Original subtitles

[ominous music]

-I got nothing left. -I just can't go on.

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

That's all I was trying to say, [bleepldamn it.

There's nobody more stubborn in the world than my dad,

and he took it to a whole nother level.

It's getting to the point where we should really start thinking

about what the future holds.

I have really intense abdominal pain.

If I can't do anything, I can't stay out here anymore.

[dramatic music]

This is gonna be an incredible challenge.

We're gonna be dropped off in separate locations,

and one of us has to find the other.

Here we go!

I've got to wait on my brother.

Hopefully he'll be here soon.

Please come tomorrow.

I don't know where I'm going, how long I'm gonna be out here.

All I have is a compass bearing.

-It's a needle in a haystack. -Can I even make it to base camp?

Dad!

-Son! -No way.

Everything around you is telling you,

"You need to go home."

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

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

-I can't hold. -Just hold it still.

$500,000 would be life changing.

I know.

I feel like the life was sucked out of me.

He's coming.

He sees me.

[suspenseful music]

I spent a good amount of time in the shelter today.

It's been a rough few days.

That's for sure.

Still pretty jelly-legged and jelly-armed

and that kind of stuff, but I'm getting better, I think.

[ax thwacks, Jim sighs]

Jim is still carrying a lot of the weight.

How much longer he can keep up carrying the extra weight,

I don't know, but we're doing it.

And if I start improving a bit

and can start contributing more,

then that's gonna help a lot.

Okay.

Now it's time to forage.

I would do anything to protect Jim,

and I know he would for me.

We really feed off each other

and help each other through tough times

and give each other the confidence

and strength when need be.

I'm incredibly proud of him and his ability

to help me continue going.

You know, it's inspirational,

and that's just changed our relationship

into just a brick house, rock solid one.

Oh, my God.

[grunting]

Oh, there's so many.

Wow.

Oh, my God.

[grunting]

Yeah!

Hey, Ted!

I just tap-danced the [bleep] out of,

like, 24 gunnel fish from two rocks.

I almost have a full bag.

Wow, that's good.

I'll tell you what.

When I just started loading in on gunnel fish,

it's pretty freaking exciting.

That makes me think we can do it;

we can go longer.

But I don't want to get delusions of grandeur

'cause I am starving right now.

So hungry.

[sniffs, sighs]

[thunder rumbles distantly]

[low dramatic music]

In some ways, we're just passing the days.

Our energy levels are so low that some of the projects

that we feel like could help us get more food on the table,

we just can't do.

You keep on pushing yourself, and you keep on going.

It's like a marathon without a finish line.

[low dramatic music continues]

I'm sure whoever else is out there

is in just as bad shape as us.

All we can do is hope we can outlast them.

One thing I can be sure of at this point

is that it's gonna end here real soon.

It's got to.

[low brooding music]

Who would have ever thought we'd be out here till Christmas Eve?

I can't believe I'm out here in the first place, honestly.

Sure do miss my wife and my daughter.

Can't wait to see them again.

One of these days, we'll all be back together.

[ice crunching]

It's so cold.

Our hands are gonna go numb, but we got to keep fishing.

[coat rustles, water splashes]

Each fish that we get extends our stay out here a day.

Here we go.

Hoo-ha.

[water splashing]

I got one!

[brooding music]

I cannot believe that we have spent Halloween,

Thanksgiving, and Christmas out here.

I'm an old retired guy,

and I should be at home under my comforter

drinking a cup of hot chocolate.

Yeah, I can't believe

we're gonna spend Christmas without Mom.

-It's so sad. -Just miss home so much.

I know they're all gonna be talking about us

at dinner tomorrow.

She'll most likely go to Aunt Cindy's, I would say.

Oh, yeah, I'm sure it'll be at Aunt Cindy's.

All the family will be there.

Yeah.

Oh, I just hope that they have a great day.

That would be nice.

I wish there was some way we could share it

for the briefest of moments.

Yeah.

Aunt Cindy's--she'll have her cheesecake

and probably how many pies?

