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[dramatic music]

♪

- I pull out the picture of those kids

and I look at them and I think,

"Why did I leave them?"

It's Nicholls. I am officially tapping out.

- Yeah!

There are obviously a ton of predators around here.

They know where the meat's at.

[bear growling]

There's a bear coming to get my [bleep].

[pop, bang]

[bleep]!

- Ah! The house is on fire!

Holy [bleep].

It's raging!

No!

♪

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.

♪

♪

♪

♪

- Check out...

that gorgeous wall!

Holy crap!

The only thing is it makes the door problematic

because I hadn't realized that my diagonal crossbeams

totally come in front of the rectangle of the door.

[yawns] Still, all told, it's amazing and I'm thrilled

and this wall looks really good.

♪

[sniffs]

Okay, let's go and collect some rabbits.

The rabbit god's willing.

♪

Let's check super close by traps first.

♪

♪

Overall, I've been really spending a lot of time

resetting and restrategizing my snares

because I have had one be successful.

And I want to get as much meat as I can.

[sighs]

I mean one rabbit a week is not enough.

♪

I have this pretty resilient body most of the time.

But I've never gone so long without fueling it,

and that can scare me a bit.

What's the deal with this one?

It's all tangled up.

It went all the way up and down.

And where is...

Whoa!

Damn it.

[groans]

♪

See how that it's stick and all--

everything on in that is super, super frayed?

[sighs]

That's totally more fox toothy and not rabbit toothy.

Damn. Damn, damn, damn.

What is this? It looks like fox tracks.

I think I've got competition.

If the rabbit is getting caught,

I really want it to be me who eats it.

♪

Oh, that's frustrating.

And I'm just setting a feast for my competition predators.

The more that happens,

the more they know to come here.

What do I need to do?

I really need food.

♪

- Mom, I can't eat this!

It's too tough!

And it hurts my teeth!

Ow!

Not anymore,

with the revolutionary

Dental Stick 2100.

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through hours of trying

to chew through the toughest of meats.

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and we will send you not one,

not two,

but five Dental Sticks for the price of one.

[clears throat] Order now

and all your problems will be solved.

♪

Let's go.

The morning meat check.

♪

Uh-oh.

Look at these fresh tracks.

What are these?

Man, they were just running all over the place last night.

Look at this trail.

Bold little creatures.

There's a camp 30, 40 yards over there.

♪

And there are the big tracks.

It's got one...

two, three, four, five toes.

A different shaped pad.

My conclusion is wolverine.

♪

Depending on how big those things are,

they might be able to reach up there

to get my food.

Hmm.

Guess I should've put up an early warning system.

I thought about it.

I figured anything that close would wake me up.

These guys are sly. Crazy.

Now I've got to think up a plan.

♪

- I miss toothpaste, mouthwash.

♪

Especially-- all I eat is protein...

So my breath smells exactly like what you think it would.

One day this will all be over

and I will make sweet, sweet love

to my toothbrush with my mouth

when it's covered in fluoride and toothpaste.

[chuckles]

♪

I set some good snares out there.

High hopes today, guys.

I'm really hoping to start getting me some good game.

♪

[whispering] My belly's grumbling.

It's getting hungry.

It's ready to eat some good meals.

♪

It looks like fresh bunny trail on my trail here.

♪

I'm at my first set,

sitting underneath that tree there.

♪

Oh, look it.

Something--something got out of our snare, guys.

Look it.

Damn.

That's a missed opportunity.

Well, we reset to continue on.

Pure disappointment.

♪

Oh, those are fresh tracks of something.

♪

Got claws.

Fox, I'd say.

That foxy-loxy might've ate our rabbit.

[bleep]!

Fox tracks out here worries me

'cause there's not enough rabbit out here

for both of us.

Foxes are, like, the smartest animal out here.

They have, like, this uncanny ability to find food.

♪

Look, there's tracks all over in here.

♪

Come, food. Come.

♪

[gasps]

[bleep]! You son of a bitch!

