Original subtitles

[dramatic music]

♪

- You see that?

I'm gonna have fish for dinner tonight.

That's food for a week.

- This has to be explained.

Fire, fire, fire, far as you can see.

How am I supposed to live here?

- What if I build a boat out of this barrel

to get hooks in the water?

Swamp Barrel Susie, go catch me some fish.

- Every muscle and joint is just throbbing.

You can have all the survival skills,

but one small, little thing on the inside

and it's game over.

♪

male narrator: In "Alone's" coldest location ever,

ten participants fight to survive the Arctic.

- The Arctic is one of the most physically demanding

places on Earth.

- So freakin' cold right now.

narrator: Battling sub-zero temperatures...

- This climate's harsh. It's extreme.

It's mean. It's got teeth.

- Get caught out here in a whiteout, you're in trouble.

narrator: Vicious predators...

- Just heard something big moving back there.

- It's me against the wolverine right now.

narrator: And isolation...

- There's nothing to fill that void.

It's just you left alone with your thoughts.

narrator: How long will they endure?

- [grunts]

- House is on fire.

- I'm scared, but I don't wanna tap.

- This is the most unforgiving landscape

I have ever seen.

narrator: The last one standing wins.

- This environment will strip away

everything and anything you thought you had.

♪

[suspenseful music]

♪

- Whoo! [laughs]

♪

[sighs]

[groans]

Check it out. [grunts]

It was a big four-rabbit day.

♪

Today's the best day for pounds of meat.

Yummy!

That's pretty good for a day.

♪

I just went and checked the three snares

I had set over here.

Plenty o' rabbits.

♪

Let's keep this up.

♪

Well, I have the not-bad problem

of skinning all these guys and gutting them.

Look at that milk.

♪

Rabbit milk.

♪

Can you see how much milk is in there?

You're sort of obligated to try it, aren't you?

♪

It's sweet.

I'm sorry, little lady.

That is a lot of breasts.

It's Dolly Parton the rabbit here.

♪

Well, I gotta admit, I was wrong about the forest.

I had no idea there was such potential for life

even in a burned-up area.

If only the weather was a little nicer.

[laughs]

Bring the wife and kids up here...

[chuckles] It would be the place to be.

♪

I've often thought that if I had my family

in a nomadic setting in the forest

that I would choose the forest life.

You're very connected to the real needs of your life.

You don't have a schedule dictating you

from the outside.

You have only what you need to do,

and you can do it on your own time

according to your own wisdom.

Here's tonight's soup:

four rabbit heads

and the internal organs added too.

♪

And you'd think, uh...

♪

Since it's good for us, we'd, like...

♪

Think it looked good, but it doesn't.

I'm right there with you.

But you gotta eat it.

♪

Bad food is better than no food.

♪

- Oh, my God.

The sap is running out this cut,

and it's so sweet...

and delicious.

Wow.

That hasn't happened yet.

I have yet to cut into a tree...

where the sap actually runs.

There's Woniya out in the woods by herself...

making out with birch trees.

♪

I'm pretty content with my A-frame shelter,

and now it is time

to make this shelter

a little bit more weatherized and winter-proof.

Arctic winter is no joke.

It is not fooling around.

It comes in fast, and it will kick your butt.

So I just want to have this thing

be uber insulated,

'cause I feel like that's the best thing I can do

to conserve calories.

Oh, man, this is so brushy.

It's awesome.

I know that without the land working with me,

survival isn't really an option here,

and I intend to not just survive

but to thrive and to live here,

make this place my home,

become a part of it.

I've spent my life studying ancestral skills...

You can actually eat stinging nettles raw,

and they're just amazing nutrition.

I already live a lifestyle

of harvesting a lot of wild foods,

and one of the things that I do in the world

is tan deer hides and make clothing.

This is actually just the tail.

[bow snaps]

I have never felt afraid of wild animals.

My only fear is failing myself in some way.

Canning some elk bone broth.

This is a real lifestyle for me, not just a hobby.

I'm doing my part,

'cause every calorie I put in right now

gives me hopefully another day or two out there.

The main reason I'm doing this is to inspire people.

Also not to be, like, a big, buff military person

but a smallish woman coming at it

from a place of relationship

rather than brute strength and dominance.

