Original subtitles

Sig: Find your own information!

Narrator: Previously on "deadliest catch"...

Don't tell me I [bleep] go by a [bleep] radio!

Get off. You're [bleep].

You just get the [bleep] off the boat.

[ Beeping ]

Man: Hello. Check.

I don't know if you're interested

in trying to work together.

Yeah, I'm excited.

No one's ever really taught me anything.

Jake's a pain in the ass,

but maybe this time, I could use him.

[ Phone rings ]

Jake: It's sig.

I can't have him in my head right now.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Man: Oh, doggies!

[ seagulls calling ]

♪♪

Narrator: 250 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

on the 125-foot Northwestern...

Man: What's the tally?

Man #2: I'm just wondering how many crabs we're gonna catch?

Sig: How much?

Weather's coming up again.

It hasn't been real hard, steady gusts,

but it just comes up all of a sudden.

Ow. Ow!

[ Ship creaking ]

♪♪

Ow!

Ow!

That [bleep] hurts!

There's hail coming over the rail, golf-ball size,

[chuckling] And the guys are getting drenched out there.

Matt: This is phenomenal!

This hailstorm is not so sexy.

♪♪

It's really choppy and that being said,

the guys are still in good spirits.

They're seeing crab.

Narrator: Battling a turbulent sea.

Sig: Watch the rail there. A big wave.

Talk to me, goose.

A lot of crab on the table.

Narrator: Captain Sig Hansen has a staggering 85-crab average

on his northern gear.

Sig: I'm loading.

Yeah, there we go. Yeah!

Sig: Yeah, buddy!

Oh, yeah, they're here.

We are fishing!

Oh, my god!

So, went way up to the north, and it's paying off.

But, uh, I see a lot of lights of boats.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Right on top of us.

There's trailblazerand some other guy and another guy.

I don't know if I want to put this back out.

Narrator: Having keyed in on sig's hot spot,

the fleet is moving in.

Sig: Ohhhh, my god!

I could have used Jake as a partner this year.

This time, I could have used him.

Nice, nice.

It's a bad boy.

Sig: We just got 93.

Man: Burn it down!

The boats are just flooding in.

If I leave the gear up, it's gonna get annihilated.

Yeah!

Your numbers go to half,

and it turns into a big goat show.

I don't want to set this back.

This [bleep] is amazing right now.

Yeah, bud.

Probably our best tour to date.

I got to say, sig's done a pretty good job so far.

You know, all the signs that we've hauled today,

looks like the crab are moving west.

Narrator: With the fleet crowding his honey hole,

sig's reluctant to keep fishing the same grounds.

More competition means less crab.

[ Beep ]

Sig: Start packing, pick up what you get, and go.

Oh, my god.

Uh-oh.

Narrator: To stay ahead of the fleet,

sig makes an aggressive call to leave hot fishing

to avoid having to divvy up his catch

on the crowded grounds.

So we're gonna just try

to stay one step ahead of the boats andthe crab.

Nick: He's all jacked up now.

Usually, we would set back, but we're gonna reset these.

Narrator: But running from hard-won crab

doesn't sit well with the crew.

Nick: Doing really good right now.

Usually, we'd set back.

I think it's gonna get weaker.

What are we running from?

This is crazy.

Edgar: This better be a good bet,

and it better pay off at the end.

Otherwise, you're gonna have some pissed-off crew members.

Sig: Nice big crab. [Bleep]

If my dad saw this, he'd think I was nuts.

But I think it's worth the risk.

Hopefully, then our season will be over.

♪♪

[ Seagulls call ]

Narrator: Five miles southwest,

on the 107-footsaga...

Jake: Come here, Keith.

[ Radio static ]

Come here, Keith.

Narrator: Following captain Keith's advice to head north,

Jake arrives at the rendezvous.

But the veteran skipper is nowhere to be found.

Jake: Keith offered me a partnership,

so I got a full load of gear on.

I'm headed up north,

and now, I'm on the coordinates that Keith gave me.

Copy? You hear?

First part of a partnership? Communication.

This gear has been sitting on the deck for 12 hours.

Um, I'm already behind.

I'm trying to figure out

if I should turn around and go back.

♪♪

Oh, yeah, I got ya.