♪

A dirty fox got my rabbit.

[groans]

Pulled him out of my snare. See?

They left me just a little souvenir here

just a little reminder of what could've been for me.

Out here, I'm not allowed to trap fox.

At home...

I'd just eat that fox.

He'd be gone for--

what do I get here 'cause I can't trap fox?

The fox is eating my food.

I go home...

with a belly full of nothing.

♪

Oh, that mother[bleep] fox.

You want that without swears?

They're just gonna bleep it out because I'm not entirely sure

I can say it again without swearing.

Without wanting to kill something.

The fox better be careful

because right now my hands are shaking,

and if I found that fox,

I'd beat it to death with my own fist.

♪

♪

[rustling]

- So here I am.

About to pull an all-nighter.

Completely against my will.

Stupid wolverines scurrying around here

carting off with everything

they can get their grabby little paws on.

♪

No wolverine can steal that victory from me!

♪

[rustling]

♪

[wolverine growls]

♪

You hear that?

♪

[rustling]

♪

[wolverine growls]

[gasps]

Whoa!

[wolverine roars]

roans]

Oh, my heart is...

pumping right now.

I just had a...

run in with a wolverine.

It's a wolverine for sure. Now we know.

[groans]

♪

[sighs]

I could see his eyes and he goes--

[mimics wolverine snarl]

And, uh--pretty intimidating.

You can tell they're tough little critters.

And I...

I didn't take it and he took off.

Didn't see him again, but holy crap.

That was intense.

Jerks!

They're gonna be harassing me.

What a new nightmare to have to deal with.

♪

[rustling]

♪

We're going on our morning check

on the food.

It's stored a couple hundred yards that direction.

Higher up in the delkin.

So that's good.

Uh-oh.

My fat!

They stole it!

♪

Hmm.

That is super depressing.

The fat is, like, your lifeblood out here.

If you're not getting sugars and carbohydrates,

your body runs off of fat, not protein,

so you actually need a lot of fat.

♪

Ah!

My whole gallon tub...

of kidney fat is gone.

I'm so mad.

♪

Look at that. Mmm!

Full of just fat.

♪

Do you know how many calories are in a gallon of fat?

[sighs]

♪

Now I really want to kill those wolverines.

♪

It's one thing to steal...

five or ten pounds of meat,

but it's a whole 'nother to steal my fat...

That I meticulously stored and cleaned.

I am mad.

♪

Freaking wolverines.

♪

So it's me against the wolverine right now.

♪

Had another idea.

I could put a bunch of just little snares around.

With just a--a snare and a tin can tied to it.

So when it goes through it,

it starts dragging that can around,

and then I can hear it when I come out.

♪

I'm nervous.

The wolverine's reputation is well-established.

They're ferocious little animals.

I heard that they can fight off a pack of wolves.

So if I make this so that it falls,

it's a good chance I'll hear it.

[clattering]

Make a good long warning system.

♪

Let's try this thing out.

♪

This is where they're tromping around.

They're so low to the ground too.

It's a little tricky.

This isn't gonna be a for sure thing

but it is...

an improvement on nothing.

Here we go.

You little wolverine!

Just running along.

Looking for a bite to eat.

[clattering]

And that is enough...

to let me know...

♪

If you're here.

♪

Well, stay tuned, folks.

Tonight could be the showdown

between Jordan and the wolverines.

Hope I win.

♪

Nobody wants to stay up all night,

but I have to get through it.

♪

I've never dealt with long stretch of boredom

like I'm about to.

You've got to keep it in perspective, though.

It's, like, we're in this.

There's money on the line.

And now does the money help?

I see that financial gift

allowing us to spend more time with the kids.

Help really develop them.

My daughter's gonna be really intelligent.

But that doesn't mean a lot

unless you have the character to go along with it.

Unless you develop your soul.

We're trying to build both my daughter and my son

into good people.

[faint rustling]

[clattering]

Is that a can?