Oh, and you remember that baked brie Nicky made?

Oh, that would be so good right now.

I could go for anything.

Right now, after all those kelp greenlings,

I could probably eat the ass end out of a hobby horse right now.

[ethereal music]

[ethereal music continues]

Yay, Merry Christmas, everybody.

I'd like to take this opportunity

to say Merry Christmas to my family,

particularly Heather.

I love you so, so much.

I'm so sorry I'm not there to spend this day with you.

I just want to wish everybody a--a Merry Christmas.

My family, my mom and dad,

Aunt Peggy and Uncle Steve.

Tori, especially you.

I love you so much.

I'm missing you guys a lot.

I know you're all invested in this with me.

Thank you for that.

[ethereal music]

You know, part of me feels like Heather and Tori are,

you know, part of this too, you know?

Like if we win, I'll feel like saying to Tori that,

like, we did, not just me, you know?

I agree.

They're going through this too.

It's not just us that invested in this, yeah.

Missing Christmas is definitely a pretty big blow.

-Absolutely terrible. -I just feel

like letting everyone else down not being there.

[bleep] horrible, man.

So beaten down,

and I just want to get home

and see Heather so much

and get back to my wonderful life, you know?

Just sucks, and it's emotionally crushing that

we have to miss Christmas.

Tap out Christmas day, Ted?

[fire crackling]

[ethereal music]

I don't know,

but I'm really hurting.

[low dramatic music]

[dramatic music continues]

I've had my tuque on so long,

I don't know what my hair looks like anymore.

[coat rustling]

Well, that's what it looks like.

[coat rustling]

Ready to go to the Oscars.

[ax thwacking]

That log seemed to really give you a hard time.

Oh my God.

25% of me is gone.

I've lost 25% of my body.

We were eating two and then sometimes three pots of food,

but now it seems like we're kind of wasting away.

We're losing weight and losing weight and weaker.

Whoa.

Man down.

I think about food a lot.

I think about, you know, the comforts of just a chair,

sitting around by the fire every night.

It's just not comfortable. Our bed's not comfortable.,

Sometimes it just feels like, man, I just want to go home,

and, you know, order up a freaking pizza.

I think the only thing that's kept me going out here

is just, like,

imagining the things I'm gonna have in my life when we win.

You know?

Oh, my God.

Imagining just my house and my business.

[waves lapping]

Today, part of me is just like, [bleep]

what are we doing out here, you know?

Like, we're just starving. It's just freezing.

Like, I'm just so bored of it,

just can't take being so hungry.

Just day after day, eating this [bleep]

is not making me feel any better,

so part of me is just like,

"We should just [bleep] quit, go back, eat something."

[inhales deeply]

What about you, Ted?

How are you feeling?

Jim is starting to lose grip a little bit.

It's a little scary,

because he's so strong, big dude, you know,

and he can--he can mentally push through almost anything.

Mm-hmm.

[saw grinding rhythmically]

[ethereal music]

[moaning]

[retching]

[sniffling and moaning]

[retching and moaning]

[gasping]

[retching and groaning]

Ow. [groans]

It's terrible.

I'm just trying to--

Oh, the acid just--

[retching]

You should try to drink some water.

-[gasps] -My stomach hurts so much.

[sniffs]

Oh, God.

I'm getting acid ref lux.

It's coming up in my esophagus and burning.

I can only lie on my back.

I can't lie on my right side.

I know that you can get a situation

where it happens over time.

I mean, it can cause, like,

a precancerous condition in your esophagus.

It's scary.

My dad's heartburn is really getting rough.

He can't even really rest anymore, you know?

It keeps him up all night.

So anyway, he's just taking it easy right now.

That's really our plan at this point,

but there's no way around it.

We still need water.

You know, that's one thing that we do

still have some control over,

so I'm just gonna go get a little bit and--

You know, I think that's really the only,

you know--that's kind of the only thing

that we have that can at least give him a little bit of relief

just to dilute some of the stomach acid.

