I suffer so that they won't have to.
And I'll continue to do that.
How do you like that?
It's awesome.
All right, I'm gonna go down here,
get some water, check my fishing line.
[tense music]
♪
- Okay, well, what a way to start the day.
I was coming by my gill net,
and I noticed that I had a fish.
And then I noticed him start thrashing.
And then I realized how big the fish was.
Look at this baby,
an absolute giant of a pike.
Look at that.
It's 15 pounds for sure.
It might be-- it might be closer to 20.
It is a pig of a fish.
I am so happy.
It--oh, I can't even describe what this fish means.
This fish is guaranteed 10 more days here,
guaranteed 10 days, as far as food.
The pressure that this fish takes off is just--
it's incredible.
I am happy with the new gill net.
It's already producing.
There is a lot of meat on that baby.
Let's get a measurement.
Just over 42 inches.
Wow, what an awesome fish.
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
I couldn't be more excited.
♪
In my life growing up, I've learned
how to preserve things the best way I can.
♪
Follow the rib cage.
Study a lot of Native preservation methods,
and using wood ash for flavoring
and berries for flavoring and also for preservation.
But the only way to preserve fish out here
is to smoke them.
Until it gets cold enough that I can freeze them
or keep them on ice, that's it.
♪
Look at this.
Oh, our smoked pike head and our smoked fish.
Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Is that not a thing of perfection or what?
That is absolutely beautiful.
Still got time to go.
The tail's all done.
But right now, I don't have to catch a fish
for dinner tonight or for breakfast tomorrow.
I am golden.
♪
- I made my wind wall.
The wind was coming from this direction.
And today, I've got a gentle breeze coming this way.
It's not like a breeze being out here.
There's always a challenge.
It's amazing.
Looks like a stingray.
When I was doing my diving license,
I did it in the Bahamas.
It's amazing what the world is like under the water.
I want to go to Bimini.
There's a lot of sharks there.
I want to go dive with them.
I can't believe I'm planning more adventures
when I'm sitting here in the middle of Canada.
[laughs]
But I am,
because life is for living, right?
Because you never know when you're gonna die.
[soft music]
I've started to collect reindeer moss.
And right now, I'm going to process it.
♪
Reindeer moss is really cool.
And I've eaten it before.
But it doesn't taste good.
So you don't enjoy your food.
And if you can't enjoy your food,
it's actually very demoralizing.
I have to take advantage of weather and energy.
I will regret it if I don't do it.
It's absolutely vital to boil it twice before you cook it.
Otherwise, you're gonna get stomach cramps and diarrhea.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to boil it twice.
And then I'm gonna dry it out.
Then I can use it as a thickener
for each and every one of my meals.
On my second boil here.
After this, I'll be done.
It's vitally important to have those carbs and starches.
They are the fuel and the energy
that keeps our bodies going.
♪
There we go. There we go.
Let that dry.
So now I need to go for a nice walk
across the other side of the shore.
See if I can forage me some mushrooms
and also get some more berries.
[tense music]
♪
This is like wild trekking.
This is what I do with Brian.
There is no path.
You make your own path.
As someone who's very interested in living history,
it's absolutely fascinating to me
to go through this experience and see
just how hard our ancestors worked to survive.
Here's a nice-looking mushroom.
You don't really think about it.
You're like, oh, they built their homesteads
and lived off the land from the herbs
and the plants and the fish.
And it's just like, it's work.
Here we go.
These are the berries I like.
They did that every single day.
That's incredible.
♪
Wow, look at this.
Which is wonderful.
There's a few more here, even.
How freaking awesome is that?
♪
From a teaching aspect,
this is really helping me so much.
♪
Especially as a woman, too,
I mean, this is basically what I would be doing.
Tending everything at the homestead, foraging.
That was my role.
To actually live what you teach is amazing opportunity.
This is the furthest away I've gone from my shelter.
I'm glad I came.
I haven't seen this many blueberries anywhere.
It could be a half a million dollar patch of blueberries
because it's, like, 3 acres of blueberries.
Nom, nom, nom.
Oh.
So much sugary sweetness.
Mmm.
It's incredible.
