It's the last hunt of python season...
-You see anything yet? -Straight ahead!
And the team mobilizes
for the most important mission of the year...
Let's go out there and save this wetland.
Let's do it.
To protect a pristine section of south Florida.
-Oh, my goodness. -Aah!
We need to hold the snakes off as long as we can.
With one day left, the hunters team up...
-Aaron, snake! -Get your hands on it, Zak!
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!
To track down the invasive monsters...
-Oh, yeah! -And try to save
a piece of paradise.
We gotta get 'em out of here.
We're gonna try to go out with a big bang.
Aaron, grab the head!
Aah!
The final day of python season has arrived...
-The A-team. -What's happening?
Come on, Dusty, let's go tell 'em the game plan.
And the hunters gather at Dusty's
to go over the marching orders for their last hunt.
It's a big one.
All right, listen, let's stay focused. Dusty.
It's been a hard hunt, huh, this time?
Yeah, and we're getting to the end of it.
I know there's one big waterway
that's heading up to this big wetland area.
The team is heading to the Lake Elizabeth Wetlands,
situated just beyond the northern border
of the Everglades.
Lying almost entirely within a vast ranch property,
the area offers the perfect conditions
for both native and migratory birds.
While pythons have not been spotted there yet,
several new waterways have opened into the area
following rainstorms.
Dusty worries that pythons may use them as highways
to push further north.
If the invasive serpents reach this area,
they will sow destruction for multiple species.
If we can't stop the snakes from getting in there,
it could be bad news for Florida.
TROY: You know, these snakes are remarkable
in the way they can adapt.
The population is just moving.
It's like a march. They just marching north now.
So, I feel it's very important to protect places like this.
We need to do what we can to try to preserve the wetlands
and hold the snakes off as long as we can.
The more we spread out, it can only help us.
And the bigger the net you're gonna cast,
the more fish you're gonna catch.
Zak, you and Aaron,
y'all been doing real good together.
If y'all don't mind, y'all hit the creeks going upstream.
Kaylyn and Bruce, y'all two work the outer edges.
And Peewee and I,
I think, should get right in the middle of the wetlands
and see what we can come up with.
This is gonna be our last hoorah.
After this, we headed home.
Give it all you got, son.
Don't leave nothing on the table.
-Come on, come on. -No regrets. No regrets.
All right, let's do it, let's do it.
After a four-hour journey north,
Troy and Pickle arrive
in the vicinity of the Lake Elizabeth Wetlands.
Their mission: survey the southwestern quadrant
for any Burmese pythons
that may have infiltrated this pristine region.
Florida has wetlands pretty much just like Louisiana, you know.
It's just-- it's vast and high grass,
and there's all kinds of beautiful ecosystems.
Our job is to protect this place.
Look, a deer, look, a deer, look, a deer.
Two of 'em. Three! Four!
This is gonna be the last area we hunt this year,
and it's one of the most important areas
we've hunted all year.
So I'm hoping we don't find
no sign of pythons in the wetlands.
But if we do, we gotta find 'em,
locate 'em, and get 'em out.
Look at this, paradise.
Beautiful place, huh?
Look right here-- look, big sign.
You can tell there's something big in this area.
Straight off of beds, too.
Look at this bed they got right here-- right there.
Oh, yeah. Boy, that look like a big trail, too.
Spotting evidence of python beds isn't a good sign.
I think we on to something here, huh?
Come see this, come see.
Look.
Oh, yeah, a dead bird.
A python would've swallowed this bird whole,
which means it was probably killed by a raccoon.
But since raccoons themselves are prime python prey,
the hunters need to take a deeper look
to confirm their growing suspicions.
-P, this is snake habitat. -Mm-hmm.
Holy crap! Mr. Troy, snake!
Where?
-Look! Look! -Oh, oh, Peewee!
Snake!
I got him.
It's a big one.
Whoa.
Get him out of there. Pull him out.
Pick him up, pick him up.
Watch it, watch it.
Okay.
Aah!
Watch him, P. Oh!
Ooh, he's a big one.
Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!
Why you let the tail go?
Keep him distracted. Stop moving.
Aah! Aah!
[laughs] This is a mean one.
All right, what you doing? What's the plan?
Okay, P, stretch him out for me.
There you go. Stretch him out, stretch him out.
Good job, good job.
All right, that could be your chance right there.
