As alligator season reaches its high point...
When there's something to win, it's time to get creative.
No cheating.
Hunters stirs up the competition...
The loser has gotta go back to The Cemetery.
and go all in...
Pa, look.
They have to be hiding somewhere.
There's something back there.
...chasing treasures across the bayou...
Whoo-hoo!
And all these old treasures in the swamp.
Well, there's no telling what he has.
...no matter what stands in their way...
They got two, three miles of this stuff.
Something killed all these fish out here.
...in the battle to achieve swamp greatness.
[gunshot] You missed him!
You hear that?
I hear it. He's pissed.
He don't know which way to go, and I don't either.
He's moving, he's moving.
As a new hunt kicks off in south Louisiana...
You ready, T?
-Yeah. -All right, babe.
Let's go get them alligators.
Yeah, we gotta get 'em first.
The Landrys continue to dominate
the competition for 350 tags,
with Leron, Porkchop, and Bruce surging into second place
while Ronnie and Ashley
go toe to toe with the Edgars in third.
In Bayou Benoit...
Tell you what, pa, we're struggling right now.
We only have one alligator in the boat.
Veteran hunter Daniel Edgar and his grandson Dorien
need a big day to move up,
but one of their most reliable gator honey holes
is striking out.
Yeah.
Something changed.
All that rain.
Yeah, that water's high.
We'll just continue to look. Hopefully we can find some.
You know, this particular area
is one of my favorite places to fish.
There's a lot of big alligators.
This year there's no alligators around, nothing,
and it concerns me.
You know, there's gotta be a reason.
Something's obviously wrong.
Line's down.
I think we missed him.
I think we missed him, pa.
Yup, they're not coming out the swamp.
-Just, uh-- -Shh. Shh, shh, shh, shh.
They had one grunting.
Pa, look.
It look like they got a trail inside the swamp.
Let's go check it out and see, pa.
-Yeah, you can see. -Yeah.
Look here. You can see where they're climbing up here.
It's a big alligator.
Right through here.
There's some alligators that use this slide going in.
They have to be hiding somewhere.
Let's see if we can get through this swamp here, pa.
The trail passes right there.
There's a pond or something back there.
That's a pond?
-Can you see that pond? -Yeah.
That's why we're not catching 'em.
They're all back up in the swamp.
Yeah.
I can't get the airboat
through that part of the swamp.
There's no sloughs. I just can't get in there.
We gotta find a way in there, pa.
Absolutely. Whatever it takes.
This is a main highway for alligators right here.
In Violet...
Come on, back that thing in, girl.
We ain't got all day.
Ashley and Anna return to the marsh
to help Ronnie and Timmy fill tags
in an area they hope will get them back on top.
Come on now.
After a successful stretch
catching monster gators in the swamp,
the new captain is brimming with confidence.
Good to see y'all again.
Man, we're catching big gators, though.
Our average is definitely bigger.
-No way. -Yeah.
We're catching 12s, 11s, 10s on the regular.
Us, too, every single day.
We'll see who catches the bigger gator here, right now.
-Today? -Today.
All right.
The winner gets to have a good cold beer.
The loser has gotta go back to The Cemetery.
I know you hate that Cemetery.
This place gives you just a heebie-jeebie feeling.
It makes just the hair stand up on the back of your neck.
Loser goes to The Cemetery?
Okay, all right. Loser goes to The Cemetery.
I know you hate that Cemetery.
Oh, I hate The Cemetery.
-T, we gotta beat their butts. -Yup.
I know Ashley don't wanna go back there.
In the long run it's gonna help us both
because it's helping the team on the average.
Best man, best woman, my baby.
-We gotta win. -We have to. We have to.
-There's no other option. -They hate that Cemetery, boy.
How you gonna run gators if you ain't got a boat?
[laughs] You gonna go swimming?
Hey, Timmy. [all laugh]
Hey, can y'all get our boat for us?
[all laugh]
We're out here, it's midseason,
and we gotta kinda get something else
to get, like, our blood pumping.
No cheating either.
-How am I gonna cheat? -Oh, you never know.
Y'all might have somebody bring y'all gators or something.
So Ronnie and I, we're gonna see who can catch the biggest,
not the most, but the biggest for the day.
This one's already hanging, huh?
I think it's in the water. Just the bait fell in the water.
Yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Got something?
-Get the gun, baby. -Oh.
It's on, dude.
We got a monster, babe.
Golly, that motherhumper almost broke my foot just now.
Golly, T.
-Watch him. -That's a big one. Oh!
Whoo.
Come on, big boy.
Whoo!
That's a hammer there, papa.
He's got it wrapped all around the pole,
so as soon as you can shoot him, shoot him.
[gunshot]
That a boy, baby.
That's a big one there, papa, huh?
-Yeah. -Hell, yeah.
Oh, we definitely beating the girls with this one.
-Oh, yeah. -Absolutely.