[water running]

You know, we've both been going through this slow decline,

but it seems like just--just a couple days ago,

it just started increasing so significantly.

It's almost exponential at this point.

Got the water on, Dad. It'll be ready pretty soon.

It's been an incredible journey out here.

And it just--it is so beautiful,

but at the same time,

I'm starting to hate it.

I'm just starting to hate the things

that we have to do every day,

like boiling water,

which Sam is doing right now.

Just...

hanging on by our toenails.

I want so bad to win this thing.

I want Sam to win this thing.

I want him to have a little jump-start in life,

be able to invest a little money,

just get himself in a good--a good spot.

It'll help him the rest of his life.

But...

I think neither one of us

wants to kill ourselves to try to do that.

We got some things to talk about, Sam.

Yep.

I want to go as long as I possibly can,

but I'm gonna get to that point

where I just can't do it anymore.

[ominous music]

[rain pattering]

Oh, my stomach's hurting.

[bleep], man, it kills.

-Man, crawl into bed. -Call it a day.

My stomach cramp, upper abdominal pain has come back.

And it's really hurting, and it's getting worse.

And that just is absolutely immobilizing out here.

Ted is just in a really bad place.

He's broken.

I've never seen him that broken before in my life.

I mean, 71 days doing this.

-[rotors whirring] -Oh, man.

[bleep] just got real. I'll tell you that.

And now I got to find my brother.

Whoo!

Look at this place.

We're going into this with the mindset

that we can figure out what is in our area

and what to do with it.

As long as that works until we can find something else.

God, it's tough walking through this stuff.

All these salal bushes.

The terrain out here on Vancouver Island

is hands down some of the hardest terrain

to walk through in the entire world.

I'm feeling nervous, you know,

but I'm just not gonna be able to make it,

that I don't have enough food.

You know the times are tough when you're like,

"Yeah, I get to eat a slug.”

[smacks lips] It's disgusting. Ugh!

Things are really starting to get hard.

Still no Jim yet today.

I see a grouse up ahead.

I'm gonna try to kill it.

[grunts]

Ugh.

[grunting, lens cracks]

So close.

By the time Jim gets here,

I'd like to have a little more done

than just a piece of [bleep] shelter

and a gill net set up with no food for him.

We're gonna have to get other food sources.

So I'm starting to make a boat.

What do you think of that?

Man, I'm getting exhausted, just doing this with no food

and just feel every last ounce of energy

being sucked out of me.

I really hope when there's two people here,

we can work at things together

and start producing some results.

Ted!

Yeah!

Ted!

Yeah!

Jim's here!

Wow. Unbelievable.

Yeah. You [bleep] did it.

[grunting]

Together, we both feel like we can stay out here

as long as we want if we can find enough food.

While Ted works on the boat,

I'm starting to build a crab trap.

There's the front of it, and this here is the entrance

where the crabs will walk in and get trapped.

Jim's crab trap is revealing its head.

No!

Out here, it's very unpredictable

and that's really challenging to deal

with mentally and physically.

Oh, it's devastating, Jim.

[liquid sloshes]

[grunts] I just puked.

I can't stomach that [bleep] seaweed.

Best survival item you have is the other person

you're out there with.

I'm gonna try to carry the ball here.

Yeah!

-You got a fish? -Yeah!

Yeah!

We're ready for the maiden voyage of "Hope,"

the boat we've built.

We're really hoping this boat floats.

Both: Yeah!

I'm starting to get worried about this boat

not providing us with more fish.

We're not getting enough food out here.

I feel like I'm being tortured, you know?

It's a slow starve is what's happening to us.

I'm going to set a trotline.

One, two, three,

Oh [bleep]!

Oh, dude.

The hook's embedded in my finger.

-Dude, I tried to [bleep]. -It's okay, man. Shut up.

Just being together with the same person day in and day out

can really be wearing on any relationship.

-Such a depressed case, bud. -Like, cheer up.

-Take your [inaudible] -the boat already.

I'm gonna forage.

I don't want to [bleep] kill myself doing that, man.

