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I'm out in the prime cut of the big green

Behind me is Ed and Rowdy...

members of an up and coming sub--adult gang

They're challenging everything including me

Goes with the territory

If I show weakness...

if I retreat...

I may be hurt, I may be killed

I must hold my own if I'm gonna stay within this land

For once there is weakness they will

exploit it, they will take me out...

they will decapitate me, they will chop me into bits and pieces

I'm dead

But so far I persevere

Persevere

Most kind of times I'm warrior out here

Most kind of times I'm I am gentle...

I am like a flower I am like, I'm like...

a fly on the wall...

observing, non-committal non--invasive in any way

Occasionally I am challenged and in that case the kind warrior...

must, must, must become a samurai must become so...

so formidable, so fearless of death...

so strong that he will win he will win

Even the bears will believe that you are more powerful...

and in a sense you must be more powerful

if you are to survive...

in this land with the bear

No one knew that

No one ever friggin' knew that there are times...

when my life is on the precipice of death

and that these bears...

can bite, they can kill

And if I am weak I go down

I love them with all my heart I will protect them

I will die for them...

but I will not die at their claws and paws

I will fight, I will be strong

I'll be one of them

I will be... master

But still a kind warrior

Love you, Rowdy

Give it to me, baby

That's what I'm talking about...

that's what I'm talking about that's what I'm talking about

I can smell death all over my fingers

All these Majestic creatures...

were filmed by Timothy Treadwell...

who lived among wild Grizzlies for 13 summers

He went to remote areas of the Alaskan peninsula...

believing that he was needed there to protect these animals

and educate the public

During his last 5 years out there he took along a video camera...

and shot over 100 hours of footage

What Treadwell intended was to show these bears in their natural habitat

Having myself filmed in the wilderness of jungles...

I found that beyond a wildlife film in his material lay...

dormant a story of astonishing beauty and depth

I discovered a film of human ecstasies and darkest inner turmoil

As if there was a desire in him to leave the confinements...

of his humanness and bond with the bears

Treadwell reached out seeking a primordial encounter

But in doing so he crossed an invisible borderline

Go back and play

Go head back. Go back

Go back

This is a sub-adult, and this is what happens to them

They work together and they get really powerful...

as you can see...

I'm just feet away

You just relax

You just relax

He's now moving away from me...

I have now proven myself as being able to hold my ground...

and therefore earning their respect

This is Rowdy the bear, and, uh he's rowdy

He's getting bigger...

and knew him from he was a little little dot a couple years ago

He's getting to be a big boy

Anyway, we're doing just fine

But that was a challenge, and you have to remain cool in the challenge...

in the moment, if you don't you're dead

They can kill, they can bite

They can decapitate

Excuse me. Hey! Hey!

It's okay. It's okay, it's okay

I didn't mean to get in your way

Wow. It's okay. You're the boss. Nice job

Wow, nice job

I kind of think he was over 10 feet high, don't you?

He's a big bear. He's a big bear

A very big bear. Wow. Huh

The excitement Treadwell felt connected him...

immediately with children

In his campaign to create awareness

he reached thousands and thousands of school children...

who would remember his fabulous story telling...

as one of the highlight of their school years

He took his mission so seriously...

that he never solicited for a fee

Over time, he reached the status of a national celebrity

It was as if he had become a star by virtue...

of his own invention

One day I came home and I was sitting on my patio...

and my wife was in the bedroom with the TV on

And I heard her scream

And I thought she'd fallen or something...

and I came in and she was sitting on the edge of the bed...

staring at the television

And I looked at the television...

and I saw Timmy's face

And I hadn't heard the sound or the news yet...

but I knew just by seeing Timmy's face on TV

and hearing my wife's reaction...

that the worst had happened

Not necessarily a surprise...

but the worst

I never have days when I grieve for Timmy as I have with other friends

who have died

They feel dead. Timmy doesn't feel dead

This is the last photo of Timothy Treadwell

It was taken at the beginning of his 13th summer in the wilds of Alaska

With him is Amie Huguenard who would die by his side

The man who took the photo was Willy Fulton...

a close friend of Timothy's and the pilot

who would bring him to this remote part of the Alaskan Peninsula

Treadwell saw himself as the guardian of this land...

and stylized himself as Prince Valiant fighting the bad guys...

with their schemes to do harm to the bears

But all this land is a federally protected reserve

part of the Katmai National Park

This big plain Treadwell called the Sanctuary

Here he would spend the early summer months...

before moving along some 35 miles to the densely overgrown area...

which he called the grizzly maze

where he would observe the late summer salmon run

It was here that Fulton would pick him up in the fall

On October 6th last year this is the spot here at Kaflia Lake

where I pulled in to pick up Tim and Amie

A typical day out here, rain foggy, a lot of wind and, uh...

it was kind of strange

Didn't see him, didn't hear anything

No gear on the beach or anything, you know

so...

I tied up and I started yelling a little bit

Tim, you know, Amie and and, uh, no answer...

and I caught a little tiny bit of movement up on the hill

So I'm like, well, you know it was windy

maybe they just couldn't hear me or something...

so I decided I'd go up in the camp you know

and see what was going on...

and headed off up through the alders

It's kind of a thick trail up in the camp there, and

got about three-quarters away up the hill and something

just didn't feel right at all, you know

Something was...

something seemed strange

And I'm yelling and no answer or anything

so I turn around, and started coming back down the trail

A pretty good clip I guess I was kind of trottin' along

And as I got in the thickest part of the Alders, right here

as I got near the airplane I just happened to turn around

and I turned around and looked, and...

pretty nasty looking bear that I hadn't seen here before

is just sneaking slow with his head down...

just the meanest looking thing you know, coming through the brush

And, so I jumped on the airplane real quick

and untied it and took off turned around flew over

over camp there, and just looked down and saw a human rib cage

you know, that I knew...

had to be either Tim or Amie laying there, and...

and, he was just eating that and as I

so I circled around again

got really low and tried to run him off

just over and over again with the airplane

And every time I would come over...

he'd just start eating faster and faster and crouch over this

this rib cage there, and...

and, right at that time I I just realized wow...

you know, I was pretty close to getting eaten myself is what I thought

and, and this shot of adrenalin

like I've never had just came over me...

and, and my throat went couldn't breath, my face went numb

my arms and legs went numb...

and then I called, back to... back to the office

and told them what happened out here

what I thought had happened...

and that we would need some some assistance...

out here that we had some problems

After the park service arrived

then I'm leading them up through the alders here

This is the same trail that I'd come up the first time

and we got through about right here...

.,.and we just stopped, you you know

and we stopped just to take a look around...

and right then one guy with us just yells

Bear!

