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I'm out in the prime cut
of the big green.
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Behind me is Ed and Rowdy, members
of an up-and-coming subadult gang.
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They're challenging everything, including me.
Goes with the territory.
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If I show weakness,
if I retreat,
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I may be hurt,
I may be killed.
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I must hold my own
if I'm gonna stay within this land.
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For once there is weakness,
they will exploit it, they will take me out,
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they will decapitate me,
they will chop me into bits and pieces.
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I'm dead.
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But so far, I persevere.
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Persevere.
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Most times
I'm a kind warrior out here.
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Most times, I am gentle,
I am like a flower,
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I'm like... I'm like
a fly on the wall,
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observing, noncommittal,
noninvasive in any way.
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Occasionally I am challenged.
And in that case,
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the kind warrior must,
must, must become a samurai.
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Must become so,
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so formidable,
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so fearless of death,
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so strong
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that he will win, he will win.
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Even the bears will believe
that you are more powerful.
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And in a sense
you must be more powerful
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if you are to survive in this land
with the bear.
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No one knew that.
No one ever friggin' knew
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that there are times when my life
is on the precipice of death
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and that these bears can bite,
they can kill.
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And if I am weak,
I go down.
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I love them with all my heart.
I will protect them.
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I will die for them, but I will not die
at their claws and paws.
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I will fight. I will be strong.
I'll be one of them.
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I will be... the master.
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But still a kind warrior.
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Love you, Rowdy.
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Give it to me, baby.
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That's what I'm talkin' about.
That's what I'm talkin' about.
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That's what I'm talkin' about.
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I can smell death
all over my fingers.
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All these majestic creatures were filmed
by Timothy Treadwell
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who lived among wild grizzlies
for 13 summers.
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He went to remote areas
of the Alaskan peninsula
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believing that
he was needed there
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to protect these animals
and educate the public.
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During his last five years
out there,
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he took along a video camera
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and shot over 100 hours
of footage.
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What Treadwell intended was to show
these bears in their natural habitat.
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Having myself filmed
in the wilderness of jungles,
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I found that beyond
the wildlife film,
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in his material lay
dormant a story
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of astonishing beauty
and depth.
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I discovered a film
of human ecstasies
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and darkest inner turmoil.
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As if there was
a desire in him
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to leave the confinements
of his humanness
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and bond with the bears,
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Treadwell reached out,
seeking a primordial encounter.
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But in doing so, he crossed
an invisible borderline.
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Go back and play.
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Go ahead back. Go back.
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Go back.
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This is a subadult.
And this is what happens to them.
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They work together,
and they get really powerful.
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As you can see,
I'm just feet away.
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You just relax.
You just relax.
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He's now moving away from me.
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I've now proven myself as being able to hold
my ground and therefore earning their respect.
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This is Rowdy, the bear.
And he's rowdy.
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He's gettin' bigger.
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Knew him from... He was a little dot
a couple of years ago.
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He's gettin' to be a big boy.
Anyway, we're doing just fine.
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But that was a challenge,
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and you have to remain cool
in the challenge, in the moment.
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If you don't, you're dead.
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They can kill. They can bite.
They can decapitate.
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Excuse me. Hey.
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Hey!
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It's okay, it's okay. It's okay.
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I didn't mean to get in your way.
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Wow. It's okay.
You're the boss.
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Nice job. Wow! Nice job.
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I gotta think, he was over ten-feet high,
don't you?
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He's a big bear!
He's a big bear!
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A very big bear! Wow!
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Anyway, he's over here
rub-a-dub-dubbing.
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He's a big bear!
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The excitement Treadwell felt
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connected him immediately
with children.
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In his campaign
to create awareness,
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he reached thousands and thousands
of school children
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who would remember
his fabulous storytelling
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as one of the highlights
of their school years.
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He took his mission
so seriously
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that he never solicited for a fee.
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Over time, he reached the status
of a national celebrity.
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Timothy Treadwell is crazy
about grizzly bears.
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How crazy? Sometimes...
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It was as if he had become a star
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by virtue of his own invention.
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I would be within
the physical presence of bears
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24 hours a day
for months at a time.
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This is... crazy.
This is nuts.
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These are the most dangerous animals
on the face of the earth.
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- Well...
- And you want to go
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and put yourself in harm's way
24 hours a day?
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I think they've been misunderstood.
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How can I believe that if you are
about to be killed by a bear,
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that you wouldn't say, "I made a mistake.
I'd like to have a gun"?
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I would never, ever kill a bear
in defense of my own life.
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Would not go into a bear's home
and kill a bear.
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One day, I came home
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and I was sitting on my patio.
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My wife was in the bedroom
with the TV on.
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And I heard her scream.
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And I thought
she'd fallen or something.
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I came in and she was sitting
on the edge of the bed,
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staring at the television.
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I looked at the television,
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and I saw Timmy's face.
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I hadn't heard the sound
or the news yet,
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but I knew just by seeing
Timmy's face on TV
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and hearing
my wife's reaction,
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that the worst had happened.
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Not necessarily a surprise,
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but... the worst.
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I never have days
when I grieve for Timmy
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as I have with other friends
who have died.
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They feel dead.
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Timmy doesn't feel dead.
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This is the last photo
of Timothy Treadwell.
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It was taken at the beginning
of his 13th summer
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in the wilds of Alaska.
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With him is Amie Huguenard,
who would die by his side.
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The man who took the photo
was Willy Fulton,
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a close friend of Timothy's,
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and the pilot
who would bring him to this remote part
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of the Alaskan peninsula.
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Treadwell saw himself
as the guardian of this land
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and stylized himself
as Prince Valiant,
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fighting the bad guys with their schemes
to do harm to the bears.
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But all this land is
a federally protected reserve,
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part of Katmai National Park.
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This big plain,
Treadwell called "The Sanctuary."
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Here he would spend
the early summer months
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before moving along
some 35 miles
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to this densely overgrown area
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which he called
"The Grizzly Maze"
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where he would observe
the late summer salmon run.
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It was here that Fulton
would pick him up in the fall.
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On October 6 last year,
this is the spot here at Kaflia Lake
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where I pulled in
to pick up Tim and Amie.
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Typical day out here.
Rain, foggy, a lot of wind.
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It was kinda strange.
Didn't see him, didn't hear anything.
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No gear on the beach
or anything.
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I tied up, and I started
yelling a little bit.
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"Tim! Amie!" And no answer.
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I caught a little tiny bit
of movement up on the hill,
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so I'm like, it was windy, maybe they
just couldn't hear me or something.
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So I decided I'd go up
in the camp,
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and see what was going on.
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And headed off
up through the alders.
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It's kind of a thick trail
up into camp there.
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Got about three-quarters
of the way up the hill,
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and something just didn't feel right at all,
something seemed strange.
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I'm yelling and no answer.
So I turned around
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and started coming back down the trail
at a pretty good clip, I guess.
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I was kinda... trottin' along.
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And as I got in the thickest
part of the alders right here,
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as I got near the airplane,
I just happened to turn around.
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And I turned around
and looked and...
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Pretty nasty-Iooking bear
that I had seen here before
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is just sneaking slow,
with his head down.
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Just the meanest-Iooking thing
coming through the brush.
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So I jumped on the airplane
real quick and untied it.
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And took off. Turned around,
flew over camp there.
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Just looked down
and saw a human rib cage
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that I knew had to be
either Tim or Amie laying there.
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And he was just eating that.
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And as l...
So I circled around again.
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Got really low,
and tried to run him off.
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Just over and over again with the airplane.
Every time I would come over,
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he'd just start eating faster
and faster and crouch over
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this rib cage there.
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And right at that time,
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I just realized, "Wow!
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I was pretty close to gettin' eaten myself"
is what I thought.
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And this shot of adrenalin like
I've never had just came over me.
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And my throat went...
couldn't breathe.
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My face went numb.
My arms and legs went numb.
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And then I called back...
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back to the office,
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and told them what happened out here,
what I thought had happened.
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And that we would need some assistance
out here. That we had some problems.
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After the Park Service arrived,
then I'm leading them up through the alders.
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This is the same trail
that I'd come up the first time.
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We got to about right here,
and we just stopped.
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We stopped just to take
a look around.
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Right then, one guy with us
just yells, "Bear!"
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And they all spin around. These gun barrels
come over the top of my head.
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Boy, they just start
firing them off.
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I ducked down 'cause
they hadn't given me a gun.
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I'd look up, and they'd fire
over and over again.
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Then I look up when they're done firing
and there's just a cloud of smoke here.
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I look over, and the bear
is laying right there.
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They're yelling at me,
just don't go near the bear.
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I knew he was dead.
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He'd been shot in the head
and the neck and everywhere.
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He was just laying here
pretty much lifeless.
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And this is right where...
where the bear...
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I told them at the time, I said,
"This is the bear that killed Tim."
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I knew, 'cause that was the same bear
that I had seen down here
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looking at me right through
the alder bushes there.
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So I knew this was the bear.
I said, "Yep, that'll be the one."
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That wound up being the bear
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that they found Tim in.
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I'm here on camera with Olie, the big old bear.
The big old grumpy bear.
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He just took Cracker
out of the creek area.
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There's not a lot of fish here
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so you can understand him wanting
to have control of the creek.
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He's acting like
an alpha male here.
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Which, I guess, for the fact that he is
the only male here, he is the alpha male.
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At any rate, he's also...
He's a surly bear.
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I met him on the path
the other day,
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after feeling sorry for him, thinking
that he was a bit thin, a bit gaunt...
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And he promptly charged me
with the intent to probably strike.
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I know the language
of the bear.
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I was able to deter him from doing that,
and I'm fine.
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But I will tell you something.
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It is the old bear, one who is struggling
for survival,
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and an aggressive one at that,
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who is the one
that you must be very careful of.
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For these are the bears,
that on occasion,
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do, for survival,
kill and eat humans.
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Could Olie, the big old bear,
possibly kill and eat Timothy Treadwell?
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What do you think, Olie?
I think if you were weak around him,
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you're going down his gullet,
going down the pipe.
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Right up top of the hill here
is where we found
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what was left of Tim's body...
his head and a little bit of backbone.
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And we found
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a hand, arm,
wristwatch still on the arm.
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I remember the watch.
Shoot, I can remember the watch.
243
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And here's a guy
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that used to dive in the lake down here
naked to scare the airplanes away.
245
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And here I'm finding his watch
and arm on top of the hill.
246
00:16:10,869 --> 00:16:15,568
And here's about all that's left
of the bear that killed him.
247
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A few pieces of rib bone.
248
00:16:19,044 --> 00:16:22,480
This bear was shot,
and drug off and eaten
249
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by other bears here,
right in this area.
250
00:16:25,951 --> 00:16:30,388
The tough thing out of all this is Tim would
have never wanted to see any bears killed.
251
00:16:30,489 --> 00:16:33,185
Even if they had killed him,
he would've...
252
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He would've been happy
if nobody found him.
253
00:16:36,862 --> 00:16:40,423
Nobody found any remains.
Nobody found his camp or anything.
254
00:16:40,532 --> 00:16:43,160
He would've been
perfectly content.
255
00:16:43,268 --> 00:16:46,499
He definitely lived
on the edge. But he...
256
00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:50,568
He was a little smarter than everyone
gave him credit for.
257
00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:53,144
He made it out here a long time
before they caught up with him.
258
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And actually the bear
that wound up killing him
259
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was just a dirty rotten bear
that he didn't like anyway.
260
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He wanted to be friends with,
but never happened.
261
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I want to introduce you to one of the key
role players in this year's expedition.
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The bear's name is The Grinch.
263
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The Grinch has come on
to be one of the more
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frequent bears
here in the Grizzly Maze.
265
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The Grinch is a female
of about five years of age.
266
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Oh, hi, Grinch. Hi.
267
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And she has kind of
an aggressive attitude.
268
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Hi.
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If I turn around too much, she'll bite me.
It's okay. Hi. How are you?
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How are you?
271
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Don't you do that.
Don't you do that!
272
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Back off!
273
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Don't do it.
274
00:17:51,837 --> 00:17:53,862
It's okay. I love you.
275
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I love you. I love you.
I love you.
276
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I love you. I'm sorry.
277
00:18:00,979 --> 00:18:02,276
I'm Sam Egli.
278
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I was called out as a helicopter pilot
279
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to assist on the cleanup after
the Treadwell tragedy of last winter.
280
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I was in there the morning
281
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the Fish and Game officers
were there examining
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the bear that had done
the killing.
283
00:18:21,066 --> 00:18:22,829
The bear was all cut open.
284
00:18:22,935 --> 00:18:27,338
It was full of people.
It was full of clothing. It was...
285
00:18:27,439 --> 00:18:31,671
We hauled away
four garbage bags of people
286
00:18:31,777 --> 00:18:33,540
out of that bear.
287
00:18:36,582 --> 00:18:39,380
Treadwell was, I think,
288
00:18:39,485 --> 00:18:41,612
meaning well, trying to do things
289
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,417
to help the resource of the bears.
290
00:18:45,524 --> 00:18:49,551
But to me
he was acting like...
291
00:18:49,661 --> 00:18:53,222
like he was working with people
292
00:18:53,332 --> 00:18:57,393
wearing bear costumes out there
instead of wild animals.
293
00:18:58,737 --> 00:19:01,331
Those bears are big
and ferocious,
294
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:04,876
and they come equipped
to kill ya and eat ya.
295
00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:09,107
And that's just what
Treadwell was asking for.
296
00:19:09,214 --> 00:19:11,307
He got what
he was asking for.
297
00:19:11,416 --> 00:19:14,510
He got what he deserved,
in my opinion.
298
00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:19,080
The tragedy of it
was taking the girl with him.
299
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I think the only reason
300
00:19:22,594 --> 00:19:27,554
that Treadwell lasted
as long in the game as he did
301
00:19:27,666 --> 00:19:32,694
was that the bears probably thought
there was something wrong with him.
302
00:19:32,804 --> 00:19:36,968
Like he was mentally retarded
or something.
303
00:19:40,179 --> 00:19:44,411
That bear, I think,
that day decided that he had
304
00:19:44,516 --> 00:19:48,213
either had enough
of Tim Treadwell,
305
00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,882
or that something clicked
in that bear's head
306
00:19:52,991 --> 00:19:56,392
that he thought, "Hey, you know,
he might be good to eat."
307
00:19:57,930 --> 00:20:00,398
My opinion,
I think Treadwell thought
308
00:20:00,499 --> 00:20:04,435
these bears were big,
scary looking, harmless creatures
309
00:20:04,536 --> 00:20:07,334
that he could go up and pet
and sing to,
310
00:20:07,439 --> 00:20:10,203
- and they would bond
- Look it there!
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00:20:10,309 --> 00:20:13,972
As children of the universe
or some odd.
312
00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:19,540
I think he had lost sight
of what was really going on.
313
00:20:32,798 --> 00:20:35,062
He wanted to become like the bear.
314
00:20:35,167 --> 00:20:38,603
Perhaps it was religious,
but not in the true sense of religion.
315
00:20:38,704 --> 00:20:42,504
I think perhaps he wanted to
316
00:20:42,608 --> 00:20:44,007
mutate into a wild animal
317
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as he says in this last letter.
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00:20:46,445 --> 00:20:49,972
He says, "I have to mutually
mutate into a wild animal
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to handle the life
I live out here."
320
00:20:52,317 --> 00:20:55,252
I think there's
a religious sense in that
321
00:20:55,354 --> 00:20:59,984
in the sense of connecting so deeply
that you're no longer human.
322
00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:02,686
And that is a religious experience.
323
00:21:03,996 --> 00:21:05,861
Here's another example.