Almost feel like I have to come back again.
I'd be crazy not to.
[tense music]
♪
- Yes!
♪
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
♪
Lunch is gonna be a good one.
We have eggs, liver,
um...
I think it's called milt,
heart.
I think that's it.
And there's some other organ in there too,
maybe a kidney.
I always eat the organs first
because they'd be the ones to spoil first.
♪
Whatever that little thing was was a gallbladder.
Oh, I shouldn't have eaten that.
That was terrible.
♪
I hope I don't get sick from that.
♪
Just got her down.
[scraping pan]
Got some organs stuck to the bottom of the pan.
♪
[clears throat]
That was actually kind of good.
I must be really hungry
to say fish organs were pretty good.
[tense music]
I've never felt so rich with food as I do right now.
I just keep catching fish.
But I'm eating them as I get them.
We're here for preservation, not pleasure,
in the food department.
I'm just paranoid about spoilage.
So I need to try to preserve as much meat as possible.
I have to smoke those.
I don't have a choice.
It doesn't have to be anything fancy, you know?
Just something to hold the smoke in a little.
To have too much food to keep fresh,
like, that's a really good problem.
And I'm kind of excited to have a project.
I'm planning on using it again.
That's the plan, anyways.
I think we still got some good fishing ahead of us here.
I think it's gonna work out just fine.
I was thinking, like, season eight
when Clay Hayes got that deer,
it was 50 pounds of meat he smoked.
Like, you catch eight 4-pound fish, you know, do the math.
It's not that far off.
So yeah, that's it.
That's the plan.
Get some more fish, do some smoking,
and procure food for the long term.
Just got another little section in the back to do.
But...yeah, it's looking good.
♪
Tomorrow morning, I'm gonna cut up
all those fish into smokable sections
and then smoke all day long.
But right now, just hoping to get some more.
It's fishing time.
♪
I'm feeling really kind of, like, settled in now.
You know, like, the first couple weeks, I was like,
"Okay, okay, it's only been two weeks.
I gotta be here for so much longer, and--uhh..."
but I'm feeling kind of settled in.
One fish equals three to four more days in the game.
I'm just kind of focused on being here
and enjoying myself and getting food.
That's the big deal.
Food is everything out here.
[sighs]
Tired.
Be nice to have a good sleep tonight.
I was excited today, though.
I was--got one.
Oh, [bleep], that's a big one.
Feels big.
I don't care about that.
Oh, [bleep] yeah.
Holy [bleep], that's beautiful.
Now where's my spool?
Oh, [bleep], it's in the water.
Okay, this is not good, boys and girls.
It's right there. [bleep].
Okay, what am I gonna do here?
Um...I'm going in.
It's gonna be cold.
Don't go--[bleep].
It's going down even further.
You gotta get it.
I can't lose the spool.
That's all my fishing line.
♪
- Where's my spool?
[bleep], it's in the water.
Okay, what am I gonna do here?
Um...going in.
♪
Don't go--[bleep].
It's going down even further.
You gotta get it.
That spool is everything, man. Come on.
It's all my fishing line.
♪
Okay, good. It's still there.
Going in.
Ooh, that's cold.
[tense music]
That wasn't even exciting.
♪
Whoo!
Now I can celebrate!
Man, I would've gone in my undie-pants,
but I'm not wearing any.
[chuckles]
Oh, that's a big one.
Oh, yes.
Okay, now I'm getting cold.
Wow, that was close.
I'm lucky-- really, really lucky--
I got the spool back.
Tomorrow is a day of fish smoking.
♪
I want to feel and experience this adventure
to the fullest extent.
I'm fully expecting to have to suffer.
And it sounds strange, but I want to suffer.
I want to have to suffer to get everything I can
out of this experience.
I want to test myself and see
how far I can push myself through it.
♪
You know--you want to know what I think of my smoker?
I think it's smokin'.
Dad joke. [laughs]
Dad joke.
♪
The smoker is done.
Come here, you big, beautiful fish.
I've never smoked fish before.
I usually smoke deer meat and elk meat,
but I feel confident.
That's a nice big one.
Perfect.