I'm doing the heavy lifting right now

and Jim isn't contributing.

The limpets are out like crazy.

We have, like, at least four pots of food here.

We're basically starving to death,

and one of the risks

is that we get in an argument

that we can't come back from.

I forage way more than you, and you always are complaining

and don't want to do it.

You're the big hero.

-I'm not the hero. -I'm just saying--

The big guy that's talked me into everything.

You want to win $500,000,

you can't sit on your ass and not get food.

-Thank God for Ted. -Let me bow to you.

[bleep] this [bleep], man.

That's it for me.

I had some really intense abdominal pain.

I've kind of been out of commission.

Jim's definitely been carrying

a little extra weight the last couple days.

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

but we understand you have to just forget about it

and focus on the job at hand,

which is being the last guy to stay out there.

I'm really hoping this subsides.

It's the kind of thing that just will push you over the edge,

to be quite honest with you.

We're telling ourselves we want to keep pushing.

We want to make 80 and then 90 days,

but, you know, Ted's also saying that,

"Listen, man, I might have to tap out soon."

I told him today,

"If you really need to tap out, we can do it."

[fire crackling]

[low dramatic music]

[dramatic music continues]

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

[sighs]

One of these days--

One of these days, this'll be over.

-It could happen any day. -Could happen any day,

and every day is one day closer.

Every day is one day closer.

Ten weeks out here on the island.

That's insane.

My stomach hurts so much.

We're hungry. We're worn out.

We're physically weak.

And I've been noticing I'm getting these weird black spots

on my toes, like, all purple.

That's disgusting.

And I'm just wondering if this is frostbite.

It could be,

But, you know, we just can't give up at this point.

Yeah. Over two months of our life have gone into this.

[rotors whirring] Here we go.

This is it.

Yeah.

Awesome.,

I'm so happy to be here, but very nervous too.

-This rainbow is incredible. -I think that's good luck.

My dad's off in that direction.

I got to go find him. It's just me and the island now.

Coming out here, I had a twofold goal.

To spend time with my son

and put my skills and knowledge to the ultimate test.

Holy [bleep].

I caught a fish.

I knew the terrain was gonna be rough, but honestly,

cameras just-- they can't capture it.

You're climbing over trees constantly.

You're going over. You're going under.

This forest just tears you up.

It is unforgiving.

Oh, my God.

Oh [bleep].

There are bears all over the place here.

There's some poop.

Look at that, just full of berries.

I saw something moving down there.

I don't know how far I have to go.

I don't know how many days it's expected to take,

and I'm just out here getting beat to death every day,

day in, day out, just trying to cover ground,

just trying to meet up with my dad.

I've had virtually nothing to eat today.

I'm getting so weak, I can barely do anything.

Man cannot live on limpets alone.

Man, I wish I knew when Sam was gonna get here.

Oh, I can't wait to drop this pack and be done with it.

Hello, Sam!

Dad!

No way. [laughs]

Oh, my God, Sam.

Holy cow.

Oh, my God. Oh, Sam.

Oh, my God.

[rain pattering]

Holy cow.

Sam made it.

Now that Sam and I are together,

I think we're gonna be out there a long time.

Being successful fishing out here

is going to be the difference between staying and going home.

Whoa, Sam.

No way. Yes!

This is how we're gonna win.

Hey-hey.

What we're doing right here, this is how we're gonna win.

This is gonna carry us right through to the end.

Oh, yeah. Whoa!

Yes.

This is an incredibly unique opportunity,

spending a lot of time with my son.

Here you can see the tide,

and that's the back wall of our shelter right there.

There'll come a day when he'll get married, have children,

maybe settle down in a different part of the country,

and then who knows how often we'd be able to see him?

So we're headed off on our hike to the new,

potentially good fishing spot,

all the way around the cove.

I think both of us are just really getting tired,

really worn out.

We didn't have any fish yesterday.

We had none the day before,

and it's really catching up with us.

Oh, way! Oh, oh! Oh, no!

-I've not caught a single fish. -It's so frustrating.