And they all spin around, these gun barrels come over the top of my head...

and boy they just start firing them off

and I duck down 'cause they hadn't given me a gun

I'd look up and they'd fire over and over again

And then I'd look up again when they were done firing and there's

just a cloud of smoke here you know

and I look over and the bear is laying right there

They're yelling at me just don't go near the bear

And I knew he was dead

He was, he'd been shot in the head and the neck and...

everywhere, and he was just laying here pretty much lifeless...

and this is right where where the, bear...

and I told them at the time

I said this is the bear that killed Tim

I knew 'cause that was the same bear

that I had seen down here looking at me

right through the the alder bushes there

so I knew this was the bear

I said, yup that'll be the one, you know

and that, that wound up being the bear that...

they found Tim, Tim in

I'm here on camera with Olie the big old bear...

and the big old grumpy bear

He just, took Cracker out of the creek area

There's not a lot of fish here so you could understand him wanting

to have control of the creek...

but he's acting like a... like an alpha male here...

which I guess for the fact that he is the only male here

he is the alpha male

At any rate, he's also he's a surly bear

I met him on the path where the other day after feeling sorry for him...

thinking that he, uh, was a bit thin a bit gaunt

And he promptly charged me...

with the intent to probably strike

I know, the language of the bear

I was able to deter him from doing that, and I'm fine

But I will tell you something it is the old bear...

one who is struggling for survival

and an aggressive one at that...

who's the one that you must be very careful of...

for these are the bears that on occasion do, for survival...

kill and eat humans

Could Olie the big old bear possibly kill and eat Timothy Treadwell?

What do you think, Olie?

I think if you were weak around him...

you're going down down his gullet going down the pipe

Right up top of the hill here is where we found what was...

left of Tim's body, his head and a little bit of backbone attached

Then we found, a hand, arm wristwatch still on the arm

I remember the watch and, shoot I can remember the watch

and here's a guy that...

used to dive in the lake down here naked to scare the airplanes away...

and here now I'm finding his watch and arm on top of the hill

And then, here's, about all that's left of the bear that killed him

A few pieces of rib bone

This was, this bear was shot and and drug off...

and eaten by other bears here right in this, this area

The tough thing out of all this is Tim would have never wanted to

see any bears killed

Even if they had killed him

he would have he would have been happy if...

nobody found him, nobody found any remains

nobody found his camp or anything

He would have been perfectly content

He definitely lived on the edge you know, but he...

he was a little smarter than everyone gave him credit for

He made it out here a long time before they caught up with him, and

actually the bear that wound up killing him was a, uh, just a dirty...

rotten bear that he didn't like anyway, you know...

and he wanted to be friends with but never happened

I want to introduce you to one of the key role players

in this year's expedition

The bear's name is the Grinch

The Grinch has come on to be one of the more frequent bears...

here in the grizzly maze

The Grinch is a female of about 5 years of age

Oh hi, Grinch. Hi

And she has kind of an aggressive attitude

Hi.,. If I turn around too much she'll bite me

It's okay. Hi. How are you? How are you?

Don't you do that

Don't you do that!

Back off!

Don't do it! It's okay!

I love you. I love you

I love you. I love you

I love you. I'm sorry

I'm Sam Egli...

I was called out as a helicopter pilot to assist on the clean up...

after the Treadwell tragedy of last winter

Uh, I was in there the morning...

the fish and game officers were there examining...

the bear that had done the killing

The bear was all cut open...

it was full of people it was full of clothing

It was... we hauled away four garbage bags of people...

out of that bear

Treadwell was I think meaning well

trying to do things to help the resource of the bears

but to me he was acting like a...

like he was working with people wearing bear costumes

out there instead of wild animals

Those bears are big and ferocious...

and they come equipped to kill ya and eat ya...

and that's just what Treadwell was asking for

He got what he was asking for he got what he deserved, in my opinion

The tragedy of it was taking the girl with him

I think the only reason that Treadwell lasted as long...

in the game as he did was that the bears...

probably thought there was something wrong with him...

like he was mentally retarded or something

That bear I think that day decided...

that he had either had enough of Tim Treadwell or...

that something clicked in that bear's head...

that he thought, hey you know he might be good to eat

My opinion, I think Treadwell thought these bears...

were big scary looking harmless creatures...

that he could go up and pat and sing to and they would...

Look at that little bear...

bond as children of the universe or some odd

I think he had lost sight of what was really going on

It's okay...

He wanted to become like the bear...

Perhaps it was religious but not in in the true sense of religion

I think perhaps...

he wanted to mutate into a wild animal

as he says in this last letter

He says I have to mutually mutate into a wild animal to handle

the life I live out here

And I think there's a religious sense in that...

in the sense of connecting so deeply that you're no longer human

And that is a religious experience

Here's another example...

there are many times that I feel death is the best option

My work would be much more seriously looked at...

and possibly make the difference that in living I can't do

And I think that was sort of a paradox for him...

that he felt not worthy enough to get his message across at times...

and so maybe in the drama of death his message...

would be more poignant and reach out to more people

But his message stirred a lot of controversy

The Gaedes have collected thousands of angry letters

I can read you some of... picked out

three of these, of these...

vitriolic hate mails

They cover the gambit

Stereotypical environmentalist

Just as long as the donations keep coming

furthering the anti--human...

eco religion as a noble cause

Who cares about reality

And the very idea that Timothy made a lot of money...

doing what he did is absolutely preposterous...

because he's one of the poorest people we knew

Another one. A bear diet consists of liberals and dems...

meaning democrats

A bear diet consists of liberals dems, whacko environmentalists...

that think the spotted owl is the most important thing in the world

We need to some how drastically increase the number of bears...

in America, especially in such key spots as the Berkley campus

I too would like to step in here in his defense...

not as an ecologist but as a film maker

He captured such glorious improvised moments...

the likes of which the studio directors with their union crews

can never dream of

What are you going up there? That's where you're sitting?

Go. Go. Go. Go

Come on, come on. Come on

Run home

Come on...

Hi

Hey you little champion

Hi

How are you? You're such a good champion

I love you. I love you

Now get up there and guard that tent

Well, I'm here with one my favorite bears, it's Mr. Chocolate

Hi Mr. Chocolate

He is the star of many people across the country...

children, people, adults

and, um, we're here in the grizzly sanctuary...

but I'm wrapping up my work here in the grizzly sanctuary

Why is that? Because I'm on my way to the grizzly maze...

where bears do not have human protection

but are under human threat

Bears like Aunt Melissa bears like Demon, Hatchet

Downey and Tabitha and it's time for me to go to protect them

I wish I could bring Mr. Chocolate with me

He, he...

you'd be great protection there

He's been with me for over a decade and he's been my good friend

and I really appreciate it

Thank you, Mr. Chocolate

I'll see you again next year

No, I'll see him again at Expedition

The end of this expedition

I'll be back here to join you again back with Mr. Chocolate

But first, it's off to the exciting and often dangerous grizzly maze

Now the scene seems to be over but as a film maker...

sometimes things fall into your lap which you couldn't expect

Never even dream of

Hi Spirit

There is something like and inexplicable magic of cinema

Hi Spirit

Well I'm here with, with Mr. Chocolate and Spirit the fox...

and here comes some of her pups, yay

Comes some of her pups

Hi

Hi

Hi, Spirit

Hi, Spirit. Hello, baby

Coming down

What are you doing to that hat?