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"There are many times that
I feel death is the best option.
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My work would be
much more seriously looked at
326
00:21:13,805 --> 00:21:17,400
and possibly make the difference
that in living, I can't do."
327
00:21:17,509 --> 00:21:20,808
I think that was
sort of a paradox for him.
328
00:21:20,912 --> 00:21:25,406
That he felt not worthy enough
to get his message across at times.
329
00:21:25,517 --> 00:21:28,008
And so, maybe,
in the drama of death
330
00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:31,487
his message would be more poignant
and reach out to more people.
331
00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:35,390
But his message stirred
a lot of controversy.
332
00:21:35,494 --> 00:21:39,362
The Gaedes have collected
thousands of angry letters.
333
00:21:39,464 --> 00:21:41,523
I can read you some of...
334
00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:45,569
I picked out three
of these vitriolic hate mails.
335
00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:48,640
They cover the gamut.
336
00:21:50,275 --> 00:21:53,005
"Stereotypical environmentalist.
337
00:21:53,111 --> 00:21:55,341
Just as long as the donations
keep coming,
338
00:21:55,447 --> 00:21:59,975
furthering the antihuman
eco-religion as a noble cause,
339
00:22:00,085 --> 00:22:02,053
who cares about reality?"
340
00:22:02,154 --> 00:22:05,317
And the very idea
341
00:22:05,424 --> 00:22:09,326
that Timothy made a lot of money
doing what he did
342
00:22:09,428 --> 00:22:13,455
is absolutely preposterous, 'cause
he's one of the poorest people we knew.
343
00:22:13,565 --> 00:22:15,726
Another one.
344
00:22:15,834 --> 00:22:19,736
"A bear diet consists
of liberals and Dems,"
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00:22:19,838 --> 00:22:21,362
meaning Democrats.
346
00:22:21,473 --> 00:22:25,239
"A bear diet consists of liberals and Dems
and wacko environmentalists
347
00:22:25,344 --> 00:22:29,110
that think the spotted owl
is the most important thing in the world.
348
00:22:29,214 --> 00:22:33,378
We need to somehow drastically increase
the number of bears in America,
349
00:22:33,485 --> 00:22:37,751
especially in such key spots
as the Berkeley campus."
350
00:22:41,159 --> 00:22:44,322
I, too, would like to step in here
in his defense,
351
00:22:44,429 --> 00:22:48,229
not as an ecologist,
but as a filmmaker.
352
00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:51,928
He captured such glorious
improvised moments,
353
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:54,198
the likes of which
the studio directors,
354
00:22:54,306 --> 00:22:57,707
with their union crews,
can never dream of.
355
00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:05,179
Okay.
356
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:11,978
What are you doing up there?
That's where you're sitting?
357
00:23:21,633 --> 00:23:23,897
There. Go.
358
00:23:24,002 --> 00:23:28,564
Go! Go! Go!
359
00:23:29,574 --> 00:23:31,906
Come on! Come on!
360
00:23:33,145 --> 00:23:35,739
Come on! Run home!
361
00:23:46,191 --> 00:23:48,022
Come on!
362
00:24:09,481 --> 00:24:10,778
Hi.
363
00:24:10,882 --> 00:24:13,180
Hey, you little champion.
364
00:24:13,285 --> 00:24:15,480
Hi. How are you?
365
00:24:15,587 --> 00:24:17,452
You're such a good champion.
366
00:24:17,556 --> 00:24:20,047
I love you. I love you.
367
00:24:21,159 --> 00:24:23,684
Get up there,
and guard that tent.
368
00:24:32,103 --> 00:24:34,571
I'm here with one of my favorite bears.
It's Mr. Chocolate.
369
00:24:34,673 --> 00:24:36,607
Hi, Mr. Chocolate.
370
00:24:36,708 --> 00:24:40,337
He is the star of many people
across the country:
371
00:24:40,445 --> 00:24:42,436
Children, people, adults.
372
00:24:42,547 --> 00:24:44,412
And we're here
in the Grizzly Sanctuary.
373
00:24:44,516 --> 00:24:47,144
But I'm wrapping up my work
in the Grizzly Sanctuary. Why is that?
374
00:24:47,252 --> 00:24:49,117
Because I'm on my way
to the Grizzly Maze
375
00:24:49,221 --> 00:24:53,590
where bears do not have human protection,
but are under human threat.
376
00:24:53,692 --> 00:24:57,822
Bears like Aunt Melissa. Bears like Demon,
Hatchet, Downey and Tabitha.
377
00:24:57,929 --> 00:24:59,863
And it's time for me
to go to protect them.
378
00:24:59,965 --> 00:25:02,024
I wish I could bring
Mr. Chocolate with me.
379
00:25:02,133 --> 00:25:04,033
You'd be great protection there.
380
00:25:04,135 --> 00:25:07,798
He's been with me for over a decade, and he's
been my good friend and I appreciate it.
381
00:25:07,906 --> 00:25:10,431
Thank you, Mr. Chocolate.
I'll see you again next year.
382
00:25:10,542 --> 00:25:14,000
No. I'll see him again at expedition...
end of this expedition.
383
00:25:14,112 --> 00:25:17,411
I'll be back here to join you again.
Back with Mr. Chocolate.
384
00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:22,146
But first, it's off to the exciting
and often dangerous Grizzly Maze.
385
00:25:23,421 --> 00:25:26,322
Now the scene seems to be over.
386
00:25:26,424 --> 00:25:30,292
But as a filmmaker,
sometimes things fall into your lap
387
00:25:30,395 --> 00:25:32,955
which you couldn't expect,
never even dream of.
388
00:25:33,064 --> 00:25:34,793
Hi, Spirit.
389
00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:38,563
There is something like
an inexplicable magic of cinema.
390
00:25:39,905 --> 00:25:41,497
Hi, Spirit.
391
00:25:44,409 --> 00:25:48,903
Well, I'm here with Mr. Chocolate
and Spirit, the fox.
392
00:25:49,014 --> 00:25:51,881
And here comes
some of her pups. Yea!
393
00:25:51,983 --> 00:25:53,814
Here comes
some of her pups.
394
00:25:56,021 --> 00:25:57,784
Hi.
395
00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:02,559
Hi, Spirit.
396
00:26:04,496 --> 00:26:06,293
Hi, Spirit. Hello, baby.
397
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:10,860
Coming down.
398
00:26:15,340 --> 00:26:18,070
What are you doing to that hat?
399
00:26:18,176 --> 00:26:19,905
Where's that hat going?
400
00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:40,191
Hey, who's stealing that hat?
401
00:26:40,298 --> 00:26:43,961
Let me see that hat.
Ghost, I want that hat.
402
00:26:45,036 --> 00:26:47,698
Man! Ghost is bad.
403
00:26:49,007 --> 00:26:51,305
Ghost, what are you doing
with that hat?
404
00:26:51,409 --> 00:26:54,003
Ghost, that hat
is a very important hat.
405
00:26:54,112 --> 00:26:56,808
Drop it! Hey!
406
00:26:57,949 --> 00:27:00,509
Oh, goddamn it!
407
00:27:00,619 --> 00:27:03,144
I can't believe this!
408
00:27:03,254 --> 00:27:05,119
Ghost!
409
00:27:05,223 --> 00:27:07,316
Ghost, where's that fucking hat?
410
00:27:07,425 --> 00:27:10,861
That hat is so frigging valuable
for this trip.
411
00:27:10,962 --> 00:27:14,090
Ghost, you come back here
with that friggin' hat.
412
00:27:14,199 --> 00:27:17,225
If it's in the den,
I'm gonna fucking explode.
413
00:27:17,335 --> 00:27:19,166
Ghost, where's that hat?
414
00:27:19,270 --> 00:27:21,363
It's not okay for you to steal it.
415
00:27:22,474 --> 00:27:24,806
Oh, man!
416
00:27:24,909 --> 00:27:26,274
Oh, man!
417
00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:29,642
It's a friggin' den.
418
00:27:29,914 --> 00:27:32,439
One of the things I've
heard about Mr. Treadwell,
419
00:27:32,550 --> 00:27:34,643
and you can see
in a lot of his films,
420
00:27:34,753 --> 00:27:37,654
is that he tended
to want to become a bear.
421
00:27:37,756 --> 00:27:41,556
Some people that I've spoken with would
encounter him in the field,
422
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,924
and he would act like a bear,
he would "woof" at them.
423
00:27:44,029 --> 00:27:48,796
He would act in the same way a bear
would when they were surprised.
424
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:53,997
Why he did this is only known to him.
No one really knows for sure.
425
00:27:54,105 --> 00:27:56,369
But when you spend
a lot of time with bears,
426
00:27:56,474 --> 00:27:59,568
especially when you're in the field
with them day after day,
427
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:01,737
there's a siren song,
there's a calling
428
00:28:01,846 --> 00:28:04,440
that makes you wanna come in
and spend more time in the world.
429
00:28:04,549 --> 00:28:06,779
Because it is a simpler world.
430
00:28:06,885 --> 00:28:08,910
It is a wonderful thing,
431
00:28:09,020 --> 00:28:11,079
but in fact
it's a harsh world.
432
00:28:11,189 --> 00:28:14,022
It's a different world that bears
live in than we do.
433
00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:16,958
So there is that desire
to get into their world,
434
00:28:17,062 --> 00:28:21,055
but the reality is we never can because
we're very different than they are.
435
00:28:39,851 --> 00:28:41,944
The line between bear and human
436
00:28:42,053 --> 00:28:45,284
has apparently always
been respected
437
00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:47,915
by the native communities
of Alaska.
438
00:28:48,026 --> 00:28:51,928
We visited the curator
of Kodiak's Alutiiq Museum,
439
00:28:52,030 --> 00:28:57,593
which had recently been raided
by tourists out of control.
440
00:28:57,702 --> 00:29:01,229
Somebody wanted it so much,
they cut the paw off.
441
00:29:01,339 --> 00:29:03,705
They stole it from here.
442
00:29:03,808 --> 00:29:07,471
It was quite tragic for us
because it's on loan
443
00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:11,106
and they came in and took it.
444
00:29:12,917 --> 00:29:15,784
And how do you see
Timothy Treadwell's story?
445
00:29:15,887 --> 00:29:18,981
I see it as something that's both...
446
00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:23,456
It's tragic because,
447
00:29:23,561 --> 00:29:25,756
yeah, he died
and his girlfriend died
448
00:29:25,864 --> 00:29:28,765
because he tried to be a bear.
449
00:29:28,867 --> 00:29:32,826
He tried to act like a bear, and for us
on the island, you don't do that.
450
00:29:32,937 --> 00:29:36,065
You don't invade
on their territory.
451
00:29:36,174 --> 00:29:37,471
You...
452
00:29:37,575 --> 00:29:39,873
When you're in their territory,
you know you're there.
453
00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:42,776
And when you're nearby,
454
00:29:42,881 --> 00:29:45,748
you make sure that
they know you're around.
455
00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:51,478
You know, for him to act
like a bear the way he did,
456
00:29:51,589 --> 00:29:53,352
would be...
457
00:29:54,492 --> 00:29:56,392
I don't know.
To me, it was the ultimate
458
00:29:56,494 --> 00:29:59,952
of disrespecting the bear
and what the bear represents.
459
00:30:00,064 --> 00:30:03,625
But he tried to protect the bears,
didn't he?
460
00:30:05,503 --> 00:30:07,801
I think he did more damage
to the bears than he did...
461
00:30:07,906 --> 00:30:12,502
Because when you habituate bears to
humans, they think all humans are safe.
462
00:30:13,711 --> 00:30:17,272
Where I grew up, the bears avoid us
and we avoid them.
463
00:30:17,382 --> 00:30:19,612
They're not habituated to us.
464
00:30:19,717 --> 00:30:23,050
If I look at it from my culture,
Timothy Treadwell crossed a boundary
465
00:30:23,154 --> 00:30:26,646
that we have lived with
for 7,000 years.
466
00:30:26,758 --> 00:30:28,726
It's an unspoken boundary,
an unknown boundary.
467
00:30:28,827 --> 00:30:31,557
But when we know
we've crossed it,
468
00:30:31,663 --> 00:30:33,927
we pay the price.
469
00:31:08,499 --> 00:31:10,558
Jewel, I apologize
470
00:31:10,668 --> 00:31:14,968
that this wristwatch
is still in an evidence bag.
471
00:31:15,073 --> 00:31:18,975
However, I want you to have this watch.
472
00:31:19,077 --> 00:31:22,410
I think that it is important
that you have it.
473
00:31:23,781 --> 00:31:26,215
You knew Timothy for a long time.
474
00:31:26,317 --> 00:31:29,309
My understanding is that you lived together
for three years.
475
00:31:29,420 --> 00:31:31,320
You were very close to him.
476
00:31:31,422 --> 00:31:33,652
Yeah. He was my boyfriend for three years.
He was my boss.
477
00:31:33,758 --> 00:31:37,285
He was a lot of things
to me in 20 years.
478
00:31:37,395 --> 00:31:41,161
I understand that. And that's the reason
I want you to have this.
479
00:31:41,266 --> 00:31:43,359
This really should be yours.
480
00:31:44,836 --> 00:31:46,963
- This watch is still running.
- Oh, wow.
481
00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:51,269
It has been running continuously
since the time that I received it.
482
00:31:51,376 --> 00:31:54,607
This was taken off Timothy's wrist.
483
00:31:55,713 --> 00:31:58,807
Wow! There it is.
484
00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:02,717
It's still running. I can't even believe it.
I can't believe it.
485
00:32:02,820 --> 00:32:04,219
I'm gonna wear it.
486
00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:07,849
And I'm gonna remember him,
and I'm gonna remember Amie.
487
00:32:07,959 --> 00:32:10,621
Can you speak about Amie?
488
00:32:12,163 --> 00:32:16,600
Amie was brave
and Amie was strong.
489
00:32:16,701 --> 00:32:19,636
Amie was my friend
and she was Timothy's friend.
490
00:32:19,737 --> 00:32:23,332
She was his girlfriend, but most important,
she was his friend.
491
00:32:23,441 --> 00:32:24,931
And...
492
00:32:26,177 --> 00:32:31,114
And I believe that
I'm gonna honor their choice.
493
00:32:31,215 --> 00:32:35,049
I'm always gonna respect them for
what they did, and for how they did it.
494
00:32:35,153 --> 00:32:38,554
And for being out there,
and for protecting bears
495
00:32:38,656 --> 00:32:41,090
and living in wild nature.
496
00:32:41,192 --> 00:32:44,389
And living their life to the fullest.
497
00:32:44,495 --> 00:32:47,862
They truly died
doing what they lived for.
498
00:32:49,834 --> 00:32:51,802
Representing Timothy.
499
00:32:53,471 --> 00:32:55,871
And then I'll fill in the rest.
That's the specific number.
500
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,942
- So there it is.
- So there it is.
501
00:32:58,042 --> 00:33:01,205
Full circle. I've got it all.
I can't even believe it.
502
00:33:01,312 --> 00:33:05,180
- Hopefully it will continue to run a long time.
- I think it will.
503
00:33:05,283 --> 00:33:06,750
Very good.
504
00:33:16,394 --> 00:33:18,294
It's the last thing that's left.
505
00:33:22,133 --> 00:33:24,363
Thanks, Franc.
506
00:33:25,837 --> 00:33:28,101
Jewel Palovak,
507
00:33:29,907 --> 00:33:32,899
you were very close
to Timothy Treadwell.
508
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,912
Do you sometimes
feel like his widow?
509
00:33:36,948 --> 00:33:39,041
Do I feel like his widow?
510
00:33:41,285 --> 00:33:43,810
Yeah, you know,
in some ways I do.
