01x07 - Bad Vibrations

[bunniefuu]

Ian: the wind's changing.

It's getting colder.

The whole sea is a steel trap

About to snap shut.

We got to suck up as much gold

As we can before we get caught.

This is our last sho

For eight months.

This is the beginning

Of the race to the end.

You better hope you can trus

The person next to you.

'Cause it's time to get rich

Or die trying.

And you don't wan

To die trying.

[ "Gold in these hills" plays ]

Listen up close, now ♪

What I say ♪

I'm a-gonna take that risk

One day ♪

I heard about a fortune

To be made ♪

And I'm a-gonna get it,

Now, just you wait ♪

'Cause I heard

That there's gold ♪

In these hills ♪

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Captions paid for by

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Gold ♪

Meisterheim:

The weather's been terrible.

Weather's supposed to be

Really [bleep]

For the rest of the season,

Which is very short.

There's not a lot of time left.

Narrator:

October in nome.

[ Seagull cries ]

Tenhoff:

It's definitely cooling off.

You can feel

The impending winter.

Narrator:

The end of a brutal, three-month

Gold-dredging season draws near.

Tenhoff:

We've had low-pressure system

After low-pressure system

Rolling in.

We've had storms

One after the other.

It's been hard on all of us.

Narrator: soon,

The harbor will freeze.

The ice is gonna come down,

And, you know,

Eventually,

It's gonna shut us down.

Narrator:

This window of good weather

Could be their last sho

To find gold.

Scott: right now we got to

Put more time on the water.

Got to find more gold.

Steve: you got to have a

Die-hard attitude to be a miner.

You got to be willing to figh

For what you wan

To put in your pocket.

Narrator: as the flee

Crowds the grounds

Meisterheim: all right. We go

To get this sluice box moved.

Now those boards

Have to come off. Yeah.

Narrator: the crew of

The wild ranger

Is stuck at dock,

Repairing the dredge's

Faulty sluice box.

This sluice box has proven to be

A pain in the a*s.

It's one of the improvements

That vern wants,

That's actually necessary.

Narrator:

For three straight months

If there's any gold,

It's gonna be very little.

All you need

Is about 50 more pans like that,

And you'll have an ounce.

The wild ranger's gold coun

Has been a joke.

Just 3/4 of an ounce --

$1,200 Worth -- and last trip

Adkinson:

I don't think that sluice box

Is working worth a damn.

Narrator:

Owner vernon adkison realized

His sluice box

Was failing to trap gold.

Everything I've been sucking up

On the bottom

Is just going back into

The ocean.

He wants

All these changes done.

Right now

I got a boat to fix.

My wife didn't agree

With me coming here.

She thought it was a pipe dream.

She thought it was ridiculous.

She didn't think you could find

Gold at the bottom of the ocean.

So I left.

That simple.

I actually divorced my wife

To come here.

And right now it just --

It's not working out.

I'm here to prove her wrong,

Prove a lot of people wrong

Who told me this was stupid.

Because there's no going home.

[ Chuckles ]

Got to take this --

All this duct work apart.

You act like it's

A big [bleep] deal, man.

It's six screws, man.

I did this the other day.

I want you to just take

This section right here off.

That's all

You got to take off.

I know what it's gonna take

To put that boat back together

And make it work,

And if you don't have a clue

Of how [bleep] works,

Then you don't have any righ

To try to fix it,

And that's jason.

Walker: frustrated.

I mean,

We're the only one here.

Wasting all this time

Moving stuff, cutting stuff.

I don't want a bunch

Of your suggestions.

I just don't need them.

All I want you to do

Is do what I ask you to do

Without suggesting 'cause now

Your suggestions slow things up.

Meisterheim:

Jason has got ways about him

That irritate the [bleep]

Out of me.

I've been asked by several

People to be nice to him.

I don't know

How to be nice to him.

You're a damn truck driver

For 18 years,

And you think you know

Everything there is to know

About gold recovery.

That's the biggest joke

Of this whole place right now --

Is you thinking

You know it all.

You got people who have been

Doing this for 35 years,

And here comes jason,

And he wants to tell everybody

How to [bleep] find gold.

[Bleep] you

[Bleep] yourself.

You can leave.

I don't care.

Walker: I came here to dive,

Not to put up with a child --

A 40-some-year-old child.

I really don't want to be here.

Later, dumbass.

You don't know how to do

[Bleep] on this boat, anyway.

Later, dumbass.