There is nothing easy about this.

There's nothing staged about it.

It's amazing how low our energy levels

are right now, at least mine.

You--you're doing a lot better than I am.

Well, you're a lot older than I am.

Yeah.

What the heck?

Maybe we caught 'em all.

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

He's really starting to feel it.

He's a lot older than I am,

and I'm really, really worried about him.

Take five minutes.

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

You were talking about the 20-gauge wire.

I'm talking about the wire for the rock and 20-pound

on the end of that so it'll break away.

-Mm-hmm. -That's all I was trying

to say, [bleep] damn it.

That's all I was trying to say.

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

who knows what sort of demons come out in your personality?

At this point in the game, you got to--I mean,

you got to do the bare minimum just to get by.

-It's--you know, we're pooped. -We're running out of energy.

You know, we lose weight every day.

-I'm frozen. I'm tired. -I'm wobbly. My legs are weak.

Being 61 1/2 years old really

makes being out here a tougher challenge.

I don't know how much longer I can stay here.

[gasps]

[sniffs]

[fire crackling]

How much can our bodies actually take?

I'm just skin and bones.

I don't real--I don't have any more fat to lose,

and the way we're feeling right now,

and the way we're struggling,

I just--I just can't believe

there's someone else that's still out here.

We're both just so exhausted,

and I hope the sacrifice has been worth it.

I'm really starting to think that it wasn't.

It's miserable with the constant, daily hunger pangs,

and I'm just really wanting to get home.

That draw of food is just so powerful and strong.

No victory is worth permanent damage.

-No. -It would be nice to win this,

but, you know, there are other things more important.

You know, I'm--we still have the rest of our lives--

Rest of our lives to go.

I don't want to--I don't want to win this

but regret it for the rest of my life.

-Right. -Right.

That's really what it comes down to.

Ted really wants to get home,

and I don't blame him,

considering the stomach cramps

and whatnot that he's had and the torture

of being out here

that really just wants to make you tap out.

It's so incredibly hard out here right now,

just the burning pain.

I just--I don't know if it's worth it.

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

I just don't really-- I don't really know.

[brooding music]

[suspenseful music]

[motor whirring distantly]

[motor whirring]

[suspenseful music]

[suspenseful music]

[footsteps squishing]

Been a hell of an adventure.

Once-in-a-lifetime thing,

but, you know, like all good things,

it's got to come to an end, right?

Basically we just don't have any buffer left on our bodies,

you know?

You know, we drink water. It goes right through us.

It's just a constant battle with dehydration.

Yeah, we're at our physical limit.

Can't--can't go on.

Yeah.

To not win is definitely a disappointment.

You know, I would've-- I would've loved to have won.

But you learn a lot from an experience like this.

It teaches you about yourself.

It teaches you about what you're capable of.

We're leaving here better people than what we came here.

I've certainly bonded much more with my dad than I ever have,

and I can tell you that we're closer than we've ever been.

He's honestly the strongest man

anybody could ever be fortunate enough to meet.

We gave it everything.

That's not something that many people can actually say.

Before we even came out here, you know,

we made an agreement with each other

that no victory ever

would be worth causing harm

to ourselves that,

that could last the rest of our life.

[moaning]

I'm feeling a little sick.

[groaning and retching]

Still feeling it?

Straight stomach acid.

[groaning and retching]

[gasping and moaning]

Oh, I thought I was gonna throw up.

Dad, I'm pretty darn proud of you, 61 years old, 74 days.

Kicking butt.

Yeah.

I'm telling you, I would've made it this long without you.

At this point, I can honestly say

I don't think I could go another day.

We're leaving here with no regrets.

Yeah.

Did the best we could, right?

Yep.

[rotors whirring]

We've pushed ourselves to our physical limit.

We could not go any farther.

I don't feel defeated.

I'm so proud of what we've done.

I never dreamed I would be out here for 74 days.

I'd like to address those people

who are getting up there in years

and have worked all their lives

and now feel like it's just the next step in life

to just sit around and take it easy.

