Life Below Zero (2013) s01e07 Episode Script

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CHIP HAILSTONE: Thank you.
Thank you very much. Yeah.
This is gasoline
for snow machines.
The gas is
pretty important to us.
It's precious.
It's, uh, like liquid gold.
This is the time of year
when, uh, we're out for fur.
We have a very large area
that we hunt in.
And we basically
start in Noorvik,
and we work our way
down to the northern
Seward Peninsula.
We come down to this area
because this is where
the western Arctic caribou
herd winters.
We have all the advantages
down here.
It's very well worth the ride,
the gas, the effort
to come down this way.
We're hoping that
we can at least get up
to where we want
to base ourselves out of.
It's called the Whitehouse.
It's a shelter cabin
that should be
amongst some good caribou,
and some wolf
and wolverine country
back there.
AGNES HAILSTONE:
Today, we're hoping
to get to the Whitehouse.
Aikens' father
has a long history
of working back there.
And he'd told us
tons of stories
from when he was a youth, so
it's always good
to go back there
and check it out.
(AGNES SPEAKING)
(CHIP SPEAKING)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
CHIP: Man, I can smell that.
AGNES: Smell it?
CHIP: Smell it?
I can see it now,
somewhere right there.
Okay, we got a
pin-hole crack right here.
I can see it plain as day,
right here,
where it's coming from.
Oh, we got a crack
in the bottom of our drum.
We got an old drum from
beside the sea shore there.
You know, the village
is next to the ocean,
and, evidently,
rusty spot has decided
that it needed to give.
Right here.
It's gonna make
that part crack too.
CHIP: We got lucky
my wife could smell the gas
as I was driving ahead of her,
'cause I was towing it
and we found the crack.
AGNES: Is it leaking real bad?
It's leaking bad enough.
We better get to
where we're going with it.
You can crack the jug
and you'll, uh,
lose everything.
If you lose everything,
then it's all for nothing.
Where we live, this stuff
is eight bucks a gallon.
It's just an old drum.
Well, the trick is just to
get it the fuck up there
and deal with it.
I'm going to save as much
of this as possible.
It's like losing blood.
There's not much we can do,
and this is just like
a real race against time.
SUE AIKENS:
Every single movement I make,
every single thing that I do,
I'm constantly checking
and re-checking.
"Is this a need or a want?
"Do I need this,
do I want this?"
There are some ptarmigan
a little ways off,
so I'm gonna go
and see if I can't put
the sneak on them.
It'd be nice to get
a couple of ptarmigans,
and maybe make
a little ptarmigan stew.
A ptarmigan is a type of fowl.
Sort of like, you know,
a prairie chicken
or tundra chicken.
Where they're at,
pretty darn hard to
get the sneak on them.
But, uh, in my favour,
ptarmigans aren't exactly
the rocket scientists
of the ornithology world.
If they're down there
by the river,
they just may be too far out,
but we'll go take a look.
It's a sunny beautiful day,
why the hell not get out?
Safety precaution.
I am not
the only thing out here.
Know what's coming at you
at all times.
The stuff that
I can shoot for food
out here in the winter
is so minimal.
Your population of animals,
it's not here all the time.
In the spring,
they'll migrate in
and be here.
About September,
they migrate out.
When they leave,
that's it, they're gone.
One of the only things
that sticks around
are these ptarmigans.
These here
are ptarmigan tracks.
And it looks like
an animal paw print.
The ptarmigan have
almost furry feet
and furry legs
which help protect them.
They spend the whole winter
out here, you know?
If it's 80 below,
they're hunkered down
somewhere, you know?
They do blend in very well.
You know,
they're right around
the brush.
They like hanging out
by the willow.
But trying to cross over
an open plain to get a shot
It's a little tough.
You little, fat bastards.
Yeah, the little bastards
are walking over
to the riverbed.
Fuck. Really?
There they go.
Bye, guys.
