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NARRATOR: On this episode of Life Below Zero...

The race to prepare for the freeze has Alaskans on edge.

Ahhh!

NARRATOR: Chip struggles to keep his head above water.

AGNES: The wind has caught the boat.

NARRATOR: Andy makes a potentially bone-crushing mistake.

KATE: Ahhh! I gotta move!

NARRATOR: Glenn searches the Brooks Range for new hunting grounds.

GLENN: I like to live as much as possible on wild food.

NARRATOR: And Sue calls a World War II vehicle into active duty.

SUE: It's smoking like a son of a bitch.

SUE: I've owned Kavik River Camp now for a little over a year.

Last year, one of the things I did, my food trailer,

my dry food storage used to be out here on the path.

I thought I would move my food trailer all the way back there

to keep it away from clients.

Error in judgement on my part.

I don't like having to go

almost a mile to get the dry storage

because the predators can hide behind anything,

and that's what they did this spring.

They just hid and tried to ransack me as I went through,

and that's way beyond my comfort zone.

You know, I always say, "Don't be a pork chop,"

but I made myself right into one.

NARRATOR: In order to protect her food storage on camp,

Sue will enlist a piece of machinery from the Second World War,

the Nodwell.

SUE: This thing is pretty freaking cool.

It has tank controls.

Tank tyres, that's what it used to be, now it's a vehicle.

Seventy-three years old but it still runs.

You know, it may have 10 to 12 flat tyres out of 12, but it still rolls.

The biggest issue, getting it from where it is

to where I want it to live.

Do we need to do some groundwork first?

Or am I just gonna tear it up bringing it over?

Nah, just park it and I'll guide you when you're coming through.

RICK: If you come out to the bushes over here... SUE: Uh-huh.

And I'll get the water line out of the way,

because we got a water line in the bushes.

Yeah, yeah, that was the other concern.

I'm done with tearing up water lines.

And then I'll stand and I'll guide you right up into this spot here,

make sure you pull straight in and we'll get the trailer as level as possible.

It's never gonna be level.

I wanna go inside. Things are gonna fall over.

There's no way to help it.

Who cares if paper towels hit the floor?

I do care if something glass does.

Just open it up and

(SIGHS) see... Yeah.

This is not gonna cut it.

Let's get you down...

In there.

Anything that may cause a problem...

Those will jiggle. They won't be bad.

There is always potential for things to break and get damaged.

Things will bounce off.

I'll have a lot of cleaning to do once I move it,

but it all looks basically good on this end.

It's time to just shut the door,

lift the stairs, lock 'em down.

(EXHALES) All right.

I'm gonna kick the tyres, light the fires, and get that thing rolling.

See if that 73-year-old piece of equipment can make it work.

GLENN: That's what I'm about. Connection.

Connection to reality, to nature.

It's a beautiful thing.

(LEAVES RUSTLING)

I'm used to going without things out here.

I don't use sugar.

I don't like to eat a lot of store-bought food.

I like to live off the land as much as I can.

NARRATOR: With limited resources,

Glenn Villeneuve, must trek over rugged, thawing terrain

to secure a spring food supply.

GLENN: This time of year the ducks are coming in. I'm gonna go look for some.

If I can find open water with no ice on it,

I'm gonna have more opportunities.

So that's what I'm looking for today.

It can be a lot harder travelling around in summer

in a lot of areas here than it is in the winter.

In the wintertime, I got trails that are smooth,

hard-packed, and easy travelling.

In the summertime, I have to detour around bodies of water.

I have to walk through bogs. I get all wet.

There's brush I have to fight through.

Getting around can be a lot harder

depending on the country you're travelling through.

This is a spot where I'd like to go look for some ducks.

In recent decades, the water has fallen.

So it's all melted off because it's just a shallow pond now, really.

And the ducks around at this time of year,

they're looking for open water.

Here is some right here.

One of the big things about ducks, too, is that

I have to be able to get them after I shoot them.