♪

Because days are gonna be getting very, very short

and I'm gonna be spending a lot of time

inside my shelter, a peeled-pole interior

is gonna bounce both the heat

and the light from my fire.

Also, it means taking off the outer layer

so that they're gonna be able to dry,

which is gonna make them much better insulative value

than a wet pole that's gonna just hold its moisture.

So everything I'm doing in my shelter

is thinking very long-term.

I'll need to put a door in.

Okay.

♪

Exactly--

exactly me-height.

And then how big a door...

do I want?

♪

Being the last person out here

is gonna require a lot of resiliency,

both physically and mentally-emotionally.

I think being comfortable with discomfort

is gonna be a really important part of that--

being all right with being cold and hungry

and being all right

with lots of down and quiet time,

which is something I'm pretty comfortable with.

♪

Oh, my gosh, okay.

Self-high-five.

[sighs]

♪

[seagulls calling]

♪

- Had a lot of dreams last night.

But there was one dream where this big, black,

powerful, huge bull...

got its horns all hung up in my gill net.

It seemed pretty symbolic of something.

Hopefully there's a huge fish out there in my net right now.

♪

[grunts]

Okay, just arriving in my fishing area.

♪

Holy smokes, I think I see something in the gill net.

I think that's another lake trout,

and it looks to be about as big as my last one.

Oh, that's so awesome.

I'm getting down to my last maybe pound and a half,

two pounds of the last guy I caught, so...

so excited.

♪

He's a big fish.

Might even be a female.

She's really broad on the bottom,

which, uh, often means that they're carrying eggs.

Yeah, it is a female.

[water lapping]

Definitely some eggs in there.

Now I just gotta massage them out.

One of the benefits of having the background in fisheries

is, I know how to get the eggs out of a fish.

I'm gonna try and slurp some of these up

right now, actually.

♪

Fish eggs,

what a freaking phenomenal resource.

They've got three or four cups

of cholesterol in it--

of fat, of food,

of golden, delicious, vibrant, pure life.

♪

That actually has a faint egg yolk flavor to it

mixed in with the fishy flavor, of course.

[slurping]

[sighs]

A lot of other species of fish

and even younger ones of these

like to eat fish eggs,

and because the lake trout are spawning,

all the other species of fish

are gonna be looking for this food source.

This is good fish bait.

This could be really huge.

♪

Man, I hope the salt from those eggs kicks in soon,

'cause I am super lightheaded.

I don't know if I've ever been this lightheaded before,

where, like, every time I stand up,

I just want to keel over.

♪

And I am tired and exhausted.

I still have to clean the fish and process it.

♪

I've gotta do that.

I've--I've just gotta get rested and...

take it easy for a minute.

♪

I don't know if those fish eggs

aren't sitting well with me or what.

I just kind of feel a little bit...

woozy.

I just need to lay down.

[tense music]

♪

Definitely have something going on in my belly.

♪

Definitely nauseous.

♪

[groans]

[sighs]

♪

[grunts]

[breathing heavily]

♪

[groans]

♪

[retches]

♪

[spits]

[retches, groans]

[gurgling, spitting]

This sucks.

[retches]

[sighs]

I'm empty.

Oh, that had something pink in it.

[sighs] Definitely vomiting

a little bit of blood.

♪

Gotta get inside the shelter

while I still can.

Gotta get through this.

[breathing shakily]

♪

I'm sure I have,

but I don't ever remember feeling this bad for...

♪

Very long.

♪

I don't vomit very often.

♪

It was like...

pink slime with...

little blood spots in it.

♪

I've had food poisoning two or three times in my life,

and this is way worse than any of them.

♪

If this sickness goes into the evening...

♪

I'll be done.

♪

This might be a tap-out event.

♪

[eagle calling]

♪

- Let's talk about some Krav Maga.

Maybe I can teach you something.

Now, if he's choking me straight on with his arms,

I'm going to, with my hooks, grab with the thumbs

and rip apart his hand.

[exhales sharply] That's step one.

Now, the best part is the simultaneous...

front kick into his [bleep].

[laughs] Okay, okay.

His groin.

Right, so a pluck and a kick.

That's your Krav Maga level one

choke from the front demonstration.

Hopefully you'll never have to use it.

♪

I wanted to, uh, check the northwest region

of my area out,

so that'll be, uh, the direction

that I'm heading today.