See you later.
(LAUGHING)
So ends the sneak.
Birds, one,
Sue, zero.
Tomorrow's a new day.
ANDY BASSICH:
You got to get the job done
and you can't take days off.
Rain or shine.
Pain or no gain.
You gotta get out there
and do it.
Hey, little monster!
How's my little monster today?
Here you go.
I'm very involved in
the Yukon River fisheries,
and one of the panels
that I'm on
meets every year
at the end of March.
Kate's gonna have to
take control of
the homestead here.
Whenever I go away
for these fishery meetings,
I'm usually gone
for a week to 10 days.
All the maintenance of
our homestead here
are going to
fall into her lap.
(SIGHS)
What the hell is going on
with this damn machine?
That snow machine is
the bane of his existence.
A few curse words
makes it work.
Fuck you, man!
Goddamn fuckin' machine!
(BANGING)
KATE: How to get things going
with tender loving care.
(LAUGHING)
It's almost there, boy.
(ENGINE WHIRRING)
Got it.
Praise
whatever.
-ANDY: See ya.
-All right, babe.
Well, Andy just left.
So I'm in charge, I guess.
(SHUDDERING) Cold!
That's it, on my own again.
Come on, Jack.
Come on, pupper.
You my man, now.
Yee-hoo!
ERIK SALITAN:
There will be times where
I will stay awake
for three days straight,
just working.
Work and work
and work and do stuff.
Pot of coffee,
after pot of coffee,
after pot of coffee.
We're gonna head up a drainage
that's not too far from
my house here.
And I've seen
some wolf sign up there.
It's gonna be about
a 15-mile run.
Not very far
by wolf-trapping standards.
Some trappers in Alaska
have up to
500-mile trap lines.
I trap approximately
100 miles of trap line,
but it's broken up
into small legs.
Hopefully we'll go up there
and get these sets in
and come back in a few days
and have some luck.
I tried to put a couple of
wolf snares here,
and in this thicket,
there's a kill.
These snares are set up.
They are custom-made
for trapping in this area
by a good friend of mine.
It's rated for 750 lbs.
The intention being
if a moose
is accidentally caught,
the moose can just break it.
And we've actually gone ahead
and tested that,
and it does work.
There's a wolf trail here,
going back and forth
through a thicket.
And I'm gonna fix my snare
to this tree.
Tie it up high here,
so there's some play in it
and the wolf
doesn't break it free.
We're going to set the snare
about 18 inches
off the ground.
Just about
the height of the wolf.
The idea is the wolf
is gonna come through here.
Get his head
through here and
It's going to
tighten up on him.
Cool.
I disconnected my sled
to access
another little side creek
that I wanted to
have a look in.
I wanted to
get up over the bank to
avoid some really nasty
ice conditions there
on the creek.
(BEEPING)
I'm fucked. I hit a bush.
I wanted to
get up over the top
of that bank
to avoid some
really nasty ice conditions
there on the creek.
It was some
troublesome conditions
and rolled the sled down.
My machine got all trashed,
all thrashed.
The steering, the suspension
is all whacked out,
the handlebars bent.
I can't go more than
five miles an hour
on this thing.
I'm a little bit
irritated here.
I'm a little bit
mad at myself.
I'm a little bit mad at
the circumstances.
I can't do much trapping
without a snow-go.
I'm not even that worried
about the money.
It's just that
I gotta keep rolling,
you know, as
I got snares out,
I got traps out.
You know, this sets me back.
I need to
get my sled going ASAP.
KATE: He felt very connected
to this piece of property.
And I have to say,
I have to join him in that
because the first time
I stepped foot on here,
I didn't want to leave either.
Andy had to go
for his meeting.
So I'm the sole caretaker now
for a while.
And I've got a little bit more
responsibility,
of course,
when I stay here by myself.
I basically take over
all of the
All of the chores.
And I've had
a few strange experiences
on my own.