Most of the time when I shoot ducks, they're in the water

or they're just taking off from the water.

And I need to take into consideration

if they're in a place where I can get to them.

Okay.

I see some ducks way down on the other end,

so I'm thinking about walking around

and seeing how close I can see another duck there.

Okay, I see two other ducks here that look like good eating ducks.

(GUN FIRING)

(GUN COCKING)

(GUN FIRING)

I missed them. They got away.

(DUCKS QUACKING)

ANDY: There's no rest for the wicked this time of the year.

You gotta get moving 'cause the summers are short.

It just takes time.

It takes planning. It takes vision.

(DOGS HOWLING)

Kate and I are getting ready to go up river about 30 miles.

We're working on a project to build

what's called a masonry heater at our house.

It's a really efficient way to heat your home.

Basically it's a fireplace that circulates up and down and up and down,

and then it goes out so all of the heat from the fire

goes directly into the rock.

I don't really like the look of round cobble rock for this.

So we're going for the castle look.

In the boat.

And I need about 12,000 pounds of rock to get ready for this project.

There's a ton of rock all around here,

but it's all crumbly, shale type rock,

and you can't build this type of masonry heater out of that type of rock.

All right.

You guys ready to go for a boat ride? Oh, boy!

This will be a good chance for Kate and I to go camp out together in the summertime.

We're also gonna bring Iceberg and Bergis with us

to have some companionship and some bear alert.

NARRATOR: With spring bears awake and highly aggressive,

Andy and Kate will need the extra layer of protection.

It's probably gonna cost me 100 bucks in gas to go up and back.

I'm gonna take my army boat with me

so I can haul more rock at a time.

I like being as efficient as I can be.

I wanna make this trip worthwhile.

You know, the more rock that I can haul down in one load,

the more efficient this whole process begins to be.

So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna make

a whole bunch of these big piles of rocks,

and then I'll just drive the boat up

and throw these into the super sack bags.

(GRUNTS)

(GROWLS)

That's a good stash right there.

Whoo!

I've got quite a few piles of rocks going now.

It looks like about, maybe, 10 or 12 piles.

So, a pretty good hit for this evening.

I'll go back and see if Kate's got some dinner going

and put a cold jug of beer in that nice, icy stream

and chill out for a little bit.

CHIP: A lot of people don't get the idea of being out here.

We get to shape ourselves here and we get to flow with nature.

I don't have to have a cool car parked in my driveway.

I don't have to wear the latest in fashions and stuff.

I have to wear something that's warm and practical.

Something I can wash the blood off of.

CHIP: First let's just drag this over there,

then you guys can take your things off

so that they're at hand to put them back on if you need them.

AGNES: Ready, girls? Let's go fishing?

CHIP: Yep, grab a corner, would you?

Or don't grab a corner, whatever works.

AGNES: Just make sure we got the floater and the rope.

NARRATOR: Chip and Agnes Hailstone are 85 miles away from home

on their seasonal fishing trip along the Kiwalik River.

They're teaching their youngest daughters fishing skills

to help survive the coming freeze.

CHIP: The plan for today is to set a net for salmon.

We got chum salmon, king salmon, pink salmon and silver salmon.

And what we'd really like to catch here are some silver salmon

because we don't catch lots of silver salmon on the Kobuk River.

So our plan is to basically make the most of

what the Kiwalik River here has to offer.

AGNES: Here's our sinker.

We still have to put it together, but this will do.

CHIP: So you got your weight set.

Knock it off, you two, don't start fighting now.

Watch what your mom is doing.

So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna tie the floater on

to this point, right here where the float starts,

and it's gonna mark the end of our... That buoy there is gonna mark the end of our net,

so we'll know where the end of our net is.

So I'm gonna use the boat, and I'm gonna pull this out.

No, I'll do it myself.

Me and your mom have been fishing here before you were born.

-Careful there. -CAROL: I've got it good.