-Watch it. -He's focused on me.
Come on. That's your chance.
-Oh, yeah, baby girl! -Got him.
That's what I'm talking about.
-Good job. -Got you.
Good job.
This catch near the end of the season
and in a formerly untouched wetland area
feels particularly bittersweet for Pickle.
It's always great, you know,
for us to find a snake, of course we're making money.
But it sucks at the same time because, you know,
we don't want 'em here. We're trying to take 'em out.
We're trying to diminish the population
as much as possible, so when we find one,
it's a little disheartening.
That sucks.
As Troy and Pickle continue
to search their quadrant...
On the north side of the Lake Elizabeth Wetlands,
Florida natives Zak Catchem and Aaron Crum
approach using a traditional Gladesmen method
for navigating shallow water.
-Whoo! -A lot of work.
Zak and I have to use a pole boat to get
to these wetlands. These snakes can use
these waterways to get to this low-lying area.
It's shallow in some spots.
We have to tote the boat, we have to carry it.
So push poling is the only way to get there.
To the wetlands.
We're sailors now. [laughs]
The advantage of having these pole boats
is they can handle really, really shallow water.
And even if you get into some really thin mud,
you can still push yourself forward.
I feel like it's gonna be our best bet
to get as far back as we can.
A pole boat is a flat-bottom boat
similar to a canoe,
but using a push pole for propulsion.
If the wildlife is back here, this is where it's gonna be.
-Really shallow right here. -Uh-huh.
Come on.
Uh!
-You got it? -Yup.
A mile downstream, the hunters secure their boat
and begin to inspect their assigned section.
That's banked.
Oh, man, oh, man.
Nice job, Aaron.
Well, let's see what we can find, buddy.
Aaron! Aaron, big snake, Aaron!
What is it?
Big snake! Aah!
-Oh! -Oh, my God, Zak.
-Aaron! -Aah!
There you go, there you go.
-Oh! -Oh!
Come on.
-Touch her. -Whoa!
Touch her, touch her, touch her, touch her! Ow!
There's not much room to work in here, dude.
-There's not. -Come on now.
Whoa!
I'm gonna catch her.
Aah! Go ahead, do it.
-Might be able to sneak one. -Do it.
-Come on, this way-- -Whoa!
Come on, come on.
-Ugh! -Ready?
Aah! I got her.
-Aah! -Come on.
Aah... yeah.
This 12-foot monster,
along with Troy and Pickle's catch,
proves Dusty's fears were well founded.
The pythons have invaded paradise.
With the python Aaron and I caught,
we know the snakes are here. The battle has begun,
and it's not gonna end any time soon.
They're gonna keep coming, and we gotta keep
defending this area, because we know
that there's wildlife here, and it's healthy.
Let's keep heading this way.
Four miles away...
Bruce and Kaylyn approach
the southern border of the wetlands,
scouring the bed of the creek
leading them into their allotted area.
I hope when we get a little further back,
we got more water.
Bruce and I, we're deciding to use these 4-wheelers.
So, the 4-wheelers are really great
because we're using these waterways
to see if the pythons are using it
as a sort of super highway
to get in and out of these wetlands.
That's what we're here to look for.
Burmese pythons are strong swimmers
that can travel long distances underwater,
with research indicating
that they're capable of staying submerged
anywhere from eight to 30 minutes at a time.
It's like the first time I don't wanna catch nothing.
The wetlands has water, so we know they got
lots of animals there. We wanna catch them snakes
going in there before they get everywhere in there.
Bruce and Kaylyn need to travel through the creek itself
to be in the best position of spotting any pythons,
but that presents a dangerous challenge.
Oh, man, there's a ton of water here.
Be careful, be careful.
Once they hit that water, it's over.
In the southern outskirts of the Lake Elizabeth Wetlands,
Kaylyn's 4-wheeler hits soft sand.
Whoa.
Oh, no.
Just hold on a minute.
Wait a minute.
We miles and miles from anything back here.
You just gotta watch everything
because stuff happens, and it happens fast.
Something like this, this is a bad situation here.
I got rope in my backpack. I'm gonna pull it out.
Dropped off quick.
Do you think it'll start with this much water?
Probably not.
Maybe I can get a rope hooked to it.
-Hang on, hang on. -Yeah, we're gonna
need the rope for that bit.
Yeah. Hang on.
It's stuck on some sand.