So, hopefully
this one will be uneventful.
-Ooh, I don't like
that wiggle.
-(DOGS BARKING)
A lot of wind on you guys.
Up here.
The solar panels,
it's really windy today.
It's gusting around
25 miles an hour right now.
It's supposed to get worse so
I wanted to make sure
these were tight so that
the solar panels
are well-anchored.
So, they don't move
in the wind and get broken.
That would be a disaster.
But, pretty tight there now,
so
I should be good.
But I'll check them on and off
and make sure that
these don't take off
in the wind.
You never know,
we might get some sun.
Getting ready to
feed the dogs.
Grab a couple of
racks of fish.
Typically, this is Andy's job.
I figure that weighs
about 50 lbs.
Like lifting weights.
It's nice being alone
for a little while.
Not that long, but
I like it. It's, uh, good.
I work a bit harder than
I normally do.
But I'll do everything I can
to enjoy it to the max.
Who wants fish?
(DOGS HOWLING)
One nice thing
about being alone
is the fact that
it's much quieter here.
And no power tools
or anything like that.
They love this stuff.
(BARKING)
I'm coming, I'm coming.
A man may work
from sun to sun,
but a woman's work
is never done.
I'll say one thing for this,
it's not the place
for designer clothes.
(LAUGHING)
CHIP: Well, we have no help.
We have no helicopter landing
to come along this way.
We have nobody
that's going
to go pick us up.
We have to help ourselves.
AGNES: To get to the
Whitehouse today
we are going to have to
cross a couple of creeks,
couple of
steep mountain ridges
and certain places,
it's usually kind of rough.
I almost got stuck, too.
So hard it got stuck?
CHIP: Yeah.
AGNES: So heavy?
CHIP: I'm tired.
Oh, I'm a little frustrated,
all right,
'cause my drum of gas
weighs 300-400 pounds
AGNES: And it's leaking.
CHIP: It sank into the snow,
and I'm stuck.
It ain't where I want to be
so late in the day.
Give me the jerk rope.
I'm gonna jerk this guy
right out of the hole.
My concern is that
it's getting dark
and I don't have a trail
up to the Whitehouse yet.
It's been a long day.
We're both tired.
We're almost there.
We're almost there.
Come on.
That's when
all the crap happens,
within sight of home.
Can't get mad at anybody
but ourselves.
I'm not interested
in doing that right now.
AGNES: Oh, whoa.
It's going back.
CHIP: Okay, hold onto
that sucker.
I've already got
a crack in the gas can.
We've already lost
maybe five gallons anyway.
So, what we're trying to do is
beat the seep of the gas
and getting ourselves unstuck,
and getting up to a place
where we want to camp
and make some dinner.
(ENGINE WHIRRING)
AGNES: Come on.
We sure know how to get stuck!
Try pulling it up.
Holy cow.
CHIP: Get it to the side.
So it doesn't
go in the trench.
Chip, you're going to
spray me!
Boy, I'm so glad you got free.
CHIP: I see daylight
at the end of this tunnel.
Okay, here,
make sure I can go first.
All right,
well, first thing I'm going
to untie is this damn fuel.
Would you go
behind the building
and see if that drum is loose?
My gasoline is leaking
as we speak.
So, I'm in a hell-bent hurry
to get this sucker done,
and get it upright
and deal with my fuel proper.
Well, the gas has survived,
but we're about five or six
gallons less than before.
We worked pretty hard
to get here.
And as long as
you keep working hard,
you can work your way
out of any situation.
We're going to take
our jerry-jugs,
our small five-gallon cans.
And we're going to syphon off
as much fuel out of this drum
as we possibly can.
And get it below
the level of the crack
and at least stop the leaking.
The 40 drum.
CHIP: It's going good, babe.
The consequences of not
having the gas that's in here
is a lot less hunting.
She'll be shooting.
I'll be trapping.