In the early '90s, when we started fishing here we used to put our nets out there

on the upper channel, and we would just get socked with fish.

This net was made by your mom to fit this.

She had a good measurement of how deep it was.

You know, at high tide and low tide it's usually about two feet difference.

I made a net that was specifically for this river.

This is a shallow, fast moving river,

so I have this one cut specifically shorter for this river.

CHIP: This net is way older than you kids.

(AGNES SPEAKING)

Okay.

You need help putting it in?

CHIP: No, I'm fine.

AGNES: Wait!

CHIP: Okay, here we go.

AGNES: Careful, puppy.

We don't want to catch the puppy.

Once it reaches about halfways with the net, we'll tie it off.

CAROL: Sure.

AGNES: Okay, watch what he does, girls.

He throws out the heavy stuff.

I just need to tighten it up a little bit.

AGNES: The wind has caught the boat.

(GIRLS LAUGHING)

AGNES: Whoa!

Crazy!

(AGNES LAUGHS)

CHIP: When I was just taking off, I felt a real strong breeze

and I was telling myself, this must be what 50 miles an hour feels like on this boat,

'cause of the gust.

But it just brought my nose up.

AGNES: Wow, that was crazy!

You were straight up like this.

That was a close call. Anything could've happened.

His boat motor prop could've get caught to him or slashed him.

We're a long ways from help, and that could get to a real scary situation real quick.

CHIP: Whoo, man! The wind had me up.

Once I got out of the wind, you see me come down?

-Yeah. -That was fucking crazy, huh?

I couldn't figure out what the hell was holding me up,

and then when I felt the wind, the gust go down, it was like, "Whoa."

And the boat came right down.

AGNES: Sometimes they hit right as soon as you throw your net out.

-Pretty soon, when the tide comes up, more of the net... -The fish will come in.

...will be up and the fish will come right in with the high tide.

Well, now that this is done anyway, and that's the best part of it all.

This will be productive pretty soon.

Why don't you girls go get some greens and berries,

and we'll have ourselves a salmon...

-AGNES: Yeah. -...greens and berry dinner.

AGNES: And onions? CHIP: And onions! Yes!

We need some onions for this project.

AGNES: Ready girls? QUTAN: Yup.

AGNES: Let's go. Right on!

Our net will catch fish while we go pick berries.

GLENN: That's part of the reason I'm here.

To be connected to nature.

It's just fascinating all the stuff that's going on.

Every year I learn something new.

This time of year I'd like to get some small game like

ducks, or a porcupine would be great, or even some fish.

I never know. I don't plan. When I leave,

I'm just going looking for food.

Whatever I find, I'll be happy with it.

It's springtime. Birds are coming back,

bears are waking up, the thaw is here.

I see a couple of ducks down here,

just landed in the moat next to the lake, so I'm gonna take a walk down,

see if I might be able to get 'em.

(WHISPERING) Yeah, they are two pintails right over here.

I think I might be able to get 'em

but I just have to be careful because

if they take off, and they're flying up very high,

they could fall out on that ice, and I'll never be able to get 'em.

The ice is too thin to walk on.

I've got to make sure they're in the water.

(GUN FIRING)

(GUN COCKING)

(GUN FIRING)

GLENN: I just got two ducks.

Luckily they're not drifting.

There's a little breeze coming and going, so I just want to

go down right away and get 'em before anything changes.

Sometimes the hardest part of getting a duck is getting it out of the water.

It's a fairly large duck, so that's good,

but I have to go out and get that one,

the water's a little bit deep there,

and I don't want to get my clothes all wet.

So I've got to get out there.

Jesus, that water's cold.

I'm standing on ice. There's ice on the bottom.

Oh, those should be tasty, 'cause pintails are

some of the better ducks out here for eating, you know.

They're good tasting duck.

They live on vegetation, mostly,

little insects, things. But different ducks have different flavours.

I don't like to plan too far in advance,

and it's the same thing with what I'm gonna eat.

