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[dramatic music]

You're catching fish.

You're doing well, and then nothing.

Broo's dropped so much weight.

We've got to put more food on the table.

Otherwise, I don't know what's gonna happen.

My biggest concern out here is just some accident happening

that ends it for us just like that.

It looks like the float is not floating.

Oh, no, Jim!

-The float sunk. -No!

-Today was a really bad day. -We've lost our crab trap.

I'm getting all the [bleep] food foraging,

and you're always not.

I think you're just mad

that you haven't even caught one fish.

I'm not. I'm jt saying.

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[ominous music]

This is gonna be an incredible challenge.

We're gonna be dropped off in separate locations,

and one of us has to find the other.

There they go!

I gotta wait on my brother.

Hopefully he'll be here soon.

Please come tomorrow.

I don't know where I'm going,

how long I'm gonna be out here.

All I have is a compass bearing.

It's a needle in a haystack.

Can I even make it to base camp?

-Dad! No way. -Son!

Everything around you

is telling you you need to go home.

-[air horn blasts] -Please leave me alone!

If you don't work as a team, it's game over.

I can't hold this whole thing up.

Just hold it still.

$500,000 would be life-changing.

-I know. -[exclaims]

I feel like the life is sucked out of me.

-[whispers] -He's coming.

He sees me.

[muffled stomping]

[stomping continues]

Yes.

Now that was a successful rock.

On one rock I stomped six gunnels.

Wow.

We're eating shore crabs, limpets, slugs, and seaweed.

The gunnel fish are a rare find now.

There's just something about these writhing eels

that you rip out from under boulders

that just isn't appetizing.

There's a minnow-sized gunnel fish in there.

But you know, it is also a good amount of protein,

you know?

Having fish under rocks,

that is something that we want to take advantage of.

Ow, [bleep]!

Oh.

Oh, I just dropped a huge boulder on my leg.

Oh, no.

It's pinning me.

Dude, come help me?

-Yeah. -[bleep].

[groans]

Your leg is pinned?

Yeah.

[bleep].

All right, what are we doing here?

Lift it up this way.

Ready?

[exhales]

-Yeah. -One, two...

[grunting]

I managed to get a gunnel out of it, though.

Good.

-Thanks. -Yeah, no problem.

Ted and I get in a lot of fights out here.

You know, he has his way of doing things,

and I have my way of doing things.

Look at that.

Oh, look at that big one, eh?

Sometimes we're scared the other guy's gonna blow it,

and it just gets really frustrating,

and then we get mad,

and we start to say mean stuff about each other...

but we understand you have to just forget about it

and focus on the job at hand, which is feeding yoursf

and ultimately being the last guy to stay out there.

-Yo, Jim, you see this? -I pinch it like this.

-Yeah. -And then just a long stroke.

We had some big kind of blow-up fights,

and we sort of wrote it off as just being hungry.

Both of us know that, you know,

we're not always gonna agree on everything now,

and we're kind of getting in each other's hair

a little less.

This is two meals of gunnels, would you say?

Yeah.

It could probably be pushed to three.

Out of any of my ten items,

I'd pick Ted over a saw or an ax.

You know what I mean?

We've got a lot of life left in us still,

despite the hard times,

and we're just gonna keep pushing.

Well, it's low tide right now,

and we're gonna be fishing here shortly.

Sure hope we have some luck this morning.

It's been pretty bad lately.

Nope.

It's cold out here today.

-I know. -My hands are frozen already.

-Fish on. -Yes.

[sighs]

That's not what I hoped for.

-[exhales] -That is unbelievable.

I don't think we have much time out here.

[wind whistling]

Fishing has completely fallen off.

What we're catching right now is not enough.

Brooke has lost a ton of weight.

You can't lose that kind of weight

and keep this up.

So to put it right to the point,

we're starving.

Fishing stunk again,

so I'm gonna cut firewood...

So we can at least be warm.

Oh, my power is so nothing anymore.

That's all I got.

It doesn't add up to much.

It's getting to the point where it's just

a simple matter of calories,

and Brooke is so far behind.

I think we just need to try something new.

[blows raspberry]

So for a long time,

I've been thinking about building a crab pot,

and what I'm thinking is just a round hoop and a round hoop,

and tie it all together,

couple doors for the crabs to crawl in

and then don't come out.

I don't want to quit. I don't.

There's not a part of me that wants to give up.