And if I can't check my traps,
or she can't see
animals to shoot,
this is all for nothing.
And I didn't come this far
for nothing.
There we go.
AGNES: I'm trying
to get as much as I can
in each one.
CHIP: It's been
a bit of a mental strain.
It's kind of frustrating,
but we're lucky
we got it out of there.
We did really well.
It's just like how we left it.
This log here, every time
someone comes back here,
we write when did we get here,
which way we're going,
where'd we come from.
In case we get lost
or something,
um, the people
who come looking for us,
if for some reason
we don't get back
when we say we're going back,
they'll know where we went.
CHIP: Finally made it
to the Whitehouse here.
It took gas, it took money,
and we built up
to this moment.
And now, we're here
and we're happy.
Probably make ourselves
some dinner
and go to sleep,
that's the next plan.
Yeah.
ERIK: There's no rules here.
There's no schedule here.
There's no social norms.
I don't need to adhere to
any kind of timetable.
I just absolutely jacked
my sled up.
Hurt myself, too.
I don't even give a shit
about myself right now,
but my sled is just
Busted the cowling right open.
Plastic, bent my A-arms.
My skis aren't lined up.
It's not even drivable.
The steering, the suspension
is all-whacked out.
The handle bars, bent.
Without a sled I can't get
a whole lot done here.
Not going to be able to
You know, I got a bunch
of traps out I gotta go check.
This is a bad deal.
This is a real bad deal.
I mean, this is just sit
That's just sitting there.
That's useless.
If I don't have
a snow machine,
not a whole lot I can do.
Being that
I'm hundreds of miles
from town,
this is a big deal,
'cause I gotta get all the way
into Fairbanks, Alaska,
and get a bunch of parts
and everything.
I can't just go down the road
to a local parts store,
it doesn't exist.
Don't think I ended up
on top today.
SUE: It's not
a pessimistic way of life.
You're not always thinking
doom and gloom,
the world is going to fail me.
But you prepare for it.
It is being proactive.
And we got some ptarmigan
out there again.
They're out there a ways,
but it'd be a nice addition
to get some fresh meat
and make a little stew.
We'll see if we can't
put the sneak on them.
Yesterday, of course,
I went out and tried,
and I was wearing all dark
so at least the lighter
colour, I may blend in
a little bit more.
The challenges for me
with hunting out here
this time a year
is number one, trying to blend
into your surroundings.
Birds are
They're skittish at best.
So, you want to put
the sneak on them and stalk,
but, you know, I mean,
you can look here
and where are you gonna hide?
Between the 300 yards
to the top of that hill,
there's one stick
hanging up there, maybe three.
So, in this environment
it is really hard
to put the sneak on them.
Look at all the tracks.
Bird central, man.
How far away are they?
They're roosting,
so I'm trying to see
if I can see anything
roosting a little closer.
'Cause once you take one shot,
they're all taking off.
Way too far out.
I don't see any way
to surprise them.
(SUE SPEAKING)
It's still
a fuck of a long shot.
(GUN FIRES)
(FLUTTERING)
Fuck me.
Why do I do this to myself?
Why do I bother?
So, now, it's Ptarmigan, two,
Sue, zip.
Bitches!
It would have been nice
to get one or two,
but the scarcity of the game,
and the conditions with which
you have to hunt them in is
Your success rate is not 100%.
But, you know, I'm patient,
there's always tomorrow,
or later today, or tonight.
KATE: When I stay here
by myself, you have
to be very cognitive
about what's going
on around you.
I got to watch everything.
So, I usually
do this every day.
I can melt this
for the dog water,
and that will help
my drinking water supply
considerably.
There's noticeable differences
when Andy's gone.
I've handled some things
I didn't want to
over the years, and
that's par for the course,
and that's how you learn.
I'll never learn
how to live in the bush
by myself,
and if he goes first,
I got to do it anyway.
But, you know, I'm older
so I should go first,
I'm counting on it.
