22x16 - Contagion

[bunniefuu]

[Jake] Being out here
doing this job...

it's about survival.

But infections on boats
are bad.

Getting poked by a crab.

There's old cod guts.

There's all kinds of stuff
down there that'll make you sick

in all kinds of ways.

[suspenseful orchestral
music plays]

We got -- one of our guys has
got some kind of infection

on his face.

This is something that's
going through the boat.

But there's a lot of crab
to catch.

I can't stop.
I'm going to keep going.

[Matt speaking]

I got something on my eye
that's swollen.

I got a little spot on my lip.

I've been in a lot of pain
in my life, I've --

this is the worst.

[Jake] It looks like a pimple.

It smells like cheese.

This isn't like being at work
where you just get in a car

or call an ambulance,

two minutes later,
you're at the hospital.

It'll k*ll you.

It's going to be tough.
I think I can do it.

[ominous chord strike]

[narrator] 215 miles north
of Dutch Harbor...

I should probably check out
the ice report...

before we get going.

A little north,
not gonna do much.

Saturday, we got west.

That will hold it at bay.

Yeah, that ice edge
is going to be gone.

Gone, gone.

...aboard the Aleutian Lady.

[man speaking]

Wrapping up bairdi,
crossing that finish line...

is my goal this week.

The quicker I can catch
our quota,

the more money we make.

So I think we're going to set
this gear over here...

towards the ice...

because we're in
the right depth.

Between 80 and 84 fathoms is

where I'm seeing big,
clean crab.

As long as
what's forecasted happens,

that ice is gonna
be gone in two days.

Stop!

All right, guys.

[man] What?

[Rick on radio]

[man] Going over.

[Rick] It looks like
this float right here...

that looks pretty decayed.

The fact that the water
temperature right here

is 37 degrees...

we're just gonna go slow
just to be safe.

I do not want to hit
anything big.

Oh, we're going right for it.
Look at that thing.

[Rick on radio]

[Nico] Jeez.

Whoo!

[Rick]
Little bit sketchy.

[man] Whoo!

[man #2] Yeah, baby!

[Rick on radio]

[bleep].

[man and Nico speaking]

The buoys are still floating
on the ice.

Going over.

I was getting a little worried
when we started off

hitting that stuff,

but it's looking
pretty dang good right now.

So just keep jamming.

[man] OK, going over.

[Rick] Hopefully the crab
are still there,

and we'll be good.



[Albinio speaking]

[Jake] What do you got?

[Albinio speaking]

And you're gonna have to
put some gloves on and...

[pop]

[Jake] You ain't lying.

[Albinio] Yeah.

[Jake] Need the old trusties.

[Albinio] Stab that b*tch,
and then I'll squeeze.

All right, here it comes.

You want me to squeeze it
a little bit?

Yeah.

-That good?
-Yeah.

[suspenseful music plays]

[Jake] Oh.

-[Jake] Nice.
-Coming out?

[Jake] Oh, yeah.

It looks pretty good.

The infection came out,
and then it was straight blood,

which makes me
not worry about it.

...and I'm good.

-[Jake] OK, cool.
-Thanks, dude.

Ooh.
Painful in the face, man.

It's always painful
in the face.

A lot of guys would ask for
a string off after that...

but...

it's not his style.

[suspenseful music plays]

Aboard the Cornelia Marie.

All right, you can set it
when you're ready.

[man on radio] Roger.

Going over.

[Jake] I got an offload
fast approaching.

Just got one more tank
to fill.

It's a lot of [bleep] pressure.

I have to get to the processing
plant not a minute late.

So I gotta hurry up
and make this push.

[man] Hey, go, go, go, go, go.

[Jake] I think the crab are
moving south now.

And that's what we've been
tracking through this canyon.

[man] Going over.

Wind is coming from
the south and the southwest.

It's going to stir up all
the sediment and everything

that's in the ground,
the worms,

the clams, everything that
the bairdi eat.

[man] Rail, rail, rail.

Six weeks into the winter
season, Captain Jake Anderson

leans on his battle-worn
six-man crew...

[crew member speaking]

...betting 40 pots
on a feed-rich ravine

just three days
before delivery.

Here we go.

[groans]

[man] Going over.

[Jake]
Gonna go check Matt out.


cameraman Matt Holland,

now Cornelia Marie
patient number two.

...falls victim to an inflamed,
subcutaneous pustule growing

between his nose and mouth.

[Jake speaking]

[crew member] Hey,
watch the rail!

Whoo-hoo!

[Jake] It looks like a pimple.

And it's infected,
or it's MRSA.