Starting the day with a big gator
is certainly a step in the right direction,
but they also have a secret weapon
that should help increase their odds of winning.
I wanna win 'cause I wanna send Ashley back to The Cemetery.
I've baited every single line with maggot chicken.
I mean, it's full of maggots.
It's been sitting there for a month.
The smellier the better, huh?
Oh, absolutely, bro.
That stuff is primetime right now, dude.
Ooh, sheesh. -Ah, no.
It's that bad?
Let's wait a little minute here.
T, that stuff is nasty, son.
[coughs]
It got in my mouth, Timmy.
I mean, it is not even like chicken no more.
It's just kind of like a new form-type of material,
it's done aged so well.
I was thinking about cooking chicken tonight.
Got some chicken breast in the freezer.
I don't think I'm gonna eat any chicken tonight, bro.
[laughs]
Just don't throw up on me, T.
In Myrtle Grove...
♪ Beautiful day in the neighborhood ♪
Veteran swamper Bruce Mitchell has inside information
on an area he believes
will help boost his team's season average.
This place I'm going to right now,
nobody's been in here for several years.
I know 15, 20 years ago
they turned a lot of farm gators loose in here.
The state has a program, every time they hatch 100 eggs,
they gotta return 17% and put them back in the wild.
They might've dumped 3,000 gators in this land
five foot long,
and now these things, hopefully, are 12 foot long.
I'm hoping I can catch some of these big old farm gators
and, uh, really make a difference.
I know I got one here somewhere.
There it is.
I just don't understand.
This thing's supposed to be loaded with big gators.
Ain't catching with them hanging in the air.
Nobody's fished this in 10 or 15 years.
Why they're not biting?
I guess that's for me to figure out.
Ooh, got something on here.
Whoa!
Ah!
Ain't that bad, but he's little.
[gunshot]
Man, this ain't no good.
A little gator like this
is gonna drop my average down a lot.
And that's gonna be the thing this year,
to have a big average on your gators.
If you ain't got that,
I ain't got a chance of winning the big ones for next year.
With nothing but hanging lines
and one small gator to show for his efforts,
Bruce decides to investigate.
I smell something, something dead.
Man, look at this.
Look at all the dead fish right here.
Oh, that's why I ain't catching no gators.
They got free food right here.
These gators eating all this fish.
Till these fish rot and sink,
we ain't gonna catch no gators here.
They got two, three miles of this stuff.
Nothing but little fish.
I'm not gonna catch gators in this mess.
Gator is just sitting there.
All he has to do is open his mouth,
the fish are just flowing right in the gator's mouth.
I mean, it's a pain in the butt to move all these lines,
and everywhere you look they got a gator.
Gator here, gator there, gator there.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven gators right there.
And I got a line right there in the background.
They ain't even looking at that.
They're not gonna look at that
as long they've got this free food out here.
Further north,
Ashley and Anna are on the hunt for a monster
that would win their bet with Ronnie and Timmy.
As long as it's bigger than theirs.
That's right.
I ain't having them win.
I do not wanna go to The Cemetery.
The winner of Ronnie and I's competition
basically get bragging rights,
but mainly it's they don't have to go to The Cemetery.
Ronnie has brought me to The Cemetery before,
and don't get me wrong, there are big gators,
but I hate it.
I hate that place more than anywhere.
That line goes directly back.
-You see him? -I see him.
He's on land. No!
He's definitely on land.
Look how big his tail is.
Oh!
That's so frickin' dangerous, Ashley.
I mean, the hook's on the other side.
[grunting]
-You hear that? -I hear it.
He's hissing, he's pissed.
-[grunting] -Oh, he's pissed.
-Oh, man. -What do we do?
Jeez.
He's got that "I'm gonna kill you" look in his eye.
Gotta make a decision here.
And if I don't make a good shot, you see that knee right there?
Yeah.
That's the only thing that's holding him back.
Dude, but you don't know which direction he's gonna go.
That's the problem.
He don't know which way to go, and I don't either.
Gonna try to get a better shot.
Oh, God, be careful.
I know it.
-[grunting] -Oh, my God.
Ashley, he's moving.
He's moving, he's moving.
You hear him hissing, don't you?
Yeah.
Me or you, buddy.
I choose you.
Hurry, Ashley, hurry, he's coming!
Take the shot now! Take the shot now if you can.
He's gonna get loose.
With a land gator,
I don't know whether it's gonna charge at me.
You can't predict what a wild animal's gonna do,
and that is the most terrifying feeling in the world.
Oh!
Oh, my God. Whoa.
Great shot.
Now we just gotta get him in the boat.
Whew, man.
I hate land gators. I hate, hate, hate 'em.
I hate everything about it,
I hate having to drag them off the land,
'cause they're heavier.
Oh.
But I especially hate when they can bite me.
This nine footer is a worthy catch,
but to win their bet and stay out of The Cemetery,
they'll need a much bigger gator.
Oh, my God.
That was an awesome shot.