I'm gonna eat whatever nature provides.

Today it provided two ducks,

so that'll be what I have for dinner.

Hunting's an uncertain business.

I never know how things are going to turn out.

I missed two ducks and

ended up getting another two a little bit later.

I got two ducks. I'm gonna bring them back to camp,

cook 'em up, have dinner.

ANDY: I do this for me and for Kate.

It's not to impress anybody.

I could care less about that.

It's what do I need to do to satisfy myself

and to feel good about what it is I want out of life.

(DOGS HOWLING)

KATE: What's our plan? We're gonna go finish up the rock?

You think we're gonna be able to load all that now,

and get it on the boat and get out of there?

NARRATOR: Yesterday, Andy and Kate ventured 30 miles down the Yukon

in search of materials for an upcoming build.

Now they must load over five tons of stone by hand

and freight it safely back home.

ANDY: Did that stake pull out?

God damn it.

The line holding the army boat came loose

and the army boat drifted out to the middle of the river with me.

I touched bottom with my prop.

I felt it hit a rock underneath there pretty good.

So, that was probably about a $250 oops.

KATE: There's a big rock right there.

And right there.

ANDY: Here's breakfast.

-Ooh, man. -KATE: What?

ANDY: My prop is just fried there.

I don't want to push it too much.

I'll just limp home with that prop. It's all beat up.

If any of these are too heavy, just let them go, okay? I can load them.

NARRATOR: Loading the boat is only half the job.

Andy and Kate still have half a day's worth of work left,

but the daylight is dwindling.

Why don't you hand me your bucket, Kate,

and I'll fill up some of these small pieces.

ANDY: A little lighter? KATE: Please.

(ANDY LAUGHING)

That was a good idea to use the bucket.

I hate ruining a good water bucket, but it's definitely...

KATE: Well, I took the one that was melted down the side.

Uh-huh, yeah, I see.

I can get this one.

If you're struggling with it, I won't get it off the ground. (LAUGHING)

I think I might move down to the next spot.

ANDY: Watch your fingers!

Argh, motherfucker!

I got hit with a good sized rock on my index finger.

And it's going to hurt for a long time.

Well, why are you throwing them,

when you know I was fixing it?

ANDY: I didn't see you fixing it, I turned around to throw it in.

It's definitely bruised and it's causing her a little discomfort,

but she's a tough girl.

She's got a high threshold of pain and she'll suck it up, and she'll continue to work.

You're all right.

Shit happens when you're moving heavy stuff and when you're working.

That's just the way it is out here.

(LAUGHING)

It hurt hard, you know?

ANDY: I know it hurts. KATE: Yeah.

ANDY: It's got to be a good 150 pounds or so, I would think.

(GRUNTS)

Yeah, buddy.

Now, that's a rock.

If I want to start loading my silver boat,

I think I got a load in my army boat.

Oh! (LAUGHING)

You almost went swimming.

Maybe you should take a little break, Andy.

ANDY: Nope. We're almost done. Take a break on the way home.

I tend to overload boats. I tend to

push the limits when it comes to doing this sort of thing.

-You ready? -Yup.

ANDY: Come on off.

KATE: Huh?

I think we got it.

We got about a 30-mile trip home.

I really don't want these bags sitting in the boats that long. There's a lot of

stress and pressure on the boats.

It's really hard on a riveted boat to put this kind of weight and pressure in it.

Any time you're putting a lot of weight in boats,

there's always a potential for disaster.

Whether it be the boat capsizing,

heavy winds on the river can put up a pretty big fetch.

ANDY: That's what I feel like doing, Iceberg. (LAUGHING)

I know what my capabilities are, but at the same time, you never know.

There's always variables that sometimes you don't think about.

SUE: I may make a mistake.

It's okay because with each mistake is an opportunity to learn how to do it right.

SUE: Flat.

Tight.

All righty.

I'm ready to go.