It looks ugly.

[crew member] Going over!

[Jake speaking]



on the bairdi crab grounds...

[Sig] Oh, oh, oh.

...aboard the Northwestern.

Ah.

We've got 50 pots on deck.

There's a good scratch
of fishing around,

so we have some
life in 56 fathoms,

but this weather is
just k*lling us.

That's not what we forecast.

Yeah, this will be interesting.

A little strip of green,
that's our window right there.

And that is gonna come around...

like gangbusters.

See if we can get them out
during this window

of decent weather
before the switch.

Straddling two converging
low pressure systems,

Captain Sig Hansen looks
to time a 50-pot set

during a meteorological
phenomenon

known as
a saddle point...

Is there enough time to set
the string in there?

I don't know.

...the zone between storms,

where weaker pressure gradients

mean a reprieve from


and towering 25-foot seas.

[ominous music plays]

OK, see that?
That's the cue.

Wind just died down.
See it?

We'll get these off quick.

We only got so much time
in the eye of this thing.

[crew member] Let's go

Going over!

Bairdi!

Whoo-hoo!

[crew member speaking]

OK.

[Karl] We're in the eye of the
storm right now,

you can see when
we first started setting,

it was windy, and now
it's getting calm.

We can do as much as we can
in the eye.

Get these pots off.

[Sig] OK.

You can see, it's starting to
pick up.

It's just -- you can hear
a little gust, but you can

see the top of the waves
are starting to

blow the other way.

-Going over.
-Going over.

Going over.

[crew member] Over.

Well, this is not...

Ooh.

[bleep].

This isn't gonna be good.

Weather's changing.
The wind direction's changing.

Watch out for a second.
It's coming on the rail.

-I gotta change --
I gotta change direction.
-[crew member] Whoa.

[Sig]
Watch the rail.

[crew member] Whoo!

-I gotta change --
I gotta change direction.
-[crew member] Whoa.

It's not ideal.
I mean, we gotta change

almost 90 degrees just to
get these off safely.

I'm trying to blast these off
as quick as possible.

Going over.

It's not as shallow
as we want it to,

but it's going to
have to work for now.

[groans]

Going over.

I mean, that door just
slammed shut on us.

See if we get lucky.



[Sam]
I'm sorry, buddy.

...on the Cornelia Marie.

[Jake] Oh, it's all right.
I totally get it.

Yeah.

Matt is one of
our camera personnel...

and he films the deck crew,

so he's got
a very difficult job.

He's got some kind of infection
on his face,

give him some antibiotics.

We're hauling in this


and hopefully it shows up
with something good,

and then we'll be able to
set our load here.

I'm in a corner.
I got an offload to make.

All right, fellas...

[crew member] Come on, crab!

It's in the block.
Let's see what we got.

-Coming up.
-[indistinct].

[crew member] Yeah!

Oh, my God.
There's crab in there.

[crew members cheering]

Whoo-hoo!

Oh, [bleep], thank God.

-Whoo!
-Yeah, we're happy.

[crew member] 200!

Oh, yeah.

That's some
good numbers right there.

-[Jake on radio]
-Roger.

Whoo!
Let's do it.

[Matt speaking]

The, uh...

the antibiotic's not working.

[Jake speaking]

All right.

[phone ringing]

[crew members cheering]

[Jake] This is Jake.

[Jake] Oh my God.

Um, I need help getting some
kind of doctor or medevac

out for Matt.

Yeah, he's got a swollen --

Lisa.

Hey, Lisa.

Um...

Yeah, so basically yesterday
my face started to, like,

kind of swell,

and it's obviously
an infection,

and I took four
Cephalexin yesterday,

and it's not responding.

[Matt] I'll send you a photo.

All right, well, I think that
the best option is to

go to St. Paul.

Yeah, sorry, guys.

[Jake] All right, thank you.

We'll get him the help
that he needs,

and then we'll go
back out fishing.

Hopefully he can
come back on the boat.



and four miles below
the forecasted ice edge...

...on the Aleutian Lady.

Half mile away.

I took a gamble...

fishing around the ice.

Now I'm hoping it's time
to reap our reward.

I got 209,000 pounds of bairdi
to put on the boat.

We just got to wrap it up
strong, hit it good,

and get this done.

Oh, my gosh.

[bleep].

This ice is not
supposed to be here.

[ominous chord strike]

Well, it looks like...

Yeah, roger.

Standing by to stand by.

[Rick] Hope and pray
we're gonna be able

to get these pots right now.

If we lose the pots,
we pay for them.