This gator challenged me,
but I've gained a lot of confidence,
and Anna and I are gonna win this bet today.
Back near Violet,
Ronnie and Timmy are putting their chips
on some extra-rotten chicken.
I'ma tell you, this bait is so nasty and so disgusting.
I mean, literally maggots are crawling on it on the line.
It's got me and Timmy nauseous.
It's got us both gagging,
and, I mean, I've done threw up in my mouth five or six times
'cause it's so disgusting.
Come on, be something good here.
Come on, T, talk to me, T.
Ooh, I like it.
Yeah, boy, they got plenty of mud, huh?
Dang it, son.
Come on, T, give me something good here, brother.
Oh, yeah, he's gone under the boat.
He's... feeling tight.
Let me see.
Look at this, dude.
Oh, my God, dude.
Dude, we got a big monster gator over here.
Look at the size of that, bro.
He just ate the whole half the gator off.
Lord.
Dude, you know how powerful you gotta be to do that?
Look at his skull.
He crushed the skull on this thing.
Damn, T, I can't believe that.
He's hanging out right here somewhere.
He's probably looking at us right now.
Boy, I wish he would pop up
where we could put something on him.
Hey, I'ma put a tag in him, bro, 'cause, uh--
Where you gonna put it?
I ain't got no tail, but, I mean,
we can't-- You gotta tag it.
I gotta waste a damn tag.
I gotta catch this meat-- this cannibal, bro.
There's a giant gator feasting out here,
but unless Ronnie and Timmy can hook him,
they'll be left with table scraps.
This gator was probably roughly about seven or eight foot.
But he had the head and the two front legs,
and that was it.
And I gotta tag him,
and my average is gonna kerplunk and it's over with.
All Ashley needs is one big gator to beat me,
and she just needs one that's bigger than my biggest,
and then me and Timmy's going back to The Cemetery.
Gotta waste a tag, bro. I can't believe this.
No celebrating on that one.
Nope. That's depressing.
Back in Myrtle Grove,
after relocating his lines away from the dead fish,
Bruce takes a lunch break.
Looka there.
Oh, a feast.
I'm figuring to eat good right now.
These are oyster mushrooms. A lot of people call it
the chicken of the swamp.
My grandpa taught me how to pick these when I was a little kid.
You could fry 'em up,
and they taste about like chicken or fried fish.
They're just delicious.
There's only certain trees I eat 'em off of:
willow trees and dead gum trees.
That's the way I was taught.
Right.
That's some pretty mushrooms there.
That's beautiful. It's like a steak.
My grandpa taught us how to live off the land and stuff.
Always carry a little fish fry with me.
You got a little fish fry and cooking oil,
you can make it in the swamp.
Oh, yeah.
So I got my little cooker
that stays in the boat all the time.
You could even eat them raw, but I like 'em fried.
Look at that.
Swamp done done it again. Looka there.
They don't get no fresher than this.
I picked them off of the tree right there.
Right up above us.
Picked 'em, fried 'em.
Hey, I'm full now.
I'm ready to catch more gators.
And that's what you call swamp lunch.
Over in Bayou Benoit,
after discovering alligators hiding far back in the swamp,
Daniel has called in
an old family friend for reinforcements.
Yeah, that's Cody, pa.
That's his helicopter. He's landing right now.
Well, I hope our plan works.
Well, let's talk to him and see.
The prize of 350 tags has definitely motivated me.
When there's a goal, when there's something to win,
it's time to get creative.
Daniel. How you doing?
Thanks for coming. We're having problems
catching some of these big alligators.
There's an island with a pond in it,
and there are no roads to get in it.
I can't get the airboat in there.
What I need you to do is follow me out to this area,
go over that pond, and hover.
When they hear that kind of vibration,
they're just gonna say I have to get outta here.
It's definitely gonna be a big vibration.
Why would the vibrations drive 'em out?
These alligators communicate by growling and vibrating.
Vibration is how they determine who's the biggest bull.
Your helicopter is gonna cause a vibration
that they're gonna think, whoa.
-That is a really big-ass bull -Yeah.
in the middle of the swamp.
Let's give it a shot.
-All right. -Okay, follow us out there.
-I'll follow you. -Okay, buddy.
These alligators communicate. They growl or they vibrate.
It's territorial. They can tell the size of each other.
Cody's helicopter does make a vibrating noise,
so wherever that vibration is,
some alligators are gonna move away from it.
We can use what they do to get these alligators to come to us.
The pond is straight right up ahead of me.
I see the pond.
Looks pretty inviting for the gators.
I'm gonna drop down below the trees a little bit
to get the vibrations.
Just sit there and hover.
That vibration is enough to drive 'em out, buddy.
I see something big moving right here.
I got a gator right in front of us swimming across.
Looks like a giant.
Okay, buddy.
Keep moving. He's just ahead a couple hundred feet.
Give him a minute.
Look, he's right here in front of me.
Come right by me.
You see him, pa?