You know, to bring the Nodwell out here, you want to do the,

you know, minimum impact on the land around you,

so I'll be keeping it tight to the path.

NARRATOR: With the help of the Nodwell,

Sue is moving her food container closer to camp.

Engine button has to be in. I mean,

these are old tank controls.

This is how you turn.

I have the gas pedal here.

Gonna be going through some bouncy stuff, man,

so my foot's gonna want to be bounce, bounce.

I'm gonna use the hand throttle.

Let those glow plugs heat up a little bit.

(ENGINE RUMBLES)

(SUE SPEAKING)

(SUE SPEAKING)

-(SUE SPEAKING) -RICK: You're getting it.

(SUE SPEAKING)

(SUE SPEAKING)

RICK: You're coming right, just come on.

When I point, just come straight, because you need to straighten out

and come at it straight.

(RICK SPEAKING)

(SUE SPEAKING)

(SUE CONTINUES SPEAKING)

Keep it turning.

Argh!

SUE: Motherfucker!

You had me overshoot it.

It doesn't go that damn tight.

RICK: It'll go. Keep turning.

-It may not. It's smoking like a son of a bitch. -What is?

The engine.

I'm gonna try it again.

(ENGINE RUMBLES)

(SUE SPEAKING)

SUE: Shut the engine down, put the ignition off.

Let's see what kind of damage we did, man.

So I got it through, but when I was coming over,

I shot a little bit too far west before I started swinging in.

New game plan is

I'm gonna go take it all the way around and try a new approach.

GLENN: Half the time when I'm out here alone walking around hunting,

I don't even think in words.

I just go where my feelings lead me.

I'm following my feelings through the forest and that's how I find things.

Yeah, this is a beautiful duck.

Ducks have really nice down all along the breast here, I like to save that.

If you get enough ducks, you can make a pillow out of it.

So I just bring a bag with me to put it in, when I'm plucking 'em.

You know, it's a useful thing. Why throw it out?

Why not save it and use it?

I really enjoy just sitting by a lake, plucking a duck.

It's just a beautiful thing to

be listening to the birds singing and feeling the sunshine.

There's nothing I'd rather be doing right now.

I'm gonna pluck the wings.

The skin is where a lot of fat is.

The skin's the best part.

I eat pretty much everything on a duck,

except for the bones, the guts.

I mean, that just depends on how hungry I am, too.

Clean these ducks and... This is female.

You never know, sometimes

you get a surprise, this time of year.

You can get fresh eggs.

Let's see what's in here.

There's the heart.

Duck liver, very good to eat.

I always like the gizzard.

Didn't get any eggs out of this one.

Not a lot of ducks around here, and I never harass the ones that nest here.

There's usually only one family of,

of ducks that stay on the lake.

These ducks are just passing through.

Once I get a moose, I'm not interested in much else, to tell you the truth.

I'm gonna get some water and cook up my ducks.

I mean, I'm sure it's full of moose shit and whatever else, but it gets boiled.

I haven't got sick off of it yet.

So next step, add the ducks.

Duck liver, couple of duck hearts,

couple of duck gizzards.

Mix it all together, have nice flavours, the broth will be good to drink.

Might as well throw a duck head in there, too.

It'll add a little bit of flavour.

Of course most of the meat's right on the breast there.

One duck, here's another duck.

Looks pretty good. Ducks for dinner.

I'm gonna see how my duck's doing.

I think they should be done by now.

Oh, look at that. Yeah. That's hot.

Oh, I got some berries to go with them, too.

I'm pretty happy with it.

I don't need anything fancy.

Just some berries and some duck meat.

I'm all set.

Duck head, I put this in there just to add a little bit of flavour to the broth,

but there's probably a little bit on it I can eat.

Mmm,

duck cheeks, pretty tasty.

Ducks have great eyesight, so,

some people think that if you eat their eyes,

it'll improve your eyesight.

I was looking for a new place where I could get something like ducks

or fish, porcupine, and walked over here, found some open water,

and got these ducks.