Oh. I just got ya.

Narrator: Banking on the young skipper to help box out the fleet...

I'm just putting together

a real quick code sheet for Jake.

Captain Keith has devised a secret way

to communicate with Jake.

And the code is "captain g-horn."

[ Laughs ]

It's perfect, right? [ Laughs ]

Man: That is perfect.

Narrator: The coded letters represent coordinates...

Keith: Zero is uniform, "1" is "c,"

"2" is "a," "3" is "p," "4" is "t."

a ruse that will keep nosy captains off their trail.

All right, and then we'll get this to him.

With the code sheet a go...

Hey, Jake, check the buoy, okay?

There's something on the buoy for ya.

Roger, Roger.

Jake retrieves the fleet's version

of a message in a bottle.

Here's your letter.[ Chuckles ]

[ Laughs ]

"'U' captain greenhorn." [ Laughs ]

Around this family,

I will always be the greenhorn.

[ Laughs ]

Yeah, I got it.

You know what that is, right?

No.

He doesn't even know what a code sheet is?

Wow. Boy, this kid isgreen.

We're talking crab fishing 1, not even 101.

[ Laughs ]

It's not a riddle.

It's a code sheet.

Oh!

[ Laughs ]

Put those pots over here, okay?

I had 42 crab in 25 hours.

Just put this in, okay?

Golf, tango, golf, uniform.

Narrator: Keith transmits the encoded coordinates

of his secret hot spot...

5650.

He got to be kidding me.

And Jake promptly gives it up.

Holy smokes, man.

Wow!

[ Chuckling ] Don't give up the code over the radio.

Jake, Jake, Jake, no, it's a code.

What good's a code if you give it to everybody?

[ Laughs ]

[ Laughs ]

Don't repeat the second half over the radio, okay?

Roger.

Alpha, uniform, decimal, Charlie, uniform.

Roger. Alpha, uniform, Charlie, uniform.

[ Radio squawks ]

I'm having fun now, Keith.

Ciphers. Secret CIA stuff.

[ Laughs ]

So, just let that gear you set percolate.

Don't spot-check anything, okay?

Roger, Roger.

All right, Jake, just remember one thing, okay?

We are not working with sig.

Don't you go crawling back to daddy there, all right?

Nope, my lips are sealed.

I gave you my word that we're partners,

and I'm gonna stick to it.

All right, Jake, let's do this.

[ Sighs ] I think all sig ever did

was treat Jake like his own personal puppet.

I mean, the kid's been beat down so many times, you know?

And Jake's a kid that came up from nowhere,

just like I did, and I respect that.

I want to teach him.

At the same time, we've been watching all morning

as this fleet has been boiling in from the west.

So I'm gonna get my gear and put it right in between his,

and we're gonna start working together.

Jake: Keith's sending me a few miles to the north.

I don't know if there's crab there,

but we're gonna find out.

If Keith is actually honest about this partnership

and wants to work together,

it's gonna be very beneficial for me.

I just really hope

this partnership with Keith works out.

♪♪

Narrator: Just a few miles north...

Yeah.

We're getting hundreds here.

[ Laughs ]

Pretty big numbers to be slacking on,

but I know there was five guys I know of,

right up in this area.

[Bleep] We got a few right here, too.

Oh, no, black and red and white.

If that's the saga, I'm gonna cry.

No way. Yeah.

You got to be kidding.

No.

Nah, it can't be.

Please don't be him.

Please, please don't be him.

Aw, don't be him.

Come on. [Bleep]

[ Wind howling ]

Narrator: On the Northwestern....

That's a lot of crab.

Bad idea.

Sig: If that's the saga, I'm gonna cry.

Narrator: Just on the horizon...

That's our buddy.

Narrator: Skipper Sig Hansen's former partner, Jake Anderson.

I want to just [bleep] somebody up right now.

He's a two-faced little [bleep]. You know that?

And he's being a [bleep]. Why doesn't he talk to us?

Jake: Clear!

We just ran by sig, so I don't know what's going on.

But I tell you what. I'm a little bit freaked out.

I had no idea sig was in this area.

And I know Keith's in this area.

So I don't know if they're working together,

but it's really making me nervous,

'cause Keith went out of his way to say,

"make sure you don't talk to sig."