I'm using alder, birch, and willow
because they're low-resinous woods,
and they create a healthier smoke
without the resin and carcinogens,
and it makes the fish taste better.
Look at that.
Ooh, yeah.
Whoo-hoo!
I'm happy.
It's working good.
So the plan is,
I don't touch those fish for a while,
and I just keep catching fresh fish...
[laughs] And eating that.
That's the plan.
One fresh fish every two or three days.
And I have that as backup.
Made a high-tech door.
Life is good right now.
But I know what's coming:
times when life isn't good.
Weather change and no food and the fish aren't biting.
'Cause I know that's gonna happen eventually.
[tense music]
♪
- So we made very good progress today
on the spruce grouse lodge.
And I've been working since this morning.
And I think I'm gonna, you know, just slow it down.
All right, I'm gonna bunker down.
I'll play some chess.
That's what I'm gonna do.
♪
I have food for a handful of days,
but man, the prospect of food when you see this weather,
you know, just to worry about the long term,
worry that I'm not eating enough
to keep up the weight, you know?
♪
Look at the wind.
[laughs] It's wild.
Next, I'm gonna finish this wall and then put a door.
That'd be cool.
All right, so let's play some chess.
Let's go the classic E4, E5.
♪
It's a classic opening.
I made a chess board out of this box that I found.
♪
This is the tower, the rook.
This is the knight.
We have now a chess set.
Chess is a game of strategy.
And it's something that allows me
to think about other things
than just the weather and the killing and eating
so I can enjoy my time here.
You want to come with the knight right here,
attacking that pawn.
On days like today, I miss people.
Thinking about everyone.
I wonder how Mikey is doing.
He's a big guy.
It's a lot of weight.
So he has a lot of fuel to burn.
I think he has the personality 100% to go far.
I'll take your queen's gambit.
Melanie, strong woman.
She's so skilled at things.
She has the right mindset, right everything.
♪
Yeah, you can move your bishop so you can castle,
which is a very slow move.
Wyatt, quite a hunter.
He could be the guy that would get the moose.
He has that experienced.
You want to come with the knight.
I will protect my knight with my pawn.
Alan, he is a hell of a hunter, good guy.
Not a lot of weight to lose.
We'll see.
[tense music]
♪
- Welcome to insomnia.
[groans]
I'm tired but just can't go to sleep.
Lay here and stare off into space.
That's about it.
All right.
Save some power on this.
♪
- This is the first time since I've been here
that my hat is about to blow off.
And this hat fits well.
Wow.
Those are some waves.
It's literally hard to breathe when you're facing the wind.
- I've probably been awake for an hour,
just laying here listening to the rain.
- Good morning from paradise.
Wow, I mean, this could almost be
considered summer in England.
I got rain whipping at my face.
It's pushing me, the wind.
It's just not smoking properly.
So the wind's being a real [bleep] bastard.
I can't fish.
I can't smoke fish.
- I'll probably just spend the rest of the day
in the shelter, hanging out.
Ain't really a whole hell of a lot
more to do when it's raining.
♪
- [groans]
Boredom.
Boredom is the real killer for me.
I can keep my mind off stuff as long as I can keep moving.
♪
- Just a fun day, just chilling in the tepee
in the pouring rain.
♪
- I don't know what everyone else's shelters are like,
but I can imagine there's one or two people
not having a very good time right now.
Nobody is having a good time.
[laughs] That's for sure.
♪
My shelter is gonna need some touch-ups tomorrow,
there's no question about it.
♪
- Having a shelter like this always requires
upkeep and attention, especially with the wind.
So I'll be taking all of my spruce off my bed,
shaking it around, getting some air in it,
and then re-laying it just so it's as bouncy as possible.
I have to stay low, keep my energy quiet,
save everything up until I can push again
and go back to those blueberries.
I'm nervous to see what the blueberries are looking like.
♪
- [bleep] damn, it's gonna be a long day.
From a young age, I learned how to roll with the punches
and try to make the hard parts more bearable.
Keep my mind occupied, take it off of how cold it is,
take it off of not eating.
That's pretty neat, huh?
I'll just play some dice here.
I call this Five Die.
The goal here is to get to 10,000.