♪

♪

[rustling]

♪

[rustling]

♪

♪

[wolverine growls]

[thud, wolverine growls]

- [quietly] Oh, my God!

[panting] [wolverine snarling]

♪

[grunt] [wolverine gro[thudding]

[wolverine growls]

[grunts]

[panting]

[cheering]

Yeah!

[laughs]

Yes!

Oh, my God.

I just killed a wolverine with a hatchet.

Whoo!

♪

Ah!

♪

[laughs, pants]

♪

Yeah!

♪

Whoo!

♪

Oh, my God.

Check this out.

Holy crap.

[sniffs]

[chuckles]

♪

Holy crap.

♪

Oh, man!

Finally! Yeah!

♪

You're not 40 pounds of fat, though.

♪

Oh, but...

I'll take it.

Yeah!

No more harassing me.

♪

Told you I was gonna get you.

♪

♪

- When I was in junior high and high school--

I guess mostly high school-- when I would walk to school,

my mom would always try to get me to dry my hair

before I left in the morning,

and I never wanted to.

I didn't want to take the extra time or something,

but I would walk to school

and I would always end up at school

with my hair frozen stiff.

So now my hair will be well-smoked.

Maybe it'll be the new beauty trend

at the parlors.

Come get your hair smoked.

All right.

So now I get to figure out how to deal with that fox.

♪

It's one thing to not have your snares working.

But knowing that your snares are working

and you're not getting the food is really rough.

Generally, I don't feel like I'm struggling out here.

But I don't know.

Maybe this is the tipping point of my experience.

In starvation situations,

I have to be on my game all the time.

There's no cushion whatsoever.

It's like I've got an issue.

I've got the tools to deal with it.

That's what I'm gonna do.

Let's get to work on this trap.

Looks too low and that's how a fox got it.

So thinking about more spring pole mechanisms

that might be able to lift them up

and out of the way of the fox.

♪

Let's see if you will do

♪

Let's see if this one is tall enough.

That'll be fine. Okay.

♪

[sighs]

Now let's see what kind of distance we want.

Enough to pull a rabbit off of its feet

and, hopefully, well out of reach of foxes.

♪

Oh, [bleep].

Man, that really flung that piece.

But that's what I want, right?

♪

In my whole life,

I've poured myself into ancestral skills

because I've always lived beneath the poverty line.

Definitely have made very unconventional life choices

that important people in my life,

like my father, have questioned.

A lot of my goals in the things I've wanted in life,

like partnership and family, haven't really worked out.

Partly because of how unconventional

my life and choices were.

♪

Okay, I feel good about this snare.

It looks good,

it's on a decent trail, and it is high enough.

Hooray, hooray, hooray.

So I'm going to redo all of my lifting poles...

[sniffs] With better mechanisms

now that I had that awesome insight,

and hopefully stay ahead of the fox.

♪

Okay.

Let's get a fire going

and heat some tea water!

As always, it's what's for dinner.

♪

I mean, I'm happy with my life

and my choices in a lot of ways,

but, you know, a lot of my assets in being here,

and the things that are working for me,

are also some of my greatest sorrows in life.

Not having someone that I miss so much.

Not having a family depending on me.

Winning this would somehow

make it seem, like, worthwhile.

I'm never, ever was a person who questioned

whether I wanted a family.

I always knew that I did.

If I was to win

and get more money than I've ever had

or dreamed of having in my life,

it would just open up so many things in my life.

Could I afford to adopt a child

or could I...

have a baby on my own?

For the first time in my life

to feel like I had enough money,

to welcome some abundance in that way,

that would be amazing.

It's about so much more than me.

Yeah.

♪

I really want to be the last person here.

♪

♪

- I need food to win and I want to win.

If that fox cost me $565,000 in change...

actually it's not five--

it's $656,000 in change.

About $656,543.22

depending on the exchange rate.

That's what that fox could end up costing me.

♪

My body's wasting away.