Thank you, sir.
We knew there'd be a risk
-going up this river, but... -Oh, yeah...
-Okay, I'm gonna go real slow. -Okay.
That's a deep spot. Be careful.
Luckily I had some string in my backpack.
We just gotta keep going.
Okay. All right, stop. Perfect.
Now let's see what we got left here.
Let's see if it'll do anything.
[engine stalling]
We don't have time to just mess with this 4-wheeler.
We're gonna just have to make the call to leave it
and move forward with his 4-wheeler.
-We can both ride on this one. -Okay.
Flooding the 4-wheeler has killed its engine,
leaving the hunters with a single vehicle to get around.
We'll give it time to dry out.
It might run or we can come back tonight and get it.
All right, good to go.
-Hold on. -Yup.
As Bruce and Kaylyn get back to their mission,
Dusty holds down the fort at home
and prepares a surprise
to celebrate the end of the season.
Man, these guys have been busting their butts
for, like, two months.
They deserve something a little bit special--
some recognition.
This ain't an easy thing to do, you know.
So, this is what I'm gonna do--
try to make a little special parting gifts for 'em.
I wanna show them how much they really mean to me.
Let's see here.
Oh, that's a nice one.
What I'm thinking...
...is I could take some of this.
So, people don't understand, man.
This is very tedious work.
Who doesn't want to get patted on the back?
It's just a good feeling, you know,
when they get that trophy.
I'm gonna come up with some other unique gifts for 'em.
Um... not that, though.
Meanwhile, back in the lower portion
of the Lake Elizabeth Wetlands,
Troy and Pickle have bagged one python
and are determined to clear out as many as possible
before the season ends.
I'm worried. Once they find their way
to an area, we never find 'em all,
we never catch 'em all.
The wetlands, it's a paradise.
And it's a paradise for all kinds of birds and animals,
and the snakes know that.
And unfortunately, the snakes, they done made their way here.
Aware that pythons will use waterways
to penetrate deeper into the area,
Troy and Pickle decide to investigate the region
across a nearby creek.
You see all them cattails over there?
That's across the creek.
Let's go look at the creek.
I think I can cross right here.
You ain't going through this.
Not with me on it.
All right, get off.
Find me a place to cross.
Look for a place that's not too steep.
It's all steep.
Ain't no way I'm riding with him on that thing.
That's what I'm talking about.
I'd rather walk.
He drives me nuts.
I don't think anything bothers Mr. Troy.
He could've sunk this whole thing, and that was it,
the end of our-- our trip here.
But the risk is definitely worth the reward.
Look at this, look to my right here.
Mm-hmm. I don't like that.
Man, it's so nasty in here.
P, P, over here! P!
Hurry up, hurry up, hurry!
It looked like a big one.
I'm gonna try to go around. Hurry up.
Aah, I can't-- I can't get through.
Right in here, P. It went right in here somewhere.
You ain't catching up with that snake.
There ain't no way.
Oh, man.
The invasion of the Lake Elizabeth Wetlands is underway.
It's sad that they've made it this far.
And they expanding, these snakes are here to stay.
And God knows how many we didn't see.
Realizing the terrain's features
are presenting a serious challenge,
Troy leaves to call in the hunters
and make changes to the team's strategy.
We'll get a little meeting together
and get a game plan.
We're gonna search it from one end to the other.
On the north end of the wetlands...
Let's focus on this area
and maybe look around a little farther.
Zak and Aaron already extracted one python
along the area's border.
Now, they're moving further in to check for more.
Look at this, Aaron.
Some deer tracks, and fat ones, too.
-That's a big deer. -Oh, yeah.
If there's snakes out here, they're gonna be following that.
That's a buffet for a big old python.
There's still plenty of wildlife out here thriving,
but it happens fast.
I mean, you can hear the birds,
and then you can't hear them anymore.
And, if we don't get a handle on these pythons immediately,
I mean, they'll take over.
They gotta be near water. I mean, look at this.
-This stuff is thick, huh? -Yeah, it is.
This is all starting to float over here.
Careful, man. It's super wet in here.
Yeah. My boots are getting stuck.
This is all flotant, man.
We're on top of water. All this squishy stuff is
like a giant sponge.
Floating marsh, also called flotant,
is a buoyant mass of air-filled roots
suspended in water that allows it to float.