511
00:33:43,921 --> 00:33:46,981
I feel like his widow because
512
00:33:47,091 --> 00:33:52,620
everything that he had,
everything that he worked for,
513
00:33:52,730 --> 00:33:54,755
he left to me.
514
00:33:54,866 --> 00:33:57,562
I was his girlfriend.
515
00:33:57,668 --> 00:34:00,296
I was his employee.
516
00:34:00,405 --> 00:34:05,468
I was the person that figured
all the last-minute details out.
517
00:34:05,576 --> 00:34:08,909
You also founded a foundation
with him?
518
00:34:09,013 --> 00:34:11,174
Yeah. We did.
We founded Grizzly People,
519
00:34:11,282 --> 00:34:15,275
whose mission is to protect
and preserve habitat worldwide.
520
00:34:17,522 --> 00:34:21,652
For Treadwell, who had
a natural tendency towards chaos,
521
00:34:21,759 --> 00:34:25,490
Grizzly People served
as his organized platform,
522
00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:29,430
and Jewel was his
most trusted co-combatant.
523
00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:32,733
I met him in a restaurant.
524
00:34:32,837 --> 00:34:35,362
We both worked at this place
called Gulliver's.
525
00:34:35,473 --> 00:34:38,442
It was a prime rib restaurant.
It was huge and theatrical.
526
00:34:38,543 --> 00:34:40,977
Timothy was a squire,
'cause it was set in the time...
527
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:43,309
It was based
on Gulliver's Travels.
528
00:34:43,414 --> 00:34:46,406
He had a chintzy felt hat
529
00:34:46,517 --> 00:34:49,350
and a cheap plastic apron
and some knickers
530
00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:51,945
and that blond hair
just sticking out.
531
00:34:52,056 --> 00:34:55,617
And me, I would be your English
serving wench for the evening.
532
00:34:55,726 --> 00:34:58,217
You had to toss the salad
with aplomb,
533
00:34:58,329 --> 00:35:01,423
and you had to boil the soup
and serve it to the people.
534
00:35:01,532 --> 00:35:04,467
I had seen Timothy,
and he was kind of fun.
535
00:35:04,569 --> 00:35:06,560
I didn't really know who he was.
536
00:35:06,671 --> 00:35:08,662
And one night, I just wasn't
in the best of moods.
537
00:35:08,773 --> 00:35:11,742
I had a huge table.
A family of people that wanted me
538
00:35:11,843 --> 00:35:14,903
to make it the best dining experience
of their life.
539
00:35:15,012 --> 00:35:18,743
Do it up big. Make the soup big, you know.
Use the vernacular.
540
00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:23,150
There was grandmas and babies
and hairdos and coats.
541
00:35:23,254 --> 00:35:26,917
So I thought, "You know what? I'll make it.
I'll make it big for ya.
542
00:35:27,024 --> 00:35:30,585
I'll make it really big.
You'll never forget this birthday."
543
00:35:30,695 --> 00:35:33,687
So, one of the parts
was you'd take the soup cart,
544
00:35:33,798 --> 00:35:37,290
and you'd light it up with this gas
so that the soup was bubbling and boiling.
545
00:35:37,401 --> 00:35:39,460
You could smell
the deliciousness.
546
00:35:39,570 --> 00:35:42,232
And I decided to make it
really big.
547
00:35:42,340 --> 00:35:45,832
So I trailed a little bit
extra of the lighter fluid
548
00:35:45,943 --> 00:35:47,911
around the polyester cloth,
549
00:35:48,012 --> 00:35:52,676
and I kind of miscalculated
because the soup exploded.
550
00:35:52,783 --> 00:35:56,014
The people screamed,
the fire went everywhere.
551
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,214
So I was called into the office
in the next couple of days.
552
00:35:59,323 --> 00:36:02,622
And who do I see
when I sit down in the office,
553
00:36:02,727 --> 00:36:06,288
waiting like you're in the jail or
you're in the principal's office?
554
00:36:06,397 --> 00:36:08,456
I see Timothy Treadwell.
555
00:36:08,566 --> 00:36:11,626
I was like, "Hey, How are you?
I know I've seen you. I'm Jewel."
556
00:36:11,736 --> 00:36:14,204
He said, "I'm Tim."
I said, "What are you in for?"
557
00:36:14,305 --> 00:36:17,001
He said, "I'm in for walking funny
in the dining room."
558
00:36:17,108 --> 00:36:19,474
He said, "What did you do?"
I said, "I lit the soup cart on fire."
559
00:36:19,577 --> 00:36:23,274
He said, "That was you?"
And you know,
560
00:36:23,381 --> 00:36:27,044
it wasn't love at first sight,
but it was certainly kindred spirits.
561
00:36:28,386 --> 00:36:32,322
Only Timmy is the boss
of all foxes and all bears.
562
00:36:32,423 --> 00:36:34,448
You're their ruler.
563
00:36:34,559 --> 00:36:36,459
Look at that face.
564
00:36:37,762 --> 00:36:40,230
Hey, thanks for being my friend.
565
00:36:40,331 --> 00:36:43,732
This is so good.
Does that feel good?
566
00:36:45,169 --> 00:36:47,330
We patrol the Grizzly Sanctuary together.
How did we meet?
567
00:36:47,438 --> 00:36:50,601
Over a decade ago.
He left his mother and father's side,
568
00:36:50,708 --> 00:36:54,235
promptly peed on my shoes,
pooped on my clothes, that was it.
569
00:36:54,345 --> 00:36:58,577
He was my friend. Timmy, the fox. Yep.
And we watch over things.
570
00:36:58,683 --> 00:37:01,447
And he's the boss.
Takes care of everything.
571
00:37:01,552 --> 00:37:04,749
Yep, yep. He says,
"I love the way you pet."
572
00:37:04,855 --> 00:37:08,916
I think one of the things that's really important
is you can see the bond
573
00:37:09,026 --> 00:37:12,154
that has developed between
this very wild animal
574
00:37:12,263 --> 00:37:15,596
and this very,
fairly wild person.
575
00:37:15,700 --> 00:37:17,691
And you realize
he has this gorgeous fur,
576
00:37:17,802 --> 00:37:19,793
and people are trying
to kill him for it
577
00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:22,873
with steel door traps
and cruel farming practices.
578
00:37:22,974 --> 00:37:25,636
And other people run him down
on horses for sport.
579
00:37:25,743 --> 00:37:28,837
Fox hunting.
We want this to end.
580
00:37:28,946 --> 00:37:32,677
Between Timmy, the fox, this beautiful fox,
and me, we ask the public,
581
00:37:32,783 --> 00:37:38,085
please stop killing and hurting these foxes
and torturing them.
582
00:37:38,189 --> 00:37:39,850
Don't you think?
583
00:37:39,957 --> 00:37:42,323
If they knew how beautiful he was,
and how sweet he was,
584
00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:44,451
they would never hurt him.
585
00:37:44,562 --> 00:37:46,257
Thanks.
586
00:37:46,364 --> 00:37:50,596
Timothy used his camera as a tool
to get his message across.
587
00:37:50,701 --> 00:37:53,261
Sometimes it was very playful.
588
00:37:53,371 --> 00:37:57,068
Do another take here. I fucked up the last
one. Almost fell off the cliff.
589
00:37:57,174 --> 00:38:00,109
I'm a fucking asshole.
590
00:38:00,211 --> 00:38:02,441
Behind me is the Grizzly Sanctuary
and also behind me,
591
00:38:02,546 --> 00:38:06,676
hidden down below in those trees somewhere,
is my camp.
592
00:38:06,784 --> 00:38:10,242
I must stay incognito.
I must hide from the authorities.
593
00:38:10,354 --> 00:38:12,754
I must hide from people
who would harm me.
594
00:38:12,857 --> 00:38:15,519
I must now hide from people
that seek me out
595
00:38:15,626 --> 00:38:18,356
because I've made some sort of,
596
00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:20,453
I don't want to say celebrity,
597
00:38:20,564 --> 00:38:23,362
but they come to Alaska
and hear about Treadwell in the bush
598
00:38:23,467 --> 00:38:25,492
and they want to go find him.
599
00:38:25,603 --> 00:38:27,901
Well, they can't.
I'm hidden down below.
600
00:38:28,005 --> 00:38:31,372
No one knows where I am.
Even I don't know where I am.
601
00:38:31,475 --> 00:38:33,102
That's pretty shitty.
602
00:38:33,210 --> 00:38:35,576
Let's do a really short take here.
603
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,615
But as a filmmaker,
he was methodical.
604
00:38:38,716 --> 00:38:41,549
- Whatever.
- Often repeating takes 15 times.
605
00:38:41,652 --> 00:38:43,745
One more really short,
excellent take.
606
00:38:43,854 --> 00:38:48,848
Let's just really sum it up. Here we go.
This is gonna be the motherfucker.
607
00:38:48,959 --> 00:38:52,554
Behind me is the Grizzly Sanctuary,
and also hidden below is my camp.
608
00:38:52,663 --> 00:38:56,895
For I must now remain hidden from the
authorities, from people who would harm me,
609
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:59,162
from people who would
seek me out as a story.
610
00:38:59,270 --> 00:39:01,568
My future helping the animals
depends on it.
611
00:39:01,672 --> 00:39:04,505
I must be a spirit
in the wilderness.
612
00:39:06,944 --> 00:39:09,674
With himself as the central character,
613
00:39:09,780 --> 00:39:12,271
he began to craft his own movie,
614
00:39:12,383 --> 00:39:15,716
something way beyond
the wildlife film.
615
00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:18,220
There is going to be a number of takes
I'm gonna do.
616
00:39:18,322 --> 00:39:20,222
These are called
"Wild Timmy Jungle Scenes."
617
00:39:20,324 --> 00:39:22,451
We're gonna do
several takes of each
618
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,927
where I'll do it with a bandanna on,
maybe a bandanna off.
619
00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:27,998
Maybe two different
colored bandannas.
620
00:39:28,099 --> 00:39:29,726
Some without a bandanna,
621
00:39:29,834 --> 00:39:32,564
some with the camera
being held.
622
00:39:35,172 --> 00:39:38,938
I kind of stumbled.
Let's do it again.
623
00:39:39,043 --> 00:39:43,503
So the basic deal is that this stuff
could be cut into a show later on,
624
00:39:43,614 --> 00:39:48,551
but who knows what look I had, whether
I had the black bandanna or no bandanna.
625
00:39:48,652 --> 00:39:52,053
Very rarely the camo one,
but I like the camo look.
626
00:39:55,526 --> 00:39:59,053
Both cameras rolling. Both cameras rolling.
Both cameras rolling!
627
00:40:00,998 --> 00:40:04,058
Sexy green bandanna,
last take of the evening.
628
00:40:04,168 --> 00:40:06,102
I'm on my way to the creek.
I need to get water.
629
00:40:06,203 --> 00:40:10,503
And there's a super-duper low tide.
Full moon tonight, and action.
630
00:40:10,608 --> 00:40:12,667
In his action movie mode,
631
00:40:12,777 --> 00:40:15,109
Treadwell probably did not realize
632
00:40:15,212 --> 00:40:20,616
that seemingly empty moments
had a strange, secret beauty.
633
00:40:20,718 --> 00:40:24,586
Sometimes images themselves
developed their own life,
634
00:40:24,688 --> 00:40:27,657
their own mysterious stardom.
635
00:40:39,703 --> 00:40:41,500
Starsky and Hutch. Over.
636
00:40:45,509 --> 00:40:47,409
Beyond his posings,
637
00:40:47,511 --> 00:40:51,174
the camera was his only
present companion.
638
00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:55,150
It was his instrument to explore
the wilderness around him,
639
00:40:55,252 --> 00:40:59,154
but increasingly
it became something more.
640
00:40:59,256 --> 00:41:02,521
He started to scrutinize
his innermost being,
641
00:41:02,626 --> 00:41:06,153
his demons,
his exhilarations.
642
00:41:06,263 --> 00:41:11,200
Facing the lens of a camera took
on the quality of a confessional.
643
00:41:14,371 --> 00:41:16,430
Covering various years,
644
00:41:16,540 --> 00:41:20,306
the following samples illustrate
the search for himself.
645
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:23,947
If there... I have no idea
if there's a God.
646
00:41:24,048 --> 00:41:27,245
But if there's a God, God would
be very, very... pleased with me.
647
00:41:27,351 --> 00:41:29,546
If he could just watch me here,
how much I love them,
648
00:41:29,653 --> 00:41:33,350
how much I adore them,
how respectful I am to them.
649
00:41:33,457 --> 00:41:35,357
How I am one of them.
650
00:41:35,459 --> 00:41:39,054
And how the studies they give me,
the photographs, the video...
651
00:41:39,163 --> 00:41:41,825
And take that around
for no charge
652
00:41:41,932 --> 00:41:44,594
to people around the world.
653
00:41:44,702 --> 00:41:48,103
It's good work. I feel good about it.
I feel good about myself doing it.
654
00:41:48,205 --> 00:41:52,642
And I want to continue, and I hope I can.
I really hope I can.
655
00:41:52,743 --> 00:41:55,803
But if not, be warned.
656
00:41:55,913 --> 00:41:59,872
I will die for these animals. I will die for
these animals. I will die for these animals.
657
00:41:59,984 --> 00:42:02,282
Thank you so much
for letting me do this.
658
00:42:02,386 --> 00:42:06,482
Thank you so much for these animals,
for giving me a life.
659
00:42:06,590 --> 00:42:10,458
I had no life.
Now I have a life.
660
00:42:17,968 --> 00:42:19,936
Now, enough of that.
661
00:42:21,572 --> 00:42:24,370
Now let the expedition continue.
It's off to Timmy, the fox.
662
00:42:24,475 --> 00:42:26,773
We've gotta find Banjo.
He's missing!
663
00:42:26,877 --> 00:42:29,243
And that's my story here,
664
00:42:29,346 --> 00:42:31,940
for me, Timothy Treadwell,
665
00:42:32,049 --> 00:42:34,244
the kind warrior.
666
00:42:34,351 --> 00:42:36,819
Can I take it?
667
00:42:36,921 --> 00:42:38,786
I'm trying.
668
00:42:38,889 --> 00:42:41,016
Okay, yeah, I can do it.
669
00:42:41,125 --> 00:42:43,559
Yeah. Why not? Why not?
670
00:42:44,628 --> 00:42:46,960
I've crossed the halfway point.
671
00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:50,795
Government's given me
all they have. So far.
672
00:42:50,901 --> 00:42:53,199
I've stood up to it.
673
00:42:53,304 --> 00:42:56,762
I've had danger in the boat, almost died.
I've almost fallen off a cliff.
674
00:42:56,874 --> 00:43:00,310
Yeah. The danger factor's
about to amp up in the Maze.
675
00:43:00,411 --> 00:43:02,845
The Maze is always
the most dangerous.
676
00:43:03,981 --> 00:43:06,541
Lord, I do not want
to be hurt by a bear.
677
00:43:06,650 --> 00:43:08,481
I do not.
678
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:12,613
I always cannot understand why girls
don't wanna be with me for a long time,
679
00:43:12,723 --> 00:43:15,089
because I have really
a nice personality.
680
00:43:15,192 --> 00:43:17,126
I'm fun.
681
00:43:17,227 --> 00:43:20,719
I'm very, very good in the... You're not
supposed to say that when you're a guy.
682
00:43:20,831 --> 00:43:23,265
But I know I am.
They know I am.
683
00:43:23,367 --> 00:43:25,528
And...
684
00:43:28,505 --> 00:43:31,531
I don't fight with them,
I'm so passive.