Where's that hat going?

Hey, who's stealing that hat?

Let me see that hat

Ghost, I want that hat

Oh man

Ghost is bad

Ghost, what are you doing with that hat?

Ghost that is a very important hat. Drop it

Hey!

Oh, god dammit! I can't believe this

Ghost!

Ghost, where's that fucking hat?

That hat is so friggin' valuable for this trip

Ghost, you come back here with that friggin' hat!

If it's in the den I'm gonna fucking explode!

Ghost, where's that hat?

It's not okay for you to steal it

Oh, man!

Oh, man! It's a friggin' den...

One of the things that I've heard about Mister Treadwell...

and you can see in a lot of his films is that he...

tended to want to become a bear

Some people that I've spoken with would encounter him in the field

and he would act like a bear

He would woof at them he would...

he would act in the same way a bear would

when they were surprised

Why he did this is only known to him

No one really knows for sure

But when you spend a lot of time with bears...

especially when you're in the field with them day after day

there's a siren song, there's a calling that makes you wanna come in...

and spend more time in their world

Because it is a simpler world

It is a, a wonderful thing...

but in fact it's a harsh world

It's a different world that bears live in than we do

So there's that desire to get into their world...

but the reality is we never can

because we're very different than they are

The line between bear and human...

has apparently always been respected by the native...

communities of Alaska

We visited the curator of Kodiaks Alutiiq Museum...

which has recently been raided by tourists out of control

Somebody wanted it so much they cut the paw off

They stole it from here, so it was quite tragic for us because...

you know, it's on loan and they came in and took it

And how do you see Timothy Treadwell's story?

I see it as something that's both...

it's tragic because...

yeah he died and his girlfriend died uh, because, you know...

he tried to be a bear

He tried to act like a bear and for us...

on the island you don't do that

You don't invade on their territory...

...when you're in their territory you know you're there

and when you're nearby...

you make sure that they know you're around...

you know, for him to act like a bear the way

he did would be...

I don't know, to me it was the ultimate of disrespecting the bear and the...

what the bear represents

But he tried to protect the bears, didn't he?

I think he did more damage to the bears than he did

because when you habituate bears to humans

they think all humans are safe

Where I grew up the bears avoid us and we avoid them

They're not habituated to us

If I look at it from my culture...

Timothy Treadwell crossed a boundary that we have lived with for...

7,000 years

It's an unspoken boundary...

an unknown boundary, but when we know we've crossed it

we pay the price

Jewel, I apologize that this wrist watch is still in an evidence bag

however.,. I want you to have this watch

I think that it is important that you have it

You knew Timothy for a long time...

My understanding is that you lived together for 3 years

you were very close to him

Yeah, he was my boyfriend for 3 years he was my boss...

he was, he was a lot of things to me in 20 years

Yeah, I understand that

and that's the reason I want you to have this

This really should be yours

Um, this watch is still running

Oh wow...

It has been running continuously since the time that I received it

This was taken off Timothy's wrist

Wow, there it is...

It's still running

I can't even believe it. I can't believe it

I'm gonna wear it. I'm gonna remember him

I'm gonna remember Amie

Can you speak about Amie?

Amie was brave and Amie was strong

Amie was my friend and she was Timothy's friend

She was his girlfriend, but most important she was his friend...

and I believe that I'm gonna honor their choice

I'm always gonna respect them for what they did and for how they did it...

and for, for being out there and for protecting bears...

and living in wild nature and living...

living their life to the fullest

They, truly died doing what they lived for

Representing Timothy

And then I'll fill in the rest that's the specific number so...

- So there it is. -- So there it is

Circle. I've got it all

Hopefully it will continue to run a long time

I think it will...

it's the last thing that's left

Thanks...

Jewel Palovak, umm, you were very close to Timothy Treadwell

Do you sometimes feel like his widow?

Do I feel like his widow?

Umm, yeah...

you know, in some ways I do. I feel like his widow because...

everything that he had everything that he worked for...

is... he left to me

I was his girlfriend I was his employee

I was the person that figured all the last minute details out

You also founded a foundation with him?

Yes, we did. We founded Grizzly People whose mission...

is to protect and preserve habitat worldwide

For Treadwell who had a natural tendency towards chaos...

Grizzly People served as his organized platform...

and Jewel was his most trusted co--combatant

I met him in a restaurant

We both worked at this place called Gulliver's...

and it was, a prime rib restaurant

It was huge and theatrical

Well, Timothy was a squire 'cause it was set in the time

it was based on Gulliver's Travels...

and he had a chincey felt hat and a cheap

plastic apron and some knickers...

and that blonde hair just sticking out

And me, I would be your English serving wench for the evening

You had to toss the salad with aplomb

and you had to boil the soup and serve it to the people

And I had seen Timothy and he was kind of fun

and I didn't really know who he was

And one night I just wasn't in the best of moods

I had a huge table, a family of people that wanted me to make it...

the best dining experience of their life

Do it up big, make the soup big you know, use the vernacular

You know, there was grandmas and babies and, and hairdos and coats...

and so I thought, you know what...

I'll make it. I'll make it big for ya. I'll make it really big

You'll never forget this birthday

So one of the parts...

was you'd take the soup cart and you'd light it up with this gas

so that the soup was bubbling and boiling

You could smell the deliciousness

and, I decided to make it really big

so I trailed a little bit extra of the lighter fluid...

around the polyester cloth, and I kind of miscalculated because...

the soup exploded, the people screamed, the fire went everywhere...

so I was called into the office in the next couple days

And who do I see when I sit down in the office waiting like...

you're in the jail or you're in the principal's office

I see Timothy Treadwell

I was like, hey, how are you? I know I've seen you, I'm Jewel

Said I'm Tim. And I said what are you in for?

And he said, oh I'm in for walking funny in the dining room

He said what did you do and I said, I lit the soup cart on fire

and he said that was you!

And, you know, it wasn't love at first sight

but it was certainly kindred spirits

Only Timmy is the boss of all foxes and all bears

You're the ruler

Scratch behind my ear...

Hey, thanks for being my friend. This is so good

Does that feel good to you?

We patrol the grizzly sanctuary together

How did we meet? Over a decade ago

He left his mother and father's side promptly peed on my shoes

pooped on my clothes

That was it

He was my friend Timmy the fox, yup

And we watch over things and he's the boss

Takes care of everything. Yup

I love that...

I think one of the things that's really important as you can see the bond...

that has developed between this very wild animal and this very

very fairly wild person

And you realize he has this gorgeous fur

and people are trying to kill him for it...

with steel jaw traps and cruel farming practices

And other people run them down on horses for sport, fox hunting

We want this to end

Between Timmy the fox this beautiful fox and me...

we ask the public, please stop killing and hurting these foxes...

and torturing them

Don't you think?