Mostly I don't have ducks. So it's a special thing.

They taste really good. Mmm.

It was a great day.

I could stay here for a while.

ANDY: I don't like using the term "living off the land"

because you're not living off the land, you're living with the land.

You have to utilise renewable resources.

ANDY: We're almost home, buddy.

A lot of current here.

Hope it's deep enough.

Landing in shallow water along the Yukon is always a little bit challenging.

I'm usually pretty careful, but when you've got a big load like this

and you're trying to get your boat into the shore, it makes it

double challenging to try and get on and off

without touching the bottom.

KATE: Yeah. ANDY: A little farther.

ANDY: Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

That felt like an awful hard rock it came on.

Man, that's a long ways out.

Put a wrap on it right there, Kate.

ANDY: My bulldozer doesn't have good brakes,

so if I can't put something to kind of stop it from rolling back into the river,

it makes it way more complicated for me to get these rocks out.

I really don't want to bop over this edge if I can help it.

I don't know if I can reach that far back, but we're gonna try it.

So when it starts to lift, where do you want me to go?

-Back here or run up there? -Probably just up in the front is fine.

I usually stay in the boat and hook the bags

so that he can pull them out with the bulldozer.

There's a real potential for disaster here.

KATE: I got to move.

ANDY: I knew once I started taking the weight off the boat

and it started dragging on the bottom, it was gonna pull that boat in.

It was starting to swing there over my head, and I was

not gonna stay there with a ton of rocks on top of my head.

NARRATOR: Kate learned her lesson last summer,

after a potentially deadly mistake.

Hey, don't go underneath it. Get the hell away from it!

Don't ever walk underneath that, Kate.

That's just not smart.

She's starting to develop some natural instincts from moving all this heavy crap.

Every rock we move in that house

is going into our dream fireplace and our heating system for the home.

And it's gonna make for a beautiful home when we're all done.

Now, we just finished bringing the rocks up from the boats,

no major hassles.

I damaged a prop.

Kate's got a bruised up finger.

I think we did pretty good considering the potential dangers that we're up against.

It wasn't all about just getting rocks, it was about

Kate and I spending some time together and

getting some dogs out, and trying to enjoy the country a little bit.

I think we'll get the sauna going and go get a cold beer and

spend the rest of the day relaxing, and then we'll be at it again tomorrow.

CHIP: We're not some sort of crude and rude bunch of people trying to

make some sort of primitive existence.

We flourish here.

This stuff works really well for us.

CHIP: Check it out, the net is sunk.

AGNES: Oh! CHIP: Every float is down.

-So I think we got a full net. -(AGNES SPEAKING)

CHIP: There you go. Good dog.

CAROL: Hey! CHIP: All right, we're good.

AGNES: No, puppy. CHIP: Stay back, puppy.

Just take us to the net.

Uh-uh, we're not leaving you.

CHIP: It's a good feeling to provide for my family and it's a good feeling

to show my family how to provide for themselves.

And that's really my goal, not just tell them about it or let them read about it.

I want them to participate in it.

AGNES: Okay.

Oh! Ew!

-Leave that in. -(AGNES LAUGHING)

CHIP: Some of these fish have been upriver, and they've spawned.

-See how it looks rotten? -QUTAN: Mmm-hmm.

The body, their body, is virtually rotten. Throw it that way.

AGNES: Ugh.

CHIP: Kiwalik River is the place to be in the summertime for us.

It's a place we know very well.

We are hunters and fishers, and a very important thing is to know your hunting grounds.

We're into what we know is rock solid.

And we rock solid know the Kiwalik.

This is a really good place to fish, it always has been, always probably will be.

And the fact is I want my daughters to be good providers,

and they'll have kids and they'll need to take care of things.

AGNES: These are all alive.

This one is a female. It got eggs in it.

CHIP: Oh, good. That one will make a good smoker, then.

AGNES: Wow, look at this one. This is a silver?