Over time, this mass may become dense enough
to support the growth of trees
or the weight of a human being.
If we hang this edge right here, could make our way around it.
-Aaron, snake! -You see it?
-Yeah! -Damn it!
-Get your hands on it, Zak! -No, I can't. I can't.
My foot's getting stuck in this crap.
-You need help? -Nope, just get the snake.
It's up ahead, go ahead, go ahead!
Where? Which way did it go?
Come on.
-Where at, Zak? -He's right here in this tuft.
Come on. He's right here.
Gotta be careful. This is all flotant.
This is not just grass.
There's water underneath us.
The only way we're gonna find is by feel.
You just gotta use your legs.
Ugh, there's holes in here, too.
I know. I can feel 'em under here.
I think it went underneath us, dude.
I think this is just...
this is a floating patch of weeds, man.
The snake probably went straight down underneath this junk.
Damn.
That was a big one, Aaron.
That was a damn big one.
Another sighting, another escape.
It shows just how easily
the pythons in this area can slip away.
As much as it sucks for us and us not making money,
it sucks for the Everglades and all the animals
that are about to get eaten by that monster.
Well, we may as well search this area.
They're here.
Zak and Aaron do one more sweep of their section
as they prepare to head back to meet Troy.
Meanwhile on the wetlands south edge,
after Kaylyn flooded her 4-wheeler's engine,
she and Bruce are down to one ATV
as they survey the area for pythons,
but the added weight is slowing them down.
Oh, no.
Oh, golly.
This is our last vehicle.
If we lose this 4-wheeler,
I don't know what we're gonna do.
-It's just sinking further. -Yeah.
Okay, just try to push.
It's coming, it's coming.
Think we got it, we got it, we got it.
Keep going, keep going!
-Yay! -Whoo!
And we're out.
All right, let's get out of here.
Oh, my goodness.
Whew!
We barely got it out.
I don't know how we did it.
We stuffed sticks under the wheels and stuff,
and we got it moving.
And any which way, we back on the road again.
Running into the same terrain challenges as the other teams,
Bruce and Kaylyn opt to regroup with Troy
before going any further.
As the second half of the day begins...
-Zak and Aaron. -Troy gathers the troops
to exchange information
and recalibrate their plan of attack.
All right, group. Hey, I need an update.
The bad thing is they got snakes here.
It's so thick in there.
What about y'all? What y'all done?
There's snakes back there. We lost a big one.
But we also caught a really, really big one, too.
It's so disappointing to find snakes in this area.
And with all the food they have here,
the wildlife and the birds,
they not going nowhere.
Them snakes are gonna be here to stay.
We gonna have to do what we gotta do to get 'em out,
because, before we come back in a year from now,
they could do a lot of damage in a place like this.
Sensing the urgency of the situation,
Troy decides to shake up the strategy.
He teams Kaylyn and Pickle together,
both for their climbing skills
and because they'll exert the least amount of weight
on the 4-wheeler.
Girls, y'all two
get on the outside edge of the wetlands
where it's higher,
and maybe if you see a tree or something,
or something you can climb up, you know,
just to kind of get a better point of view.
Me and Kaylyn, I think we'll do good together.
Zak and Aaron will continue
to cover the tricky northern section.
Meanwhile, the veteran hunters will form their own team
heading into the heart of the wetlands
to take advantage of their decades of experience
reading tracks.
Bruce and I, we gonna get
right in the middle of the wetlands
and see what we can come up with.
The grass is so thick and it's so green
and the snakes are so camouflaged.
Bruce and I is gonna get right in the middle
and just trample it down
and try to find as many snakes as we can.
All right, everybody knows the plan?
Y'all good, boys, y'all good?
Girls? Be careful.
Listen, if you decide to climb a tree somewhere
or something, be careful.
All right, Mr. Mitchell, come with me.
Come on, Bruce, let's go.
The teams disperse with their new game plans.
And a little while later...
Troy and Bruce arrive in the cattail grasses
to scour for any python trails hidden in the underbrush.
I believe we should go close to the edge
-of the water, I think. -Yeah, go toward them cattails.
Usually where you got cattails, you got a little water,
and them snakes are gonna be by the water.
We changed everything today. Pickle and them is going high,
so me and Troy's gonna stay low.
And Zak and Aaron's
gonna be around the other side of the lake,
and we gonna cover everything.
We gonna try to go out with a big bang this year.