Later, dumbass.

You can barely even turn

A [bleep] damn screwdriver.

[ Speaking indistinctly ]

I'm leaving.

Shut the [bleep] up.

[Bleep] [bleep]

Narrator: just off the coast,

On the 19-foot sluicey

Ian: there are millions

Of ounces out there.

I want to get as much gold

As possible.

Narrator: greenhorn dredge

Owner ian foster

Is making sure his rookie season

Isn't his last.

Ian: I left social work

To become a full-time miner.

There's a lot of pride

On the line for me in this,

Just making it work

And being successful at it.

I need to make probably

40 To 50 ounces --

About 60, 70 grand.

And right now

I have about 20 ounces,

So I'm basically halfway there.

Have you ever wanted to see

What a swamped boat looks like?

Here is it.

Narrator: this summer's been

A long series of breakdowns

For ian and his partner,

Scott foster.

I'm just wasting my time

And getting frustrated.

But now the sluicey

Is running strong

Ian:

It is harder to dive alone,

But there are millions

Of ounces out there.

Narrator: and the fosters

Are splitting shifts

To mine gold around the clock.

I'm officially in a honey hole.

Gold everywhere.

Every time I pull the nozzle

Back, there's flecks in it.

Gonna call scotty,

Have him start getting ready.

[ Engine shuts off ]

Scotty, it's ian. I've been

Diving for seven hours.

[ Laughs ]

Scott: nice.

Do we need any fuel

Or anything like that?

I got nine gallons

On the boat, so

Oh, wow. Okay.

Should be good, then.

Yep. I filled up the gas tanks

Before I left.

Need about a half-hour.

All right. Sounds good.

Later.

Narrator:

Over on belmont beach

Riedel: don't think because

We're getting a late star

Does not mean

We're less badass.

With a storm in the forecast,

Zeke tenhoff on the clark

Is eager to hit the water

And make some cash.

Tenhoff: last year, I rack up

180 Grand of debt at a hospital,

And, you know, I'd like to be

Able to pay off some of that.

It's from a --

Tenhoff: emily! Hey!

Hurry up!

[ Laughs ] I'm having

Conversation times.

[ Laughs ]

Not even god

Could sink this ship.

Not even god

Could sink this ship.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator:

Three months ago,

Zeke hired lifelong friend

Emily riedel to be his deckhand.

Tenhoff: I've known her

My whole life,

And she's not used to

Doing this kind of work.

She's used to

Going to art school.

Narrator:

But the only female dredger

In nome hasn't been cutting it.

Look, emily, I've been doing

This for years, okay?!

[Bleep]

Waiting!

Look, why don't you go

And work for someone who [bleep]

I will. I will.

All right.

Have fun.

I'm available.

All right.

Full-time employee

Elsewhere.

[ Engine turns over ]

Emily brings -- she brings other

Kinds of drama into my life

That just aren't copacetic

To getting gold-dredging done.

Recently, I've realized tha

I'm really attracted to emily.

I'm not romantically involved

With her

As much as I might like to be.

I have to deal with it righ

In my face every single day.

It makes me angry.

Maybe that's unfair of me.

I don't know.

But that's how I feel.

We're trying to get out,

And you're, like,

Talking to scott.

I was socializing.

You need to get with my program

On my schedule.

It doesn't really matter

What you want.

Oh, okay. So, we're on -- okay,

No, that's clarified.

From now on,

We're on your schedule,

And we're all doing

Exactly what you say.

Why should we be on anyone's

But my schedule?

Okay, you are playing this

Like a major power trip

With me today.

You know what?

I'm not gonna deal

With that [bleep] zeke.

That's [bleep] I though

We were working as a team.

Well, my needs

In regards to this project,

I believe, are more importan

Than your needs in this project.

Like, I have a lot to lose.

I have a lot at stake.

I have a lot of debt,

And, like --

You're getting all

Your [bleep] panties

In a bunch about it.

And, like, all this

Control-freak [bleep]

This long sob story

About how you're in debt --

Well, because it's true, emily.

It's true, emily.

You can'

[Bleep] take a joke.

Well, you can't --

We need to clarify what the

Nature of our relationship is.

Am I your --

Am I your employee,

Or am I your friend?

Like, seriously.

You have to be both.

No, you know what?

This has gotten too --

It's gotten too personal.

I'm finished with it,

Seriously.

I'm finished with it.

It's stupid.