Can you see him?
Yeah, yeah, I see him over there.
I see him. That's a big one.
Yeah, I see him, buddy, I see him.
We're going after him.
Good, get him.
Hurry, hurry, hurry. He's right there.
God.
Pull hard, pa. Jerk on him.
Got him.
Damn, pa.
Oh, my God.
It's a big one.
God.
Ah, pa!
[whistles]
[gunshot]
Good job, Cody.
Whoo, man, Cody's driving them out of the swamp.
Tell me when you're ready.
Okay, good job, pa. Roll him in.
Look at his teeth.
As soon as Cody got over this particular hole in the swamp,
he could see some big alligators moving around.
Right now I'm real confident that my plan's successful,
and these alligators are making room in that pond
for what they think is a giant alligator.
There's a lot of alligators in that hole.
Okay, let's take off, try to find another one.
Outside Houma,
antique firearms enthusiast Black Rambo
answers the call of a friend.
Got this buddy Blake who bought an old boat.
He said he found some stuff in there
that might be worth a little money,
so I'm gonna go down there and see what he's talking about.
You never know. Might find a treasure.
There's so much history in Louisiana,
you wouldn't even believe it.
The French were here, the Spanish were here.
All that history, it involved wars and weapons.
So deep down in Louisiana, man,
there's all these old treasures in the swamps,
the boats, the attics, man, all over the place.
So there's no telling what he has, man.
Man, what you doing over there?
Hey, Rambo, what's up, man?
Man, this thing is swee-ee-eet.
Check out my new rig, Rambo.
-[laughs] -That's what I'm talking about.
Good to see you, man, good to see you.
Good to see you. You about to go to work, huh?
Yeah, I'm about to go to work. Glad you could make it.
When I bought this boat, I found a couple things in it
I wanted you to take a look at.
[laughs]
Uh-oh.
What you think about this?
Some cool-ass stuff, man.
That's an old machete right there.
Old revolver.
Got my attention right now, bro.
What is it?
I think I see a Smith & Wesson mark.
Is that what that is? Okay.
A Smith & Wesson, yup.
That makes it even more valuable, huh?
Yeah, bro. Shoot, this might be
one of the first Smith & Wessons ever made.
Let's make sure it's safe.
It's unloaded. You can tell it's been shot.
Does it work?
It works.
You might have a treasure here, bro.
I hope it's worth some money.
Oh, it look like it's worth something.
Can you check it out for me?
Maybe reach out to some of your friends,
see if they know anything about it?
I got a guy that might know something about it, man.
I'll check it out for you.
Hey, while you're here,
is there anything you can do with this--old machete?
The machete, it got a little bend in it.
It's a little messed up. I could sharpen it up.
Cool. For helping me out, I don't mind you taking that.
-You'll give it to me? -Yeah.
-I can have this? -Yeah.
Sure sounds like a plan to me.
Just tell me what this is worth, you know.
That's a deal.
Hopefully come back, and it's worth a lot of money.
-That's a deal. -[laughs]
I'm like, Blake, bro, this thing look pretty old.
He's like, yeah, that's why I called you, man.
You think it's worth something?
It's got to be worth something. It's a Smith & Wesson.
I'll jump on that ASAP, man.
No problem, man. Give me a call.
I'll probably be back here in a couple days
if you wanna come meet me.
All right, well you enjoy yourself on the water, man.
-Be safe. -Appreciate it, Rambo.
Hey, ride all day, baby, ride all day.
-Appreciate it, bro. -All right.
-I'll hit you up, my man. -All right, man.
Take care.
This pistol, it's pretty old.
I'm curious to see if it's worth anything,
and my buddy Mike, he knows a lot about history.
If anybody knows anything about 'em,
I'm gonna go talk to Mike.
He'll let me know.
Further south, in Myrtle Grove,
a fishkill forced Bruce to move all his lines,
but the veteran hunter has faith
that the farm gators released here years ago
will boost his average.
That's the problem with being in a new area.
I know I got one here somewhere.
Just don't know where.
The gators just wasn't biting where the dead fish was.
It's free food.
All they had to do was open their mouth and eat.
But now that I moved these way over here,
I'm just gonna keep pushing through and see what happens.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
We got a gator right here, y'all.
Where you at, big boy?
There he is. Right out there in the middle.
There he is, there he is.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, that's a nice gator.
Whoa!
Bruce has a big gator
on the first of his new lines.
I can't hold him.
He's burning my hands.
Come on, buddy.
Oh, where's your head at?
[gunshot]
I knew they had gators here.
I fished this area a couple years ago,
pretty close by here.
If I remember right,
when I was over there last time, I broke a winch.
Whoa! Whoa!
I beefed it up a little bit.
All right. I hope it's gonna hold. Heh.
This is a farm gator. I knew it.
Got a notch on his tail right here.
So that's telling me we in the right spot.
Moving his lines away from the fishkill
is already paying off.