You know, if I could say, "Just get out there

"and challenge yourself. Try something new.

"Go to a national park and experience nature

and see what is so beautiful in the world around you."

From this whole experience,

there are many things to be grateful for.

It's been a wonderful adventure.

I mean, it's been a test of my abilities and skills,

but the most important thing I've gained out of this

was being able to spend that time with Sam.

I mean, that was--was the biggest prize of all.

[rotors whirring]

[ethereal music]

[ethereal music continues]

[grunts]

Oh, my god.

This is the morning of day 75.

[tree branch crunches]

Wow, that was a bad idea.

The crew is coming to do med checks

and some, you know, gear swaps.

And other than that, we're gonna do the usual stuff.

We're gonna forage and fish and eat,

and that's probably all we're gonna do today.

That's all you can do anymore out here.

[hammer tapping]

[motor whirring distantly]

[motor whirring]

[ferro rod scraping]

[brooding music]

[fire crackling]

[ethereal music]

[ethereal music continues]

Being out here is just kind of like

an horrific feeling of torture,

and just getting through the day,

you know, walking around,

you feel like you just finished a marathon.

And then you're so starving,

even after you eat you still feel weak,

but at least that makes you feel better.

But you've got to chop wood. You've got to light a fire.

Like, just taking off your sweater is like,

oh, like, exhausting.

To just put your boots on is exhausting.

I'm actually amazed with how far I could--

Hi!

[low dramatic music]

Being out here is just

kind of like an horrific feeling of torture.

Like, just taking off your sweater is like,

oh, like, exhausting.

To just put your boots on is exhausting.

I'm actually amazed with how far I could...

-Hi! -Really push--

What the [bleep]?

[all screaming indistinctly]

You've got to be kidding me.

Oh, my God.

-You did it, babe. -You won.

Wow.

[sobbing]

-We did it. We did it. -[sobbing]

I don't believe we actually did it.

Oh, my God.

You did it.

We did it.

Yeah!

Is this really [bleep] happening?

-Oh, my god. -I'm gonna hug you too, Ted.

[laughs, speaks indistinctly]

Ted, get over here.

I love you.

You're my [bleep] hero, Ted.

Yes!

-[bleep] hero, man! -[indistinct speech] Yes!

Yeah!

[all la ughi - Yes! gnina]

You want to see what won us this show?

-Oh, Ted. -These.

-Oh, my. -Those are disgusting,

but if it wasn't for these, there's just no way.

This here is all the days that we've been out here.

There's only 74, so maybe you guys

want to put a 75 saw cut in the tree for us.

-Together. -Yes.

-75, guys. -It was close.

Whoever the last group was,

you're a couple of tough bastards.

[laughs]

[ethereal music]

To win the money feels freaking amazing.

I can't believe it actually happened.

It's given me peace of mind,

a clear future, way less stress.

It is such an awesome feeling.

I'm incredibly grateful for my brother Ted.

Here's a guy that goes out in the hammering rain

every single day, exerts himself so intensely,

to bring food back home.

It's just unbelievable.

What we went through, how we helped each other,

how when one was down, the other picked up,

how we got through the rough times,

that's what makes this experience so amazing.

I can thank Jim for us being here and for me

getting to this point.

If it wasn't for Jim, we wouldn't have won.

[engine whirring distantly]

All: Yeah!

-Whoo! -Yeah!

I guess what I've learned most about myself out here

is that I just have more than I thought I had to give.

It's the things that are the hardest,

that are the most challenging to achieve

that are the most satisfying and rewarding.

It's not the things that are easy to do

'cause anybody can do those things.

If I can push myself to this extreme,

what else is gonna be this hard?

What is impossible?

It just gives me the level of confidence

that whatever I put my mind to, I can do.

If we can, as people, learn to respect nature as much

or more than we respect ourselves,

then we can finally come to some sort of a balance

that is gonna keep us alive long-term.

If you look up at the stars at night,

you realize that we're just floating out here on a big rock,

and everything that's here is actually in this together,

as one.

[ominous music]