Riedel: I fear that zeke desires

Something more from me

Than I'm willing to give him.

Like a relationship.

I don't know

How this is gonna go down.

I don't like

Being in this position.

Especially not in this position

With somebody

That I'm working with

And somebody

I'm trying to live with.

You should get a coat on.

You're gonna get cold.

How are you not cold?

It's really cold out.

Narrator:

A half-mile off west beach

When he called me, he told me

He ran into a little honey hole.

That could be as good as

Half-ounce to an ounce an hour.

That makes up for lost time

Pretty quick.

Narrator: with a storm

On the way,

Scott foster starts what could

Be his last shif

On the sluicey.

Scott: I want to go home

And build a dredge this winter

And get it up here.

I could put a pretty spectacular

Dredge together for 50k

That would do things

That nobody's ever imagined

A dredge being able to do

Here in nome.

The only way I get money is

When I get my cut of the gold.

Narrator:

Scott hits ian's hot spot,

Sucking 14 pounds of ocean floor

Per second

Up to the dredge's sluice box.

But only 10 minutes

Into his dive

[ Engine stops ]

The engine

Sending him air dies.

Well, that's what happens

When your air compressor

Runs out of gas.

You have to come up for air.

Narrator:

Scott had a close call.

Out of fuel,

His air compressor shut down.

So, I was down there,

And I felt my oxygen waning,

I was like

And I was like,

"Oh, I can't breathe."

Gonna top off the tanks.

Then I'll dive some more.

What happened to the other --

I thought he said

We had a bunch more gas.

Narrator:

The spare cans are dry,

So scott's only option

Is to head in for more fuel.

Scott: oh, there's not much gas

Left in there.

I thought he said

We had 10 more gallons.

Narrator: but his outboard

Engine is also running on fumes.

There's only like an inch or two

Of gas in this tank.

Oh, I really, really don't wan

To be stuck out here.

Oh, wait a second.

What I'm gonna try and do

Is siphon some gas

Out of that there

And into that tank.

Narrator: scott needs to siphon

Gas from his suction motor

To his outboard engine.

It's his only hope

Of getting back to shore.

[ Spits ]

Ugh!

[ Spitting ]

I hate the way gas tastes.

[ Spits ]

And that's it.

Let's see how far the gas we go

Will take us.

[ Engine turns over ]

Come on, baby.

We're going.

We'll see how long we go.

On his way in, scott passes

The dredging fleet hard at work.

Scott: all the other dredges,

They're getting gold.

I'm just thinking

At this minute,

"I'm not gonna get any gold.

We're not getting any gold."

It's just a shame that I have to

Bring the dredge in right now.

I'm gonna have some words

For ian.

Aah!

Come on, baby.

[ Engine whines ]

[ Laughing ] no.

This is a horrible place.

No!

[ Engine stops ]

Aah!

I'm swimming

Against the current right now.

I'm just gonna have to let I

Drift over to the other side.

Narrator:

Two miles up the coast,

On the 80-foot christine rose

There's gold, but it's hard

To say how much is there.

Narrator:

With an approaching storm,

Co-owner shawn pomrenke

Is worried about getting

More gold in the box.

We got about 60 hours

On the box.

Hopefully

There's some gold,

Enough gold to pay the guys

And pay the bills here.

That would be nice.

To make sure

His spot's producing,

Shawn will take a test pan.

It costs a lot of money

To operate a rig

Of the size

Of the christine rose.

I got to find a lot of gold

Just to break even,

But the way this weather's going

This year,

I don't see that happening.

If the mother nature don't le

Me go out and mine, I'm screwed.

Wade: look in the box all

The time, every day, you know?

There's gold in there.

We know that.

At this point, he owes me about,

You know, $25,000, $28,000.

It's not like

It's just a little bit of money.

Kind of been worried

A little bit of,

You know,

If and when I'm getting paid.

Narrator:

The biggest dredge in the flee

Also has the highest overhead.

And the crew hasn't been paid

Yet this season.

This machine ain't getting gold,

There ain't nobody to blame

But me.

I got to make paychecks

For these boys.

Wade: I've had a lot of time

To sit around

And think about my paycheck

That I haven't had

And, you know,

Where this is all going.

I'm not the most patient person

In the world.

I could give two hoots

About gold. I want green money.

Narrator:

At the mouth of the harbor

Scott:

Just about there.

Ahh.

[ Pants ]

Ian told me I had

10 Hours of gas.

Baloney.