So that's 50.
Keep my hands moving, keep myself busy.
♪
- I don't think I've ever been around
wind so strong for so long in my life.
- If I couldn't do this,
then I would probably go crazy.
Can't wait for all this to be over with.
And maybe I can go outside and do something.
♪
- It's not pouring down anymore.
But I have been waiting on the wind to stop.
The wind has not stopped.
And I've gotten tired of laying there.
♪
I've been stuck in my shelter with no protein.
I'm gonna go for a walk,
see if I can find something to eat.
♪
A major part of survival is luck.
It doesn't matter how much skill you have.
It doesn't matter how many animals you've killed.
Doesn't matter how many fish that you've caught.
If the fish don't want the bait that you have,
they're not gonna eat it.
You can hunt your whole life,
but if an animal never walks in front of you,
you're not gonna get it.
It's all about luck.
I'm gonna stop for a second.
Let my presence here die down.
Yeah, I'd like to have something to eat today.
See what's down this way.
♪
Not seeing any game sign.
I'm gonna have to expand my ground.
I'm gonna have to explore more.
I'm gonna have to risk walking off into a place
that I've never been to try to find more food.
♪
There's a grouse.
[suspenseful music]
♪
Just hang out right here.
Gonna be patient.
♪
I got him.
[bleep] got him.
Man, I wish I would have had my aim on like this
whenever I first started.
I would have never missed a meal.
We got it.
We got a grouse.
So great.
♪
Oh, thank you for that grouse.
Oh, man, nothing like a full belly.
Right now, I may make some ink and write a letter.
Crush up charcoal in my little container here.
♪
Add a little bit of water.
I can always add more charcoal.
♪
Look how black that is.
♪
I'm a rich man for everything but money and time.
♪
I have a family that loves me.
And I love them.
And I have the ability to provide for them.
♪
I just don't have the money to have time with them.
$500,000, that's a lot of money.
People say you can't buy happiness,
but if I had more time with them,
I'd be a lot happier.
So the first letter I ever wrote on "Alone."
And I know...
that my handwriting is terrible.
♪
But I'm gonna let you know what this one says.
The next ones, I won't.
This one says, "Dear Hazel, I am writing this
"on a piece of birch bark with a pen and ink
"that I made from a feather and some charcoal and water
"on a rainy, windy day laying here thinking of home
"and missing y'all so bad.
"If this works, I will write more letters.
Love always, Mikey."
♪
Aw.
Aw, I know, it pulls at the heartstrings.
Aw.
So with that being said,
everybody, good night.
I love y'all, and I miss y'all.
♪
I'm gonna try to go to sleep.
[tense music]
♪
- Wow, crazy.
Last night, I got woken up by a big crash.
The winds were really strong.
And my woodshed is attached to four living trees.
And because of the swaying of the trees,
it's broken through my wool cordage,
which makes total sense, because it's only wool.
Ah, a little bit of devastation here.
Got some work to do.
♪
I think what I'll do is I'll deconstruct this
so I can construct it when I'm ready to rebuild.
♪
I still might prioritize the berries
because they really do have a limited span.
Yeah, a lot of this is dry.
That moss does its job really well.
Seeing that my woodshed is down, I am so bummed.
I wish I had not tried to build it around live trees.
But you learn by living.
If I put everything into different sections,
I'll know what's what when I rebuild it.
It's an interesting thing doing this
because I definitely have strengths,
and I definitely have weaknesses.
And you have to show your mistakes.
And I'm scared [bleep] that I'll be shown
in a way that doesn't make my son
or my dude proud of me.
Underneath the hay is dry wood.
So that is cool.
It takes a lot of balls to do this.
But you just gotta trust in the process
and hope to God it turns out okay.
♪
It's definitely better than it was.
Now I'm gonna go inside.
And I'm just gonna chill while this wonderful weather
has its fun and games.
[tense music]
For the most part, all I was doing
for the last two days was just lying in bed.
So I've had a lot of time with my thoughts.
I'm gonna need energy to go get those berries.
I'm gonna need to be feeling good.
So it's time to eat.
The longer I'm in my shelter, the more I think of Brian.