Yesterday Brooke was out beach combing,

and she found the best rope you've ever seen.

Let's see what we can do with it.

[grunts]

Oh, no way.

This is amazing.

All of this red stuff on here,

it's, like, 1/4-inch netting

just rolled up and tied on there,

and this is gonna be crab trap perfect,

just perfect.

I'm gonna start netting this sucker.

This could be about it for us.

If we don't get another source of food,

what are we gonna do?

My crab pot is done.

Oh, it's slippery.

I'm gonna get killed out here, is what I'm gonna do.

Go in, can't get out.

It's simple.

I don't know if it'll work or not.

I don't understand.

This was our hot spot.

I know.

It's a bummer.

Just no fish.

[exhales]

Tie the bottle and my last two fish heads

and stuff it in here.

Then I'll throw it in the water and...

do one of these.

Well, it ain't gonna get any readier than that.

Wish us luck.

Yeah.

You know, the terrible thing about this is,

it's just kind of, like, a Hail Mary here.

If this doesn't pan out,

I don't know what we're gonna do.

[dramatic music]

It's another one of these beautiful, sunny days,

but with the sun comes just absolutely frigid temperatures.

Last night, my feet

never warmed up.

They were cold all night, and...

I mean, it'd be nice if we had a thermometer.

I'd--I'm really curious what the temperature actually is.

All I can tell you is, it is cold.

It is really, really cold out here.

Everything's freezing up.

Makes it hard to get up every day.

But there's certain things we have to do.

Sam collected a whole bunch of hemlock branches,

and we're gonna use that to insulate our shelter some more,

There are a few key areas

I really want to insulate initially,

and then I'm just gonna go around the whole shelter

and just pack in all the holes.

The first thing we're gonna do is, we're gonna break 'em down

just a little bit, so they're more manageable.

Is that good enough for you right there?

Yeah, that's fine.

Basically, when we close the green flap here,

at this point, the hemlocks are patted down

so wind can come in right underneath it.

So I'm just gonna make a new pile of hemlock.

It's so crazy how the weather's changed on us.

Unreal, just unreal.

Our shelter's gonna smell so nice tonight.

Oh, yeah.

And hopefully be a little more insulated.

[sighs]

-Why don't you take a break? -No, I'm all right.

-You sure? -Yep.

[exhales]

I can just see it in my dad's face.

He's really starting to feel it.

Take another--take five minutes.

You haven't even sat down five minutes, right?

I just hope it doesn't get to the point with me

where you feel like you have to do everything.

I mean, I don't know why you think

that's such a bad thing anyway.

I know we're a team, and up until this point

you've been working way too hard.

Every time we saw a log, you never take a break.

-Yeah. -You know what I mean?

You try to overexert yourself.

[sighs]

You know, it's something that my dad drilled into me,

and I prefer to think it's just work ethic, you know, just--

I know, but that's the problem.

-This isn't work. -I know.

You know, you have to view this as a survival situation.

This is a marathon, not a 9:00 to 5:00,

get as much work done as possible

in the day and go to bed.

This is stay out here as long as possible

and work smart and efficient.

Yeah.

It's starting to get kind of worrying.

I'm 26. He's 61.

I know how much I'm feeling it.

I can only imagine what he's going through at this point.

Even just sitting still,

he can start getting lightheaded.

If he's just gonna pass out sitting down,

I may have to make a very difficult decision.

It's been below freezing all day...

which makes the rocks slippery.

This seaweed on the beach here,

it's just frozen.

Totally frozen.

It's the coldest it's been yet.

Feels like a day you might tap out, you know?

Yeah.

I mean, you could get hypothermatic today.

Uh-huh.

Even though it's pretty hard,

we're gonna still try to get fish and eat the slop

we've been eating as well.

Man, a fish would be nice, a real fish.

Not that gunnel fish aren't real fish, but you know?

I know, man.

The tide's on its way out,

and we can check our net.

I got it!

Got a fish.

Nice.

Smells pretty rotten!

Maybe it's okay. I don't know.

It's kind of a bit of a risk.

I don't want to eat anything rotten,

but we need protein, and the fats in it

is just something that-- it was an absolute must.

[sniffing]

I don't know. It doesn't smell that bad.