♪

[sighs]

♪

[scoffs]

She's probably only weighing about 135 pounds from 167,

and can't stand on her own two feet.

♪

That's a rabbit.

♪

That is not a rabbit.

[bleep]! It's that fox. You guys see him?

♪

[whistles]

There's no [bleep] way.

The fox is running my trapline.

♪

He's out there hunting my rabbits.

Oh!

Dirty, rotten [bleep]!

They got me.

[dramatic music]

♪

♪

- My name is Jordan.

And I deliver justice on this island.

♪

There he is.

♪

Tough guy.

♪

That is right out of a horror movie.

What a monster.

♪

First thing I'm gonna do is try to find a spot here.

♪

All right. Good enough.

♪

Well, the wolverine's been neutralized.

My plan is to build a labaz.

That's the Russian word. A labaz.

It's like my delkin but three times as tall.

♪

Well, here's our four trees.

I think they'll do.

♪

Made super tall.

♪

That should hopefully solve my issues

and stop anything getting into my food stash.

♪

[sawing] Making safety first here!

♪

Whoo!

♪

Just cooking those calories away.

[groans]

♪

So I should trim the bark off of these.

[clanging]

♪

It's interesting.

I spent my 20s going back and forth to Russia.

♪

Okay. Whoa!

I went to Russia to help build an orphanage

and then lived amongst the Evenki,

and just kind of learned their ways

of living in the forest.

I was like, man, I'd choose this over the modern life.

You know?

I'd come back to America, earn money,

then spend it on plane tickets

and on living back in Russia.

Put those up there and then I got to build a ladder.

[cracking]

Let me get the other angle on our dove tail.

♪

Friends and family, you know, have some idea

but don't really know me

as I am in the forest.

♪

Only my wife does, really.

♪

Just thinking what an opportunity it is

to show people that are close to me

this whole other aspect of myself

that they probably don't even know.

♪

It's valuable to me to be able to share that

with the people that I love.

It should support my humble meat supply.

♪

♪

- [sighs] Uh-oh.

[thud, splash]

Like popping the top on a cold one.

[slurp]

Except it's ice water.

♪

I haven't really seen any bear sign at all.

♪

And with the fox running around,

I'm at competition with it.

I'm struggling with the hunting.

I'm struggling with trapping.

And it's looking like

fishing is gonna be the thing that saves me.

I need to get some food in me.

♪

I have new lure made from an old tin can that I found.

It's a little beefier but I think it's still great.

There it is. [exhales rapidly]

I think it's really gonna help with the fishing.

♪

Here we go.

♪

♪

Fish on!

It's a big one. It's a big one.

♪

Putting up a really good fight.

♪

[splashing]

♪

It's okay. It's okay.

♪

It's all right. It's all right.

It's all right. It's all right.

No, no, no, no, no!

[bleep]! Damn!

[bleep]! [bleep]!

Why didn't I just pull it in?

[sighs]

[bleep]!

♪

[groans]

Why didn't I just pull it the [bleep] in?

♪

Why didn't I just reach down and grab it?

Ah!

[exhales sharply]

♪

That thing was so [bleep] huge.

♪

Well, the good news is...

The lure worked.

The hooks worked. The line held.

Everything worked as it's supposed to.

[sighs] Son of a gun.

[sighs] Well...

♪

♪

- Welcome to the Arctic.

Where you have hare heads on your mantle.

This is a classy cafe.

This is no sloppy operation here.

♪ Sunday brunch

♪ Sunday brunch

If it is even Sunday.

I have a hare soup.

So what kind of meat is left in the bottom of my bone broth?

Another piece of spine. Oh!

Maybe it has...

my spaghetti in it.

My spinal cord spaghetti.

It tastes really good, actually,

which is the weirdest thing.

Bam!

It's really good. It tastes just like spaghetti.

Without the mushroom basil spaghetti sauce.

Tastes just like it.

♪

I'm getting skinner.

♪

I can just tell that

I'm dragging behind my food intake,

and my energy is dropping.