I'm tired.

Narrator:

Scott foster has dragged

The sluicey back to shore

And now has to walk five miles

Back to his camp on west beach.

Oh, that's a long damn walk

All the way around the harbor.

Yeah, it's disappointing.

The operation

Is incredibly inefficien

Because of just the lack

Of communication

Within my partnership.

And that, to me,

Was a real downer

'Cause I just had this epiphany.

I'm not gonna find any gold

Being ian's employee.

It's just pointless.

Ultimately, the whole idea

Of dredging and finding gold

Is independence,

Not having anybody to answer to

But yourself.

And so I don't want to dive

On sluicey again.

[ Sighs ]

Time to have

A little chit-chat.

Wakey, wakey.

Scott:

Remember when you said

I might have

About 10 hours of gas?

I didn't.

So, I'm just thinking

The thing is,

Tomorrow morning,

I'm getting out of here.

Narrator: it's a new day,

And the window of good weather

Has slammed shu

On the bering sea.

[ Seagull cries ]

In the harbor

You can definitely see gold

In these.

Yellow, yellow,

Yellow, yellow.

After 72 hours

Of dredging,

The christine rose

Is using the downtime

To see how much gold

They've hauled in.

Don't anybody ge

No funny ideas.

Especially this bucket.

We're gonna go clean up

This gold. Let's go.

On the wild ranger

Captain scott meisterheim

Arrives

For another day

Of sluice-box repairs.

Far from being in the mood

To be doing this right now.

I've got a job to do.

That's why I'm still here.

Got money to make.

If I don't go home

With at least $80,000,

I'll be in prison

For quite a while.

Basically, I'm dredging for my

Children to have child support.

This winter,

If I ain't got a [bleep] dime

Or pot to [bleep] in,

When I get back to michigan,

I'm gonna turn myself

Right into the [bleep] jail,

'Cause that's where they're

Gonna put me anyway.

Jason needs to hurry

The [bleep] up

And get back

From his little vacation.

Narrator: but two miles away

Adkison:

Morning, jason.

Walker:

Got the fire going, huh?

Wild ranger deckhand

Jason walker

Meets with dredge owner

Vernon adkison.

Pears.

Pears.

So, you planning on coming down

To the boat this morning?

Vern, i, uh -- I can't work

On the wild ranger.

Feel I'm wasting time

With scott,

And I don't see any poin

In time in the future

Where that might change.

Just when I think

That it won't get any worse

Than this, it does.

It gets worse.

We're not being

Very productive,

So I need to -- I need to step

Off of the wild ranger.

[ Clears throat ]

Well, maybe it's time

To part company.

Adkison:

I mean, jason, you know,

He might not be

The sharpest tack in the box.

And so bottom line is

I'm looking for results.

I'm looking

To build a dredge here.

Done with him.

Narrator:

On the other side of nome

Shawn: ka-ching.

Steve p.: Ka-ching.

Ka-ching.

Ka-ching.

It's our slot machine.

Narrator:

The christine rose

Continues cleaning ou

The buckets of gold-laden silt.

Steve p.: You go

The good bucket over here,

Pretty much all gold.

And robbi's hoping tha

He'll finally get paid.

Right at 75,

But it's still wet yet.

Wade: I'm looking in the box,

You know,

And it looks really good,

But, you know, at the same time,

I'm just wondering is I

Enough for us to get paid?

Or is it just enough to ge

The, you know, bill money again?

I've been working my butt off

For the last, you know,

Two months.

I deserve to be paid, as well.

Wade:

I'm out of here.

Seen enough.

Heard enough.

Ay-yi-yi.

It's mining.

There's no set amoun

You're gonna get every day.

Like I tell them guys,

If we do good, we all do good.

[ Cellphone rings ]

Shawn: whatever, robbi.

[Bleep]

I'm getting tired

Of this, dude.

I'm [bleep] getting tired

Of you bitching at me.

You [bleep]

Well, come over here

And [bleep] talk to me,

Then, face-to-face.

Don't do it on the phone.

"Am I gonna get paid?"

Well [bleep] yeah,

You're gonna get paid.

Shawn: we got thousands and

Thousands of dollars going ou

And no money coming in.

And he's like,

"Where's my money?

I want to get paid everything

Right now,"

And I was like,

"Well, it ain't gonna happen."

Poor robbi, poor robbi,

Boo-hoo-hoo, you know?

I mean, god almighty.