I think we get out and take a little walk through here.
Let's work our way towards them trees over there, you and I.
Boy, I got confidence here.
I think we gonna do good over here.
Bruce, I already found a bed.
There's already a bed right here.
We are definitely in the right area.
All right, I'm just gonna keep going then.
Look at that, snake trail right there.
That's a big snake, too. It's not an alligator.
If it was an alligator, you'd see the claw marks.
That's a big snake.
You see anything?
There's a lot of snake sign right here,
but I'm-- I'm not finding nothing.
I just got a bad whiff of it.
-You notice that? -You smell it?
We on 'em, Bruce. We just gotta find 'em.
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce!
Right here, right here, right here!
In here! In here! Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!
Where'd he go?
Oh, don't tell me.
Look, they got a daggone hole right here.
Look right here, look right here.
I bet it went into the water.
-In the flotant. -Well, let's look. Hurry up.
Look right there, look right there.
Was he going towards the hole?
I seen him right in front of you.
I bet he hit that hole.
Oh, there's no bottom in there.
No, it goes all the way to the water.
Ain't no way to dig him out.
Yeah.
It looked like a pretty nice one.
Son of a gun.
Hot like it is, we busting our butts
and to see one get away from us.
-That's the bad part. -Oh, that's aggravating.
When you see one and it gets away from you,
it's heartbreaking. It's a sad situation,
because I know in my heart
we need to do more.
We not doing enough, but we doing all we can.
Losing another python is tough,
but the hunters are determined
to root out these monsters at all costs.
I think they adapting
to the hunting pressure we putting on 'em.
Yeah, kind of like deer.
We think we know how to pattern them,
but they're learning how to pattern us.
I just hope the other teams are having luck.
Just across the wetlands,
Pickle and Kaylyn
are on the lookout for the perfect tree,
hoping that a bird's eye view of the low-lying areas
can turn the tide of today's hunt.
I mean, the oak trees are great.
-Yeah, the oak trees look good. -That's a good looking tree.
And that'll let us get high enough up, too,
-so-Yeah.n see.
We really wanna get up in some trees
and try to get an aerial perspective
on what's moving through here and maybe
see some good signs of where pythons could be.
-Is that an oak? -This looks like a good one.
Oh, look, that's a good low limb right there.
Oh, that's a perfect oak.
I'm looking for snake trails,
I'm looking for basking pads,
anything like that, any kind of sign.
This is good for, like, rats.
The rats love all these
-downed palm fronds. -Yeah.
Look at this thing. It looks like an ancient oak.
-You wanna get in that one? -Yeah.
I'm gonna go see if I can find something else
-over here. -Okay.
Let me know if you see anything.
Okay, holler if you need help.
I'm not going too far.
I can get up in this sucker.
All of these thorns.
Got all kinds of fricking stickers in this tree, Kay.
You see anything yet?
I'm getting there. Oh, yeah.
-How's it looking? -I can see good now.
-Whoo! -You see anything?
I see what looks like a basking pad.
I mean, there's no other thing that it could be.
-Yeah? -It's like a python
basking pad just right out towards the water.
They got some good trails up here I see.
Where at?
Straight ahead. You see that little
-body of water right there? -Oh, yeah, yeah.
Leading right to that.
Oh, that's awesome.
All right, I'm coming down.
All right. Let's go check out
-that piece of water. -Okay, I wanna
check out that basking pad, too.
Sounds good.
I see something that could be a snake trail,
but I gotta get down and go check it out.
-Whoo! You good? -Yeah.
After identifying two possible areas of interest,
Pickle and Kaylyn decide to split up.
Look, I'm gonna go over here and check that out.
-Okay. -I guess you go over there.
Yeah, I'll go over there, and then, I mean,
holler if something gets you
-or you find something. -Yeah.
Meanwhile, several miles north,
Dude, look at that big old mud puddle.
After losing a python earlier,
Zak and Aaron return to the area to look again
and soon begin to find signs of snake presence.
Aaron, look at this slide.
Oh, yeah.
-Yeah. -There's no feet.
-Nope. -A slide with no feet
means a python.
There's no paw prints,
and it goes straight to this game trail,
right into the reeds where they would be.
-That's a python, dude. -Definitely.
We're gonna find it. Come on.
Me and you, buddy.
Try to look below your feet.
Make sure there's no alligators in here.