I don't know what to expect.

I'll get me walking out of here.

Hopefully I'll take some small game

and be able to use their intestines for bait.

♪

It's good.

♪

I'm, like, super hyper--

♪

Check this [bleep] out.

♪

Cans.

Shazam!

One, two, three... [sniffles]

Four, five, six cans.

That's bananas.

That's so freaking cool.

Look, uh, what I--

what I might be able to do is make lures.

Dynamite, dude.

That's freaking awesome.

♪

No way I could continue the hunt

with six cans in my pockets. [laughs]

They'd hear me coming from a mile away.

[cans clanking]

Everything works out for me, right?

[metal scraping]

My plan for the cans

are to shape them into spoons like fish...

Gonna hammer this out a little bit.

And then, you know, tie hooks to their end.

That way, I can use them like lures.

Actually, I could probably just twist the tail,

and that would probably cause it

to corkscrew through the water.

♪

I wonder how folks who don't win deal with it.

I don't even want to think about that.

That sounds like a horrible

emotional process.

Because don't get me wrong,

I'm not out here for my health.

I need this wealth.

Growing up a poor kid, money matters.

♪

I've never made a lure out of a tin can.

But I'm pretty happy with that, though.

I'm--I'm impressed.

Well, let's see if we can have some fish for dinner.

♪

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen,

to the 2018 Canadian Catch-All Classic.

♪

I wanted to fish this channel

kind of hoping it was kind of like a highway, you know?

♪

I feel weak today.

This is the longest I have ever gone without food.

♪

I'm a big boy.

I need food to function.

♪

[dramatic music]Really due for som

♪

- Holy [bleep].

♪

Yeah, baby!

No!

[groans]

That was a nice-sized [bleep] fish.

♪

And I lost the hook. That's the big thing.

♪

[groans]

Took my lure too.

Oh, I got a lot of work to do.

♪

Oh, that was [bleep]-- that was food.

♪

If you believe you're gonna come out here

and hit a home run every pitch...

♪

I got news for you.

♪

That's just not reality.

♪

This is the most important thing

I've ever done for my family.

I know it's gonna get tough out here.

It's gonna get boring and cold.

I'm gonna be [bleep] hungry.

But my kids deserve

a good start.

If that means I have to suffer for it,

I'm just gonna have to suffer for it.

For the right amount of money, I would die for my family.

♪

♪

- Out here, I have the craziest dreams.

Like, last night...

[laughs]

My wife and I and the kids were camping

in somebody's backyard in India,

and this tiger came.

And I had to make a whip and fend it off,

and then this mountain lion came.

And the mountain lion wanted to eat my dog's head.

Uh, but then it turned out

we really liked the mountain lion,

so we ended up keeping it 'cause it was cool.

And then we went in and we told the family there.

We're like, "God, it sucks, you know,

"sleeping in your backyard.

No offense, but there's, like, lions and tigers."

And they go, "Oh, that's nothing.

You wait ll the monkeys come."

[laughs]

Being out here, just having a shelter up,

just getting my projects up and running feels good.

♪

But I gotta figure the food out.

♪

I gotta collect as many berries as I can

before they die.

So I'm gonna go on a nature walk.

♪

This whole area is just full of blueberries.

♪

Nice and slow.

Don't burn a lot of energy.

When we're in training for the military,

everything's for time.

You know, you're always in a hurry to get stuff done,

and so I'm having to remind myself to just slow down.

Be efficient.

I am a SERE specialist, which stands

for survival, evasion, resistance, and escape.

Our job is training students to give them a skill set

to make sure that should something happen,

they can make it back to safety.

And we're training for any biome.

This thread right here...

more and more and more of that will make cordage.

But what's really cool is these needles right here.

You've got a needle and thread in a pinch.

I am not coming out of this show.

We've all shortcutted things in our lives.

I will not shortcut this.

I got tenacity. I got grit.

I'm not quitting.

All right, what are we looking for?

children: Snakes. - Snakes.

♪

- We have four kids. Hair.

- Daddy, can you open this, please?

- Yep.

I love being a dad.

Like, that's my joy in life.

My wife, Chelsea, is tough.

On our honeymoon is when she got diagnosed

with rheumatoid arthritis,

and she's dealt with pain for the last eight years,

to the point where that's her new norm.