(LAUGHING)
This weather, we've had colder
than average temperatures
here for one thing.
Then we had a huge snowfall.
Today, when Andy called me,
I told him it was
a light breeze,
so the trails should be good,
but, no,
it's been gusting now
around 30 miles an hour.
Friggin' wind, man,
it's blowing a gale.
Oh, shit, the solar panels!
Fuck.
Solar panels.
My solar panels
just lifted up.
Damn it.
(WIND WHOOSHING)
30-odd miles an hour of wind.
(KATE SPEAKING)
It was crazy wind
and buckets were blowing off
the porch,
and it was just
a huge gust of wind.
I just looked out the window,
and I saw that
the solar panels,
the rope had broken
that was tying
them down to the pole.
So, I had to rush out there
and secure that,
and it's not easy to do,
because that was
gale-force wind,
and it was just a bastard.
(KATE SPEAKING)
It's lovely to be here
by myself, but it can turn
the other way pretty quick
when something goes wrong,
and, uh, I sure could
use Andy around
when things run amok.
I know the basics
on some of these things,
but I don't know it in depth
to be able to troubleshoot
as well as he could.
That's a lot of power
behind a flat surface,
it's like a sail,
so it's pretty hard to handle.
Good!
There's not much
more I can do. I can't hold
onto them all day.
And when Andy comes home,
he can check it out
and make sure
there's something
different he can do.
(KATE SPEAKING)
A bit daunting.
All right, say a prayer.
ERIK: Alaska has been
incredibly good to me.
I think a lot
of the opportunities
that I've had here,
my guiding business.
I've been very fortunate.
Rolled into Fairbanks.
Headed up to Compeau's here,
this canoe dealership,
gonna drop my sled off.
And see if they can't
get me sorted out
and back on the trail.
Man, you're supposed
to keep these rubber-side
down, buddy.
-How you doing?
-Did I make you proud
here or what?
Yeah, you did good.
(LAUGHS)
Tell me it's still
running good.
It's still running fine,
but the whole front end's
all bent out of whack.
We've got a left panel
for sure.
Everything looks
good underneath.
(CRANKING)
Yeah, ski is tweaked.
If you could help me out
and get me in
and out quick.
I got a lot of traps out.
Man, I'd love to get
on the trail again.
-I'd do it, yeah.
-Yeah, I'd appreciate that,
Craig.
We try and put a priority
on guys from the bush
like Erik,
because we know this
isn't a toy, it's their truck.
Whatever we got to do,
we make it happen so these
guys can keep making a living.
I got my machine into
Compeau's canoe dealership,
and they're going to try and
get me back out there as soon
as they can, so, it was good.
SUE: You know, I'm a slave
to the environment.
But a willing slave to it.
It's, uh The only thing you
can count on is the fact that
you can't count on anything.
I got some ptarmigan
way out there.
Now, it's a matter
of principle.
Hell or high water,
I'm going to get one of them
little bastards.
I might be able to get by
that snowdrift
and get a shot in.
(GUN FIRES)
That's nowhere
even near close.
With my gun, the sight is off,
it got hit really hard.
No, that's fucking going
everywhere. I mean, it's just
so off, it's pathetic.
It is a challenge
to find an open
expanse of snow
and sight it in on the fly.
That means I'm taking aim,
I'm shooting, and I see
where the snow goes poof.
How far away is it from
the bird? How do I need
to adjust it and zero in?
(GUN FIRES)
Son of a bitch.
We're only at 50 yards.
I mean, it's not that far.
I mean, at that distance,
I should have him dead nuts.
It's a little frustrating.
There's that little fucker
right there.
I should've gotten him.
There he goes. He's down.
Okay.
This is what
I've been trying for.
This is a ptarmigan.
It's the state bird.
They've got really furry feet,
which helps them
survive in the winter.
And, so now, I'm gonna,
in the field, breast them
and take those breasts inside.