The fact of the matter is tha

It's our gold and not his.

God almighty, the guy thinks,

Like, we're stealing from him?

I don't know

What the heck he's doing.

He has a serious trust issue

With everybody, it seems like.

I've never had problems

Like this.

Shawn: yeah --

We'll square up today,

And then if you want to leave,

You can leave.

But, robbi, for you

To come at me and be

I ain't coming

At you, shawn.

Like we're taking gold

Or hiding gold --

Lookit, here. You want to see

Where the rest of it's at?

I don't care.

You guys sit here --

The gold ain't clean yet!

How can we square up?

Listen. Listen.

How can we square up?!

The gold ain'

[Bleep] clean, robbi!

What about the last 20 ounces

And the 14 after that?

What happened?

Robbi, I said we would square up

This afternoon.

Yeah, I told you tha

Yesterday.

Okay, we'll square it up and

Then [bleep] that will be it.

[Bleep] it. I can't deal

With this [bleep] robbi.

I got enough stress.

Me, too, shawn.

Me too. Me too.

Then [bleep] why you doing I

Now? We got [bleep]

There's 70 ounces in the --

Right there.

Well, when it says

It's going to pay for

This, pay for that,

No,

It doesn't sound --

Well, there's

80 Grand there.

It's gonna pay

For something.

I mean -- and we're gonna

Square up, or what, dude?

All right.

All right.

Come on.

Robbi is replaceable.

He don't trust us,

Then he can go.

We'll square up,

And he can leave.

If that's the way he wants

To think about us,

Then he needs to go,

And I ain't kidding.

Narrator:

On west beach

Tomorrow morning,

I might be in the water.

Who's taking me

To the airport, then?

Well,

You'll figure it out.

[ Chuckles ]

It's scott foster's

Last day in nome.

Think you can handle

All this without me?

Yeah.

Scott: I wasn't making

Quite enough money.

There was a gamble

Coming up here.

I didn't do as well

As I needed to.

I kind of got the short end

Of the stick.

This has been no vacation

Up here.

Now I'm just burned out.

Ian: he made

The decision financially

That this is not worth his time

To stay up here,

And I 100% agreed with him.

But scotty more than exceeded

All my expectations.

I was really grateful

For his work.

Ah.

And he made 5 ounces of gold,

About $7,500.

Okay.

What?

Put her there?

Put her there.

[ Spits ]

Thanks, man.

Narrator: in nome harbor

Lot of bad vibrations coming

From nome, here, lately.

Wild ranger owner

Vernon adkison's original crew

Of three

Is now down to one.

Jason will be moving on.

Meisterheim: when someone

Even speaks jason's name,

I just want to [bleep] vomit.

Can't stand to hear his name.

I can't stand to see him walking

Through town --

Just [bleep] idiot.

If it had gone on any longer,

I definitely would have

Tossed him overboard.

It's late in the season

To go and scrounge up

Somebody else

To fill those shoes.

It just is not gonna work.

That's a big problem.

Big problem.

And what I'm thinking is

How about steve?

Narrator:

For two straight months,

Deckhand steve riedel clashed

With captain scott.

Why am I not here like

An hour and a half ago

When it started?

Because they didn't wan

All this [bleep]

And two weeks ago,

Steve got fired.

Give me

The [bleep] damn phone!

Whoa.

And get the [bleep] out!

We need him on the team.

You will call him and tell him,

Look, we need a hand.

If I got to do it,

I got to do it.

Yeah.

Meisterheim:

Vernon's just an idiot.

This entire operation here

In nome is [bleep]

Because he's

An ignorant [bleep]

But he's my boss.

I have to accept that.

[ Cellphone beeps ]

[ Static ]

Steve.

Hey, it's scott.

I was wondering if you would

Like to meet me for a drink

And so we can talk.

10:45 At breakers.

All right, then.

See you then.

Bye.

I'm only playing nice

Because vern asked me to.

I don't think it's possible

To do that, but I'm gonna try.

I think

It's a lose-lose situation.

I lose my temper,

Steve loses teeth.

[ Rock music playing ]

Good on you.

Okay. That's nice.

Oh.

Oh, your apology accepted.

Right.

Well

I'm not going

To come back.

I only did tha

'Cause vern asked me

To please be nice to steve.

[Bleep] steve

And [bleep] you, vern.

I'm not gonna be nice

To anybody else.

So, you want to break up now

And go our separate ways?

Oh, I want to finish

My beer.