I want to trust Keith,

but no one, in my history of 20 years,

has anybody ever given me something for nothing,

and it makes me nervous.

Sig: How the [bleep] did he get up here?

Who turned him on?

I think Keith might have been

up a little bit to the west of me here.

I think Keith has turned into his new little bitch buddy.

[ Chuckles ]

But he's not gonna ruin my season.

If we got to go to war, we go to war.

I'm actually gonna get on the horn with Keith,

and say, "look, dude, we got issues."

Narrator: Just five miles southeast...

We goin'? Whoo!

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

[ Beep ]

Sig: Hello?

Hello, hello. How's it going over there?

It's goin' all right. It really is.

I think I saw your gear here.

You came from the south and came up, right?

Keith: Yeah. Roger.

And then... and then the other guy gets up here.

You know, you got... [Bleep] Jake ends up here,

which I'm thinking, "how in the hell?"

Did you turn him on?

[ Laughs ][ Speaking indistinctly]

I don't know.

Maybe he's just doing his own thing.

'Cause I haven't talked to him.

I figured you might have,

but I didn't think you'd turn him on to anything

unless he pulled the [bleep] pity card.

No, I think he's just following boats

up the hill or something.

So, you haven't been working with him, then, huh?

[ Laughs ]

I mean, he passed right by me.

He didn't even bother to pick up the mic.

I wanted to mess with Jake,

just [bleep] him a little bit.

Or if you're already in coms with him,

why don't you pass a message on from big daddy?

What do you think about that?

What do you want big daddy to say to him?

Maybe you could mess with his brain.

I mean, it's like...

I don't want to mess with his brain.

Nah.

I'm in his head, man. I'm telling ya.

It's like... I'm telling you.

[ Laughs ]

He gets tripped out anytime...

If I criticize, or any wrong word...

One sideways thing, and he'll lose his mind.

[ Laughs ]

That might work. [ Chuckles ]

I'm gonna hop off here, okay?

[ Radio squawks ]

Yeah. Roger. All right, man, good talking to you.

So, that's where Jake got his hint.

That's where he got his tip.

It's exactly what's going on.

He thinks he's smart, and he's really not that smart.

He's just not.

What a [bleep] douche.

Oh, "I can mess with his mind," and, "I'm in his head."

That's what Jake's worked with, over the years.

He hasn't worked with sig. He's worked with sig vader.

Sig isin Jake's head.

I just hope that kid doesn't crack.

[ Radio squawks ]

Man: Comet, Juliet, 04, our e.T.A. Is 1725.

Man #2: Copy.

Oh, boy.

Freeze the boat for him to climb in there.

Generally, you don't call the coast guard

for a hand injury unless it's really severe.

7252.

That's not good.

What's the name of the boat, again?

Narrator: At the edge of the crab grounds...

Farwest.

On a coast guard mh-60 jayhawk...

for the second time this season,

the coast guard rushes to a crabbing vessel.

A crewman has crushed his thumb in the block.

I see the pots.

It's a pretty narrow hoisting area, actually.

And there's a crane with the snag hazards

on the crab boat, so that increases difficulty.

All right.

Fighting high winds, the crew is prepped

for a possible crash into the Bering Sea.

A little risky.[ Speaking indistinctly ]

Fishing vessel farwest leader,

fishing vessel farwest leader,

coast guard helicopter,

hailing out to you on channel 16.

Man #3: Yes, sir, that's fine.

Good morning, skipper.

Roger that, skipper.

As we lower the basket down to the deck,

we got five persons on the helicopter today.

In case something happens,

if you could pick all of us up.

That's Roger.

Roger that, skipper.

We'll be making that approach

makeshift to your boat for the hoist.

Roger, Roger.

50.

[ Beep ]

Watch! Watch it, watch it!

Whoa!

Narrator: 270 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

in the midst of an at-sea rescue...

the coast guard battles hurricane-force winds

to extract a crabber with a mangled thumb.

Man: Watch! Watch it, watch it!

Whoa!

Narrator: To stabilize the basket,

the spotter directs the pilot through the building winds.

Man #2: I was a little nervous.

The helo's moving, boat's moving.

Excellent work.

Man #3: Captain, we have your crew member safely aboard.