If they knew how beautiful he was...

and how sweet he was they would never hurt him

Thanks king

Timothy used his camera as a tool to get his message across

Sometimes his approach was very playful

And we're gonna do another take here

I fucked up the last one...

I almost just fell off the cliff. I'm a fucking asshole

Behind me is the grizzly sanctuary and also behind me hidden down below...

in those trees somewhere is my camp

I must stay incognito, I must hide from the authorities...

I must hide from people who would harm me

I must now even hide from people that seek me out because I've...

made some sort of, I don't wanna say celebrity...

but, they come here to Alaska

and they hear about Treadwell in the bush

and they wanna go find him. But they can't

I'm hidden down below

No one knows where I am

Even I don't even know where I am

That was pretty shitty

Let's do one really short take here...

But as a film maker he was methodical

often repeating takes 15 times

Do one more really short excellent take

Let's just really sum it up. Here we go

We're, this is gonna be the mother fucker

Behind me is the grizzly sanctuary

and also hidden down below is my camp...

for I must now remain hidden from the authorities

from people who would harm me...

from people who'd seek me out as a story

My future helping the animals depends on it

I must be a spirit in the wilderness

With himself as the central character...

He began to craft his own movie something way beyond a wildlife film

There is going to be a number of takes I'm gonna do

and these are called wild Timmy jungle scenes

We're gonna do several takes of each where I'll do it with a bandana on

maybe a bandana off

Maybe two different colored bandanas...

Some without a bandana...

Some with the camera being held...

I kind of stumbled on that one. Let's do it again

So the basic deal is too that this stuff could be cut

into a show later on...

but who knows what look I had

whether I had the black bandana or no bandana

Uh, very rarely the camo one but I like the camo look

Both cameras rolling, both cameras rolling, both cameras rolling...

Sexy green bandana, last take of the evening

I'm on my way to the front creek

I need to get water and, and there's a super duper low tide

Full moon tonight...

And action...

In his action movie mode Treadwell probably didn't realize...

that seemingly empty moments had a strange, secret beauty

Sometimes images themselves developed their own life

their own mysterious stardom

Starskey and Hutch, over

Beyond his posings, the camera was his only present companion

It was his instrument to explore the wilderness around him...

but increasingly it became something more

He started to scrutinize his innermost being

His demons, his exhilarations

Facing the lens of a camera took on the quality of a confessional

Covering various years

the following samples illustrate this search for himself

I have no idea if there's a God but if there's a God...

God would be very, very pleased with me

If He could just watch me here how much I love them...

how much I adore them how respectful I am to them

how I am one of them...

and how the studies they give me the photographs, the video...

and take that around for no charge to people around the world

It's good work. I feel good about it

I feel good about myself doing it...

and I wanna continue, and I hope I can. I really hope I can

But if not, be warned I will die for these animals...

I will die for these animals...

I will die for these animals

Thank you so much for letting me do this

Thank you so much for these animals...

for giving me a life. I had no life

Now I have a life

Now, enough of that

Now, let the expedition continue

It's off to Timmy the Fox

We've got to find Banjo. He's missing

And that's my story here for me, Timothy Treadwell...

the kind warrior

Can I take it? I'm trying

Okay, yeah, I can do it. Yeah, why not?

Why not? I've crossed the halfway point

The government's given me all they have, so far

I've stood up to it

I've had danger in the boat, almost died

I've almost fallen off a cliff. Yeah

The danger factor's about to amp up in the maze

The maze is always the most dangerous

Lord... I do not want to be hurt by a bear

I do not

I always can, cannot understand

why girls don't wanna be with me for a long time...

because I have really a nice personality

I'm fun, I'm very, very good in the uh, well you're not

supposed to say that when you're a guy, but I know I am

They know I am

I don't fight with them

I'm so passive. Bit of a patsy...

which, is that a turnoff to girls to be a patsy?

I mean it's not that I'm a total great guy

I'm a lot of fun and a good life going

I don't know what's going on

I always wished I was gay

Would've been a lot easier. You know you can just bing--bing--bing

Gay guys have no problem. I mean, they go to restrooms...

and truck stops and they perform sex

It's like so easy for 'em...

and stuff, but you know what?

Alas, Timothy Treadwell's not gay, bummer

I love girls. And girls girls need a lot more...

need a lot more, you know finesse and care...

and I like that a bit

but when it goes down, bad and you're alone it's like

well.,. you know, you can't rebound like you can if you were gay

I'm sure gay people have problems too

but not as much as one goofy straight guy...

named Timothy Treadwell. Anyway, that's my story

That's my story

I love you. Look at you. You're the best little fox

But how did I, how did I come into this work, Iris?

Did you ever, did you ever get the story?

I was... I was troubled...

I was troubled. I drank a lot did you know that?

Iris, you wouldn't even know what that is

but, umm, I used to drink to the point of...

that I guess I was either gonna die from it or

or break free of it

But nothing, nothing Iris could get me to stop drinking, nothing

I went to programs I tried quitting myself

I did everything that I could...

to try not to drink, and then I did everything I could to drink

And it was killing me

Until I discovered this land of bears

And I realized that they were in such...

such great danger that they...

they needed a caretaker they needed someone to look after them

but not a drunk person

Not a person messed up

So I promised the bears that if I would if I would look over them

would they please help me be a better person

They become so inspirational and, um

and living with the foxes too

that I did

I gave up the drinking

I, it was a miracle. It was an absolute miracle...

and the miracle was animals the miracle was animals

I live... I live here...

It's very dangerous it's really dangerous

I run wild with the bears I run so wild, so free...

so like a child with these animals

It's really cool and and it's very serious

I'm here alone, and when you're here all alone you...

you do get, you get lonely

Oh, duh...

Right, you get pretty lonely

Oh no, I'm gonna do all this stuff 'cause I'm supposed to be alone

Oh, okay

Part of the mythical character Treadwell was transforming himself

into required him to be seen as being completely alone

He was mostly alone but he did spend time with women

who will here, remain anonymous

The truth is that Amie Huguenhard accompanied him for parts

of his last two summers

A fact which was out of step with his stylization...

as the lone guardian of the grizzlies

It's July 26th, and I've been dropped off all alone again here

in the grizzly maze

And it's always such a surreal feeling as the plane takes off...

and it doesn't quite sink into you but just how alone you are

That for the next 2 months or more

you will be alone in this wild wilderness...

this jungle that the bears have carved tunnels through...

and that's the grizzly maze

It's July 26th. I hope to survive and to be able to record...

the secret world of the bears and then come September...

when people might come to harm these animals...

I'll look after them. I'll make sure they're safe

It is so weird though when it sinks in how alone you are

Amie Huguenard remains a great unknown of this film

Her family declines to appear on camera

and Amie herself remains hidden in Treadwell's footage

In nearly 100 hours of his video...

she appears exactly 2 times

Here disembarking from the plane in the year of her death

We never see her face

Here it is obscured by her hands and her hair

Greetings children of America!