And that is a lot of money that
none of us want to pay.

Please be there.
Come on!

I don't think it is.

Oh, there it is,
right at the face.

It's, like, about to go under.

-[crew member] Roger!
-Come on.

[Rick]
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

Now it's under.

[bleep].

[Rick] [bleep].

On the Aleutian Lady...

[crew member] Roger.

We don't know if we're getting
any of these pots back,

to be honest, but hopefully
we get a few at least.

[Rick] We set by the ice.

I felt like the ice was

going to retreat and melt,
but it didn't.

Now I'm going to be driving
through that big stuff...

at night.

If I lose 43 pots,

I just ate in to
all of our profits

for the winter.

There's no guarantee any of
these pots are even going to be

where they're supposed to be...

but maybe.

Is that a pot or ice?

That might be a pot.

Roger.

[Rick on radio]

Let's just get as many of these
as we can.

[crew member] Roger, roger.

Yeah, there's a few.

Not the start we wanted.

[two splashes]

[crew member on radio]

[Rick] This is not good.

We're gonna head
right to our next pot.

Hopefully it's there.

[suspenseful music plays]

Come on, where are you?

Please be there, come on.
I don't think it is.

[bleep].

We should see it.

This pot is not here.

This is the last thing
I wanted to do,

running around in
ice-filled waters at night.

I'm going to feel
really defeated

if these pots
are buried.

[Sam] Sanitized
the whole room...

everything he touched.

-[crew member] Roger.
-[crew member #2] Roger.

Careful.

[phone ringing]

[Matt on phone] Hello?

Hey, how's it going?

[bleep]damn.

What's the, uh, recovery time?

Oh, my God.
Well, I'm glad to hear
that you're OK.

I just wanted to call
and check on you.

All right, get better, man.

All right, later.

It's a bummer.
Matt's a good guy.

But the fact of the matter
is, we've got to get

the hell out of here.

Filling in for Matt Holland,


Kelsey Kroon

climbs aboard the
freshly-sanitized vessel.

-[sneezes] Eh, sorry.
-[Kelsey] Hello.

-Jake, good to meet you.
-[Kelsey] Good to meet you.

[Jake] We got to go.

We're on crab.

We need to [bleep] get
the [bleep] out of here now.

[crew member] Roger.

[Jake on radio]

[crew member on radio]
[indistinct] go, go,
go, go, go, go.

[Jake] We have a lot of work to
do, and time is not on our side.



[groans] Oh.

...on the Northwestern.

Setting through the eye,
it was fine, and then just

instantaneously it came up
where it didn't end up

exactly the way I was planning.

I wanted to be at


ended up a little deeper
at 60 fathoms.

Hopefully we'll see some crab
in it anyway.

We're going to haul these 40.
There's two strings of 20.

OK.

Come on, crabs.

[Sig] Let's see
what we got here.

Oh, hey.

[bleep].

[chuckles] Not very good.



[crew member] OK, Roger.

[Sig] The numbers
aren't strong enough.

We gotta move these pots.

But the weather's
not gonna cooperate.

I'm hauling at night.

Hard to see the waves behind,
you know, one behind

the next one.

It'd be nice to have
a spotter over there.

I got a half a mind
to just start running over

to the port side
and take a look.

Port Side's not typically
a hauling station.

That's for tying up.

Pretty unorthodox way to do it,

but I'm having a hard time
to see the waves coming.

OK, give it a try here.

I can see the waves a little
better here, but, you know,

I'm having a hard time staying
on course and spotting the bad.

Ah!

There's a pot.

[bleep].

[crew member on radio]
Here it comes.

-Bruh.
-Nothing.

[bleep].

[Sig] We gotta get these moved.

[indistinct].

Ah!

[yelling]

[yelling]

On the Northwestern...

Oh, sorry about that.

What happened?

[yelling]

[crew member] Wah, wah, wah.

[Sig] OK.

[crew member speaking]

[Sig]
Oh, we gotta get these moved.
That's just the bottom line.

[crew member] Man, that's a...

One right there.

You see it,
you got to slow down.

All right.

Oh my God.

[suspenseful music plays]

[crew member] Not good.

Numbers are garbage.

[grunts]

For a smoke --
for a smoker, yeah.

[suspenseful music plays]

[grunts]
OK.

There we go.

Now I'll get a rhythm.

I want to get them
on board fast, but safe.

The next string is
right up above me here.

Let's hope there's more.



[Jake speaking]

[crew member] Roger!

[Cody speaking]

...on the Cornelia Marie.

There's no room for error.
There's no room for waiting.