I know it's a 10, 11-footer on here.
From fishing all these years,
I learned if something's not working,
you gotta try something different,
'cause you only got a certain amount of time
to catch these gators in.
I know they got more gators here.
I just know it.
Outside Violet...
Timmy, you are disgusting, dude.
Don't go try to pick up no girlfriend today.
Ronnie's rotten bait isn't making Timmy's life any easier,
but it's paying off with big gators
that should beat the ladies.
-You stinking, boy. -I feel rejected.
Hey, when we get to the camp,
throw some clean clothes out the door,
and I'm gonna go with the hose pipe and some Clorox.
I'm giving the Legend a hard time
because he literally smells like that pack of bait.
But it's so unbelievably worth it
because I know we gonna win today,
and I can't wait to beat Ashley today.
I want her butt going back to The Cemetery.
Maggot chicken, work your magic.
Come on, be a big boy.
Just be straight out.
We know we got something going.
Let me get on land a little bit, T.
All right, go ahead.
Is it good?
Oh, that's a monster, bro.
-All right, here we go. -I got him, all right.
Oh, yeah, baby, we got a little weight on him here, T.
Lord.
Golly.
He's tearing my boat up.
Golly, look at the size of that stud, T!
That's a hammer, baby.
Whoo-hoo!
He's in that death roll. Watch him, T.
Hold him steady, hold him--
-Trying, T. -He's rolling.
He's gonna pop that line.
Yeah, you need to shoot him now.
Right there.
That a boy, baby!
Whoo! What a stud.
Jeez, he's a big gator.
Here we go.
Oh, he's in the deep, so we got him here.
One, two, three.
There you go. That's much better.
The more height we get, the better.
-Yup. -Hell, yeah, boy.
Another dinosaur, baby.
Oh, yeah. What a dinosaur, T.
Bro, that's another 11-footer.
That feeling I'm gonna get to tell Ashley
that she's got to hunt The Cemetery,
you could almost compare it
to being like a nine- or 10-year-old child
at Christmas morning getting ready to open up your gifts.
That's the feeling I'm gonna get.
We gonna win this thing.
-I bet. -Hell, yeah.
Over in Bayou Benoit...
Daniel and Dorien have intercepted five big gators
fleeing the vibrations of Cody's helicopter.
Hey, buddy, we're doing pretty good.
Let's see if we can get another one.
Yup, sounds good.
Right now I'm real confident that my plan's successful.
We've got a rifle and a treble hook
and a rod and reel.
We're ready to capitalize
on any alligator that might show up.
Where's the next gator at?
I'm looking, buddy.
I see him right up ahead.
Whoa, whoa, he's coming towards the boat.
Look where he's at over there.
Up ahead.
Do you wanna hook this one?
He's still right there.
He might be a little bit to the left.
There he is. Perfect.
Okay, right there, pa.
-Got him. -You got him, pa?
-Got him. -Hold him.
Don't give that son of a bitch no slack.
Oh! Get ready.
Just don't give him no slack, pa.
Be ready. I'm bringing him to the top.
Damn!
Whoa, whoa. Careful.
Let me see his head.
Come on, pa.
[gunshot] I missed him, hold on.
[gunshot] I missed him again.
Pop him, pa.
Oh!
Come on!
Okay. All right.
Now roll him in, pa.
Roll him in.
There we go. It's a big one, pa.
It's a big one.
Hauling in this 12-foot dinosaur
proves that thinking outside the box
may be the way to win the 350 prime gator tags.
That 12-foot alligator that I treble hooked,
he was all man.
It was a big alligator.
It was definitely one of those alligators
we needed to catch.
And just by us being able to put this alligator in the boat
and Cody helping us, it was a huge blessing.
I can hear Cody back up in there.
Whump-whump-whump-whump. Oh, I can hear it.
In the swamp north of Violet,
Ashley and Anna continue their quest
to catch a bigger gator than Ronnie.
I didn't think I'd ever wish for Ronnie to catch little gators,
but...
uh-huh-huh, I gotta win.
I've never wished that Ronnie
would catch little gators until today.
Obviously we're on the same team,
but this is just like a little battle on the side.
I'm very competitive, and so I'm confident
that Anna and I are gonna win this bet today.
No chicken. That's a good sign.
Yeah, I see the line. It's on the backside.
[thud] What was that?
Felt like something ran underneath the boat, didn't it?
I don't feel anything.
-Feels really loose. -Nothin'?
Oh, that's a-- That's a gator.
Yeah, clear yourself off.
Watch out, watch out.
Whoo, that's a nice gator.
That's how them big ones do.
They go straight out into that big water.
He's moving fast.
Soon as I get a shot, I'm gonna pop him.
He's not gonna know what hit him.
Come on, get your big ass up here.
-Oh! -I ain't letting him go.
You got it, you got it.
Ooh, he's trying to get underneath the boat.
Oh, yeah, he's got some fight in him.
Yeah, he's got some fight in him.