We'll be taking him to cold bay.

Man: Thanks a lot for your help, and good job.

It's up there? Yeah.

What happened? Oh, my hand got pinched

in between the block and the davit.

Took a wave, and I rolled over,

and I went to catch myself, and it smashed it.

You smashed your thumb? Yeah.

Narrator: When the boat rolled, the crewman's thumb

was smashed between the block and the supporting arm

tearing the skin, nail, and fat from the bone

leaving a painful stub,

yeah, I don't want to lose this thing.

With the clock ticking.

I'll put you on some oxygen.

And at cold bay, we got a clinic there,

and they'll get you checked out.

It's a race against time to save the crewman's thumb.

I appreciate all your guys' help.

Yeah, no worries. That's what we're here for.

You guys are awesome.

75 miles northwest, on the Northwestern...

Yeah! Ugh.

Whoo!

My rule is,

"never pull the string that's on good fishing,"

but, uh, we did it.

Narrator: Running from the fleet,

with hopes of staying in front of the crab...

Sig: You guys ready?

Ready.

Let her go.

Yeah!

Narrator: Captain Sig Hansen

is betting on grounds further north.

I moved north.

I'm just trying to be more aggressive.

[ Wave crashes ]Boats are coming in.

I know they will.

If I know there's crab up, I want to get ahead.

Let 'em fight in that area.

Don't stay in there and get yourself beat up.

Watch the rail there. Big wave.

Whoo!

[Bleep], yeah.

We have rough weather today.

Sloppy weather always gives a different dynamic, you know?

So we'll see here.

Heads up.

Yeah, all good. I got it.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

Narrator: The crew's not only abandoning good fishing,

they're setting into nasty weather.

Yeah, the weather's rough. You know?

So these pots are sliding around like ice cubes.

So everybody's got to pay attention.

[ Dramatic suspenseful music ]

Sig: If you can find crab, that's great.

If you can land on crab in all your pots,

that's even better.

But if you can move in the right direction

and stay on 'em, then you got yourself a trip.

That one move can put you two ahead of the next guy.

At least, that's the mentality right now.

That's the strategy.

Narrator: 15 miles south...

Jake: [ Laughs ]

on the saga.

Jake: Well, right now, the weather's blowing real bad.

Sets of waves will continue to get bigger and bigger.

Whoo!

It rises real quick.

Whoo!

Narrator: Captain Jake Anderson sets in building seas.

Jake: 2:30 A.M.,

and we are through the first half of our gear.

I got to put 200,000 pounds of crab on board.

I got to get these things fishing.

Yeah!

Whoo!

Call this string "partnership."

Keith's seeing a lot of crab.

The numbers sound fantastic.

So, we're set.

Narrator: To fill his tanks,

Jake is banking on intel provided by captain Keith.

Jake: I'm a little bit worried.

I just saw sig.

Narrator: The young skipper is nervous

the two veteran captains are colluding against him.

Keith, he may know something I don't.

Just [bleep] with my head.

[ Whistle blows ]

My partner never really worked in my favor.

Maybe it will with Keith.

Maybe I'll regret this decision.

[ Whistle blows ]

I'll know when I check the pot

if I can trust Keith or not.

Narrator: 260 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

on the Northwestern.

I know we left good numbers,

but we want to stay ahead of the game.

Narrator: With the fleet moving into his hot spot,

captain sig abandoned hot fishing,

betting that he could stay one step ahead of the crab.

It's pretty darn aggressive,

but you know, you got to go by your hunch.

You got to go by the signs.

You got to go by what you see,

'cause if they hit, then it's gonna worth it.

It'll be worth every crab.

I don't think it's a bad plan.

Whatever he's thinking better pay off.

Hopefully, there's life.

Sig: Okay, let's see what we got here.

If the crab don't crawl through here,

I'll feel pretty foolish.

But if it hits, I'll gain on all ends.

♪♪

♪♪

Come on, man.

[Bleep] Damn it!

A lot of smalls.

Ughh!

Man: Oh, no!

Small smalls.

It's not looking good at all.

For a grand total of four crab.

I need more crab.

[ Growls ]

Narrator: A legal king crab

must be at least 6 1/2 inches across.

These? Not even close.