I'm here to sit here.

Does that make you nervous?

Okay, yeah.

Well, see you later.

Steve r.:

Nothing has changed.

Throughout this whole thing,

No matter what I do,

Scott's behavior has gotten

Worse and worse and worse,

And I won't put up with it.

So I am done

With the wild ranger.

All right. All right.

This is much better.

Yeah, nice talking to you.

Thank you.

Meisterheim:

You know, I'm already trying

To stay out of jail.

I don't need any assaul

Charges. I just don't.

It took a lot for me --

It took a lot to hold back.

Narrator: on the other side

Of the bar

Is steve's daughter, emily.

Tenhoff: I sort of regret having

Emily come up here in that,

You know, it hacks me off

Pretty tough

When she flirts

With other guys.

I have to see her every morning

When I wake up,

And it's hard on me

To have her there all the time.

Something's got to change.

Emily: it's really easy for zeke

To get mixed signals

Because we are spending

A lot of time together,

But I have no interest.

He's like a brother to me.

Narrator:

On west beach

There was definitely potential

For us getting involved,

But, you know, I learned

Really quickly early on

That there's no way

It was gonna happen.

Narrator:

The growing tension

With friend and boss

Zeke tenhoff

Weighs heavily on the only

Female dredger in nome.

Emily: it's terrible.

It's a terrible situation

To begin

Because there are tons of men

In nome,

And he's really jealous of them,

And there are no women in nome

For him to express interest in.

I think zeke

Somehow, like, believes

That if he's persistent enough,

He will -- he'll win me over.

But it's not -- that's not gonna

Happen. [ Chuckles ]

Oh, great.

Hi, emmy.

What are you

Doing here?

I was at the bus,

And zeke decided to bring me

Out here just to hang out.

Well, me and emily's

Relationship,

Living in a really small space

In the yurt,

It's been getting a little more

Tense, more and more tense,

And, you know, I've though

For a long time

That, you know, it would be

Better for our relationship

If she gave me

A little more space.

You know, emily,

It really bothers me

That, like, you know,

It's constantly all about

What I'm trying

To do is, like,

It's not working out,

Us living together,

And I'm trying to encourage you

And find another place.

It's really hard to find

Living situations in nome.

I honestly feel --

I feel thrown out.

I feel like I have

No other choice.

Right now, our relationship

Is such a distraction to me,

And I do not need to have,

Like, woman problems in my life

And in my personal space.

I don't want to have

To look at you

When I wake up

In the morning.

I don't wan

To have to do that.

It's, like,

Too much of a distraction.

It's not what I need

Right now.

Steve r.:

Get in the bus, okay?

[ Scoffs ] yeah, this isn'

Gonna work for, like --

Yeah.

Yeah. Anymore.

I just want to get the [bleep]

Out of here.

Tenhoff: emily can go find

Something else to do.

She does not need to be

On my team. Absolutely not.

She can go work

On scott and ian's boat.

I don't care. She's fired.

There's just no question

About it.

Narrator: on the northern

Outskirts of nome

Shawn: and all this

"Me, me, me" stuff,

It don't fly.

And there's a lot of trus

That goes into mining.

Let's weigh

This gold out.

Weigh the gold ou

So we can just hand it to him

And be done with it.

Steve and shawn pomrenke

Jar up a payou

For disgruntled deckhand

Robbi wade.

18.15.

It was about that much.

I just wan

To just go get this done.

I expect him to have

His tail between his legs

And not want to quit,

So then it's gonna be up to you.

And here's his pay.

25 Grand in a little bottle.

That includes this week, too.

Shawn: trusting.

Don't trust us,

It's done.

Get up.

We need to talk.

Well, robbi, I'm done.

I ain't gonna be called

A liar and a thief

And have you

Call dad a thief,

And I've never had anybody

Like this before on my crew,

And I don't know if --

I don't really like it.

Well, you're telling dad

He's stealing buckets

From the barge

To the cleanup shack,

And then [bleep] there's

A lot more gold.

I said

He was stealing?

No, I asked, shawn.

I asked.

Well, that's accusing him

Of stealing, robbi.

It's same thing.

I didn't know where it went,

So I asked where it went.

That's not insinuating.

Here's your pay.

Usually, the crew has nothing

To do with the cleanup.

Usually, there ain'

No involvemen

With you guys anywhere

In the cleanup.

That's fine. I don't have

A problem with it.