And the second shot that we have doesn't show her face either

She remains a mystery, veiled by a mosquito net, obscured, unknown

Only through Treadwell's diaries do

we know that she was frightened of bears

The only other hint we have of her presence

is this shot here of Treadwell

It is handheld, and we can only deduct

it must have been Amie operating the camera

Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard's remains...

came in this large metal can

Inside this metal can was a plastic bag

one for Timothy and one for Amie

I mean, these are human beings

and the question I ask is first of all who are you Timothy?

Who are you Amie?

And what happened to you?

In the case of Timothy and Amie what I had were body parts

Just the visual input of seeing a...

a detached human being before my eyes

makes my heart race, makes the hair stand up on the back of my head

Particularly in combination with the contents of a tape

an audio tape that is the sound portion of the video tape

And when I find out from other investigators

that the shoes neatly placed at the entrance to a tent

and the cap left on a camera

so that the visual part could not be recorded...

yet the tape is running so that we can hear the sounds...

of Amie screaming and the sounds of Timothy moaning...

tells me that this event occurred very, very quickly...

suddenly and unexpectedly

I clearly can hear her screaming "Stop. "

And "Go away. " Maybe "Run away. "

There's a lot of background noise

Timothy is moaning...

and I hear Amie beating on the top of this bear's head...

with a frying pan and Timothy is saying...

run away, let go

Run away, run away Amie, run away!

Amie had a great deal of conviction

She had a great deal of conviction in this relationship

we know that

Although in the past she was more stand--offish

She didn't get as close to the bear as Timothy did

She was more cautious

However I know that at the moment of death...

when one is being tried to the maximum of one's ability...

to be faithful, to stick to a situation...

to be loyal if one can say that to Timothy...

she stayed there and she fought with Timothy

She did not run away

Amie we know...

fought back for approximately 6 minutes

Amie stayed with her lover...

with her partner, with her mate and with the bear

Ultimately she stayed with the bear in the situation

This is Timothy's camera

During the fatal attack there was no time to remove the lens cap

Jewel Palovak allowed me to listen to the audio

I hear rain, and I hear Amie...

get away, get away, go away

Can you turn it off?

Jewel, you must never listen to this

I know Werner, I'm never going to

And you must never look at the photos

that I've seen at the corner's office

I will never look at them

Yeah

They said it was bad

Now you know why no one's gonna hear it

I think you... you should not keep it. You should destroy it

Yeah

I think that's what you should do

Okay

Because it will be the white elephant in your room all your life

Well here I am at the scene of the fight

It looks as if tractors tore the land up...

raked it, roto-tilled it tossed it about

There is fur everywhere, and in the camera foreground extruded waste

In the middle of the fight so violent

so upsetting that Sergeant Brown went to the bathroom

did a number 2 during his fight

Extremely emotional extremely powerful, and yet...

both bears back in pursuit of Saturn, including Mickey...

who appears to have gotten the worse for the wear in the fight...

between Sergeant Brown and Mickey for the right...

to court Saturn, the queen of the grizzly sanctuary

Amazing. Oh, Mickey I love you

And Mickey's now the closest bear to Saturn...

back in like a horse in a race that does not give up

We love that bear, Mickey. We love him

We love him, but Mickey I've been down that street...

I've been down that street

Uh, you don't always get the chick you want

Let me tell you, it doesn't always f--ing work out

Hey, he's after my own heart

He won't give up, even when it looks shitty

All right, love you Mickey love you Mickey

Well, I just wanna discuss that fight with, with Mickey bear right here

He's right next to me here in the grizzly sanctuary on the tide flat

Saturn off to camera left

Mick, you underestimated Sergeant Brown

You went in for the hit he seemed to be rope--a--doping you

like he wasn't that tough...

and then once you, you banged into him

he turned out to be one heck of a rough bear...

a very rough bear

And I'm telling you I was so scared

I almost got sick to my stomach watching you fight

and then when he knocked you down and you had him

and you were down on your back it was terrible

It was terrible. I...

I'm not duking it out for any girl like that

I'm telling you right now I'm not duking it out for any girl

but I, you know

I.,. well I've had my troubles with the girls, yeah, yeah

And I'll tell you something...

if Saturn was a female human I could just see how beautiful

she is as a bear...

I've always called her the Michelle Pfeiffer of bears out here

All right you lay there...

I'm gonna go off with your girlfriend

Don't beat me up over it

I'm, I'm cool, I'm cool. I'm respectful

Things are bad for me with the human women

but not so bad that I have to be hitting on bears yet. Okay?

In his diaries

Treadwell speaks often of the human world as something foreign

He made a clear distinction between the bears and the peoples world...

which moved further and further into the distance

Wild, primordial nature was where he felt truly at home

We explored the glacier in the back country of his grizzly sanctuary

This gigantic complexity of tumbling ice and abysses...

separated Treadwell from the world out there

And more so, it seems to me that this landscape in turmoil...

is a metaphor of his soul

Off there in the distance is his bay and his campsite...

where he battled his demons

What drove Timothy into the wild?

We visited his parents in Florida

Timothy grew up with 4 siblings in Long Island...

in a solid middle class family

where the father worked as the foreman...

of a construction team for a telephone company

There must have been an urge to escape the safety

of his protected environment

I was moved to find that among all memorabilia in the house

his mother was clutching Timothy's favorite bear

Ahh... this has been to Alaska many times

I'm sure he loved it to the end you know?

With, it's just... his childhood toy

Tim's childhood pointed toward nothing extraordinary

A normal everyday kid

Never any trouble in school

Always a good student

Not an A student, a B student

And got along great with kids...

and animals

Tim and I were extremely connected to animals in the house

I think more so than anybody else

This squirrel named Willy became Timothy's best friend

Teddy bears meant a lot to him

He seemed to develop into an all American boy

Handsome...

Athletic. Full of promise

He excelled on his High School swim team

He went off to Bradley University on his diving scholarship

I think he started drinking out there and having, you know

just hanging out with the wrong people

and then he injured his back and he ended up...

losing his scholarship and coming back home

He did attempt to smoke marijuana in the house

- Yeah. -- But ahh...

-- He did... yeah

I put the kibosh on that

but obviously he was doing it elsewhere, so

He really wanted...

A new start, a fresh start

So when he went out to California he was 19 or 20

He wasn't a young 15 or 16 year old

He was of age

He'd gotten a job...

just to make money, on the Queen Mary at the gift shop

He did hire an agent

He did change his name to Treadwell to be theatrical

And it was a family name

I know he got on the Love Connection with Chuck Woolery

I think her got on another show...

There were promises made that never came true

and he had tested with the actors to get the bartender job on Cheers

And allegedly he came in second to Woody Harrelson

How close is second I don't know

but that is what really destroyed him...

that he did not get that job on Cheers

He spiraled down

Timmy used to body surf out here

He had a, ahh...

he had a boogie board with the Union Jack on it

And he was totally fearless

And the.,. the amazing thing about Timmy

was he did, he had this Prince Valiant haircut...

and he could surf and go under water...

and yet still that hair would hide his receding hairline

It was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen

No matter how rough the surf you never saw Timmy's forehead

I don't know how he did that

How does the hair look?