-Come on, gimme a shot, big boy. -Come on, Mr. Gator.
Come on, gator.
Come on, big boy, gimme a shot!
Oh, my God, this gator might be the one!
-North of Violet,
Ashley's hooked a giant that could beat Ronnie.
He is fighting you, girl.
Come here, let me get a shot on him.
[gunshot]
-Great shot. Whoo! -Whoo!
-Night, night! -Sleep tight!
Got him.
He put up a hell of a fight.
Oh, man.
One, two, three.
Whoo, his scoots are sharp.
Roll him over.
It's too soon to say
whether this behemoth will be enough to beat the boys,
but Ashley and Anna know
the competition is good for the whole team.
-That's a nice gator. -Real good gator.
I think it's important
that we have these competitions, you know,
this, like, kind of inner-team battle,
because it ups the stakes for us
and it gets us going during gator season
where we might be tired, but we wanna win.
We're all competitive.
Man, that's a good one.
You think we're gonna beat Ronnie and Timmy with this one?
That is the gator that's gonna win it.
Further west,
Rambo heads to his friend Mike's
to investigate the value
of Blake's swamp-busting Smith & Wesson revolver.
He's a gun historian.
He's real, real knowledgeable, man.
He knows his stuff for real, ancient firearms
and weapons and guns and stuff.
I think he'll be the perfect person to ask.
What's good, Mike? How you doing, man?
Hey, man, how you doing?
I brought that old gun I was telling you about, man.
-Yeah. -I got a buddy, man,
he was cleaning out the little boat he got, man,
the old boat, man, and he found that in there.
Worth anything?
Okay, this is a Smith & Wesson,
a military and police revolver.
This probably dates to around 1903, 1904,
somewhere in that range.
I figured it was old.
But this is pretty rough, man.
It probably works, but it's been beat.
This gun spent its life in the swamp.
Come on, Mike, it's gotta be worth something though, man.
Oh, man, $100, maybe $150 if that.
Oh, man, I thought I found something, man.
-Yeah. -I appreciate it though, man.
-But what's that? -That's a machete.
Look, machete. Blake gave it to me.
Pretty cool, huh? I like the brass on the end.
Do you know what you have here?
-Machete? -No.
This was a bayonet.
This originally was a ring,
and this would've gone on the barrel of the rifle.
During the Civil War,
many Confederate soldiers marched off to battle
with the hunting rifle they used at home.
To better equip the gun,
the army would modify it with a mounted saber bayonet
to allow for close-range combat.
But this isn't just any bayonet.
This was made by a company called Cook & Brother
in New Orleans right before the Civil War.
And you know what's really, really cool about this
is we know that a lot of these early weapons
were used at the Battle of Georgia Landing,
which was fought about 20 minutes from here.
How much is that even worth, man?
Probably $3,000, $4,000.
Thousand?
Thousand, yeah.
Whoa. You gotta be kidding me, man.
Yeah. That is an incredible piece.
Bro, my friend just gave it to me.
To think this is an old machete
that I just thought I was just gonna use and put in my garage,
probably throw around.
And to find out this is an old piece of history,
the Civil War,
it blows my mind.
Your friend's loss was your gain.
Over in Bayou Benoit...
I'm running pretty low on fuel.
I'm gonna have to peel off and get some.
Daniel and Dorien have been filling their boat
with the help of their family friend Cody.
Thank you very much, buddy.
We done real good.
You did a lot of good vibrating that hole.
We've got some lines put around this area
that we were setting when we found the slide,
but it's time now to run the lines
and see how successful our plan was.
Hopefully we've got the rest of 'em on our lines.
Got one on there, pa.
Old Cody flushed 'em out.
Let's check him out, pa.
He feels big.
-Oh, there he goes. -Whoo!
Watch it. Give me a shot on this thing.
Hold him, pa. Don't let him beat you up.
He's beating me up.
Watch it.
Whoa!
Daniel and Dorien have an angry gator on the line.
Oh, oh!
Give me a shot.
Hurry, pa!
[gunshot]
That's a fine alligator there, son.
This capture is a sign
the gators have moved out of the pond.
Again it looks like a good idea
can produce good results.
Unh!
Good job.
Yeah, pa, that helicopter worked.
We have friends in high places.
Meanwhile, in Myrtle Grove,
Bruce has caught eight good gators
since moving upwind of the fishkill.
I got a line over here. I hope it's down.
You gotta keep your eyes open out here
just to see if something changes,
something a little different.
I figured it all out,
the dead fish, moving the gator's lines.
Once you got all these gator lines moved,
things started turning around.
Hmm.
This don't look right at all.
Oh, it's gonna be like this, I see.
Mm!
Whoa!
Whoo!
Oh-oh! He about pulled me in.
I thought he was dead.
Yeah, this one kind of caught me by surprise.
Once I got all the grass teared off around him,
he decided he wanted to come alive again.
This solid catch raises the team average
for Bruce, Leron, and Porkchop to over nine feet.