[inhales deeply]

So that fish that Ted had to pull the net over to get at,

I roasted it on a stick,

and then I kind of baked it

beside the fire on a cedar plank,

really cooked it right through,

even burnt the skin on the outside

just to kill any parasites that might have been in it.

[bleep] food poisoning

could be the end of us, you know?

[sniffs]

Take this piece off.

I got to try eating that piece, see how it tastes.

-It's risky, right? -It is.

Definitely has a bit of a rotten taste, man.

Tastes good.

Maybe the fish wasn't safe to eat,

but if we don't get enough food,

how are we gonna stay out here to win this thing?

[dramatic music]

Well, hello.

Just crawled out of bed.

I had a really, really rough night last night.

I had some really intense abdominal pain,

upper abdominal pain.

I don't know if it was related to my GERD or acid ref lux

or having an ulcer or something.

I'm not even sure that I do have an ulcer,

but I suspect that I do.

I have really bad GERD,

gastrointestinal acid ref lux disease,

and last night we ate that rotten fish.

You know, normally I take these pills.

I haven't been taking them out here.

I haven't needed them, but...

maybe that's been a mistake.

As I was sleeping, it just kept me up

for hours and hours with just intense pain.

It's still lingering, and it's still there.

Jim got up and tried to fish

while letting me try to rest and get over it,

which was good.

How you feeling now?

The second I start chewing this, my stomach starts hurting.

Really?

-Yeah. -I don't know if it's, like--

I'm--I wonder if you have, like,

a stomach [bleep] food poisoning, dude, you know?

No, I'd be puking.

Not necessarily.

As soon as I'm chewing, like, I feel pain in my--

like it doesn't want me to eat it

Oh, [bleep] stomach.

You could just sleep, and I could forage

a bag of food tonight.

I've come out here to the intertidal area.

I'm gonna go ahead and start getting limpets here.

Seem to be a lot of big ones out here.

[exhales]

Ted was pulling a lot of weight,

so I'm gonna try to just bust my ass to fill in

for where Ted can't and to get food on the table.

At this point, I'm really concerned.

Ted is experiencing extreme pain and discomfort.

He might not have much time left.

That's 100.

Feeling pretty good so far.

And I think he's also beating himself up about it.

I think he feels bad that he's not contributing.

I'm like, "Listen, man, it's not your fault."

500 limpets today, guys.

It's the easiest picking for limpets yet.

I'm just gonna keep going for it.

Ted's not a kind of guy that likes to sit around.

He's a hard worker.

Plus, when you're just sitting around,

you start to not feel good,

and I'm trying to keep him positive,

and if you want to use the term "your brother's keeper,"

just nurse Ted back to health as best I can.

I just picked 1,000 limpets.

Oh, God, I'm gonna fall over.

[sighs]

Hopefully the two of us

can sustain off of that for a while.

[birds chirping]

Sometimes all I think about is food.

Eating all kinds of stuff when I get home.

I want to make a big pot of chili when I get home.

I want to put a pork shoulder in the smoker,

maybe two pork shoulders.

Oh, gosh, there's so many different kinds of food

I've been thinking about.

Man, we sure do need a fish.

Yeah.

Or a pizza.

[laughs] Yeah.

We haven't actually had a fish in a little while now,

just between the weather and the really slow fishing.

We're actually gonna try a new technique today,

and hopefully it's really successful.

You think 20-pound or 50 on the hook?

The 20 does give it a little better action, doesn't it?

I'm thinking 20.

It seems like they've moved into a little deeper water,

so we just retied our fishing rods with longer line on 'em.

You can't use a fishing rod.

You got to stick your rod in the ground

and just throw the line out there.

How far do you think we're gonna be able

-to toss it out there? -I don't know.

The fish can see you, and they'll shy away from you,

so we need to be able to drop our line down into deep water.

It's out there a ways.

Don't know how deep it is, but...

-Yeah. -It came off this beautifully.

That worked great.

Well, we'll see if something hits it.

Yeah.

I lost my little spool of 20-pound,

so let's cut some off, you know, get a big, long section.

I like--I like to have it in my pocket.

All right.

Oh, it's so scary baiting up the hook

when you can't even feel your fingers.

Yup.

You can't feel that point come through.

Yeah.

-Oh, [bleep]. -We need 20-gauge.

We didn't bring any?

Where is that roll that I cut off?

-You mean up there? -Yeah.

That one on the rock?

No, remember you wanted me to cut a coil off?