At some point in Timmy's life...

he had a near fatal overdose

How he survived it, I don't know

He's a tough guy

But I guess it was an epiphany for him

After that he was looking for a different persona

I guess that's when he came up with where he was from...

and his delightful accent

And I never questioned it

Treadwell's need to invent a new persona for himself...

lead him to elaborate fabrications

He claimed to be an orphan from Australia

and even checked out details of a small town...

in the Australian outback in order to sound convincing

His accent though remained suspicious

It almost sounded, uh, more Kennedy--esque than Australian

After Timmy's death people said, well...

don't you feel betrayed that he did that?

That he didn't tell you the truth about his accent or his origins?

And that never bothered me

Timmy always amused me

And there's an old saying on the farm

if it doesn't scare the cows who cares

Well, I don't think Timmy ever scared the cows, so who cares

He was... he was troubled. I mean, it...

he.,. one time he went to a doctor and they wanted...

to put him on some kind of a anti--depressant or something to...

keep his mood, 'cause his moods were so up and down

And he started taking it for a while and then he, he stopped...

he said I had to stop. And I said why?

And he said because I I can't be, I can't...

I can't have the middle ground

I have to have the highs and the lows

It's a part of my life it's a part of my personality

And he definitely had a dark side

I mean, he was mixed up in drugs...

which is, makes you mixed up in bad people and, you know

people with guns...

and Timothy always had a sense of justice that was

that was his own

So, he got into a lot, a lot of trouble

And I think that umm...

How dangerous

How dangerous? I mean...

I don't think he would have ever...

he couldn't have ever killed anybody

but he always kept it in check

One thing that we did every once in a while

which just seems so bizarre by now, but it's...

we would go when we lived in the valley to the Van Nuys courthouse

and we would watch when criminals were being sentenced

We would watch people getting their sentence, and I think we did it...

I did it just for shock value and just because you know

'cause it's something I'd never done...

but he did it I think to remind him of if he went...

to that dark place what his life would be

I'm in love with my animal friends

I'm in love with my animal friends

In love with my animal friends

I'm very, very troubled

It's very emotional

It's probably not cool even looking like this

I'm so in love with them and they're so fed over

which so sucks

Do you know you're the star for all the children?

They love you, and I love you so much and thank you

Thank you for being my friend

Isn't this so sad?

This is, um... a bumblebee who expired as it was working...

at doing the pollen thing on this Alaskan fireweed...

and it just is, just has really touched me to no end

It, it went, it was doing its duty it was flying around

It was working, was busy as a bee and it died right there

It's beautiful, it's sad, it's tragic

I love that bee

Well, the bee moved

Is it sleeping?

Here's her poop

It just came out of her butt

I can... I can feel it

I can feel the poop

It's warm

It just came it just came from her butt

This was just inside of her. My girl

I'm touching it

It's her poop, it's Wendy's poop

I know it may seem weird that I touched her poop

but it was inside of her

It.,. it's what, it, it's her life

It's her

And she's so precious to me. She gave me Downey

Downey's, I adore Downey

Everything about them is perfect

Perfection belonged to the bears

but once in a while Treadwell came face to face

with the harsh reality of wild nature

This did not fit into his sentimentalized view...

that everything out there was good and the universe...

in balance and harmony

Male bears sometimes kill cubs

to stop the females from lactating

and thus have them ready again for fornication

Oh God, I love you

I love you, and I don't understand

It's a painful world

Here I differ with Treadwell

He seemed to ignore the fact that in nature there are predators

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony...

but chaos, hostility and murder

He wandered too far from the den...

and the wolves last night that I heard howling

screeching in glee and excitement...

it was over the termination of one of the babies

So expedition 2001 has taken a sad turn

but it is a real turn...

and I mourn the death of this gorgeous baby fox

Goodbye little fox

Get out of his eye you, frickin' fly

Don't do it when I'm around

Have some respect, fucker

Most disturbing for him was to find the skull of a young bear

In the summer of 2000 came an extended drought

The creek was so low that for weeks there was no salmon run...

and starving bears simply ate their own

It has been only 5, not even 6 days since the baby died...

and this is all that's left of the little tyke that's it

There's nothing else left

They've eaten everything

It's so sad

She was so cute

5 days and all that's left is a skull

This called for desperate measures

There are fish lining up about to try to make a run...

and now they have a good reason for going...

because I have built them a corridor

Let's have a look at it

What I have done is, have a look

I have constructed a runway for them...

a navigational trail

When interference with nature was not enough

he had to invoke higher powers

Oh, the live TV, live on tape. Okay, so here's the deal

Pull this down a little bit. It's umm.,. it's September 20th...

it's the year 2000

It's Expedition 2000

There has not been a substantial rainfall for almost 2 months

The fish have not run since about August 2nd, August 3rd

We are now getting our first rain but it has just slowed down

We need at least 2 inches I think even 3 inches of rain

In the last 2 hours we're up a little over

20 inches of rain

That is not enough

We're gonna need more rain. We need more rain!!

Downey is hungry!

Tabitha's hungry!

Melissa is eating her babies!

I'm like a fuckin' nut

We've got to have some rain

Now I'm not a religious guy no, but I'm telling ya

I just, I'm just pissed because...

it just doesn't seem right

It just doesn't seem right

I, I know it's just weather and crap like that...

and it's, uh, I don't know what what the variables are

but we've got to have some goddamn rain!

So if there's a God...

Downey needs to eat!

Dump on us, hurt us!

Come on!

Think rain

Think rain

It's such a crappy little shower right now!

What kind of crappy little... come on!

Take this again

This does not make me very, very happy

I want rain, I want, if there's a God to kick some ass down here

Let's have some water, Jesus boy!

Let's have some water...

Christ man, or, or Allah, or or Hindu floaty thing

Let's have some fucking water for these animals!

It is now September 21st, Thursday of the year 2000, Expedition 2000

I am the Lord's humble servant

I am Allah's disciple

I am the floaty things, gopher boy...

There has been a miracle here

There's been an absolute miracle

It has rained 1. 65 inches of rain today

We have over 2 inches now in the storm and it is not stopping

It may hit 3 inches of rain

It went from a trickle to a flood...

and it's amazing, and we have a really, really great chance of

of a... of a run of fish for the animals

And what is even more miraculous according to my radio...

it is not raining much around anywhere else but around here

Well, it's now after ahh, 2 o'clock on October 4th...

and the tent has caved in due to the storm

I'm still here with my little teddy bear Tabitha bear...