685
00:43:31,642 --> 00:43:33,542
Bit of a patsy!
686
00:43:33,644 --> 00:43:36,374
Is that a turnoff to girls,
to be a patsy?
687
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,280
I mean it's not... it's not
that I'm a total great guy.
688
00:43:40,384 --> 00:43:43,410
I'm a lot of fun
and have a good life going.
689
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,216
I don't know what's going on.
690
00:43:46,323 --> 00:43:49,190
I always wished I was gay.
Would've been a lot easier.
691
00:43:49,293 --> 00:43:51,284
You know?
You can just "bing-bing-bing."
692
00:43:51,395 --> 00:43:55,297
Gay guys have no problem. I mean,
they go to restrooms and truck stops,
693
00:43:55,399 --> 00:43:57,959
and they perform sex.
694
00:43:58,068 --> 00:44:00,662
It's like so easy for 'em and stuff.
695
00:44:00,771 --> 00:44:04,969
But you know what?
Alas, Timothy Treadwell is not gay. Bummer!
696
00:44:05,075 --> 00:44:08,408
I love girls! And girls...
697
00:44:08,512 --> 00:44:10,810
Girls need a lot more...
698
00:44:10,914 --> 00:44:13,815
need a lot more, you know,
699
00:44:13,917 --> 00:44:18,752
finesse and care,
and I like that a bit.
700
00:44:18,856 --> 00:44:21,222
But when it goes bad
and you're alone,
701
00:44:21,325 --> 00:44:22,883
it's like...
702
00:44:23,927 --> 00:44:25,189
Well,
703
00:44:26,330 --> 00:44:30,027
you know, you can't rebound
like you can if you were gay.
704
00:44:30,134 --> 00:44:32,068
I'm sure gay people
have problems too,
705
00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:36,162
but not as much as one goofy straight guy
named Timothy Treadwell.
706
00:44:36,273 --> 00:44:39,674
Anyway, that's my story.
That's my story.
707
00:44:41,412 --> 00:44:44,609
I love you. Look at you.
708
00:44:44,715 --> 00:44:47,275
You're the best little fox.
709
00:44:47,384 --> 00:44:49,818
But how did I come
into this work, Iris?
710
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:51,785
Did you ever get the story?
711
00:44:51,889 --> 00:44:55,586
I was troubled. I was troubled.
I drank a lot.
712
00:44:55,693 --> 00:44:57,957
Did you know that?
You wouldn't even know what that is.
713
00:44:58,062 --> 00:45:02,465
But I used to drink
to the point of
714
00:45:02,566 --> 00:45:07,265
that I guess I was either gonna die
from it or break free of it.
715
00:45:07,371 --> 00:45:11,307
But nothing, nothing, Iris,
could get me from... to stop drinking.
716
00:45:11,408 --> 00:45:15,003
Nothing! I went to programs.
I tried quitting myself.
717
00:45:15,112 --> 00:45:18,946
I did everything that I could
to try not to drink,
718
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:21,517
and then I did everything
I could to drink.
719
00:45:21,618 --> 00:45:24,018
And... And it was killing me
720
00:45:24,121 --> 00:45:27,113
until I discovered
this land of bears
721
00:45:27,224 --> 00:45:30,557
and realized that they were in
such great danger
722
00:45:30,661 --> 00:45:34,062
that they needed a caretaker, they needed
someone to look after them.
723
00:45:34,164 --> 00:45:36,325
But not a drunk person.
Not a person messed up.
724
00:45:36,433 --> 00:45:40,802
So I promised the bears
that if I would look over them,
725
00:45:40,904 --> 00:45:45,773
would they please help me
be a better person and
726
00:45:45,876 --> 00:45:48,709
they've become so inspirational,
727
00:45:48,812 --> 00:45:51,576
and living with the foxes too,
728
00:45:51,682 --> 00:45:53,616
that I did, I gave up the drinking.
729
00:45:53,717 --> 00:45:55,617
It was a miracle.
It was an absolute miracle.
730
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,280
And the miracle was animals.
The miracle was animals.
731
00:46:03,093 --> 00:46:07,052
I live here. It's very dangerous.
It's really dangerous.
732
00:46:07,164 --> 00:46:09,997
I run wild with the bears.
I run so wild, so free,
733
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:14,059
so like a child
with these animals.
734
00:46:14,171 --> 00:46:18,335
It's really cool.
And it's very serious.
735
00:46:19,676 --> 00:46:22,008
I'm here alone,
and when you're all alone
736
00:46:22,112 --> 00:46:24,842
you do get... you get lonely.
737
00:46:24,948 --> 00:46:27,815
Oh, duhl Right?
You get pretty lonely.
738
00:46:32,923 --> 00:46:36,723
Oh, no. I'm gonna do all this stuff because
I'm supposed to be alone.
739
00:46:36,827 --> 00:46:38,158
Oh. Okay.
740
00:46:40,531 --> 00:46:42,522
Part of the mythical character
741
00:46:42,633 --> 00:46:45,067
Treadwell was transforming
himself into
742
00:46:45,169 --> 00:46:49,833
required him to be seen
as being completely alone.
743
00:46:49,940 --> 00:46:53,467
He was mostly alone,
but he did spend time with women
744
00:46:53,577 --> 00:46:56,375
who will here
remain anonymous.
745
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,846
The truth is that
Amie Huguenard
746
00:46:58,949 --> 00:47:02,146
accompanied him for parts
of his last two summers.
747
00:47:02,252 --> 00:47:05,881
A fact which was out of step
with his stylization
748
00:47:05,989 --> 00:47:08,981
as the lone guardian
of the grizzlies.
749
00:47:11,595 --> 00:47:16,328
It's July 26, and I've been dropped off
all alone again here in the Grizzly Maze.
750
00:47:16,433 --> 00:47:19,527
And it's always such a surreal
feeling as the plane takes off.
751
00:47:19,636 --> 00:47:23,595
And it doesn't quite sink
into you just how alone you are.
752
00:47:23,707 --> 00:47:25,698
That for the next
two months or more
753
00:47:25,809 --> 00:47:28,175
you will be alone
in this wild wilderness,
754
00:47:28,278 --> 00:47:32,078
this jungle that the bears
have carved tunnels through.
755
00:47:32,182 --> 00:47:34,275
And that's the Grizzly Maze.
756
00:47:34,384 --> 00:47:36,818
It's July 26.
I hope to survive
757
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,650
and to be able to record
the secret world of the bears.
758
00:47:39,756 --> 00:47:43,214
And come September when people
might come to harm these animals,
759
00:47:43,327 --> 00:47:46,125
I'll look after them,
I'll make sure they're safe.
760
00:47:51,268 --> 00:47:54,795
It is so weird, though,
when it sinks in,
761
00:47:54,905 --> 00:47:57,339
how alone you are.
762
00:48:01,812 --> 00:48:06,875
Amie Huguenard remains
a great unknown of this film.
763
00:48:06,984 --> 00:48:09,953
Her family declined
to appear on camera,
764
00:48:10,053 --> 00:48:13,989
and Amie herself remains hidden
in Treadwell's footage.
765
00:48:14,091 --> 00:48:16,992
In nearly 100 hours
of his video,
766
00:48:17,094 --> 00:48:20,427
she appears
exactly two times.
767
00:48:20,530 --> 00:48:25,627
Here disembarking from the plane
in the year of her death.
768
00:48:25,736 --> 00:48:27,499
We never see her face.
769
00:48:27,604 --> 00:48:31,335
Here it is obscured
by her hands and her hair.
770
00:48:31,441 --> 00:48:33,932
Greetings, children of America.
771
00:48:36,113 --> 00:48:40,015
The second shot that we have
doesn't show her face either.
772
00:48:40,117 --> 00:48:43,609
She remains a mystery,
veiled by a mosquito net,
773
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:45,688
obscured, unknown.
774
00:48:47,758 --> 00:48:49,749
Only through Treadwell's diaries
775
00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:52,988
do we know that
she was frightened of bears.
776
00:48:58,568 --> 00:49:01,401
The only other hint
we have of her presence
777
00:49:01,505 --> 00:49:03,871
is this shot here of Treadwell.
778
00:49:03,974 --> 00:49:06,807
It is handheld,
and we can only deduct
779
00:49:06,910 --> 00:49:10,311
it must have been Amie
operating the camera.
780
00:49:19,957 --> 00:49:22,824
Timothy Treadwell
and Amie Huguenard's remains
781
00:49:22,926 --> 00:49:25,224
came in this large metal can.
782
00:49:26,530 --> 00:49:30,125
Inside this metal can
was a plastic bag,
783
00:49:30,233 --> 00:49:32,793
one for Timothy, and one for Amie.
784
00:49:32,903 --> 00:49:37,237
I mean, these are human beings.
And the question I ask is first of all:
785
00:49:37,341 --> 00:49:39,309
Who are you, Timothy?
786
00:49:39,409 --> 00:49:42,708
Who are you, Amie?
And what happened to you?
787
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:47,341
In the case of Timothy and Amie,
what I had were body parts.
788
00:49:47,451 --> 00:49:50,852
Just the visual input of seeing
789
00:49:50,954 --> 00:49:54,355
a detached human being
before my eyes
790
00:49:54,458 --> 00:49:58,485
makes my heart race, makes
the hair stand up on the back of my head.
791
00:49:58,595 --> 00:50:02,292
Particularly in combination
with the contents of a tape,
792
00:50:02,399 --> 00:50:06,631
an audiotape that is the sound portion
of the videotape.
793
00:50:06,737 --> 00:50:09,604
And when I find out
from other investigators
794
00:50:09,706 --> 00:50:13,506
that the shoes neatly placed
at the entrance to a tent,
795
00:50:13,610 --> 00:50:16,408
and the cap left
on a camera so that
796
00:50:16,513 --> 00:50:19,505
the visual part
could not be recorded,
797
00:50:19,616 --> 00:50:24,553
yet the tape is running so that we can
hear the sounds of Amie screaming
798
00:50:24,654 --> 00:50:28,454
and the sounds
of Timothy moaning,
799
00:50:28,558 --> 00:50:31,391
tells me that this event
occurred very, very quickly,
800
00:50:31,495 --> 00:50:33,520
suddenly and unexpectedly.
801
00:50:33,630 --> 00:50:38,693
I clearly can hear her screaming,
"Stop" and "Go away."
802
00:50:38,802 --> 00:50:42,294
Maybe "Run away."
There's a lot of background noise.
803
00:50:42,406 --> 00:50:43,964
Timothy is moaning.
804
00:50:44,074 --> 00:50:49,410
And I hear Amie beating on the top
of this bear's head with a frying pan.
805
00:50:49,513 --> 00:50:53,711
And Timothy is saying,
"Run away. Let go!
806
00:50:53,817 --> 00:50:58,584
Run away. Run away, Amie.
Run away."
807
00:50:58,688 --> 00:51:01,885
Amie had a great deal
of conviction.
808
00:51:01,992 --> 00:51:06,326
She had a great deal of conviction
in this relationship. We know that.
809
00:51:06,430 --> 00:51:09,922
Although in the past,
she was more standoffish.
810
00:51:10,033 --> 00:51:13,696
She didn't get as close
to the bear as Timothy did.
811
00:51:13,804 --> 00:51:16,329
She was more cautious.
812
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,898
However, I know,
that at the moment of death,
813
00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:25,209
when one is being tried
to the maximum of one's ability
814
00:51:25,315 --> 00:51:29,752
to be faithful,
to stick to a situation,
815
00:51:29,853 --> 00:51:32,981
to be loyal, if one can say that,
to Timothy,
816
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:36,526
she stayed there,
and she fought with Timothy.
817
00:51:36,626 --> 00:51:38,685
She did not run away.
818
00:51:38,795 --> 00:51:43,129
Amie, we know, fought back
for approximately six minutes.
819
00:51:43,233 --> 00:51:48,261
Amie stayed with her lover,
820
00:51:48,371 --> 00:51:51,499
with her partner, with her mate,
821
00:51:51,608 --> 00:51:53,542
and with the bear.
822
00:51:53,643 --> 00:51:58,842
Ultimately she stayed
with the bear in the situation.
823
00:52:15,132 --> 00:52:17,532
This is Timothy's camera.
824
00:52:17,634 --> 00:52:19,431
During the fatal attack,
825
00:52:19,536 --> 00:52:22,733
there was no time
to remove the lens cap.
826
00:52:22,839 --> 00:52:26,866
Jewel Palovak allowed me
to listen to the audio.
827
00:52:31,548 --> 00:52:33,778
I hear rain, and I hear Amie,
828
00:52:33,884 --> 00:52:37,047
"Get away! Get away!
Go away!"
829
00:52:59,075 --> 00:53:01,100
Can you turn it off?
830
00:53:19,930 --> 00:53:22,490
Jewel, you must never
listen to this.
831
00:53:22,599 --> 00:53:26,865
I know, Werner.
I'm never going to.
832
00:53:26,970 --> 00:53:30,770
And you must never look at the photos
I've seen at the coroner's office.
833
00:53:30,874 --> 00:53:33,900
- I will never look at them.
- Yeah.
834
00:53:39,516 --> 00:53:42,485
They said it was bad.
835
00:53:45,188 --> 00:53:48,783
Now you know why
no one's gonna hear it.
836
00:53:53,663 --> 00:53:57,224
I think you, you should not keep it.
You should destroy it.
837
00:53:57,334 --> 00:54:00,462
- Yeah.
- I think that's what you should do.
838
00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:01,594
Okay.
839
00:54:01,705 --> 00:54:05,607
Because it will be the white elephant
in your room all your life.
840
00:57:05,388 --> 00:57:07,322
Here I am at the scene
of the fight.
841
00:57:07,424 --> 00:57:10,086
It looks as if tractors tore
the land up,
842
00:57:10,193 --> 00:57:12,388
raked it, rototilled it,
tossed it about.
843
00:57:12,495 --> 00:57:15,794
There is fur everywhere, and in the camera
foreground excreted waste.
844
00:57:15,899 --> 00:57:18,834
In the middle of the fight
so violent, so upsetting
845
00:57:18,935 --> 00:57:22,200
that Sergeant Brown
went to the bathroom,
846
00:57:22,305 --> 00:57:25,832
did a number two during his fight.
847
00:57:25,942 --> 00:57:29,537
Extremely emotional,
extremely powerful.
848
00:57:29,646 --> 00:57:32,513
And yet, both bears
back in pursuit of Saturn,
849
00:57:32,615 --> 00:57:36,608
including Mickey, who appears
to have gotten the worse for the wear
850
00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:39,847
in the fight between
Sergeant Brown and Mickey
851
00:57:39,956 --> 00:57:44,325
for the right to court Saturn,
the queen of the Grizzly Sanctuary.
852
00:57:44,427 --> 00:57:46,486
Amazing.
853
00:57:46,596 --> 00:57:49,588
Oh, Mickey, I love you. And Mickey's
now the closest bear to Saturn.
854
00:57:49,699 --> 00:57:53,157
Back in like a horse in a race
that does not give up.
855
00:57:53,269 --> 00:57:56,238
We love that bear. Mickey!
We love him! We love him.
856
00:57:56,339 --> 00:57:59,433
But, Mickey,
I've been down that street.
857
00:57:59,542 --> 00:58:01,806
You don't always get the chick you want.
Let me tell you.
858
00:58:01,911 --> 00:58:04,379
It doesn't always often work out.
859
00:58:04,481 --> 00:58:06,381
Hey, he's after my own heart.
860
00:58:06,483 --> 00:58:09,281
He don't give up,
even when it looks shitty.
861
00:58:09,385 --> 00:58:12,320
All right, love you, Mickey.
Love you, Mickey.