The reason I want to do this?

For me, it's the money

because of what it provides for us the rest of our life.

children: Bye, Daddy!

♪

[branches scraping]

My mission's to come out here and to represent my family,

to represent the United States Air Force,

and--and to win this sucker.

Snow's starting to fall again.

It's been on and off all day.

Look at this.

♪

You got all this...

♪

Right here.

♪

You know, you wonder if there's wolves in the area.

♪

Look at that.

♪

Just the way they're spread.

There's ribs over there.

♪

Just picked clean.

[branches snapping]

[grunts softly]

♪

Absolutely picked clean.

♪

[spine thuds]

♪

I need some fish lure,

so this couldn't have come at a better time.

These bones will be awesome.

Let's see what else.

I think the thing that makes me suited

for this sort of outdoor experience

is the fact that I love it.

Hello.

I like being cold. I like being hungry.

I like struggling.

I like building stuff.

I like being challenged, and I like beating it.

[grunts]

Holy cow.

[grunts]

My goodness gracious.

[panting]

[laughs] Holy cow.

♪

That's going on the front of my shelter.

♪

I mean, I got a lot of chores to do,

firewood to cut.

I got a chimney to make.

What am I doing?

Something way cooler.

♪

♪

- Good morning, little fat squirrel.

How are you doing today, my friend?

♪

♪

♪

All righty.

So the premise...

of the Mojave scissor snare

is that the animal is...

snared in a...

V...

like a scissor.

♪

My strength coming into this...

is my creativity...

and resourcefulness.

So in preparing, I tried to fill my brain

with lots of images and ideas,

figuring that some of them

would prove to be relevant.

♪

When it's set off...

It loops up,

catches whatever game you have in there,

and pinches it tight.

♪

I'm gonna go ahead and get up there and set it up.

♪

Almost starting to feel bad

about hunting my little squirrel friend.

♪

Do I really want to eat that squirrel?

♪

And the answer to that question is...

♪

I will eat that squirrel.

♪

Got it all set up there.

♪

Basically, squirrel steps on that little stick there,

pushes it down, and releases the spring pull,

which brings up the scissors and closes them.

[wood snaps]

Gonna go try to give him hell.

[dramatic music]

♪

- Got very sick.

Think I had food poisoning, and, uh...

it really took a lot out of me.

I did quite a bit of puking.

But I feel a lot better right now.

♪

It just didn't click in my head that, like,

yes, this is a fresh-caught lake trout,

but she is dead,

and you don't know for how long.

So the eggs could have been colonized

by some bacteria,

and I just was not thinking that one step ahead.

I feel good,

but I have a lot to do today.

♪

I'm still here, so I guess that's

the number one thing that counts.

[water trickling]

♪

[waves crashing]

♪

[birds calling]

- [imitating birdcall]

[metal scraping]

See that? That was my nature moment.

All right.

♪

Arts and crafts time.

Let's make some fishing lures.

I wanna make a little bit of a smaller one,

and then I wanna make one out of this

orange cloth that I've got.

I'm gonna be using part of the rib bone

from that beautiful baby,

and also, I brought...

couple different kinds of wire.

So hopefully that'll attract the eyes of the fish.

♪

And if not, they're stupid and I hate them.

♪

I want it to be this shape right here,

and then I'll cut off kind of the top.

And this will be for smaller fish.

♪

I did not bring a bow

because I'm a student of the show

and statistically it's never paid off,

so I'm leaning more towards fishing and snaring.

I'm not relying on getting an elk or a moose.

Fish is gonna be my long-term goal.

And we got a fish lure.

♪

Let's get fishing.

♪

That camera is so far away.

This whole filming thing sucks.

[camera squeaking]

♪

This is gonna sound stupid and cocky.

I feel like one of my strongest skill sets

is figuring things out--

looking at a problem

and figuring out how to solve that problem.

I'm here to win. That's what I'm here to do.

I'm not here to find myself. I'm not here to play a game.

I'm not here for an experience.

I'm here to beat those other contestants,

because that's what I want to do.

That's the mission.

♪

We've got food.

[camera squeaks]

♪

Yeah.

Absolutely beautiful.

♪

We're eating fish tonight.

I should stand in front of it so it looks bigger.