I think the storm has actually gotten a little weaker

but in the course of it getting stronger...

it crushed the wall in and bent some of the poles

And you really can't do much about it because, umm...

once they get like that they just stay kind of bent in...

and you're screwed and all that

This is my life, this is what I do

And I... I love it. I love it

Even this, I love it

My tent crushed in, I love it. It's pathetic, but I love it

Hello, hello, hello

Woohoo. Hello, hello, hello

Are you scared little bear?

The storm's gonna go on and on and on

It doesn't look like I may get out of here for another week or so

Oh! Look at this!

I put my tripod up to shore up the tent

I put a pole up there and so now I've got a tent

That's a pretty good idea, huh?

Haha, pretty good for me

We have about 35,000 brown grizzly bears here in Alaska

We, what we can tell it's a very healthy population

it's a stable population

Of course you have to be careful with bears

because they have unique needs...

especially the grizzly bear

They need large areas for the most part

They have low reproductive rates

You have to be cautious in the way you utilize those animals

Bear hunting as an example

is a very important aspect of the economy

Four and a half million dollars a year and spent on bear hunts

Here on Kodiak Island we have about 3,000 bears

Each year we harvest about 160 of those

Through our research we found that you can harvest about 6 percent...

of the population annually and still have a healthy group of bears

And poaching?

Poaching is not as big a concern around here as it has been...

in Russia for instance and some other locations

There is some poaching that occurs for gall bladders or some bears

that are just killing wantonly because people don't like them

or because they're afraid of them

But for the most part here on Kodiak and on the Alaska Peninsula

it is a very rare occurrence in the last 20 years

Despite the statistics, Treadwell became increasingly paranoid

about his enemy the poacher

And it's gotten to be September near October...

and it's the time of year where poachers could come around...

it's time for me to go in my guerilla style camouflage outfit

Downey still recognizes me by by talking to her...

Don't you? Yeah... I'm the big crazy guy with the

or the skinny crazy guy with the...

with the camouflage makeup on

They're armed with pepper spray and rocks

In all his video recordings over the years...

this is Treadwell's closest encounter with intruders

I believe the guide is the person with the camera...

the big camera on the tripod

There we go

Get a nice close up of him there

He's the one who threw the rock at Freckles the bear

It's Quincy

They're throwing rocks at him

They're throwing rocks at my Quincy

They're gonna stone him and then they're gonna photograph him

Ohh... that's it

That's enough of this

They hit Quincy. Ohh...

I don't want to expose myself to them

I am submitting this as uh, Sunday August 1st

It is 4:35 and 18 seconds on this day

It's hard to say but it's a warning of a sort...

and it's obviously here to upset me

Hi Timothy. See you in summer of 2001

Now it doesn't say hi Timothy we're gonna fucking kill you

It doesn't say hi Timothy ahh.,. you're fucking dead...

we're gonna chop your legs off

Hey Timothy...

get the fuck out. It just says see you in...

summer of 2001

But it is some sort of a warning

It is some sort of a ha--ha

I don't think it's friendly

Well, it's gotten a little worse here with, ahh...

there's the warning hi Timothy see you summer of 2001

Now I found this big stack of rocks that were, you know...

put some labor here... We're not calling this, ahh...

the building of the pyramids but we are saying...

there's, there's a bit of trouble

Now, I'm gonna walk back I'm gonna bring you back here...

through my camp

Let's come through here, pathway

Here's where, here's where the...

the sign was here which is where my tent is

And then we go over where my bear proof barrels would be

and we find boulders piled up...

boulders piled up and a happy face indelibly...

painted into the rock like looking at me

Very, very frickin' frightening, huh?

Whoever put it there knew what they were doing

That is was, it's a warning and it's, and the thing is...

it's a better than a warning than, um...

it's better than like you're fucking dead type of thing

It's creepy, baby, it's creepy

It's Freddy Krueger creepy

There were visitors every now and then but for Treadwell...

they were just intruders

An encroaching threat upon what he considered his Eden

Even the Park Service itself became an enemy because of its restrictions

I have decided to violate a Federal rule which states...

I must camp one mile, every week I must move one mile...

after staying for 7 consecutive days

If I was to do that here I would not be able to study these bears...

I would not be able to really protect them

I'd have to actually move out of the bay...

to get a mile out

Therefore I have decided to protest the United States government...

and guard these bears anyway and stay

And I have...

the rule of not camping permanently in one spot...

he would camouflage and hide his tent from the park service

But more than that he was in constant violation...

reasonable park rule that you have to maintain

at least 100 yards distance from the bears

Hi, go back to your friend. Go back to your friend

Okay...

It's okay. You're awfully close You're awfully close

Hi, oh Hi there...

The park restrictions made him increasingly irate

Well, we're into autumn now

Expedition 2001 coming to an end

The bears moving safely towards their winter dens

the foxes hiding in the woods...

safe from the humans that would come to harm them

It's been an amazing season

It's been difficult

But I came, I served I protected, and I studied...

and I promise I'll be back

My hair...

Expedition 2001 coming to an end for grizzly people

for me Timothy Treadwell

I came here and protected the animals as best I could

In fact, I'm the only protection for these animals out here

The government flying over a grand total of 2 times in 2 months

How dare they! How dare they challenge me!

How dare they smear me with their campaigns

How dare they...

when they do no look after these animals

and I come here in peace and in love...

neutral in respect

I will continue to do this

I will fight them, I will be an American dissident if I need be

There's a patriotic time going on right now

but as far as this fucking government's concerned...

fuck you mother fucking park service

Now Treadwell crosses a line with the Park Service

which we will not cross

He attacks the individuals with whom he worked, for 13 years

I beat your fucking asses!

I protected the animals. I did it! Fuck you!

Animals rules, Timothy conquered! Fuck you park service!

It is clear to me that the Park Service is not Treadwell's real enemy

There is a larger, more implacable adversary out there...

the people's world and civilization

Ohh, Timothy, I'm getting a bad feeling about you

He only has mockery and contempt for it

Well... I saw you on David Letterman

you're.,. fairly entertaining

His rage is almost incandescent, artistic...

the actor in his film has taken over from the film maker

I have seen this madness before on a film set

But Treadwell is not an actor in opposition

to a director or a producer

He is fighting civilization itself

It is the same civilization that cast Thoreau out of Walden...

and John Muir into the wild

Animal's rule

All right, that's my happy stuff

Let's do a couple of nice takes now

Oh man, did I get angry? Fuck them, right?

They do not watch these animals...