You said you wanted some for your pocket,

and I stuck it over here somewhere.

Yeah, that was fishing line.

No, Sam, I pulled off probably 20 yards

of 20-pound fishing line.

That's--I have that in my pocket.

That's what we need.

You were saying 20-gauge wire.

I have 20-pound fishing line in my pocket.

Okay, that's--that's exactly what I'm talking about.

God, Dad, okay.

Sam, listen, 20-- the 20-pound line.

And I just said I have that in my pocket.

Okay, I didn't hear you say it was--

Just this second you said that.

You were talking about the 20-gauge wire.

-No, I wasn't-- -I'm talking about the wire for--

look at-- look, listen to me.

I'm talking about the wire from the rock

and 20-pound on the end of that

-so it'll break away. -Mm-hmm.

That's all I was trying to say, [bleep] damn it.

That's all I was trying to say.

[dramatic music]

[water flowing]

Hey, you know what?

That 20-pound is still right there.

Which?

Right here, all right?

Don't get worked up at me about that.

It's right here.

All right, look, you know, we're just having

an unders-- a misunderstanding here.

I know, and you're raising your voice

-and getting a tone. -Sam! Sam.

Sam, we're just having a misunderstanding.

Let's calm down, okay?

Forget about it.

We just had a misunderstanding.

-Yeah, that's all it was. -That's all it is, so...

For two people that love being in the woods,

one of the hardest things there is

is trying to compromise.

You're out there for your freedom and your independence,

and all of a sudden you have to agree

with somebody all the time.

That's pretty challenging.

You know, there's nobody more stubborn

in the world than my dad,

and he took it to a whole nother level.

It's starting to get kind of worrying,

and it's probably getting pretty darn close

to when we should really start thinking

about what the future holds.

When you're starving, when you haven't eaten,

who knows, really, how they're gonna handle it?

What sort of walls do you hit?

What sort of demons come out in your personality?

So we butt heads about some things.

-[bleep]. -Oop.

It got hung up on the stinking piece of wire.

Let's go ahead and pull it back in.

Damn it. Son of a gun.

At my age,

a real concern is the state that I'm in now.

Sometimes I'm irritable.

I've never felt so weak before in my life.

I'm wobbly.

This is what starving to death is all about.

I know Sam's worried.

He's worried about his dad's health and safety.

I'm wondering if maybe this is

what's gonna actually drive us out of this place.

-[bleep]. -[bleep] damn it.

Okay.

You ready, babe?

I'm waiting on Brooke.

She's been feeling pretty draggy today.

I'm gonna go check the crab pot,

just gonna cross our fingers and pull the pot

and see what's going on,

and if there's nothing in the pot,

I think we're going limpet collecting,

but that's a losing game.

That's gonna run right out.

I need food.

If there's any crab down there to be had,

I should at least have a couple in there.

Gonna be chilly out there.

I'd rather be sitting by a fire,

doing nothing,

but we got to eat.

We can't be out here if we can't get a bit more to eat.

There's nothing in the forest.

There's no foraging.

Fishing is just a joke anymore.

All hope is pinned on the crab pot.

It's our last chance for food.

Here goes nothing.

[grunts]

Feels heavy.

-It's full of huge snails. -Huh.

Ain't one crab in it.

It's a snail trap.

Let's try to eat giant snails, I guess.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Guess not.

Boy, I never saw that coming,

15 pounds of snails.

I don't even know what to think.

-There's a lot of meat there. -There is.

I'm gonna throw the pot back in.

We just threw one on the fire.

We're gonna see how it does.

It comes with its own pot,

boiling right in its own shell.

We'll see if they're edible, I guess.

Holy cow.

I think that's guts.

That's the part we're not gonna want to eat.

But the rest of that is meat.

Did you get a bite off it,

or is it, like, super hot?

Oh, it's just got a really odd...

Flavor...

that I've never tasted before.

Is it any good?

It's a giant snail.

[chuckles]

It's kind of rubbery.

Well, it's really rubbery.

Giant hairy snails.

It's not enough to sustain us.

I don't know what's gonna happen.

I want to win.

I don't know what we're gonna do

if we can't get more food.

There's gonna come a time

when we're not gonna be able to stay here.

We got to eat, and it's just not enough.

[dramatic music]

I just got the chills.

I just can't get warm,

so I'm resting in my bag.

I haven't felt that good, just laying low.