♪♪

A lot of small crab moved in.

Hopefully, we didn't [bleep] ourselves up too bad.

I'm getting nervous now. Nervous Nelly.

We need some good fishing here.

Aw, man. Boo!

[Bleep] [Bleep]

Oh, my god.

Getting aggravated.

What are we doing here?

Still got 70 pots to pick up.

I zig, the crab zagged.

Oh, no. Oh, my god.

Why?!

Matt: We went from hot fishing to notfishing.

Stupid. It isstupid.

The thing that breaks my heart is

that if Jake Anderson catches my crab,

I mean, that's kind of a tough pill to swallow.

Narrator: 15 miles southeast...

Jake: You guys ready? Yeah, baby!

Narrator: Near sig's old grounds...

These are the coordinates that Keith gave us.

It's been soaking for 16 hours.

Narrator: Captain Jake Anderson picks up a string he set,

based on intel provided by veteran skipper Keith Colburn.

Jake: I'll know, if I check the pots,

if what Keith's saying is accurate or not.

We'll see right now when we haul the pot.

Of course, if we haul blanks,

then it's like, "okay, maybe we got duped."

I don't know.

I just hope I'm not getting played on this one.

First pot, coming up.

[ Splash ]

First pot of the day.

Let's see what we got.

Yeah!

We got numbers, we got numbers.

Oh, yeah, that looks good.

Yeah!

Aw, [bleep].

It looks like smalls.

Yeah, I think you're right.

We got some big crab in here...

But... not enough.

Narrator: Like sig,

Jake's got a full pot of crab he can't keep.

Looks like we're catching a lot of juveniles here.

It's not good.

Jake: 12 was in that last one.

A lot of fuel burnt to come up here.

That sucks, man.

[Bleep]. Still smalls.

That ain't gonna do it.

Jacob: These aren't good numbers.

You know, it looks like there could be a lot of crab,

but they're all smalls.

Second pot, pbht.

Less, with more small crab.

Nothing in there.

I'm gonna need you guys to start stacking on.

If these are all the strings that the professor gave me,

then where are they?

Move!

Keith gave me his table scraps,

the same like sig.

I'm just a pawn

in those two [bleep] guys' [Bleep] game.

[ Telephone ringing ]

Keith...

You got me?

Jake?

Uh, [bleep] Over here.

I moved all that gear for nothing.

16 hours, I let 'em soak.

There's nothing here.

Wow.

Let it soak.

36 hours is gonna be your optimum soak time.

You're never gonna catch any crab

if you're pulling those pots off the bottom.

Boo!

It's no good.

No, it's gone. It's completely turned off.

I'm completely frustrated right now.

I don't know if you're really my partner.

I don't know if you're working with sig.

I saw sig earlier.

I drove right by him.

Jake, what are you talking about?

I do not work with sig.

You should know that by now.

I just want to know if this thing's real or not.

I mean, are we partners or are we not partners?

I am not working with sig.

This is not some grand scheme to screw you over.

Okay? Get sig out of your head,

and let's start fishing.

Roger.

Roger.

Leave those pots there, all right?

Leave 'em there and let 'em percolate.

Give 'em a little more time.

Okay, I'm out.

Roger. All right, Keith.

I'll, uh, talk to you later.

[ Beep ]

- Yeah! - Yeah!

Keith: I can see his confusion,

that maybe he thought me and sig were playing

some [bleep] gag on him or something,

just because that's how he's been trained

the last few years.

He doesn't know any better.

[Bleep].

- Boo! - Not again!

Jake: Keith says, "give 'em 36 hours,"

so I'm gonna give 'em 36 hours.

I really hope I can trust Keith.

Narrator: Welcome to this week's edition of "salty takes."

Man: 49.

As captain Keith subdues 18 tons of crab...

49 crab, 70 crab in the pot. [ Fly buzzing ]

[ Grunts ]

Narrator: He finds himself at the mercy of a 12-milligram fly.

Ugh.

[ Chuckling ] I'm not a big fly fan at all.

I have no idea where that little...

[ Fly buzzing ]

There can only be one captain on this ship,

and I can guarantee you it is not going to be a fly.

[ Laughs menacingly ]

There you are, you little bastard.

Whoa! Aah! Agh!