Well, so far my average and my numbers of gators
and all that is pretty good, I think.
I'd like to get better, but it don't matter, you know.
If I caught a gator 60-foot long,
tomorrow I'd want one 61-foot.
So it don't matter, you know.
I know I'm doing good right now. I just gotta keep on going.
That's another nice one.
Just keep that average up.
Outside Violet...
You see the alligators eat that, then we eat the alligators,
How we don't get sick by eating that?
Because we fry that till it's cooked.
Smelly rotten bait has pulled in plenty of gators,
but for this competition, it's size that matters.
-T, we can't let 'em outdo us. -All right.
We got a load of gators in the boat,
but I'm still not confident
that one of my gators is bigger than Ashley's biggest
'cause she went to a good area,
and I know they got big gators in that area.
So I'm just hoping I got one that's just a little bit bigger.
That pole shaking or is that the wind?
I don't know, but a lot of lilies and crap
done blew up against it.
You got the line?
Yeah, I got it. Ain't nothin' on it.
-Nothin'? -Nah.
Nothing but grass and lilies.
I don't think there's nothin' on it.
Timmy! That's a monster, baby!
Lord! Got a fighter.
Hell, yeah, get the gun, dude.
-Hold on. -Golly, that's a big one, boy.
It's a 10-footer.
Stick him right there, boy.
Get that good shot right there. Whoo-hoo!
Golly, he's in a death roll.
You better make that shot count, T.
About to pop the line. [gunshot]
-Oh, T, you missed him! -Aw!
T, he's about to get off. Come on.
Come on now.
Man, I can't get it to work.
Come on, T.
Oh, he's about to pop the line.
T, he's about to get off. Come on.
All right, all right, I'm ready, I'm ready.
Boy, Lord have mercy.
-Get that shot on him. -Whoo!
Come on, big boy.
Watch him, T.
Right there, my baby, right there.
Whoo-hoo, pulling the skin off.
Get that good shot right there. Whoo-hoo!
-Watch him, T. -Hold him steady.
Right there, right there. Right here, T.
[gunshot]
That a boy! Whoo!
Lord, I thought we were gonna lose this gator.
-Oh, man. -Oh, my God.
T, this is a monster to get in the boat, cuz.
This is a monster, T.
Come on, let's get him. One.
I'm gonna break him over the top.
One, two, three.
All right.
Golly.
Lord.
Look at the size of this dude, bro.
The hunters' last line landed a true monster,
and they're confident they have this contest in the bag.
Look at the size of him, T.
Golly.
Whoo, baby! Give me some knucks.
On the last line, boy, we got this big 11-footer.
I know Ashley ain't even got a foot in this dance.
She's over with.
She better get ready for The Cemetery.
I'm stoked, excited. Let's get it.
Clickity-clack.
-Don't come back, baby. -Whoo!
Hell, yeah.
That stink bait did the trick, T.
On the road outside Houma,
Rambo heads back to Blake's
to deliver some surprising news.
He really thought the pistol was worth something.
Heck, I thought the pistol was worth something.
But the whole time we had a bayonet worth $4,000.
In return for helping him out,
Blake gave Rambo what he believed was an old machete,
but it turned out to be a valuable relic,
and keeping it is weighing on Rambo's mind.
Finding out it cost this much money,
I just wanna do the right thing, man.
I couldn't keep nothin' like this,
especially from a friend, man.
I gotta get this thing back to him.
He's gonna be so excited to know how much this is,
especially knowing that the pistol ain't worth nothing.
I got good news and I got bad news.
I just wanted you to come back with good news.
I got both, bro. Which one you want first?
-Let me hear the bad news, man. -All right.
The bad news, it's not worth much, bro.
$50 to $100.
-Oh, man. -That's it.
It looks so old though.
Yeah, they made a lot of those though, bro.
Okay, so it's old, but they made a lot, okay.
Yeah, nothing special.
So what's the damn good news?
This ain't no doggone machete.
What is it?
It's a bayonet, bro.
A bayonet? I ain't never seen a bayonet look like that.
Cuz, it's from the Civil War.
A bayonet from the Civil War. Can you believe that?
It's super rare, man.
And that's not even the catch, man.
That thing's around $4,000.
-$4,000? -Somewhere around there, bro.
That's what they said, bro, I'm not even gonna lie.
You're not for real.
You been too good to me, man. I can't take that, man.
-I had to bring it back to you. -Oh, man.
I'm just not that type of guy, bro.
You're too good, man.
$4,000, man, you found that, man.
That's a blessing, man.
Man, I gave it to you though, man.
Nah, bro, that's not me, man.
-That's not me at all. -I appreciate that, Rambo.
It's so rewarding, you know what I'm saying,
to find something that somebody thinks is junk
and just find out that it's a treasure.
You know what I'm saying? It's like a privilege.
I just love doing stuff like that, man.
I appreciate that, Rambo.