See how big that is?

♪

Dinner.

Maybe some breakfast.

♪

We have food!

♪

[water lapping]

♪

- Here I am.

[sighs]

Wilderness chic.

[coat rustling]

♪

So I am gonna take my bow out...

♪

And I'm gonna go check my Mojave scissor snare.

♪

Ha.

Trap de-armed.

Oh, no.

♪

Trap was set off...

♪

Damn it.

♪

Damn it, damn it, damn it.

♪

So close.

Oh.

♪

I got something.

Hi, buddy.

♪

[bow thwacks]

[coat rustling]

There he is.

[scuffing, scraping]

[squirrel squeaking]

I'm sorry, brother.

[squeaking stops]

♪

I found him...

♪

And I put him out of his misery.

♪

It's what's for dinner.

♪

I have to say, it's a little bittersweet.

♪

It's gonna be nice to eat something.

[chuckles]

Mmm.

♪

Mmm.

♪

Thank you again, my little squirrel friend.

♪

Live on, little buddy,

inside of me.

♪

Oh, crap.

Excuse my manners.

Would you like some?

Hmm.

♪

- Brought to you live from No Fish Bay,

Michelle...

struggling to survive.

[water lapping softly]

Nothing.

[bleep].

All right, get the [bleep] out of here.

♪

On day 12 of no food.

♪

At home, I'm kind of the master fisherman.

My husband and I never thought

that this would be the problem for me--

not getting fish.

We were worried about, like,

will I be able to handle mentally being away

from my family?

Am I gonna be okay with the isolation?

Those were our concerns.

This never crossed our mind.

♪

♪

So switching gears here.

We gotta do something else.

I need some foods in my belly.

So I'm off to the hunting grounds

to go check my snares.

[coat rustling]

I'm hurting--

hurting for some food.

♪

[whispering] Oh, [bleep], you guys.

Look.

[bleep] yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Lookit.

[wind rustling]

Mama's got a grouse.

♪

Oh, thank goodness.

I was getting worried there.

All these days with no food

was starting to wear a little thin on me,

so I am super thankful

to have found food on my own.

♪

Do you guys know what this means for me?

It means I'm now in the game for real.

I have producing snares.

♪

He's beautiful.

♪

Now I have something to eat, finally.

Now I'm in the game.

♪

- I was born a hunter.

Let's face it.

Even though my family didn't hunt.

At a young age, I was making bows

and crossbows and trying to hunt everything.

[sighs]

[water babbling]

[sighs shakily]

[sighs shakily]

I have eaten...

a ton... [sighs shakily]

Of animals I've processed--

I've harvested from the forest.

[sighs shakily]

I don't know why...

I feel heartbroken over this squirrel.

[weeping softly]

♪

I don't know.

♪

[sighs] Probably too into my head.

[sniffles] But...

♪

He treated me with a...

♪

Uncommon familiarity.

♪

And I betrayed his trust.

♪

[fire crackling]

♪

- [slurps] Mmm.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.

♪

I still have chicken.

I didn't eat the breast meat yet.

We call them prairie chickens where I'm from.

♪

I grew up in an area fairly similar to this.

I've always had to figure it out.

Never had a lot of tools, never had a lot of fun things.

We ran barefoot, to be quite honest.

Like, literally barefoot.

We didn't have money for shoes.

I left home when I was, like, 14 years old,

and, uh, I just wanted to be something more.

So I pulled myself up.

I worked hard, made my fingers bleed every single day.

I tried, but I couldn't get on government assistance

because I was too young.

So I've been homeless.

Couch surfing.

There were some dark times in there,

real dark times.

So you can see how living in something like this...

[laughs]

Ain't so bad after all for me.

[fire crackling]

Oh, [bleep].

Uh-oh, I've got a fire.

♪

[bleep].

♪

[bleep].

[water splashing] [fire hissing]

Can't afford to lose my shelter.

[rustling]

[fire crackling]

[bleep], [bleep], [bleep].

Oh...

♪

[panting]

♪

Holy [bleep].

[fire crackling]

[bleep].

♪

I got a shot now. I just gotta take it.

♪

- She flew off...

and now is dying in the woods somewhere.

Oh, [bleep]!

I stabbed myself with my arrow.

Oh, yeah, it's totally bleeding.

♪