862
00:58:19,262 --> 00:58:22,459
I just wanna discuss that fight
with Mickey bear right here.
863
00:58:22,565 --> 00:58:24,931
He's right next to me here
in the Grizzly Sanctuary on the tide fly.
864
00:58:25,034 --> 00:58:27,229
Saturn off to camera left.
865
00:58:27,337 --> 00:58:32,502
Mick, you underestimated Sergeant Brown.
You went in for the head.
866
00:58:32,609 --> 00:58:35,305
He seemed to be rope-a-doping you
like he wasn't that tough.
867
00:58:35,411 --> 00:58:38,107
And then once you
banged into him,
868
00:58:38,214 --> 00:58:41,411
man, he turned out to be
one heck of a rough bear,
869
00:58:41,518 --> 00:58:43,213
a very rough bear.
870
00:58:43,319 --> 00:58:47,016
I was so scared, I almost got sick
to my stomach watching you fight.
871
00:58:47,123 --> 00:58:49,921
Then when he knocked you down
and you were down on your back,
872
00:58:50,026 --> 00:58:53,325
it was terrible,
it was terrible!
873
00:58:53,429 --> 00:58:55,693
I'm not duking it out for any girl like that.
I'm telling you right now.
874
00:58:55,798 --> 00:58:58,892
I'm not duking it out
for any girl, but l...
875
00:58:59,002 --> 00:59:01,493
Well, I've had my troubles
with the girls. Yeah, yeah.
876
00:59:01,604 --> 00:59:04,198
And I'll tell you something.
If Saturn was a female human...
877
00:59:04,307 --> 00:59:07,401
I can just see how beautiful
she is as a bear.
878
00:59:07,510 --> 00:59:11,344
I've always called her the Michelle Pfeiffer
of bears out here.
879
00:59:13,082 --> 00:59:15,448
All right, you lay there.
I'm gonna go off with your girlfriend.
880
00:59:15,552 --> 00:59:17,452
Don't beat me up over it.
881
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:20,614
I'm cool, I'm cool. I'm respectful.
882
00:59:20,723 --> 00:59:22,953
Things are bad for me
with the human women,
883
00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:25,254
but not so bad that I have
to be hitting on bears yet.
884
00:59:25,361 --> 00:59:27,454
Okay? Okay.
885
00:59:30,767 --> 00:59:32,394
In his diaries,
886
00:59:32,502 --> 00:59:37,064
Treadwell speaks often of the human world
as something foreign.
887
00:59:37,173 --> 00:59:41,269
He made a clear distinction between
the bears and the people's world
888
00:59:41,377 --> 00:59:44,710
which moved further and further
into the distance.
889
00:59:46,549 --> 00:59:51,486
Wild, primordial nature was
where he felt truly at home.
890
00:59:55,792 --> 01:00:00,957
We explored the glacier in the back country
of his Grizzly Sanctuary.
891
01:00:01,064 --> 01:00:05,228
This gigantic complexity
of tumbling ice and abysses
892
01:00:05,335 --> 01:00:08,668
separated Treadwell
from the world out there.
893
01:00:08,771 --> 01:00:13,470
And more so, it seems to me
that this landscape in turmoil
894
01:00:13,576 --> 01:00:16,067
is a metaphor of his soul.
895
01:00:27,357 --> 01:00:31,225
Off there in the distance
is his bay and his campsite
896
01:00:31,327 --> 01:00:33,727
where he battled his demons.
897
01:00:35,965 --> 01:00:38,832
What drove Timothy
into the wild?
898
01:00:39,102 --> 01:00:42,401
We visited his parents
in Florida.
899
01:00:44,907 --> 01:00:48,035
Timothy grew up with
four siblings in Long Island
900
01:00:48,144 --> 01:00:50,203
in a solid middle-class family
901
01:00:50,313 --> 01:00:54,010
where the father worked as the foreman
of a construction team
902
01:00:54,117 --> 01:00:56,847
for a telephone company.
903
01:00:56,953 --> 01:00:59,421
There must have been
an urge to escape
904
01:00:59,522 --> 01:01:03,856
the safety of
his protected environment.
905
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:08,294
I was moved to find that among
all memorabilia in the house,
906
01:01:08,398 --> 01:01:11,799
his mother was clutching
Timothy's favorite bear.
907
01:01:11,901 --> 01:01:15,462
This has been to Alaska
many times.
908
01:01:15,571 --> 01:01:18,301
I'm sure he loved it
to the end, you know?
909
01:01:18,408 --> 01:01:22,344
It's just... his childhood toy.
910
01:01:22,445 --> 01:01:27,041
Tim's childhood pointed towards
nothing extraordinary.
911
01:01:27,150 --> 01:01:29,641
A normal everyday kid.
912
01:01:29,752 --> 01:01:34,052
Never any trouble in school.
Always a good student.
913
01:01:34,157 --> 01:01:36,489
Not an "A" student,
a "B" student.
914
01:01:36,592 --> 01:01:41,029
And got along great
with kids and animals.
915
01:01:41,130 --> 01:01:44,190
Him and I were extremely connected
to animals in the house.
916
01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:46,996
I think more so
than anybody else.
917
01:01:48,404 --> 01:01:50,702
This squirrel named Willie
918
01:01:50,807 --> 01:01:53,708
became Timothy's best friend.
919
01:01:53,810 --> 01:01:56,938
Teddy bears meant a lot to him.
920
01:01:57,046 --> 01:02:02,279
He seemed to develop into
an all-American boy, handsome,
921
01:02:02,418 --> 01:02:05,581
athletic, full of promise.
922
01:02:07,056 --> 01:02:11,220
He excelled on
his high school swim team.
923
01:02:11,327 --> 01:02:16,287
He went to Bradley University
on a diving scholarship.
924
01:02:16,399 --> 01:02:20,130
I think he started drinking
out there and having,
925
01:02:20,236 --> 01:02:22,568
you know, just hanging out
with the wrong people.
926
01:02:22,672 --> 01:02:25,140
Then he injured his back.
And he ended up
927
01:02:25,241 --> 01:02:28,836
losing his scholarship
and coming back home.
928
01:02:28,945 --> 01:02:32,312
He did attempt to smoke
marijuana in the house.
929
01:02:32,415 --> 01:02:34,406
Yeah, he did.
930
01:02:34,517 --> 01:02:36,280
But I put the kibosh on that.
931
01:02:36,385 --> 01:02:39,047
But obviously he was
doing it elsewhere, so...
932
01:02:39,155 --> 01:02:43,091
He really wanted a new start,
a fresh start.
933
01:02:43,192 --> 01:02:47,492
So when he went out to California,
he was 19 or 20.
934
01:02:47,597 --> 01:02:51,863
He wasn't a young 15 or 16-year-old.
He was of age.
935
01:02:51,968 --> 01:02:57,235
He'd gotten a job just to make money
on the Queen Mary at the gift shop.
936
01:02:57,340 --> 01:03:00,070
He did hire an agent.
937
01:03:00,176 --> 01:03:05,478
He did change his name
to Treadwell to be theatrical.
938
01:03:05,581 --> 01:03:08,175
And it was a family name.
939
01:03:11,220 --> 01:03:13,279
I know he got on
940
01:03:13,389 --> 01:03:15,482
Love Connection
with Chuck Woolery.
941
01:03:15,591 --> 01:03:18,992
I think he got on another show.
942
01:03:19,095 --> 01:03:22,428
There were promises made
that never came true.
943
01:03:22,532 --> 01:03:25,023
And he tested with the actors
944
01:03:25,134 --> 01:03:28,797
to get the bartender job
on Cheers.
945
01:03:28,905 --> 01:03:33,433
And allegedly he came in second
to Woody Harrelson.
946
01:03:33,543 --> 01:03:36,137
How close a second?
I don't know.
947
01:03:36,245 --> 01:03:39,214
But that is what
really destroyed him.
948
01:03:39,315 --> 01:03:42,910
That he did not get
that job on Cheers.
949
01:03:45,087 --> 01:03:47,419
He spiraled down.
950
01:03:51,127 --> 01:03:53,925
Timmy used to body surf out here.
951
01:03:54,030 --> 01:03:58,467
He had a boogie board
with the Union Jack on it.
952
01:03:58,568 --> 01:04:02,436
And he was totally fearless.
953
01:04:02,538 --> 01:04:05,735
The amazing thing about Timmy
was he did...
954
01:04:05,842 --> 01:04:08,402
He had this Prince Valiant haircut.
955
01:04:08,511 --> 01:04:12,311
And he could surf
and go under water,
956
01:04:12,415 --> 01:04:16,784
and yet still that hair would hide
his receding hairline.
957
01:04:16,886 --> 01:04:19,150
It was the most
amazing thing I'd ever seen.
958
01:04:19,255 --> 01:04:21,416
No matter how rough the surf,
959
01:04:21,524 --> 01:04:23,685
you never saw Timmy's forehead.
960
01:04:23,793 --> 01:04:25,852
I don't know how he did that.
961
01:04:27,430 --> 01:04:29,159
How's the hair look?
962
01:04:30,199 --> 01:04:32,759
At some point in Timmy's life,
963
01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:35,463
he had a near fatal overdose.
964
01:04:35,571 --> 01:04:38,472
How he survived it,
I don't know.
965
01:04:38,574 --> 01:04:40,565
He was a tough guy.
966
01:04:40,676 --> 01:04:42,940
But I guess it was
an epiphany for him.
967
01:04:43,045 --> 01:04:47,539
After that he was looking
for a different persona.
968
01:04:49,619 --> 01:04:52,554
I guess that's when
he came up with
969
01:04:52,655 --> 01:04:56,091
where he was from
and his delightful accent.
970
01:04:56,192 --> 01:04:57,921
I never questioned it.
971
01:04:58,928 --> 01:05:02,125
Treadwell's need to invent
a new persona for himself
972
01:05:02,231 --> 01:05:04,995
led him to elaborate
fabrications.
973
01:05:05,101 --> 01:05:07,797
He claimed to be an orphan
from Australia,
974
01:05:07,904 --> 01:05:12,136
and even checked out details
of a small town in the Australian outback
975
01:05:12,241 --> 01:05:15,074
in order to sound convincing.
976
01:05:15,177 --> 01:05:18,669
His accent, though,
remained suspicious.
977
01:05:18,781 --> 01:05:22,512
It almost sounded more Kennedy-esque
than Australian.
978
01:05:22,618 --> 01:05:25,348
After Timmy's death,
979
01:05:25,454 --> 01:05:30,858
people said, "Well, don't you feel
betrayed that he did that?
980
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:34,760
That he didn't tell you the truth
about his accent or his origins?"
981
01:05:35,998 --> 01:05:37,932
And that never bothered me.
982
01:05:38,034 --> 01:05:40,366
Timmy always amused me.
983
01:05:40,469 --> 01:05:42,403
There's an old saying
on the farm,
984
01:05:42,505 --> 01:05:45,633
"If it doesn't scare the cows,
who cares?"
985
01:05:45,741 --> 01:05:49,006
Well, I don't think
Timmy ever scared the cows,
986
01:05:49,111 --> 01:05:51,102
so who cares?
987
01:05:51,213 --> 01:05:54,944
He was troubled.
I mean, it...
988
01:05:56,819 --> 01:05:59,344
One time he went to a doctor.
989
01:05:59,455 --> 01:06:02,947
They wanted to put him on some kind
of an antidepressant or something
990
01:06:03,059 --> 01:06:06,961
to keep his mood, 'cause his moods
were so up and down.
991
01:06:07,063 --> 01:06:10,999
And he started taking it for a while,
and then he stopped.
992
01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:13,159
He said, "I had to stop."
I said, "Why?"
993
01:06:13,269 --> 01:06:18,138
He said, "Because I can't stop.
I can't have the middle grounds.
994
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,470
I have to have the highs
and the lows.
995
01:06:20,576 --> 01:06:22,976
It's a part of my life,
it's a part of my personality."
996
01:06:23,079 --> 01:06:25,343
He definitely had a dark side.
997
01:06:25,448 --> 01:06:30,647
He was mixed up in drugs which makes you
mixed up in bad people, people with guns.
998
01:06:30,753 --> 01:06:35,315
Timothy always had a sense of justice
that was his own.
999
01:06:35,424 --> 01:06:39,622
So he got into a lot,
a lot of trouble.
1000
01:06:39,729 --> 01:06:41,629
I think that...
1001
01:06:41,731 --> 01:06:43,631
How dangerous?
1002
01:06:43,733 --> 01:06:45,530
How dangerous? I mean...
1003
01:06:47,570 --> 01:06:50,266
I don't think he would've ever...
He couldn't have ever killed anybody.
1004
01:06:50,373 --> 01:06:53,399
He always kept it in check. One thing
that we did every once in a while
1005
01:06:53,509 --> 01:06:56,569
which just seems so bizarre
by now, but it's...
1006
01:06:56,679 --> 01:06:59,375
We would go, when we lived in the Valley,
to the Van Nuys courthouse.
1007
01:06:59,482 --> 01:07:02,918
We would watch when criminals
were being sentenced.
1008
01:07:03,019 --> 01:07:05,783
We would watch people
getting their sentence.
1009
01:07:05,888 --> 01:07:09,517
And I think we did it...
I did it just for shock value,
1010
01:07:09,625 --> 01:07:11,616
and because it was something
I had never done.
1011
01:07:11,727 --> 01:07:15,322
But he did it, I think,
to remind him
1012
01:07:15,431 --> 01:07:19,891
if he went to that dark place,
what his life would be.
1013
01:07:22,104 --> 01:07:24,038
I'm in love
with my animal friends.
1014
01:07:24,140 --> 01:07:27,507
I'm in love with my animal friends!
In love with my animal friends.
1015
01:07:27,610 --> 01:07:30,044
I'm very, very troubled.
1016
01:07:36,318 --> 01:07:38,286
It's very emotional.
1017
01:07:39,588 --> 01:07:42,250
It's probably not cool
even looking like this.
1018
01:07:42,358 --> 01:07:47,489
I'm so in love with them, and they're
so f-ed over, which so sucks.
1019
01:07:49,799 --> 01:07:52,495
Do you know you're the star
for all the children.
1020
01:07:54,370 --> 01:07:58,272
They love you. And I love you so much,
and thank you.
1021
01:08:00,810 --> 01:08:03,404
Thank you for being my friend.
1022
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:14,084
Isn't this... so sad?
1023
01:08:15,191 --> 01:08:18,388
This is a bumblebee
1024
01:08:18,494 --> 01:08:22,260
who expired as it was working
1025
01:08:22,364 --> 01:08:26,095
at doing the pollen thing
on this Alaskan fireweed.
1026
01:08:26,202 --> 01:08:31,139
And it just is... Just has
really touched me to no end.
1027
01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:35,700
It was doing its duty,
it was flying around.
1028
01:08:35,811 --> 01:08:41,408
Working busy as a bee,
and it died right there.
1029
01:08:41,517 --> 01:08:44,452
It's beautiful, it's sad,
it's tragic.
1030
01:08:44,553 --> 01:08:46,748
I love that bee.
1031
01:08:49,492 --> 01:08:51,585
Well, the bee moved.
1032
01:08:53,362 --> 01:08:55,421
Was it sleeping?
1033
01:09:12,348 --> 01:09:14,248
There's your poop.
1034
01:09:15,651 --> 01:09:17,812
It just came out of her butt.
1035
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:20,718
I can feel it.
1036
01:09:22,858 --> 01:09:25,793
I can feel the poop.
1037
01:09:25,895 --> 01:09:28,887
It's warm.
It just came from her butt.
1038
01:09:29,965 --> 01:09:31,956
This was just inside of her.