I just got one more tank
to fill

before I make my offload.

Yeah, I got
something on my eye.

It's all swollen.
Not sure what it is, but...

Yeah, we'll see
what happens, right?

Ride it out.
We'll see.

Thanks, Matt.

My lip feels like
a piece of [bleep].

[Jake] This is something that's
going through the boat.

I've seen infections before
like this.

-No bueno.
-[Albinio speaking]

You guys sleep?

[Cody] Woke up [bleep]
drenched in sweat.

[bleep].

[coughing]

[Jake on radio]

...come inside.

[crew member speaking]

-Whoa!
-Watch it!

[groans]

I don't need this [bleep]
right now.

Go check on these guys.

-How we feeling?
-What's up, Jakey?

-Pretty good.
-[Jake] That don't look good.

Did you have
any fever symptoms?

Yeah, I sat -- wake up
every night and then [bleep]
sweaty as [bleep].

Freaking just...

-How about you?
-I got a little spot on my lip.

[Jake] Can I see it?

[tense music plays]

[groans]

That thing looks like it
[bleep] hurts too, man.

[bleep], my whole leg hurts.

Yeah, we need to get
into the clinic.

[Jake] Rough shape, man.
Three people down.

[Jake] He couldn't walk,

and he had a fever.

I know, I know, I -- I know.

[ominous chord strike]

[coughs]

If they're all staph infection
or MRSA, then yes,

we have an issue.
And it's not coincidental.

It's nothing I can risk,
so I have to go to town.


Dutch Harbor...

Ah.

The weather's still
pretty [bleep].

Before we get through
this one...

...on the Northwestern.

[Sig] That last string wasn't
very good, but it's

shallowing up, so...

fingers crossed.

Whoa!

When you're hauling in
bad weather, you're so

laser-focused, you can throttle
into a wave.

You can throttle out of it.

So it's kind of like a...

ballet, believe it or not.

[crew members] Whoa!

[crew member] Roger, dodger.

You really got to use a lot of
power to get up on the pots.

A lot of wind pushing us back.

The trick is to get to
a dead stop if you can,

when you're putting them
on board.

Pot's coming up!

-Oh, yeah!
-[Sig] There you go.

That's looking better.

[crew member] Whoo!

[Sig] Now I can get
in the ditch a little bit.

[grunts]

[crew member] Whoa!

[thunking]

[Sig]
Now we're going to cut back.

You can't haul it straight,
it's impossible.

[indistinct speaking]

OK, watch...

OK.

Ooh, big one.

-Ah.
-Ah!

[crew member] Oh.

[crew member #2] Yucky.

So far so good?

-Yeah!
-Yeah, yeah, yeah!

[crew member] Oh, yeah.

Well, you're not looking at
what I'm looking at,

you're looking at crab

and laughing all the way
to the bank.

[crew member] Yeah, buddy!

Let's go!

Oh, these are nice.



I feel like we found
the buried treasure.

All you gotta do is dig.

All right, guys, it'll...

[crew member] Roger!

[Rick] Hopefully it's there.

If we end up losing 18 more...

heaven help me.

I don't see nothing.

[suspenseful music plays]

Wow.

We're not getting through
that one.

That ice is way too thick,

I don't think we're going to be
able to get these pots

right now.

I'm just stressing out
because...

the cumulated loss is going to
be over $100,000,

and I've still got to
catch my crab.

I just can't give up.

[bleep] me.

It's a cesspool.

Disinfecting.

Disinfecting everything
we touch.

[Jake] All right, let's see
what the damage is.

So, face infection.

Gave me some Cleocin and some
Mupirocin ointment

to put on it.

Hopefully it clears it up
in about three to five days.

He said you're cleared to go?

Cleared to go back to work
today, full duty.

Nice.
What about you, Johnny?

Same deal.

Got the same meds.
Cleared to work.

[Jake] All right, Cody.

Um, it is staph,

but it's treatable
with antibiotics.

-[bleep].
-[Cody] Um...

Just gave me a shot
in my a*s, antibiotic,

and then two more
to take on the boat.

But...

Well, do you think you'd
go to work?

-Yeah.
-Thank [bleep] God.

[Cody] Yeah.

I don't want to lose
any one of you guys.

So Josh and John, they're

cleared to work right now...

and Cody is cleared
to work tomorrow.

We still have a lot of crab
to catch.

[tense music plays]

[Jake on radio] Fellas ready?

[crew member] Yeah, roger.

[Jake] I can't hold us here
any longer.

The guys are beat up
pretty hard...

but here we go!

Let's go bairdi fishing.