And this year,

We let you guys come in

Just because

It's a fun part.

It's a fun par

Of the job.

It's supposed to be a --

Help build spirits,

But then you look at the gold,

And you're like,

"68 Ounces? [Bleep] it.

That sucks,"

And then you get pissed off,

And you walk out.

And then you call me up,

And you start yelling and

Screaming on me at the phone.

You know what?

I ain't dealing with it anymore.

I'm not dealing with I

Anymore, robbi.

Narrator:

In nome harbor

I'm getting my stuff

Off of this boat.

Narrator: disgruntled

Deckhand jason walker

Makes one last trip

To the wild ranger.

[ Grunts ]

I'm done with this joke

Of a dredge.

Meisterheim:

Got it all?

No, there's some details.

You'll come --

You'll get them.

You'll get them today

'Cause if not,

I'm just gonna throw them

On the dock.

I don't need to [bleep] listen

To you, man.

Yeah, you do.

No, I don't.

'Cause you'll be

Fishing the [bleep]

Out of the [bleep] damn

River.

Do what you got to do.

Don't think I won't,

Jason.

Oh, I don't doubt you,

But maybe you'll go swimming

For your own [bleep]

A group of people

Can be put together

And succeed at something

Even with the inexperience,

But they have to work together

As a team.

Scott wants to be alone

On the wild ranger.

Well, guess what.

He's alone on the wild ranger,

And he can have that boa

And shove it up his [bleep]

All he wants.

I am so glad that [bleep] gone.

So glad he's not gonna [bleep]

Work on this boat,

Dive off this boat,

Have nothing to do

With this [bleep] boat anymore.

Narrator:

In the city of nome

Finding a place to live and ren

In nome is next to impossible.

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I'll stay on the floor

Of the bus, but it's temporary.

I need to find

Somewhere else to live.

I almost kind of feel

Like this is the only way

He can get back at me

For not dating him,

Like, is to take a --

You know, take this from me.

Tenhoff:

I need to recalibrate my focus

And stop thinking

About that drama

And start focusing a little

Harder on the task at hand,

Which is, you know, gold mining.

Emily: I don't want to be

Kicked off his dredge

Or to stop working his dredge

For such a stupid reason.

[ Voice breaking ]

I don't have anyone here

I can really turn

To about this.

I don't even feel like I --

I don't even feel

Like I have a place to live.

[ Sobbing ]

Narrator:

At steve pomrenke's house

I mean,

He don't trust us.

"Me, me, me."

Yeah. "Me, me, me."

You know, there's a lot of other

Mouths to feed around here,

And his ain't the only mouth

That gets fed off this gold.

Shawn:

Robbi ended up being

Way more of a pain in a*s

Than he was worth.

He positively won't be

Coming back next year

Because of his attitude problem.

What I'm worried

About is, like, him

Flying off the handle

And then

Then what?

And me knocking him

The hell out?

I don't know.

Personality is

Almost like that,

Where he would fly off

The handle and go berserk.

Well, then I'll just knock him

Out and be done with it.

Guarantee you ge

In a fight with him, shawn,

And you'll both

Be losers.

Mm-hmm.

Narrator: across town

Wade:

Go check my bank accoun

And see how much money I go

In I

So I can get out of here.

[Bleep] this [bleep] hole.

Narrator:

And on the wild ranger,

Captain scot

Is the last man standing.

Meisterheim:

Hate this boat.

I hate working on it.

I hate diving off of it.

I hate looking at it.

I've been here in nome

For 3 1/2 months.

I've maybe been out 10 times

With the wild ranger.

And I've only recovered

3/4 Of an ounce of gold.

My cut of 3/4 of an ounce

Is so small, at this point,

I wouldn't even miss I

If I didn't get it.

Trying to think about which

Would be easier --

This or [bleep] prison.

Least in [bleep] prison,

You get three [bleep] meals

And a shower once in a while.

[Bleep] it.

I got to call vern.

[ Telephone ringing ]

Adkison: yeah.

Hey, it's scott.

I don't want to be on your boat.

I'm done, vern.

Bye.

[ Receiver clicks ]

[Bleep] damn.

Narrator: as the end of

A punishing season draws near,

Every dredge

Loses a key player,

And everyone

Still has gold to haul

If they want to turn a profit.

Ian: it's literally come down

To the wire.

Talk to me like a real human

Being at my [bleep] work.

Everything's gonna change

After today.

That's got $20 million worth

Of gold on it.