1039
01:09:32,067 --> 01:09:34,228
My girl.
1040
01:09:34,336 --> 01:09:36,236
I'm touching it.
1041
01:09:37,406 --> 01:09:39,169
It's her poop.
It's Wendy's poop.
1042
01:09:39,275 --> 01:09:43,974
I know it may seem weird that I touched
her poop, but it was inside of her.
1043
01:09:44,079 --> 01:09:47,139
It's what... It's her life!
1044
01:09:47,249 --> 01:09:49,444
It's her! And she's
so precious to me.
1045
01:09:49,552 --> 01:09:53,113
She gave me Downey.
Downey's... I adore Downey.
1046
01:09:54,490 --> 01:09:57,186
Everything about them is perfect.
1047
01:09:57,293 --> 01:10:00,228
Perfection belonged to the bears.
1048
01:10:00,329 --> 01:10:03,162
But once in a while,
Treadwell came face-to-face
1049
01:10:03,265 --> 01:10:06,393
with the harsh reality
of wild nature.
1050
01:10:06,502 --> 01:10:09,471
This did not fit into
his sentimentalized view
1051
01:10:09,572 --> 01:10:11,699
that everything out there
was good,
1052
01:10:11,807 --> 01:10:15,743
and the universe in balance
and in harmony.
1053
01:10:15,844 --> 01:10:21,077
Male bears sometimes kill cubs to stop
the females from lactating,
1054
01:10:21,183 --> 01:10:24,949
and thus have them ready again
for fornication.
1055
01:10:36,565 --> 01:10:38,499
Oh, God!
1056
01:10:39,902 --> 01:10:41,699
I love you.
1057
01:10:43,172 --> 01:10:45,936
I love you and I
1058
01:10:47,509 --> 01:10:49,909
don't understand.
1059
01:10:51,413 --> 01:10:53,244
It's a painful world.
1060
01:10:53,349 --> 01:10:55,340
Here I differ with Treadwell.
1061
01:10:55,451 --> 01:10:59,649
He seemed to ignore the fact that
in nature there are predators.
1062
01:10:59,755 --> 01:11:03,919
I believe the common denominator
of the universe is not harmony,
1063
01:11:04,026 --> 01:11:07,792
but chaos, hostility and murder.
1064
01:11:07,896 --> 01:11:09,796
He wandered too far
from the den.
1065
01:11:09,898 --> 01:11:12,924
And the wolves last night
that I heard howling,
1066
01:11:13,035 --> 01:11:16,061
screeching in glee
and excitement,
1067
01:11:16,171 --> 01:11:20,164
it was over the termination
of one of the babies.
1068
01:11:20,276 --> 01:11:23,404
This Expedition 2001
has taken a sad turn,
1069
01:11:23,512 --> 01:11:25,446
but it is a real turn.
1070
01:11:25,547 --> 01:11:29,711
And I mourn the death
of this gorgeous baby fox.
1071
01:11:29,818 --> 01:11:31,786
Good-bye, little fox.
1072
01:11:35,357 --> 01:11:38,121
Get out of his eye,
you friggin' fly!
1073
01:11:38,227 --> 01:11:41,958
Don't do it when I'm around.
Have some respect, you fucker.
1074
01:11:42,264 --> 01:11:44,425
Most disturbing for him
1075
01:11:44,533 --> 01:11:47,502
was to find the skull
of a young bear.
1076
01:11:47,603 --> 01:11:50,868
In the summer of 2000
came an extended drought.
1077
01:11:50,973 --> 01:11:55,000
The creek was so low that for weeks
there was no salmon run,
1078
01:11:55,110 --> 01:11:57,704
and starving bears
simply ate their own.
1079
01:11:59,915 --> 01:12:05,217
It has been only five, not even six days
since the baby died.
1080
01:12:05,321 --> 01:12:09,052
And this is all that's left
of the little tyke.
1081
01:12:09,158 --> 01:12:11,558
That's it!
There's nothing else left.
1082
01:12:11,660 --> 01:12:14,128
They've eaten everything.
1083
01:12:17,199 --> 01:12:20,362
It's so sad.
She was so cute.
1084
01:12:21,704 --> 01:12:25,504
Five days and all
that's left is a skull.
1085
01:12:27,643 --> 01:12:30,476
This called for desperate measures.
1086
01:12:30,579 --> 01:12:35,107
There are fish lining up
about to try to make a run.
1087
01:12:35,217 --> 01:12:39,210
And now they have a good reason for going
because I have built them a corridor.
1088
01:12:39,321 --> 01:12:42,779
Let's have a look at it.
What I have done is... Have a look.
1089
01:12:42,891 --> 01:12:48,124
I've constructed a runway for them,
a navigational trail.
1090
01:12:48,230 --> 01:12:51,165
When interference with nature
was not enough,
1091
01:12:51,266 --> 01:12:54,258
he had to invoke higher powers.
1092
01:12:54,370 --> 01:12:58,238
Oh, live TV.
Live on tape.
1093
01:12:58,340 --> 01:13:02,367
Okay, so here's the deal.
Pull this down a little bit.
1094
01:13:04,646 --> 01:13:06,546
It's September 20.
1095
01:13:06,648 --> 01:13:09,549
It's the year 2000.
It's Expedition 2000.
1096
01:13:09,651 --> 01:13:12,381
There has not been a substantial rainfall
for almost two months.
1097
01:13:12,488 --> 01:13:16,185
The fish have not run since
about August 2, August 3.
1098
01:13:16,291 --> 01:13:20,057
We are now getting our first rain,
but it has just slowed down.
1099
01:13:20,162 --> 01:13:23,757
We need at least 2 inches,
I think even 3 inches of rain.
1100
01:13:23,866 --> 01:13:27,358
In the last two hours, we're up
a little over.20 inches of rain.
1101
01:13:27,469 --> 01:13:32,304
That is not enough. We're gonna
need more rain. We need more rain!
1102
01:13:32,408 --> 01:13:35,639
Downey is hungry!
Tabitha's hungry!
1103
01:13:35,744 --> 01:13:38,212
Melissa is eating her babies.
1104
01:13:39,615 --> 01:13:43,642
I'm like a fucking nut.
We've got to have some rain.
1105
01:13:43,752 --> 01:13:46,312
I'm not a religious guy. No.
1106
01:13:46,422 --> 01:13:50,654
But I'm telling ya,
I'm just pissed because...
1107
01:13:52,161 --> 01:13:54,425
It just doesn't seem right.
It just doesn't seem right.
1108
01:13:54,530 --> 01:13:57,397
I know it's just weather
and crap like that, and it's...
1109
01:13:57,499 --> 01:13:59,729
I don't know what
the variables are.
1110
01:13:59,835 --> 01:14:02,167
But we've gotta have
some goddamn rain!
1111
01:14:02,271 --> 01:14:05,832
So if there's a God,
Downey needs to eat!
1112
01:14:05,941 --> 01:14:07,841
Dump on us. Hurt us!
1113
01:14:07,943 --> 01:14:09,376
Come on!
1114
01:14:14,483 --> 01:14:16,383
Think rain.
1115
01:14:18,620 --> 01:14:20,918
Think rain.
1116
01:14:21,023 --> 01:14:24,789
Just a crappy little shower right now.
What kind of crappy... Come on!
1117
01:14:24,893 --> 01:14:26,485
Take this again.
1118
01:14:26,595 --> 01:14:29,689
Does not make me
very, very happy.
1119
01:14:29,798 --> 01:14:34,963
I want rain. I want, if there's a God,
to kick some ass down here.
1120
01:14:35,070 --> 01:14:36,970
Let's have some water!
1121
01:14:37,072 --> 01:14:39,802
Jesus, boy!
Let's have some water!
1122
01:14:39,908 --> 01:14:42,308
Christ man or Allah
1123
01:14:42,411 --> 01:14:46,211
or Hindu floaty thing,
1124
01:14:46,315 --> 01:14:50,251
let's have some fucking water
for these animals!
1125
01:14:58,393 --> 01:15:04,161
It is now September 21, Thursday
of the year 2000. Expedition 2000.
1126
01:15:04,266 --> 01:15:06,234
I am the Lord's humble servant.
1127
01:15:06,335 --> 01:15:09,566
I am Allah's disciple.
1128
01:15:09,671 --> 01:15:14,131
I am the floaty thing's go-for boy.
1129
01:15:14,243 --> 01:15:17,804
There has been a miracle here.
There has been an absolute miracle.
1130
01:15:17,913 --> 01:15:21,872
It has rained 1.65 inches
of rain today.
1131
01:15:21,984 --> 01:15:25,920
We have over 2 inches now in the storm,
and it is not stopping.
1132
01:15:26,021 --> 01:15:28,012
It may hit 3 inches of rain.
1133
01:15:28,123 --> 01:15:31,854
It went from a trickle to a flood.
And it's amazing.
1134
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:34,121
And we have a really,
really great chance
1135
01:15:34,229 --> 01:15:37,562
of a run of fish for the animals.
1136
01:15:37,666 --> 01:15:40,635
And what is even more miraculous,
1137
01:15:40,736 --> 01:15:44,297
according to my radio,
it is not raining much
1138
01:15:44,406 --> 01:15:46,567
around anywhere else
but around here.
1139
01:15:50,512 --> 01:15:52,537
Oops.
1140
01:15:55,350 --> 01:15:59,810
Well, it's now after 2:00
on October 4.
1141
01:15:59,922 --> 01:16:02,516
And the tent has caved in
due to the storm.
1142
01:16:02,624 --> 01:16:05,286
I'm still here with my little teddy bear,
Tabitha bear.
1143
01:16:05,394 --> 01:16:08,454
And I think the storm's actually
gotten a little weaker, but
1144
01:16:08,564 --> 01:16:12,762
in the course of it getting stronger,
it crushed the wall in and bent the poles.
1145
01:16:12,868 --> 01:16:15,803
And you really can't do much about it
because once they get like that,
1146
01:16:15,904 --> 01:16:20,364
they just stay kind of bent in
and you're screwed and all that.
1147
01:16:21,910 --> 01:16:24,970
This is my life.
This is what I do.
1148
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:27,571
And l... I love it. I love it.
1149
01:16:27,683 --> 01:16:29,446
Even this, I love it.
1150
01:16:30,652 --> 01:16:34,645
My tent crushed in. I love it.
It's pathetic, but I love it.
1151
01:16:34,756 --> 01:16:37,452
Hello, hello, hello
1152
01:16:41,196 --> 01:16:42,959
Are you scared, little bear?
1153
01:16:43,065 --> 01:16:45,295
The storm's gonna go on
and on and on.
1154
01:16:45,400 --> 01:16:48,665
It doesn't look like I may get outta here
for another week or so.
1155
01:16:51,006 --> 01:16:55,807
Oh, look at this. I put my tripod
up to shore up the tent.
1156
01:16:55,911 --> 01:16:59,074
I put a pole up there, so now I got a tent.
That's a pretty good idea, huh?
1157
01:16:59,181 --> 01:17:01,706
Aha! Pretty good for me.
1158
01:17:13,462 --> 01:17:18,365
We have about 35,000 brown
grizzly bears here in Alaska.
1159
01:17:18,467 --> 01:17:22,631
What we can tell, it's a very healthy population,
it's a stable population.
1160
01:17:22,738 --> 01:17:25,730
Of course, you have to be careful with bears
because they have unique needs,
1161
01:17:25,841 --> 01:17:27,775
especially the grizzly bear.
1162
01:17:27,876 --> 01:17:31,312
They need large areas.
They have low reproductive rates.
1163
01:17:31,413 --> 01:17:34,075
You have to be cautious in the way
you utilize those animals.
1164
01:17:34,182 --> 01:17:36,082
Bear hunting, as an example,
1165
01:17:36,184 --> 01:17:38,550
is a very important aspect
of the economy.
1166
01:17:38,654 --> 01:17:41,817
$4,500,000 a year
is spent on bear hunts.
1167
01:17:41,923 --> 01:17:45,882
Here on Kodiak Island
we have about 3,000 bears.
1168
01:17:45,994 --> 01:17:49,054
Each year we harvest
about 160 of those.
1169
01:17:49,164 --> 01:17:53,760
Through our research, we found that you can
harvest about 6% of the population annually
1170
01:17:53,869 --> 01:17:56,497
and still have
a healthy group of bears.
1171
01:17:57,539 --> 01:17:59,336
And poaching?
1172
01:17:59,441 --> 01:18:01,875
Poaching is not as big
a concern around here
1173
01:18:01,977 --> 01:18:06,209
as it has been in Russia, for instance,
and some other locations.
1174
01:18:06,314 --> 01:18:08,544
There is some poaching
that occurs for gall bladders
1175
01:18:08,650 --> 01:18:10,709
or some bears that
are just killed wantonly
1176
01:18:10,819 --> 01:18:13,879
because people don't like them
or they're afraid of them.
1177
01:18:13,989 --> 01:18:17,390
But for the most part, here on Kodiak
and on the Alaska peninsula,
1178
01:18:17,492 --> 01:18:20,484
it is a very rare occurrence
in the last 20 years.
1179
01:18:21,630 --> 01:18:23,598
Despite the statistics,
1180
01:18:23,699 --> 01:18:26,099
Treadwell became
increasingly paranoid
1181
01:18:26,201 --> 01:18:28,931
about his enemy, the poacher.
1182
01:18:29,037 --> 01:18:32,200
And it's gotten to be September,
near October.
1183
01:18:32,307 --> 01:18:34,502
It's the time of year
where poachers can come around.
1184
01:18:34,609 --> 01:18:37,669
It's time for me to go in my guerrilla-style
camouflage outfit.
1185
01:18:37,779 --> 01:18:41,112
Downey still recognizes me
by talking to her. Don't you?
1186
01:18:41,216 --> 01:18:44,447
Yeah, I'm the big crazy guy with the...
or the skinny crazy guy
1187
01:18:44,553 --> 01:18:47,784
with the camouflage makeup on.
1188
01:18:52,828 --> 01:18:56,696
They're armed with pepper spray
and rocks.
1189
01:18:56,798 --> 01:18:59,892
In all his video recordings
over the years,
1190
01:19:00,001 --> 01:19:04,199
this is Treadwell's closest
encounter with intruders.
1191
01:19:04,306 --> 01:19:07,275
I believe the guide is the person
with the camera.
1192
01:19:07,375 --> 01:19:11,209
The big camera on the tripod.
There we go. Got a nice close-up of him.
1193
01:19:11,313 --> 01:19:14,976
He's the one who threw the rock
at Freckles, the bear.
1194
01:19:15,083 --> 01:19:18,746
It's Quincy.
1195
01:19:18,854 --> 01:19:20,845
They're throwing rocks at him.
1196
01:19:20,956 --> 01:19:23,891
They're throwing rocks
at my Quincy.
1197
01:19:23,992 --> 01:19:26,460
They're gonna stone him,
and then they're gonna photograph him.
1198
01:19:34,803 --> 01:19:36,532
Oh, that's it!
1199
01:19:36,638 --> 01:19:38,663
That's enough of this.
1200
01:19:38,774 --> 01:19:41,607
That's... I can... They hit Quincy.
1201
01:19:45,547 --> 01:19:48,311
I don't wanna expose myself
to them.
1202
01:19:48,416 --> 01:19:52,682
I'm submitting this
as Sunday, August 1.
1203
01:19:52,788 --> 01:19:58,055
It is 4:35 and 18 seconds
on this day.
1204
01:20:00,295 --> 01:20:02,456
It's hard to say,
but it's a warning of a sort.
1205
01:20:02,564 --> 01:20:05,556
And it's obviously here
to upset me.