They're real easy.
Got very soft skin.
I step on either side
of the wing
to hold the majority
of the body down and pull up.
(MEAT TEARING)
This will be one good meal,
I mean,
it's a nice size breast.
It's all dark meat.
Lot of protein, lot of iron.
You can see, I mean, the shot
I got kinda took a hunk
out of the breast,
but, uh, you know,
some awful good eating
right there.
I also like the heart.
The heart and the breast,
that's what I keep out of it.
The rest I'll leave,
and my foxes, they'll have it.
I've benefitted by this,
my animals will benefit by it.
The blood is far enough
away from camp, it won't be
an issue for my predators.
Let's go cook some chow.
Yay me!
Sue, one, ptarmigan, two.
I got a little catching up
to do, but I got dinner.
ERIK: There's a million things
to do out here.
People think about
people who live in the bush
and think they just
sort of sit around
all the time.
That's not the case.
There's not enough hours
in the day for me to get done
what I need to get done.
My snow machine broke down
the other day, and when I say
broke down, I crashed it.
It was a very negative event.
Right now, it's in Fairbanks,
at the dealership.
So what I'm doing is I'm using
this down time to catch up
on a lot of things.
I brought in these
moose quarters.
There's absolutely nothing
about moose that is fun.
Moose are heavy, they are big.
The only good things
about moose is it's fun to
hunt them and they taste good.
We got these two shoulders.
We're going to take
these coats off of them.
We're gonna skin the hide off
of these moose.
We're gonna pile this meat up,
I'm going to bring
my grinder in,
we're going to grind
all this meat,
and we're going to end up
with just an absolutely
massive pile of moose meat.
You can invite all
your friends, we'll come down
and have a barbeque.
This is one heavy piece
of meat.
You don't want to slip with
your knife and cut that rope
that it's hanging up by.
If this thing came down
and hit me in the head, it'd
probably knock me out cold.
Time out.
A little dried blood
flipped up and got me
in the eye there.
That smells really
Just cutting this up, the meat
of it smells very good.
I'm gonna grind the entirety
of it, and that's
what I'm going to have
for the warm weather season
when I eat a lot of things
off my grill.
Got my grinder set up here.
Before I begin,
I boil every part of this
to sanitise it,
because you're dealing
with hundreds of pounds
of meat
and if you contaminate it
even one little bit,
you could spoil everything.
Highest quality meat
in the world.
Lean, healthy, organic.
Lot of work, it goes on and on
and on and on.
But it's better than
a real job, I suppose.
CHIP: I miss, you miss,
we miss, they miss.
Just the way it goes.
This is the way living is when
you're a hunter, but what we
don't do is stop hunting.
Being as we're
caribou hunters, we are here
to hunt these caribou.
All the caribou here
are pretty stationary.
I see a raven.
Ravens follow wolves a lot.
Looks like there's a couple
of hundred over here, they're
progressing to the West.
If we don't pressure them,
and we're on the backside
of that ridge,
they'll come over to us.
And we get behind the ridge,
and we're going to go around,
and when we go around,
hopefully, the caribou
will come on over.
Caribou's are our income,
caribou's our life,
it's our bread.
We eat caribou,
we trade caribou,
we are caribou.
AGNES:
There's the first bunch
coming up to the right.
Right on the hill,
a whole herd.
It's a challenge to hunt in
this wide open so we wear
white specifically out here,
and we try to put a darker
colour towards our front end
and a darker colour
towards the other end,
and what you end up
looking like is a caribou.
AGNES: They're coming to us.
We gotta keep walking,
'cause the lead cow just
(CHIP SPEAKING)
AGNES: My gun is ready.
(AGNES SPEAKING)
(CHIP SPEAKING)
(AGNES SPEAKING)
Nothing to shoot!