♪
It makes me emotional.
♪
Oh, Mr. Brian,
I've been racking my brains
as to how I can talk to you.
This is a very secret, secret, secret SD card just for you.
[crying]
I love you.
And I miss you.
And I miss--not being able to talk to you...
[sighs]
I mean, it's cool and everything being out here.
And if I'm really, really good at foraging,
I can stay out here for a long, long time
and win us that money.
And then we can do all sorts of amazing things,
have a pond and a tractor and a truck...
[crying]
And a working area by the chicken coop.
And I'm just thinking of that.
My fishing is [bleep].
I cannot catch a [bleep] fish to save my life.
I think I've caught one.
But I'm not stopping.
I'm not giving up.
I cannot show any sign of weakness on the camera
because they'll focus on it.
I just have to be happy Melanie and upbeat.
Because I don't want them to use anything
that could make me look weak.
I just wish you were here.
I'm gonna be stuck to you like glue when I come home.
You're gonna be so fed up with it.
I miss you so much.
[tense music]
♪
- Here I am again, smoking fish.
That seems to be what I do these days.
This is the second day in a row
with crappy, rainy weather.
And I'm going to continue smoking those fish
because they're still too moist.
Yeah, I can't screw up this food source.
I can't let it go bad.
If I over-smoke it, I over-smoke it.
I'm really worried about those fish
getting moldy or rotting or something.
If I could go back in time, I probably would have
sliced them into thinner pieces.
But it's too late.
More time in the smoker.
♪
Probably too windy to cast.
But forgot about an idea I had it for a new lure.
I'm gonna make that right now.
So this is Lake Trout Baby number one right here.
And it's getting kind of tired.
It's--the parachute cord is all tangled.
It doesn't have that nice, flowy wave
like a minnow anymore.
So I'll probably repair Lake Trout Baby One.
But right now, I'm making Lake Trout Baby Two.
And it's gonna be better.
All right, let's start boring.
The longer I stay here, I feel,
the more I am settling here.
Man, this bark really looks like fish skin.
♪
That's awesome.
I'm just thinking more about what I need to do next
to stay longer.
That storm sucked.
Sitting so long in one spot impacts my mind negatively.
♪
It's getting cold.
There's this emotion that I feel out here.
It's hard to explain, but it's almost like
pain in your chest.
I want to see my family.
I miss them a lot.
I miss my wife right now.
I like to talk to her and tell her
about my adventures
and all the stuff I've been doing,
my mishaps, my successes.
Lake Trout Baby Two.
It's got some huge improvements.
It's got a stinger hook extraordinaire...
Both facing in opposite directions.
So I'm gonna do a couple casts,
because you can't catch fish if you're not fishing.
♪
Lots of people are away from their family for times.
But very rarely you can't talk to them, you know?
Definitely a little less windy, thank God.
Lake Trout Baby Two, show me your stuff.
♪
Oh.
You can't call them.
That's the weird thing.
Come on.
Not being able to call and say, hey, how's it going?
Yeah, this is what I did today.
How are you? Everything okay?
Can't do that.
♪
That's what messes with you a bit.
Got one.
[dramatic music]
[bleep].
Lost it by the shore.
[sighs]
That's really frustrating.
How did he get off?
♪
I had constant pressure on him, man, constant pressure.
♪
[sighs]
Losing my [bleep] mind, man.
Maybe they're starting to bite now.
Let's get another one.
♪
There's a lot at stake here.
I need food.
And my smoker is not smoking.
♪
I'm burning up inside right now.
Take a deep breath.
[sighs]
Burning up inside.
♪
Got one.
No!
Oh, [bleep].
What the [bleep] is going on?
♪
[bleep], I don't [bleep] believe this [bleep].
Holy [bleep].
♪
[groans]
♪
This might be the most frustrated I've felt.
♪
Let's go.
♪
Oh, look, there's another fish I just lost.
♪
Wow.
♪
Yup, that's the night.
That's the night tonight.
That is the night.
I've never had such bad fishing luck in all my life.
These strikes today are-- they're gonna haunt me.
♪
It could be the difference.
Landing these and not landing these
could be the difference.