1206
01:20:07,435 --> 01:20:11,769
"Hi, Timothy.
See you in summer of 2001."
1207
01:20:11,873 --> 01:20:14,273
Now it doesn't say, "Hi, Timothy.
We're gonna fucking kill you."
1208
01:20:14,376 --> 01:20:17,903
It doesn't say, "Hi, Timothy. You're fucking
dead. We're gonna chop your legs off.
1209
01:20:18,013 --> 01:20:20,140
Hey, Timothy,
get the fuck out."
1210
01:20:20,248 --> 01:20:23,445
It just says, "See you
in the summer of 2001."
1211
01:20:23,552 --> 01:20:25,486
But it is some sort
of a warning.
1212
01:20:25,587 --> 01:20:27,919
It is some sort of a ha-ha.
1213
01:20:28,023 --> 01:20:29,991
I don't think it's friendly.
1214
01:20:30,091 --> 01:20:34,152
Well, it's gotten
a little worse here.
1215
01:20:34,262 --> 01:20:37,356
The warning, "Hi, Timothy.
See you summer of 2001."
1216
01:20:37,465 --> 01:20:41,765
Now I find this big stack of rocks that were,
you know, put some labor here.
1217
01:20:41,870 --> 01:20:46,807
We're not calling this
the building of the pyramids.
1218
01:20:46,908 --> 01:20:49,570
But we are saying
there's a bit of trouble.
1219
01:20:49,678 --> 01:20:52,841
Now, I'm gonna walk back,
I'm gonna bring you back here.
1220
01:20:54,983 --> 01:20:59,147
Through my camp.
Let's come through here. Pathway.
1221
01:20:59,254 --> 01:21:01,188
Here's where...
1222
01:21:01,289 --> 01:21:05,089
Here's where the sign was, here.
Which is where my tent is.
1223
01:21:05,193 --> 01:21:08,651
And then we go over where
my bear-proof barrels would be.
1224
01:21:08,763 --> 01:21:12,961
And we find boulders piled up...
1225
01:21:13,068 --> 01:21:15,093
Boulders piled up
1226
01:21:15,203 --> 01:21:20,072
and a happy face indelibly
painted into the rock,
1227
01:21:20,175 --> 01:21:22,200
like looking at me.
1228
01:21:25,013 --> 01:21:27,914
Very, very frickin' frightening, huh?
1229
01:21:28,016 --> 01:21:29,984
Whoever put it there,
1230
01:21:32,888 --> 01:21:36,016
knew what they were doing.
1231
01:21:36,124 --> 01:21:37,785
It's a warning.
1232
01:21:37,893 --> 01:21:42,592
And the thing is, it's better
than a warning, than...
1233
01:21:42,697 --> 01:21:45,325
It's better than like,
"You're fucking dead" type of thing.
1234
01:21:45,433 --> 01:21:47,993
It's creepy, baby!
It's creepy.
1235
01:21:48,103 --> 01:21:50,071
It's Freddy Krueger creepy.
1236
01:21:52,574 --> 01:21:54,735
There were visitors
every now and then.
1237
01:21:54,843 --> 01:21:57,869
But for Treadwell,
they were just intruders.
1238
01:21:57,979 --> 01:22:02,507
An encroaching threat upon what
he considered his Eden.
1239
01:22:04,986 --> 01:22:08,012
Even the Park Service itself
became an enemy
1240
01:22:08,123 --> 01:22:10,557
because of its restrictions.
1241
01:22:11,927 --> 01:22:15,124
I have decided to violate
a federal rule
1242
01:22:15,230 --> 01:22:18,256
which states
I must camp one mile...
1243
01:22:18,366 --> 01:22:22,427
Every week I must move one mile after
staying for seven consecutive days.
1244
01:22:22,537 --> 01:22:24,437
If I was to do that,
1245
01:22:24,539 --> 01:22:27,406
I would not be able to study these bears,
not be able to protect them.
1246
01:22:27,509 --> 01:22:31,036
I'd have to move out of the bay
to get a mile out.
1247
01:22:31,146 --> 01:22:35,549
Therefore I have decided to protest
the United States government
1248
01:22:35,650 --> 01:22:38,380
and guard these bears anyway
and stay, and I have...
1249
01:22:38,486 --> 01:22:43,287
In order to get around the rule of not
camping permanently in one spot,
1250
01:22:43,391 --> 01:22:47,919
he would camouflage and hide
his tent from the Park Service.
1251
01:22:48,029 --> 01:22:51,328
But more than that,
he was in constant violation
1252
01:22:51,433 --> 01:22:54,231
of another very reasonable
park rule:
1253
01:22:54,336 --> 01:22:59,672
That you have to maintain at least 100 yards
distance from the bears.
1254
01:22:59,774 --> 01:23:01,605
Ding.
1255
01:23:02,978 --> 01:23:06,038
Hi. Go back to your friend.
Go back to your friend.
1256
01:23:07,315 --> 01:23:09,613
Shh, shh, shh.
It's okay.
1257
01:23:09,718 --> 01:23:11,845
It's okay.
1258
01:23:11,953 --> 01:23:15,081
You're awfully close.
You're awfully close.
1259
01:23:15,190 --> 01:23:17,590
Hi. Oh, hi, there!
1260
01:23:17,692 --> 01:23:21,492
The park restrictions made him
increasingly irate.
1261
01:23:25,934 --> 01:23:29,665
Well, we're into autumn now.
Expedition 2001 coming to an end.
1262
01:23:29,771 --> 01:23:32,205
The bears moving safely
towards their winter dens.
1263
01:23:32,307 --> 01:23:34,241
The foxes hiding in the woods,
1264
01:23:34,342 --> 01:23:37,175
safe from the humans
that would come to harm them.
1265
01:23:37,278 --> 01:23:39,974
It's been an amazing season.
It's been difficult.
1266
01:23:40,081 --> 01:23:44,074
But I came, I served,
I protected and I studied.
1267
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:46,619
And I promise, I'll be back.
1268
01:23:56,398 --> 01:23:58,992
My hair.
1269
01:23:59,100 --> 01:24:03,594
Expedition 2001 coming to an end for
Grizzly People, for me, Timothy Treadwell.
1270
01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:06,196
I came here and protected
the animals as best I could.
1271
01:24:06,307 --> 01:24:09,504
In fact, I'm the only protection
for these animals out here.
1272
01:24:09,611 --> 01:24:13,012
The government flying over a total
of two times in two months.
1273
01:24:13,114 --> 01:24:16,106
How dare they!
How dare they challenge me!
1274
01:24:16,217 --> 01:24:18,777
How dare they smear me
with their campaigns!
1275
01:24:18,887 --> 01:24:21,583
How dare they, when they do not
look after these animals,
1276
01:24:21,689 --> 01:24:24,180
and I come here in peace
and in love,
1277
01:24:24,292 --> 01:24:26,624
neutral in respect.
1278
01:24:28,329 --> 01:24:30,263
I will continue to do this.
I will fight them.
1279
01:24:30,365 --> 01:24:32,799
I will be an American dissident
if I need be.
1280
01:24:32,901 --> 01:24:34,869
There's a patriotic time
going on right now,
1281
01:24:34,969 --> 01:24:36,994
but as far as this
fucking government's concerned,
1282
01:24:37,105 --> 01:24:39,471
fuck you,
motherfucking Park Service!
1283
01:24:39,574 --> 01:24:42,372
Now Treadwell crosses a line
with the Park Service
1284
01:24:42,477 --> 01:24:44,775
which we will not cross.
1285
01:24:44,879 --> 01:24:50,112
He attacks the individuals with
whom he worked for 13 years.
1286
01:24:50,218 --> 01:24:52,914
I beat your fucking asses!
I protected the animals!
1287
01:24:53,021 --> 01:24:55,649
I did it! Fuck you!
1288
01:24:56,825 --> 01:24:59,919
Animals rule.
Timothy conquered.
1289
01:25:00,028 --> 01:25:02,622
Fuck you, Park Service!
1290
01:25:04,332 --> 01:25:05,856
Okay.
1291
01:25:05,967 --> 01:25:08,834
It is clear to me that the Park Service
1292
01:25:08,937 --> 01:25:12,373
is not Treadwell's real enemy.
1293
01:25:12,474 --> 01:25:16,205
There's a larger, more
implacable adversary out there:
1294
01:25:16,311 --> 01:25:19,178
The people's world
and civilization.
1295
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:22,181
"Oh, Timothy, I'm getting
a bad feeling about you."
1296
01:25:22,283 --> 01:25:25,616
He only has mockery
and contempt for it.
1297
01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:29,622
"I saw you on David Letterman.
You're fairly entertaining."
1298
01:25:29,724 --> 01:25:34,218
His rage is almost
incandescent, artistic.
1299
01:25:34,329 --> 01:25:38,527
The actor in his film has
taken over from the filmmaker.
1300
01:25:38,633 --> 01:25:42,364
I have seen this madness
before on a film set.
1301
01:25:42,470 --> 01:25:47,533
But Treadwell is not an actor in opposition
to a director or a producer.
1302
01:25:47,642 --> 01:25:51,601
He's fighting civilization itself.
1303
01:25:51,713 --> 01:25:55,945
It is the same civilization
that cast Thoreau out of Walden
1304
01:25:56,050 --> 01:25:58,814
and John Muir into the wild.
1305
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:00,581
Animals rule.
1306
01:26:02,390 --> 01:26:05,518
All right.
That's my happy stuff.
1307
01:26:05,627 --> 01:26:07,822
Let's do a couple
of nice takes now.
1308
01:26:07,929 --> 01:26:10,295
Oh, man, did I get angry!
Fuck them, right?
1309
01:26:10,398 --> 01:26:12,662
They do not watch these animals.
They don't care about these animals.
1310
01:26:12,767 --> 01:26:16,066
All they wanna do
is screw people like me around.
1311
01:26:16,171 --> 01:26:18,503
It's amazing. "Let the fishermen
fucking shoot the animals.
1312
01:26:18,606 --> 01:26:20,437
Let the fucking poachers
come in here and fuck 'em.
1313
01:26:20,542 --> 01:26:22,442
Let the fucking commercial
people fuck them around
1314
01:26:22,544 --> 01:26:25,138
with their fucking cameras
and the tourists.
1315
01:26:25,246 --> 01:26:27,077
But we're gonna go screw
with Timothy Treadwell
1316
01:26:27,182 --> 01:26:29,912
because he loves animals
and teaches kids for free.
1317
01:26:30,018 --> 01:26:31,713
Let's go. Let's do that.
That's what we're gonna do."
1318
01:26:31,819 --> 01:26:35,186
Well, fuck them. Fuck them.
I beat you, motherfuckers. I beat you.
1319
01:26:35,290 --> 01:26:37,190
Beat ya, so fuck you.
1320
01:26:37,292 --> 01:26:39,852
I beat ya. I beat ya.
1321
01:26:39,961 --> 01:26:41,519
I'm the champion.
I'm the fucking champion.
1322
01:26:41,629 --> 01:26:44,757
I beat you.
I beat your fucking asses.
1323
01:26:44,866 --> 01:26:48,597
Fucking losers!
Fucking nobodies!
1324
01:26:48,703 --> 01:26:50,568
Fuck!
1325
01:26:50,672 --> 01:26:53,664
Fucking fucks!
1326
01:26:55,777 --> 01:26:57,745
Well, Expedition 2001
coming to an end.
1327
01:26:57,845 --> 01:27:01,611
The bears safely moving into their winter dens,
the foxes hiding in the woods.
1328
01:27:01,716 --> 01:27:05,482
I came here. I studied them,
protected them.
1329
01:27:05,587 --> 01:27:11,355
And I promise you, I promise the
Grizzly People, I will be back. I will be back.
1330
01:27:11,459 --> 01:27:15,589
And I thank the animals for keeping
me safe and for inspiring me.
1331
01:27:15,697 --> 01:27:17,995
I thank them so very much.
1332
01:27:19,167 --> 01:27:21,101
Good-bye.
1333
01:27:23,137 --> 01:27:25,401
This is my favorite.
1334
01:27:25,506 --> 01:27:27,440
This is my cowboy.
1335
01:27:27,542 --> 01:27:30,170
Always in black.
Always sunglasses.
1336
01:27:30,278 --> 01:27:32,303
And always a bandanna.
1337
01:27:33,948 --> 01:27:36,542
I miss you terribly.
1338
01:27:38,319 --> 01:27:40,480
He was very dear to my heart.
1339
01:27:40,588 --> 01:27:42,783
Very dear to my heart.
1340
01:27:45,693 --> 01:27:48,719
My heart hurts every day
for him.
1341
01:27:48,830 --> 01:27:50,661
He was a good friend.
1342
01:27:53,935 --> 01:27:56,028
I've known him 13 years.
1343
01:27:56,137 --> 01:27:58,105
And he just was a good friend.
1344
01:27:58,206 --> 01:28:00,970
He was a distant friend
in the winter
1345
01:28:01,075 --> 01:28:03,202
and a close friend
in the summer.
1346
01:28:03,311 --> 01:28:07,372
And... I helped him do
quite a few things here.
1347
01:28:08,416 --> 01:28:10,247
He'd always come back.
1348
01:28:10,351 --> 01:28:13,115
And I was kind of
his confidante here.
1349
01:28:15,356 --> 01:28:16,789
But I miss him.
1350
01:28:16,891 --> 01:28:21,055
I miss his... rambunctious personality
1351
01:28:21,162 --> 01:28:23,790
and his outgoing... his heart,
1352
01:28:23,898 --> 01:28:26,992
you know, just everything
about him, I think.
1353
01:28:28,303 --> 01:28:30,271
Kathleen Parker still holds
1354
01:28:30,371 --> 01:28:33,169
some of
Timothy Treadwell's ashes.
1355
01:28:33,274 --> 01:28:37,506
She insists that she was
a platonic friend only.
1356
01:28:37,612 --> 01:28:41,605
She stored his gear in her basement
during the winters.
1357
01:28:41,716 --> 01:28:45,584
He would set out into
the wilderness from her house.
1358
01:28:45,687 --> 01:28:49,919
When he would leave,
he would say at my back door,
1359
01:28:50,024 --> 01:28:51,992
he says, "I love you."
1360
01:28:52,093 --> 01:28:56,120
He says, "This is going to be
the best year of my life out there."
1361
01:28:56,230 --> 01:28:59,324
And he says,
"If I don't come back,
1362
01:28:59,434 --> 01:29:03,029
it's what I want,
this is the way I wanna go."
1363
01:29:06,207 --> 01:29:10,109
His last camp was just right
in the right-hand edge of this slope.
1364
01:29:10,211 --> 01:29:12,304
Patch of trees here.
1365
01:29:15,450 --> 01:29:19,546
Right down here in this...
very end of these trees here.
1366
01:29:38,806 --> 01:29:40,774
This is his ashes.
1367
01:29:40,875 --> 01:29:43,571
Some of them for me to spread.
1368
01:29:43,678 --> 01:29:47,739
And some bear hair, fur.
1369
01:29:47,849 --> 01:29:51,444
And some weeds.
And what else is in there?
1370
01:29:51,552 --> 01:29:54,885
There's a little bit of lupin,
there's a little bit of iris.
1371
01:29:54,989 --> 01:29:58,755
- There's, I think...
- Where did you get the bear fur?
1372
01:29:58,860 --> 01:30:01,556
- We picked it up off the ground.
- Cool. Cool.
1373
01:30:01,662 --> 01:30:03,527
Where are we?
1374
01:30:03,631 --> 01:30:06,998
We are at a campsite
where Timothy last camped.
1375
01:30:07,101 --> 01:30:12,368
Not where he was killed.