(CHIP SPEAKING)
(CHIP SPEAKING)
I just shot a couple, and I
just missed a couple of times
and hopefully the caribou
(CHIP SPEAKING)
will turn back. I'm just
waitin' for a good shot,
because right now, if I shoot,
I'll shoot it in the ass.
And I don't want to do that.
-Can you make that?
-AGNES: Yup!
CHIP: Put it dead on.
Wait till she hesitates more,
she's about to.
She's already
turning sideways.
AGNES: They're off.
A total miss.
(CHIP SPEAKING)
AGNES: Three high shots.
(CHIP SPEAKING)
CHIP: Which is life.
I shot a little high
three times.
We basically used the hill
to keep between us
and the caribou until we got
close enough.
We got off and walked,
and let the caribou think
that we were caribou also.
They started running
towards us,
they got a little spooky,
they wavered. I think the
lead cow was kind of educated,
and she was leery of us.
Being as they're
running caribou,
it just went a little high,
and that's just
the way it went.
Better luck next time.
CHIP: We didn't catch any
caribou yet. So, we have
more hunting to do.
We're going to go on the
other side of the hill
since that's the direction
we're headed anyway,
and, hopefully,
we got some more opportunities
over on the other side
of the hill.
ERIK: I have the utmost
respect for my environment.
The utmost respect
for the predators in my area,
but not a hell of a lot
I fear out of life, it's just
a challenge I haven't met yet.
Fresh meat. Yum-yum.
It's got a lot
of nutrients in it.
Got the meat that I wanted
out in the field.
Now, I'm gonna debone it,
and get those breasts
so I can cook them.
I don't believe in waste.
That animal just
gave its life
so I could have life,
I'm using it up.
It is special to me
that I was able to go out,
even, you know, the difficulty
of the rifle being off,
it made me a little crabby,
because I don't like failure,
I don't want anything
to suffer,
I'm My shots are missing,
the ptarmigan were
two up on me,
you know, I mean,
the heat was on.
But this one I got,
and it's a pretty
special deal,
and I feel pretty grateful
for it, so I want it to be
a special little meal.
Butter, apples,
cranberries, ptarmigan.
I don't worry about
any growth hormones
in this little dude.
I'll just add those in.
I don't believe in
over-cooking the meat.
I've killed it once,
I don't feel any need
to do it twice.
People ask me what
does ptarmigan taste like,
I say it tastes a lot
like grizzly bear.
They go, "Well what
does that taste like?"
"A lot like ptarmigan."
Then you got
one plate full of goodness.
Eight minutes ago this thing
was cackling out
on the tundra,
now, he's on my dinner plate.
Pretty good. Life is good.
KATE: I trust him completely
to look after me,
so it's super sweet
when he comes home.
And, uh, that's the best part.
I watch that river
like a hawk.
Andy left a couple of days
ago. I'm just waiting for him
to get home today.
Hi, Katie,
how's my little girl?
Hey.
Recognise me?
Nope.
(ANDY SPEAKING)
(KATE SPEAKING)
I know. I'm tired.
I need beer, sauna and food.
-We had major
friggin' wind here today.
-ANDY: What happened?
We almost lost
the solar panels.
-Why, 'cause they weren't
locked down?
-The rope broke,
everything was going nuts,
and I looked out
the kitchen window,
and they were horizontal,
and I ran out and I got them
pulled down and tied down.
You got to go do something
mechanical today.
Good for you.
Boy, I tell you what a
fright I got, and you know
those things are so strong
when that wind was blowing
against them.
It's like having a sail.
Holy crap.
-But you can go
check it all out.
-I will tomorrow. That's good.
Mmm-hmm.
Well, at least
they're not totally
fucking destroyed.
Say, "Well done, Kate!"
I said you got to be
a mechanic.
What a good girl.
Kate knows how to do shit.
She's watched me
do shit for so long,
it's rubbing off now, huh?
KATE: I know,
I'm just used to
ANDY: Is it rubbing off?
Yeah, must be.
Must be.
(LAUGHING)