CHIP: Yep, might be our first silver this year.

(AGNES SPEAKING)

AGNES: Argh!

QUTAN: Careful.

CHIP: No, don't worry, if you cut, I'll take over.

AGNES: This one is alive. That's why you girls have to

watch out when the fish are alive and they start...

QUTAN: Mom, can you get this? AGNES: ...moving around all freaky ways.

AGNES: Yee, nice colourful one. Was that all of them?

(QUTAN AND AGNES SPEAKING)

CHIP: There you go. Well, that's a good hunt.

CHIP: Look at all the water gushing in up front.

It's really flowing in up front.

More than anything I want to get them out of here because the boat's sinking.

This motor is putting too much water in the boat, so I'm gonna go to shore.

If we keep this up, we're just gonna end up sinking.

It's a tired old boat.

And it's been retired to a net-checker.

It floats long enough to check the net.

AGNES: We got a boatload here.

AGNES: Qutan, grab fish and jump out. QUTAN: Okay, okay.

CHIP: Get out of my boat. Look, you don't realise how much weight

we're throwing around here. We have a lot of water in the boat,

a lot of fish in the boat, and when you're going back and forth,

you're making it real unstable.

So if you just stay right there, I'll throw you a fish.

When we get to shore, that boat's loaded up with fish and water.

And if we'd let it sit there like another 10 minutes, it would have sunk.

AGNES: That's a silver. You can tell that's different from the rest of them.

CHIP: That's dinner.

AGNES: Today was a real good day.

We managed to catch chum salmon, pinks and silvers.

AGNES: Cut this

stomach off.

Cut the bones off right at the tail.

Nice little haul we've got going here.

Instead of using lots of little this kind cuts,

I always go like this, the whole thing with your ulu.

Start from the top and use your whole ulu till you go to the back.

Without cutting yourself.

CHIP: Sometimes I doubt the way I'm raising my kids

if it's the right way to do, or if it's not.

And then I ask my kids. And I'm the only one with doubts. They have no doubts.

-They love this stuff. -Wow, let me see. Turn it towards me.

I want to try to see. Good job!

CHIP: Yeah, this is real food. This isn't processed crap.

This wasn't raised in a factory. This wasn't fed in a farm.

This wasn't put in a pen out to sea and given antibiotics and growth hormones.

This here was wild.

We've got a good start, and the thing to do is keep at it for the next few days.

SUE: The way that I work my life,

I'm not an expert at anything...

But I'm willing to try everything.

NARRATOR: Sue's first attempt at moving her food container to a safer location failed.

Now, with a higher risk of failure, she'll try again.

The first time I did the distance, which is half of what I'm gonna do now,

this thing started smoking and cut itself out.

So, it's a concern it does it again.

But I got to get it done.

SUE: Fuck!

-Goddamn, son of a fucking bitch. -RICK: You'll get it.

(ENGINE RUMBLES)

(SUE SPEAKING)

(RICK SPEAKING)

Whew.

That was pretty touch-and-go.

I thought this thing was gonna fry.

The engine's overheating itself,

might have blown a little oil gasket, I don't know.

I don't see anything leaking, just oil.

Could be the old shit burning off. But it killed itself.

Let's go out and see what kind of trouble I caused.

SUE: That ain't too bad.

This is doable.

It will block a little bit of my view

for what's coming at me this way.

But I'm only so many yards from the food

when it's dark out,

when it's blowing a gale. If I need something, it's here.

I'm not going a mile.

(RICK SPEAKING)

SUE: This gives me peace of mind.

It's something that I saw that could be improved, and I did it.

And I'm going into winter, a little bit better than I was just about five minutes ago.

Just got back from putting the Nodwell to bed over in the boneyard.

The Nodwell did really well.

Yeah, I swore a lot at it, but it's still kicking

just like I am.

You know, we're both maybe past our prime to other people but

there's a lot left in store coming out of me and it.

So, it's a good day.