They don't care about these animals

All they ever wanna do is...

is screw people like me around

It's amazing, let the fishermen fucking shoot the animals...

let fucking poachers come in here and fuck them...

let the fucking commercial people fuck them around

with their fucking cameras and shit and the tourists

But we're gonna go screw with Timothy Treadwell...

because he loves animals and teaches kids for free

Let's go, let's do that. That's what we're gonna do

Well fuck them. Fuck them. I beat you, I beat you mother fuckers

I beat you. Beat you. So fuck you

I beat you. I beat you

I'm the champion I'm the fucking champion. I beat you

I beat your fucking asses. Fucking losers

Fucking nobodies. Fuck

Fucking fucks

Well, Expedition 2001 coming to an end

The bears safely moving into their winter dens...

the foxes hiding in the woods

I came here, I studied them protected them

and I promise you, I promise the grizzly people I will be back

I will be back

And I thank the animals for keeping me safe and for...

and for inspiring me. I thank them so very much

Goodbye

This is my favorite

This is my cowboy

Always in black always sunglasses and always a bandana

I miss you terribly

He was very dear to my heart very dear to my heart

My heart hurts every day for him

He was a good friend

I've known him 13 years and he just was a good friend

He was a distant friend in the winter

and a close friend in the summer...

I helped him do quite a few things here, and umm

he'd always come back and and I was kind of his confidante here

And... but I miss him

I miss his...

rambunctious personality...

and his outgoing, his heart

Just everything about him

Kathleen Parker still holds some of Timothy's Treadwell's ashes

She insists that she as a platonic friend only

She stored Treadwell's gear in the basement during the winters

He would set out into the wilderness from her house

When he would leave...

he would say at my backdoor he says I love you

he says this is going to be the best year of my life out there

and he says if I don't come back it's what I want

This is the way I wanna go

That's his last camp was just right in the right hand edge of this slope

patch of trees here

Right down here in this very end of these trees here

This is his ashes, some of them for me to spread...

and some bear hair, fur and some weeds...

and what else is in there?

There's a little bit of lupin there's a little bit of iris

Oh... There's umm...

Where did you get the bear fur?

We picked it up off the ground

Oh cool. Cool

Kathleen where are we here?

We are at a campsite where Timothy last camped...

not where he was killed but, umm...

over here in Hallow Bay. And, ahh...

Willy, you can, 'cause you brought him over here

Well his last campsite...

was right here in the, uh, trees here...

and he camped there because he was right between two fox dens

I'd been in the camp there

and the fox would come right to the edge of the tent

and go down in their...

in their dens right there

And so I think that's probably the main reason

he camped right there

Okay Timothy!

I love you!

And rest peacefully

Rest peacefully my love

Finally figured out a way to live here forever

He's here forever...

This is Timothy Treadwell's and Amie Hugguenard's route...

to the site of their death

There was a certain absurdity in their end

As usual, the expedition was over by the end of September and both...

had returned to Kodiak on their way back to California

Treadwell writes in his diary that at the airport

he had an altercation...

with an obese airline agent over the validity of his ticket

How much I hate the people's world he writes, and disgusted...

decided right then to return to this spot and his bears

Once back in the grizzly maze...

Amie has mixed feelings

She was afraid of the bears...

and had a deadline to return for a new job

and spoke openly about leaving him for good

According to one of the last entries in Treadwell's diary...

Amie called him Hell bent on destruction

And yet inexplicably, she remained with him here in the maze

Normally Treadwell would not be here this late in the year

and upon their return

he discovered that many of his bear friends...

had gone into hibernation and scary unknown...

and wilder bears from the interior had moved in

This is the spot where they set up their last camp

Let me tell you, honestly, camping in grizzly country is dangerous

People who camp in grizzly country should camp out in the open

to let the bears know where the tent is

My camp is unseen

It is the most dangerous camping...

the most dangerous living...

in the history of the world by any human being

I have lived longer with wild brown grizzly bears without weapons

and that's the key, without weapons...

in modern history than any human on earth, any human

And I have remained safe

But every second of every day...

that I move through this jungle or even at the tent...

I am right on the precipice of great bodily harm or even death

And I am so thankful for every minute of every day...

that I found the bears and this place, the grizzly maze

But let me tell you ladies and gentlemen

there is no, no, no other place...

in the world that is more dangerous

more exciting than the grizzly maze

Come here and camp here

Come here and try to do what I do, you will die

You will die here. You will frickin' die here

They will get you

I found a way

I found a way to survive with them

Am I a great person? I don't know. I don't know

We're all great people

Everyone has something in them that's wonderful

I'm just different, and I love these bears enough to do it right

And I'm edgy enough and I'm tough enough...

but mostly I love these bears enough to survive and do it right

And I'm never giving this up never giving it up

Never giving up the maze. Never. This is it

This is my life, this is my this is my land

Very late in the process of editing this film...

we were given access to Treadwell's last video tape

Here he may have filmed his murderer

The killer bear we know was a male

whom years earlier the park service had anaesthetized

They extracted a tooth which established him as being 28...

at the time of the attack quite old for a bear

They also tagged him by a tattoo on his inner lip

They had given him a number only. 141

Bear 141. That's all we know of him

And here, could this one, be bear 141

What looks playful could be desperation

Though late in the season the bear is diving deep for one...

of the few remains of salmon carcass at the bottom of the lake

Treadwell keeps filming the bear with a strange persistence

And all of a sudden...

Is Amie trying to get out of the shot?

Did Treadwell wait 'till his last tape to put her in his film?

And what haunts me is...

that in all the faces of the bears Treadwell ever filmed

I discover no kinship no understanding, no mercy

I see only the overwhelming indifference of nature

To me, there is no such thing as a secret world of the bears

and this blank stare speaks only of a half bored interest in food

But for Timothy Treadwell, this bear was a friend, a savior

Amie Huganarad was screaming

All of a sudden the intensity of Amie screaming...

reached a new height and became very, very loud

And she really, now, was screaming at the top of her lungs

These horrifying screams were punctuated by Timothy saying

"Go away, leave me, go away, run! Get out of here. "

In other words, Timothy is trying now to save Amie's life

because Timothy realizes...

at this point in time during this attack

Timothy knows he's gonna die

He knows that

My sense of listening to the... this tape is that the bear let go

probably let go of the top of his head

where I found massive lacerations

that is, tears of the scalp away from his head

Suddenly though, the bear after letting go, grabbed Timothy

somewhere in the high leg area

And Timothy, appropriately in my opinion

as a human being decided now is the time to save one life anyway

If his life was going away if his life was fading away

now is the time for Amie to get out

Well, the expedition coming close to a close

but I'm still of course here

It's been over 4 months in the wilderness

and a hurricane force storm now building

over 50 mile an hour winds soon over 70

The bears safely heading for their dens

The work, the work successful

I'm over 20 pounds lighter my clothes are rags

I've tried hard

I bleed for them, I live for them I'd die for them

I love them, I love this

It's tough work

but it's the only work I know

and it's the only work I'll ever I'll ever want

Take care of these animals take care of this land

He seems to hesitate in leaving the last frame of his own film

It's the only thing I know

It's the only thing I wanna know

Treadwell is gone

The argument how wrong or how right he was

disappears into the distance into a fog

What remains is his footage

And while we watch the animals in their choice of being

in their grace and ferociousness a thought becomes more and more clear...

that it is not so much a look at wild nature as it is an insight

into ourselves, our nature

And that, for me, beyond his mission gives meaning to his life

and to his death

And Treadwell is gone...