The charm of this place is gone.

[chuckles] Trust me.

I want to go badly.

I want to go see my kids and my family and my friends,

and I want to eat.

I want to eat something.

Anything.

We talk about food constantly.

I've never had to starve like this before.

It makes you want to tap that button.

I don't know.

I don't know how long we can--

I can make it here.

I don't want to give up.

That's the dilemma, right?

You don't want to lose.

I don't want to lose.

Dave doesn't want to lose.

It's like, what do you do?

My crab pot yesterday caught a bunch of snails.

That's it.

I'm gonna go check it right now.

See if it's decided to catch anything,

or if it was just an arts and crafts project.

Food kind of quit on us.

No fish, no crab.

I mean, you could eat seaweed, and you could eat snails,

but you can't sustain that.

It's getting kind of dire.

Let's see what we got.

I got a couple snails.

Stupid, stupid snails.

It's a total bust.

It's starting to not be about how much you can take

but about how much you're willing

to put someone else through.

I could be out here for another ten days maybe.

Brooke has dropped so much weight,

she's getting to a dangerous place.

It's just a waiting game now.

How long do I want to put her through that?

How long does she want to go through that?

It could very well get to be a point

where it's detrimental to her health

to go any farther.

There's still a little snow on that hill over there.

I feel like there's snow just in my soul.

Yeah.

I've just--I've just not been warm for so long.

How realistic is it to expect another ten days,

another two weeks on nothing?

Yeah.

It'd be nice to not be hungry.

Ted is still experiencing an intense stomachache

that we're both fearing could be something serious.

You know, there's a chance that he might have

a ruptured gallbladder

or appendicitis or something like that.

I think mentally he's still pretty strong.

It's just...

you know, all he can do is curl up into a ball,

and he can't get food or anything.

I'm feeling really lethargic and beaten down.

I've kind of been out of commission.

That's hurting us.

Jim went out and picked some limpets last night,

and he's been out there fishing or whatever,

but he's definitely been carrying a little extra weight

the last couple days.

We need to get wood today.

That's something I could do.

Oh, my God, I can barely just stand here.

I'm afraid I'm starting to hit my wall.

I feel like I can't do anything here.

And normally I can do a lot.

Ted's been just doing such a good job out here,

but he's really been pushing himself.

I'm getting concerned about him, actually.

I don't know if he's gonna make it.

I don't mind the idea of tapping

and leaving at all, like,

especially if you're about to, like,

starve to death, man,

I don't want to try to force you

to stay out here at all.

Jim, of course, wants to stay.

I still want to stay.

I don't want to let him down,

but if I can't chop wood,

and I can't get food,

and I can't freaking step over a log,

the reality is,

is that I can't stay out here anymore.

What's going on?

I got nothing left.

I--I just can't go on.

It feels like when you've had the flu,

and you just get your butt kicked,

and you just feel like, ugh, you just got hit by a truck.

It kind of feels like that.

When she's saying, "I've had it.

I don't feel like getting out of bed,"

I know it's for real. She's had it.

You're just fighting starvation and fighting starvation,

and honestly, you're just waiting

for the next team to give up.

[somber music]

It's a tough choice.

We came here to win,

to not leave until somebody pulled us off this site.

But the reality is, we got to go.

I'm very proud of the fact that as a husband and wife,

we can go and not kill each other

for 49 days.

We've always operated outside the box,

chasing down whatever excites us at the moment,

whether it made us money or not.

It was more about the experience

and just living.

The biggest thing for me is disappointing him.

He's capable of a little bit more suffering.

He's a little bigger than me.

He could go a little longer.

Neither of us want to leave.

As a husband,

watching your wife deteriorate

is extremely disturbing.

I think we've done something different here.

This was kind of our angle

on what we would do in this situation.

There is no room to regret anything with that.

There's nothing-- there's nothing left.

In a situation like this, you just gut the thing

and leave it all out there

and make sure you leave nothing to regret.

And whoever's still out there,

they're tough son-of-a-guns.

The way we're struggling right now,

I just can't believe there's someone else

that's still out here.

I'm starving.

I've lost 25% of my body.

Oh, my God!

[wheezing]

How much can our bodies

actually take?

No victory is worth permanent damage.

My stomach pain is getting worse.

I don't know if winning is worth it anymore.

One thing I can be sure of at this point

is that it's gonna end here real soon.

It's got to.