I need to regain that.

[sighs]

♪

These past days of redoing the shelter and all of that

was just a lot of energy expended,

and though I had the hare, I definitely need another one.

Just so I can regain and start moving forward again

instead of moving slightly backwards.

♪

Here's some tracks.

Little squirrel tracks.

Oh.

♪

I know, there's a squirrel that lives in here.

I've heard him...

numerous times.

♪

[squirrel chirping]

I see a squirrel right there.

Right there in that tree.

♪

It's way up there.

You can't quite see him, but I can.

♪

He's hiding right there.

♪

Great.

♪

[bow string twangs]

Got him!

Oh, my gosh. I got him!

♪

Oh, [bleep].

It's not dead. [squirrel chirping]

Oh, sorry, guy.

[squirrel chirping]

Whoa, buddy.

[squirrel chirps]

Ah, [bleep].

♪

How am I gonna do this?

♪

[bleep]!

[grunts]

♪

[crunch]

♪

I just shot a squirrel and sucked it was a gut shot,

and it was alive, so I ran over to get it and...

It bit me, like, bad.

[groans]

It's just a disaster.

There's blood everywhere.

[groans]

I'll just wash it off in the snow.

Ow! It freaking hurts.

♪

I'm just gonna take him back as is

and then deal with my hand.

♪

I don't even know what to do right now.

Like, another injury.

Bitten by a rodent.

That's, like, not good.

Like, you could get some sort of disease

from that or something.

Like, I don't know. Is there rabies here?

Like, what happens to you when you get rabies?

Like, I don't know but I've got to clean this.

My hand is filthy.

♪

God, his little teeth were just, like...

[yells] In there, like...

♪

I find no joy in killing an animal.

To see it suffering like that,

I am horrified that I cause it that kind of pain,

and I'll never get used to it.

I don't want to get numb

to feeling sad about something.

♪

It's still bleeding.

It's, like, right there.

It's just an absolute wonderment to me

how I'm just constantly having

some trial to go through.

I've had more injuries

than I think this show has ever had someone have.

Kind of making me insane.

I'm just gonna put a band-aid on it.

I mean, what else can I do?

♪

♪

- I'm really proud of my net to scoop fish out.

See it?

So now I can, you know, be holding the line

and I can just dip and--and scoop.

Get them onto the shore as opposed to, you know--

and I can get it pretty deep in the water.

I mean, that's a pretty good reach.

♪

Sweet!

Let's catch a fish.

♪

The fish that I'm catching are large

and hard to get on land.

I lost a couple of good-sized fish

and that's not an option.

♪

It's, uh--it's icy.

♪

But, uh...

as long as we're slow, we can make it work.

[music fades]

[plop]

Men have been doing this for hundreds of years.

Leaving their families behind in conquest

of something bigger and better for the greater good.

The hunters would go out for weeks at a time.

The fishermen would go for months at a time.

We don't do that anymore.

It's just that we have been softened

because that's not necessary.

We can go to the store.

So this is a privilege

to be able to walk in the steps of our forefathers

and recreate those moments of

what I feel what men were back then.

That's worth it to me.

♪

There we go.

There we go.

♪

I need to keep this thing... up high.

Give him a little play.

♪

Yeah!

My scoop net worked! [chuckles]

Yeah!

It's a big trout.

[laughs]

♪

Look at this thing.

♪

Yeah!

[laughs]

Whoo!

Absolutely fantastic.

That's a lot of food.

Oh!

[laughs]

Yeah!

This is huge.

I'll be able to eat every day now.

I'm gonna win this,

and I'm outlasting everybody.

Yeah, boy!

Winner!

Mmm-mmm!

Fish head soup, son.

Yes!

♪

- I feel like my vision is going blurry.

I can't find my snares.

I feel like I'm getting lost up in here.

Where the [bleep] did it go?

♪

- I'm lightheaded right now.

♪

[sobbing] I need to know that I'm doing good.

♪

And it's going to be enough.

♪