Maybe I can give you the gun at least.
-Take me out to eat. -I gotta feed you?
That's all you gotta do, and I'll be happy.
Oh, man, that might be worth more than giving you the gun.
Get you a good steak, my friend.
Let's go get some right now.
Let's go. Some shrimp.
Back in Myrtle Grove,
Bruce's farm gator honey hole has paid off in a big way,
but there's one tag left.
I'm ready to catch me a big gator.
He's hoping to go out with a bang.
I mean, I'm trying to raise my average out here.
Got a 10-footer, a couple nine-footers,
an eight, a couple sevens.
It's not too bad of a run really,
so I'm still up there where I need to be.
I'd like to catch some bigger gators, though.
The bigger the better.
Oh, yeah, we got a gator on this one.
Oh, it feel like a good one here.
Whoa!
Come on, big boy.
Whoo!
Calm down, calm down.
Whoa!
[gunshot]
Whew!
That's what I'm talking about.
I got him.
Whew!
This 12-foot monster is exactly what Bruce needed
to cap off a successful day
that will supercharge his team's season average.
I had an idea these farm gators were gonna work out like this.
I knew they released them in here.
I knew how big they should be.
I mean, this load of gators here,
I feel proud dropping them off at Duffy's.
So I think we're gonna do all right now.
Keep my average way high.
Back in Bayou Benoit...
Thank God for Cody, pa.
Chasing those alligators out for us.
Absolutely.
After Cody flushed the gators out of the backwoods pond,
Daniel and Dorien have been filling the boat.
It's obvious that the plan has worked
because, you know, we've got a boatload of alligators.
And prior to this, the lines weren't doing anything.
So trying to be creative and thinking outside of the box
looks like another plan's come together and worked for us.
Line's down, pa.
I see him on the bank, son.
Gonna tie onto that tree, pa.
This is the moment, boys, this is it.
What you got, pa?
Whoa-oh!
Oh, that's a linebacker.
Yeah. I'm telling you, Cody pushed 'em--
Oh, he's a bad dude.
Give me a shot on this thing.
Mm!
It's a good alligator.
Whoa, give me a shot on this big rascal.
Don't let him whip you.
[thud] That's a big alligator.
Stop him, stop him.
Raise his head up.
Take him, pa.
[gunshot]
Whoa! Ha!
Laid him down.
Helicopter pushed 'em out the swamp, pa.
They can't take that vibration.
Let's get this thing in the boat.
I wanna look at it.
Just give me a leg, and I've got this, son.
You got it?
If you give me a leg, I got it.
One, two, go.
Man, almost beat you up, pa.
Boy, you almost pulled him in the boat by yourself.
All right, let's go.
Unh!
-That's what we needed. -What the hell?
Oh, man, I lost money.
Pirate ate his tail, pa.
Pa, how do you tag that?
Right here, somewhere.
Even with the tip of his tail gone,
this giant measures 10 feet,
and there's only one person left to thank
for a massive payday.
We had a very successful day.
Any time we call on Cody, magic happens.
If it wasn't for Cody,
we definitely wouldn't have the alligators we have.
He's keeping us in this competition.
-Well, how was it? -[laughs]
Let's see what you got.
Show him our success.
God bless, look how many.
Look at the size of those suckers.
Some big ones, huh, buddy?
I can't believe it worked that well.
Worked really, really good, buddy.
I'm glad I was able to help.
You always come through for me.
Any time.
You know, when Cody looked down in the bottom of the boat,
[chuckles] he was pretty impressed.
Obviously the plan worked.
Thank my buddy a whole lot.
Always good visiting with my eye in the sky.
I'm gonna cook. Come eat with us one night.
Yeah, let me know, whenever.
We'll talk about all of this and some of the good times.
Sounds like a plan.
-Thank you so much, Cody. -Thank y'all.
Thank you.
Back in Violet...
Welcome to The Cemetery!
It's the moment of truth for Ronnie and Ashley's bet
to see who has to hunt the dreaded Cemetery.
What we got?
Well, let's see. I think we got you.
What do we got, Anna?
10-2.
-10-2. -Whoa! Uh-oh!
But guess what? Check that bad boy out.
Put the tape on it.
All right, we got about right here.
Yup.
What you got over there?
I got 11-8.
-What? 11-8? -Yup.
We win.
Whoo! Cemetery! All right.
-No! -I know you hate it.
Despite the bet,
Ronnie and Ashley fall to fourth place,
the Edgars rocket into first,
while Leron, Porkchop, and Bruce
are neck and neck with the Landrys
in a tie for second.
Come on, baby, give it to me. That was fair and square.
This really, really sucks.
Aah!
I had full control over this,
and now I'm gonna have to go to The Cemetery,
and even worse than that, I gotta take Anna with me now.
Oh, my God, Anna, it's gonna be so bad.
-Cemetery! -Oh, yeah, baby!
-Whoo! -Hey, hey, hey, hey!
Whoo!