Yeah.
Damn.
Aaron! Come over here! Grab the head!
Oh!
Oh, my God.
Pull it towards you, pull it towards you!
I'm-- pull it this way.
Pull it, Zak, pull it.
-I got him. -Get him, Zak.
-Don't let him bite you. -He's right beneath you.
Just grab the head.
He's right there! Aah!
I got it.
We gotta bag this thing up.
I'm stuck in here.
Give me the-- Give me the snake.
After so many near misses,
capturing this ten-footer
offers relief and a sense of hope
that their efforts are not in vain.
As brutal as it was to get out here to this wetland area,
I mean, it's worth it.
Come on, grab that thing.
We hunted as hard we could.
That's all we can do.
Come on, buddy. We're almost there.
Back at the southern edge,
after getting a bird's eye view of the area,
Pickle has split off from Kaylyn,
searching where she saw python tracks from above.
♪ No holes, no holes
So, when we split up like this, it gives us an opportunity
to cover a lot more ground faster.
I mean, these snakes,
they really travel a good distance
and they run all over.
I know they gotta hide under these ferns.
They always do.
Wait, listen, listen.
I hear one. I hear one.
He's right here.
He's right here, he's right here!
He's right here!
Oh, my God, got one. I got one!
Aah! Y'all like to protect them tails, huh?
Come at me. Give me a good strike.
Come on.
Spread out, you.
You see me, huh?
You wanna play, huh?
He's looking right at me.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Whoo!
Man, it's hard catching 'em by yourself.
Whew!
Capturing this six-foot male
before it can breed is exactly why the hunters
wanted to come to Lake Elizabeth,
and it leaves Pickle feeling accomplished.
I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling on top of my game.
Mama-- Mama got her game back. [laughs]
Whew! Lord have mercy.
As Pickle wraps up and prepares
to circle back to pick up Kaylyn,
four miles away,
after losing a python earlier,
Troy and Bruce are determined to make up for it.
I think if we get close to the water,
it oughta be soft there, right?
Yeah, yeah, so them snakes got to be there.
But as they adapt to the enemy and environment,
they realize the challenge they're up against.
This place is huge.
That's just this one piece we hunting.
And it goes further north and further south,
so we just gonna do what we can do to get 'em out.
We're running out of time.
I think we should split up and cover more ground.
-Let's do it. -Yeah.
Listen, I think you oughta
just work your way right here on this edge.
And I'm gonna go this way, all right?
-Let's get it. -Good luck.
I'll meet you back here in about an hour.
Bruce and I, we split up,
but we stayed where we could see each other.
-Bruce! -Yo, I'm over here.
Any luck?
No, I ain't seen nothing.
If you look further down over there,
they got trees on the edge.
Yeah, they might be in the trees with it being so hot.
Well, I'm gonna go further back in them trees.
All right. I'm going further down this way.
Sensing ideal conditions
for an ambush predator such as a python,
Troy proceeds to the forested area.
It's like a jungle in here.
Bruce, Bruce!
[laughs] Look at that.
Whoo! Look at the size of this thing.
Oh, my God.
Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi.
Ooh!
Gotta get the tail. Gotta get the tail,
and he's protecting it.
Come on, big boy.
Aye-yi-yi. God dang it.
Boy, I hate catching these things by myself.
Aah!
All right, all right.
Aah!
[laughs]
Whoo! Thank you, Jesus.
I need a break.
He's trying to get away so bad.
Catching this ten-foot snake
brings hope to the Lake Elizabeth Wetlands
and its inhabitants,
but for Troy, leaving the Everglades is always tough.
As today has proven to all the hunters,
despite multiple captures,
the war against the pythons never stops.
Well, there's Troy sitting in the buggy. Yes, yes.
We had one of our best years ever.
I am happy to be here doing my part
to try to protect the Everglades.
To be honest, I wish I could do more to save the Everglades.
I feel in my heart what we doing is
just the tip of the iceberg,
and I wish I could do a lot, lot more.
Good work. Let's get out of here
and go check on the rest of the crew.
After a long journey back...
Dang, boys.
-Come on. -Got a heavy one.
-Whoa, boys. -It's a big one.
The hunters begin to arrive at Dusty's camp
with their haul.
When I was little, there was no pythons.
I mean, I was born in the early nineties,
and that's just when they were starting to spread out.
And now it's a plague.