[ Paper rustling ]

This is no ordinary fly,

this is like the super fly.

[ Wave splashes ]

Narrator: Keith is trailing sig

probably because of that damn fly.

♪♪

[ Seagulls squawking ]

Narrator: 255 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

Hope you're hungry.

- Yeah, I'm starving. - Yeah.

- It tastes good, man. - Tastes like [bleep].

Weird, huh? - Something weird about it.

Narrator: A new day dawns on the saga.

Jake: I'm gonna start hauling gear right now.

36 hours on 'em, like Keith was talking about.

Oh, man, I'm just, like, on edge, man.

On edge.

It's more stress than it is excitement right now for me.

Narrator: After hauling nothing but smalls,

captain Jake Anderson banks on Keith's advice

that doubling down on soak time will yield big pots.

[ Splash ]

Let the ride begin. Here we go.

I want to fish. I need crab in the tank.

I don't want to be running around anymore.

I'm tired of it.

♪♪

[ Machinery whirring ]

- Yeah! Whoo! - Oh, yeah.

- Yeah! - Oh, yeah!

- Oh, yeah. - Let's hope they're not smalls.

Yeah, baby.

Oh, yeah!

That will fill the tank. They're big crab.

Oh, that's 50-something, right there.

Big, clean crab. Less females, less juveniles.

They're all big now.

Crab is going into the tank.

Got a count?

60?

Awesome!

♪♪

Crabs going in the tank.

Yeah-eah!

It feels good.

Okay, here we go. Pod's coming up.

Oh, god, let's hope it continues.

[ Machinery whirring ]

- Yeah! - Yeah, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

- Whoa! - There's widers on it!

Yeah!

Got some bigs on 'em.

- [Bleep], yeah! - Yeah!

Yeah, way to go, Jake!

[ Laughing ] Oh, yeah!

That's nice! - Whoo!

Look at that thing. That's like 80.

[ Laughing ]

- Man, we're just loaded with 'em!

Yeah, baby! [ Laughs ]

This is what we're looking for, right here.

Whoo-hoo!

Big [bleep] crab!

[ Laughing ] Yeah!

Crab in abundance.

This is exactly the opposite

of what I'm used to getting, working with sig.

We were running into all those smalls.

These are the soldiers.

These are the soldier crabs, right here.

97!

[ Laughing ] Yeah!

9-7?

Roger. 97!

[ Laughing ] Whoa!

Okay, I wasn't expecting that. Now, that's awesome.

That's what we're looking for.

- [ Laughs ] - Yeah!

It looks like they basically got from Keith was accurate.

- Damn, son! - Oh, yeah, another one!

That's [bleep] awesome!

[ Telephone dialing ]

Got me here? Got me here?

Keith: Hello, Jake.

Everything you said came true.

Yeah-eah!

Fantastic pot.

This is [bleep] awesome!

Well, call me more often, okay?

Call me all the time.

Yeah, I'm having a blast, Keith.

We're fishing!

You're seeing crab now.

You're starting to work the crab.

Work from there out

to start to try to figure out

which way the crab are going,

if they're going anywhere.

Yeah.

- Okay. - Okay, go get 'em.

Thanks for everything, Keith.

All right, later. - All right.

Very good intel so far,

now I just got to stay with them.

Narrator: To follow the biomass...

Jake: Bulk everything over about a 10.

Narrator: Jake starts shifting his gear

in the direction of his best pots.

Keith: We work together as a team.

It's about filling both boats, not just filling your own.

That's what true partners are.

I like to see Jake actually doing well.

Yeah, I like that kid.

[ Crew cheering ]

Yeah!

Jake: I'm learning with Keith.

I'm catching massive amounts of crab.

♪♪

Did I learn a lot? Oh, yeah.

I need to see the soak time,

and crab don't wait around like a bus stop.

You know, they're constantly moving, they're eating,

they're on the hunt just like I am.

I really honestly believe that Keith wants to see me succeed.

Aw, no. [Bleep]

Not [bleep] up.

I always like to fish on my own,

and we always come out on top.

That's how it's done.

I help myself.

Edgar: It's a big waste of time,

first batch didn't make it.

I'm sure we'll be hearing a whole lot of this

the rest of the day.

♪♪