But over here in Hallo Bay.
1376
01:30:12,473 --> 01:30:15,533
And, Willie, you can...
'cause you brought him over here.
1377
01:30:15,643 --> 01:30:19,170
His last campsite was right here
in the trees here.
1378
01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:22,010
He camped there because
he was right between two fox dens.
1379
01:30:22,116 --> 01:30:23,947
I'd been in the camp there.
1380
01:30:24,051 --> 01:30:29,387
The fox would come right to the edge
of the tent, and go in their dens.
1381
01:30:29,490 --> 01:30:33,824
So I think that's probably the main reason
he camped right there.
1382
01:30:35,596 --> 01:30:37,359
Okay, Timothy.
1383
01:30:39,300 --> 01:30:40,858
I love you.
1384
01:30:43,538 --> 01:30:46,063
And rest peacefully.
1385
01:30:49,377 --> 01:30:51,777
Rest peacefully, my love.
1386
01:30:54,749 --> 01:30:57,843
Finally figured a way out
to live here forever.
1387
01:30:57,952 --> 01:30:59,579
He's here forever.
1388
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:08,552
This is Timothy Treadwell's
and Amie Huguenard's route
1389
01:31:08,663 --> 01:31:11,461
to the site of their death.
1390
01:31:11,566 --> 01:31:15,002
There was a certain absurdity
in their end.
1391
01:31:15,102 --> 01:31:19,163
As usual, the expedition was over
by the end of September,
1392
01:31:19,273 --> 01:31:24,074
and both had returned to Kodiak
on their way back to California.
1393
01:31:25,446 --> 01:31:28,472
Treadwell writes in his diary
that at the airport
1394
01:31:28,583 --> 01:31:32,075
he had an altercation
with an obese airline agent
1395
01:31:32,186 --> 01:31:35,178
over the validity of his ticket.
1396
01:31:35,289 --> 01:31:38,520
"How much I hate
the people's world, " he writes.
1397
01:31:38,626 --> 01:31:40,821
And disgusted,
he decides right then
1398
01:31:40,928 --> 01:31:44,261
to return to this spot
and his bears.
1399
01:31:46,133 --> 01:31:50,467
Once back in the Grizzly Maze,
Amie had mixed feelings.
1400
01:31:50,571 --> 01:31:52,562
She was afraid of the bears
1401
01:31:52,673 --> 01:31:55,506
and had a deadline to return
for a new job
1402
01:31:55,610 --> 01:31:59,444
and spoke openly
about leaving him for good.
1403
01:31:59,547 --> 01:32:03,608
According to one of the last entries
in Treadwell's diary,
1404
01:32:03,718 --> 01:32:08,246
Amie called him hell-bent
on destruction.
1405
01:32:08,356 --> 01:32:13,419
And yet, inexplicably, she remained
with him here in the Maze.
1406
01:32:20,067 --> 01:32:24,197
Normally Treadwell would not
be here this late in the year.
1407
01:32:24,305 --> 01:32:26,705
And upon their return,
1408
01:32:26,807 --> 01:32:31,141
he discovered that many of his bear friends
had gone into hibernation.
1409
01:32:31,245 --> 01:32:34,442
And scary,
unknown and wilder bears
1410
01:32:34,549 --> 01:32:36,949
from the interior had moved in.
1411
01:32:39,620 --> 01:32:43,351
This is the spot where
they set up their last camp.
1412
01:32:52,633 --> 01:32:54,567
Let me tell you.
1413
01:32:54,669 --> 01:32:59,663
Honestly, camping in grizzly country
is dangerous.
1414
01:32:59,774 --> 01:33:02,572
People who camp in grizzly country
should camp out in the open
1415
01:33:02,677 --> 01:33:05,339
to let the bears know
where the tent is.
1416
01:33:05,446 --> 01:33:07,414
My camp is unseen.
1417
01:33:07,515 --> 01:33:10,882
It is the most dangerous camping,
the most dangerous living
1418
01:33:10,985 --> 01:33:13,749
in the history of the world
by any human being.
1419
01:33:13,854 --> 01:33:18,587
I have lived longer with wild brown
grizzly bears, without weapons,
1420
01:33:18,693 --> 01:33:21,093
and that's the key, without weapons,
in modern history
1421
01:33:21,195 --> 01:33:24,995
than any human on earth,
any human.
1422
01:33:25,099 --> 01:33:26,999
And I have remained safe.
1423
01:33:27,101 --> 01:33:31,470
But every second of every day that I move
through this jungle, or even at the tent,
1424
01:33:31,572 --> 01:33:36,737
I am right on the precipice
of great bodily harm or even death.
1425
01:33:39,180 --> 01:33:41,978
And I am so thankful
for every minute of every day
1426
01:33:42,083 --> 01:33:44,017
that I found the bears
1427
01:33:44,118 --> 01:33:46,313
and this place,
the Grizzly Maze.
1428
01:33:51,892 --> 01:33:53,723
But let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen.
1429
01:33:53,828 --> 01:33:57,457
There is no, no, no
other place in the world
1430
01:33:57,565 --> 01:34:01,797
that is more dangerous, more exciting
than the Grizzly Maze.
1431
01:34:01,902 --> 01:34:04,336
Come here and camp here.
Come here and try to do what I do.
1432
01:34:04,438 --> 01:34:07,032
You will die.
You will die here.
1433
01:34:07,141 --> 01:34:10,372
You will frickin' die here.
They will get you.
1434
01:34:10,478 --> 01:34:13,845
I found a way. I found a way
to survive with them.
1435
01:34:13,948 --> 01:34:16,348
Am I a great person?
I don't know. I don't know.
1436
01:34:16,450 --> 01:34:20,147
We're all great people. Everyone has
something in them that's wonderful.
1437
01:34:20,254 --> 01:34:25,453
I'm just different. And I love these bears
enough to do it right.
1438
01:34:25,559 --> 01:34:29,723
And I'm edgy enough
and I'm tough enough.
1439
01:34:29,830 --> 01:34:35,132
But mostly I love these bears enough
to survive and do it right.
1440
01:34:35,236 --> 01:34:37,170
And I'm never giving this up.
Never giving it up.
1441
01:34:37,271 --> 01:34:40,434
Never giving up the Maze.
Never.
1442
01:34:40,541 --> 01:34:43,101
This is it.
This is my life.
1443
01:34:43,210 --> 01:34:45,405
This is my land.
1444
01:34:51,986 --> 01:34:55,149
Very late in the process
of editing this film,
1445
01:34:55,256 --> 01:34:59,022
we were given access
to Treadwell's last videotape.
1446
01:35:00,227 --> 01:35:03,594
Here he may have filmed
his murderer.
1447
01:35:06,934 --> 01:35:09,129
The killer bear we know
was a male
1448
01:35:09,236 --> 01:35:13,332
whom years earlier
the Park Service had anesthetized.
1449
01:35:13,441 --> 01:35:16,035
They extracted a tooth
which established him
1450
01:35:16,143 --> 01:35:19,374
as being 28
at the time of the attack.
1451
01:35:19,480 --> 01:35:21,880
Quite old for a bear.
1452
01:35:21,982 --> 01:35:26,419
They also tagged him
via a tattoo on his inner lip.
1453
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:30,547
They had given him
a number only, 141.
1454
01:35:30,658 --> 01:35:34,685
Bear 141.
That's all we know of him.
1455
01:35:39,166 --> 01:35:43,125
And here.
Could this one be Bear 141?
1456
01:35:47,975 --> 01:35:51,502
What looks playful
could be desperation.
1457
01:35:51,612 --> 01:35:55,013
So late in the season,
the bear is diving deep
1458
01:35:55,116 --> 01:35:58,142
for one of the few
remaining salmon carcasses
1459
01:35:58,252 --> 01:36:00,516
at the bottom of the lake.
1460
01:36:20,341 --> 01:36:24,835
Treadwell keeps filming the bear
with a strange persistence.
1461
01:36:28,516 --> 01:36:31,110
And all of a sudden, this.
1462
01:36:33,754 --> 01:36:37,190
Is Amie trying
to get out of the shot?
1463
01:36:39,026 --> 01:36:43,827
Did Treadwell wait till his last tape
to put her in his film?
1464
01:36:49,069 --> 01:36:51,867
And what haunts me,
is that in all the faces
1465
01:36:51,972 --> 01:36:55,066
of all the bears
that Treadwell ever filmed,
1466
01:36:55,176 --> 01:36:59,408
I discover no kinship,
no understanding, no mercy.
1467
01:36:59,513 --> 01:37:04,951
I see only the overwhelming
indifference of nature.
1468
01:37:05,052 --> 01:37:09,955
To me, there is no such thing
as a secret world of the bears.
1469
01:37:10,057 --> 01:37:15,586
And this blank stare speaks
only of a half-bored interest in food.
1470
01:37:15,696 --> 01:37:20,998
But for Timothy Treadwell,
this bear was a friend, a savior.
1471
01:37:23,304 --> 01:37:25,204
Amie Huguenard was screaming.
1472
01:37:25,306 --> 01:37:29,367
All of a sudden, the intensity
of Amie's screaming
1473
01:37:29,476 --> 01:37:33,276
reached a new height
and became very, very loud.
1474
01:37:33,380 --> 01:37:37,612
And she really now was screaming
at the top of her lungs.
1475
01:37:37,718 --> 01:37:41,984
These horrifying screams
were punctuated by Timothy saying,
1476
01:37:42,089 --> 01:37:46,048
"Go away. Leave me.
Go away. Run! Get out of here."
1477
01:37:46,160 --> 01:37:49,789
In other words, Timothy is trying
now to save Amie's life
1478
01:37:49,897 --> 01:37:54,596
because Timothy realizes,
at this point in time during this attack,
1479
01:37:54,702 --> 01:37:56,829
Timothy knows he's gonna die.
1480
01:37:56,937 --> 01:37:58,871
He knows that.
1481
01:37:58,973 --> 01:38:01,669
My sense of listening
to this tape
1482
01:38:01,775 --> 01:38:04,676
is that the bear let go,
probably let go
1483
01:38:04,778 --> 01:38:08,270
of the top of his head where
I found massive lacerations.
1484
01:38:08,382 --> 01:38:12,250
That is tears of the scalp
away from his head.
1485
01:38:12,353 --> 01:38:15,186
Suddenly, though, the bear,
after letting go,
1486
01:38:15,289 --> 01:38:19,783
grabbed Timothy somewhere
in the high leg area.
1487
01:38:19,894 --> 01:38:25,093
And Timothy, appropriately in my opinion,
as a human being,
1488
01:38:25,199 --> 01:38:29,659
decided now is the time
to save one life anyway.
1489
01:38:29,770 --> 01:38:33,501
If his life was going away,
if his life was fading away,
1490
01:38:33,607 --> 01:38:36,974
now was the time
for Amie to get out.
1491
01:38:40,014 --> 01:38:42,949
The expedition coming close to a close,
1492
01:38:43,050 --> 01:38:45,348
but I'm still here.
1493
01:38:45,452 --> 01:38:47,283
It's been over four months
in the wilderness.
1494
01:38:47,388 --> 01:38:49,549
And a hurricane-force
storm now building.
1495
01:38:49,657 --> 01:38:53,718
Over 50-mile-an-hour winds,
soon over 70.
1496
01:38:53,827 --> 01:38:56,227
The bears safely
heading for their dens.
1497
01:38:56,330 --> 01:38:59,026
The work...
the work successful.
1498
01:38:59,133 --> 01:39:02,796
I'm over 20 pounds lighter.
My clothes are rags.
1499
01:39:02,903 --> 01:39:06,839
I've tried hard. I bleed for them,
I live for them, I die for them.
1500
01:39:07,942 --> 01:39:10,570
I love them. I love this.
1501
01:39:14,048 --> 01:39:15,845
It's tough work.
1502
01:39:17,952 --> 01:39:21,945
But it's the only work I know.
It's the only work I'll ever want.
1503
01:39:23,757 --> 01:39:26,920
Take care of these animals.
Take care of this land.
1504
01:39:27,027 --> 01:39:32,124
He seems to hesitate in leaving
the last frame of his own film.
1505
01:39:32,232 --> 01:39:35,065
It's the only thing I know.
1506
01:39:35,169 --> 01:39:37,694
It's the only thing
I wanna know.
1507
01:39:47,715 --> 01:39:49,808
Treadwell is gone.
1508
01:39:49,917 --> 01:39:52,943
The argument how wrong
or how right he was
1509
01:39:53,053 --> 01:39:56,853
disappears into a distance
into a fog.
1510
01:39:56,957 --> 01:40:00,290
What remains is his footage.
1511
01:40:00,394 --> 01:40:04,387
And while we watch the animals
in their joys of being,
1512
01:40:04,498 --> 01:40:06,966
in their grace
and ferociousness,
1513
01:40:07,067 --> 01:40:09,763
a thought becomes
more and more clear.
1514
01:40:09,870 --> 01:40:12,805
That it is not so much
a look at wild nature
1515
01:40:12,906 --> 01:40:17,138
as it is an insight
into ourselves, our nature.
1516
01:40:18,746 --> 01:40:21,806
And that, for me,
beyond his mission,
1517
01:40:21,915 --> 01:40:25,908
gives meaning to his life
and to his death.
1518
01:40:48,609 --> 01:40:51,134
Now the longhorns are gone
1519
01:40:51,245 --> 01:40:53,645
And the drovers are gone
1520
01:40:53,747 --> 01:40:56,147
The Comanches are gone
1521
01:40:56,250 --> 01:40:58,980
And the outlaws are gone
1522
01:40:59,086 --> 01:41:01,145
Geronimo's gone
1523
01:41:01,255 --> 01:41:03,780
And Sam Bass is gone
1524
01:41:03,891 --> 01:41:06,325
And the lion is gone
1525
01:41:06,427 --> 01:41:10,693
- And the red wolf is gone
- And Treadwell is gone
1526
01:41:12,332 --> 01:41:16,462
Well, he cursed all the roads
and the old mule
1527
01:41:17,571 --> 01:41:21,029
And he cursed the automobile
1528
01:41:22,543 --> 01:41:26,775
Said this is no place
for an hombre like I am
1529
01:41:28,215 --> 01:41:32,276
In this new world
of asphalt and steel
1530
01:41:33,921 --> 01:41:37,857
Then he'd look off
someplace in the distance
1531
01:41:39,059 --> 01:41:42,551
At something
only he could see
1532
01:41:44,131 --> 01:41:48,227
He'd say all that's left now
are the old days
1533
01:41:49,803 --> 01:41:54,103
Damned old coyotes and me
1534
01:41:54,208 --> 01:41:55,869
And they'd go
1535
01:42:15,295 --> 01:42:17,729
Now the longhorns are gone
1536
01:42:17,831 --> 01:42:20,231
And the drovers are gone
1537
01:42:20,334 --> 01:42:22,962
The Comanches are gone
1538
01:42:23,070 --> 01:42:25,334
The outlaws are gone
1539
01:42:25,439 --> 01:42:27,669
Now Quantrill is gone
1540
01:42:27,774 --> 01:42:30,368
Stan Wanty is gone
1541
01:42:30,477 --> 01:42:32,968
And the lion is gone
1542
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:36,277
And the red wolf is gone
1543
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:44,313
One morning they searched
his adobe
1544
01:42:45,559 --> 01:42:49,461
He disappeared
without even a word
1545
01:42:51,131 --> 01:42:55,261
But that night as the moon
crossed the mountain
1546
01:42:56,904 --> 01:43:00,863
One more coyote was heard
1547
01:43:03,577 --> 01:43:05,442
And he'd go
1548
01:43:41,715 --> 01:43:45,651
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