Oh!
I'm super impressed with our team.
Just-- we've come together
in a way that we really pushed back on 'em.
Look at that.
Yeah, there you go.
-Ready, here we go. -All right.
Watch it now, watch it, go slow.
-Nice cut. -There you go.
-Perfect. -Perfect.
-Ready? -Yup, I got the tail.
What a great season we had, man.
It's so good to be around my good friends.
Man, they're so happy, they feel accomplished.
Great win for the Everglades.
Now for my favorite part.
It's fat, dude. Loaded down fat.
You know, the thing is that's why it's got so much fat
is for the next clutch.
So she was getting ready to get bred.
To have the egg in there.
That's why she's packing on the fat
because she knows she's gonna need it.
Damn!
-What are y'all doing? -Howdy, howdy.
Having the best time with your partner.
Stole him from you this year.
Man, we've been hunting hard. Hard-hard.
I think it's a good season overall.
Hard part's gonna be telling everybody bye.
-All right. -Yes!
Man, what a season. It's gonna be a good celebration.
After the last pythons are processed,
the team gathers for a much-deserved celebration
of a difficult but immensely rewarding season.
-Y'all get it. -Who's ready
for this last meal, y'all?
What a great way to finish the season.
Everybody together for a big cookout.
We celebrate everything in Louisiana with food.
-I was about to say that. -Everything, it don't matter.
This is what we do in Louisiana.
We always get together at the end of a day.
You're cooking and cutting up
with your friends and your family.
It's just fun being out here with everybody.
Everything went good, nobody got hurt.
Plus just think of the impact we made on the Everglades.
Hell, yeah.
It wasn't easy this year at all.
I'm real happy that we got
with some of the locals this year.
I think that really helped us out.
The snakes have their own army, we're making our own.
There was more hunters this year than ever.
This year was one for the books.
We expanded, did things different.
We hunted with people we had never met before,
and we bringing awareness to a lot of people
that would've never been out here catching snakes.
And now it's catching on
and there's more and more people coming out here
trying to save the Everglades.
Good Lord willing, we'll be back next year.
Hopefully we can grow and learn from this
and make us better hunters in the future.
Hey, look, I got one more special surprise for y'all.
-Uh-oh. -I wanna show them
how much they mean to the Everglades,
and how much they mean to me, you know.
Mr. Troy, our fearless leader,
you've been such an inspiration to all of us.
The King of the Swamp,
I made you your own custom heavyweight championship belt.
The King of the Swamp!
The King of the Swamp gets the king belt right there.
Whoa!
This year, it was harder than I expected,
but we were very successful.
I'm thinking we gonna go home with money in our pocket.
-Thank you. -And Pickle, I know
that you're all one of them whippersnappers
with the new technologies, you know,
so I made you a fancy CD cover...
-Wow. -...to hold your favorite CD.
Aw, it's beautiful, Mr. Dusty.
We're doing good. It's brutal out here in the Everglades,
and I didn't know if I was ready for that
and I'm proud to be back, you know.
I think we did pretty good this season.
For Zak, I made you a checkbook holder.
Say-- you swear, brother.
Check this out. Very own python CD case.
-Ooh! -That way,
you can store your favorite CD in there.
I love it.
-Let me see your belt, Crum. -See my belt?
I seen it's kind of wore out, man.
You been putting that thing through a lot of battles,
so I made you a new one.
-Oh, no. -Whoo!
-Seriously? -Yeah.
Damn, man, thank you so much.
You got it, buddy.
Thank you so much. That's sweet.
You deserve it, man.
That's for the muscle on the crew right there.
I know you're making me something,
but could I just get, like, a coupon
for your pizza place or something?
Well, I got a gift certificate right in here.
-That's your coupon book. -Oh cool, cool.
-Nice. -That's beautiful.
It's not pizza for life, it's one a month.
Do y'all deliver?
We'll calculate it. I'll get you a good rate.
[all laugh]
This is a huge team effort.
One man ain't gonna be able to make it, you know.
Man, I appreciate y'all coming down again, helping out.
It's just been wonderful having y'all,
and we're out here doing the work we love to do.
-And being successful at it. -Yes.
Cheers to all that.
-Cheers to a good season. -All right, Dusty.
Thanks for inviting us.
-Snaking ain't easy. -Snaking ain't easy!
[cheering]
That's what I'm talking about.